Lost After School

Sonic had been, slightly audibly, been humming since P.E., smiling like a little kid on sugar. Shadow, who found it cute, smiled slightly at him. Then a thought, a random thought, hit him.

"Hey Sonic."

"Yeah?"

"Do you have a cell phone?"

"...no." he replied, his ears flattening again. "Well...what made you ask that?"

"This." Shadow replied pulling out his own touch screen iphone. "And the fact that basically everyone in this school has some type of cell. You're the odd one out."

"As if I couldn't figure that out," he mumbled as his ears flattened more and he looked away. "It's not my fault either...I had one but everything I had got lost in that city wide fire..."

"You lived there?" the look of surprise was almost comically stuck there.

"Y...yeah...you seem so surprised...but yeah. That's why I don't have to pay tuition here or pay rent. The government pays for stuff like that. They gotta pay us back for everything or so they say. Anyway, what am I supposed to do about not having a phone?"

"Sonic, I gave you a shit load of money and you ask me that question."

"...oh yeah...well...that's mot my fault either! I can't focus around you dammit..."

"Oh really..." then came a sly look from Shadow, "What's been on your mind Sonic?"

"Oh," a giggle from Sonic, "wouldn't you want to know..." he teased back, shying away with a smile on his face. Shadow, still smiling, raised a brow at Sonic. Sonic's smile grew wider as he took off running. Shadow, feeling up for a little game of cat and mouse, quickly took after him.

On his way out the gate, Silver heard a familiar laugh as fast steps approached. He turned to see the two hedgehogs of his priority charging towards him , Sonic looking back and Shadow's eye fixed on the blue one. Shadow pointed ahead and Sonic's gaze snapped quickly, reacting with an arc spin around to the right of him and continued running.

"Sorry!" Sonic yelled as Silver turned as he passed. He just looked on wide eyed.

"Get the hell out the way!" Silver's eyes darted then to the black and red blur dodging low to the left of him then back on his original path once he'd passed. "Smartass..." he added as he continued his chase. Silver just looked dumbfounded at the two as they began to leave his vision.

"What...the hell?" was all he could say to that. Moments later, Sonic hit the front door of the building, darting through the spinning door so fast it continued to spin after he'd left it. By the time Shadow reached the lobby Sonic had already hit the stairs. Smile growing ever bigger, he followed suit. As he burst through the door of the third floor, he and Sonic caught each others attention. As Sonic's lock gave a click, they both reacted. Shadow skidded tot he door just as Sonic was trying to close it. Abandoning the doorknob, he took off towards his room just to hear the door slam behind him. Sonic turned slowly to be faced with Shads, a smirk on his face.

"N-now Shadow..."

"What?" he responded now fully smiling once again.

"Umm..." he muttered before laughing nervously and backing away.

"Come here Sonic..."

"Why? I'm perfectly fine here, thank you." he replied jokingly pointing at his feet.

"Uh-huh...okay...stay there then..." a sneaky smile crossing the ebony's face.

"Hu-" was all Sonic could get out before getting tackled to the bed. After point of impact, he looked up at Shadow confused. Shadow, now sitting over Sonic, looked him over.

"I wonder..."

"Wonder what?" and Sonic burst into a fit of laughter as Shadow attacked his sides. Futilely curling up in a slight ball he yelled, "Shadow! S-Stop! Please!" and he soon ended up in more laughter. Seeing as pleading wasn't any good he began to arc his body away from Shadow's hands. This worked for a while but he gave into laughing again. "S-Shaaaaaadooooooooow! Ge-Get oooooooff!" he whined.

"Now, Sonic..." he started but quickly noticed something.. stopping the tickling and letting Sonic catch his breath, he let out a laugh. "You know..."

"W-What?" he responded, still winded.

"I forgot why I was chasing you in the first place..." after a few seconds of complete silence they both started laughing, neither of them knowing why it was so funny. After regaining their senses, Shadow stood up and brought up the task at hand again. "So where's the money?"

"Here!" Sonic replied sliding a box from under the bed.

"Okay, now take at least like...2,000 out."

"...why?"

"Just do it...you don't know if you'll end up wanting something random after that. I'll write you directions to the mall." he seemed quite annoyed telling him that and Sonic was actually alert enough to catch it.

"Why? What's wrong? Why can't you take me?" Sonic replied and questioned simultaneously, looking up at him with something Shadow would soon name "Sonic's Doe Eyes". An eyebrow of the ebony twitched upon Sonic's expression. He groaned, placing a hand over his face.

"Stop that. I have to visit my parents today...they set this up for a while now so there's no way out of it..." came Shadow's answer with a slight scowl. Upon looking at the other staring at him from his lying position he groaned again. "Would you stop that?"

"Stop...what?" he asked in an innocent confusion, tilting his head and blinking. Shadow's brow twitched again.

"Can you even make a blank face?"

"H-Huh?" he blinked again with a confused smile...a cuter smile...Shadow sighed, now slightly clutching his face.

"Sonic...please...stop staring at me..." that just caused Sonic's confused smile to grow more along with the furrowing of his brows. Shadow's hand shifted to the bridge of his nose. "Sonic...seriously...why are you doing that?"

"I...am confused about you..."

"And why?" he huffed, feeling his cheeks change slightly in hue.

"Well...you look and sound irritated but you're not...and you're blushing now...what's wrong with you?" Shadow, wanting to do a face-palm amongst other things due to Sonic's new revelation, but he just settled with sighing and finally opening a lidded eye towards the other male.

"Let's just say you're the boy of irresistible faces..."

"...eh?" he asked, tilting his head in the opposite direction of the first. Shadow's eyelid dipped slightly further at this.

"Never mind...come on..." he said while writing something on a piece of paper. Sonic followed after stuffing a few wads in his pockets and after Shadow was done writing. They walked to the elevator after the front door was locked. Once inside, after Sonic pressed the button for the first floor, he piped:

"Oh! I remember why you were chasing me before!" with a smile. Shadow looked to him with a raised brow. "You wanted to know what I think about that has me unfocused."

"Ah..." a smile then came to Shadow's face. "Now that we remembered that, what's the reason?"

"Hmm...this..." Sonic whispered, lacing his arm around Shadow's shoulders and shifting slightly on his tip toes and placing his lips upon Shadow's. Smiling into the kiss, he wrapped his arms around Sonic's waist.

"Mmm..." he mumbled while pulling the other body closer. But to his dismay, a certain informative ding rand out as Sonic slid away from him smiling with a slight blush. Sonic waved a paper at him. Shadow looked to his pocket then back to the blue one. "When did you-?"

"See ya later!" he yelled while backing away with a playful grin and a teasing tongue before actually running to the door. Shadow couldn't do anything but smile.

"Hey Sonic, call me when you get it okay?"

"Sure-" he stopped in his tracks, just shy of the door. "How am I supposed to do that genius?" he asked turning with a smirk.

"Easy..." Shadow replied, now standing in front of the blue boy and sliding a glove off peach skin. "Here.." and he took the pen from before and wrote down ten digits. After returning the glove to it's proper place he ran a hand over Sonic's head. "Have fun." after receiving a peck on his cheek, Sonic ran off yet again. After being outside and continuing to run, he spotted a limo and smiled. 'Must be for Shads...'

After running in a few circles, backtracking and actually getting the directions correct, he finally made it to the mall. On the piece of paper, Shadow drew a little diagram of where the shop should be. Due to that, he found the shop with ease. What he didn't count on was...

"Sonic?" ….someone finding him. He turned slowly from the clerk to the caller.

"...Amy?" he inquired back.

"Oh my gosh! It is you! Wow, total coinky-dink we ended up here together!"

In his head: 'Coinky-dink? What the hell?' Aloud: "I-it is?"

"So what are you doing?"

'Something you're not...' "Getting a new phone."

"Awesome! You should so get a new model, like this one!" she pointed to a decently sized touch screen with a slide out keypad. "Oh! I'm getting so ahead of myself!"

'Yes...yes you are...'

"Can you afford this?"

"Yeah.."

"Then you should so get that one! You'll be the envy of everyone!"

'I don't really care...' "Okay...I guess..." After buying the phone, service plan and random accessories (to Amy's request), he spent a little under $600.

"Let me see the phone real quick." Being the obedient one that he was, he handed it to her. She tapped the screen a few times and then handed it back with a slight blush on her face. "Okay, done!"

"What did you do?"

"Roam around it later and you'll find out. Anyway, what are you doing now?"

"Probably some shopping.."

"Awesome! Can I join you? I came for some shopping myself but seeing got me so majorly distracted!"

"Uh...s-sure...?" Sonic almost instantly regretted his decision, seeing as Amy dragged him to every story she laid eyes on. Okay, maybe a slight exaggeration but close enough. She kept asking "Does this look good on me? Should I get this one? Is it too flashy? Should I get a different color?" and he, knowing better, said something complementary to get things along smoother whenever she asked. Also, to his extreme dislike, she put her two cents on any outfit he chose, saying, "It doesn't go good with your blue..." or "Those don't match anything." or even "That doesn't suit you much..." or how a random item he'd picked would be out of style. In the end, he didn't get anything but a phone out of today. Well, that plus a headache...no...not a headache. A migraine. How did he know? Well...

"Sooooonic!" she yelled in a singsong voice. His head rang like church bells from the annoying shrill call of his name. See, told ya.

"Yes...Amy...?" he lowly growled. He really, really, REALLY wanted to be away from her at this point.

"I gotta go now, my cousin finally came for me." 'Oh thank god and thank you Jesus!' Sonic shouted in his head at the top of his lungs as the choir rejoiced...yes...he was that happy... "Buh-bye Sonic! Call me!" she added with a slight blush and a wink as she ran out the door.

Sonic tilted his head to the side. "Now how am I supposed to do that?" then came a shrug. "Oh well...now..." shock and realization hit him at the same time. He didn't know what time let alone where he was. Running out a random exit he found at least one of his answers. It was definitely past six, seeing how he was greeted with a starry sky and a crescent moon. "OH MY GOD HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?" he wondered how Amy was able to get his sense of direction even worse let alone not notice how much time he'd spent with her. He sighed and figured to just walk around and he might find his way or someone that could help.

After going through with this plan for what he guessed was well over an hour now, he grew paranoid. He ended up in an eerily quiet place if you ignored the ever rampant sirens in the distance. He was tired. He was hungry. He was lost, alone and just a bit scared. But more that anything, he wanted to find home. He closed his eyes and sighed as he continued walking.

At another place, same time, a certain gray furred individual was aimlessly staring out his window. He could see a lot of things from the seventh floor of his apartment building. He switched the sucker in his mouth to the other side while glancing around. 'Garbage...cat...stop sign...Sonic..' Upon realizing he wasn't imagining that, his jaw slightly dropped, nearly dropping the candy as well. 'What the-Sonic? Why's he around here at this hour?' he stared at the figure for a moment longer before noticing a small trio coming towards him. He sighed. "Better go save him..."

Sonic, for some highly intelligent reason, continued walking around with his eyes closed just to be bumped hard enough to be sent to the ground. He winced as he bounced to a still.

"Hey..." came the call of an unfamiliar voice. The blue boy opened his eyes to a yellow orange fox that surprisingly had twin tails with white tips. "You can't bump the boss like that..."

"And get away with it at least..." an albatross grumbled looking down at him irritably. Sonic just looked confused at them. What was their problem anyway?

"Cool it boys, I got this..." the apparent boss cut in. the red echidna turned with a crooked grin on his face. "Now, we'll just have to see what little blue here has to offer, eh?" he snickered, bending down and grabbing Sonic's chin. "So what can you offer me blue...?"

"He's not giving you anything Knuckles..." a, again to Sonic's surprise, familiar voice rang. Knuckles grumbled something under his breath and stood up looking right at the unwanted guest.

"What do you want?"

"Well, I want you to go to hell but you leaving right now would suffice..." he replied with a smirk.

"And why should I?"

"Because..." a pair of arms wrapped around the boy still on the ground. One around his neck and the other around his waist. He nuzzled into a peach cheek. "Simply put, Sonic is only mine to play with...and you don't even deserve to touch him..."

A deep blush crossed the described boy's face. "S-Silver!" a grin crossed the gray one's face.

"I only share you with one person and he isn't that one person, is he?" he questioned looked pointedly at Sonic with a slightly dark chuckle. Before he could answer a sucker was shoved in his mouth. "Well then, we'll be going now..." he pulled Sonic off the ground and led him away by a hand. "Later."

Knuckles growled irritably again. "That guy just pisses me off..." When they arrived at his building, inside the elevator, Silver turned to Sonic and huffed, catching Sonic's attention.

"Well for one thing, you really seem to be enjoying my sucker..."

"Oh...sorry...I'm just hung-" he pulled the sucker out. "Was this in you-" the candy was placed back inside his mouth.

"I'll give you some food and two, even though I love the idea of a late night visit, why are you here?"

"Well..." he mumbled slightly, "I'm actually...lost...very, very lost...thanks to Amy...and my lousy sense of direction..." all but abruptly, Silver burst out laughing.

"Now it makes perfect sense!" he shouted, still laughing. "Alright! Then it's settled, you stay with me tonight..." he trailed off, looking at the zombie like trance the other was now in. "Uh...Sonic? You okay buddy?"

"Hungry...sleepy...no..." he wobbled in place. As the elevator stopped he toppled over. Silver let him land on his back. He carried him piggy back style through the apartment to the bedroom.

"As much as I want to do something to you while you're like that, you've been through hell so I'll leave you be..." he giggled as Sonic could only manage a light nod. "You want a burger or something?" another nod. Silver placed him on the bed and came back about ten minutes later to see his guest's head bobbing slightly with light snoring. With a smile the gray hedgehog poked the cheek of the other. Sonic's eyes popped open, darting around the room, then they stopped on the host as he sleepily and halfheartedly glared at him. The glare quickly faded as he was handed the burger though. He ate slowly but eventually finished off the food before lying back into an almost instant sleep. Silver looked at him warily. "Oh well..." He walked around and pulled the other completely onto the mattress. He then undid the others shoes and placed them by his front door. He wondered if Sonic liked to keep on his socks and gloves but shrugged it off and just mentally decided to wash them anyway. He removed the items along with the uniform he was still wearing and threw them in the washer with some of his things as well. Upon walking back in the room he noticed something written on the sleeper's hand. "A number? Huh...well let's see who this is..." he grabbed Sonic's cell from the stand where he'd put it earlier on and began to pressed the number sequence. Ring...ring...ring...ring...

"Hello? Who is this?" came the reply. The gray one face-palmed.

"Oh Jesus Christ..."

"...who is this?" he asked again.

"Hello Shadow..."

"...Silver? How'd you get my number?"

"I didn't. You gave it to Sonic remember?"

"You know where he is? Where are you right now?"

"At my place."

"Silver..."

"Oh, relax...I haven't done anything to him. Actually I saved him today. Sonic really is a bit slow...he had your number but he must've forgotten...this is his cell by the way..."

"Oh...wait, how did you save him?"

"Well..." he then began transferring the clothes from the washer to the dryer. "Not only was he lost but then Knuckles came after him...poor boy...and the fact Amy clung to him all day today. I decided to let him sleep it off..." he added with a laugh.

"Oh...well..."

"Hmm?"

"Tomorrow's no school so you and Sonic meet me back at the mall..."

"No, I don't wanna give him back just yet."

"I don't care what you want. Come to the mall tomorrow...or I will find where you live and get him back anyway. And I don't think you want me to know where you live..."

"Ugh...that's true..." he sighed. "I guess...but it'll be in the afternoon..."

"Why?"

"So I can spend time with him, duh!"

"Wai-"

"Kay, bye!" and with that, he hung up the phone and laughed to himself. He changed into his sleeper and climbed in the bed next to Sonic. Looking up into the others peaceful face, a wicked smile crossed his face. "Tomorrow's gonna be fun..."

A/N lol again, sorry for the delay on this. I was being VERY lazy between drawing, gaming and hanging with my tarded friends but yes it's finally here. Review please? They make me happy and inspire me to write more owo and also, I keep laughing at those questions Sonic asks. "Why? What's wrong? Why can't you take me?" figure out why and you get a cookie lol

-Ruru out