-No Regrets- Chapter 11
-Gemini Mercedes-
SonicxTails, SonicxShadow, SonicShadowTails, SilverxBlaze, JetStorm, KnucklesRouge
"I'm telling you Silver, I still feel so bad." Blaze moaned as she rested her head on her kitchen table. Silver had stopped by to hang out, but she wasn't in the mood for anything fun or remotely romantic.
"Blaze, I'm telling you, the dinner wasn't that bad. Actually, it was more entertaining than anything…" Silver replied honestly. He gulped and waved his hands in front of his face when he caught the glare Blaze was sending him.
"S-seriously, Blaze it wasn't even something you should worry about."
"I completely ruined Knuckles and Rouge's date. And that was so nice of them to even invite us!"
"Do I need to call Rouge to tell you that it wasn't that serious?" Silver groaned, unable to think of anything else that could cheer up his girlfriend at the moment. Blaze lifted her head up from the table with a small smile.
"Would you?" She asked quietly. Silver nodded and grinned from ear to ear, glad that he found something to help his girlfriend get out of her mope.
"Yup, let me just get the phone."
He grabbed the wireless phone from the wall socket and paused for a minute as he searched for the number on the phone registry and pressed the dial button. The silver hedgehog placed the phone to his ear and Blaze could lightly hear a ringing sound emitting from the plastic telephone. Suddenly, the sound stopped.
"Hello, oh hey Knuckles! Hey, why are you always at Rouge's house? You must be getting it in all the time- I'm joking! H-hey I was just joking man, no reason to start spewing threats against my family. Okay, okay! I'm sorry. I need to speak to Rouge can you put her on?" Silver said exasperatingly.
Blaze rolled her eyes and she listened to one side of this extremely entertaining conversation. Silver shot her a wink and a toothy grin, to which she laughed back at.
"T-thanks Knuckles. I already said I was sorry! Put her on the phone! Oh hey Rouge, sorry but you need to control that boyfriend of yours. Oh he heard that? Haha, uh anyways, Blaze wanted to talk to you. Could you tell her you don't care about what happened the other night?" He paused to listen for a minute before handing the phone to Blaze who slowly accepted.
"H-hello?" She didn't realize her hand was slightly shaking.
"Hello, Blaze darling. Are you seriously still upset about what happened? I'm telling you, I'm okay with it. Amy probably would have heard about it anyways, she always has her ear out for other people's business." Rouge's voice was loud and clear on the phone and Blaze was relieved to hear that the white bat wasn't upset with her.
"Yeah, it's just I felt awful about the way Amy acted." Blaze replied. She heard Rouge sigh on the other end of the phone.
"What can you do? Some chicks are just like that. Just don't invite her again, and you and I are cool." Rouge explained. Blaze nodded, and then realized that she was on the phone and Rouge's couldn't see her.
"R-right, thank you, Rouge. Next time I won't say anything."
The two talked for a little bit about school and upcoming school events until Knuckles wanted to spend some time with Rouge and she had to go. Blaze cheerfully wished the bat goodbye before hanging up.
"Hopefully, there will be no more turmoil for the rest of the year…" Blaze muttered to herself.
/
But of course, there was a lot more drama and disaster headed for the students at Guardian High Academy. Rumours had been starting to pop up every now and then, and as weeks went by they became more extravagant and mainstream.
"Did you hear about those two?"
"Who are you talking about?"
"Shadow and Tails…"
"What about them?"
"Well, I heard through the grapevine that the two of them are dating."
"D-dating? But aren't they both…you know, guys?"
And so it began. But it didn't come out of left field for many of the students and some of the teachers. A lot of people had seen the connection between the two and neither member had tried to dissuade or dispose of the whispers. Tails would blatantly blush when he would greet Shadow, and Shadow would wink or grin when he was close to the blonde fox. At first it had been seen as playful, but as time went on it became apparent that there was something deeper between the two.
The circle had definitely noticed what was going on between the midnight hedgehog and the blonde fox, but in respect to Sonic, they treated it like the elephant in the room. Sonic on the other hand, never attempted to hide his disgust and annoyance for the couple. Not that they were official or anything, but it was pretty obvious they were something.
As the circle sat together for lunch on a warm Wednesday afternoon, tension filled the air as rumours from other tables drifted over, one of them being that Shadow and Tails were eating lunch at Shadow's 'secret' location. Rouge just rolled her eyes at the way the information came out so suggestive.
"What is up with those two? Am I the only one seeing this?" Sonic groaned as he stabbed his fork into his micro waved lasagne. Knuckles opened his mouth to reply but stopped when Rouge nudged him in the arm, shaking her head when he looked over to her.
"It really isn't that serious, I mean maybe it's nothing special." Jet stated, trying not to make eye contact with the angry blue speedster. A couple of days ago, Jet had walked over to the group and apologized for all the drama he had started. He asked for a clean slate, and since the circle was nice, they had accepted and welcomed the Babylon Rogues to eat with them at lunch. Now, they were all friends – though more than a few were surprised (and a bit suspicious) of Jet's change in personality.
"It is serious. I mean, everyone is talking about it. I really need to have a talk with Tails…" Sonic growled, attacking his lunch again with his plastic fork.
"Sonic, they're just rumours. You know how those are. Most of it is just inflated lies." Rouge replied, trying to reassure the azure hedgehog. But Sonic wasn't even listening.
"Whatever, Tails can be friends or buddies with Shadow. He only tried to poison me, that's all! And over a break-" He stopped himself from saying anything more. Everyone turned to him, especially Amy who had remained quiet this whole time.
"Over a what?" She pressed, in a confused tone. Sonic's eyes widened a bit.
"Spit it out hedgehog! You were about to say whatever it was a second ago, just complete your sentence!" Knuckles yelled, raising a fist in irritation. Sonic shook his head and stared down at the table before continuing to eat his lunch. An awkward silence fell over the table, no one wanted to say the wrong thing.
Unfortunately, it was becoming pretty obvious that Sonic was jealous of Tails and Shadow's relationship. Whether he was jealous of their friendship or whatever they had, was up to everyone's imagination.
This whole thing was becoming extremely annoying for Blaze and Rouge, who knew the status of Shadow and Tail's relationship. They knew what was going on, but chose to play stupid. They knew that getting involved in the whole thing wouldn't be beneficial to anyone's health.
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"We went to this spot in the forest and he had this picnic set-up for me. It was so romantic. Blaze, I felt like I was on cloud nine." Tails moaned as he sat back in his reclining chair, holding his phone to his ear.
"That's so nice Tails, I'm glad you enjoyed yourself." Blaze said tonelessly.
It wasn't that she didn't feel happy for her friend, but Tails was acting like he couldn't see the backlash his relationship with Shadow was causing. It was like he was pretending to be oblivious, and Blaze was beginning to get annoyed with it.
"Yeah, I honestly did." The blonde fox seemed to be in another world.
"That's good, but um…have you spoken to Sonic by any chance? I mean recently." Blaze said hesitatingly, something told her to tread lightly on the topic of the blue speedster.
There was a silence on the other end of the phone for a couple of seconds and Blaze was almost sure Tails had hung up on her. But when she heard a soft sigh on the other end she smiled softly, glad the blonde fox was still on the other line.
"No, but it's been bothering me for a little while. I haven't said anything to Shadow because I know that he has his own problems with Sonic right now." Tails admitted quietly.
However this explanation didn't take away a question that had been bothering Blaze from the second Shadow and Tails had hooked up.
"T-tails, you did break up with Sonic right?" She gasped for breathe as she asked this.
Another silence came over the conversation and then Blaze heard the dial tone.
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"I never would have believed you, of all hedgehogs would have deflowered that yellow fox!" Rouge teased jokingly as she sat down beside Shadow on her front porch.
She had found a way to drag Shadow to her house since he had been practically ignoring her to spend more time with Tails.
"W-what, no one deflowered anybody!" He replied indignantly, his face turned red with frustration and embarrassment.
"Hey, hey, you don't have to lie to me. You guys have to be doing something behind closed doors."
"I'm going home."
"No, no I'm kidding Shadow!" Rouge yelled, trying to suppress giggles as she grabbed Shadow's arm before he could walk away. This caused him to stop and roll his eyes before taking a seat back down beside her.
"We haven't talked in forever, you have to tell me how this all started…" Rouge pressed, smirking at the midnight hedgehog. Shadow rolled his eyes and stared up at the sky.
"Well, it's none of your business."
"Hey c'mon now, don't be like that." She frowned as if she was actually upset.
Shadow stared at her and then sighed deeply. He ran a hand through his quills and a small smile formed on his lips. Rouge was shocked; she had never seen this side of her hedgehog friend. It was not that she wasn't happy to see it, but it was still quite different.
"We went down to Soleanna for a project and then on the station we just…connected." As much as he tried to hide it, Rouge could tell he was really happy on the inside.
Unfortunately, this would make her next question even harder to ask. She decided to move into it slowly, try to ease him up a bit first.
"That's so nice, did you guys kiss?"
"Yeah," He stated tonelessly, as if he really didn't want to go into detail with the nosy bat.
"Was there tongue involved?"
"Rouge…"
"Okay, okay! But seriously now, I have to talk to you about something." The change in her tone caused Shadow to look over to her with a raised eyebrow.
"What is it?"
"There's been some…talk around the school about you two. And not all of it has been good." She turned away from him and stared at her lap.
She really didn't want to go into detail with what people were saying about the midnight hedgehog and the blonde fox, but she was a good friend and she had to tell it straight so Shadow wouldn't be blind sighted later.
"Oh really?" Shadow replied tonelessly, staring at her with a blank expression on his face. To others, this would have meant that he didn't really care but Rouge knew better.
"It's not that what you guys have is a bad thing. It's just that people talk sweetie, you know that. And this is really different then what is the norm at school. Some people can get really aggressive and ignorant when it comes to these types of things." She tried to sugar-coat it as best as she could but she knew Shadow would cut right through the crap.
"Anyone in particular?" He said that as if he already knew who she was referring to.
"Well I heard some of the older grades have been talking…I would watch out for Scourge and those guys if I were you." He began to glare at her and she rolled her eyes.
"I know you'll be fine but I don't know about Tails…" She admitted, to this Shadow looked away. The realization that she was right was kicking in.
"Thanks for this Rouge, but I really must be going." He declared, getting up and dusting his pants off before walking down the steps and onto the sidewalk.
This time she didn't even try to stop him.
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The next day was quiet to say the least. Shadow and Tails hadn't stopped their playful and mildly suggestive actions, and Rouge and Blaze were wondering if they had wasted their time talking to the two.
"At the end of the day, he has to make his own decisions…" Blaze said to herself at lunch time when the circle was sitting together, sans Shadow and Tails of course.
"Did you say something Blaze?" Silver asked politely as he ate the BLT sandwich he had bought from the cafeteria.
"N-no, Silver. It's nothing really." Blaze muttered, opening her lunch bag to see what she had for lunch. She noticed Silver staring at her form the corner of her eye with a concerned look on his face but she tried to ignore it.
"Don't read my mind." She stated more than asked, still rummaging through her lunch bag.
"I wouldn't. Not that I really could anyway." Silver replied with a small smile.
"What do you mean?" She pulled out her own sandwich and turned to him as she began to unwrap it from the plastic wrap that it was surrounded in.
"That wouldn't be respectful to you, just know that if you need someone to talk to, I'm always here." He said genuinely. She blushed and turned away quickly, muttering a quick 'thank you'.
"Are those two off at their secret location again?" Sonic asked Rouge in an annoyed tone.
The table got pretty quiet at this, since everyone knew that he was right. Rouge just shrugged and went back to munching on her salad.
Sonic opened his mouth – probably to complain again – but was stopped when he saw two students walk over to the table. Blaze turned to see Shadow and Tails, talking amongst themselves and smiling brightly.
"Hey guys, mind if we join you?" Tails asked happily, unlike Shadow who just took a seat beside Rouge.
"Yeah, come over and sit." Silver replied warmly, pointing to the chair beside Blaze. Tails nodded and went to take a seat. He looked over at Sonic for a quick second, who just turned away and scoffed.
"So Shads, what's new?" Rouge asked warmly, placing her fork down and patting Shadow on the shoulder.
"Nothing much, a lot of homework lately though." Shadow replied with a sigh.
Jet, who had been quietly watching everything, took this moment to speak up.
"How are you guys doing with the law project?" He asked with a smile. Shadow was at first shocked at the warm reception from the green hawk but quickly recovered.
"It's alright; we've gone to Soleanna for information a couple of times. But I can't say I'm not annoyed with the amount of work it is." The midnight hedgehog replied honestly, squinting a little at Jet to see if the green hawk was hiding something.
"I agree with you on that one. It is a lot of work. Luckily that library has a lot of books that we can use." Jet explained with an exasperating sigh.
"Maybe we can all go together one time, at least that way we can have company on the ride there." Tails added in, looking towards Shadow for a nod of agreement.
"I think that would be cool! Just tell us the day you guys are going." Jet cheered, sending the two of them a thumbs up.
The midnight hedgehog and the blonde fox nodded back and then starting eating their lunches. After that the atmosphere seemed to get thick with tension, as no one was bringing up the pink elephant that was by no means going away anytime soon.
"So, are you guys dating?" Sonic asked bluntly, cutting through the silence like an alarm clock on an early morning. A few jaws dropped, and a few eyes widened. For Knuckles and Amy, both happened.
"W-what are you talking about?" Amy asked the blue speedster quickly, but he ignored her.
"What is it to you?" Shadow shot back.
"Now guys…" Tails added, trying to defuse the situation.
"C'mon guys, Sonic you shouldn't be listening to those stupid rumours." Silver said with a sigh.
But the situation only went from bad to worse.
"What is it to me? Tails was my best friend and then you come along and snatch him up? What game are you playing Shadow?"
"I'm not playing any game, faker. And even if we were playing a game, I would have already called checkmate. You had something great that you didn't treat right and now it's gone. That isn't my fault." Shadow replied hotly.
"Excuse me? Need I remind you, you're talking about my best friend here? We've known each other way longer than you have. Shut up."
"Don't tell me to shut up, faker. You might end up with a locked jaw." Shadow said with a smirk, egging Sonic on.
"Seriously guys, that's enough…" Knuckles tried to add in.
"Oh really, I would love to see you try." Sonic replied, ignoring Knuckles and beginning to flex his muscles.
"Whatever, Sonic, grow up. Thinking back, didn't you have two things that were great that you chose not to treat very well?" This made Sonic's eyes grow wide, and his arms started to shake.
"Shut. Up." Sonic growled, he laid a dominating fist on the table, and every else at the table had started to move back a bit in their seats.
"Now what did I just say about-"
"SHUT UP!" Sonic screamed as he raced across the table in less than a second.
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I know it's been forever and a half since I last updated, please forgive me. If you hadn't noticed, I've been working on some other stories at the same time and school is still crazy. Actually, I was recently reading some of the Sonic the Hedgehog comics (which I have never done before) and I have to say they were really interesting! The comics seem to be so different than the shows or the video games (even though the latter is mostly based on the comics). There is a lot more drama and violence in my opinion, and the comics seem to be geared towards a more mature audience. I want to incorporate some of the comic's characters in this story, so stay tuned for that. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this chapter. Tell me what you guys want to see in future chapters, I actually use some of the amazing ideas you guys give me!
-GeminiMercedes-