L is for Ludicrous

For once, the attitudes of the two hedgehogs were reversed. Absolutely and refutably reversed. Sonic was glaring at the black hedgehog with his arms folded, only thing original to him was him tapping his foot. The black hedgehog? He was stifling unusual laughter at Sonic's reaction to the current situation. Everything that happened was the blue one's fault anyway.

"Would you stop laughing? It's not even funny..."

"It's what you deserved anyway, seeing as you went to challenge me again. Let's just have you a busy day ahead of you. You might as well start now-"

"Nuh-uh! The later, the better!" he cut off quickly. With the things he was expecting, he really wouldn't have wanted to be around her from day to night. At least let him start in the afternoon...

"I'll make you spend the night if you wait too long..."

"Wh-wha-wai-no-NO! YOU WOULDN'T!"

"I would..." he replied simply, half turning away from the other with a smirk on his face. "You have to start before 3 o'clock. Anytime later and I'll-"

"I got it...I got it..." he groaned, placing his face in his hands. "I swear, I'm doing it as late as I can...without that penalty..."

"The second one, because we both know that this in itself is punishment..."

"Uwaah...shut up Shads...please..."

Later that day...

Sonic slowly walked up to the house at the current time of 2:58. By the time the girl would answer the door it would be 2:59, as close as he could cut it to the deadline. He hated Shadow right now, he really really did... At first he knocked, hoping she was near the door. No such luck. Then he rung the doorbell, once...twice...three times-

"Hold on a sec!" a voice called. That voice that he usually avoided when possible for the life of him. The very one that Shadow usually held at bay was the bargaining chip for this bet and he just had to lose. Who knew that Shadow could play the Xbox that well? His thought was thrown off by the pink furred girl, opening the door to face none other than her blue hero. "...Sonic?"

"Ah...yeah...hey there Amy..." he refused to make eye contact with her. Then he'd feel even worse about this whole thing. Even without doing so, he could just sense her happiness shoot through the roof...

"What brings you here today Sonic?"

"Well, because of some things that happened recently, I've been left with a lot of free time so I was wondering if you wanted to..." his voice stopped, completely devoid of his wish to just get this over with.

"Hmm?" she sounded genuinely confused but that was before she gasped, his peripheral vision showed her stepping back a bit. That usually meant one of a couple things: something was scaring her or she was about to hug someone. He wished it was the first one...he really wished it had been...it would make this all go away. "...Sonic...are you..."

"Do you wanna hang...out...today..." he voice trailed lower with each word but he'd finally gotten it out. Of course, even with that, she still heard him. As he expected, he was soon choked-ahem, hugged around the neck as she squealed with joy.

"I'd love to! Just let me finish up here real quick and get changed!" and with that, she was back in the house and up the stairs. He grimaced.

"You're a bastard Shadow...I hope you know that..." he mumbled to himself, more than anything. The black hedgehog chuckled from the roof, neither of them knowing he was going to trail this whole day. His mind mused about letting the other suffer but he'd most likely get the amusement from it as it were so, it was hard to feel bad. Let the day begin...

She came downstairs in a blue dress with light blue frills around it, saying that she got it because she thought of him when she saw it. He got irritated at the fact that she linked him up with frills but he did nothing but smiled at her. He wouldn't dare throw her a compliment, even for good measure. She would take that and run with it... He mentally sighed as he told her that they could do whatever she'd like today, he didn't have any ideas of what to do anyway. Boy was that a mistake. It was bad enough that the girl made them walk through the park, her clinging to his arm as she talked on and on. There were two things wrong with that in Sonic's opinion. They were walking too slow and Amy was hurting his arm. It was also bad enough that she'd made him take her to a cafe. One of those sugary sweet places at was sure to leave you with at least three cavities by the time you left. There were a couple things wrong with that too. He had so much sugar he'd gotten a headache and Amy seemed perfectly fine. But then, she'd made him go to a carnival with her. That had to be the highlight of the day. She wasn't so good with roller coasters, at least he'd get some amusement out of that at least. Turns out he was half wrong. The ride itself he enjoyed. The screaming girl next to him however, he didn't... her voice was shrill enough as it was but screaming. She continuously wondered why he picked at his ear as they got off every ride...

"So, Sonic...are you enjoying yourself today?" his eyes cast down at the girl leaning her head against his shoulder. Even with it being nighttime, her eyes still managed to show her glee for today.

"It was alright Ames. Though it is about time you got home though..." he looked off at the sky. She was up to something again. Probably some plan forming in her head as they continued down the path they took in reverse. Well, the only prospect brighter than the moon at the moment was the thought of him being rid of her soon enough was promising. He didn't mind the girl most of the time, it was only when she was all huggy and touchy feely that he'd start getting that 'leave me alone' vibe. Not that she ever picked that up. They got to her doorway and she opened it, then turning to him with an expectant look.

"So?"

"...huh?" he asked.

"Are you going to come in? I'm sure you're hungry."

"Ah..." that's what she'd been planning. To lure him in with food. On the usual, he would've taken her up on that but with the hour being as late as it was, the whole prospect would be iffy. Now...how could he leave without making her sad was the question. "Nah, Amy, I'll be fine. My house is only a second away, you know."

"You say that but I don't even know where you live! It's a wonder how you've kept that from me anyway..."

"It's a secret." That I'm forced to keep-only from you-because if I told, Shadow would murder me in cold blood..not to mention that you would freak out on me as if the world ended... but who needed the end of that sentence. She looked down a bit before looking back towards him and stepping back out to him.

"So, aren't you forgetting something?"

"...no?"

"You are. Where's my goodnight kiss?" she giggled. He wanted to face-palm. He really wanted to do something other than stand there at this moment. Most likely, even if he were to take off running, she'd chase him down for one. He sighed.

"Amy..."

"There you are, Sonic..." that familiar voice cut in. Sonic's salvation and Amy's annoyance. The looks on there faces were exchanged. The blue one suddenly looked a bit hopeful as the pink one suddenly looked a bit dejected.

"What do you want Shadow? We're a little busy."

"You stopped being 'busy' as soon as you walked through that door. Now if you'll excuse us..." before anyone had a say in it, Sonic's wrist was grabbed and the two males were in their living room in two seconds flat. The girl growled out a curse at the striped hedgehog ruining the perfect end to her night. On the other hand, the other was cursing him out for the day in the first place. His expression would've been slightly apologetic if it weren't for the way he was smirking.

"Stupid! Oh, be tee double-you, you aren't allowed to touch me. My arms are sore and my ears feel like they're bleeding... I'll probably need to sit in the bath for a couple hours for that pain to go away..." he complained, just to be stopped by the other grabbing his chin.

"So did you learn your lesson for today?"

"Not to give you anymore gaming lessons, sure."

"...idiot...although today was quite entertaining, the very image of her attempting to kiss you if I hadn't stepped in was ludicrous..."

"This whole day was if you ask me..."

"I could make up for tha-"

"Not. Touching. Me. Got it?" he ground out, removing the hand holding his head straight forward to stare into those crimson eyes. Instead of directly responding to that, he looked at the hand that was previously shoved away.

"Hey, you said you needed to soak, right?"

"...I'm starting to decide against that..."

"You have three minutes to get in that bathroom or I'm forcing you down myself..."

"...no...no...no..no...Shadow..." he started to back away as the other began to stalk towards him. He took off running before the other could be fully in front of him just to find the striped hedgehog following him still. "Shadow, no!" Before long, the blue one was trapped in the bathroom with the black one in tow. Although that whole day had been ludicrous, watching Sonic struggle in the tub took the cake...

A/n: I think I lost my way a bit with that one XDD ah well. Drop me a review, talk to me. I didn't really have any words in mind for L anyway so bear with this suck chapter although I do have an idea for M thanks to one of my readers. I hope to update that soon. Be on the lookout!

~Ruru out