A cute yellow fox with two tails is diligently at work in his workshop. Tails groaned, his new invention may be ready and working but it was far from ready to be presented to his hero. He had been working on metal panel's and control macro's all day trying to make his creation fool proof. He imagined sonics face when he surprised him and it kept him going. What he didn't expect was for sonic to come home early and ruin the surprise.

Sonic's pov

Sonic has been at Amy's all day. Amy had invited him to go to a new movie thinking she could get a date with him and when they arrived they found shadow there as well with a date. "Shadow!" He yelled over the roar of people waiting in line. He saw shadows head turn and scan the crowd til their eyes met. "What are you guys doing here?" He asked as if bothered. "Well were here to see the new movie of course!" Cut in amy "the real question is what are you doing he-," Amy was cut off when a squirrel boy she had never seen before inrerrupted her. "Hey shadow I got our tickets we should probably get in line in front of our theater." "Ill see you guys later," snapped shadow as he practically ran off with the squirrel. "Huh what was his deal?" Asked Amy. Sonic was still in a state of shock. He had seen the way the squirrel looked at shadow and the way shadow acted like he was hiding something. Sonic had his assumptions but he hadnt thought shadow was actually gay. He pushed these thoughts to the back of his mind when his thoughts were interrupted once again by the nagging Amy. "Sonic lets go!"

The movie was good with the exception of Amy trying to hold his hand and kiss throughout half of it. Sonic was relieved every time she went to get refills. He didn't know if he could handle much more without blowing up on Amy. 'Why do I hang out with her?' He thought to himself. 'She has always been obsessed with me but I've never felt that for her.' Sonic had a sudden spark of thought. 'Perhaps I'm simply too nice to say no, I don't think I've ever been honestly attracted to anyone I've dated. Am I just running through the motions and using girls as a distraction to others? Distraction from what though?' He asked himself. Perhaps his thoughts just revealed a little secret of his subconsious but in this noisy setting it was impossible for him to further meditate about his feelings.

Amy and sonic left the theater and went back to Amy's house after the movie. They entered the house and sonic immediately sat down and began pondering his earlier thoughts. Amy went to get drinks and when she came back noticed sonic lost in thought "Sonic is something bothering you? You seem really distant tonight," amy asked. Sonic came back to reality enough to assure her he was fine. "Good because I've got a surprise for you I've been waiting to show you." She set down the drinks and grabbed his hand leading him to her bedroom. "What is it?" Half asked sonic still oblivious to the situation being lost in his thoughts. It wasn't til she began taking her clothes off that he became aware of his situation. "I bought new underwear so Ill turn you on more when we make love. I know you've been having trouble lately getting in the mood." She didn't even wait for sonic's answer she just jumped on him shoving him back into the bed and began kissing him. Normally sonic just let this happen but today after thinking about his own ambitions he was annoyed. He blurted out "Amy Im not in the mood right now I don't care how frilly your underwear are." She got up and stared at him obviously hurt. "Sonic how can you be so mean when I did all this for you. I'm just trying to make our relationship better and your always trying to put me down. Relationships are a compromise, sometimes we have to do things we don't necessarily like for the one we love." Sonic had had enough of her turning everything against him. Without thinking he said "Well maybe I don't love you maybe I never will." Her look turned into one of pure shock and hurt and he regretted what he said immediately. "Listen Amy I didn't mean to-," she cut him off, "sonic i know you love me your just having commitment issues, I've read about this. You go home and get some sleep ill see you tomorrow." And she went to bed and sonic left for home thinking about what she had said. His thoughts quickly turned to what he was thinking about at the theater. 'What's wrong with me? Why can't I just settle with someone who loves me? Maybe Amy is right maybe I do have trouble with commitment." The thoughts were still running through his head as he walked into the forest home he shared with his roommate tails.

Sonic was surprised when he walked in and found tails was no where to be found. He peeked in his workshop and saw the lights were all off. Just as he was about to walk off to bed and think about his day he heard a scraping sound in the dark of the workshop. "Tails? Is that you?" He asked into space. No answer. He flipped the light switch and looked around. No one was there so what was that sound? He heard it again but this time it came from the back corner where there were no projects currently being worked on. In fact sonic noticed tails had pulled everything out of this corner and there were floor markings all around. He got closer to investigate when suddenly the wall in front of him slid up revealing tails with arms full of metal parts and a surprised look on his face. "Sonic! B-b-but you weren't supposed to be home til tomorrow!" Sonic just furrowed his brow confused, "What is this bro are you hiding something from me?" He noticed tails blush and realized how cute he looked covered in grease and sweat with those bangs hanging over his sky blue eyes. "No it... I was...," began tails who was thinking of how to explain. His thoughts clouded when sonic's face changed into a smile. "It was supposed to be a surpise," muttered tails. Sonic immediately regretted confronting tails the way he had, "I'm sorry bro you know how hard it is for me to stay out of your stuff. I love your inventions." Tails blushed again, "its ok sonic I don't mind showing it to you right now. Its just, its not finished so it doesn't look as good as it could have." "I don't mind remember I like seeing how you make these! It reminds me how much effort you put in and how much you care..." sonic assured him. Tails was confused, "how much I care? What do you mean?" Sonic began, "Well any time you make something new its always something to help me, I just wanted you to know I appreciate it bro." Tails blushed again but he felt better about showing his new invention to sonic. "Alright sonic follow me this is my secret lab so don't touch anything its all top secret." Sonic looked really excited. "Ok bro I promise," and they began to decend the steps.

Tails pov

"Oh wow this place is huge! How did you do all this tails?" Sonic was marveling at the amount of space in this underground workshop and wondering how tails had kept it secret all this time while building it. Tails face was burning red, "well I watched some batman movies and I thought all super heroes need something like a batcave. So I built you one." Sonic turned to him with a mixture of emotions on his face. "Wow tails. I don't know what to say. You think I'm a super hero?" Tails smiled and looked at his feet too embarassed to look his friend in the eyes as he said, "I always have, your my hero sonic." Sonic was suddenly confused with all the emotions running through his head. He couldn't think straight with how cute tails was looking at that moment. "So what is it you were so excited about aside from a secret lab?" Asked sonic trying to avoid revealing himself. Excitedly tails answered "Oh this alert system was my first addition! All heroes need an emergency hotline." Sonic and tails were both looking at the machine up close as tails explained how it worked. Suddenly tails realized sonic had become silent he looked up confused, maybe he had said the wrong thing. He noticed sonic was much closer to him now. In fact he seemed to be in a trance, "sonic?" He began but was silenced when sonic leaded forward and he couldn't believe it his dreams were about to come true. Sonic was slowly moving in with what tails thought were clear intentions to kiss him. Tails had secretly been in love with sonic for years, he was just too scared to act on it. He hadnt thought sonic was gay because he was already dating amy. He hadn't told anyone that he was even gay himself and his friends were always trying to find him a mate. They loved to joke that if he would get out of the lab every once in a while maybe he'd find a girlfriend. What they didnt know is that tails would never want a girlfriend. Tails thoughts raced in his current situation but just when tails felt he couldn't take anymore and was going to risk leaning into the kiss the alarm went off on his new system.