SONIC POV
My school shoes click on the concrete as I head to a place, I haven't stood at in a long time. For some reason, things going back to normal made weight fly off my shoulders. But it was sometimes replaced by other feelings as well. Like worry, since a lot has happened in the past weeks.
At least it wasn't as bad as it used to be. I honestly missed all my friends even though I made some during the process. Let's just hope I can keep going and not mess this up this time.
Tossing my orange peels into the grass as I notice a girl is standing in our legendary spot. Her head turns and suddenly her happiness and excitement I see ever time makes me feel butterflies.
Like she always does.
She runs over to me since she couldn't wait for me to walk over to our spot and she smiles brightly as the sun shined over her white teeth. I also noticed that her hair was different today which made me look at it a lot longer as she stops in front of me, giving me a big greeting.
"Good morning! Sonic!" Amy yells at me and I halfway smile at her.
"Good morning. You look a lot healthier since you were sick."
"I know! I feel like a warrior!" Amy says flexing her muscles as she starts to walk to school and I follow her. "I feel like I could pick you up. LET ME TRY!"
"No- "
Amy wraps her arms around my waist and tries to lift me up and I don't budge at all. Amy tries again and I touch her forehead.
"Stop it, you weakling."
Amy gasps and lets me go. I walk past her as she looks at me and then I hear her feet come up from behind me.
"Weakling?! I'm pretty strong." Amy says punching me in the arm to show her strength.
"Ow." I say sarcastically and I yawn right after.
"HA! I told you I'm strong." Amy says sticking out her tongue to me.
My tounge comes out as well making Amy gasp but then she laughs causing me to half smile at her goofiness. My eyes go to her hair as I remember something different happened to it. Amy's hair now went below her shoulder blades instead to all the way to her butt.
Besides her hair being shorter, she had on a red headband on her head that matched her red ribbon on her uniform. My eyes go back to Amy's face and I notice that she is blushing making me smile and I look back forward.
"Hey." Amy says
My eyes go back to Amy and she blushes again.
"Hm?"
"Um… have you noticed anything different?" She asks and I look at her.
My eyes travel down to her body and I look over uniform. Amy had on her normal light brown blazer, white button and black plaid skirt with red lines mixing in with the black and white. My eyes down further to her legs and her shoes and then they come back up.
"Hm… nope."
Amy frowns and then she shoves me making me laugh.
"I'm just kidding. Yes, I noticed you cut one of my favorite things about you." Amy hears my tone and walks closer to me as we walk to college together.
"What?! Are you saying you don't like it? I was so nervous to cut it but- "
"Amy. I'm just kidding. You look as beautiful as ever. Honestly, I kind of like your hair short like this." I say reaching out and touching her hair.
"And this headband. It makes your pink hair look brighter." My hands rub her soft curly hair and then I look down to Amy to see her blushing and looking at me with her pretty green eyes.
"What?" I ask smoothily and Amy looks away quickly.
"W- Well thank you." Amy says.
"No problemo."
As we walk in our algebra class and I hear Amy stop walking for a moment. Turning around, Amy has a slight red blush on her face as she looks around the hallway and classroom like she was trying to avoid somebody. I start looking around too and I feel confused to what she is looking for.
"You looking for someone?"
Amy jumps at my voice and heads in class.
"Blaze…" she whispers, and I shake my head.
"Oh right. I forgot about that. Are you going to apologize to her anytime soon?" I ask following her into class.
Amy shrugs her shoulders and sits down in her seat. I sit down as well, and Amy turns around to me.
"S-S-Should I even talk to you in class?"
"I don't know. Do what you want."
Amy seems a bit panicked by my not-so-helpful answer and I sigh.
"Amy, just try to talk to her after class. If you don't want me talking to you in class until you apologize, then I won't. I'll just see you at lunch."
Amy nods her head seeming a bit calmer and she turns away from me. I lean down to open my backpack and as soon as I do a person walks up to me and places something down on desk.
A bento box gets placed on my desk and I stare it until my eyes move up to look at Blaze.
"Hi, Sonic."
"…Hey… what is this? You showing me your lunch or something?" Blaze laughs at me and I laugh back a bit still confused as to why this bento was on my desk.
"It's fuel food for your practice afterschool. I remembered you told me you were trying to get stronger, so I made you a protein lunch!" Blaze says.
"Wow, this is awkward. But she is so brave, Amy is right in front of me. "
Blaze waits for me to say something, but I was waiting for my brain to think of something that wouldn't hurt Amy's feelings.
"Thanks for the food uh... I haven't been given a bento box in a while, so I'll make sure to eat it."
Blaze smiles at me and then she leans down to me to give me a side hug.
"Okay, hopefully Amy doesn't take that to offense either"
"Anytime! Maybe you can treat me one day." Blaze says loudly and Amy jerks up as I know she can hear the conversation.
"Maybe I should say something- "
Amy stands up and I watch as she slowly turns around. Blaze looks over to her as well and Amy takes a step forward on my desk.
"Oh, look. The liar finally has something to say." Blaze says gassing Amy and Amy smiles at Blaze.
"I do and this time it's the truth." Amy leans over the desk getting closer to Blaze and I causally sink down in my chair as I watch them stare each other down.
"Give Sonic as many bento boxes, compliments, heart eyes, and hugs you want. But this is mine."
Amy grabs my hair roughly and shows me to Blaze.
"Ow! I didn't even do anything and why are you two doing this in class- "
"Sonic is up for grabs since you decided to have two boyfriends." Blaze says grabbing my shirt and pulling me towards her.
"As, I guess you haven't been informed that we made up." Amy says bringing me back to her.
Amy grip tightens and I place my hands around hers, trying to get it off.
"A-Amy death grip- "
"Good for you! So glad someone can find any kindness in you which is expected of Sonic, but I think he deserves someone who doesn't lie to all her friends and lovers!" Blaze says and brings me back over to her roughly this time.
Everyone in class starts to stop talking and they surround us as Amy and Blaze go at each other.
"Okay?! I ALREADY APOLIGIZED TO THEM AND WE ARE FRIENDS AGAIN. ATLEAST THEY ARE ACTING THEIR AGE AND NOT GOING FOR MY BOYFRIEND!"
"Boyfriend?" Blaze tilts my head up only for Amy to yank me near her.
"Guys- my hair- "
"You aren't dating him. Sonic wouldn't have given me his number then. Right Sonic?"
Before I could respond Amy almost pulls me out of the desk and then Blaze grabs my arm causing to groan.
"Please let me go. This doesn't even have nothing to do about me- "
"YES, IT DOES!" they both yell at me and they continue argue as they pull me back and forth.
Blaze moves her hand to my face covering my mouth and sets Amy's eyes on fire. Amy grabs Blaze's hand to take off my face and Blaze pushes Amy back.
I mumble loudly at Blaze trying to warn Blaze not to touch Amy and Amy runs at her. Amy knees hit my lap and hits my goods causing me to bend over in instant pain.
"LET GO OF HIM!"
"NO! YOU LOST HIM SO NOW ITS MY TURN!"
I squeal silently as Amy's knee twists in my lap.
"I'm dying, I'm dying, I'm dying, I'm dying- "
"MS. AMELIA, MS. BLAZE! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MR. SONIC!"
"AMY IS A LIAR!" Blaze yells and Amy finally gets Blaze's hand from my face but then it just leads to Amy climbing fully on my lap pushing Blaze aggressively.
"Amy- your knee is crushing my balls- "
Blaze then pushes her, and she almost falls but I catch her and stand up holding her back. My hands go to Amy's body as I hold her against the wall to not attack Blaze. Amy continues to jump at Blaze while in my grip and I try to calm her down as she screams multiple curse words.
"Amy stop! The teacher is going to kick- "
"DONT TOUCH HIM OR ILL DESTROY YOU!" Amy yells and I groan as she won't stop being aggressive.
"I can do what I want because he is single!" Blaze says and touches my back.
Our teacher walks over to over to us, coming to my recuse and takes a deep breath.
"BOTH OF YOU GET OUT OF MY CLASSROOM AND THEN COME BACK FOR DETENTION AFTER SCHOOL!" our teacher yells and they both flinch.
"W-Wait she-"
"I DON'T CARE. GET OUT NOW OR I'LL PRESIDENT OF THE SCHOOL TO YOU BOTH KICKED OUR PERMANENTLY!"
Amy jumps and she looks at me afraid.
"You should probably go." I say to her and she gives me a sad face.
Blaze scurried away and Amy slowly does as well as she seems ashamed. My teacher walks up to me and I thank him.
"Are you okay, Sonic?"
"Yeah." I say fixing my hair and sitting back down. "Please don't kick them out of school. It was just a big misunderstanding. "
"I'll think about it. Amelia is always starting something in class with you."
"Yeah… but it's nothing new. Thanks for helping me out though."
Our teacher nods their head and walks away. Also the entire class starts to laugh as I forgot that people where even I'm here during Amy's and Blaze's fight. I drop my head on the desk and I sigh exhaustingly.
"At least Amy didn't crush my balls."
The warm summer sun shines on my body as I exit the building to head to lunch. For the past three weeks I was just going to the library for lunch, but now we were all meeting up our spot we used too. I walk up to the table and I notice that I am super early since no one was there yet.
I sit down and I place Blaze's bento box on the table, which makes me think if I should even have it there. I look at it and I place my elbow on my table and rest my head in my hand.
"I'm pretty sure once Amy gets here, she is going to be yelling at me for having this on the table. Man, how do I even get myself in these situations- "
"Yo, Sonic!"
My head comes up as Knuckles walks up to the table with a smile on his face.
"Wassup, where is Rouge?" I ask as I didn't see her with him.
"Oh, I heard she was with Blaze and Amy trying to sort things out. Haha, that reminds me. I heard they were fighting over you in class this morning." Knuckles laughs harder and I feel a headache coming on.
"Yeah and got kicked out of class. Hopefully, when Amy appears for lunch, she won't attack me." I say looking at the bento box in front of me.
"Is that the bento box Blaze made you?" Knuckles asks pointing at it.
"Yep, how do you know?"
Knuckles sits down and laughs again.
"Both of them were screaming about it outside the library so I heard everything and then Rouge showed up and shut the entire thing down. They should be here anytime now." Knuckles says and he was right because Rouge was holding them both by their blazers as they approached the table. Amy is blushing heavily which makes me almost laugh but I'll hold that back for later.
Rouge pushes them both forward and Knuckles turns around to look at them and then he turns around to laugh secretly.
Rouge clears her throat making them both jump in fear and they look at me.
"Sorry, for fighting for you in class." Blaze says and I laugh awkwardly.
"It's really no big deal, haha." I say looking over at Amy."I'm just glad you two didn't get kicked out of college. You guys are smarter than that." I say and Amy crosses her arms and continues to look off, not saying a word.
"Haha, she looks so funny-"
"Can we talk in private?" Blaze asks and Amy frowns even harder from Blaze asking me that.
"I'm going to go get something to eat." Amy says lowly and walks away.
We all watch her and then my eyes go back to Blaze.
I stand up and I push her bento box forward.
"I'm going to go follow Amy. You know she can be a spoiled baby sometimes, so just give me a second and we can talk." I say and I am sure Blaze is looking at me walk away.
Not that I really care though. I don't want Amy to feel any kind of pain because me.
Opening the cafeteria door, I look around for her pink hair and I spot her at a salad bar. My lips form into a smile as she seems frustrated which I enjoyed her acting because it always made me laugh. Amy leans over to grab toppings for her salad and she doesn't see me. I watch her reach for a different pair of tongs, and I reach at the same time making my hand touch hers.
Amy jumps and looks at me, she blushes instantly and turns her head away from me as she drops the tongs to go to the other side of the salad bar.
"How was your bento box?" Amy asks as she doesn't look at me.
I burst into laughter and Amy stops and stares at me angrily.
"What's so funny. I find nothing funny." Amy says and I walk near her.
"Hey, laugh a little. It's funny." I say and Amy frowns again.
"It's not. I got kicked out of class because of her." Amy says and she grabs some kind of sauce for her salad.
"But, you can just come tomorrow and apologize to the teacher. They didn't seem extremely mad."
Amy doesn't respond and I poke her rib and she still doesn't look at me.
I lean down towards her face and she starts to walk away and she closes her salad box. I catch up with her and I touch her head repeatedly, as I try to get on her nerves more. Amy starts to growl and I smile as her face starts to turn red.
"Stop touching my head." She says swatting my hand away, only for me to catch hers.
"You know I don't have feelings for her, right?"
Amy blushes and she tries to get her hand back, but I don't let go. I continue to walk, the way Amy was headed and she starts to fall behind me.
"I do know that…" Amy says silently, and I look at her to see her acting shy.
"Then stop acting jealous and eat your salad." I say plainly and I let go of her hand.
"I'm not being jealous! I just don't like when people touch things that are mine!" Amy says pushing past me and walking out of café.
I smile at her stubbornness and I follow back out too the table. Blaze wasn't at the table but Knuckles and Rouge. Amy slams her salad down angrily making everyone look at her at the table and I can't help but to laugh.
I sit down as well and I notice that the bento box was still here.
"Did Blaze leave?" I ask and Knuckles and Rouge nod their heads.
"Oh, okay." I open the container and the cracking of the lid makes Amy stop eating her salad.
Her eyes go to mine and I look back at her.
"What?" I ask and Amy stands up and takes the bento box away from me.
"No." Amy says
My mouth opens to argue with Amy but then I just let it go.
"Okay, whatever. I'm going to go get something from the café." I say normally and Amy watches me as I stand.
As I stand Tails is standing there with Cream with his food. He looks off and he starts to walk away from the table.
"Oh, I guess Tails is still mad at me." I say pointing at him making everyone look behind them.
Amy leaps up and starts to make her way over to Tails.
"TAILS WAIT!"
AMY POV
Once again, I am chasing Tails down and Cream awkwardly looks back at as I run up to them. Cream taps on Tails and he looks back and slowly stops walking.
"Tails, wait! Where are you guys going? The lunch table is over there."
"I can't sit with him. " Tails says and I look back at the table. "He doesn't care about the band and nor is he even trying to make things better."
"Okay, but I thought we were all going to go to practice to see if it could work, so we have to at least sit with each other and talk."
Tails shrugs his shoulders and starts to walk again. Cream stays behind and lets me talk to Tails.
"Tails, I know you want it to go back to how it used to be but it won't so you can't just run off and expect things to get better by not facing it." I say and Tails stops.
"Things are never going to be the same but I want you to be there so we can get used to the new different."
"Can you make Sonic care about his actions with the band. You see Sonic acts so carefree and unbothered all the time. I just need to see if he actually wants to do better this time." Tails says.
"Come sit down with us and see." I say encouraging Tails, but he wasn't buying it all.
"No, I think I'm going to go eat over here. I'll be at practice though so maybe he will do something different there. Sorry. Maybe next time." Tails starts to walk off again but this time I don't follow him.
Cream walks up to me and gives me an apologetic wave and I wave at her as well as I watch my drummer leave.
My hair blows in the wind as I watch him walk away and I turn around to go back and eat lunch.
"It's just going to take time Amy. But for now, all I can do is just make sure they both show each other that they want to go to Tokyo." I look ahead as I walk back to our table.
"I won't let them give up. Not since we are so close to getting another chance."
AFTER SCHOOL
"Ahhh my hand is aching." Blaze says as we both write "I won't harass Sonic in class anymore." One hundred times on the board.
Blaze continues to complain out loud, but I stay to myself since I wanted to get done as fast as possible.
"Since Blaze wanted to flirt with Sonic, she is the reason why I have to miss our first practice back together."
Anger boils in me lightly as I write Sonic's name again on the board.
"Oh shit."
Blaze drops her marker and it hits my shoe. I look down at it and I bend down to pick it up for her. Blaze looks at me and revenge pops in my mind, but I exhale calmly, and I hand it towards her.
" I was going to throw your marker out the window but I won't be childish like you."
Blaze rolls her eyes and takes it from me without saying thank you. Her actions tick me off a bit as well, but I keep my angry feelings to myself since I had somewhere more important to be.
Continuing writing, I start to hum that song again as I zone out to the sounds of my marker hitting the board. Blaze stops writing which causes me to look over to her.
Blaze is looking at me then she rolls her eyes as she starts to write again.
"If you have something to say then just say it."
Blaze stops writing again and then she turns to me.
"Are you and Sonic really dating again?"
Her questions makes me stop and I look over to her.
"In a way... we took a break to work on ourselves but that doesn't mean he is single."
Blaze leans on board and looking at me annoyed.
"Well I wouldn't have flirted with him if you didn't lie about it."
"Okay, Blaze. I lied about it. I already apologized to you one hundred times with Rouge, so I don't know what you want me to do about it." I say as I start writing again to get away from her.
"I'm just irritated because you made me think I had a chance."
Clenching my marker, I try not to go off like I usually do but I do remind myself that I did cause Blaze to go after him.
"I'm sorry once again... but if want I can date you. I'm a lot nicer than Sonic anyway." I say and Blaze laughs a bit.
Blaze laugh makes me smile to myself as I write the last few sentences.
"I don't like women."
"That's boring."
Blaze shakes her head and continues to write as well.
Writing the last sentence, I place the marker down and then I grab my backpack still has a couple of sentences to go but she stops and notices I'm about to leave.
"I'll see you tomorrow." I say and she waves at me.
"Yeah, tomorrow."
Leaving class, I carefully and secretly run down the hall towards the club room. I was running because I was super late and then I was being secretive because I don't want to get in trouble again.
My eyes hit the door and I dash towards and I enter the stairway, going down the stairs. In the dark, I hear no music being played which made me nervous to see if anyone even showed up.
I peak inside to see Tails and Rouge looking over a paper and then my eyes wonder around looking for Sonic.
"Um, hey." I say softly and they both look up.
Rouge gives me a look that makes me look around even more and then she starts to talk.
"Oh hey! Look who got let out of prison." Rouge says holding a paper in her hand.
"Haha yeah... my fingers are hurting- Hey, where is Sonic?"
My question lingers in the air as I look at them both and Rouge looks at Tails who hasn't looked up at all.
"... Did he go use the bathroom-"
"I told him to leave because he wasn't taking it serious." Tails says and I look at him confused.
"You- what? So, he just left?" I ask and Tails doesn't respond but Rouge nods her head.
"Where did he go? We need him here-"
"We don't need him. You can sing. That sounds like more reliable than him singing and messing everything up." Tails comment makes me walk closer and they both look up at me.
"Tails, we need Sonic. That's the only way we can get back in competition." I say and Tails drops his paper and looks at me.
"No, Amy you need Sonic." He says and frowns slightly." He doesn't want to agree on not causing the same problems like last time."
I stare at him for a moment and then I walk closer to him.
"Oh... you think I want him back in the group for our relationship or because I like him?" I say and the tone of my voice makes Tails blush slightly.
"Listen here, Tails. I've worked my ass off. My ass. To get each and every one of you back on here so we can redo things. I got sick. I got called names. I cried multiple times and just for you to say I am doing this because I am some girl who can't survive without their boyfriend then you are dead wrong." I say and Tails looks like he wants to say something, but he doesn't.
My eyes go to Rouge and she looks at me.
"Where did he go?"
"To workout with Knuckles."
"Cool." I set my things down and then I point at Tails who hasn't said much." Talk to Tails for me before I have to do it. I've had a long day and I'm definitely not in the mood for my band breaking up for the second time."
I walk away before anyone could say anything to me and I head towards the weightlifting gym.
The sounds of the clinking of weights and sounds of deep voices barking at each other makes me annoyed that I have to walk in this room in the first place. I place my hand on the side of the door and I peak in.
Muscular students are lifting up heavy objects, talking and watching each other lift. One guy passes me as I stand in the doorway and I stare at them as I look at their huge muscles.
"Are they even human- "
"Yeah Cass!" I hear in the gym and that makes me walk in a bit more since I knew who Cass was. Cass was squatting some insane weight with sweat rolling off of his shoulders. My curiosity gets the best of me and I walk inside the gym watching him squat the weight and his teammates cheer him on.
"COME ON CASS! THIS IS EASY!" Yells a very buff bear.
Cass places the weight in his shoulders and then he looks up. We make eye contact and he starts to smile and he squats easily while looking at me. He does it a few more times and then he places the weight back on the bar and his teammates pat his back vigorously.
"I told you guys it was easy." Cass says confidently and then he turns his attention back to me.
Cass jogs over to me and I step back at bit as I see he is super pumped up.
"Hey, it's you." He says pointing at me.
"Yeah it's me. You are very strong." I say and Cass laughs.
"Thanks, and that's good to know because that weight I just did almost killed me." He says and tilt my head in confusion.
"But you said it was easy?"
"Can't let them know it was hard. I'm a fourth year so I want to inspire them as much as I can. Sometimes you have to hide pain and struggles in front of certain people." Cass says.
"Woah! That's so cool." I say admiring his leadership.
Cass blushes a bit and looks off.
"Well- you know. I try to act like a captain... say..." he points at my head.
"You cut your hair?" He says and I smile.
"Yeah! It's cute right?" I ask and Cass freezes up and blushes more.
"Y-Yeah, you look cute- fine- I mean sexy- WAIT I MEAN-"
"Cass what are you doing. It's your turn to get on bench." Says a deep voice and Ten walks up with his shirt off.
His eyes move to mine and he gives me a small wave.
"Hi...um. TEN!" I say remembering and Cass walks closer to me.
"Hey, you didn't remember my name!" He says and Ten bonks him on the head and I start to laugh.
" I do know your name. It's Cass." I smile friendly and Cass blushes again only for Ten to start laughing.
"WHAT!" Cass yells and Ten laughs even more.
They start arguing and I step up a bit they slowly stop.
"Sorry to interrupt your practice but have you guys seen a guy named Sonic. I have a few words for him." I say a tad bit angrily and Cass expression changes.
"Sonic? The new guy? Yeah he is with Knucklehead." He says and then he looks disappointed.
"Wait, why are you looking for him?"
"Because he is in my band." I say and his eyes widen.
"Huh? You are in the band- wait. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. No wait." Cass backs up from me as he looks at me confused.
"...4 Times Different? WAIT YOU PLAY THE THE THE...?!"
"Guitar-" Ten says but Cass cuts him off.
"THE GUITAR. Yeah, that's it. I think I saw you at a concert last year?" he says, and I nod my head.
"Yeah, that was me. Amy Rose." I say and Cass smiles.
'That's cool, cool. I used to be in the marching band. But you probably couldn't tell that." He says flexing a bit.
"Really? What did you play?" I ask and Cass flips his hair and his red eyes shine confidently.
"Clarinet."
"Wow, lame. I thought it was going to be something like a trombone, but you played the clarinet. Makes sense." Ten says and I laugh making Cass blush again.
"HEY, MY MOM SAID I MADE HER VERY PROUD!" Cass yells and I laugh even more.
Cass and Ten start going back and forth and in the corner of my eye, I see Knuckles standing behind a bar. My mind locks onto him as I knew Sonic would be somewhere nearby. I walk deeper into the room and I move pass some big muscular people to see Knuckles spotting Sonic.
Knuckles lifts the weight for him and then Sonic starts to push it up and down with ease. Knuckles smiles and encourages him as he goes. I watch from afar and as I walk closer and closer.
"He really skipped practice to come here and Knuckles knows we have something important coming up. I'll destroy them both." I think as I roll up my blazer sleeves, getting ready to punch one of them.
Sonic drops the bar close to his chest again and Knuckles leans down to make sure he doesn't drop it. Both of their heads weren't up which made me smile evilly as I run over there to them.
I stand right beside Knuckles as he watches the bar carefully.
"Come on, Sonic. This is easy." He says and then knuckles starts to lean up causing Sonic to see me.
His eyes widen and he drops the bar, scaring Knuckles as he catches it.
"Sonic, what the fuck? You had it, why did you- "
"Hey, Knuckles." I say calmly but threateningly.
Knuckles drops the weight back down and it almost hits Sonic in the turns to me and laughs nervously and leans up from Sonic.
"O-Oh hey Amy. Nice to see you here." He says and I step up to him still smiling.
"I know right! I know you aren't stealing my singer, are you? I just know he wouldn't leave practice when I told him to be there and ready to play after all the shit, I went through to get them all back together and even have another opportunity to change what happened last time! So, you must have stolen him, right?"
Knuckles laughs awkwardly and shakes his head.
"What? I would never do that. Hahahaha."
"Knuckles help- I'm about to die- "
We look over to Sonic to see that he still holding the weight from hitting his chest. Knuckles was about to move over and help him but I push him away and I lean over his face to see him sweating. Sonic looks at me and smiles as he struggles.
"Hey, cutie." He says and I blush.
"WHY ARENT YOU IN PRACTICE!" I say and Sonic shrugs his shoulders.
"I was asked to leave. So, I did- ahh Knuckles come on." Sonic says as he starts to get really tired.
"Well, only if Amy says it's okay." Knuckles says and I nod my head.
Knuckles pulls the bar up and places on the rack causing Sonic to sigh in relief.
"Ow. That really hurt-"
"SONIC GET UP!" I yell and Sonic looks up at me.
"Why are you yelling, that's rude." He says as he gets up and looks at me as he sits on the bench.
"BECAUSE YOU ARE WASTING TIME- "
"Sonic! I knew you looked familiar! You are the singer for the band here!" Cass says walking up to us with Ten.
"Oh, yeah. That's me." Sonic says Cass shakes his head.
"Sing us a song!" Cass says and Sonic chuckles.
"Maybe next time." Sonic says getting up and stretching his long arms.
I stare at his strong arms and then Sonic catches me and looks at but I look off.
"Wait, so does this mean you are leaving the weightlifting team?" Cass asks and Sonic shrugs his shoulders.
"I don't know. I keep getting kicked out and put back in my own club so- "
"YES, HE IS LEAVING!" I yell and Sonic laughs a bit making me growl.
"Ooo, you better listen to her. Amy looks like she can beat some ass." Cass says and I nod my head agreeing.
"I'm not really afraid." Sonic says grabbing his backpack and yawning.
"Dude, girls who make good cookies are always dangerous. You need to be careful." Cass says and Sonic cocks his eyebrow.
"Cookies… what cookies?" he says, and he moves his eyes to mine.
"Amy has these perfect cookies and I almost got to try one, but KNUCKLES SAID I COULDN'T HAVE ONE!" Cass yells and Knuckles starts to frown.
"Because the weightlifting meet is soon, and you are a fourth year and you are still treating it like it's your first year." Knuckles says and Cass frowns.
"Don't remind me. Oh! Amy you should bring your cookies for the weightlifting team! That would get us all pumped up!" Cass says stepping closer to me.
"Oh! Well, okay. But If I do you have to owe me a favor as well." I say stepping closer to him.
Cass face goes red again and he clears throat.
"I'll do anything you need me to do." He says strongly and that makes me smile.
"Really! That's so nice!" I say trying to think of something strong men could do for the band.
"Don't mention it. You are a very nice person, so really if you need anything you should just text me, here let me give you my number." He says pulling out his phone.
"Okay- "
"Sorry, she can't we have to go to practice." Sonic says as his height comes in between our conversation.
"Wha- it will only be three seconds-"
"Come on, Amy. See ya guys." Sonic says grabbing my hand and I follow him out of the room.
I turn around and wave by to them and then I walk to get beside Sonic. As we walk out the orange sun hits our face causing me to squint and then he lets my hand go.
"Why does he keep on letting my hand go… such a tease." I think as I follow him down the steps.
Sonic's moist skin shines in the sun as I follow behind him staring at his hand.
"I hope he was talking about bakery cookies and not something else. What did he even mean by that?" Sonic says out the blue and I blush quickly.
"WHAT!? Not those cookies! I was talking about the cookies I brought to school to apologize to everyone!" I say embarrassed but Sonic stops and stares at me.
"What? Why didn't I get one?" he says in a hurt tone and I roll my eyes.
"I can make you as many as you want but THAT'S NOT THE IMPORTANT ISSUE RIGHT NOW!"
"It kind of is an issue. How did Cass have a cookie, but I didn't? I feel jealous now." Sonic says and his voice makes me lose focus.
"I'll make you some, okay? Don't feel jealous. You were supposed to get one, but I chickened out." Sonic looks at me and then he smirks.
"Ha, pussy."
Sonic stops by a drink machine and I frown at him.
"I'M NOT PUSSY! YOU WANTED TO TALK TO BLAZE BEHIND THE LIBRARY SO I WAS AFRIAD." I say touching his spine with my finger.
"YOU ARE THE PUSSY!" I yell and Sonic clicks on something on the machine and then turns back to me.
"Oh, so I'm the pussy, hm?" he says deeply and I blush at his tone.
He leans back on the drink machine and his eyes are low and cocky like the smirk on his face.
"I'm not afraid to do anything, anywhere compared to you." He says and I get instant flashbacks from the bus and the hotel.
Sonic eyes move down to my skirt and close my legs on instinct making his eyes come back to mine. My face burns red at my reaction of just his eyes moving around my body and Sonic drink drops from the machine. He turns around and picks it up and he is holding two juice boxes.
Sonic hands me one and I look at it and then back to him.
"Here." He says and I take it out of his hand.
"Thanks." I say and my eyes go back to his.
Sonic looks like he wants to say something, but he shrugs it off.
"Anyway, Tails told me to leave so I just did." Sonic says and I nod my head.
"I heard. He said you said you didn't care…" Sonic shrugs his shoulders.
"I never said I didn't care. I just don't know what can happen in the future… ya know?" he says and he makes me look at him.
"He is still worried about us… I am worried about us as well."
"Yeah, I know what you mean, but I know you care about the band. Just as everyone else. Which is why you are walking there now." I say and Sonic drinks his apple juice.
"Maybe." He says and push him lightly making him laugh.
"Kidding. I do care. I wouldn't be going back if I didn't. The band changed my life so if I can fix it again then I will." Sonic says and I smile at him.
"Good." I say and Sonic looks over at me.
"Also don't give Cass your number, he was looking at you like you was a piece of cake." Sonic says.
"What? Cass just wants to be friends." I say and Sonic shakes his head.
"No, he doesn't. He wants your cookies." Sonic's comment makes me laugh and I walk up closer to him.
"Oh, he does? Maybe I should keep him around then since you gave your number to Blaze. Since you want her "Bento box". Sonic chuckles and nods his head.
"So, we are doing things like this now?" he says, and I try to hold back from laughing as I try to stay serious.
"You started it. I'm just learning from the best, Sensei."
Sonic looks backs and nods his head with smirk on his face.
"Well, I can teach you a reminder." He says and his comment makes me feel excited.
"You can't teach me nothing sadly, because we are taking a break." I say back and Sonic shrugs his shoulders.
"I started the break. Technically, I can stop it right now if I wanted too and teach you something." Sonic says as we enter the building, he holds the door for me.
His eyes look super seductive as I pass him, so I take my time since I have missed him looking at me like that.
"I'm ready to learn a new lesson as soon as you are ready to teach me." I say as I look at him in the eyes and he starts to laugh.
"Okay, Amelia." He says and that makes me frown at him as we walk down the hall.
"No! Why do you keep calling me that?" I say and Sonic tosses his juice box away and I follow him since mine was empty as well.
"I only call you Amelia when you say some smart shit." Sonic says and sighs. "But since I'm feeling nice today, what else would you rather be called, Amelia." Sonic says.
"Anything but that, you give me multiple nicknames." I say to him.
Sonic thinks for a moment as he opens the door to the performance room and he holds the door for me and I walk in, entering the darkness of the stairway.
"Okay, I call you pussy, weakling, annoying, shortie- "
I pinch Sonic's back and he jumps in pain.
"One of these days, Sonic. We will fight till the death." Sonic rolls his eyes and continues to walk until we get to the door
"Good thing you like pain. Weirdo. Hey, look a new nickname." Sonic says and I blush in the dark as we hit the bottom floor.
"Pain? When did I say I liked pain- oh the BDSM thing. Why am I so embarrassing?"
"My little weirdo." He says as he scuffles my hair.
We enter the room and Tails is cleaning over his drums since they probably have formed some dust on them. Rouge is also tunning her bass guitar.
"We are back!" I yell scaring them.
"Oh my fuck, Amy stop doing that. It was so quiet in here- oh welcome back Sonic." Rouge says.
"Hi. Hey, can you tell Amy to stop hurting me. She pinched me so hard earlier." Sonic snitches on me.
"THAT'S BECAUSE YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE!" I yell and Sonic flips me off.
"I'M ATTACKING!" I say as jump on his back and I wrap my arm around his neck.
My legs go around his torso and Sonic spins around and coughs as I choke him.
Suddenly Tails gets up and that makes Sonic stop spinning around as he leaves quickly out the room without saying anything.
"Tails… where are…" Rouge says but Tails leaves as she talks.
"Tails! Wait!" I jump off of Sonic's back and then I start to head to him but Sonic places a hand on my shoulder making me look at him.
"I'll talk to him. It's me and his problem, that I caused so I'll go fix it." He says patting my head.
"Are you sure? I can come if you like- "
"No, Amy… I think you should let Sonic go." Rouge says and I look at her and then back to him.
"Um…O-Okay just don't fight each other or say things you don't mean." I say unsure of the idea and Sonic nods his head.
Sonic takes off up the stairs and I watch him as I am concerned if both of them will even return.
SONIC POV
My feet hit the stairs quickly as I try to catch up with Tails. I open the door and I look around until I see him walking out of the side door the building. Dropping my head and sighing, I run down the hall and I open the door.
"Tails!"
Tails doesn't turn around when I called out his name which me made me laugh.
"You know! Based off how you acted when we first met and now, you gained such a personality and now you are doing things you want because of what you believe in." I yell walking far behind him. "That's cool!"
Tails still ignores me, and I chuckle a bit. He puts his hands in his pockets and continues to walk off.
"Heh, I know Amy said not to start a fight but I kind of want to see this side of Tails."
"Tails, you can at least talk to me man to man instead walking off like you don't hear me talking to you. "I say and Tails still continues to not speak. "Or don't. I don't really care. Amy just told me to follow you- "
Tails stops walk and he turns around to with an angered expression.
"Ha, nice."
'Then why are you out here following me? If you don't care, then just leave." He says and I continue to walk to him.
"I actually don't have to do anything." I say back and Tails just looks at me angrily.
"What? You got something you want to say?" I say to him and he continues to look at me.
I finally catch up to Tails as the golden sun rests behind him and he opens his mouth.
"I do have something to say."
I notice a bench on the side of the sidewalk, and I sit down.
"Go ahead. I'm listening." I lean back a bit on bench trying to look like I don't care at all.
"Are you really only in the band because of Amy?"
His question makes me think and I look at the dark blue sky that was slowing turning darker as our conversation goes by.
"Nah, but I almost did leave the band to be with her at one point." I say and Tails walks closer to me.
"What? Why would you do that- "
"I don't know. Probably because I didn't care. Like you said." My eyes go to my fingers nails and I start picking them as I feel Tails eyes boiling into my head.
"Then- then you don't care at all? It's true?" Tails question makes me look at him and I noticed he still looked pissed.
"I do care."
"But you don't care at the same time?" Tails says and I look at him normally.
"Is that even possible to care but not to care?" I ask and Tails continues to look at me.
Leaning up, I place my elbows on my knees and I raise my hand up to rest my head on hand.
"Why does it even matter, let's just go back and practice- "
Tails suddenly walks up to me and grabs my shirt. A smirk comes to my face as his aggression threw me off. I raise up to my feet, towering over Tails a bit, trying to make him scared but he doesn't back down.
"Haha, he isn't backing down either. Good job, Tails."
"It does matter, Sonic." Tails says and I try to hold back my laugh.
" We practiced for weeks, on weeks, on weeks and you are going to just sit there and tell me that you almost quit because you wanted to be with Amy? Sonic, you don't care and I'm getting so sick of it."
"Tails, for the 50th time, if I didn't care I wouldn't be here, and I wouldn't have followed you." I say and Tails starts to growl. "Do you want me to draw it out with crayon for you- "
"Sonic, I'll punch you in the face if you mess this up again." Tails says to pulling my shirt up higher.
My eyes bare into his light blue ones and the way he is looking at me, I am sure he can see the amusement on my eyes.
"Hit me then." I say as shrug my shoulders." I already told you that I don't know what is going to happen in the future and you don't know either. Even if I said "yeah, Tails. I'll change. I'll never let love make me act a way that creates problems for everyone else." You never know what could happen. Because everything bad happened when we were at Ginza, I didn't even expect so I don't just want to sit here and tell you that."
"But Sonic. You keep on acting like you aren't going to try. Which is making want you to punch you in your face."
Warm wind blows in our hair as we stare each other down and sigh in bordem.
"If that's how you really feel then hit me. But I did say I wouldn't be here if I didn't care but now, I feel like you are just mad about something else now." Tails looks at both of my eyes and then let's go of my shirt and starts to walk off again.
I watch him walk off and I simply follow him. We walk in silence as we walk around campus and I take the time to look around. My eyes hit the drink machine again and I almost stop to get another apple juice, but I remember that I have to follow Tails.
"Why are you still following me." Tails says and I still look at the vending machine.
"Because we are friends. Actually, best friends, I feel like we are closer than that."
Tails stops again and I stop as well but my mind was still glued on the vending machine.
"Best friends wouldn't put their relationship between each other-"
"Hey, do you want an apple juice. I'm about to go get me one." I say walking towards it.
I click on some buttons and insert the money and I watch the machine drop two apple juices. It hits the bottom and I grab both of them to turn around and see Tails looking at me confused.
"Here."
Tails looks down and takes it slowly. I pop a hole in the apple juice, and I look at the sunset. Placing the straw in my mouth I lean back and sigh as the cold apple juice hits my mouth.
"Sonic, I don't understand you."
Tails says and I look at him.
"Ask some questions then. I'm an open book."
Tails stares at his juice box and then he pops a hole in it too.
"How many times have you had your heart broken?"
"Twice."
"Oh..." Tails looks off and I look at him.
"Have you ever-"
"No. I have never even been in love either so I am trying to understand where you are coming from when you say, you can't control what you do." Tails says calmly and I sigh.
"Are you asking me why I did what I did? "I drink the last bit of my apple juice and I toss it in a black metal trash can nearby.
"Yeah."
I turn around to Tails and he looks at me as he drinks his juice.
"Hm… probably because I really thought she cheated on me. As soon as I walked out of the club she was just hugging on her ex." My eyes move away from Tails as I think about the night. "That was probably the most shocking thing I had experienced lately and it threw me off. It made me notice how calm and light my life was getting until everything changed in one hour. It sucked."
My eyes go back to Tails and I shrug my shoulders.
"And I lost control. My heart and my brain were attacking each other so quickly that I didn't have time even process the situation. So, I did things and said things I regretted and some things I didn't regret which was getting the chance to punch him again." I say and Tails laughs a bit.
"I'm just kidding. I shouldn't have done that because I did lose that fight. He gave me black eye which is still visible on my face and that's not how I want to appear to people. But you live and you learn."
"But… when you said you can't control the future then why not take that saying."
"I'm afraid."
My words make the wind moving past us feel colder.
"…Are you afraid to get hurt?"
"No, I'm afraid to hurt people. So, I just don't want to get your hopes up because I can be a dumbass sometimes." I say and Tails laughs.
"That's true. At least you admitted it."
A laugh leaves my mouth and I nod my head.
"I guess you are afraid to hurt her too." Tails says.
"Yeah… That's why we are on a break, because I still need to work on myself. "I say and Tails throws his apple juice away.
"But I am trying though. Just like with the band. I'm here because I want to do better this time and make up for ruining our chances to play at Tokyo." I say and Tails eyes sparkle.
"I don't know what the future holds but I want to try- "
Tails moves his fist out and I thought he was about to punch me but he doesn't. My eyes moves to his and he smiles at me slightly.
"The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it!" Tails says and I look back to his hand.
"And we can create it together." He says and I smile a bit.
My fist goes to his and then I bring him in for a hug, ruffling his hair up.
"Look at you! Giving me advice and trying to punch me in the face. Your confidence has grown so much. I'm so proud of my little baby boy." I say and Tails blushes trying to get out of my grip, but I wouldn't let him go.
"What? I-I-I haven't changed."
"Yes, you have Tails. Let's go tell, Amy all about it so she can yell at you for once because she has been wanting to fight me all day." I say as I start to walk back towards the school with Tails under my arm.
"O-Okay!" Tails says and I smile to myself and sigh.
"At least I am somewhat different now. I got my best friend back."
