Only Myst and Sasha are my characters, the others do not belong to me.

"Shadow, haven't we passed that tree two minutes ago? And four and six and nine."

"No!"

"Let me call out directions because we are lost. At this fork in the road, turn left!"

"But I thought it was-"

"No buts buddy or I'll leave you here all… by… yourself."

"B-"

"Understand?"

"Yes. Let's go left." Shadow replied.

They had only walked for two more minutes when Sasha and Shadow stumbled upon the main road. As it turned out, Shadow had been leading them in circles. Sasha looked over to see his face red with embarrassment. A GIRL of all people had outwitted him.

"Shadow," Sasha started.

"What?" he responded dryly.

"It's all right to be wrong. I'm wrong sometimes too."

Abruptly Shadow stopped and Sasha went back to him. She looked him straight in the eye and said, "There's a fly on you. But that's not the point. You know that we can both get on each other's nerves and we've only known each other for 15 minutes. I just want you to know that… that… I really wanna go to the coast!"

"………………" For once Shadow didn't know what to say.

They both stared at each other for the longest amount of time before Mystikal said, "Sasha, meet my new bf."

Sasha looked at the echidna and gave him a pleasant smile. "Pleased to meet you."

"My name's Knuckles but my friends call me Knucks. May I borrow Shadow for a minute?"

"Sure, that is," Sasha glanced over at the red-and-black hedgehog before saying, "if it's okay with him."

"Of course it is."

"Mystikal, why don't you meet me at the coast?"

"You're going there too?!" Sasha asked with a startled look on her face.

"Why don't you two meet us there and we'll all spend some time with each other?"

"Great idea Shadow! See you at Emerald Coast!" Mystikal and Sasha replied in unison.

After the girls had gone, Shadow and Knuckles had a hedgehog to echidna conversation that could only go on between two friends. Little did they know that they were being watched. It wasn't just the two of them who heard the conversation.

"Why are we best friends going out with best friends? Doesn't that seem weird?"

"It sort of does but I don't really care. As long as they don't go two-timing us then it'll be fine with me."

"But what if they…"

"Shh! Mystikal and Sasha are only 20 feet away!"

"What if they have secret admirers?"

"If they have secret admirers then those people better keep it a secret or else I'll knock 'em down!"