Soooooo sorrry it's been forever since I've uploaded.
So I threw in this chapter really quickly. It's short, yes, but it has a lot of meaning.
SORRY! STICK WITH ME AND I'LL UPLOAD AGAIN SOON!
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All eyes in the room shift from Lilly to me and back to her. "Guys," I mumble slowly feeling extremely spotlighted. Poor little Lilly entangles her arms with mine and I pick her up onto my lap. "This is my daughter." I smile at Lilly reassuringly.
"Cute!" exclaims Silver, just as predicted. Lilly rubs her eyes and looks up curiously at me. I grip her little shoulders.
"Thanks. I guess it's time to do some explaining…" I inhale deeply. "When I was fourteen, I met this guy at my middle school in New York. His name is Damon and he's a white hedgehog. I can remember meeting him and thinking how great he was and finally, when I was fifteen, Damon asked me to be his girlfriend. You see, he was my absolute first boyfriend—therefore I believed it was true love." I steal a sideways glance at Sonic. He is looking at his knees, eyes wide as ever.
I continue, "Eventually at sixteen, Damon and I… made this one." I smile at my lovely daughter. "Like I told you, Knuckles, I am not ashamed of her in the least bit. I love Lilly and I will not tolerate any disrespect for my creation of her. I do however understand that it was a stupid thing of me to think that what Damon and I had was love."
I sigh and the memories flood in. "In the very beginning, Damon was spectacular." I say in a reminiscent sort of voice. I feel very emotional as I speak all this out loud to my childhood friends, my best friend, my basically brother, and my first actual love… I can't bear the thought of looking at any of them when I say, "But when I told him about the pregnancy, he changed."
I abruptly look to Blaze. "Can you take Lilly in the next room?" I grin weakly. Blaze nods sharply and grips Lilly's hand. I know Lilly is aware of her so to speak "dead-beat dad" but this is far to grown up for her to hear or be influenced by.
"Anyway, Damon and I reached a breaking point for many reasons. We chose to stay together for Lilly's behalf up until her first birthday. It was truly an awful day. Starting in a cake and balloons and ending in Lilly and I on the streets. I was fired from my job at the fashion agency and broke as hell. We moved into my dad's house once again and, although he was extremely understanding of my mishap, I chose just recently that I would move here—back home to start anew."
Silence engulfs me. The ringing sound of nothing pierces my ears and suddenly I begin to cry. I can feel warm arms around me within moments and see its Rouge hugging me.
Manic and Shadow and Silver are all crowding too. Knuckles sits now beside me on the loveseat and through the gushing tears I can see Sonic standing alone near the bathroom, arms crossed.
Even with all the friendly arms wrapping me up, I feel cold and more alone then when Damon threw me onto the rainy streets of New York.