Chapter 20: Mrs Prower, Part VI

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Marine

The food was actually surprisingly not that posh. In fact, it wasn't posh at all. And, when you're sitting with Silver at a table, it looked completely the opposite to 'posh'. He was scoffing down the first course, his mouth already covered in soup. He saw my look, and wiped his mouth gingerly.

"Sorry," he muttered.

I shrugged. Like I hadn't seen that kind of behaviour before. The Coconut Crew always ate like that, I was, actually, the one who told them how to eat properly. But, that was only when Blaze wasn't around. Now, when she was around, she could make even the toughest of the koalas eat properly... I knew they all liked her.

I looked at Silver again, after I watched The Coconut Crew scoff down their soup. Silver was eating more calmly now.

"So, Silver," I started, he looked at me, and smiled, "dan't Blaze tell yer how to eat?"

"Huh," Silver grinned, he looked quickly at the feline, who didn't seem to be eating, he looked back at me, "lots of times. It's actually not that annoying. I find it funny. Certainly gets her temper going. I love seeing her reactions." Sonic's head perked up slightly by Silver's last comment, he then went back to his soup.

"Are you and her...?" I asked, gesturing to him and her.

Silver shook his head.

"We tried it once. Didn't really work well..." he cleared his throat, obviously hiding something, "so, we stayed as friends."

I made a tiny smile, and looked at the soup. I could sense Sonic tense up...

"So, how long have you and Tails been dating?" Silver asked.

That made my spoon fall into the soup, Benny to swallow his food too quickly, Tails to choke on his soup, and Sonic to swallow his spoon altogether.

We all watched Sonic and Tails choke with their soup and spoon. Tails finally finished, but Sonic was really having trouble. Everybody seemed to be watching him now. Sonic coughed madly, doing as best as he could to spit the spoon out.

Tails and Silver started to beat his back, forcing the spoon out. I was about to help, until Blaze came along. With no expression, she set his tail alight with her fire.

By such sudden heat and shock, Sonic spat the spoon out.

"GET IT OUT!" he exclaimed.

Blaze licked her thumb and second finger together, then put out Sonic's tail by using the two wet fingers. His tail sent off smoke. Sonic calmed down quickly, then turned to Blaze.

"Thank you," he whispered.

'You're welcome," Blaze replied, politely.

Everybody got back to what they were doing. Blaze went back to sit on her seat, I sat back down, as did Tails. I saw Benny holding back a laugh, and I almost kicked him under the table, only to kick the table leg... which rather hurt. Silver and Sonic sat down gingerly. The blue hedgehog took calm breaths. A waiter came along and cleaned the table up of Sonic's saliva and soup. Sonic then got a new clean spoon, and started drinking again.

"Ummm..." Silver mumbled, fiddling with his soup by stirring it around, "as I was saying... so, how long have you two been together?"

Sonic gulped.

"We haven't," Tails said, "Um..."

Silver raised an eyebrow, then grinned.

"Ah, I see," he muttered, "happens."

I felt a little like I wanted to punch him, yet hug him. He is annoyingly charming. No wonder Blaze likes him.

Sonic finished his soup, looking calmer then he was.

"You all right now?" Silver asked him.

Sonic nodded, eyes closed.

"Huh. I'm sure Blaze enjoyed that," Silver started again, "she did that to me once. I was drinking to much alcohol... pain nearly killed me."

Sonic looked at him, and raised an eyebrow.

"Do you think I care?" he asked, bluntly.

"Of course you do. We all know you're all over her," Silver replied.

Sonic blushed a bit too much, and looked at his empty bowl.

"That's Shadow you're mistaking me with," he muttered.

"Hey, but, Shadow's gone, in 'e?" Silver said, nudging Sonic in the side, "left his beloved."

I sighed, and put a hand on my forehead then looked up to see Pinky coming towards us. She smiled at us all, then saw me, and didn't smile.

"How are you all...? Sonic, are you okay? Choke?" she asked, in that 'sweety pie' voice.

Sonic nodded, and tried to look away. Silver snickered.

"Did you see Blaze and Shadow?" she whispered to us all.

I rolled my eyes. 'Course we did! The whole damn guests did, you... urgh!

"Yes..." Sonic murmured, holding back a little annoyance, "we. Did."

Silver grinned.

"Absolutely," he agreed, "but, Shadow's long gone now. Isn't he, Sonic?"

Sonic looked at him, and then said through gritted teeth, "shut up."

Blaze

I sighed, a pretty long one too. I looked around the room at all the guests and saw Amy doing her best to flirt with Sonic. I rolled my eyes a little. You don't really need to do anything to make Sonic like you. Rouge had introduced me to the people sitting on the same table as me, and they were as chatty as ever. To be honest, I couldn't remember anyone's name, I'd also forgotten what one of them was talking to me about. I just kept nodding my head at him, to make it look as if I was listening.

He finally finished talking, when he was interrupted by someone else, whom I had also forgotten the name of. I suddenly found two arms gently wrap around me.

"May I help you?" I asked, sternly, looking up at Silver's beaming face.

He grinned, and his hand gestured towards Amy and Sonic. I blinked twice and looked back at him.

"Wha...?" I asked, bluntly.

"You'll never guess what Amy is doing," he said, I suddenly saw he wasn't joking around.

"Flirting with Sonic?" I asked, shrugging.

"No. I think she wants Marine and Tails to not be toge-" I was on my feet.

"How dare that pink-furred bitch! Who does she think she is?" I whispered harshly.

Rouge and the others didn't seem to notice my outburst.

"No, no," Silver said, quickly, waving his hands in defence, "she hasn't said anything to them. Just... maybe, you should keep an eye on her."

"... Why do you think she doesn't want Tails and Marine together?" I enquired, my eyes looking at the pink hedgehog, whom I was starting to not like.

"The way she looks at them... or, Marine. As if she's..." Silver shrugged, "I dunno. As if... hmm..." he put a finger to his bottom lip.

"What?" I whispered.

"... Na. Probably just me being so "naive"," he used his fingers to show the quotation.

I folded my arms.

"You are naive," I muttered, looking at Amy again.

"And, you're stubborn," Silver said, making a light laugh.

I mocked a laugh.

"I'll keep an eye on her," I said, accidently making a menacing smile.

"Shadow still on your mind?"

I knew he'd asked me that to see my reaction. He always did.

"He always will be, Silver. Shame... he's one in a million," I explained, dreamily.

"Gee! Thanks!" Silver commented, sarcastically.

I made a small smile at him.

"Well, at least you're not in tears," Silver said.

I looked at him with the corner of my eyes.

"I would be if I wasn't in such a cruel job," I said.

He recoiled.

"I thought you liked... no, loved your job!" he exclaimed.

"... I don't love my job..." I replied.

"Still. You like it."

"Maybe."

"So?"

"So...?"

"You okay?"

I nodded slowly. Silver nodded in reply and we both looked at the table Sonic, Tails, Marine and... Amy were on. Oh, yeah, and Benny!

"She stolen your seat?" I asked.

"Na!" Silver replied, "I offered it to her... for the while. I'm going back now. Ta-ra for now!"

Silver walked backwards back to his place, then started floating.

Show off.

He suddenly bumped into a table behind him, making the guests gasp at his sudden appearance.

"Oh, gracious," he apologised, "sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry."

I saw him go bright red with embarrassment, and he quickly ran over to his table. I sat down again, and sighed. I kept my eye on Amy as she went to sit back on her table... I then looked at Marine...

As usual, she was just being her. Not knowing any suspicion. She saw me look at her... and waved.

I waved back.

She had a confused look on her face, and I looked away feeling slightly foolish.

You know...

Life can be quite boring at times.

Marine

I don't think Pinky liked me that much. I mean, the way she looked at me, as if I was some sort of animal... well, I am, but... well, a deadly animal.

Silver smiled at us all, as happy as ever, I looked at Sonic who was resting his head on his hand, and watching... well, you know who. I then looked at Tails, he seemed to be watching the table as if it was the most amazing thing he'd ever seen. My eyes darted towards my cousin, who was messing around with his fork. I then saw Pinky from a far off table, she grinned at me menacingly. That made my heart beat faster.

I looked away quickly. What was Pinky up to? I thought she was nice.

I felt the need to get out of this room, I was feeling rather warm. Too warm in fact. No. I was starting to feel sick...

"Sorry," I apologised, and got up.

"Marine?" Tails asked me, looking at me now.

The others did too, with a confused expression.

"I just need to go to the dunny, mate," I said, as calmly as possible.

Before Tails could reply, I had gone. Surely, I'm just being pathetically paranoid. But, I felt I needed to think. I needed to be alone. When I came in, I found someone else was there. Cream was washing her hands in the sink, and saw me come in. So much for being alone!

"Oh, hey, Marine," she said, cheerfully, "enjoying the party?"

"Ur... sure," I replied, hesitantly.

Of course the sheila knew I was in some sort of trouble.

"What's wrong?" she asked, now drying her hands with the hand dryer.

I shrugged, and leaned against the wall.

"Do yer think... what's Pinky like?" I asked.

She looked at me and raised an eyebrow.

"Who's 'Pinky'?" she enquired gently.

I looked at her.

"Amy... Amy Rose, you know?" I shrugged.

She nodded, and sighed.

"Ur... she... can be annoying at times... even I know that, heh heh," she laughed.

"I mean... does she like Tails?" She put on a confused look, then giggled.

"Ur... yes," she replied slowly.

"... Urgh, I dunno how ter explain this. Would she ever..." I stopped, not sure on what to say.

Cream waited patiently. Bless.

"Has she ever split anybody up before?" I finished.

Cream leaned against the wall, and shook her head.

"Not that I know of," she replied.

"Do yer think she ever will?"

"Marine, what is wrong with you? Come back to the party. People are missing you," Cream explained.

"... I think Amy doesn't like me."

Cream stopped in her tracks, and looked at me.

"Wha...?" she asked.

"I dan't think it's paranoia either!" I finished.

"Oh, I don't know, Marine. I mean, Amy's nice... at times. She wouldn't hurt you... I think," Cream explained, she put a finger to her lower lip.

I sighed. It probably was paranoia.

"Sorry an' all. Didn't mean to cause a riot," I explained.

"Heh. No, no. I understand," Cream replied, "come on."

She opened the door and went through.

I followed.

Blaze

Shadow. Shadow. Shadow. Shadow. Shadow. Shadow. GO AWAY!

I put my hands over my face, and tried to get the image of Shadow away. He's still there!

Grr!

I just wished the image would tear up and... disappear. But, in some cases, I didn't want that to happen. I wondered how Shadow felt? Was he like me? Or, was he not bothered at all? Did he even care?

I saw Amy and she was talking away to somebody. I sighed and looked at the table where Sonic, Silver, Benny and Tails were on.

Hold on.

I straightened up in my seat.

Where's Marine? My question was then answered when I saw her come out of the toilet door with Cream. She seemed all right, but her face didn't seem... herself.

It was more like a face I'd make. Meaning, she wasn't showing any emotion.

I drummed my fingers on the table, and watched the room closely.

"How do you feel now?" I recognised that voice as Rouge's.

I looked at her and smiled slightly.

"Fine," I lied, "fine."

For once she didn't see right through me. In fact, it looked like she was thinking about something else.

"Sorry, honey. I'm just going to have a small chat with Marine. You don't mind, do you?" she asked me, gently.

"... No," I replied, shaking my head.

She smiled and stood up, whilst passing me she patted me on the shoulder. I watched her walk over to the raccoon, who still had an emotionless face. I leaned my head against my hand and watched her, then I saw Sonic looking at me again.

I quickly looked away, and saw Knuckles being served the main meal. It was meat with a load of vegetables. The gravy looked good, as it was smothered all over the meat, and the smell was fantastic.

"Thank you," he said, politely to the waiter.

She smiled at him, then put a plate of food in Rouge's place then mine.

To be honest, I'd never seen anything so mouth-watering.

Marine

I saw the bat girl walk over to me, she smiled when she reached me.

"Hello, Marine," she said, politely, "may I speak with you?"

I wasn't expecting this, but I nodded. What did she want?

"Would you mind if Silver or someone-" she started.

"Benny," I said, turning to the annoying scavenger, "could you go and sit with Blaze?"

"Miss Bwaze?" he asked.

"Yeah, sure."

Benny jumped out of his seat, rather excited, and ran over to where the princess sat. I didn't see her expression when Rouge sat in his place. Tails was watching us closely, so Rouge started to whisper so only I could hear.

"How are you?" she whispered.

"Foine," I whispered back.

"No. You're not, dear. Something's troubling you," she whispered back.

Whoa. This bat knows all, I thought.

"I just feel kinda paranoid," I whispered.

"Someone bothering you?"

I shrugged.

"Amy..." I whispered.

She seemed to understand. But, before she could speak again Tails had interrupted her.

"Sorry, Rouge," he apologised, "but, ur... the meal is coming... main course."

Rouge saw for herself that a few waiters were putting down the food on the tables, she looked at me.

"Talk to me later, dear," she whispered, then went back to sit next to Blaze.

Blaze

Benny had come over to sit next to me, but was rather quiet. Knuckles and the others had all ready started having their meat... well, tasted it. I was waiting until everyone else had got there's. I looked around and saw they already had. Rouge finally came over.

"Thanks, honey. You can go and sit back down," she said to Benny.

He looked up at her, pulled his glasses higher up, as they were falling down. He jumped off the seat and ran back to his seat.

I raised an eyebrow. He looked rather cute when he ran. Suddenly, I heard the sound of glass being tapped. I looked to find Tails tapping his table spoon on his glass, I saw Marine go bright red and hide her face with her two hands.

"Hello," Tails greeted, when he got the whole room's attention, "nice of you to come."

I cupped my hand on my chin.

Marine

No. No! I thought he'd forgotten about the bladdy toast thing. I rested my head on my hand, and tried to look away, as if I wasn't in any part of this.

"I'm sure you've gathered that this girl here is 'Marine'," he explained, making a few people chuckle, I shook my head.

I hated this and loved it at the same time.

"Now, I'm not really a person to talk to a crowd. But, I'll do my best-" I rolled my eyes, "-oh, and sorry I'm doing the toast so late... got a little caught up in the moment, you know?" he said, making some chuckles again, I didn't have a clue what the fox was going on about, "I first met her on a little island called 'Windmill Village'..."

"WAAY!" the Coconut Crew suddenly cheered. Ohhhh no.

"... Yes, ur, thanks. This was after me and Sonic were swept ashore, and then she poked Sonic with a stick..." Oh, yeah, he heh... the speech carried on, until I was suddenly in my own world again.

"Marine... Marine?"

I blinked and realisation dawned.

"Oh!" I exclaimed, when I found everyone eating.

Tails sighed next to me, and shook his head.

"Did you hear a thing I said?" he asked.

"I heard yer saying sommet about me nudging Sonic with a stick," I explained.

Silver went into a laughing fit, Sonic snickered and Benny... was scoffing up the food. Tails watched me, with no expression.

"Sorry," I apologised, and I did mean it.

He shook his head again.

"What goes on in your mind?" he asked.

"... I dunno. Ur... I really don't... why?"

"..." Tails rolled his eyes.

"You hate me now?" I asked, my eyes looking to my left then back at him.

"Wha... what?" he asked, in a high tone, "why would I hate you?"

"Why not?"

Tails snorted.

"Tails loves you, Marine. Don't think he doesn't, 'cause I know he does," Silver explained, I then realised that was only the beginning of what he was saying, "he's got dreamy eyes when he looks at yer! His speech was almost all about you. He loves you..." he grinned, "desperately."

I blushed really hard, as did Tails.

"No, he doesn't," I replied.

"Then, how comes you two are blushing?" Silver pointed out, "So, Tails, where're you taken Marine then? Somewhere... romantic?"

Sonic cleared his throat.

"There's a kid here," he muttered.

"Yeah..." Silver looked at him directly, "there is."

Sonic ignored him and went back to his food.

"I'll be taking her to my home," Tails replied.

What? Oh, okay then.

Silver's mouth fell agape.

"What?" he shrieked.

"Yep," Tails said, nodding, "my home. Anyway, I'm sure Marine wouldn't mind looking around here. You know?"

"Yeah, but... I mean, I would take my wife somewhere much better than my home," Silver explained.

Tails raised an eyebrow.

"If you ever get a wife," he said.

"True, but... Oi!" Silver exclaimed, "shut up."

Tails shrugged.

"Apologies," he said, politely.

I looked at him, and he gave me a smile I hadn't seen before. This was different. It seemed rather shy this smile, but in a way, loving.

I blushed harder, it took me a while to realise my hand had been taken under the table. His hand.

My heart beat way too fast, and my eyes widened slightly.

His hand wasn't exactly holding mine, it was more like stroking. Something I wasn't used to. Never in my life had anyone does this before. I suddenly felt my hand stroking his hand back...

Stupid, corny weddings!

NO! This chapter was absolute crap! And, I'd tried so hard on it! I'm so sorry! Next one will be better! I promise! I'm sorry it's so bad... damn.

End of Chapter 20