The Prince and The Pauper – A Sonic and Silver the Hedgehog Story
Secrets Revealed Part 1
Realizing he had no choice, Sonic had to tell someone who he was. He figured things would get worse if he kept his and Silver's secret a secret longer. Still feeling sick, he was resting in Silver's bed and looking up the dirty, cracked ceiling, wondering what to do and who should he tell that he's not Silver, but Sonic, the prince of Metropolis, who decided to switch places with Silver, a young boy around his age from a poor family.
"I should tell his friends because maybe they will believe me. I have to tell them today. Father's funeral is tomorrow and it'll give me time to do something." He thought, hoping that he would get better before it's too late. He deeply missed his father, sister and the palace, but me missed his father a lot more. The last time he saw him was the day when Silver and him first met. Thinking about him made Sonic sad, especially after all this time King Leon thought Silver was him, so he will never know that he switched places with him, and that Silver wasn't truly his son. A lump was forming in his throat again and he swallowed hard to get rid of it as he wipe new tears streaming from his eyes.
"I'm so sorry for doing this father. I only wanted to know what's like not living like a prince and how it was living with all the people, in the city, and going to school with kids my age. I didn't mean to cause any problems and I hope you'll forgive me and understand. If there is any problems I cause from my doings I'll make them right again." He said quietly.
He gave himself fifteen minutes to calm down, when he did, he sighed knowing this has to be done. With all his energy he had, he stood up, walk out of the room, and headed for the stairs and into the living room so he can tell Silver's ma that he wants to see Silver's friends. His stomach felt like it was in knots and his heart was pounding. It wasn't because he wasn't feeling well, but because he was nervous and was getting stressed with all what was happening. He stopped at the bottom of the stairs and saw Silver's ma sitting on a couch as she crochet a blanket that was half done.
"I didn't knew she can crochet." Sonic thought in wonder as he watched her crochet the purple yarn onto her white and purple striped blanket. He took a deep breath, ready to talk what he had to say when Silver's ma started talking to herself as she done her crocheting.
"I can not take this anymore. Cirrus is driving me crazy with his "I'm so poor I cant' buy everything we need and I can't pay off the bills and taxes right" talk. He doesn't realize is affecting me negatively and it's getting me depressed, and I don't want our son being affected by this too. I understand everyone is struggling, but he's making me worried that we'll lose our house if he can't pay the bills." She stopped crocheting as she look up the roof.
"I don't want to lose them, we're trying and we're managing ok. If it gets down to it I might have to get a job, but that's hard since there's not much job openings and if someone was working they don't get paid much." She sighed as she continued her crocheting.
"I didn't know things were that bad for the citizens." Sonic thought to himself. He thought everyone was living good lives with no poverty problems. He knew there was poverty in the country, but he didn't knew it would affect people like this.
"Wait, I'm getting side tracked." Sonic quickly thought. "I'll have to worry about the poverty problem later, but right now," He coughed without warning which made Silver's ma look up.
"Mothe- oh um, ma?" He started. He cringe at his mistake hoping she didn't noticed.
"What is it honey?" She asked with a concern tone.
"I, um, was wondering if my friends can come over and um, visit after school?" He asked. His heart was pounding more and he began to feel shaky.
"Blaze and Cream?" She said. Sonic nodded, remembering that's their names.
"Hm, well, I guess they could for a little. I think that'll cheer you up and make you feel a little better. I'll go tell them." She said. Sonic quietly sighed that so far things are looking good. However, a thought came to him, what if they don't believe him? It had him thinking should he tell Silver parent's now or wait and tell his friends?
"I think they will believe me I mean come on, they might be close friends to him, so they will believe me." He figured, but deep down he feared that they might not because this is news that would be hard to believe or understand. So he went up the stairs as Silver' ma call their parents. After school which took four hours, Blaze and Cream came to Silver's room.
"Hi Silver!" Cream cheerfully said as she came in with Blaze.
"How are your doing?" Blaze asked.
"Hey guys, I'm glad to see the both of you. I still feel terrible but I'm good." Replied Sonic. He was feeling nervous again.
"We can't stay long though because we got homework. You won't believe the whole school was talking about King Leon's death. They were also talking about his son Prince Sonic is going to be king and you should've heard the girls talking that they would like to marry him because he's so handsome and he's so cool. It was rude of them to think or say things like that because the prince's own father died not even a full day and here they are trying to make a date with the prince. And I don't know what they see in him though, he is handsome, but he's always at the palace so not everyone hears of him much." Blaze said.
Sonic did a nervous chuckle because he was surprised that many of the girls in Emerald City like Blaze would think he's handsome. It was flattering.
"Yea, well, speaking of Prince Sonic, I do have to tell you guys about something." He started, now his stomach was in knots again and he coughed.
"Yes?" Cream and Blaze said looking interested.
"First of all, um, I don't know how to put this since this might come as a shock to you and everyone but um," He paused. Blaze and Cream got more interested and wondered what will he say.
"I, am um, Prince Sonic, and not Silver." He finally let out. At first Blaze and Cream just look at him without saying anything. Their faces were from being surprised to confused. He hoped they were going to say something, but they didn't, there was silence in the room for almost thirty seconds.
"You can't be him, there's no way your Prince Sonic." Cream said, finally interrupting the long awkward silence. Sonic felt his heart dropped because what he hoped wouldn't happen, has happen.
"They don't believe me!" He thought in dismay.
"It's true! Last week I met up with Silver, he came to the palace, we became great friends and so I said to him why not we switch places? and he went with it! He's currently as me back at the palace doing so well and here I am taking his place and I'm getting bad luck thrown at me!" He cried.
"Really? Wow, that sounds so fun!" Cream said sarcastically. Sonic shook his head.
"It's true, I'm telling both the you the truth!" Silver is at the palace right now being me, and I'm here being him!"
"If that's the case then how did you guys meet?" Blaze questioned.
"He was getting mugged by two people trying to take his money on Saturday when my father and I was in Emerald City looking at the damage of that business building so he can pay for some of the expenses!"
"And if you guys switched places, then why did you guys did it?" Cream asked.
"Because I wanted to know what's it like living in the city and he wanted to know what's it like living rich." He replied.
"That's impossible, you never once told us that you wanted to have a better life. You always tried to make the most with a positive attitude." Said Cream.
"Silver, meeting with the king and prince is impossible. Someone will need to have good luck or a important reason to meet or even talk to them." Said Blaze. Sonic was nothing but feeling disgusted that they won't believe him and they think he's making all of this up.
"I can't believe them, what friends does Silver have of they don't believe me!" He thought feeling angry. Suddenly, his headache and body chills were slowly coming back, he also felt mad at Blaze and Cream, but he did figured something like this would happen. But now what's he going to do since they don't believe him. He crawled into the blankets for some rest without saying anything.
"Oh Cream, its getting late, we should probably head back to our homes." Blaze said.
"Oh, your right." Cream responded.
"Ok, we're gonna head out, we'll see you when you get better Silver. Thanks for trying to joke with us. Come on Cream." Blaze said.
"Ok, Blaze. See ya Silver, get well!" Said Cream. Sonic sighed.
"See ya guys." Sonic said without looking at them. When they left the room he could hear them giggling, it might've been about what he said to them. In his disgust and anger he hit a fist on the wall next to him.
"They didn't believe me! I shouldn't've told them, I should've just known that they would still think I'm in." He thought angrily. He really didn't thought this one through, now he might've made things worse.