Hedgehog Party
Chapter 7
After the long drawn-out kiss that Sonic and Silver shared, they finally separated and the applause from all of the people at the party only grew louder. Earlier that week, Sonic had devised this plan and was expecting the worst, but got the best. Sonic and Silver stepped down from the stage and began to talk to individual people to see their thoughts on their relationship. Sonic began with Sonia and Manic because they were his family, and probably needed explaining a long time ago.
"I knew it," Sonic's brother said. Manic held out a big, devious smile. "You were always the sneaky one, bro, but you can't keep things from Manic the Genius."
Sonia interrupted. "Oh, yeah. Manic the Genius, for sure. Sheesh… You ran into a tree on the way over here. Then when you got up from that one, you ran into another tree."
Manic's smile fled his face. "It was dark outside. How was I supposed to know where everything was?"
"It was still sunset, Manic the Genius." Sonia giggled and Sonic joined in. "But that's not the point. The point is that we're very happy and supportive of Sonic for his wonderful decision. Especially since you chose a nice and sensitive guy like Silver instead of an insensitive, rich jerk like Barnaby."
Sonic smirked. "Of course, I hate that guy. You made the right idea to leave that loser." Sonia laughed in agreement. Sonic then went around to talk to other people.
Silver, on the other hand, decided to talk to Blaze first, because she was his first real friend. When he approached her, she wasn't particularly upset about the relationship, but she didn't seem particularly happy about it either.
"Hi, Blaze."
"Hello, Silver." Blaze looked down to her feet and spoke in a quiet, monotone voice as she normally did.
"So, uh… what do you think?"
"I think I'm…" She paused. "very happy for you. You are a very nice and caring person, and you deserve a guy like Sonic."
"Thanks, Blaze." Silver smiled at her, but she didn't have a smile to give in return. "Is there something wrong."
Blaze looked up to be somewhat eye-to-eye with Silver. "No, I'm fine. I'm just… tired."
"Alright. Even though I'm with Sonic, you can still talk to me about anything. We're still good friends, aren't we?"
"Yes, of course."
"Alright." Silver did the same as Sonic and mingled with everyone.
Sonic made his way through the crowd and ended up with Scourge. He had an awkward sway and couldn't keep his eyes straight.
"Scourge, are you okay?"
"Yeah. The alcohol is finally kicking in, though, and I jus' feel a little tipsy."
"Alright, then I'm assuming you will be staying here for the night instead of going on a long trip towards Moebius, right?"
"Nah, that's a'right. I can take care of myself." That's when Scourge collapsed clean on the floor. Sonic sighed and asked Knuckles and Tails to get him into a bed in the guest bedroom. They did as instructed and reluctantly picked him up from the head and feet and carried him into a nearby room on the ground floor. Sonic sighed again. He thought to himself, "Scourge, we're the same age; 16. I'm pretty sure our bodies can't exactly handle alcohol yet…"
This happened similarly with Vector, but he didn't collapse like Scourge did. Something funny about Vector was when he got drunk, he actually got more lovey-dovey and romantic with Vanilla. The two of them ended up dancing to no music and having the most fun out of everyone. But, on account of the late hour and the amount of beer that Vector drank, Vanilla ended up asking if she, Cream, and Vector could stay the night. Sonic expected this and let them know that he'll get a bed set up for them somewhere.
Sonic went into a room and Silver went in after him and closed the door. "So how is everyone with you," Silver asked.
"I've gotten only good and… interesting comments. What about you?" Sonic pulled out two rolled-up air mattresses and handed one to Silver.
"The same."
The two of them exited the room and entered the second guest bedroom that was adjacent to the one that Scourge was staying in. They flopped the air mattresses and began to flatten them out.
"I just had one little problem, though."
"What is that, Silver?"
"Blaze didn't seem all too happy about this whole thing. I mean, I kind of figured that she was somewhat attracted to me, but I didn't think she would be quite so upset."
"Yeah, I know what you mean. Did you see how Amy stormed out of the house like that? I mean she's annoying, and she's always asking me to be my boyfriend, but she's still a friend to me."
Silver looked away from his mattress and looked over to Sonic and asked, "Are you going to her?"
"I think so. This probably devastated her. I think she should hear a personal explanation from me so that she could at least understand a little."
"I guess." Silver then finished unfolding his air mattress. While he waited for Sonic to get the air pump, he got lost in his thoughts and started to giggle to himself. Sonic came back with the air pump and began to giggle with Silver.
"What's so funny?"
"I was thinking about how after Amy ran out of the house, that randomly Jet got all pissed off and stormed out also."
"Maybe that now I was off of the market, he wanted to have Amy all to himself."
Silver laughed. "Or maybe, he was extremely mad that I was off of the market and is going to fight you to the death to win my eternal love."
Sonic gave him skeptical stare. "You? Yeah, right. Jet would totally be after me. I'm clearly the sexy one."
Silver gave Sonic a solemn stare. "Oh, really now? Well, we'll see about that." Silver pounced on Sonic and pinned him to the ground. Sonic tried to break free, but Silver was cheating and using his psychic powers to hold him down. "Cheater." Silver smirked and stopped using his psychic powers. Sonic began squirming and managed to roll over onto Silver. Sonic brought his lips down and planted them on Silver's. "Yeah, I'm the sexier one." Sonic then proceeded to give Silver an awkward sexy face. Silver softly smacked Sonic off of him and they both laughed hard.
"That's okay. You can be the sexier one for me." Sonic playfully smacked Silver in the face. They laughed again and Sonic finally pulled out the air pump and placed it into the open end of the air mattress. He turned it on and it began to make a loud whirring noise to show that it's working correctly. The mattress then began to slowly rise as it filled with air. When that mattress was done, Sonic filled the other one.
When Sonic and Silver finally finished preparing for the people that were staying and went to join the party again. When they did, though, they noticed that Blaze, Espio, and Charmy were already gone. Vector simply told Sonic that Charmy was getting tired and that Espio decided to go take him home. Silver already had an idea why Blaze left. Despite, the little amount of people still at the party, Sonic still kept things going and continued to mingle with his guests.
Everything didn't last very long as everyone slowly began leaving for the next hour, causing the party to end at 1 in the morning. Sonic led Vector and Vanilla into the guest room. Cream was already in there, sleeping peacefully. Vanilla led Vector, who was sick from all of the running around and dancing, into the guest room and said goodnight to Sonic and Silver before heading off to bed.
Sonic and Silver turned to face each other and smiled because of the success of the party.
Silver yawned and scratched the back of his neck. "I think I'm going to head off to bed now. Today has been a very long day."
"Yeah, you go on up. I'll be there in a couple of minutes."
"Alright, don't stay up too late." Silver smiled and went upstairs to go to bed. Sonic decided to go over to the room that had the stage that he, Manic, and Sonia played on. It was cluttered with half-empty cups and crumb-filled plates. Ignoring the messiness, Sonic looked up to the stage. "The stage that brought a new beginning to my life," Sonic thought. "I won't forget something like this ever," Sonic yawned and decided that he would just clean up the room later. He went to bed.
The next morning, everyone woke up late because they went to bed so late. When Sonic and Silver finally woke up, they went downstairs to find Vector and Scourge sitting uncomfortably on the couch. They looked somewhat pale and looked as if they were going to vomit in the near future.
Scourge choked out, "Blue, you are not allowed to serve alcohol at your parties. Ever." Vector nodded in agreement.
"I can expect this from Vector because he's older, but Scourge… You decided to open 3 bottles of beer when you're only sixteen."
"Actually… 4."
"Oh, my mistake." Silver giggled and the two of them entered the kitchen to find Cream watching her mother cook something on the stove. Sonic and Silver went to go see that she was actually making bacon, eggs, and pancakes.
"It's nice to see you cooking something for us, Vanilla."
She turned from the stove to face them. "Oh, it's my pleasure. Besides, Vector looks like he could use some food."
Sonic smirked. "Yeah, Scourge is looking a little white, also. Say, you wouldn't happen to know where Tails and Knuckles are, would you?"
"I do. Tails told me that he is testing out some invention of his on the X Tornado and Knuckles is on Angel Island guarding the Master Emerald."
"Alright, thanks Vanilla." Sonic smiled at her and she gave him a smile in return, then returned to what she was doing. Sonic turned around and Silver knelt down to be face-to-face with Cream.
"Hey Cream, would you like to help me make some tea for Vector and Scourge."
"Of course, Mr. Silver. Momma showed me how to make really good tea." Silver giggled and picked her up and she giggled along with him. She carried her over to one of the high cupboards and she opened it to find a large glass pitcher. She grabbed it and Silver set her down. They then began to go to work on making the tea. Sonic was amazed at how much energy Silver has at even the beginning of the morning. He then realized that he had to do something important.
"Hey, Silver."
Silver turned around and said, "Yeah?"
"I have to make a call to Amy."
"Oh yeah, you should do that." Cream then began tugging at Silver, and Silver then began to follow her as she carried the pitcher that was now filled halfway with water. Sonic exited the room and entered his room. Sonic picked up the phone that was at the corner of his room and began dialing Amy's number. The phone then began to ring a few times, but Sonic only ended up getting an answering machine. He hung up the phone and tried to call her again, thinking that he possibly misdialed the first time. When Sonic got the answering machine again, he was a little shocked that Amy wasn't picking up the phone. Sonic was so used to Amy being at her phone all the time, as if she were stalking it.
Sonic headed back downstairs and saw that their was already a large pitcher filled with tea prepared for whoever wanted to drink it. Silver and Cream were taking Vector and Scourge a glass of the tea. Vector reluctantly scarfed it down, but Scourge didn't even want to try it.
"Why do I have to even drink this tea, Silver. It's brown and it tastes like tree bark."
"The caffeine in the tea will help you get over the hangover from all of that drinking last night. I'm sure tree bark tastes better than pain." Scourge gave Silver a pained look and then continued to scarf down the tea similarly to how Vector did.
"For some reason, Amy didn't pick up the phone," Sonic finally said.
Silver turned around to face Sonic. "That's weird. You'd think she'd be around her phone 24/7."
"Who knows. She could be out shopping for all we know. I'll try to call her later today and see if I can catch her."
Vanilla then placed some plates full of food onto the table. "Come and get it." Everyone then piled into the kitchen and went to eat their pancakes.
