*~~~~~~~~Ch 29~~~~~~~~*


Days passed and Amy with her friends finally got home. There was a lot of explaining to do, but Amy still wanted to talk about something with Shadow. She asked him to meet him in the park at night where there was nobody, he agreed.

"What did you want to talk about?" Shadow asked sitting down on the bench.
"I wanted to….to apologize."
"Apologize? For what?"
"For…For falling in love with you when I really wasn't…I'm really sorry." Amy looked down at her hands.
Shadow lifted her chin up and kissed her on the lips. Amy's eyes widened, but let him kiss her.
"What was that for?" Amy asked.
"Just a goodbye forever kiss. No true love between us, just friendship," He said smiling.
"So that means apology accepted?"
"Yes, apology accepted."
"I'm just happy that you're still my friend. Let's go back. I bet you they're all wondering what we were talking about."
"Yeah, aren't you making a party tonight?"
"Yes, I'm baking a cake and cooking lasagna."
"That sounds awesome, here, let me carry you cause I'm really hungry!"

Shadow carried Amy to her place. There were already people.

"Amy!" Everybody shouted happily.
"Amy! C'mon, go to the kitchen because everybody is really hungry….Especially Sonic." Cream said taking Amy to the kitchen.
"All right, tell everyone the food will be ready in a couple of minutes."
"Ok Amy."

Cream went back to the dining room where everybody was sitting at the table. They were talking about what had happened.

"So Amy had died!?" Melanie yelled.
"Yeah, but miraculously, she revived." Sonic replied closing his eyes.
"How? That's…that's impossible!" Tails exclaimed.
"Nothing is ever impossible." Sally said.
"But at the end, everything turned out great," Star happily said hugging Shadow.

Amy brought in some food to the table, it was Chinese food that she had ordered while the lasagna was still being cooked. Sonic didn't know this.

"Oh my God! This stuff is delicious! Amy can really cook!" Sonic cried out.
Everybody else looked at him confusingly.
"What?"
"Uhh, Sonic, that's not what Amy cooked." Knuckles told him.
"That's right Sonic," Amy said angrily, "What do you have to say for yourself?"
"…..Butter…" Sonic whispered scared.

She looked at him angrily, but then she smiled and started laughing. She sat on a sit and kept laughing. Melanie too started laughing.

"Why are you guys laughing?" Shadow asked.
"Because-Because I'm happy!"
"Huh?"
"Don't you see? All the bad stuff is in the past! Right now were happy…And it's just so….So beautiful. You know?"
Sonic smiled at her and kissed her in front of everybody. He hugged her and chuckled.

"Guys, I learned something from all of this," Amy said walking around, " love is so complicated," she grabbed a red rose that was lying on the ground under her sofa, it was one of Keith's present to her, she remembered, "love should be taken care of carefully and kindly, but what I learned the most is," she threw the rose in the fire in the fireplace, "love hurts…" She turned around and walked into Sonic's welcoming arms. The rose was left burning.