Sonic angrily stomped into the Thorndyke household and slammed the door behind him. He was huffing angrily and his fists were clenched.
"Hello?" called an older male voice.
"Yes?" Sonic said threw gritted teeth.
Chuck Thorndyke walked out from the kitchen.
"Ah it's you Sonic" Chuck said.
He realised Sonic's anger, it was written all over his face.
"Something you want to talk about?" He asked.
"NO!" Sonic snapped and stormed up the stairs.
Chuck stood watching Sonic storm upstairs in shock.
-
Later that day, near nightfall.
The door opened followed by a lot of chatter.
Sonic was up in their room, in the attic, asleep.
He was still in a bad mood, of course.
They all headed into the kitchen for a late dinner.
Ella began placing dinner on the table with the help of Cream.
Scorch pulled Amy out of the room by her hand.
"Scorch?" Amy asked curiously.
"There's something I wanted to ask you for a while now, actually since we were younger..." Scorch began.
Amy knew where this was going.
She opened her mouth as if to say something but nothing came out.
"Would you like to be my girlfriend?" he asked shyly.
Amy stayed silent for a moment.
"But, you've only been here 2 days" she said with a nervous laugh.
"We've known each other almost all our lives!
Amy, when we were separated...you were all I thought about..." he added with a smile.
Amy stayed quite for a short period of time.
"Ok" She said with a bright smile.
She wasn't sure how to feel.
"...this is all too fast!"
She thought to herself.
"Well...I suppose I have been chasing Sonic for years, maybe it is time to move on...and I do like Scorch..."
Amy smiled at Scorch as they held hands and sat at the dinner table.
Tails and Knuckles noticed this and threw concerned looks at each other.
"Oh, where's Sonic?" Tails asked.
"Oh, He's upstairs he's been up there for a couple of hours" Chuck replied to Tails.
Amy felt a little worried.
The last time she saw Sonic he was storming away from a minor confrontation he and Scorch had, and here she was sitting hand in hand with him.
"SONIC COME DOWN FOR YOUR DINNER" Ella shouted with her thick accent.
Sonic woke up abruptly to the sound of Ella bellowing at him from down stairs.
His eyes were still half closed as he slumped down the stairs and into the kitchen.
His tired eyes suddenly widened when he realised Amy and Scorch were holding hands under the table.
Sonic felt his heart sink.
He sat at the dinner table and tried to rationalize his thoughts.
"Maybe they're holding hands with no particular reason behind it?" He thought unrealistically.
"Really?" Sonic replied to himself in his mind.
"What?"
"You know as good as I do, well especially since we're the same person, that you're clutching at straws here" Sonic fought with himself.
"I know, I know!" he admitted.
"...Who knew I would feel this...""Crushed?""Yeah, pretty much"
Amy noticed Sonic's expression from across the table;
She also noticed how he refused to make eye-contact with either her or Scorch.
He didn't eat much; in fact he barely touched his food.
"Can I be excused?" Sonic spoke rather quietly.
Scorch looked away from his plate to look at Sonic.
"SONIC, you barely touched your food!" Ella spoke, or rather shouted.
"Hehe I'm not so hungry!" Sonic said while standing up out of his seat.
Scorch smiled at Sonic, but it wasn't a regular friendly smile, it was more of a smug smile.
Sonic didn't like this one bit.
He decided to go back upstairs to cool off.
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Later that night.
Everyone was settling down for bed
Tails took the single bed in the room they all shared, since there was only one bed they rotated who go it every night, everyone else slept on separate blankets on the floor. It was Sonic's turn to take the bed but he wanted to be as far away from Scorch and Amy as possible, so he gave his turn to Tails.
Amy set up a blanket a few feet away from Tails' bed and of course, Scorch's one was set up next to Amy's.
This made Sonic feel sick.
He planted himself out on the balcony again.
They all exchanged there goodnights and lay down to sleep.
3 hours later and Sonic was still awake on the balcony.
He was sitting curled in a ball.
He heard noise coming from the bedroom so he turned around only to realise he wasn't the only one still awake.
Scorch was also awake, much to Sonic's disliking.
"You're still awake " Sonic said as more of a statement rather than asking a question while he stood up.
"I've always had trouble sleeping since I was young, you remember that, right?" he answered.
Neither of them were having a very friendly chat.
Sonic didn't answer.
"If I recall correctly you always had a good sleeping pattern, 7 hours, right?" He said as he walked out onto the balcony next to Sonic and threw him another smug look.
A scowl began to develop on Sonic's face.
"Something upsetting you?" he added with a smirk.
This really got to Sonic because he and Sonic both knew what was bothering him.
"That was out of line what you did Scorch!" Sonic hissed in a hushed tone as to not wake the others.
"What?" Scorch said, playing dumb.
"You know what!"
"Say it!" Scorch added with an evil grin.
"For—asking Amy out...!" This was the first time Sonic addressed this out loud.
"For doing something you were never man enough to do?" Scorch 'corrected'.
Sonic was lost for words, the anger welled up inside him.
"You knew how I felt about her, Scorch" Sonic added with a hint of pain seeping through in his voice.
"Oh C'mon Sonic, She's been chasing you for years!
You just want her 'cause you can't have her!"
"You know why I didn't ask her—"
"Give it up kid, it's over, you lose!" Scorch spat nastily.
Sonic held his tongue.
Scorch walked from the balcony and went downstairs.
"MAN I hate that guy!" Sonic thought as he clenched both his fists.
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Next Morning,
Sonic woke up to realise he fell asleep on the balcony.
He sat up quickly to look at Scorch's bed.
He was in it, asleep.
"Shit..." Sonic had fallen asleep before Scorch.
It's not like it was a big deal but Sonic and Scorch had always been competitive.
Sonic jumped up and decided to go downstairs.
He approached the kitchen to get something to eat when he saw Amy washing the dishes.
He stopped mid-step and hid behind the wall to the kitchen.
"This is so stupid, what am I doing?!
...I can't hid from her forever" Sonic thought to himself.
He turned around and walked into the living room and sat by the window.
Lucky for him Tails and Cream were already in there; Cream was watching kid's shows on the TV and Tails happily joined in.
Amy walked in and sat next to cream with a bowl of cereal.
Sonic felt very awkward, Tails could tell. It was written all over his face.
Sonic heard footsteps coming down the stairs.
It could only be one of two people, Chris or Scorch.
Sonic prayed it was Chris.
It wasn't.
Scorch walked over to Amy and gave her a peck on the lips, she smiled in return.
Sonic was visibly upset by this.
Scorch noticed this, in fact it was like he got joy from Sonic's upset.
"I'm going for a run" Sonic stated bluntly as he got up and headed outside.
-
It was so late when Sonic got back that the doors were locked. The Thorndykes were used to Sonic going out for a run well into the night by now.
Sonic strolled around the side of the house and jumped onto the balcony, pulling himself over the bars and onto the floor.
He realised someone had left the balcony door open, possible so he didn't have to sleep on the balcony.
Sonic slowly crept into the room.
He stopped and stood next to Amy's bed.
She had her hand laid out next to her and Scorches hand on top of hers.
Sonic felt sick at the sight.
Amy's hair was covering her face.
Sonic crouched down next to her and brushed her hair out of her face.
Sonic sighed as he stood up again.
He made his way back to the balcony, closed the doors and lied down to go to sleep.
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- Early Morning -
Amy opened her eyes to a dark room.
She looked and saw the balcony doors were closed.
"Oh Sonic must have come home last night!" She thought to herself.
She stood up and saw there was no extra blanket on the floor for him.
She found this peculiar, so she walked over to the balcony and opened the doors slowly as she peered out.
There was nobody there.
"You feel asleep on the balcony then?" Amy said appearing like she was talking to herself.
"Yep" Sonic replied, revealing that he was lying on the roof just above the balcony.
"It's the third day in a row you spend out here Sonic" Amy said sounding concerned.
"Oh really? I hadn't noticed." Sonic lied.
"Don't lie to me Sonic" She said in a very relaxed tone to not sound intimidating.
He didn't reply.
"Sonic, we're worried about you" Amy said compassionately.
"Why? I'm perfectly fine!" Sonic sang with false confidence.
"I'm worried" Amy emphasised.
Sonic jumped down off of the roof and onto the balcony directly in front of Amy.
"Why don't you stick to your worries and I'll stick to mine" Sonic said with a fake smile and proceeded to walk out of the room.
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END OF CHAPTER 2.
Sorry for the rushed/lame ending this chapter was getting waaay to long! D:
Sorry it's a bit un-eventful as well, there's much more in the next chapter! :3