The Lake

" Ok, here he comes. Just act cool…relax. just tell him what you think." Tails thought to himself as he pace back and forth.

"Hey Tails glad to see you again." Jessie said "Morris and Claire couldn't make it again."

"Yea, they never have any fun. Its always do this, pick that up, get outta here before we get cau…" Benny said until he was hit with a elbow in his side.

"So anyway, Tails you ready for a swim." Jessie asked before being splashed by Benny who already jumped in.

"Um…I wanted to talk to you about something." Tails said feeling his heart in his stomach.

"Yea go ahead. Ask away. just make it fast, the ground is getting hot." Jessie started to undress.

"well its about yesterday. you know, when you gave me that…" But before Tails could finish something caught his eyes. "is that a two piece swimsuit?"

"Uh, Duh. What did you think, I was going in without a shirt? We just met." Jessie replied jokingly.

Something in Tails jumped out with joy. "JESSIE IS A GIRL!"

"Now, what did you want to ask me?" Jessie asked Staring at Tails while he jumped around.

"Oh…Um. Think, Think, THINK!! Uh, you…didn't say we were going swimming."

"Huh, your right. Well now you know. Come on my feet are starting to burn." Jessie said as she quickly jumped into the water.

Tails realized that he was the only one out and started to run toward the edge when he was stopped by the voice of Benny.

"Hey Tails aren't you gonna take your shoes off?

Tails realized that he was right as he sat down untie his shoes. "wow, its been a while since I've had to take theses off. Ok, here I go." Tails took off towards the edge for a second time, but underestimated how close he was to it. He jumped a little to close to the edge and fell straight downward into the shallow water below.

Tails knew that he was making a fool of himself but for some reason he didn't care. When he's around sonic he would try to make as little mistakes as he can but with Benny and Jessie he didn't care. He could actually let loose and relax instead of being caged in the garage or being kept on a leash by sonic. He was actually having "FUN".

As the day went Tails did everything Benny and Jessie did. Not because he had to, but because he wanted to. He swung from a tree and into the water learning that a belly flop is not as fun as some make it seem. He looked up and saw Jessie laughing at him. For some strange reason he didn't get mad like he usually would when someone laughed at him. Instead he laughed along with her.

As the sun started to set Tails realized that he had been there all day. They all laid on the grass staring at the sky while they tried to dry off.

"Hey I'll be back, I gotta go get my clothes from my bag." Jessie said as she ran to her stuff.

"Its kind of strange how I can sometimes mistaken my sister as one of the guys" Benny said staring at the sky.

"I know how you feel" Tails said as he remembered how he thought Jessie was a guy."

"She is the coolest person anyone could meet. She kind, playful, smart,…and well cool. Its kind of sad that she's caught up in all this because of me."

"What do you mean?" Tails asked turning to Benny.

"What…Oh nothing." Benny said realizing he was talking out loud. "What about you? Do you have any siblings?" He asked turning to Tails.

"Yea…err, No…err Kind of. His name is Sonic The Hedgehog."

"What's he like?"

"He used to be the coolest guy..err dude I knew. It was always me and him together saving the world."

"But!?" Benny asked looking interested.

"Well I guess he got older and lost interest in our relationship as friends and…"

"Let me guess, he got a girl friend and now has no time for you." Jessie said interrupting the twos conversation.

"How did you know" Tails asked looking rather confused.

"It happens to everybody sometime or another. You just got to be ready for it. If not then you'll be stuck in the past and unable to move on. You know what I'm saying?

"Yea, I guess." Tails replied.

Benny sat up "Hey you guys, its starting to get dark. Lets say we go get some ice cream."

"Uh I'm a little low on cash" Tails said looking through his wallet.

"Don't worry about it I'm paying. What do you want?"

"Oh some mint ice cream sounds good."

"Hey Jess what about you?"

"Ill take some vanilla"

Everyone got up and raced to their boards.

"Last one up is a loser" Benny laughed looking back at Tails.