Cause and Effect

By salathehedgehog

(who hereby disclaims all characters except for herself and some chao, because she obviously owns herself, and she created the chao or her friends did, but you get the idea)

Marlen and Sophie walked across the street continually talking about the Seasonal Dance at Station Square.

"So I heard, you asked J..." Sophie started.

"He asked me..." Marlen stated. "But I'm still not sure he's gonna' come." She started to kick some rocks.

"Angelica? That bad, huh." Sophie tried to be comforting, but the voices in the distance singing, "Marlen and JD sitting in a tree" were not letting her do her work.

Sophie's and Marlen's houses came into view. "Bye, see you later!" Sophie said.

"Oh, remember, by the old oak tree!" Marlen exclaimed before going in.

Marlen banged her head against the wall. Her dad and brothers were at soccer practice, her mother was at the mall, and Mona was at the vet. So this was typically the first time she was alone plus the TV and Internet were unplugged and she was too lazy to re-plug them in. She looked outside. The sunset was pretty, and she started to get claustrophobic. She got her skateboard out and started to ride around the house. After crashing into the walls many times and breaking some of her mom's so-called "dishes," she decided it was time to meet Sophie by the old oak tree.

Sophie wheeled her bike out of the garage door. After she left the porch she jumped on her bike and pedaled away.

Shortly before reaching the old oak, Sophie spotted Marlen and waved... which was a pretty bad idea. She ran into a mailbox. Marlen ran to the aid of her friend.

"I swear you are turning more like Robyn each day!" Marlen exclaimed as she was pulling Sophie up.

"No comment..." Sophie muttered.

"Okay now we look for pics for the local news," Marlen looked around for something interesting. "Oh shoot..."

"What?!" Sophie asked.

"I stepped in... mud." Marlen complained. Something caught her eye when she was jumping trying to get the so-called "mud" off. "Sophie take a look at this..." she pointed at two things which looked like they were talking to each other.

"Give back the Chaos Emerald, Shadow, you faker!"

"Faker? You're not even good enough to be my fake! And why do you want the Chaos Emerald, to give it back to the authorities?"

"It's Sonic..."

"And his recolor!" Sophie and Marlen exclaimed.

Sophie took Marlen's camera. "Let me take ONE photo!?!?" she exclaimed.

"No!" Marlen snatched her camera back

Sophie tried to snatch it again but in the process flung the camera out of reach on "Auto" mode. Sophie and Marlen hid behind the old oak tree and the camera went off.

Sophie got so excited that they were the first ones to take a picture of the recolor Shadow she jumped out of her hiding spot and ran between the hedgehogs chanting "EXTRA!!!!!" Marlen grabbed the camera, ran to Sophie, got her skateboard and Sophie's bike (which both of them were amazingly still intact), all in two minutes worth of time. They raced home, Sophie a bit more reluctantly than Marlen.

When they finally reached their house Sophie looked at the pictures. "Marlen, we took a picture... of two hedgehogs." Marlen doubted that. No one ever took a picture with Sonic in it--much less his recolor. "No blurs or red-eyes or anything! Double the pay!"

Marlen took a look at the picture and was astonished. "We'll take the pictures to Walgreens for developing tomorrow." Marlen walked into her house.

After school Marlen, Sophie, and Robyn picked up their instruments. Marlen had a French horn, Sophie had a bassoon, and Robyn had an alto-saxophone. Their friend Marriha had waited for them.

"It takes you so long to get your stuff!" Marriha complained. Marlen grinned. They walked out of the door.

They walked out of the school campus soon after. "Can I take a break!" Marlen asked.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, Shadow spoke behind them. "Give back the camera ladies!" he exclaimed.

Marlen was the first to react. She flung her stuff at Shadow (A/N: The French horn weighs about fifty pounds XD) while the others followed exactly what she did and ran.

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Me: Hi... Err... What up? This is kinda' my first thingy, so... Reviews would be nice... And so would constructive criticism. But no flames. Or discouraging comments. 'Cuz, BTW, I don't even get discouraged, so don't even attempt to try.