Love's Twin Tails

Chapter 2: Troubled Thoughts

Tails ran behind the blue, speedy and handsome hedgehog. He twirled his tails round and round to keep up with him, just as he had always done before, but this time, something was different. He was thinking of how the mystique event from the night before happened; how his lips locked onto Sonic's.

Was it a dream? wondered the little troubled fox. No, it truly happened, I know it did... but why? Was it just the effect of Knuckles' drink or… could there be something more?

Tails breath gave away into a small aching sigh. He could feel his heart sink under a deep purple pool of sadness.

Why would Sonic want anything more from me? Questioned Tails, his mind running. To him I'm just… like his little brother... but then, why did we kiss? Tails thought this with deep concern, causing his head to spin in circles, much like his own twin tails were doing. He wanted to understand this conundrum but that seemed harder than interpreting hieroglyphs on an ancient Egyptian wall.

As the rushing wind blew all around Tails' accelerating body, he gazed at Sonic intensely, almost as if the answers where to bounce off his flowing blue hedgehog spikes. Before they'd realized it, Sonic had just barely passed by Amy's house (That's where Amy's Birthday party had been).

"Sonic, we missed it!" Tails called out.

The blue speed demon quickly changed course on a dime. Reaching his destination in less than a split second, he waited another split second for Tails to reach his side.

"So…" began Sonic, as Tails pulled up beside him, "You wanna do the honors, lil' bro?"

When Tails' ears rang with the words "lil' bro" it was like shining silver bullets impacting straight into his fragile heart. He didn't know why it felt so wrong to him all of a sudden, but he didn't want to alert Sonic's worry and he tried to play a casual smiling face.

"N-No," he stuttered softly, clearing his throat a little "You should do it, Sonic."

The hedgehog gave a subjugated sigh as he looked to the ground with hesitation, slowly reaching for Amy's light-pink front door.

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Knocked Sonic lightly on the painted wooden door.

"Amy?" he inquired, a bit cautious, "You there?"

Sonic waited, recoiling a tad, fearing another one of Amy's cries filled excited infatuation, yet, there was nothing. He was surprised to hear a plain, eerie silence.

"That's funny," whispered Tails, a bit confounded, "you would usually be trying to get her off of you right about now."

Sonic scratched his head in confusion, raising an eyebrow at such a rare ordeal.

"Yeah, you're right," he replied, looking at Tails inquisitively, "What do ya think?" he asked, hinting at the light-pink door, "Should we?"

Tails knew exactly what Sonic was thinking.

"Yeah, I'm sure she won't mind." answered Tails, with a small shrug.

Sonic grasped the brass doorknob and gave it a turn. He opened the door slowly, but only about an inch or so, as a low pitch creaky noise could be heard escaping from the hinges.

"H-Hello?" he said, trying to make his voice be heard inside, "Anyone home?" His voice contained a hint of uneasiness and was a bit shaky as Sonic was still waiting for a certain pink hedgehog to pounce all over him.

Seeing as there was still no response what-so-ever, Sonic opened the door all the way and took a look inside. Tails did the same nearly mirroring the hedgehog. When they beheld the scene indoors, their mouths dropped wide open.

The whole house was in a muddle. The walls had some holes in them, confetti and streamers were everywhere along with potato chips and pretzels. A large grotesque green stain could be seen on the carpet floor of the living room.

Knuckles was in the corner, of said living room, wearing a lampshade around his head as Rouge the bat laid on top of him. Cream the rabbit and Amy where slumped on the couch with Cheese the Chao on Amy's head; they were surrounded by open boxes of what seemed to be the birthday gifts.

Blaze the cat was curled up asleep on top of the stove, wearing a police uniform and a party hat on her head.

Vector the crocodile was sitting on a chair next to Charmy the bee and juxtaposing Silver the hedgehog, their heads resting on the dining room table. There were poker chips and playing cards all around them along with several empty plastic cups, except for one cup which Vector was holding that still had some of Knuckles' homemade punch.

Espio the chameleon lay on the floor, on the other end of the table, with sticky dried out residue of some punch all over his face and torso. To top it all off, no one seemed to be awake yet, they were all knocked out cold.

Sonic and Tails were bamboozled, they couldn't believe their eyes at such a crazy sight. It took them a while to snap out of their disbelief.

"I am definitely never going to drink anything that ole' knuckle-head makes at parties," said Sonic in a voice holding some slight distraught horror.

"Me neither. " replied Tails in an equally shocked voice.

The pair looked at each other and then back at the mess.

"Uhm…" started Tails, "Sonic, what should we do now?"

The little fox looked up at the handsome hedgehog; he noticed that Sonic had his deep thinking face on. For some reason he wanted Sonic to hold his hand. Tails yearned to feel his warmth, his gentle touch and firm grasp. The fox soon realized that he was gawking at Sonic again, so he quickly looked away, feeling a bit embarrassed and slightly ashamed.

When Sonic seemed to have an answer for Tails he looked at his smaller companion and noticed Tails' offbeat behavior; he seemed a bit distracted and stand-offish. Concern made its way into the hedgehog's heart, but that wasn't the only thing that was blooming inside. He couldn't get over how attractive Tails looked. Sonic had the sudden urge hold him in his arms and make him feel safe and comfortable.

What's going on with me? said Sonic, in the inner confines of his mind. Why do I still have these feelings and thoughts about Tails?

He lightly bit his lip, with nervousness written across his face like the pages in an open book.

Enough, thought Sonic, wanting to regain his cool, I should just tell Tails about my plan…

Sonic cleared his throat, causing Tails to perk up his fox ears and face the hedgehog once again. The blue speedster opened his mouth to speak.

"Uhm…"

Yet, before he could say anything more, Sonic and Tails heard dreary groans coming from someone inside the house.

"M-mmoahh..."

They both looked inside again and saw that it was Amy, she was the one who was groaning with sluggishness. The duo soon realized something terrible was happening. The house was a total wreck and Amy Rose was waking up.