I'm Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog. I'm the fastest thing alive. I'm a hero. I've saved the world countless times. And I think I'm in love with someone that...I really shouldn't be. I'm not going to say his name, but only for personal reasons because it's pretty obvious who I'm talking about. It all started on the Space Colony ARK.

Using that fake chaos emerald really took a lot out of me. I honestly was not sure that I was going to make it. I was totally out of it when I warped back, and the first thing heard was his voice, concerned about me. Normally I would hate any kind of sympathy- I am Sonic, afterall,- But after the closest-to-death experience I'd ever had, I guess I wanted a little concern.

As I realized what had just happened, I felt his big, warm hand on my back, and I just lost it. I lost my balance, but he was there to catch me. It felt so good, too good, to be in his arms... So I had to snap myself out of it.

I hit the back of his head slightly as I ignored his question to, you know, show that we were still rivals in all of this chaos. Even though he was the only thing on my mind at that moment, my cockiness forced me to let him know that I had other things to worry about. I asked him to help Tails and Amy, even though I was still kind of pissed at Tails for being such a bad liar. But then I suddenly realized how I could fix everything. Running away from his caring face was a little hard, but I did have to save humanity so the internal conflict had to wait.

Now I'm sure you know about everything that happened on the ARK after this . We were all sad and appreciative to Shadow and all that- except maybe Tails-, but my plan to get that bat away from him was not working. I gave her Shadow's bracelets, of course because they would mean the most to her, but also so she would grieve a little more... alone. I even said some touching words about him! But she has to get over her sorrow really quickly, or maybe she just wanted to do it alone or whatever, but she goes over to talk to my- I mean, him. But it really was not that bad, even though he did start the conversation, because she brought it all back to Shadow. Which did remind me to stop staring at him and go to my own window to pay my respects. Of course, Amy would interrupt me.

But now about the actual ride back, on the spaceship we had used to get there. Tails was flying it and Eggman had his own vehicle, so it was me, Amy, and Rouge, and him. Rouge was pretty quiet, just holding those bracelets, though saw her glance at him a few times. He was sitting next to me and I was looking out the window. I don't even know about Amy.

What I vividly remember is his hand on my thigh. To him it was a friendly gesture to get my attention, but to me it was much more. I was already drowning in my thoughts about him, so this touch didn't help at all.

"What's up?" I turned from the window to look at him. He wasn't looking back at me, so I took the opportunity to ogle his chest for a supersonic second.

"Sonic, I was wondering something..." He turned to me and when I looked into his eyes, I could tell. This was going to be important.