AHHHHH! I'VE BEEN SO FLIPPIN' BUSY! Sorry, school is shooting a hole through my head X_X

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SonamyFreak94

November Ember

And a HUGE thanks to Silhouette The Daemon-Wolf! She has reviewed every chapter so far and given me great feedback and advice! Love you girl! :D

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Chapter 7: Lunch Time!

Amy's P.O.V.

"So where are we going after lunch, Rouge?" I looked over at Rouge. I was awaiting a reply from her.

"Not sure. We might check out the Haunted Mansion next. I'm tired of waiting in long lines. The Haunted Mansion is always short." I felt chills run down my spine. I really hated ghosts. They only reminded me of that one scary castle* that Knuckles, Sonic and I were in…

"Yo Amy, you still with us?" I shook my head. Knuckles had been waving his hand in my face for the last few minutes.

"Yeah, sorry. I zoned out," I told Knuckles. He shook his head and ran ahead to Rouge. I walked along next to Shadow. I didn't really enjoy the silence between us, so I tried to start a conversation.

"So… Rouge says we should go to the Haunted Mansion after this. Do you care where we go?" Shadow shrugged.

"Nah, as long as I've got someone to talk with or a friend around I'm happy." He smiled down at me. I grinned sheepishly back at him. I looked ahead and almost ran into Rouge. I stopped myself just in time. Rouge and Knuckles had stopped because we were in line for the pizza finally. Ah great, I was too busy staring at Shadow over here to even notice where we were going. I looked up at the menu and decided I'd just order one slice of cheese pizza and a bottled water. Shadow and Knuckles split a small pizza with pepperoni, cheese, and I think mushrooms… Rouge had the same thing I did, but a diet coke instead. We ordered and all threw in 8 rings for the food. The cashier handed over 2 trays with pizza and drinks piled on them.

We wandered over to a table for 4 people. It wasn't a booth; it was round instead. Shadow set down a tray of food, as did Knuckles. We all took our seats and began to devour the pizza. It wasn't bad for Disneyland food. It was pretty good, actually. I practically chugged down my water I was so thirsty. I was about to get up and recycle the bottle until Knuckles stopped me.

"Ah ah ah, gimme that! No one recycles water bottles anymore without using them for games!" Rouge gave Knuckles a seductive look.

"Wow, Knuxie. I never thought you'd suggest Spin the Bottle." He blushed red, thanks to Rouge, and chuckled.

"Why not? Alright, since it was my idea, I'm going first. You can ask questions for this round. Then next round we'll play the traditional way. And no lying on these questions or we'll make you lick the ground." Knuckles spun the bottle and it stopped on Shadow. Knuckles grinned mischievously before questioning Shadow.

"So Shadow, the object in 20 Questions was a rose, right? Was this object an item or perhaps a person instead?" Shadow reddened and looked down. He rubbed the back of his head. Then he looked back up and smirked.

"Perhaps it was both." Knuckles twitched at Shadow. He obviously didn't get the answer he wanted. Shadow was up next. He reached out and spun the bottle. It slowed and came to a stop on Rouge.

"Rouge, how long have you liked red head over here?" She thought for a moment and tapped her chin.

"Somewhere around a week or so. Like I was keeping count." Shadow chuckled and passed the bottle off to Rouge. She spun the bottle and it unfortunately stopped on me. She looked up to me.

"Hmm, Amy. If you had to choose between Shadow, Knuckles, or Sonic to go on a date with, who would you pick?" I bit my lip and the color flushed from my face. I knew I'd pick Shadow right away, but I felt as if I needed an excuse to get away with picking him without making anyone suspicious. Knuckles was out, he had Rouge. And Sonic… Sonic was just a jerk, so that only left Shadow. Yes, good excuse. I'll go with that.

"Well, Knuckles likes you, so I wouldn't pick him. And Sonic has been such a jerk to me for so long, I don't think could ever date him, even if he asked me. So I'd have to pick Shadow then." Rouge smirked at me. She knew by now that I liked Shadow… a lot. She had been trying to convince be all day that Shadow was, like, in love with me. I still wasn't convinced. I reached for the bottle and spun it. It went around and around until it stopped on Knuckles. I thought for a minute about a good question, and then asked it.

"Knuckles, when you guard the Master Emerald, is it because you actually want to protect it the Emerald, or are you just hoping Rouge will show up?" Knuckles froze.

"Uhhh, well… maybe both?" He smirked shyly. I covered my mouth to keep from laughing. Rouge looked quite interested in this. Shadow smirked.

"I think you're lying Knucklehead. C'mon, lick the ground. You told me the only reason you protected that thing is because then you could see Rouge daily." Knuckles twitched and slowly kneeled on the ground. He looked disgusted. While he was kneeling, someone totally tripped over him and ate it. But Knuckles didn't care or even notice. He slowly stuck his tongue out and pressed it on the ground and shot back up. We were all laughing our heads off. Knuckles decided that he had enough of this awkward moment.

"Alright, we're on the kissing round. So everybody eat a mint." I laughed at Knuckles as Rouge took out a tin of mints. She handed one off to everyone.

"Sorry guys, not that I don't love you all, but I really don't wanna be tasting pizza when I'm kissing someone," Rouge said. She shoved the mints back in her purse. "Alright, Knux, you're up." Knuckles reached out and spun the bottle. I could have sworn Rouge had her fingers crossed under the table. But luck was against her, because it stopped on… Shadow?! Knuckles eye twitched. Shadow growled.

"No way in hell am I going to kiss Knuckles. I don't care what the rules say, I refuse to." Knuckles nodded. Then an idea popped into his head, since the little light bulb above his clicked on. Rouge grabbed it and threw it on the ground, shattering it to pieces. Knuckles glared at her before sharing his idea with us.

"What if instead I kissed Rouge and Shadow could kiss Amy? But, I don't know… it's just an idea." Shadow shrugged.

"Better than looking gay I guess." I shivered knowing what was coming. Ah sweet Jiminy Cricket.

Knuckles and Rouge were way ahead of us. They were already kissing, practically sitting on one another at this point. I slowly came closer to Shadow until we could feel our breath on one another's skin. We came together for a first kiss. It tasted amazing! It was sweet and addictive. If only it was a real kiss, and not one set up by Knuckles. Before I knew it, Shadow was in my mouth. And truly, I didn't care. I didn't care at all until I heard a loud cough from the other side of the table. Shadow and I split quickly and backed away from each other. An awkward silence followed. Then Rouge spoke up, I hoped she was going to help me out.

"Remind me again why you're not dating but can just make out like that?" Oh that's it. Rouge was so dead after this. Shadow growled slightly. I hit his leg under the table, telling him to let it go and calm down. He got the message I guess. And again, it was my turn to interrupt the silence.

"Let's get down to the Haunted Mansion before the line gets too long." Rouge and Knuckles agreed and got up to throw stuff away, then move on, which left me with just Shadow for a minute.

"Hey, you ok Shads?" He looked up to me.

"Yeah, I'm good. Let's go." So we followed Rouge and Knuckles to the Haunted Mansion the rest of the way.

*The castle thing is a reference to the episode 'Trick Sand', from Sonic X.

This chapter was much longer than intended, but that's fine by me.

YAY! Spring Break for me starts Thursday. Can't wait :D