Chapter 11—Shopping spree

"So where do you want to go first?" asked Amy upon their entering the mall.

"Brennigan's odds and ends" said Cream as she half walked half hopped giving her one of the fastest skips you are ever likely to see.

Once they reached the small shop Cream started bounding up and down the aisles "Ohhing", and "Ahhing" at everything that caught her attention.

(With a Brennigan's its pretty much like the offspring of Spencers, Hot Topic, Pink Godzilla, any every other little oddity you can think of rolled into one)

As you can imagine this gives a certain rabbit A LOT to look at.

Amy stopped to admire a wall of love charm necklaces.

"Well I don't need those anymore" Amy thought aloud a she eyed the engagement ring on her finger.

Her thoughts drifted back to that cool blue she knew for a moment before she saw Cream run by again.

Amy just shook her head as Cream bustled by with every imaginable oddity in her arms.

Heading for another shelf Amy tried to look for something interesting but her thoughts kept drifting back to Sonic.

"Oh Sonic, now we just need to set a date..." Amy thought out loud.

Then her thoughts brought her to Sonic and Tails, and from there to Tails and eventually to Tails and Cream.

"How did that little fox become such a Romeo?" Amy asked herself while fiddling with a rack filled with card decks.

As Amy picked up a deck of nice looking tarot cards she heard a small jingle behind her as Cream loaded the counter with a small mountain of the oddities.

"All this dearie?" Said the owner of the store from behind the counter.

"Um, yes sir, unless Amy has something" Cream added looking back for conformation.

Amy just put down the deck of cards she had been admiring and softly shook her head.

Amy eyed the contents of the mound expecting to see the occasional item of unknown origins that would make her question the rabbit but this time it wasn't the unordinary it was the ordinary at an unordinary quantity.

Several bottles of mint leaves where piled in the heap and far too much for cooking any size of a meal… unless someone was intending to eat the leaves themselves.

(...)

The owner of Brennigan's was a short owl with seemingly unending patience as he rang up every item that Cream wasn't returning to the shelves for something else.

As per ritual visit he just took his time with ringing up Creams things until she finally narrowed down her decisions and ended up buying only about two items for every thirty so of the original.

"There you go dearie, Come back soon" said the old owl as he bagged up Cream's things.

Soon as Cream was walking away from the shop Amy decided to ask her what was up with all the mint.

"Oh it's nothing" was Cream's reply.

Amy had been pushed aside but this was one persistent hedgehog and before they could reach the escalator Cream was going to give her a straight answer.

"Come on Cream, you know I could just use my cards to find out" Amy said pulling out her old warn Tarot cards.

Cream looked a bit nervous for a moment then heaved a sigh.

"Oh fine, you know how Tails' favorite food is Chilidogs with cheese right?" Cream said turning to Amy.

Amy nodded as she recalled that Tails was a bit like Sonic in his culinary tastes... just with cheese on top.

"Well I'm having him over for dinner tomorrow night and since I can't very well serve up a plate of those I was going for the next best thing." Cream said before boarding the escalator.

"Mint?" inquired Amy not seeing how it played into the situation.

"Yes mint, haven't you ever seen the bowl next to his workbench." Cream said as if it should be common knowledge to everyone.

"Umm… to tell you the truth no not really most of the times I was there it was because we needed him to fly us in the Tornado…" Amy said while she put two and two together in her head.

"Wait but I guess you HAVE been spending a lot of time with him lately haven't you?" Amy said more as a statement then as a question.

"Am… Amy don't go and change the subject." Cream said trying to fend off another angle from attack by Amy's onslaught.

"Now, in the bowl there are all these little mints and I've seen him pop at least a hundred into his mouth before, so I'm adding mint to the cooking as a little extra push in my favor" Cream said before having a small frown form on her lips.

"Cream that's a dirty little trick…" Amy began and Cream hung her head in sorrow.

"IM SO PROUD OF YOU" Amy finished in a yell as Cream looked up with a dark smile on her face.

Amy followed this with a tight hug that nearly caused Cream to drop her bags.

"Amy do you think we could pick out a dress for this evening before you choke me?" Cream squeezed out before her windpipe started to close.

Within seconds Amy grabbed Cream by the arm and started them off towards another shopping opportunity.

(…)

Amy led Cream towards a store she had never seen before.

"Cream, will this be for just you and Tails or will there be other company? Say Your mother?" Amy turned to Cream for an answer.

"Um, well unless Mr. Vector pops by my mother would be there... why?" Cream answered a bit unsure of what Amy was planing.

"Oh no reason, just means that we have to include "Vanilla Acceptable" to the criteria." Amy said before catching Cream's confused expression as she did so.

"Criteria means that" Amy began but was quickly cut off.

"Oh I know what that means from Tails" Cream quickly stated as they began to enter the store.

"You really have been spending a lot of time together haven't you" Amy said as more of a fact then a question.

"Well then what did you look so confused about" Amy asked a moment later.

"Oh... I was just imagining showing up at home and seeing Mom's face if I had something like Rouge's on." Cream explained which sent both girls laughing.

Amy struggled to regain herself before continuing.

"I don't think your mother would be able to speak" Amy finally managed to squeeze out without laughing.

"I don't think Mom would be able to even stand." Cream added in as the two went about searching for a good dress.

The two found a rack that looked like it would have something her size.

"I'll go on this side and you take that side then lets see what we find." Amy suggested before the two split up.

Amy managed to find about five dresses in only four minutes and she proceeded to head for the other side to show them to Cream.

When Amy got there she was astounded to see a small mountain of dresses.

"Cream, are you in there?" Amy called into the gigantic pile.

The clothes rustled for a moment before Cream's head popped out in front of her.

"I uh, had a hard time narrowing it down." Cream said with a small forced laugh at the end.

"Wow you work fast" was all Amy could bring herself to say before the two set to work trying to find the perfect dress.

After all the dresses in Cream's pile had been thrown aside by her for one reason or another there was only the five dresses Amy had left to look at.

Amy held up the first one.

"Um, I like the white and orange, and the flowers are pretty good but I think it might be a bit too kidish for impressing Tails..." Cream said while Amy moved the dress back to the rack.

The next two dresses had the same complaint with the third being on the opposite end of the spectrum and being barely "Vanilla Acceptable."

Then as Cream reached for the last dress her eyes lit up.

"That one?" Asked Amy hoping for a yes.

"That one!" said Cream with a half shout.

(…)

Notes again, ok firstly this chapter had an entirely new section added to it.

After the second section the third part with them looking for the dress is completely new.

Also, may I say that this chapter shows just how devious one rabbit can get when it comes to love.

On that note, the mint is cannon, i've seen the translated Sonic Channel page and it lists Mint as being Tails' favorite so I used it, and if I was mislead through a wrongful translation, then oh well i'm the writer so it's mint in this live with it.

This is the end of the little Amy arc and I hope you all picked up on the little Sonic X Amy lines I managed to slip in.

In hindsight, I noticed that in the original I put in Brennigan's as being like a Staples instead of Spencers, I don't know why but I guess I was just having a off day or something, anyway it has been fixed.

Till next time, hope you enjoyed the read, there is still a lot more to come.