Rain pounded hard against the weak window panes, doing nothing to bring light to the small room where the blue hedgehog lay on the bed quietly, thinking.

For weeks now he had been trying to avoid Shadow, unable to give him a reasonable explanation why he never spoke to him anymore.

He was scared of showing himself up, one time too many Sonic had gone to do things like hold Shadows hand, put his arm around him, and he didn't want Shadow to be angry at him, so the blue hedgehog went everywhere Shadow wasn't and lately it had been working.

But it made him so sad, being on his own all the time.

All he knew was that every time their eyes met, Sonics heart went faster, every time Shadow laughed he wanted to laugh too because he was happy that Shadow was happy.

He'd tried to convince himself it was just a phase.

No luck so far.

He snuggled under the duvet so only a few blue quills could be seen.

He didn't want to eat today.

Who's idea was it that they go to Vectors Summer house down the beach anyway? And why was EVERY bloody one invited???

Well it seemed like everyone, but at the moment more than Tails was a challenge to Sonic. He knew that Tails had noticed he wasn't himself, but he didn't try to convince him into anything otherwise. He'd left Sonic at the house and had gone with, Cream, Amy , Rouge and Vector for a swim earlier that day when the weather had been nicer.

No-one had predicted how quickly and suddenly it was gunna turn.

Whats more, Shadow would be back soon from one of his lonely wanderings where he did nothing but sit and think about guns all the time, and they would only be 2 meters apart, because the house wasn't very big and Shadow had taken the sofa bed on the other side of the room under the window, where it was cold.

"Sonic?"

Tails' voice echoed through the room.

Sonic froze, he just wasn't up to talking right now.

But Tails flew across the room anyway, hovering just above the blue hedgehogs head, which popped out from its blanket sanctuary.

"Why weren't you at the beach?" he inquired his big blue eyes staring at Sonic inquisitively.

"I don't feel very well, sorry buddy but I don't think I'll be up for dinner either, I just need some sleep."

Even as he said it the noise from downstairs grew louder as everyone piled into the dining room for tea.

"Well..ok, but don't forget, Knuckles is looking for you, he found a really cool thing apparently. I'll tell him not to disturb you 'til tomorrow, Sleep well Sonic!" and he left the room.

Sonic turned over to face the window feeling bad for lying to Tails.

::DOWNSTAIRS::

The ultimate life form stood in a corner quietly rain dripping off of his ears so he made his own small indoor puddle just beneath him. He had sent Tails up to check on Sonic just in case he wasn't there, although come to think of it he hadn't seen him all day...

After a little while the fox came downstairs and shrugged in a half hearted kinda way.

"Not very well, I dunno, maybe he'd feel better with some Ice Cream Amy made"

Amy came out the kitchen with about 7 big bowls of ice cream for everyone, 2 of which got immediately snatched up by Vector as he stood there grinning to himself.

"Khya! VECTOR you greedy fool don't eat it all! I better take this up to Sonic, oh he'd be so grateful to see me when I have such lovely ice cream for his poor tummy" and with that she drifted into her own little world of ice cream and weddings with Sonic.

Shadow wandered over and took a bowl from her with a smile (which hurt him greatly to do but sacrifices have to be made.)

"No worries Amy, you look rushed off of your feet, I'll take this to Sonic and when he's better you'll be the first to know"

"Really?"

"Truly" - Translation – Chyeah right.

Amy went back to the kitchen to help Cream make more Ice-Cream and Shadow left for the quite slumber of upstairs.

::UPSTAIRS::

Sonic could hear the muffled sounds of someone coming up the stairs, which really was the last thing he needed.

"Sonic"?

Shadow entered the room, placing the bowl on the table next to him. He crept in quietly and sat down on the bed next to the hedgie shaped bulge.

Sonic didn't wanna come out and face Shadow, but he supposed he had no choice.

The blue hedgehog sat up and turned around to face the darker form.

"Why have you been ignoring me Sonic?"

Oh Crap.

"Well I've just been busy and..."

"Don't lie to me Sonic, I can tell, you were all weird with me. For a while we really got to know each other and its like you just went off me."

"It's not like that Shadow, I sw-"

"THEN WHAT IS IT LIKE HUH SONIC??? WHAT MAKES YOU SO AMAZING YOU CAN TREAT EVERYONE ELSE LIKE CRAP????"

Before Sonic had a chance to explain or argue back, Shadow had grabbed him by the shoulders and pulled him towards his chest and kissed him, his lips warm and tingling.

"Sonic The Hedgehog, I love you, and I don't care who knows".

"Shadow..."

They fell down together onto the bed, holding each other close, "I love you too".

TBC.