Seasons of Love
Chapter 1: Four-Leaf Clover
A/N: This story is dedicated to my new friend, UniqueMelody. For all you other guys, please don't be jealous. Sure I just met her, but she inspired me to write this story. So here's to you UniqueMelody. I hope you enjoy this.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Sonic characters.
Tails' POV
It was the first day of Spring. The flowers had just started blooming, the trees had just started blossoming, and everything looked beautiful. No wonder spring was my favorite time of year. The cherry blossoms were my favorite, especially during the festival where we would have great food, beautiful scenery, so many wonderful activities such as arts and crafts, a milk drinking contest, and to top it all off, dancing. It was all held in town square and it was sure to be a hit. I could barely wait until then.
I was just heading over to Cream's house to go and play with her and Cheese in the meadow. We've been waiting since Autumn to do this, not that we don't love playing in the leaves or the snow, but this is our favorite season. It's the one season where everything begins anew and we loved it.
As I came up to Cream's farm house, I noticed Vanilla in the field planting some seeds. She and Cream were preparing for the harvest, they planted the best vegetables that you've ever seen, they taste really good too. From time to time, I would ask for some vegetables, eggs, or milk, it was never a hassle for them. They were the best farmer's around, even if they were the only farmers around.
I bet growing up on a ranch has quite a lot of benefits. They had four cows, Old Bessie, Connie, Wilma, and Jane. We're expecting Jane to have a calf in the summer, which we are very excited about. They had twelve chickens a rooster. The rooster was nice to wake up to whenever I stayed overnight. Cream always loved to watch the eggs hatch when they were being incubated. And finally, they had a horse named Milton, who is very fun to ride on. Vanilla says that horses like Milton are very convenient for shipping goods.
I walked up to the door and knocked on it. The door opened to reveal Cheese. "Chao?" "Hi, Cheese. Is Cream home?" I asked. "Chao!" He said in response. He took my hand and lead me over to the hen house. I opened the door and went inside. The chickens and roosters were pecking away at their feed while Cream was at the nests collecting eggs and putting them in the woven basket she had in her arm.
"Hi Cream," I said. She turned around to see me. "Hi Tails," Cream responded in the same high-pitched voice I grew to know and love. "Today's the first day of spring, aren't you excited?" I asked. "Yes," she said. "Yeah, not to mention that we get to go to the meadow today," I said. "Oh yeah, I almost forgot," she said, "Just let me get the eggs inside then I'll go." "Okay."
We left the hen house and Cream went inside her house to put the eggs away. After a little while, she came out of the house and we started running towards the meadow with Cheese in tow.
After a while, we came across the hill that led us straight to the meadow. We ran up the hill to the valley that would be covered in a blanket of beautiful flowers. But as we got to the top we noticed that there weren't as many flowers as we had hoped. A few had bloomed, but most of them were still budding.
Cream and Cheese looked very dissapointed to see the huge lack of flowers presented to them. "I'm sorry, Cream," I said, "There just aren't too many flowers today." "Yeah, that's too bad," she said. Her eyes and ears were drooping, which was one of the first signs that she was gonna cry. "Look Cream, I know it's not a lot of flowers, but it's only the first day of Spring so you can't expect much," I said in an attempt to comfort her, "I suppose the best thing to do right now is wait it out, there'll be more flowers." "I guess you're right, but what if they never come," she said as she broke down into tears. "Hey, don't cry," I said in desperation, "I'm sure that we can still pick some flowers, and besides, look at the view."
It was a nice view, even without the flowers. The valley looked wonderful, and the single tree in the middle of the area was a wonderful sight, and the pond it stood next to was crystal clear, so clear that it reflected the mountain surrounded by miles of forest, but even the wonderful view wasn't enough to get the six-year-old rabbit out of her overshadowing dissapointment and sadness. Tears kept raining out of her chocolate brown eyes. It was these kinds of tears that make me wanna change the world so that it doesn't hurt her anymore. Then something else caught my eye. It was so simple, I couldn't believe I didn't think of it before.
"Hey look, Cream," I shouted. "What is it?" She asked through her tears. "Clovers," I said as I pointed at a small area of clovers in the grass. "Clovers? What's so great about them?" Asked Cream. "Well, if you find a four-leaf clover, it'll bring you good luck, and maybe luck is all we need to help the flowers grow faster. That sound good?" "Well, okay," she said as she let out a sniffle.
I let her dry her tears with one of my tails, but as soon as she was done, she was still kind of sad. I used the tips of my tails to tickle her a bit. She let out a slight giggle when I did this. I kept this up until she broke out into an uproar of uncontrollable laughter. I couldn't help but laugh along as I tickled her. I stopped after a while and the hunt for the four-leaf clover began.
Cream, Cheese, and I were skimming our hands through many areas of clovers, all of them with three leaves each, there was bound to be a four-leaf clover in there somewhere. One of the many things that amazes me about these clovers is that even thought three-leaf clovers are so common, four-leaf clovers are so rare.
After a couple of hours, I had nearly given up my search for luck. The sky was now painted pink and purple. I couldn't believe all this searching all started because of...
"A four-leaf clover!" Shouted Cream. I looked over to her position and saw her knealing over another bed of clovers. holding something in her cupped hands. Cheese and I ran over to her to see what she was holding, and there it was: a four leaf clover.
It was so tiny, but then again, good things can come in small packages. It was so simple, yet so amazing. Another thing about four-leaf clovers that interest me is the fact that we both have extra limbs, but they give us an advantage. Their extra leaf makes them lucky, and my extra tail can make me fly.
"So what should we do now?" Asked Cream. "Well, I guess we should put it in something and fill it with water," I said. "Good idea," she said. "Chao," said Cheese. In the distance we could hear Cream's mother calling for her. "Well, I guess I'd better head home for dinner," said Cream, "Why don't you join us, Tails?" Cream's mother was a good cook, and she made excellent spaghetti. "Sure, if it's okay with your mom," I said. "Okay, let's go," said Cream.
We all got up and headed back to the ranch...
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