When I awoke, a fox, echidna, and that blue hedgehog stood around me. "*Yawn* What's up, Tails and Knuckles?" I was careful to not make eye contact with Sonic. I did see that he had bandages around his head and his left arm was in a cast. Finally, I turned to him and asked, "Is all that from Eggman?" Sonic shook his head. Knuckles growled like a dog and said, "How could you hurt him Amy?" Tails wiped away a tear and said, "You didn't have to use the Piko-Piko hammer, Amy!" I turned my head. "Piko-Piko hammer? I didn't use that!" Knuckles stepped forward:
"You couldn't have done that much damage with your fists alone!"
"Yeah. I cussed at him, spat on him, slammed the door in his face, cussed some more, threw him on the ground, stepped on him, cussed more, pulled out the door using his spike, and cussed one more time before slamming the door again."
Knuckles went pale. "H-How? W-Why? You're so. . .evil!"
"Shows what you know Knux! Everybody, LISTEN!" I shouted, so loud, the neighbors probably heard. "Sonic always spends his time with you guys. I'm just walking in and Sonic ditched me. He never wants to take me to Chili Palace, but he goes there all the time. Amy showed me the VIP room and there Sonic was. He went gaga for that Lunesta-bitch! He thought he could replace ME with some candy-ass HO!"
I tried to read everyone's expressions, but their faces are all blank. Tails turned to Sonic and started crying. "Why are you so mean, Sonic?"
"Mean? That stupid Amy smashed my head for calling her Ames!"
"It is a stupid nickname, Sonic. . ." Tails chimed in.
"What? What? What?" Sonic was speechless.
"Sonic, you were our best bud. You were Amy's bud too. Then you went and avoided her. Why?" Knuckles asked in a heart-splitting voice.
"HUH? Knuckles, you were always with Rouge, Tails was always messing with his stupid robots, so I figured Amy was busy too."
"LIAAAR!" Amy snapped completely.
"Yesterday, I was mad, now I snapped. I hate you, you stupid hedgehog! Physical pain didn't really seem to work, so I'll do the next worst thing," Sonic gulped hard, "emotional pain! Heheheheheh!" Amy burst out the door of her home and ran. She ran so fast, tears voluntarily fell out of her eyes. She squeezed them shut to protect them from dust, and slammed into Shadow, making him topple over.
"Oh. I'm sorry, Shadow!" I cried even harder, tears gushing from my eyes. "Shadow, Shadow, end this madness! Please, please! Make it stop, Shadow!"
"Make what stop?"
"I, I, need help!"
Shadow walked Amy to his house and sat her on the couch. Amy quickly burst out crying and spilled the whole story to Shadow.
"How dare that rat-bastard!" Shadow growled.
"Chaos. . ."
"What are you doing, Shadow?"
". . .SPEAR! I just hit Sonic with a charged-up Chaos Spear. Are you happy?" Shadow asked.
I grinned and my Strawberry lip gloss sparkled in the light. "Very happy." I agreed to his action not only because I despised Sonic, but because Shadow was playing mind tricks with me. Somehow. She smiled at him some more until he chuckled and asked if she was hungry. I nodded excitedly and wondered what he ate.
"As you can see Amy, I strive to be a very healthy hedgehog," I stared at his abs. Yes he did, "and I like all-natural diets. Natural food just needs a little American flavor, but that's it!" I nodded again happily.
"You're just lucky that today's Sunday! I have my end-of-week meal. It's like a mini-celebration for me! Lets go the forest to collect ingredients." I followed peacefully, enjoying the cool weather. By the time we reached the forest, I was freezing. My teeth started chattering. Shadow turned around to face me and sighed. "You poor thing." He grabbed a large leaf, rubbed some tree sap on the inside of it and stuck cotton from a plant on the sap. Shadow happily handed me the leaf and said, "I'm a survival expert in here!" I laughed and grinned, "You should teach me someday!" He smirked, "Maybe I will." The leaf felt so warm and cozy to me. Mmm.
Crack. Boom! "Ahh!" I cried and ran to Shadow. "Aw. Our dinner will have to wait." I groaned, "But Shadow, I'm starved!" He gave me a warm smile. "We'll eat raw food as soon as I set up a tent, and we'll just have beginning-of-the-week food tomorrow. I'm sorry, but getting stuff in the rain is dangerous, and it's a long trip home."
He quickly snapped a branch to a good size and placed it between two trees. The rain poured down harder. I held the warming leaf over my head to stop getting wet.
Shadow used buckets full of tree sap to stick hundreds of giant leaves together and lay the finishing product over the branch. He suck about ten big leaves together and placed them under the shelter to block the mud.
"Come on." Shadow yelled to me and lifted up one flap off the leaf quilt. I crawled into the peaceful shelter he had built, and laid down on the mud-stopping layer of leaves. Shadow laid down next to me and stared at the top of the leaf-tent.
"The sound of this rain is peaceful, is it not?" Shadow asked me calmly. I nodded. What was this weird feeling inside of me? I felt it when I first met Sonic. OH! Is it—could it be?—this oddly-timed feeling for Shadow was—LOVE!
