SONIC POV
The hickory flavor of the barbeque I was cooking spreads through my nose and my apartment as I cook my last batch of meat.
"That should be enough for everyone." I think as I watch the meat cook carefully.
Today was the day everyone was coming over to watch the livestream of what band was going to make it in the final spot for the festival and I felt even more nervous about that than all of my friends coming over. As the meat sizzles, I make sure I have all the drinks ready and I make extra space for the other food that was going to be brought by them.
Music also plays loudly in my living room as my stomach grumbles. I look down my shirt and then I notice I have some barbeque stains on my shirt.
"Fuck." I say as I walk away from my kitchen to go change.
"Changing clothes to host something at your home is weird."
I change into a white shirt with light grey writing it. At first, I had on jeans but know I put on some light grey sweats since I suddenly didn't care about putting on jeans, or dressing nice.
A timer that I set goes off and rush back into to kitchen to take out some chicken yakitori I made last minute since I thought about if someone didn't like pork, so I made that as well. I turn my oven off and then I finish cooking the pork.
After more long minutes of cooking and making everything perfection, I open the window red hair passes by and then Ten walks past the window and gives me a small wave.
"Oh, so its time already."
Cass loud voice blasts through my door and I open it making him stop and look at me.
"SONIC! WHATS UP MY GUY!" Cass says patting me on the back and waking in with cups and more drinks.
"Hey." Ten says as he enters in with a circular container.
"YOU MADE THIS?!" Cass yells from the kitchen ajd I close the door to see what was talking about.
"Yeah."
Cass expressions goes to frightened and he hides behind Ten who is placing down his container near the open area I left.
"Okay, maybe Amy was right… this is serial killer activities. Isn't Ten?" Cass says pointing at me and I stare Cass like he is an idiot.
"Slightly yes. I didn't even prepare my food. My mom made us some potato salad though." Ten says pointing at his container and then backs away from me too. "That does make you sus, Sonic."
"What? I just learned from my mom. I'm not going to kill you guys." I say and that makes them relax.
Ten moves away from Cass and Cass carefully watches me as I open a pack a plate and then I look at him. I wink at Cass secretly and he gasps and scurries over to the door so he wouldn't be near me.
"No, Ten- Sonic is hella sus. I think we should- "
The doorbell rings and Cass screams causing the door, that I left unlocked, to open and Tails and Cream enters looking all around my house to find out why Cass screamed.
"Is everything okay in here- "
"TAILS! SONIC IS A SERIAL KILLER! I SWEAR HE IS!" Cass says jumping behind him and Cream moves out the way laughing awkwardly.
"Huh? How come- Oh, hey Sonic nice place." Tails says walking in with a rectangular container.
"Thanks." I say and then my eyes go back to the tall fox whimpering behind Tails." You guys should come see my basement too." I say evilly.
"TAILS! HE IS GOING TO EAT US!" Cass screams and I laugh at him.
"If I was going to eat you guys, I wouldn't have made all this barbeque."
Everyone looks into the kitchen and they open a lid, revealing all the juicy meat I prepared for us and Creams mouth starts to water as she turns to me.
"You made all of this?' she asks, and I nod my head.
"Yep. Yep. And maybe if you guys would have shown up a little later, I could have cooked Cass."
Cass faces goes white and then he walks behind Cream for protection this time. Everyone laughs at Cass but himself as he saw nothing funny about being cooked and eaten. The doorbell rings again and everyone starts chatting and talking in the kitchen.
"I'll get it."
I open my door open to see Udio. Udio smiles at me and brings into a hug and I hug back as well.
"Hey Sonic! Hello everyone else."
Everyone greets Udio as he walks in with a big container of who knows what, but it smelled good as he walks past me entering my home. As Udio gets swept in the conversation with the others, I expected Amy to be behind him, but she wasn't, which I was kind of anticipating.
"Sonic!" Tails hollers from the living room and I walk into the room. "Hey, what channel are we supposed to be on if we win?"
Tails hands me the remote and I flip through the channels until I get on it and then I place down.
"Are you guys nervous?" Cream asks as she scoots closer to Tails on the couch and looks at me and him.
"Not really. I want to win though." I say and Cream nods her head.
"What about you Tails- "
Tails face seems petrified as he stares at the TV, making me and Cream look towards it as well.
"Alright, you music lovers and fans! In the next three hours we will be live streaming the last winning band to compete in Tokyo's summer festival jam! Twenty bands have entered and only one band will make it out. Come back in three hours to see who the judges have picked for their event this summer! Here us a list of the nominees!" says the announcer and my heart pounds as well.
Everyone starts to listen since the conversation has gone quiet in my living room as the names go up the screen on my tv. Our name shows and everyone's starts to cheer besides me and Tails.
"Guys! That was your name- " Udio says and looks back at me and Tails. "You two look terrified."
Tails and I jump, and I clear my voice.
"I'm-I'm fine. Just a little nervous that's all- "
"HEY! HEY! NOW!" Cass says getting up from the floor and stands in front of the TV. "WE ARE GOING TO WIN THIS! WE DIDN'T RECORD ALL THE BULLSHIT FOR NOTHING! SO, LETS KEEP OUR HEADS HIGH!"
"Yeah." Ten adds in from Cass's inspiring speech.
"S-Sure." Tails says still a little nervous and I feel nervous as well.
The doorbell rings and it shifts our anxiety to side for now and I jog over to the door to open. As I leave the music gets turned back on and I open the door to see the last three people.
And one of those people makes me heart kick up a tad bit from her jumping up and down in excitement while holding a container of food.
"What's up guys- "
"SONIC! SONIC! SONIC!" Amy yells and practically almost tackles me to the ground as she hugs me.
Her excitement makes me laugh a bit and I hug her back. Amy looks up at me and I blush instantly at her cute face.
"I MISSED YOU!"
"I saw you two days ago- "
"FOOD!" Amy yells as her small attention spans makes me sigh annoyed as she takes off into the kitchen.
I look back towards the door and Rouge and Knuckles come in.
"Hey Knuckles, hey demon- "
Rouge punches in the stomach causing me to bend over pain and then she brings me into a hug as I try catch my breath.
"Hey dumbass and wow your place looks so nice! Thanks for the hospitality." Rouge says passing me and follow Amy into the kitchen.
"You didn't have to punch… me so hard- "
Knuckles brings me into a big hug and since I couldn't breathe already his huge grip makes me want to pass out, but he releases me just in time before that happens.
"Yo. Yo. That barbeque smells, muy buneo." Knuckles says, changing his accent and I rub my stomach as I laugh at him.
"It does. I think we can even eat now since everyone is here." I say and Knuckles cheers and walks into the kitchen.
I make my way to living room real fast and I turn the music down, making everyone listen to me.
"Everyone is here so let's go eat- "
"Wait everyone- AMY IS HERE?" Cass yells getting up.
"Yeah- "
Everyone runs off into the kitchen and I follow behind them slowly as they all crowd in it. As I walk in, I look everyone's smiling faces as they talk to each other and hug each other. I lean on the side of my kitchen door as I feel, elated that I had friends again.
"Once again, I am lucky to even have this once more." A small smile appears on my face as I watch Knuckles hug Tails and Cream compliment Rouge's hair. "I feel so lucky- "
Amy appears in front of me ripping me from my thoughts and she gives me the sweetest smile ever. I also noticed Amy looks so adorable today making me cover my face to hide my blush.
Amy had on some flowy blue shorts with a thin brown belt attached to it and her shirt was a light yellow and hung off her shoulder as it was also tucked into her shorts.
"Sonic you did so good with preparing- "
"You look so pretty." I say while covering my face and Amy blushes and laughs cutely making my heart almost explode.
"Haha what? Sonic, I think you overexaggerate sometimes when you see me. I don't even have anything super cute on- "
I place my hands on her shoulders to make her stop talking and she blushes at my seriousness.
"I'm not overexaggerating. My heart almost exploded." I say and Amy giggles even more.
"Aww you are so sweet." Amy says touching my face and I drop my hands from her shoulders as she touches me.
"Hahahaha, I can't breathe- "
"EVERYONE!" Amy yells as she moves beside and places her hand on my back.
Everyone looks over to us and I cover my face to hide my blush as they pay attention to us.
"I just wanted all of us to thank Sonic for hosting this event! Sonic is so sweet and nice so make sure you guys kiss him on the cheek or something to thank him." Everyone starts to clap for myeand I look away even more, making some laugh.
"Aww look Sonic is blushing!" I hear Knuckles say in a sweet voice and Tail laughs.
"Sonic is such a nice guy! I wish I had me a man like that!" Tails says in a girl's voice and everyone laughs beside me who is trying to hide their face.
"Seriously though. I really want to take to the time to thank everyone here. Without your help we wouldn't have had the chance to get back in the competition so let's all stay positive, continue to laugh and love each other, and get back into the Tokyo Summer festival!" Amy says and everyone cheers. "OH! SONIC YOU SHOULD SAY A SPEECH. Since you are technically our hero from the music video and being the chef."
"No." I say quickly, and everyone starts to encourage to speak and I frown and blush as I drop my hands into my pockets.
"Fine. Fine." I saw and everyone laughs since I am annoyed.
"Thanks… for coming and your effort for the music video. And besides being bandmates…" I sigh heavily at the words that are about to come out of my mouth next." I'm glad we are all friends and I hope we continue to be friends in the future."
The room guys quiet and I look at everyone to see them looking at me emotionally.
"What? Did I say something wrong- "?
"WAAAA SONIC!" Cass yells and hugs me. "I KNOW I CALLED YOU A SERIAL KILLER BUT I KNOW NOW THAT WE ARE JUST BEST FRIENDS!"
"Okay Cass- stop before you influence everyone to start hugging me- "
Everyone runs up to me and starts to hug and say nice thing making my face burn even more.
"Can we please just stop, and everyone eat. I didn't make this barbeque for nothing." I say and everyone mood changes back to being hungry.
Everyone scurries away from me and starts to grab plates and place food on them. I sigh thankfully and I notice Amy hasn't gone up there to stand in line.
"Aren't you hungry?" I ask and she looks up at me and nods her head.
"Yeah, but I knew you were going to wait after everyone got their plates first, so I'll wait for you." Amy says stepping closer to me, connecting her arm to mine.
"You don't have too."
"But I want too." Amy says and I chuckle at her.
"Heh, someone has a crush on someone." I say poking her nose and getting in line so she could eat.
"Oh no! Is it obvious?!" Amy says sarcastically and then she jumps in front of me in line making me laugh.
"Yes, it is and why are you skipping me." I say moving in front of her.
"Because I can!"
Amy tries to move in front of me, but I block her way, making her laugh.
"Sonic move your big body." Amy says trying to move me out of the way and I shake my head.
"No, I'm not getting skipped by a pink haired mushroom." My comment makes Amy gasps and then her hands go to chest and she tries to tickle me, making me laugh for a moment and I scoot back to dodge her.
Amy jumps in front of me and then she laughs hard and points at my face. " You are ticklish just like me! Why did it take me that long to figure that out?"
"I'm not ticklish. I-I was just laughing at my joke about your height." My face starts to burn up as Amy finds out more weaknesses.
"Really? Let me do it again to make sure then- "
"No, haha. Just get your food you win fair and square." Amy whips her head to me as she grabs her tongs and she smiles.
"I win?! You finally are letting me win?!" Amy says and I blush even more.
"Sure. Yes. Congrats."
Amy starts to dance happily since I finally let her win something and I chuckle slightly as I watch do her little victory dance. I watch Amy pick out some food and I notice she doesn't get a lot making me grab the tongs from her and put more food on her plate.
"What? Why- "
"Because I know for a fact that you are going to go over to my plate and try to steal food when you can just get the amount you want." I say and Amy frowns at me and looks off.
"No, I'm not! I never do that."
"Whatever you say."
After an hour of eating barbeque, potato salad, chips, drinking cold drinks and dessert. Amy has finished her food was in my plate since she was still hungry. In the end I just end up giving her the rest of my food that she didn't thank me for, and she started to eat it and go on with conversations with everyone else. I stand up and I go to the kitchen to cover things so nothing would get cold or if a random fly was in my house wouldn't touch the food.
A big laughter comes from my living into my kitchen as I put somethings away and I smile to myself as everyone seems like they are having a great time. Double checking the kitchen I turn around and I walk back towards the living room and I see Cass leaning on the back of the wall staring at me.
"Hm?" I look behind me to see if Cass was staring at someone else, but he was just looking at me.
Approaching Cass starts to look forward and then I place myself on the wall right beside him as he holds a drink and watches everyone talk.
"So… how's the food."
"Great. In fact it was too GOOD!..." Cass looks at me suspiciously as he raises his soda to his mouth. "How did you get so good at this?"
"Heh, I told you I cooked with my mom. I'm not a serial killer so don't say that again. If I was then maybe I would have made vegetables and had, you guys eat that instead and then I would have cooked you guys. Using pork to fill someone up and then cook them is a terrible idea." I say smoothly.
Cass eyes widens and he scoots over making me lean over and laugh.
"I'm just kidding- "
"Hahaha, yeah you are just kidding but that just doesn't come out of someone's mouth so smoothly." Cass says concerningly and my eyes go to his.
"You really think I would eat someone here?" I ask and Cass shrugs his shoulders and looks at everyone.
"I can't say that you would but if there was one person, I think I would know who you would choose." Cass says and I laugh even more.
"Who would I eat, Cass?"
Cass looks at me and chuckles softly making laugh to until he points at someone who was too busy eating and laughing with everyone like she always does. My laugh slows down and I look over to Cass.
"You would eat Amy."
My mind blanks for a moment and I try to think of something to say but Cass sighs and shakes his head.
"You like her, don't you- Matter of fact you don't even have to answer my question because I knew once you looked at when you saved her from Knuckles during that music video, and then I started to back at how you looked at her when she came in weight lifting room to look for you, AND THEN THE CONVERSATION I HEARD YOU GUYS HAVE IN KITCHEN AND ALSO-"
"You got me there. I do like her."
Cass looks at me confused. "Why didn't you tell me? I called her pretty in front of you- dude look if you would have told me then I wouldn't have said that."
Cass makes me think about that myself and I just shrug my shoulders.
"We used to date too." I say and Cass almost spits his drink out.
"HUH?!" he yells and some of our friends looks back at us and I just wave at them.
They brush it off since Cass always acts like this and then he turns more my way.
"You guys dated? Wait, Sonic- "
"Yeah, we did, and we still are… in a way. We are on a break right now." I say and Cass places his drink on a table, and he folds his arms.
"A break? Why are you guys on a break? Overlooking everything now you guys seem like a couple- Wait Sonic I'm sorry for being overly nice to her. I'm not that kind of guy and- "
"Hah, I know you aren't. It's my bad for not telling you." I say and Cass nods his head but still seems like he has a lot he wants to ask me now.
"Why did you guys take a break. You both looked so happy together when we were sitting down."
"Somethings happened in the past and now I am just afraid of hurting her…" I say as I look over to her." It's weird though, because sometimes I don't want to be on a break but then other times I do. I really do miss being with her though"
Cass goes silent and I look at him to see that he has tears in his eyes. Cass grabs my wrists and brings me close to him causing me to look at him carefully.
"I CAN HELP TO GET YOU GUYS BACK TOGETHER!" Cass whispers quietly and I shake my head violently.
"Cass… I don't think you helping is a good idea- "
"BECAUSE YOU ARE AFRAID!"
Cass words actually make me think for a moment about him helping me but then I disagree.
"Sonic. Stop." Cass says." Even if you are afraid I still want to help you. We are friends."
"No, it's fine you don't have to help-"
"I want too!" Cass whispers harshly. "There is this story I read was about this couple who wanted to be together but they couldn't because one was afraid of hurting the other so they were basically going back and forth . Longing for each other, wanting to be together, practically craving each other and then at the end, they didn't even bet ogether." Cass says and then moved closer to me.
"And the entire time I knew how to fix every problem and every situation they had. If I was there, I would have helped them both out because I knew what they needed to fix everything."
"Psh, so are you a relationship counselor now?" I question and Cass grabs my shoulders with excitement.
"I COULD BE! I've seen millions of romantic comedys, soap operas, YouTube couple breakups, my friends' relationships and Maury."
Cass seriousness makes me feel nervous and then he points at Amy.
I grab his hand so she wouldn't see that we were talking her, but he brings it back up anyway pointing at her.
"Let me help you fix your relationship with Amy."
"Cass, there is no need-"
"Give me a chance. Sonic. I can do this. Trust me." Cass says and I start laugh.
"Okay, if I even let you help me how would you even do it?" My question makes Cass smile and then he turns toward.
"Just watch me." Cass clears his throat and smiles all the sudden."Ayo, Amy! Come here! I have something to ask you." Cass yells loudly and I jump at his bravery.
"C-Cass what are you doing-"Amy looks over to us and her beautiful face lightens up as she stands up on my couch and steps over it to get to us.
"Relax. Just watch. This is the first step. Bringing the feelings back to surface." Cass says quiet as Amy skips to us.
"Hi, you two!" Amy says and she looks at the both us with her famous smile making me hide my face, that I am sure I am turning red.
"Hey, Amy. I have a question."
"Oh? What's that?" Amy asks walking closer to us and I scoot away as I don't want whatever is about to come out of Cass's mouth but Cass notices and places his hand around my back so I couldn't leave.
"Do you like Sonic?"
"Wha- what kind of question is that-
"Hehe? What?" Amy asks looking over to me and I shield my face as Amy stares at me.
"I'm just asking if you like Sonic! Sonic seems to have interest in you." Cass says and Amy giggles even more.
"This is so embarrassing"
"Do I like Sonic?... hm."
Amy response taking a long time makes me peak through my hand her and she looks mischievous.
"Why is it taking her so long to answer this easy question."
Amy notices my glare at her, and she giggles and looks back over to Cass, with over innocent face.
"I don't know if I like him, but he definitely is nice to look at!" Amy says sweetly and Cass claps his hand.
"I'm only nice to look at. She really thinks she is funny."
"Hah! Isn't he though? I mean look at these abs and these arms." Cass says lifting my shirt up quickly because he knew I would push my shirt back down and then he also grabbed my arm exposing my arm and of course Amy giggles at my face.
"Oh! Sonic also told me you guys used to date!" Cass says and Amy smiles softly.
"We did and kinda still do? Sonic can't get enough of me, isn't that right Sonic!" Amy says touching my face and I blush as her soft hand touches my face that I won't move away.
"That's good to know! Because I am officially going to be…" Cass slowly stops talking and points at us both.
"YOUR NEW RELATIONSHIP COUNSLOR!"
"Really! Okay! I trust you!" Amy says surprisingly going along with this.
"Great! And Sonic do you accept!" Cass asks me.
"No."
Cass faces drops and so does Amy's. Their sad faces make me feel bad instantly and I look away from them.
"Sonic… come on. I want to help." Cass says touching my shoulder and I shrug it off.
"No, this is going to be pointless and Amy is just going to take advantage of me- "
"S-Sonic…" Amy soft voice says making me turn around and she seems sad. "You don't want to fix things between me?"
Amy says sadly and I turn to her and grab her hands.
"W-What? I do- It's just Cass is going to make this so intense and then- "
"Sonic. Here is lesson one. Be vulnerable." Cass says and I frown at him. "Amy wants you to fix things so let go of your "bad boy persona" and do the relationship counseling."
I was about to argue back to Cass but then Amy wraps her arms around me and hugs me.
"Please baby… if you care about me then you will." Amy says sweetly and I feel my heart do a backflip.
"Ugh… she is so manipulative… but I am so stupid for what is about to come out of my mouth."
"F-F-Fine." I say and Cass and Amy moods both change back to normal as they jump in the air.
"HOORAY!" They both chant and I stare at both of them like they are crazy.
"They really are almost the same person…"
"You guys won't be disappointed, and I promise to get you both back together faster than you know it." Cass says and those words scare a bit since I knew he was serious.
"Great! We both can't wait!" Amy says looping her arm around mine and I growl silently.
"Cool! Now, you two talk about this and I'm going to go sit over there but if you NEED any advice just ask… I'll be watching from afar" Cass says backing away." I'll always be watching,"
Cass words make me feel even more annoyed and then I try to walk away but Amy clings onto me.
"Haha, where are you going." Amy says amused and I shake my head.
"I'm going to throw myself in the oven."
Amy busts out laughing as I still try to walk to the kitchen and then she pulls me back.
"Sonic, laugh a little. Cass is only trying to help, hehe." Amy says but I still try to go to my kitchen to cook myself "We should do it though! It would be fun." Amy says and I disagree with her.
"I'm not doing relationship counseling with someone who only likes me for my face." I say and Amy laughs even more and I almost laugh as well since her joke was kind of funny.
"You know I like you more than your face, your amazing body, the way your hands are so warm, the sparkle in your eyes, your height, these board shoulders, the way you laugh, also the red blush you get when you get shy, and your body. Did I mention that?." Amy says and I laugh at her and she does as well.
"Yes, you did and great to know. Now, just let me go to oven and-"
"Nope! IT'S TIME TO TEAM BOND!" Amy yells increasing her grip and dragging me back to the couch with all my friends talking about random topics.
As we sit down Amy immediately gets absorbed in the conversation but I notice that she still has her arm around me, making me feel content. Amy removes her arm around me for a moment and she laces her fingers with mine as she argues with Knuckles about something. I smile to myself and as Amy brushes her thumb against my hand.
"This is nice."
My eyes move away from her and then I notice Cass staring at me. Cass smirks at me and gives me a thumbs up making me look away quickly.
"Why do I have bad feeling about having Cass do this. I know it's a joke to me and Amy but… those reds eyes in his face makes me think that he might really try to fix us."
TWO HOURS LATER.
"Guys, breathe. Breathe. I know this is our last shot to get back in the competition, but we have to… breathe. Tails breathe!" Amy says walking over to Tails, but Cream was already fanning him with a napkin.
"I-I-I am. It's just if we win then we are going to be on TV and if we don't-"
"DON'T THINK THAT!"Amy yells encouraging us." WE WILL NEVER PLAN FOR FAILURE."
"R-Right sorry." Tails says and I sink into my seat as my nerves plummet through my body.
"WE HAVE FIVE MINTUES!" Cass yells and everyone sort of freaks out as we sit down on the floor, couch, or really anywhere that was in front of the screen.
Rouge and Knuckles where linked up together, Cream was calming Tails down, Ten was trying to get Cass to calm down from yelling at everyone but of course that wasn't working and Amy was trying to calm Udio down who was even freaking out himself. I watch everyone freak out but every now and then I look at the TV. Watching the countdown go down quickly and I can't help to even feel nervous myself.
At first I was confident about winning this but now just watching the time go down and looking at everyone who was nervous made me feel nervous.
"I just hope we win… if we don't then really me and Amy messing up our chances to get to Tokyo, in the first place might come back up and then they might mad at us again… I don't want to go through all that again so that's why we have to win. We just have too."
My hands tense up as I clench them together as the time goes to two minutes left. Cass warns us about that as well and he sits down in front of the TV. Seeing that Cass has finally calmed down I look over to Amy who was making sure everyone was okay and then her eyes hit mine. Amy starts to look really nervous all the sudden making me feel nervous as she makes her way towards me.
"Amy is probably thinking the same thing that I was thinking. That if we win this then we both will feel some weight lifted off of our shoulders from that day. It is our fault that we are even in the position to begin with."
Amy sits by me and clears her throat.
"You know… I was trying to keep everyone else calm, but I am nervous myself. This feeling sucks." Amy says leaning my shoulder and grabbing my hand.
"Yeah… I feel super nervous too."
Amy nods her head and squeezes my hand in support, and I squeeze it back.
The TV changes to a man standing front of the Tokyo Summer Festival banner that was red and orange. Everyone gasps and leans up as the man starts to talk and I am sure that my heart started to kick up three hundred percent.
"Hello music lovers and festivals addicts! I am sure you all are tuning to see which band is going to get added to Tokyo Summer Festival! He says and the TV changes into a slideshow of showing all the bands and pictures of last year's festival.
"This festival is one of the biggest ones in Tokyo and 12 bands will be selected out of thirty bands that tried out all over japan and this time they are throwing out an extra tryout for any bands that didn't make it since one band dropped out and you can only get tryout by sending a music video. For the past three weeks bands all over Japan have been given another shot and only one band is going to make!"
The screen goes black and then it starts showing information about the festival, ticket prices, camping grounds and dates. As the guy talks, I notice how quiet everyone is and I clear my throat in the silent room making everyone look at me.
"No matter what happens. We did our best… I just wanted to say that." I say nervously and everyone nods their head and goes back to the screen.
"We… we did do our best." Rouge says softly. "Ugh, the wait is killing me. I want us to win so bad."
"We have to. We just have to win." Amy says scooting up to the edge of the couch and I scoot up with her since the man on the screen was coming back.
"Oh fuck. Oh fuck." Tails says standing up and Cass stands as well as the guy on TV had a black envelope in his hands.
"Welcome back after all that information about the Festival happening very soon and get your tickets now because with these results. I am sure you would not want to miss this year's festival." He says and everyone starts to rise out of their seats.
"Before we reveal the results, The Tokyo Summer Festival just wants to thank everyone who tried and participated once again in making the festival fun. Entertaining, and musical as it should be and to still come out and support the band who has made it through the last tryout." He says and then he lifts the envelope in his hands and waves it.
"Now… for what you all have been waiting for. The winners and the last band getting put on the stage to perform and compete for the festival is about to be revealed." He says and he opens the envelope fast and everyone in the room starts to walk closer to the TV.
"Come on. Come on. Come on." Knuckles says as he bites his nails and holds onto Rouge's hand.
"We… we have to win."
It almost feels like the world has paused just for this moment that may look small for others but was so big for us. We practiced day and night, practiced even though we had big tests to study for, practiced at home, in class, in the shower, and sometimes even in our sleep if practice was stressful enough.
Amy grips my arm tighter as he reaches inside the envelope and then he pulls out a remote confusing us.
"Better yet. Instead me just saying it. How about we play the winning music video and band who won." He says and he hits the button and the TV fades.
"Congrats."
A small countdown from 10 appears on the screen and my adrenaline starts to kick up.
"They are going to play the video… that means all we have to do is hear Amy's guitar solo or see the first part of our video. And that's how we will know…" Tails says, and I grab the remote and turn the TV up as five seconds are left.
"Five seconds. Five seconds and everything will be how it should have been in the first place."
Five
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The screen goes black and then a video starts to play. As soon as the music plays everyone starts to jump up and down I just look at the screen astonished as I feel Amy leave the grip of my arm to jump up and down.
"We… we… we really w-
"WE WON!" Tails yells shaking my arm and I start to laugh and smile with everyone.
"YES!" Cass screams and starts to jump on couch and as everyone else practically does the same thing.
I watch the screen as our music video plays and everyone hugs me, shakes my arms as I just stand there shocked.
"We are going to Tokyo?" I say out loud look behind me and everyone gasps and starts celebrating all over again.
"HELL YEAH! WE ARE GOING TO TOKYO!" Rouge screams and I start to laugh as I watch us perform on stage.
"It feels so unreal. They are showing our video all over Japan."
Ten's editing makes our performance look so professional with all the effects and B-roll. I even start to feel more excited as I see myself on TV, not even recognizing myself.
"Wow…" I say and then Amy runs in front of me with the brightest smile.
"S-Sonic we- "
"We did it… holy shit." Amy jumps in my arms and I hug her spinning around as the music we created gets played loudly in my apartment.
Tails and Rouge join in on the hug as well and we all laugh.
""4 TIMES DIFFERENT ARE GOING TO TOKYO!" Tails chants and we cheer with him as we jump up and down to the music.
"AND I'LL SURVIVE, PARANOID! I HAVE LOST THE WILL TO CHANGE!" Cass sings over my part and we all laugh at him join him as I sing on TV.
"And I'm not proud, cold-blooded fate! I will shut the world away!" Rouge sings and points at me making laugh.
As the video goes on and we practically almost reenact the entire video until it comes to an end and well all clap and cheer until the man comes back on TV.
"That's it. There you have it. The last band joining the party is going to be "4 Times Different." Definitely a shocker after their attempt at Ginza." He says making me and Amy blush and everyone just laughs about it. "But, hey like they said. Music can bring everyone together."
"Facts. And we are going back harder than ever!" Rouge says.
"But don't forget they all still have to compete against twelve other bands to win the festival and don't forget to check out the other bands as well because it won't be so easy to snatch the first-place position. Please, follow our page and subscribe to our channel to keep up with the information about the bands and other important topics about the festival coming up soon. And for our closer we will show off some special nominees who almost made it but caught the eye of our judges. Thanks for watching and see you at the Tokyo's Summer festival."
The screen goes to the other videos that almost made it and we start to celebrate again. After twenty minutes of talking about us winning we finally all sit down with big smiles on our faces and then Amy stands up.
"Guys… I'm so proud of us and everyone here for their hard work and dedication. But this really would have been impossible without Ten for editing our perfect video. So Ten… thanks so much." Amy says and we all follow her lead.
"You guys are welcome. I'm just glad I got asked the opportunity and if you all ever need any more assistance I would be glad to help."
"Really! Maybe you can be our social media director!" Amy says jumping up and Ten blushes.
"I-If you guys would want me to be. I wouldn't mind. This what I want to do anyway when I get out of college- "
Amy practically pounces on Ten and she grabs his hand.
"YOU ARE HIRED!" she yells and then she looks at ten who is standing near the TV.
"AND CASS YOU PRACAITLLY DIRECTED THE ENTIRE THING WITH TEN! SO, IF YOU BOTH WANT TO JOIN, YOU CAN!" Amy offers and Cass eyes sparkly.
"R-REALLY?! I ACCPET AS WELL!" Cass asks and Amy nods her head and they start to dance and celebrate.
"Yeah! And thanks, Udio for letting us use club!" Amy says moving over to Udio to hug him as well.
"Anytime! I'm so proud of you guys winning. Congrats really." Everyone thanks him but Udio steps up even more making us look at him.
"You know what. Since you guys worked so hard, let's go celebrate. On me."
"Cool! We can go to a bar or something- OH BETTER YET YOUR CLUB- "
"Well, I was thinking of something more… sunny and wet."Udio says
"Huh?... where then?" Amy asks confused from the hints and then Udio picks up his phone and calls a number.
"Let's go on a beach vacation. On me. For the celebration of you guys."
See you guys Friday~
