Chapter 9

On Sunday I woke up at 8 and wore jogging bottoms and a top and set out for the jog. I have to say it was really relaxing and I felt great aswell. I think I saw Chris jogging aswell but I was too in it to say hi. I arrived back at home at 10, yes it took me 2 hours and I'm exhausted.

"I'm so proud of you for doing that!" My mom said.

"Thanks it was for my own good." I took a shower and woohoo I'm bored again with nothing to do. I'm too exhausted to play basketball, Sonic's away, Chris is working out, Silver and Tails have gone on a trip together (they asked me to go but I didn't want to go to a forest). I can't think of anything to do. Suddenly Maria busted into my room without my permission.

"Get out of my room!" I shouted chucking a pillow at her.

"Hey! I was gonna be nice!"
"Ok what are you gonna say?"
"I was gonna say that my friends are coming over and also a group of guys from your year at your school are coming over aswell so get down and socialize!" My heart skipped a beat, they know about me and Sonic being together and they're gonna tell Maria and I haven't exactly told my sis or my dad! Only my mom knows and I made her swear she wouldn't tell anyone!

"How do you know these guys?"

"They're my friend's friends." Oh god.

"But they didn't say they are totally coming?"
"Well I don't know for sure if they're coming but it's definite maybe, happy?"

"Yeah." Great my life will be over. My dad wasn't totally pleased when I told him I was gay, as a matter of fact he didn't talk to me for ages. But he liked Chris and he said he's not sure he'll like any other boy than him but if he finds out about Sonic… Mom's always supportive of me and said she didn't care about my sexuality as longs as I'm still the same son she always loved. Maria didn't care either, she said that she always wanted a gay best friend. We're not best friends trust me. She tried to be friends with Chris but that didn't work out either.

The bell rang, I'm just gonna hide in my room until her friends leave I don't need to socialize with them.

"Shadow! Come down and say Hi!" Maria shouted. Great. I slowly walked downstairs and I heard male voices and people laughing. There was one voice that sounded terribly familiar. I walked in.

"This is my brother, Shadow!" OH MY GOD! SILVER AND JET ARE HERE! How does she know these people? The two of them waved, I waved back. Suddenly someone jumped on me.

"Argh!" I screamed.

"Surprise!" the person said happily. I turned around and it was my boyfriend, Sonic.

?

"What are you doing here?" I questioned.

"I know your sis, she's like my sis too." Sonic said putting his arm around her shoulder.

"Do you too know each other?" Maria asked. Sonic read the expressions on my face signalling him not to tell her.
"Yeah we're good friends." Sonic said winking at me.

"So I'm guessing you know, Knuckles and Jet then?"

"Yep!" They both chorused. I sat down with Sonic.

"HOW DO YOU KNOW MY SISTER?" I whispered.

"We all go to the same youth club. I'm surprised you don't go?"

"Well I thought that club was for losers." Sonic chuckled and squeezed my cheek.

"You calling me a loser?"
"No I just thought they were going to be losers. Anyway why are you back so early?"

"I was back yesterday morning."

"Shut-up!"

"I was! Sonia became ill so we had to come back to treat her."

"Heard you joined the basketball team." I blushed.

"Yeah."

"That's cool, just make sure I don't thrash you."

"You won't be thrashing me, Sonic."

"Oh you so sure of that."

"Yep, I thrashed Knuckles yesterday."
"You were with Knuckles yesterday?"

"Yeah I had nothing to do, I was taking Maria to the mall and then we went past where Knuckles was hanging at and he asked me play so I had to say yes!"

"Is that how you got into the team?"

"Yep!" I said proudly.

"Wow! You are the most awesome person ever!." Sonic said.

We just looked at each other for ages. Someone threw a pillow at the back of Sonic's head so we stopped looking. "Do you mind?"

Stopped staring at each other like lovesick bunnies!" Maria ordered.

"We were playing the staring game and the first one who blinks wins." Sonic lied and everyone believed him except for Silver and Jet of course who just shook their heads at him. "Mabye we should play this game in your room, so we can play this properly and I can win the bet." Sonic said and grabbed my arm and dragged me out of the room.

We went into my room I locked the door. I grabbed Sonic and we kissed passionately against the wall. Sonic started kissing my neck and I moaned quietly in pleasure. Thoughts were flowing through my head. 'Should I have sex with him now? There's no time to lose.' So I made the first move and it failed miserably. Sonic backed off.

"What are you doing?"

"Trying to make the first move on having sex with you, I'm ready now." I tried to say sexily.

"One minute you saying you don't want to and the next minute you want to! And we can't do it now there's people downstairs!"
"We can do it quietly." Sonic snorted.

"Yeah you can have sex quietly."

"I was gonna do this now so you wouldn't stop asking me about it!" I said really annoyed.

"Why are you shouting at me?" Sonic said confused.

"I'm not shouting at you! It's stressful!"

"Am I making you stressed?"

"Yes! You're stressing me, I'm always trying to make you happy!"

"Why do you think this is a problem I try to make you happy too!"

"Well you don't make me happy because you're always asking me 'When can we have sex?', 'I want to have sex with you!'. Sex is a very big thing to me!"

"It's not a big deal to me!"
"Well you're a whore!" I didn't mean to say this it came out of my mouth. Sonic pushed me violently away from him.

"I'm not a whore!" Sonic shouted at me. He gave me a cold, angry stare and stormed out of my room and out of my house, slamming the door behind him. What have I done. I just collapsed on my bed. Silver ran up to my room.

"What's going on?"

"I called him a whore." I said tears filling my eyes.

"Ouch!" Jet said coming in after Silver. "Are you ok?"

"No!" I said sobbing in my hands. "How could I say something so rude to my boyfriend who already has low self-esteem as it is." Silver sat beside me and rubbed my back, this reminded me when I was comforting Sonic when he was crying on our first date and that made me cry even more.

"I don't think he'll take it too personally. I mean he's been called that loads of times and he doesn't care."
"He was probably upset because his own boyfriend said that to him!" I said sobbing so badly. It was so embarrassing crying in front of my friends but for once I didn't care. When Silver and Jet left, I just cried and cried. I never felt so upset. I really really am in love with Sonic and he'll never look at me again. I cried into sleep.

The next morning, I just didn't wanna get out of bed. I couldn't bare to see him. I couldn't. My mom practically had to drag me out of bed. I looked terrible. But miracally I manage to get myself together and go to school. When I arrived, no one seemed to notice anything going on or they would run up to me. Maybe Sonic didn't tell anyone about what happened. But when I arrived at my first lesson, no wonder no one doesn't know, he's not at school. No one knows why he isn't here. The teacher said he was ill, but I doubt it.

At lunch, Knuckles and his group of friends walked up to our table.

"Hey, Shads! Ready for the practice after school?" Crap! I forgot!

"Um yeah."

"Good! And also." He lowered his voice. "You got some guts to say what you said yesterday." How did he know? "See ya guys!" He said and they walked off. Great he knows and I have to do that stupid basketball practice! Life is really sucking at the moment.

After school I got ready for the practice and guess what? Everyone in the team has a six-pack! I can't believe this could this day get any worse! We did some warm ups and Knuckles the captain addressed the team.

"Yo! You guys! We got a new team member, Shadow!" Everyone cheered. "Let's start practicing!" And I have to say, I really enjoyed the practice and I've made friends with the whole team they were really supportive and taught me new moves. I left the practice talking to some guys and they looked they were trying to hit on me and I was really falling for it. Then I saw him, Sonic was sitting in a car outside the school watching the guys hitting on me and me taking it. Knuckles ran to the car and they drove off. I forgotten that their parents are good friends and Sonic's dad picks up him and Knuckles every day after school and they go to Sonic's house. Sonic told me when we were…together. Sonic looked really hurt and didn't look like he cared anyway he just sat there watching. I think we really are over.