The time passed as easily and lazily as the clouds, drifting free of care across the clear blue sky. Without even noticing, the day began to slip by Sonic and Amy, who lay calmly out in the sun, enjoying the peace. Before either would have ever thought, noon rolled right by and the day kept on going without asking any permission to proceed. Amy, suddenly curious, glanced down at her wrist and gasped upon receiving the time.
"It's already 2:45!" she exclaimed.
"Is it? Huh," Sonic said nonchalantly.
"No, I mean…I didn't mean to stay here this long," Amy said, sitting up in a slight hustle.
"Do you need to be somewhere?" Sonic asked, feeling oddly disappointed that their nice peaceful day seemed to be meeting its end.
"Well…sort of. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays, Cream comes over to my house after school. She has after-school stuff Mondays and Thursdays and Vanilla always meets her on Friday, but today's Tuesday and I have to get home before her bus gets there."
"Okay," Sonic said, standing up and offering Amy his hand, "I can have you there in about four hours." Amy turned to him with her mouth hung agape, but he just laughed. "Just kidding, you know."
Amy groaned and hooked her crutches over her arm, hopping gently onto his back with her arms locked around his shoulders. "Well the busses run by my house around 3; how fast can we get there?"
"Time me," Sonic said with a cocky grin, hoisting her up and carefully wrapping his arms around her thighs to hold her piggy-back style before blasting off back the way the had come.
After a very short series of different colored blurs, Sonic stopped on a dime right in front of Amy's house. She looked at her watch again and then up to him with an astounded smile. "Seven minutes and 28 seconds. And who knows how far you went just to get back?"
Sonic shrugged and walked her to the door, setting her down on the top step. "Maybe I'll get a step-counter and figure out some time."
"Yeah, because I'm sure you wouldn't break it within the first millisecond," Amy laughed, opening the door and inviting him in. "Well I had a really good time today; thank you, Sonic."
"No problem; I know how board I'd be if I was stuck home all day, so it's the least I can do. You wanna do something again tomorrow?" he offered, not even thinking about the words until they had already escaped his mouth.
"Maybe; I usually clean on Wednesdays, but we'll just have to see how that works out. But either way, would you mind coming over Thursday? I'll have some places to go and stuff and I'm not allowed to go alone," she pouted.
"Yeah, I guess that's fine. If you need anything before then, though…"
"I'll call Tails to get to you; it's not like you'd ever answer a phone call anyway."
Sonic shrugged coyly, giving her a quick smile and stepping towards the door. "Well, gotta run; see ya Ames!" and with that, he sped away.
Amy sighed contentedly, leaning back against the wall with a knowing smile. "Bye Sonic," she whispered, mostly to herself, as she knew the speedster was long gone by now either way.
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Cream arrived not more than a few minutes later, skipping in the open door and setting her orange backpack neatly against the wall between the entrance hall and kitchen. She turned in towards Amy, who had taken a seat at one of the kitchen chairs.
"Hi Amy," the rabbit greeted cheerfully.
"Hello Cream; how was your day?"
"It was good; we had a pop quiz in History, but I think I did really well!"
"That's great! I was always terrible at history; I'm glad you're able to get along well with it."
"But at least you can do math; I've got lots of homework for it and I couldn't keep up with my notes today," she admitted sounding disappointed.
"Well I'll help you with that; I'm sure we can fill in the rest of your notes too. Would you like a snack first, though?" Amy offered and Cream nodded happily.
After sitting down for a quick round celery and peanut butter with an apple, they dove into the organized stacks of paper in Cream's backpack. First they filled in the missing parts of her math notes and then went ahead to science, which she could do mostly on her own, giving Amy the time to take care of the day's dished. Next, Amy sat down and helped explain a few tricks about multiplying and Cream finished the rest of her worksheets with only a little extra help.
Now that homework was out of the way, the girls commenced their normal pass-time of finding and trying out new recipes. Usually they would experiment with cookies or pies, but every now and then the girls would create a whole new soup or pasta dish, giving a good reason for Cream and her mother to stay over for dinner once Vanilla got there.
"So did you do anything today, Amy? I hope you weren't too board with your leg all wrapped up like that," Cream said kindly as they set into a batch of brownies.
"No, I wasn't too board; Sonic actually came over to keep me company," she said, the subtle hint of bragging in her voice.
"That must've been nice; it's been awhile since he hung out with you."
"Mhm; he took me to this wonderful meadow out in the country somewhere. Oh, it was so beautiful, Cream, that I thought I was dreaming! Maybe I was, but it was still just so perfect!"
"Wow that sounds amazing! Did Sonic find it on a run one day?"
"Yep and he said he hasn't been there since. I don't know if anyone's seen it before, because I'm just sure there would be a house or something there if they had, but I didn't see anyone around."
"So maybe you were the second person to ever see it!"
"Maybe; that would be really cool."
Cream nodded in agreement as they launched into a topic switch to Cream's day.
A little while later, Vanilla came to pick up Cream and they both went home, leaving Amy, yet again, stuck home alone. It was already 5:30, so she decided to make herself dinner; an overloaded backed potato with some re-heated roast. An hour or so later, Amy found herself beginning to feel drowsy and decided it was time to conquer the tedious task of climbing the stairs to her bedroom on one foot.
…
Back over at Tails's place, Sonic arrived an hour or so after leaving Amy, since he had taken a detour for a quick jog. He blasted by Tails in his workshop and didn't slow until he reached his room at the far end of the enormous building.
"Hey Sonic!" Tails called loudly so the speedy hedgehog could hear him.
"Hiya little buddy!" Sonic said, returning instantly after figuring out where his fox friend had been.
"Did you and Amy have a good time? What did you do?"
"Nothing much," Sonic shrugged, "I took her to a field somewhere near the coast," he pointed to the west to signify which coast he was referring to.
"That's cool; did she like it?"
"Try love! At one point she was convinced it was a dream," Sonic chuckled.
"That's funny; and I'm sure you had a good time too, right?"
Sonic nodded once with a shrug. "I thought she'd be like she usually is-all over me or something-but she seemed really cool with it and everything. It was…nice," he admitted.
"Well it's not like she acts that way completely unconsciously; I'm sure Amy will try her best to not scare you off for as long as you'll be there to keep her company," Tails said, a knowing smile at his best friend's reluctance to admit he had enjoyed himself.
"Yeah, I guess you're right, Tails. She said she'd be busy at her house tomorrow, so I'm not sure if I'll go over there yet. But I definitely will Thursday."
"That's nice. Well, it's getting late; what do you want for supper?"
"Chili dogs!" Sonic exclaimed predictably, causing the fox to emit a slight groan. He enjoyed chili dogs nearly as much as his speedy friend, but wanted to insert some variety into their evening meal time.
"How about spaghetti?" Tails offered.
"With sauce?"
"Yes," Tails agreed, "of course we'll have sauce."
"Spicy meat sauce?" Sonic verified.
"Sure," Tails agreed, beginning to catch on to his game.
"Chili sauce?
Tails sighed reluctantly. "If that's what you want."
Sonic smiled before running off again, knowing they'd both be in grave danger if he tried to make it so, out of pure generosity towards their stomachs, left Tails to make the food.
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Without even the use of her knee to half crawl up, it took her nearly five whole minutes to finish the four second activity. She got to the top step and laid across the floor, letting out a long groan.
"Either get used to it or move to the couch for awhile," she told herself, a light bulb flashing on in her mind. "That's actually not too bad an idea; I'll try to remember that in the morning to-" she stopped short there, realizing that she was actually speaking aloud to herself. Upon this thought, the pink hedgehog groaned again, knowing these six weeks may feel like years in the end.
She went ahead to the bathroom down the hallway to brush her teeth and wash her face. Next was her bedroom, just next door, which she hobbled into sleepily. With some effort, the exchanged her sweats for a pair of comfy shorts and slipped on an oversized T-shirt to sleep in, rather than staying in the unintended outfit she had used for the days advances.
Finally, the exhausted girl was able to lay her crutches against the wall and fall onto the bed. She met the difficult task of setting a bent leg comfortably across the bed but was eventually able to manage. After several minutes of star gazing out the window her bed pointed towards, she was able to drift away into the peaceful dark abyss of sleep.
Yay! I've finished chapter four! I know this took forever and I'm sorry about that, but it's here now! I hope you all enjoyed this one-even if there was nothing that eventful-and I'll be doing my best to get another one out ASAP! It's 11:11! I wish for a midget! …0_0…oookay…I did not mean that at all! Why do wish always wish stupid stuff? And once I've thought it I can't take it back! Grrr! That's why I've already planned my next birthday wish ahead of time (SWEET SIXTEEN NEXT MONTH! YEESSS! :D).
Anyway, I'd really appreciate if you guys would take a quick minute to review-the more reviews, the faster I'll update ;) -and thanks for reading!
P.s. I wrote the 11:11 thing last night; it's not really almost noon or anything for me right now. And since I didn't get to post last night, I can say this now! TGIF! (Try gerbils if [you're] fun! Jk :P) Happy Friday everyone! WHOO-HOO!
