"Little Things"- One Direction

Chapter 4: Night

Going to restaurants to eat was something that happened rarely and if she did go out to eat I'd be to somewhere nearby. It wasn't that type of rare this time.

Seeing the pepper being passed in front of Amy made her look down at her hamburger feeling awkward about not eating anything yet. Sonic grabbed the pepper bottle and shook some out onto his fries. Cream smiled happily enthused about Sonic pouring a lot onto his hamburger while Tails tilted his head to the side in concern. Amy's eyes were half way closed and her mouth slightly open. She shook her head and turned to the open of the room. The restaurant was fancy but not as fancy for it to be a five star or anything where tourist could come and make the place crowed. The walls were covered in lines colored by orange and yellow and a bright white paint job. The tables were round and red. Each one had a flower vase in the middle giving it a little bit of a conspicuous to its surroundings. Her friends and she sat in a round polished wooden table near the corner of the room. There weren't too many people inside so it was calmer, the atmosphere was relaxing.

"You know if you put too much pepper you'll waste perfectly good food." Tails suddenly spoke with a deep scowling frown pulling Amy away from her isolated moment.

"The hotter the better," was all Sonic said then placing the pepper down and grabbing his hamburger. "Bon Appétit."

Amy rolled her eyes annoyed and then on to looking at her food once again and feeling weird to her stomach. She didn't really feel hungry first of all but she didn't have much of a saying at seconds. She was practically dragged to eat with them. She couldn't say no to Cream and so now here she was holding in her saying to say she wasn't hungry and watching Sonic in disgust as he chewed down his food so carelessly. The sight of him devouring down his food gave her the yucks, shivers coming down from her toes up to her shoulders. If only she was hungry she'd save herself from

"Something wrong?"

Amy spun around to face Sonic who was smirking at her. She immediately changed her expression. "No, I'm fine," she replied without much thought into her sentence.

Tails smiled at her and spoke to her surprise, "But you're not eating?"

When she turned to him she nervously smiled and half-laughed. "Oh, I'm letting it cool off. It was too hot." Amy's throat dried hearing her own voice give out such a blatant lie. She was hiding it really well but while looking hard at her hamburger she was in the border line of being discovered and caught in it.

Sonic's face was expressionless and he bites into his hamburger without much interest. His eyes were penetrating her and she could sense it trying to reach her soul. Amy found herself looking at no-timing moment. She grabbed her hamburger and took a bite out of it. Just like that, her stomach twisted and suddenly she felt full. She hadn't swallowed yet and she felt like throwing it all out, but for her sake she forced herself to swallow it.

'Bite one.' She acknowledge in sad despair.

Cream placed her hand on Tails keeping his attention back to her. "Stop pressuring her. Amy eats her food at her own paste." She explained calmly.

"Yeah I understand," He gave a dirty look towards Sonic. "Unlike most pigs."

Sonic slammed his hand on his chest with a fake hurt look, "Coming from the guy who's own workspace looks dirtier than mud itself." He pointed out giving pauses at his last sentences.

Tails' cheeks flushed furiously and his teeth gritted. Tails' eyes traveled to the side and he pout, "I clean it once in a while."

"Yea," he dangerously stared at him. "Once a month, maybe even a—"

"Sonic!" Tails growled.

Amy felt herself let out a devious chuckle to Tails defenseless-self act. Somehow the feeling of men being so worthless made her smile. If anything, if she were to feel down, a worthless man would always make her reverse that frown. While thinking of it, she failed to notice Sonic out of the corner of her eye with a small sly smile on his lips and his emerald orbs gleaming towards her sight.

Some bells to the restaurants rung and in came a group of girls. The girls were all laughing and talking loudly with one another stopping in front of the cashier. Amy's eyes widened and she turned her head to the side were she was hearing the voice of a familiar chipmunk and friends. All her friends were in the restaurants same as her. Her heart began thumping hard and she turned her head back and her head fell down. Why were they here? She didn't even know, but if they saw her with Cream and Sonic, there were to be serious drama.

"Amy?" Cream questioned.

"Sally's here, Cream." Amy managed to whisper for her voice strain and shaky could barely even talk with it being heard. She tried so hard to hide her head from any of their sights.

Cream blinked with wide eyes and she looked around eventually spotting her getting attended by a waiter.

Cream bucked her head down the same level Amy had and whispered, "Hide,"

"Hide where?" Amy harshly whispered back panic entering her whole system and not allowing her to think straight.

"Get under the table or something." Cream suggested.

"No, they'll see me!" she worriedly told her.

Tails gave Sonic and stern look and then nodded his head over to Amy not letting go of his glance. Sonic gave a sigh and shrugged dropping his fork. He slid down the rubber cushion of the round table and got out. He extended his hand out to Amy. "Come with me." He said.

Amy looked up at him. She didn't question what he said; because he had gotten the message that he was going to help her. Anything was better than getting caught. Amy narrowed her eyes and her teeth grit tight, but she slid down as well and stood up from her seat, smacking his hand aside. It didn't seem to bother Sonic, his eyes only moved to the side and he pout his lips. He began to take off the sweater he was wearing and covered Amy's head with the hoody and body with his long sweater. Amy let out a small screech to his sudden movements, but Sonic was gentle with her. He wrapped his arm around her shoulder.

"Have a nice date you two and see you tomorrow." Sonic smiled at them and dragged Amy forwards to the exit of the restaurants. "Cream," Amy called out, but it was too late. Sonic was already taking her to the door where a man stood talking to a woman. Sonic's eyes made his way to the girls and he glared at them all finding seats at a nearby table near Cream's. The view would've been perfect for them to spot them if he didn't act quickly. He moved quickly in between the lady and man talking. "Excuse us," he said and pushed the door open with his hands.

The fresh air brushed down Amy's warm cheeks. Sonic dropped his arm from her shoulder and turned back to look inside through the glass window. "You're safe now." He said, not looking at her. "From whatever reason you're scared off."

Amy's expressionless face stared at him and then she pulled the hood on her head down. "Yes," she slowly said. Sonic turned to her and smile at her. "Thank you," she added unsure of herself.

Sonic chuckled and her eye brow rose in curiosity. His obnoxious chuckles from time to time grew to make her mad. It was a bad impression on her; it looked like she was making him laugh. "What's funny?" she gruffly asked.

"You're funny." He said frankly with a smile.

Her eyebrows narrowed even more than they were already and her fists clenched. "Wanna say that again?" she threatened him sounding at her lowest voice.

Sonic smirked and walked to her side. He pulled the hood over her head. "C'mon, I'll take you home." He offered kindly, but the kindness that was giving to her was easily reversed back. "No!" she retorted. "I can go home by myself." She said, pulling the hood down roughly.

"In the dark?" he questioned, walking back to her. Amy moved back a little, drops of water forming on her forehead. His face reached closed to hers. "Haven't you heard it's rude to let a girl walk home by herself?"

Amy returned a glowering glare back to his sly ones. This hedgehog was something else. From the rumors she heard of him seemed to be not true at all. He wasn't mean, but annoying. Her first impression of him was indeed something she didn't expect, most heroic, but overall the more she was getting to know him, he was simple becoming a pain to be around with. She was not getting along with his sly attitude.

Sonic grinned and pulled her hood up to her head again covering her face and eyes with darkness. Her head was pulled forward down with force to cover her face completely. Amy growled as he chuckled walking off down the street.

Amy pulled the hood off forcefully huffing in frustration. Soon after taking her frustration out in a single breath she calmed down following him but not saying anything else that would start another topic she didn't want to talk about.

.:XxX:.

"May I have a root beer float and a small salad?" Sally said, ordering off the menu she had in her hands. The waiter who attended them nodded and grabbed all the menus from the girl's hands, tucking them under his arm. "Will that be all?" the hound dog asked them.

"Yes, that'll be all." Some of them muttered to him. Sally lowered her head back to her friends and smiled. "It's so fresh in here." Fiona commented shrugging her shoulders. "Calm and relaxing."

"Right!? Why didn't we think of coming here in the first place?" Mina said, playing with her fork.

"You were the one who said you didn't want to come here." Blaze said, not believing what she had said.

The girls all laughed to her insaneness. Sally took a long inhale and let air out from her mouth. With a huge smile on her face she said, "We should invite Amy next time. I'm sure she'd love this place."

Bunny, looking down at her mirror she brought along with her, she fixed her lipstick that was smoothly rubbed all along the edges on her lips. She then closed the small make-up mirror and looked up. Bunny blinked seeing a familiar face yet old. Cream was across from their group with her boyfriend. Cream was talking to him loving and they were eating comfortable. She also noticed that there were two other plates that were still there with fresh food, two hamburgers one bitten and the other almost done. Her expression stayed the same, blunt and plain. The waiter that came back with the drinks interrupted her thoughts. The waiter placed her root beer in front of her and she nodded to him, as did the rest, thanking the waiter for bringing the drinks to the table.

Cream peeked over to Sally's table and eyed them all laughing together. Tails held her hand and smiled at her, but Cream didn't smile back. She just kept her eyes focused out to them.

"Does it still hurt you?" he asked her, frowning a bit.

Cream watched as Sally whipped her hair to the side taking a sip of her drink. Cream shook her head and turning to Tails, she forced a smile. "I'll be fine," she assured him.

At that moment a waiter passed by and Tails called out for him. The waiter turned around and smiled. "May I get the check?"

The night was beautiful underneath the two hedgehogs, there weren't any clouds and the stars were up there shining brightly down for them but a cloud of thunder and rain seem the roam around Amy for Sonic wouldn't stop talking about the sky and how it was a perfect warm night. She wasn't really in her best mood to hear him. He didn't let her go alone at the end, so basically she was stuck with him. He had to have things his way, so how was she to go home with him following her. Amy sighed irritated of this.

"You don't like the night?" he asked her.

"No,"

"Why not?" he asked looking surprised, "everything's so calm and one would think you like the calmness."

Amy bit her lip hard. 'It would be calm if you'd just go away.' She thought angrily to herself, feeling her body boil inside, but sadly she couldn't bring herself to say it to him. She felt more questions would follow behind and she was avoiding that of him.

"Well, maybe you're not the type to go around having fun at night." He then said. "Right?"

His words send shivers down her body making her body recoiled, but she stayed cool. Sonic glanced at her and he felt a weird feeling. "Wait, no, I didn't mean it like that." He said defensively putting his hands up in a 'hold up' position. "I mean like hanging around out at night like on a field or park?"

Amy shook her head keeping her facial expression calm. "I understood what you meant." She turned slowly. "No, I don't really have time." She admitted, avoiding eye contact.

"Do you have time now?" he asked softly a small thin smile printed on his lips.

Amy's head whipped around back to him. If her thoughts were wrong it sounded way too much as if he were asking her to hang out with him alone or flirting or even worst on a date. "No," she simply said, shaking her head a little. "I have to go to work later and so I have to get ready."

Sonic drew back and shrugged not letting the disappointment wash off over his face. "So not even for a little while?"

"What part of no don't you understand?" She asked him now. The more he'd ask questions the little patience she was having with him.

"I understand 'no' perfectly, but I'm persuading you to come along with me and hang out anyway. You look like you could use some time to relax." He stated.

They were almost reaching the end of the street again and for a quick moment Sonic's eyes moved away from her to explore where they were. Under that one light bulb at the corner of the street they were going again. "Relaxation is for the weak." She said bluntly her eyes half way down. "Nothing but Hard work will get you anywhere."

Sonic's smile faded slowly. "Do you really think so that way?"

Amy nodded honestly, "Yes, I learned that the hard way." she muttered.

Sonic hummed and jogged in front of her walking backwards. "But have you ever taken it easy? It'll be best for a hard worker. What possibly can you be losing?"

"Money, moments, opportunities, Gosh Sonic, only us hard workers understand this." She grumbled to him.

"Aha, but that's where your wrong. Opportunities come along for everyone every day. Moments are a part of your life, also everyday" He said pointing at her with a wink that kinda caught her off guard. "Money you're parents make officially until you're eighteen."

She stopped dead in tracks. She crossed her arms over her chest and spat, "Stop! Just stop!" Sending him flinching back she continued. "You're bothersome Sonic,"

Sonic looked to the side, and Amy saw something that shined in his eyes, she didn't know what it was because it was too difficult to process but when he turned back to look at her his next words surprised her. "And you're incredibly beautiful," he breathed passionately.

And that's where she had enough.

A fist went flying passed his eyes down to his stomach, taking out all the air he had. Sonic bend down holding his stomach painfully. He half-heartily chuckled to the kind of forced she possessed. Amy scoffed something in whisper and turned her back at him running down the street and leaving him behind. Only her footsteps were heard in the distance, but soon the noise of her feet decreased. Once she disappeared into the darkness of the street and he stopped his huskily breathing and recovered from his stance. Sonic stood straight up, placing a hand on his hip and shook his head smirking.

Her punch wasn't even half close to the energy he need to be knocked hurt for. It didn't hurt him, but the way her nervous expression grew the longer they were together was bothering him. She was hiding something or something was causing her to react that way. Something uncomfortable and it wasn't his problem to question about so he let her slide pass him. Besides, he let her go on the same spot they met up that other night. Her house was nearby in his thoughts so no real danger could be cause around this neighborhood. It was too calm at night.

Boring? I'm sorry, but I didn't even really tried XD I will next time. Since It's summer vacation I have a lot of time :)) Remember, visit my profile for seek peeks of my stories before hand :D

Until Week's pass, see ya ;D