Chapter 1

My name is Lydia the Hedgehog. I am a beautiful hedgehog and I'm in love with my man, Sonic the Hedgehog. We live in a house together in Mobius. He always wants to get me something but I tell him that he's the only present I'll ever need. There are really no words to describe how I feel about him. All I know is that he is my prince charming, and I'm his beautiful, precious princess.

Lydia typed on her computer at the Sonic fan website. As Lydia closed her browser, she noticed the time and realized that she had to go to work at the Burger Shack.

"Oh no, I'm going to be late!"she yelled.

Lydia quickly grabbed her coat and ran out of the house. When she got to the Burger Shack, she was undoubtedly late. Lydia tried to sneak through the kitchen area and into the locker room to change. However, one of Lydia's co-workers, Anna caught her sneaking through and called the manager. As Lydia went to her locker, the manager barged in and stood right in front of Lydia.

"Lydia, why are you late again!" the manager yelled.

"I'm sorry, I was just…I was just…" said Lydia while stumbling on her words.

"Look! I don't give a damn what you were doing! You're late and if you pull this shit again, you are going to regret it!"

As the manager was about to leave the locker room, he mutters "Now get changed and get your ass to the register." He proceeded to leave the locker room. Lydia was traumatized by her manager's reaction but she changed into her Burger Shack uniform and walked to the registers.

Lydia and Anna stood at their respective registers, waiting for customers to arrive. Anna looked over at Lydia and noticed that she was wearing a Sonic the Hedgehog bracelet. Anna started to snicker. Lydia looked over at Anna. Anna tried to pacify herself from laughing even harder. Suddenly a middle-aged woman approached Lydia.

"Excuse me." The woman said.

Lydia quickly turned to the woman. "Um, how can I help you today?"

"These fries are overcooked. I want my money back."

"Ma'am, I'm not allowed to give you your money back it's against store policy."

The woman started to get infuriated. "Against store policy? What kind of dumb rule is that?"

"I'm sorry ma'am."

"Sorry my ass, bitch!" Suddenly, the woman lunged her grape soda at Lydia's face. "Fuck this place and fuck you too you ugly bitch!"

Lydia stood there in shock. The soda was cold, sticky and all over Lydia's face and shirt. The woman stormed out of the Burger Shack. Lydia took a towel and started to wipe her face and clothing. Lydia heard a loud laughter, she looked over at Anna. Anna and a few others just stood there and laughed at Lydia. Lydia looked away from them and tried to ignore them.

As time went passed, Lydia shift was over and began to walk to her home. She didn't live too far from the Burger Shack as her house was only a few blocks away. As she opened the door, her mother, Carrie was sitting at the living room couch watching her soaps. Lydia was approaching the stairs to ignore her mother and just stay in her room. Carrie noticed a smell when Lydia walked in the house.

"Lydia! Why do you smell like grape soda?" Carrie shouted.

"I'll go take a shower!" shouted Lydia.

As Lydia was in the shower, she took the soap and started to rub her petite body with it. She started to think about what happened to her today and how her life was just completely miserable and devoid of anything good. As the water soaked her body, she began to cry.

After taking a shower, she put on her Sonic t-shirt and pajamas. Then she sat on her bed and tried to find something to do to take her mind off of her burdens. She took out Sonic Heroes from her video game shelf. She stared at the cover and rubbed her hand against the picture of Sonic. "Save me." Lydia whispered. She opened the box and proceeded to put the game into her Gamecube. She took her controller and played the first level of the game. As she was playing, she felt much better. Sonic kept rooting the player on with sayings like "Keep going" and "You're doing great". Lydia continued to make progress in the game with Sonic rooting her on.

"Lydia, you are the best." said Sonic.

Lydia didn't notice that Sonic even said anything.

"Lydia, you are doing great, keep up the good work."

Lydia noticed and started to look around. She wasn't sure if there was someone in the room with her. Lydia went back to playing Sonic Heroes. When she moved the analog stick to move Sonic, he wouldn't move on screen. Lydia began to press buttons at random but nothing would make him move. Suddenly, Sonic started to turn around and looked directly at Lydia through the screen.

"Lydia, I'll always love you."

Lydia was startled and she dropped her controller and jumped back on her bed.

"Lydia! Time for dinner!" shouted Carrie.

"Ok mom! I'll be right down!" responded Lydia.

Lydia looked back at the television screen and saw that it was back to normal. She picked up the controller and she was able to move Sonic around. She turned off the game and went downstairs to sit at the Dining room with her mother and father, Phil. In front of Lydia was a cooked chicken breast with some string beans on the side. Lydia slowly ate a piece of her string bean. The family sat quietly until Carrie broke the silent unison.

"So, Lydia how was work?"

Lydia remained silent. She did not want to be reminded of the incident that happened with that woman.

"The same." said Lydia with a slight hesitation in her voice.

"I was talking to one of my co-workers." Said Phil to Lydia. "He told me that his son dropped out of high school because he flunked a lot of his classes. However, he took his GED and got a high score. He's only twenty-four years old and he got into his local community college. You are only four years younger than he is. So, I was wondering what you thought about going to college?

Lydia sat rigidly as if her father's words of going to college were like a bullet through her brain. She didn't want to go to college but she didn't want to upset her father. "I'll think about it, Daddy."

"Think about it? Honey, aren't you sick of working at the Burger Shack all your life? Don't you want to be something instead of someone's trash to push around?" exclaimed Phil.

"Phil, that's enough." interrupted Carrie.

"How could you support her throwing her life away to make some burgers and fries?"

"Maybe she's not ready for that yet."

"She hasn't been ready for two years now. Come on, Carrie!"

As Phil and Carrie argued, Lydia got out of her seat and walked upstairs to her room. Lydia shut the door and laid down on her bed. The noisy argument continued downstairs but still could be heard from Lydia's room. Lydia grabbed a sketchbook, placed in a shelf next to her bed. She looked at the drawing that she drew. It was a picture of a female hedgehog with a pink head and torso and purple pants. The hedgehog had long quills and blue, mesmerizing eyes. The feminine hedgehog was holding hands with Sonic. At the bottom of the picture it read "Lydia Loves Sonic Forever".

Lydia put the drawing back to the shelf and pulled her blanket just below her breasts. Lydia closed her eyes softly until she was asleep. Suddenly, a mysterious figure grabbed her blanket and covered her breasts and gave her a kiss on the forehead. Lydia woke up from the kiss. She sat upright on her bedpost and looked around her room. She noticed a strange discoloration at the tip of her hair. Lydia combs her hair with her hands to grab the odd discolorations. When she opened up her hand, she was holding blue quills.