Chapter 20: The Worst Birthday Ever
A few days later, Sonic woke up. He yawned and smiled. Today was his birthday. He got out of bed and put on his gloves and red running shoes before running downstairs. He wanted to get everything ready before Amy and Knuckles turned. He had a feeling Amy would bring Cream since they were so close and he didn't mind. He loved the kid like a sister and he didn't care how many of his friends came. The more the merrier.
He hurried out the front door, hurrying to get a cake as Shadow came into the room. He heard the phone ring and answered it. "Hello?"
"Hello? Shadow, is that you?"
"Yes, it is. Who is this?" He asked.
"It's Amy." The dark hedgehog widened his eyes and hoped she wasn't calling to say she and Knuckles weren't coming. "Shadow...I need to ask you a favour."
Sonic got downtown and went into a shop, looking for a cake. He was thinking of buying a chocolate one. When Sonic got home, he looked around. "Hey Shads, I'm home! I got the cake!"
He looked around and noticed that Shadow wasn't inside. Sonic walked inside the house, closing the door behind him and headed into the kitchen, putting the cake in the fridge. He turned around and scratched his head, wondering where the other hedgehog has gone off to.
"Shadow?" He called. "Where are you? The party's going to start soon!"
Sonic saw that it was 12:30 and widened his eyes at this and growled to himself. They should've been here by now. He had told them to be at his house at noon. Why were they a half hour late? He sat down on the couch and sighed to himself. Maybe they were stuck in traffic? Sonic shook his head at that stupid thought. Him and his friends didn't drive any mobile a part from Tails so what could be keeping them. Sonic sighed and sat on the couch, hoping they would come.
A few hours later, Sonic was still waiting. It was already 3 PM, and his friends still hadn't come. Tears came to his eyes and he began to cry. Why hadn't they come? They said they would. Why? Why? Did they lie to him? Did they forget? What happened!? Sonic sniffed and lay down on the couch. Before long, he was asleep. When he woke up, it was 7:00 in the evening. Sonic stretched and looked around. He frowned and was about to call Amy when the front door opened.
"Sonic, are you okay?" Amy asked the blue hedgehog in worry. "We...umm...were waiting for you all day, but you never showed."
They were waiting for him! He was waiting for them!
"Waiting? For me?" Sonic asked. He glared at them, then frowned. "What the hell are you talking about?" He shouted. "I've been waiting for you all damn day!"
Amy held her hands up, shocked at Sonic shouting. He hardly ever yelled. "W...We were..." She didn't know how to tell him they were going to surprise him. She looked to Knuckles and Shadow for help.
Sonic continued to shout, tears running down his face. "I told you that today was my birthday, and you all said that you were going to come! Instead, you bastards never showed! I was all alone by myself with no one to spend my birthday with! This day was supposed to be special to me!"
He sat down on the couch and put his head in his hands, sobbing.
Amy sighed as she walked into the house and decided it be best to tell him. No use keeping it from him if he was this mad. "Sonic...we wanted to surprise you." He stopped crying and looked at Amy. "We made a surprise party for you on Angel Island, but for some reason..." She went and glared at Shadow. "...you didn't show up."
"If it was a surprise, then how was I supposed to know if you all kept it from me? I told all of you that the party was going to be at my house. My house!"
"Sonic," Knuckles began. "We..."
"We thought you had been through so much with Tails being put into hospital lately that you needed this," Amy explained.
Shadow kept getting glares from Amy and sighed. "I was meant to pick you up and take you there, but you weren't here."
"I was out getting a cake," Sonic said.
Amy kept her glare on Shadow. "You could've waited for him to get back if he was just getting cake."
Shadow looked at Amy, shocked, and shrugged his shoulders. "I didn't know he was getting cake. I thought he went to fight Eggman or something."
"Did you forget that I killed Eggman?" Sonic asked, glaring at Shadow. "Did you 'forget' that I told you that my party was going to be at my house?" When Shadow said nothing, Sonic continued. "Did you 'forget' that I was really excited for this day? Oh, right, you did forget because you have no memory!"
Shadow growled at what Sonic said, pointing a finger at the hedgehog. "Now hold on...we may have accidentally forgot to tell you about the party, but at least we thought of you! At least we did this for you while you're being a depressed little..."
Amy had had enough and cut him off. "Shadow! Stop it!" She looked back at Sonic with sympathy in her eyes. "We should have told you about the surprise, but at least we wanted to make surprise party for you, Sonic."
Sonic scoffed. "I've told you before that I don't like surprises."
Amy blinked at this and looked down. "I know, but that's only if they're bad. This was to be a nice surprise just for you. It was many to make you happy after everything that's happened."
"This was supposed to make me happy. I had the entire party planned out. We were going to hang out here for a while, eat cake and possibly open presents. I wanted to go see a movie too."
"We...didn't know that. We made it Angel Island since the area with Master Emerald is so open and wide it'd be great for a party in the nice fresh air and you like the outdoors!" Amy exclaimed. "That's why we thought of it! We thought you didn't want to be cooped up in here!"
Sonic glared at her, then sighed and turned around. It was all their fault.
"Sonic, we're sorry," Knuckles said.
The immortal hedgehog suddenly turned around and punched Knuckles. Then he walked upstairs and into his room, slamming the door behind him.
Amy and Shadow looked on in shock and Amy outstretched her hand out, trying to stop Sonic, but he already went into his room. "Sonic, wait!" She sighed and looked down. "What have we done?"
"We've lied to him, flaked out on him, and pissed him off," Knuckles said.
Amy could feel tears of her own appear in her eyes as she looked at the floor. "He'll probably hate us now."
"He won't, but it will take him a while to get over it," Shadow explained.
"What should we do?" Knuckles asked. "This has probably upset him even further."
"Maybe we should leave him alone for a bit," Amy told them.
Knuckles nodded and left with Amy. Shadow sighed and sat down. He looked up to Sonic's room with concern written in his face. I hope he isn't doing anything stupid like last time.