Chapter Twelve
"Alright! Guys and girls! Listen up!" Megan said, jumping up from her beanbag. Everyone's eyes turned toward the blonde girl as she waited for their laughter to die down. "My parents will be here in about, well, two minutes. We have to hide you for about…" She was calculating in her head when her parents went to sleep. "About, six hours."
When Sonic looked ready to cry, Megan quickly added, "You actually only have to be hidden for five hours. But you do have to keep it down for six."
"And what if we don't?" Rouge challenged. She always had to have a reason. "Why should we care if you get in trouble? Or if some other people find out about us?"
"If you don't," Callisto spoke up, "Don't expect the girl's parents to be as caring as her and her friends. Most likely they will turn you into the police. There, they'll probably try experiments on all of you."
Sonic laughed, "Like some police are going to hold us down! I could just run away to some distant place, away from all of you people."
Oliver then said quietly, "You wouldn't leave us would you? I know I'm no where as strong or fast as the rest of you. I can't fly either, so if the police come after me…" He shuddered at the thought.
Knuckles looked really sad then. Him and Oliver had been hitting it off together pretty well. He didn't want to leave his friend all defenseless. Out of the question…
Maddie stood up, getting ticked off at the hedgehog's attitude, "I don't know if this means anything to you people, but unless you want to get home, you're gonna have to work with us."
Shadow, Epio, Sonic, and Vector all stood up, now on their defenses. "Is that a threat?" the green crocodile asked.
"Guys!" Tails said anxiously, "I hear something."
Megan heard it too. It was the garage door opening up. "Alright I don't give a shit if you want to or not! You all have to get up to my room now or I'll be in so much bull that it makes me sick just thinking about it! OKAY?!"
Charmy opened his mouth for a smart remark, but then Megan roared, "YOU, YOU LITTLE BRAT BETTER GET THAT STINGER OF YOUR'S UP STAIRS NOW OR I'LL MAKE SURE MISSY, THE BASEMENT DEMON, EATS YOU! GET THE PICTURE! (Yep, I would say exactly that. Well, I'd probably cuss too, but I did that too much already…)
Within thirty seconds, everyone was in the hotheaded blonde's room. No one even made a peep.
"Honey! We're home!" Megan's dad yelled up the stairs, from the garage. Megan yelled back, "Hi!"
"Did you already eat sweetheart?" Megan's mom called.
"Yeah! Hey, I'm gonna be in my room. So knock first! DAD!" she added, just to get the point across to him.
"Sure. Whatever you say!" he shouted back sarcastically.
Dear Lord please, please make him listen for once! Megan prayed, and then ran up the steps that led to her room.
"Man, I'm bored…" Sonic mumbled, lying on his back on Megan's bed. He was facing the wrong way, so his head hung off the foot of the bed.
"Tough," Knuckles muttered back at him. He was sitting in Megan's computer chair with his arms crossed. He always was tense when he was away from the Master Emerald for long.
Sonic was about ready to say something back, but was to bored and lazy to have his mouth form words.
Megan was looking through her cabinet for her Shadow the Hedgehog: Lost and Found CD. So far, no luck.
Alex and Eli were playing Game Cube again. This time it was SA2B, and Alex was winning. (So what else is new?) It was when Tails and Eggman and the two Chao fought. Alex was Tails, (DUH!) and Eli was Eggman.
The girls were searching through Megan's TWO closets (Don't be Jealous!) for clothes that might just fit them. Vector, Espio, and Charmy were watching 'Mission Impossible' on a portable DVD player.
"Found it!" Megan all of a sudden yelped, making everyone jump. She pulled out the CD, and sure enough, it had Shadow's symbol on it.
"Ooh! Ooh! Plug it in Mommy!" Maddie said loudly, getting shushed by Callisto in the process.
"'Plug it in! Plug it in!'" Megan sang and then laughed. "Sorry Maddie, I don't want my parents to come up here to check up on me, or to tell me turn the volume down."
Shadow was leaning against the wall with his eyes closed, "Then play it softly." He didn't even open his eyes when he said it.
Megan rolled her eyes, "To my parents, anything that can be heard on the radio, CD player, or TV is way to loud. They like, have the hearing of a bat!" Everyone turned to Rouge.
The white bat looked up and grinned, "That good huh? Are they as beautiful as a bat? A certain bat?"
Knuckles muttered, "Dear Lord Rouge, don't make fun of the girl's parent's looks."
Rouge's smile turned upside down (Have no idea why I said it like that, just wanted to.), "Like you should talk Knucklehead! You look like a girl with those long dreads of yours."
Knuckles stood up and held up his fist, "You say something Batgirl!"
Rouge didn't get up, only because she knew her body wouldn't let her. Instead she just turned to Megan and said, "See, if your parents had Knuckie's ears, we could blast that music as loud as we wanted to."
Knuckles then was about to slap the white bat, when Oliver stepped in between. "Ignore her. She's just talking nonsense cause we've been up here for a long time. Everyone's getting a little miffed with each other."
Knuckles thought it over for a little while, and then sat back down in his seat.
Maddie grinned, "Aaaannd… Round One goes to Rouge!"
"Ding ding!" Sonic said, holding up Rouge's arm, as if she was the champion boxer.
Tails was ignoring all the noise, focusing on the icon he clicked on before. The one that showed his sons.
'I have to find out… how it happened,'he thought to himself. But I can't with everyone else here! Oh man, this is going to be the longest five hours of my life!
He looked up to see if anyone had noticed him acting so quiet. But no one noticed. Alex would have, if she wasn't so into her game.
Tails sighed in relief, and then began to click around more on the computer. What came up surprised him. It was a story titled, 'Christmas Snowflakes.' He began to read it, finding out quickly that it was about Cream. He read a couple more lines and blushed deeply. In this story… Cream had a crush on him!
Again, Tails looked around to see if anyone was watching him, and to his horror, Alex was wide eyed, staring at him. Her gaze traveled back and fourth, from the orange fox, to the computer screen.
No! Please Alex! Don't say anything! Not one word! Tails quickly exited out of the story and then turned around towards the human girl. She put a finger to her lips and winked at him. Tails's heart slowed back down to a normal pace, and his breath evened out.
I-I can trust her… She loves me after all! Alex wouldn't give out my secret! We're friends… Tails sat up and walked over towards Eli and Alex. He sat down beside Alex and watched her and Eli go for round two. But before Alex hit the START button, she whispered to Tails, "You're secret's safe with me."
That was all Tails would need.
After an hour had passed, the total wins for Alex were 112. The total wins for Eli, 4. (Not that Eli isn't good at video games! It's just that Alex is addicted to video games coughandTailscough so she basically knows this game like the back of her hand!)
"I hate this game!" Eli complained shoving the game controller away from him.
Alex laughed, "You just hate it because you suck as Eggman and I ROCK as Tails!"
When Eli didn't say anything Alex moaned, "Alright, fine! We'll play the Racing Mini Game."
No sooner had she said it, Megan ran over to them, "Ooh! Ooh! I wanna play!"
Eli cocked an eyebrow at her, "Oh sure. Now, you want to play."
"Yes please!" Megan said with a grin on her face.
Alex pushed her curly black hair out of her face, "I don't know. You didn't want to play when we were fighting with Tails and Eggman!"
"There were no good players left!"
"You could have been one of the Chao!" Alex accused.
Megan stared at her like she was an idiot, "The Chao SUCK! Besides, you always call Tails and whenever I'm Eggman I jump off on purpose and then you win!"
Alex muttered, "That's fun!"
"Oh come on! That gets SO BORING after the twentieth time!"
Sonic looked at Callisto, Oliver, and Maddie, "Do they always fight about this?"
All three cats nodded and said, "Yeah…" (We actually do!)
Sonic shook his head and sat back down on the bed.
A/N: Yep, done! Okay, Alex, you better love me! Not like that, but you know! Man I'm proud of myself! This is four pages long on word, including Author's Notes. Sorry if it's not as funny as the other chapters, I was pretty stressed out when I was typing most of it, so hope I'm in a better mood when I type the next chapter! Review my little munchkins! Review! Wait, I'm probably shorter than anyone reading this so, Review my Giants! Review!
