The sound of boredom sounds different for everyone; for me it's a song with the bass of rain, the tempo of a slow clock, and the beautiful melody of the sigh coming from me or anyone else in the room, occasionally followed by a bored yawn or even a cough. This was our Saturday Night. Me, Knuckles, Amy, Sticks, and especially Sonic were traditionally outdoors people. We've always been the "Fun in the Sun" type. The sun is where the world is, and the further we explore it, the bigger it gets for us. The bigger the world feels, the more chances you get to have more fun. Sonic taught me that. He taught me a lot of things. Ironic considering my IQ level; not to brag or anything, but I have yet to meet anyone who was able to fix a turbine engine when he was still in diapers. Oh yeah, and I can fly too; thanks to my two tails or planes that I built myself. And they don't do a bad job making extra hands either, especially as back scratchers.

Sonic taught me about bravery, honor, to have confidence, to be yourself, and to never forget who your friends are. It's embarrassing to admit… but I even wrote a song about it. Just in my spare time! Only when I'm bored! So I'm writing it right now actually… dang it! I mean it's not weird right? Who doesn't write songs about their friends? Or their best friend. Or their brother. Big brother. Who's always been there. And stuck by me no matter what. Wait, I lost my place…

When all alone in my bed

I just go about yearning

I wanna be cool; I also wanna be like him

But that's not something I can do so easily

This is not simply my way

My own style

Gotta get a hold of my life

I wanna fly high

So I can reach the highest of all the heavens

Somebody will be

Waiting for me so I've got to fly higher

This is so stupid… why am I doing this? And why can't I stop? Sure, Sonic was the fastest thing alive, but I would argue I was the smartest. Eggman comes in second but is always defeated by his worst enemy: his ego. Most of the time, Sonic just does half the work whenever we have to defeat Eggman and his felony of the week. I'll admit, he has some pretty neat ideas for gadgets, but none that I couldn't build in my sleep. Ooh! How about a machine that makes you feel like you got a full nights rest of sleep, so that you never have to go to sleep again, and you have more time to work on more inventions! I've gotta write that down before I forget! Oh Tails, you're just that right amount of genius and insane. What was I talking about? Oh yeah! We were bored.

I tend to prattle on when I'm bored. We all have our bored habits: Sonic taps his feet or fingers quickly, Sticks is always looking over her shoulder every few minutes, Amy will try organizing something that doesn't need to be organized, and Knuckles… will play with anything until he gets bored and plays with something else. Right now it's with the soccer ball we were gonna play with today until we got rained in. He's hit himself in the face about… eight times. Make that nine. Never gets old.

"Hey Buddy! Whatcha doing?" Sonic scared the crap out of me! He has this habit of sneaking up on people, but I've gotten used to it.

"Gah! Sonic! Oh nothing! It's nothing just an idea of a new invention I'm working on! Nothing worth looking at any further! Ha ha ha! Please go away." Nailed it.

Sonic just kept smiling at me, "Fascinating. Tell me more about it."

He's kidding right? Sonic never cares about what I'm inventing, unless he's allowed to play with it. He was toying with me at this point. And honestly, what else could I do but burst out laughing and give him a good jab in the arm, "Shut up!"

He joined in the laugh, "I almost had you! You should've seen your face! You were like that!"

Sonic tried to replicate the face I was making and he looked like an even bigger idiot than he already was!

"You don't need to tell me what it is if you don't want to," he said with a sincere voice, "I'm just busting your chops!"

That was me and Sonic for ya. Like I said, he's like the brother I never had. Or… I guess I'm more like the brother he's never had. For some reason it never felt right when I called Sonic my brother. I mean… he's like family to me, but "brother" didn't fit the bill of what we were. I couldn't think of the right word for it yet. And believe me, I've tried. I've literally read half of the dictionaries in the library to figure out the word. And the other half was just for funzies. I guess it didn't really matter. Whatever the word, Sonic was my best friend and nothing was gonna change that.

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