Mortified (Vector x Vanilla)

Requested by Johnathen

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The radio was playing, and Vanilla sings along softly as she puts the cookies in the oven. Cream, Charmy and Cheese were singing along off-key in the dining room, colouring books laid out in front of them, with crayons strewn over them. Espio was out shopping for groceries, and Amy was doing something upstairs.

Yeah, and Vector was there too.

Or standing at the door, at least. The flowers practically withering in his hand already, he tried to… ring the doorbell. It was proving to be quite a difficult mission, since courage was failing him. Oh Chaos. He could not do this. What if Vanilla was allergic to flowers? What if she didn't like roses? Or tulips? Or what if-

The door creaked, and started to open almost painfully slowly, Vector almost dying of mortification as he staggered backwards and-

"Vector?" Vanilla frowned as she held the door open. Vector tried to melt into the ground while composing his face into anything else than – aghhh – and then Vanilla held up a hand and glanced at the clouds, saying sweetly, "It'll rain soon."

It'll rain soon. Vector spared a quick glance at the clouds, which in all fairness were quite a lot and also very dark and ominous…

And then Vanilla said, "Come inside, dear, what are you doing standing out here?" –she didn't let him answer, just coaxed him inside of the house and closed the door after him. Vector tried to hide the flowers, the fact that the flowers probably looked half-dead by now, the fact that he was hiding something and just about everything else, but Vanilla noticed.

"Is that…" She stopped. And then her cheeks dusted over with pink, and she said, "…Is that flowers?"

And her blush was barely visible, or at least compared to Vector, who went as red as the roses he was holding. "Y-y-yes, it – they are. Flowers. Y-yeah."

…The feeling of wanting to sink through the floor intensified a tenfold.

"…Okay." Vanilla then said at last. "Maybe we should… put them in some water?"

Vector nodded, mute with embarrassment or something along those lines, and Vanilla stepped closer, gently taking the flowers as he handed them over.

-And then Charmy burst out into the room, chanting loudly and horribly, "Vector and Vanilla, standing in a hall, k-i-s-s-"

And then he was promptly shoved out of the room by a horrified Vector, while Vanilla stood behind and giggled at the mess, Cream and Cheese poking their heads out from the dining room to watch.