She shouldn't be here. Crying her eyes out. In the arms of Shadow. She just shouldn't. Everything was going great. What in the world happened? Why, just why, did this happen?

Take every negative emotional pain you've ever felt, multiply it by infinity, and that's exactly how Amy Rose was feeling.

-(Five hours earlier)-

The final bell rang as school let out for the day. Amy leaned against the Blue Blur's locker, awaiting her lovely boyfriend to come so that they could maybe go out to eat later. Hopefully he was doing fine; he had been dodging and avoiding her for the past three days. Perhaps something he was going through and he couldn't tell her about it. She sighed as Rouge popped by her side with Knuckles.

"Heeyyy, Ames," Knuckles greeted as he and Rouge leaned against the lockers to get out of the way of chattering students.

"Hey, you guys," she greeted less enthusiastically, "How was y'alls day?"

"Stressful as usual," Rouge huffed while Knuckles nodded in agreement, "Forever waiting to graduate."

"Only one more month," Amy pointed out with a smirk.

"Man where's Sonic at," Knuckles asked looking around, "We're supposed to grab some pizza and then head to the paintball arena."

"I don't know...and I think he's mad at me..."

"Whaaa...what makes you think that girlie?"

"He's ben avoiding me lately. He doesn't return my calls, answer my texts, or even acknowledge me on social media. And in public, he avoids me and if we are together, he won't hold my hand or he'll try and get away. I just don't get it..."

"Maybe he's going through something?"

"Maybe..."

Shadow came around the corner at them. "I just saw your little boyfriend."

"Really?"

"He appeared upset over something."

Just then, Sonic came around, an annoyed expression plastered on his face. He moved Amy out of the way of his locker so that he could open it.

"Well hello to you too, Mr. Grumpy."

"Mmmm," was all he said as he grabbed his stuff out of his locker.

"Sonic? Are you okay? Why aren't you-"

"I'm fine," he cut her off roughly as he glared at her before shutting his locker.

"Well why are you avoiding me?"

He began walking away without answering her. "Sonic!" She reached out for his arm and held on tight so that he couldn't jerk away so easily. "Sonic!" He whipped around and stared at her. "What?"

"Sonic! What the hell is your problem?"

"Okay you wanna know what my problem is," Sonic said, his voice raising as he became more aggravated, "MY PROBLEM IS YOU."

At this point, everyone in the hallway stopped and stared at the scene. Was this really happening? Was the high reigning power couple about to fall?

"S-Sonic...what do you mean-"

"You're annoying as shit, I don't get any alone time, and you're the clingiest being on the face of the planet!"

"Well lately you've been avoiding me, so I had to check up on you!"

"That should tell you something! I don't like you anymore, okay?! I don't! I thought this could've been worked out between us, but obviously not, okay? Obviously not."

"Sonic?" Amy's voice was low and cracking as tears filled up her eyes. "What exactly are you saying..."

"Arggh don't you understand what's happening? This is it. It's over between us. I'm breaking up with you. We're through Amy Rose. We're through."

He turned quick on his heel and left the building. Everyone stood in pure shock. What in the actual hell had just happened?

"Amy..." Rouge reached for her, but Amy moved out of her grasp.

"No, don't bother me," she choked out as the tears fell freely from her face. She bent down to grab her stuff.

"If you need me-"

"No, please," Amy whispered, "Just...no..."

She held her bag close to her as she ran down the hallway and out of the building, tears streaming from her face. Rouge looked at Shadow with a pleading look. He nodded and followed the pink hedgehog.

Amy curled up in her bed, her quills messy and eyes red and puffy. She sniffled as she reached for the box of tissues on her night stand to blow out her nose. Around her floor were smashed picture frames of her and Sonic. That goddamn bastard. How dare he! She looked over and saw a picture on her nightstand of her and Sonic sometime before they went out. She picked it up stared at it. Quite suddenly, she screamed out and threw the picture onto the ground hard, sending shards of glass across the floor.

There was a soft knock on her bedroom door. "Amy?" came the voice of her mother from the other side. "Amy?"

"Go away, mom," she sniffled out.

"Amy, please..."

Amy didn't answer that time, and after a few moments of silence, the door opened slowly as Mrs. Rose made her way inside. She sat down beside Amy on the side where Amy's back was facing her. She rubbed her back.

"How you holding up, hun?"

"How do you think?"

"I know, I know. And honey, heartbreaks hurt sometimes when you have an attachment to the person-"

"Mom, he was the one. We finally end up together and then out of the blue, he dumps me."

"Boys tend to be a bit ruthless and heartless at times, but I'm sure that he had good intentions-"

Amy shot upwards and stared at her mother with wide eyes as tears threatened to fall once more. "HE BROKE UP WITH ME IN FRONT OF EVERYONE, MOM! IN FRONT OF THE WHOLE SCHOOL! I WAS HUMILIATED!"

She went back down as her body convulsed in more sobs. Mrs. Rose was at a lost for words. Just then, the doorbell rang. Mrs. Rose got up to answer it then came back to stand at the door entrance.

"Amy, there's someone here to see you."

"If it's Rouge, Cream, or even Tails, tell them to go away."

"Actually, it's neither."

"Then who-"

Amy sat up at this, interested to see who her visitor was. Mrs. Rose back away and a black hedgehog surfaced in her room. Amy looked at him in surprise.

"Sh-Shadow?"

"Hi."

"What are you...doing here?"

"I can tell you're in shock, Pinky. I'd be too."

She sat up higher as he sat on the edge of her bed. They sat in silence, Amy staring at him in absolute shock while Shadow looked around the room.

"Nice room you got here."

"Uh, thanks?"

He turned to look at her. "Pinky, answer me this. Are you okay?"

She sighed. "I'm okay, Shad."

He seemed unconvinced. "Answer me truthfully: Are you okay?"

She was about to answer, but paused as she felt her throat tighten and tears welling up in her eyes.

"...N-No..."

And quite suddenly, she was all over Shadow, crying her eyes out. Shadow sat there still and let Amy's tears fall on him. Her body jerked with each cry. Shadow caressed her quills with his hand in an effort to calm her down.

"Now, I know I'm ruthless and savage at times," Shadow said in a low calming voice, "But what Blue did to you, now that was pure savagery."

"Do you k-know what could've b-been the reason why?"

"Actually no. Normally he would tell me things but this time I didn't even forsee this coming. Not to be mushy because that's not my style and we all know this, but you and Blue balanced each other out."

"Two and a half y-years. I gave him two and a half years of my life, and how does he thank me? By breaking up with me in front of the whole school. Huh. Classic Sonic. Always looking for a way to cause a fucking s-scene."

"Mark my words, Pinky," Shadow said as Amy's crying got louder and out of control, "I'll kick Blue's ass before graduation if it's the last thing I do."

"Shad you don't have to do that."

"Trust me. I do."

Amy giggled through her sobs as she wrapped her arms around Shadow. Out of instinct, he wrapped his arms around her and rocked her gently back and forth.

"S-Shadow?"

"Hmmm?"

"How are you such a great comforter? Normally you're always so negative and non-touchy."

"Mmmm...Maria used to cry often, so I did this to comfort her."

"Oh..."

"...Yeah..."

They sat there on the bed, rocking back and forth in silence.