Chapter 2: Sonic's preparation
Sonic sped home mumbling to him-self as he ran, "Oh man what did I just do… I know I'll get Tails to help me," Sonic increased his pace, and sped over to Tails' home. As soon as he arrived he knocked on the door quickly, Tails opened the door shortly after, "Tails, I made a terrible mistake."
"You fell for one of Amy's tricks?" Tails said with a smug look on his face.
"Yes… Well technically no but-" Sonic was cut off before he could finish his sentence.
"Then what's the big deal"
"Tails… I… agreed… to spend… the night. PLEASE YOU HAVE TO HELP ME!" Sonic said word for word with a look of desperation on his face. Tails burst into a crying laughter
"BAH-HA-HA… oh Sonic, I never thought I'd see the day…hmmm… I'll do it, but under one condition."
"Sure, anything what is it?"
"You have to give the X-tornado 2.0 a paintjob." Sonic looked over to the mainly unfinished plane sitting outside of the garage.
"Deal." Sonic shook Tail's hand sealing the deal.
"Alright come on in." Sonic entered Tails' home and sat on the couch in front of the shelf with an assortment of collections. He noticed that Cosmo had brought back three rose's from the floral shop.
"Nice flowers Cosmo, did you pick them out yourself?"
"Sure did, I also grew them in the shop's green house." Cosmo said delightfully that sonic had noticed the flowers.
"So Sonic how do you plan on getting rid of her."
"Huh?" Sonic looked at Tails like he was crazy
"Yeah, I mean you always have a way of getting rid of her… right?"
"Well… actually I planned on following through with it this time"
"Ohh… well then what do you need my help for?"
"GETTING READY, I have never done this in my life."
"Well that is true… alright com'on" Tails got up from his seat followed by Sonic, "Honey, I'll be right back I have to assist Sonic with his desperate need."
"Okay, I love you"
"I love you too." Tails said. The two walked to the door and walked to Sonic's home which was just across from Tails and Cosmo's home.
"Why are we at my house, I only have a bed in there."
"And a washer with detergent, and a shower," the word shower echoed through Sonic's mind, he knew it meant dealing with water.
"Ummm. Maybe there's another way?" Sonic said terrified, with a more desperate look on his face.
"Huh?"
"The shower! I refuse to get in!" Sonic Exclaimed stepping back
"Ugh, Sonic you're not going to drown I promise you alright… think of it as a kiddy pool" Tails said trying to calm Sonic down… Sonic paused and thought for a moment
"Alright fine I'll do it" Sonic finally agreed. The two walked inside and Tails began his instructions.
"Alright first take off your shoes." Tails instructed. Sonic did he was asked, however Tails regretted his own command
"Holy molly, when was the last time you took off your shoes, or had a shower."
"I don't think I've taken a shower lately and the last time I took off my shoes was… uh… hm, I can't remember." Sonic admitted
"Okay to the washer machine, we are getting those sterilized" Tails instructed as he walked off toward Sonic's washer.
"How do you know where it is" Sonic asked.. Tails looked at him as if he was crazy. He walked over to the kitchen and opened a wooden door right next to the sink revealing a washer and a dryer.
"Well for starter I built it… now throw your toxic gas in there" Tails instructed in a joking manner while pointing at the shoes. Sonic did as instructed and placed his shoes into the washer, he closed the lid and looked at Tails for further instructions. Tails held a small jug labeled "Amazing detergent", he lifted the lid and placed a cap full of detergent into the washer, "You may want to toss your gloves in there too." Tails suggested. Sonic did as he asked and tossed his gloves into the washer, Tails closed the lid and spoke "You are lucky the detergent doesn't expire" Tails said.
"okay, what next?" sonic asked
"Well you aren't goin to like it," Tails led Sonic into the bathroom which remained the same way it did when he first built it, "You have ever been in here?"
"Not really" Sonic responded
"Well then you need to get some other type of life style."
"The world isn't going to save its self" sonic complained
"Okay then lets get started" Tails walked over and turned on the shower, and adjusted it to an decently warm temperature. Sonic began to panic and began breathing heavily, Tails turned and saw this, "Sonic remember, kiddy pool." Sonic looked at the water pelting the white floor tub, and he watched as the water flowed down to the drain.
"okay, alright, I got this." Sonic said as he cautiously stepped into the shower. He breathed heavily and deeply as fully stepped in
"Call me when you are done." Tails walked out and closed the door, he also took this opportunity to explore around the house. Tails didn't see much added since Sonic took the house off of his hands, in the living room behind the kitchen sat a normal three seat couch with a Small TV in front of it. Tails walked down the hallway past the bathroom that Sonic was showering in, and into Sonic's room, "gosh I feel like an intruder" Tails mumbled to himself. He flipped the light switch and saw that Sonic's room was mainly empty except for a bed and a night stand with two shelves near the bed. Tails walked over to the nightstand and notice a book with a pencil next to it on the bottom shelf,, he walked over and picked up the book, opened it and began reading, "So he has been using this… huh?" Tails stopped at a line 4 pages in about halfway down and read to himself,
"I don't know why but, I all of a sudden had a strange feeling toward her, but I can't let anybody find out."
"Huh so that's why he isn't turning her down." Tails mumbled to himself. He heard Sonic's voice calling from outside
"TAILS! AM I DONE YET" Sonic screamed
"DID YOU USE THE BODY WASH" Tails screamed back. Sonic was still in the shower and looked behind him and saw a bottle labeled "Body wash" and he screamed again
"AHHHH COM'ON!"
"USE IT, THEN RINSE OFF, AND YOU WILL BE DONE." tails informed. He placed the book back to it's original spot to avoid conflict. He walked out turning off the light, and sat down on the couch. The timer went off on the washer, Tails quickly ran to the washer, he pulled the wet shoes and gloves out, put them into the dryer and turned it on. Tails heard the shower turn off, he waited for sonic to walk out of the restroom, but he didn't, "Sonic, are you alright?" Tails asked
"Y-yeah I'm fine-whoa" Sonics utter disruption in his sentence was caused by a loud crashing sound evidently caused by Sonic, "I'm fine I just slipped.
Inside the restroom Sonic was struggling to keep his balance, he continuously slipped in a puddle of water caused by him. He attempted to walk over to the towel rack, he slowly took each step with caution. He reached the towel rack, grabbed it and held on as if his life depended on it. He grabbed the towel dried his feet and the area around immediately. He then dried himself off and place the towel back on the towel rack. He opened the door and stepped out into the living room, "Well that wasn't so bad I guess." Sonic admitted, "But I'm still not a very strong swimmer." Tails chuckled because he knew it was true. The timer went off for the dryer,
"It's ready, It's ready, It's ready!" It chimed, Tails walked over and quickly turned it off,
"Probably brings back some bad, but funny memories." Tails said chuckling at the memory of the night of Cosmo's return,
"Well maybe it was funny to you, but I was tased." Sonic protested
"But you did get a chilly dog out of it." Tails reminded him as he pulled Sonic's items out of the dryer, "Alright here you go." Tails said placing down his shoes in front of him and his gloves on his lap. Sonic pick up his gloves and put one on each hand, he slipped his shoes on and buckled them down tightly,
"Well I'm off, wish me luck." Sonic said as he ran off. Tails walked out of Sonic's house and walked into his own home,
"Hi Cosmo." Tails greeted as he walked into the house. Cosmo walked over with Rose in her hands and gave him a kiss,
"Hi" Rose mimicked,
"Whoa I didn't see that coming" Tails said astonished at Rose's first word
"I know especially at such a young age." Cosmo agreed, "Is he going to be alright"
"He'll be fine, I think I'll let him figure the flirting part out."
"Flirting part?" Cosmo asked. Tails had forgotten that he wasn't supposed to mention the journal/diary,
"Nothing… nothing at all." Tails finished the conversation
