A red head girl named Amber was hanging a bunch of pink streamers on the living room wall. Sonic ran over. "What's that for?" Amber jumped off the couch. "For Valenine's day." Sonic's pupils shrank. "V-valentine's day." "yup." Sonic hated Valentine's day. Well, not really. When he first was on Chris's planet, Amy had chased him in circles on Valentines day trying to give him a kiss. But he was older, and in a new generation, he felt he was going to give a small gift for Amy. Only one problamo. He had NO idea on what to give her. And NO KISSES!! The christmas prank was enough. The only one he would confine would be Chris. But he wasn't home. So Amber seemed like a good choice. However, he wasn't the most comfortable with the idea. He always denied it like his buddy Knuckles did.

Amber studied Sonic's face. She knew he was thinking about something. And AMY! She sat on the couch. Amy and her wern't very close. Amy always thought Amber was trying to steal Sonic. The truth is that she is just hanging out with him. "Is anything wrong?" Sonic shook his head, but she wasn't stupid. She didn't push though. He sighed. "How do things go here again?" Amber patted the spot next to her. He sat there. It was oppisite of what Sonic did when Chris was a child. HE usually would comfort Chris and Helen. But THEIR child comforted him.

"Well... we give candy to everyone. And Uncle Danny's and his family come. Hmmmm...... Who else comes... Oh! The Tanaka family comes, only some of them. I'm not sure which ones this year. I know Adam will come. Uncle Speed comes for the candy. He usually stays for a short time. But last year i got him to stay for a whole hour. Oh yea!" She pumped her hand in the air. She looked sideways at Sonic, who's face read, WAAY off the subject. She straitened out. "Oh yea. Ummm we give special gifts to the people we like." Sonic wanted to give her a tiny torture. "Soo who do YOU think is going to give a Valentines gift?" Amber blushed. Sonic could tell she had a slight crush on DJ. As in slight, a HUGE one. And he liked her. A LOT!!

"I have no idea." She lied. He gave her a look. "C'mon. What about DJ?" She got redder. "DJ? I don't know." Sonic jabbed her lightly with with his elbow. "C'mon, C'mon your gonna give him something aren't you." She glared at him, still smiling. "What about Amy?" Sonic blushed and looked down. "I have no idea what to give her." Amber put a hand on Sonic's shoulders. "You want to give her something meaningful, but not like, kissy kissy mode. Right?" Sonic nodded. How did she always know what bothered him? She better not have device on me that can like read my mind, he thought.

"Get her a picture frame" Amber said. He looked at her like she was crazy. "What!?" She nodded. "A nice one." "How does a picture frame work as a gift. Amy isn't easy to please." She looked at him. "Give me a break. Anything from you she dies of joy. Not litterally. I can take a good picture of you two. then she can put the picture in the frame. You chose the pose." He looked at her in awe. "You are a GENUIS" He ran out. Cosmo came in.

"You didn't here what we were saying did you?" Amber asked. Cosmo shook her head. Amber drooped. "Don't tell me YOU need help." She shook her head again. "I was just going to ask, Are you going to make cookies with Cream Bella Amy and I?" Amber shook her head. "Not this year. You guys can do it. I am gonna attempted rock candy." Cosmo nodded. "Amy is not angry so i think you are safe." and left. Amy looked at the ground. She wanted to be closer to Amy, like everyone else, but the last time she tryed, she almost got squashed by her hammer.

FROOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMM!

Ding dong

"Amber it is your uncle Sam." said Jake Tanaka walking in.

"Uncle speed!" Sam laughed and picked Amber up. He hasn't shown any signs of age yet. "Hows my Comet doing?" Amber laughed as he tickled her. Sam looked around, "Where is Sonic?" Amber jumped out of her great Uncle's ams and landed on a couch. "When to go shoppin at the unbusy mall." He looked at her. "I thought he hated Valentines day?" She shrugged, "Guess he is older now. Hey wanna make candy with me?" Sam looked at her. "Can I eat any of them?" Amber looked at him. "There aren't goin to be ready today, but if you help, i'll sneak some for you on Valentines day, kay?" He shrugged and nodded.

"Can I have some?" A voice piped out. It belonged to neither of the mobians. "AHHHHH!" screamed Amber and Sam. "Guys, its just me." The looked. A spiked hair boy was there. "Oh hey Adam. You have GOT to stop doing that." He shrugged. Adam Tanaka had his mother, Topaz's, sneaking talents. He usually does it to scare Amber, just once in a while. "Ummm.... can you help me get the Keyboard," Adam asked nevously. "Rehearsal doesn't start untill an hour and a half." "I know." Amber looked at him, and followed his gaze, leading to Sam. Ohhhh...... i got it. Adam was having gift trouble too. "Hey uncle speed? can you make the Candy for me," She said as she handed him the recipe. "Sure." Sam replied. "Thanks and try to make them pink." "Will do!" He ran to the kitchen.

They walked to the den and as soon as they both were in, Adam locked and shut the door. Amber looked at him with an evilish stare. See, she and Clair were best friend and Clair happened to be Adam's crush. Pretty funny. "Help.." Adam wimpered. Amber liked to give Adam some torcher, because Adam was like a big bro to her. "Why don't you just kiss her," She said. He gave her the look, "Mom would freak. My parents aren't as flexible as yours. Are the coming to the party?" He asked. She smiled, "Yup I get them for Three whole days." She does get to see her parents more than Chris did, but it was still speacil. "Well, i can give you a few ideas......"