Early in the morning, the blue hedgehog went off after bringing both his younger siblings to school. Though, it doesn't hurt to ask where their parents are, does it? Well, to simply put it, his parents are working at another country; leaving Zonic to take care of the two sets of twins.
The blue blur watched as the two walked off and greeted their classmates. As soon as they were out of his sights he had left elsewhere, going off to his next location. After all, he can reach that place before you could even say bye.
He looked up at the small workshop and peeked inside, seeing his best friend, Miles 'Tails' Prower who was helping his parents put everything to place, "Hey, pal!" he greeted, making the fox look up at him and beamed.
"Sonic!" he exclaimed, clearly excited to see his best friend, "Are you here to pick up the item you requested?" Tails asked, raising a non-existent brow.
"Yep!" Sonic replied with the same cheery tone Tails had.
The two-tailed fox then ran off to the other door where the words authorized personnel was placed. He then came out with a beautifully crafted paper bag in hand, holding it out to the blur.
"Mom worked really hard on that." Tails mentioned, "I hope the person you're giving this to won't leave it there to waste." he said, a sad smile on his face.
"I hope so, too." Sonic breathed out, "Especially right after what I had said." he added.
Soon, the blue blur left, leaving his payment on the counter (because Tails had insisted that it was on the house and Sonic felt guilty). He rushed to a bakery, buying something small and left yet again. When he reached the school, surprisingly not really, no one was there yet. So he pulled up his bag an grinned.
Meanwhile, the black hedgehog looked outside from their limo's window. His brothers sitting in front of him, giving the poor black hedgehog some space. Mephiles, the younger twin brother, was peacefully drinking tea showing elegance while he took a sip (yes, he, indeed have a mouth). Eclipse, however, sat as if he was never taught simple etiquette, drinking a bottle of flavored water (he wanted soda, but he would hear an earful from Mephiles if he did).
Anyway, as for Shadow, bags were under his eyes. It was clear that he was over thinking everything that had happened from the day before. He let out a deep sigh, making both his brothers look at each other from the corner of their eyes.
"Had a long night, Shadow?" Mephiles started, sipping on his cup once again.
The black hedgehog just clicked his tongue and looked away, not actually wanting to answer his question. "Why do you care?" he simply retorts, not even bothering to put emotions on his sentence.
"Oh, Shads!-"
Eclipse was then cut off by Mephiles, who had a smug grin on his face, "If we didn't Eclipse should have never stormed off and give the blue pest a punch." he took a long sip, eyes closed as Eclipse angrily stared at the dark figure, making gestures that he wanted to strangle him.
"Why you-"
Shadow's eyes widened at hearing this, his gaze then met both of them. Eclipse and Mephiles then stared back, so Eclipse sighed and shook his head. "Don't worry, Big Bro, I held back. It stung, but no bruises will appear." Eclipse reassured.
The black hedgehog then slumped back to his seat, looking out the window once again. Mephiles removed the cup from his mouth, wanting to ask a few words, but the limo then stopped in front of the school.
Before they went out, Eclipse then suggested, "We could always go back to Space Colony Academy."
"No, I hate that place." Shadow replied, opening the door of the limo, almost hitting the chauffeur.
Eclipse shrugged and walked off, closing the door behind him, pissing Mephiles off. The chauffeur attempted to open the door once again, but got hit this time, making him let out a short oof.
"Pardon." he said under his breath, trying to keep composed.
Shadow kept walking forward, reaching the entrance and not minding the whispers. By and by, the black hedgehog grew irritated, Shadow opened his locker. While he did, girls passed by him, giggling as confession notes began to gush out. He picked them all up, dropping a few of them at the process.
When he reached the bin, he threw all the letters inside. Then looked back to pick up the other letters. But one caught his eye, it was a black envelope. He shook his head, thinking that it might be his father's, so he picked it up and threw the rest.
Shadow then opened it, revealing a red paper. He raised a non-existent brow and opened it, seeing the letter had horrible hand writing but the ink was gold.
He then started to read it, his face morphed from an annoyed expression to a shock one. It was Sonic, apologizing. Instead of throwing it off like another piece of trash, he actually kept it.
Shadow was still flabbergasted by the sudden change of attitude, but was happy nonetheless.
Subsequently, girls passed by him, gossiping at each other. "Have you seen, Sonic's apology preparation?" one whispers, trying to be as quiet as possible.
The black hedgehog's ear twitched a bit, immediately, he hurried towards the classroom. When he opened the door, students immediately stopped chatting amongst themselves. He immediately felt uncomfortable, his eyes then looked at his seat to see a black small box and an elegant black paper bag with red ribbons embeded on it.
"What the f*ck is this?" he asked, loudly enough for everyone to hear.
When he reached his seat, students began to leave him inside the room. At this point the black hedgehog was left confused. He picked up the box and opened it, seeing a swedish cake inside. He huffed, placing it back down.
His gaze then moved to the paper bag, he lifted it up surprisingly careful. Slowly, he started to open it, peeking inside and saw a bit of blue and yellow.
Shadow then opened it fully, there revealed an adorable doll. It looked like her , but had blue buttons for eyes and her head was too big for her body and she even had a headband on her hair , which complimented the doll well.
He didn't realize that tears were started falling from his eyes, he only did when a single tear fell on its dress. Shadow then began to quietly sob, wiping his eyes. He didn't know if he should be happy or sad.
All of a sudden, he felt something over his head. It was a varsity jacket, he looked behind him to see Sonic with his ears pinned back and an apologetic smile on his face.
"I asked that to be made weeks ago, before I could give it to you, I went too far." Sonic explained, "I'm sorry, I really am." the hedgehog said yet again.
"Why did you say it?" Shadow asked, his voice no longer wavering.
"I was expecting you to give a smart retort." Sonic admitted (we all know that's half the truth),
"Something like 'Some hero you are, do you know how many innocent people drowned in station square just because of your incompetence of being unable to swim? ' or 'You couldn't even save your father from being roboticized.' " he added.
Shadow looked shocked, he didn't think about that at all. He looked down at the small doll who was staring at him, as if she herself was looking up at him.
"You.. Shouldn't blame yourself for what happened." Shadow tried to comfort, but the blue hedgehog just shook his head.
"That means you shouldn't, either." Sonic scratched his cheek and smiled nervously.
"I guess we both agree on something for once." Shadow gave him a rare smile, placing the doll back in the bag along with the cake.
Sonic nervously looked around the room, he then inhaled deeply, slightly sweating from the tension, "Shadowwillyougooutwithme?"