„You need to talk about that with her, that's all I'm saying."

"But I can't! The moment I tell her that I don't want to go too far, she'll leave me!"

Tails shook his head.

"No, she'll listen. She will understand. She ALWAYS did! Besides, she has ever been too easy on you anyway."

"Hey, no need to get loud, buddy. And I do love her, but this is just too fast for me…"

"Something's too fast for Sonic the Hedgehog. Wow. You know what? You're just scared of bonding to another person. You broke her heart so often in the past, and telling her this will be nothing close to those things you did."

"That's why I don't want to hurt her again. I just can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like. And every time when I'm around her, I almost lose it."

"BUT YOU DID HURT HER ALL THE TIME!"

"Woah, Tails! Calm down!"

"I know, it's just…you need to treat her better. She deserves BETTER. And if you don't see yourself able to change your behavior, then you probably should leave her, for the better of you both."

Sonic didn't respond to that. His mind soaked up the question and began working on it. WAS he able to change for her best?

Then, he just stood up from the table and walked out of the kitchen. He grabbed his shoes and left the house to go for a walk, an actual walk at a slow pace. While he was walking, his thoughts circled around Amy, and what Tails had told him. All resulted in the only logical thing to do, although it would hurt at first.

Later he arrived at Amy's house, hesitantly knocking on the door. As she opened, she smiled brightly.

"Hi! Come in, I was just about to…"

"Ames, we need to talk."

"O-okay."

His seriousness in his voice almost scared her, but also the way he looked.

"Is everything alright? You look awful!"

"It's alright, kind of…"

They walked into the living room, taking seats to face each other, and now, that the moment had come, Sonic wasn't sure about his decision. Right in front of him sat the girl he loved, and he should tell her that it is over. She has always been there for him when he needed someone, she knew when something was concerning him, and she was happy that she could be with Sonic, although he could be a jerk.

Time passed while he had his inner conflict, and Amy started to worry about him.

"What's wrong?"

She put her hand on his shoulder and looked him in the eyes with a warm smile on her face.

"I...I just wanted to thank you. I just realized how much you've done for me, and what I put you through. I'm sorry for every time I treated you bad, and I hope you can forgive me."

"Ohh, of course, I can! And it's not like I haven't already forgiven you many things before."

"Thank you."

He gave her a short smile and stood up from his chair.

"So, what now?" Amy asked.

"Well, I dunno…"

"We could go to the theater, or the cinema, if you want to, of course."

"Sounds good."

"Okay, let me just get ready and pack a few things."

Sonic nodded and waited ten minutes for Amy to show up again. The two then left, spending the rest of the day in the city. They could be seen hitting the theaters, walking around downtown and almost laughing all the time.

In the evening

The two hedgehogs entered Amy's house, exhausted from their trip. Amy put her bag down and hung her jacket in the wardrobe. In the meantime, Sonic put his shoes off.

"Sonic?"

"Yeah?"

"I have thought about this for a few days now, and I wanted to ask you if you want to…well, move in?"

"What?!"

"You know, living together. We've been together for quite a while now, and to be honest, you change your attitude pretty often, and sometimes I just don't know if we're close friends or…more. Lately, you spent a lot of time here, and you've even stayed overnight several times now. it wouldn't make that much of a difference."

"Ames, I…"

"I just want to know what we are, and you're the one to tell me. I will be there for you, whatever you say now, I just want to be sure."

"I…see, I asked myself this question recently, too, and to be honest, I sometimes don't know myself. I do like you, but I'm not sure if I'm ready for this."

Sonic used all his concentration on one thought: He is no good for her.

He had to leave her, so she would be safe. He forced himself to think and hopefully later believe that she didn't really love him neither, as she wasn't sure herself. Tails was right, he was always right. Finally, he spoke, but his mind drifted away, and he felt like being on a different plane of existence.

"Amy Rose, I think it's the best if we stay friends."

She nodded, suppressing the tears. She had hoped that he would fall into her arms, saying that he loved her, promising to stop acting as he did recently, but this imaginary picture lay now shattered on the ground. Then she turned away and said goodbye, forcing her voice to sound calm, not knowing if it worked. She thought that he would hug her once again, but she suddenly heard the door falling shut.

"Why is he always like this? One moment he loves me, the next he hates me" Amy started to cry now and sat in the hallway, recovering from all the bad things Sonic had done in the past, which all came up in her mind again now.

The phone numbers from unknown girls written on his hand when he came to her house in the evening when she had invited him to a dinner, the drunk outbursts he would have sometimes in which he came to her house and had a rugged handling on her. And all those things she had forgiven him, over and over.

The next day

Amy received a call from a friend she hadn't seen for a long time, and he invited her for a quick talk and some coffee. She gladly accepted, and soon left her house. When she arrived, he was already waiting, and as she walked up to him, he hugged her.

"Hey, Amy! It's been a long time!"

"Hey, Scourge. Yes, it's been a while. How are you?"

"Just fine. I came home from a one-year trip last week, and now I'm revisiting old friends."

"Cool, tell me about it, but let's first grab a coffee, okay?"

"Alright."

While they sat there, drinking coffee and Scourge telling Amy about his trip, Sonic eventually came around, and he froze as he spotted them. He had just left the bar he would visit now and then, and was slightly drunk, although it was early afternoon.

"So it took only one day for her to get over me, huh?! I bet this guy just waited for me to vanish so that he could get his dirty fingers on her!"

Before Sonic knew what to do, they stood up and left the place, Scourge accompanying Amy to her house. But without thinking, Sonic had followed them. Amy was the first to see him, and she greeted him with a smile and a waving hand, not knowing what was coming. As Scourge turned around to see Sonic, he was only a few steps away and the hedgehog just knocked him to the ground with one punch.

"WHAT THE HELL, SONIC!?" Amy screamed as she knelt down to see if Scourge was okay.

"Who's that dude?!"

"That was an old friend I hadn't seen in a long time! So why did you do that?"

"I don't know! He was with you, and that bugged me."

"So you knocked him out with one punch?"

"I didn't want to put him out. I don't know what came over me. Believe me, I didn't…"

"But you did! Just because you're jealous! You should think about whether you want me or not!"

"I…I will. And I'm sorry, I guess I don't know my own strength.

"That's your excuse for this?! LEAVE! NOW!"

Sonic turned and ran away, leaving the scene which luckily nobody around had seen.

That's it! The first chapter to my adaptation of "Love the Way You Lie", by Eminem ft. Rihanna. I highly recommend listening to it before going on with the story, or even re-reading this chapter after you did. Please review and tell me how you like the idea, and maybe I'll use this concept on other songs.