Sorry it took me so long, but I have been busy. Well I hope you like it

Chapter 14: Almost Back to Normal

Sonic finished the story, the one he told Amy, for the third time that evening. Amy had fallen asleep on the armchair. Tails and Cream were sitting on the couch on each side of Sonic. Rouge, Knuckles and Bunnie were in full swing of emptying a box with cookies. Knuckles was still afraid of Sonic so that he was sitting on a chair far away from him. Shadow and Sally were making some popcorn. Lando was playing on his blanket on the floor.

Sonic stretched himself and sighed in contented.

Rouge looked at Amy with a smile, "well we better get her to bed". She said

"Yeah, she must be exhausted after not been sleeping in three days" Bunnie said and nodded.

"I'll get her to bed" Sonic said and smiled. "But where can I put her?"

"You can put her up in my side of the bed just until we go to bed, I mean I'm afraid we might wake her up if we just lay her in here on a madras. I mean we talk a little loud" Rouge said and smiled

"Will do" Sonic replied and took Amy up in his arms. He walked upstairs and found Knuckles and Rouges bedroom. He put Amy down on the bed and sat down beside her. She was sleeping tight. Just then Sonic noticed how awfully tired he was himself. He decided to lie down, just for two minutes or so, but soon he felt a sleep.

DOWNSTAIRS:

Cream and Tails had both fallen asleep on each end of the couch. Shadow, Sally, Rouge, Knuckles and Bunnie were playing cards. Lando had fallen asleep on the blanket that he was laying on. After finishing the card game, Rouge got up and looked at Knuckles.

"Can you please help me to get down the three madras and the two lounge beds from upstairs honey?" She asked and smiled at her boyfriend.

"Sure sweetheart" Knuckles said and got up to help Rouge.

Before they walked upstairs Knuckles gently took Lando up and followed Rouge.

When they came upstairs Knuckles walked into Lando's room and carefully put him in his bed.

Lando opened his eyes and looked up at his daddy.

"Sssh little fellow, go to sleep" Knuckles whispered and kissed his son on the front head. Lando smiled at him, and reached out for Knuckles quills. Knuckles smiled and started to fondle Lando on the cheek. Lando grinned at his father, but soon after he got tired. He yawned and fell back asleep.

Knuckles smiled and walked out of the room on his tiptoes. Rouge smiled at him when he came out.

"Did you get him to sleep?" She asked in a softly tone.

"Yeah" Knuckles replied and kissed her softly on the mouth.

"Great, there's something I wanna show you" Rouge said and smiled.

Knuckles followed Rouge to the door of their bedroom. They looked inside and saw Amy and Sonic in the bed. Amy was lying close to Sonic who had wrapped his arm around her.

"Isn't that sweet Knux?" Rouge asked and folded her hands.

"Cute! Rouge he is laying on my side of the bed!" Knuckles exclaimed.

Rouge smiled and shook her head.

"What are you smiling about? Now where are we supposed to sleep?" Knuckles asked and looked at Rouge.

"On the madras" Rouge replied.

"On the madras? But Rouge you sleep as hell on those madras" Knuckles exclaimed.

"And then you would let Sonic and Amy sleep at them?" Rouge asked with a sly smile and raised her eyebrow

"Well yeah… Is that a problem?" Knuckles asked and shook his shoulders.

"You'll just never change now will ya?" Rouge asked and kissed Knuckles on the cheek

"What do you mean about that?" Knuckles said and looked at Rouge with one of his eyes closed.

"Never mind hun'. Come and help me to get the beds and madras down stairs". Rouge said and giggled.

Knuckles sighed and looked inside the bedroom with a wistfully look on his face.

"Come on Knux" Rouge said and graphed Knuckles arm and dragged him away from the bedroom door.

Soon after, Knuckles and Rouge came downstairs with the beds and madras. Bunnie, Sally and Shadow looked up when they entered the living room.

"Oh there you are, we were afraid you might have got lost up there" Shadow said with a sly smile on his face.

"Sonic took my bed" Knuckles sniffled and sat down on one of the madras.

"Oh my God he didn't! Well that's terrible! Well you know if you need someone to talk to you about it I'm right here…" Shadow said in a sarcastic tone.

Knuckles didn't reply. Instead he lay down on the madras and sighed.

Rouge smiled and shook her shoulders as she laid a blanket over Tails and Cream.

Bunnie, Shadow and Sally lay down too. Rouge lay down on the madras next to Knuckles.

SOME HOURS LATER:

Sonic woke up. He sat up in the bed and looked around. First he had a weird feeling of not knowing where he was, but soon he remembered. Beside him Amy breathed deeply. He looked at the clock; it was about 5 in the morning. He couldn't sleep, so he got up and walked downstairs. He decided to go for a run, but when he walked outside, he saw Knuckles sitting on the porch together with Shadow, they were talking about something, but Sonic couldn't hear what they were saying, so he walked closer.

"Shadow it's horribly! I mean what in the wild world am I going to do?" Knuckles said in a worried tone.

Shadow laughed quietly.

"It isn't funny your moron" Knuckles said now in an angry tone and gave Shadow a hard look.

"Come on Knuckles it actually is quiet funny, Sonic had just came back from the dead, he didn't complain, you're only going to meet Rouges parents for the first time and you're crying like a little girl". Shadow laughed, holding his stomach.

"It still isn't funny" Knuckles mumbled and looked down at his feet.

"Are Rouge's parents coming to visit you?" Sonic asked and looked at Knuckles.

Both Shadow and Knuckles became so surprised so they fell down from the porch, because none of them had heard Sonic. Sonic laughed and looked at them both.

"Sorry guys, I didn't mean to frighten you". He said and smiled

"What are you talking about? You can be frightened or you can be surprised and there's a world to deferent". Shadow said in an irritated tone as he sat down on the porch.

"Yeah whatever" Sonic replied and looked at Knuckles, who just got up. He looked at Sonic with a scared look at his face.

"Come on Knuckles, you can't fear me forever" Sonic said and smiled.

"I'm not afraid of you" Knuckles replied in a hurry.

"Fine if you say so" Sonic said and shook his shoulders. He sat down beside Shadow. Knuckles sat down on the other side of Shadow. Sonic smiled sly.

"So, Rouges parents are coming to visit you?" Sonic repeated.

Knuckles nodded.

"Yeah, isn't that terrible?" He said with a sad look at his face.

"Hard to say, you don't know them, maybe they're cool" Sonic replied.

"Yeah Knuckles, take it easy, I'm sure they're great, when are they coming anyway". Shadow said

"The day after tomorrow" Knuckles sighed.

"You'll be fine hun'" A voice came up from behind. It was Rouge. She smiled from ear to ear.

Knuckles sighed once more.

"Come on you guys, let's get inside it's almost 6.30, so you can help me making breakfast". She said and looked at Sonic, Shadow and Knuckles.

They got up.

"Actually I was about to go for a run" Sonic said in a hurry and ran off.

"Hmm, yeah me too" Shadow said and ran off in the same direction as Sonic, before Knuckles or Rouge could say anything.

Rouge sighed.

"Then you have to help me all by yourself" Rouge said smiling, she knew Knuckles hated to do anything in the morning, so mostly she was the one to make breakfast, but today there were so many sleeping over, so she truly could use a hand in the kitchen.

Knuckles sighed deeply, and followed Rouge inside.

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