Sorry for the wait you guys. I was surprised I could make a dent into this chapter.

But... here it is, enjoy.


Sonic's POV

The next day, I got another rude awakening. I felt something hit my head. I groaned at the short lived pain.

"Come on Sonic. Get up." Wha? Shadow?

I sat up and rubbed my head. I looked at him half asleep. "What is it?"

"Phone." He held it up to level of his eyes. I rubbed my eyes sleepily and heard him come in and closer to my bed.

"Who could be calling me now?"

"It's 2 in the afternoon."

"Even so…" My bro looked at me kind of sympathetically. He knew most of what happened at school.

"It's Amy…" I looked at the phone in his hand a moment. He held it out to me, but when I reached out for it he pulled it back away from me. "Remember what I said little bro." He looked at me with one eyebrow cocked towards me.

I grinned. "Of course." He grinned back and handed me the phone. I was just about to greet Amy when I noticed the Shadow was still in my room. "Do you mind?" He looked behind him and then back at me acting clueless. "I was talking to you."

He faked being hurt. He placed his hand over where his heart should be and looked at me shocked and confused. "All right, fine. I know how it is." There he goes again. He started to walk out. "I know when I'm not wanted." He turned his head somewhat towards me when he reached the door way. "I'm going, don't mind me."He walked out still rambling until he reached his room down the hall.

"Drama King!" I shouted out at him.

"Sonic?" I heard faintly come from the phone.

"Hi Amy. What's up?"

"I just thought I'd call to see if we could um…"

"Hang?"

"Uh, yeah… that." She still sounded confused.

"I don't mind." In fact, I was hoping Amy would want to spend some time with me before dinner.

"Great. I'll be over in an hour."

"See ya then."

"Bye Sonic."

"Bye Amy." I hung up and got ready. My mom had me eat some leftovers and before I knew it Amy was back on my doorstep. I opened the door. "Hi…um Amy?" There was a pile of board games with legs… and… a skirt?!

"Hey Sonic." She poked her head from one side of the pile of the boxes. I saw that she was struggling with her load.

"Here let me help." I took a good chunk of the pile.

She sighed. "Thanks."

"Come in." I stepped to the side so she could walk in and then I shut the door with a gentle swing of my foot. I saw her walk into the living room and I followed her. She put down her pile of games on the coffee table my mom never uses.

I poked my head out from the side. "Did you really have to bring all of this?" I asked as I placed my half of the pile on the coffee table. I looked at her, awaiting her response. She looked at the boxes.

"Hmm. I probably should've stopped at four huh?"

"Four seems like a safe number." I nodded. "How did you manage to reach the porch?"

She giggled. "One step at a time. It wasn't easy though. I nearly fell twice."

"Sonic? Who was at the door?" Shadow came in. He looked at me and then at Amy and then back at me.

"Hi, are you Sonic's brother?" Amy asked.

Shadow smiled. "Hey, name's Shadow. You must be the new neighbor."

"Mh-hm." I heard come from Amy. Then I heard his cell phone ring.

"I'mma be upstairs if you need me." He left.

I looked at Amy. "He seems nice. Where's your mom?"

"She stepped out not too long ago. Should be back in an hour or so."

"All right." She looked at the two piles of boxes. "Which one do you want to open first?"

"Open?"

"Oh-uh." She looked away. I could see some tears forming in her eyes.

"Amy?" She slowly turned her head to look at me.

"I'm fine." She rubbed one of her eyes. "I just…" I hugged her. What else could I do?

"It's okay." I told her. I wasn't quite sure what I was doing. Comforting someone was never something I had done before. My whole life I'm the one who dealt with pain. I never thought that anyone else could suffer as much as I did… maybe even more. I held onto her a little while. She pushed me away gently and wiped her eyes. She took a deep breath.

Just like that. She was back to normal. "So, which one first?"

I sighed, walked towards the boxes, and stood there looking at the boxes. I would only hear of some of them and some I didn't even know existed. I closed my eyes reached out and tapped one.

"Checkers it is." Amy exclaimed. After that, it was game after game. I had never known fun like this. Normally, I'd watch my classmates as they played, braided hair… the works. I never played… and never really paid much attention either.

After some time, Ma came home.

"Oh, Amy, you're here early."

"Hi Mrs. Hedgehog." I saw my mom slightly cringe.

"It's Ms. Um, Amy."

"If you say so, I guess." Amy looked a little confused but quickly smiled as she normally does.

Ma got a look of the pile near the coffee table. I had not notice how messy it actually looked now that we picked random boxes and got them out.

"Where did you pull all those games out Sonic?"

"I didn't, Amy brought them with her."

"Oh, well, how about you two go play outside for a while?"

Amy and I shared a glance. She shrugged her shoulders and shortly nodded her head at me.

"All right Ma. We'll be back by dark." We put the pieces of the game we were playing back into its box. I asked Amy, "You want to take one with us?"

"Hmm." She pressed her lips together before getting up and rummaging through the boxes. "How about this?" She held up the toy to her chest.

"A Frisbee?" How did I not notice a Frisbee in the pile?

"Yeah, I put it in an empty box so it wouldn't break when I piled it on with the rest."

That's how… Anyway, we left to go and play in the backyard. We stood a good five meters away or so.

"Ready?" Amy asked.

"Ready." I told her. She let it slide out of her hand and into mine. We kept throwing the toy back and forth. We were quite for a while until I finally said something.

"So Amy, um, did you have to transfer schools?"

"I did actually, but I haven't seen it yet."

"Are you sad?"

"No, at first I was. But… Mom told me that when one door closes another one opens."

"Oh."

"When you showed the kindness you did yesterday, I think that's when I started to believe her words." I smiled; it was nice to make someone feel good.

"That's great. I… hope you'll make new friends."

"You and me both." There was pause there before she spoke again. "Do you think that there are other parents like your mom?"

I paused with the toy in my hand. No two people are exactly alike, but many people can share a single character trait.

"Yeah there should be." I threw it back.

Amy smiled at me. I couldn't help but smile back at her. I felt that welcoming feeling.

"Hey, Sonic, what's your school like?

She threw it but I didn't go for it. It landed a few feet away. "Umm… bearable." It sounded more like a question to me than I had hoped it would. She looked at me funny.

"What do you mean Sonic?" I looked away from her and stared at the Frisbee.

What do I tell her? I heard her take a few steps closer to me.

"I won't think any less of you Sonic." She took a few more steps. "Well, if you want to tell me anyway. You don't have to if you don't want to."

"I want to." I turned to look at her. I paused when I noticed just how close our faces were. I had to take a step back if I was going to speak anymore. "It's just not that simple."

"To tell the story or the… whatdoya call it? Oh, the plot of the story."

I sighed. "A little bit of both." I sat down bringing my head into my hands. I heard Amy sit down next to me.

She rubbed my back and said, "It's okay Sonic."

I took a deep breath and brought my head out of my hands. "Thanks Amy."

She smiled sympathetically. I couldn't bring myself to curve my mouth into even a slight smile. She nudged my arm. I smiled slightly. We sat there for a little bit listening to the wind and birds. It was a nice kind of silence. You could see the sun going down behind the trees. The leaves seemed to change colors.

"Kids! Dinner's ready!"