It was Monday again. The sun rose unceremoniously with its harsh rays waking up the couple who were snuggled together in bed. Since they arrived back from their trip, the hedgehogs resided themselves to their bed. The two spent the weekend either asleep or engaging in a couple's 'tryst'.
For Sonic, it was almost as if he went back in time. Their friends had all been invited once again to visit their home and they all pilled in one by one over the course of an hour. Cream and Tails came first. Sonic commented that the two-tailed fox seemed more well-rested, which Tails said was a result of him finally quitting the dead-end internship.
"Enough about that job, Tails." Cream interjected. "Tell us about the vacation. How did it go?"
"It was wonderful," Amy answered from the kitchen. She arrived holding tray of tea and sandwiches for her guests. She sat down on the edge of the loveseat beside her husband and gave him a peck on his cheek, which Sonic reciprocated. Tails couldn't help cringing in disgust. The couple always kept their public displays of affection to a minimum, mainly because of Sonic's shyness. Furthermore, it was odd see his two friends so... amicable with each other, at least in the romantic sense. During the rare moments Tails came over to visit Sonic, they were either not on speaking terms or at each other's throats. Tails never understood their marriage. The fox was in shock when Sonic 'Marriage? No Way!' the Hedgehog invited him to their wedding. Cream took the news a lot easier that he did. She cheered happily for her best friend. The boy Amy spent years pining after was hers. Although Cream couldn't put a finger on what Amy could possibly have done to make the carefree hedgehog change his mind after so many years.
"Amy, I've never seen you wear that. Is it new?" Cream asked to stop the hedgehogs from sucking face in front of them. Tails mouthed a 'thank you' for ending the torture.
"Oh, this old thing?" Amy said coyly as she posed her in one of her many new outfits like a model. She wore a light pink dress with frills on her sleeves and complemented with pair of small fuchsia boots.
"Sonic bought it for me," she winked at him in approval.
Suddenly their chat was interrupted by the oven timer. "Honey, can you help me prepare the food."
"No probs," Sonic said as he followed his wife into the kitchen, leaving the fox and the rabbit were left to their own devices. The air was filled with whispers and giggles from the kitchen. Tails could not take it anymore.
"Cream, are you not weirded out by this?" He asked quietly, trying to attract the lovebirds' attention back into the living room prematurely. "Sonic never helps out in the kitchen."
"Well, I think it's lovely. We've never seen them so happy. Isn't it nice."
"I know but..." Tails tried hard not to feel guilty. He felt a pang of jealousy seeing his brother come back from a vacation. "What could have happened on their vacation that made them go 'gaga' for each other?"
Tails' brainstorming was interrupted by Knuckles slamming the front door open.
"THIS BETTER BE IMPORTANT!"
Amy was doing her best to be a good host by preparing lunch for their guests. She was surprised that her husband readily offered to help. Sonic was never great in the kitchen, but Amy appreciated the help. However, Amy should have known better that Sonic would be more of a distraction as he put his arms around her waist, his hands lingering around her body.
"Sonic, behave ." She tried her best to hold her in her giggles and moans. "Our friends, are here."
"So what? They're in our house. If we go upstairs for a minute, they won't notice."
Amy turned around, and reached up to kiss her husband, content in their own world. The kiss turned more intense as Sonic lift her up on to the counter. Even as the sound of a motorcycle reeving up out sound their house, that was not enough to make the couple stop.
"Yuck."
The married couple were interrupted by the back door opening to reveal Shadow the Hedgehog, wearing a black leatherjacket while carrying a brown rucksack and dark Chao resembling him in tow.
"Get a room." He spat.
Amy, overwhelmed with embarrassment and adrenaline, pushed herself off the counter and tried to regain her composure while retying her hair which was loosened by Sonic attempt to remove it.
"Jealous much?" Sonic retorted.
Shadow grumbled and walked in the front room, his Chao following behind before giving them a dirty look.
After he left, the couple couldn't help but snigger amongst themselves like little children.
"Hey," Sonic stroked her hair, moving his hand to the back of her head and effortlessly pulled out her hair band. Amy instinctively covered her head and demanded her husband give it back. Amy's hair kept growing into her teens until it was halfway down her back. She began getting lots of compliments, particularly from male suitors. Even Sonic timidly admitted longer quills suited her better before they got married. However, Amy began to see it more as hinderance whilst doing household chores and so tying it back was more practical for her.
"Please, I like your hair down." Amy's expression softened and brushed her quills with her palms. Sonic sensed her insecurity and reassured her with a kiss on her forehead.
"Okay," she relented and two grabbed the trays of food and went back into kitchen to mingle with their friends.
Their house was now packed with all their closest friends, just as it was a week before. Once they arrived and all accounted for, Amy picked up a glass and a spoon and tapped them together to get everyone's attention.
"I hope you are all have a good time. Sonic and I are glad you were all able to come on such short notice."
"This better be good." The red echidna piped up.
"Knux, calm down, let them talk." Tails tried to calm him down. "I miss seeing you all without the threat of work looming the next day."
"Yeah, I'm lucky this was my day off," Vector chimed in. "Espio and Charmy may be able to slack off, but crime never sleeps," he bragged.
"Well, she'll tell you if you all shut up and let my wife talk!" Sonic yelled to quieten down the room.
"The reason why you are all here is because Sonic and I have some big news." Amy urgently told Sonic to go upstairs and grab 'it'. Soon, the blue blur came downstairs, holding a large object, covered by a red sheet.
"Do ya' wanna' do the honours?" He asked his wife and she eagerly pull away the sheet to reveal to Chao egg.
Cream and Cheese immediately jumped out of their seats in excitement. "Oh! That's amazing!" Cheese and Shadow's Chao flew up the egg, curious as to who their future playmate will look like.
"We picked him up from the local Chao Garden on Friday. The attendant said they could crack the egg open for us, but Amy wanted 'em to hatch on his own. They said it wouldn't take long, but he's stayed put all weekend." Sonic explained.
"She'll come out when she's ready," Amy chastised him for his usual impatience, and put the egg down on the coffee table. "He has been moving a bit, so she should hatch later tonight, and we can all see what she looks like."
"Do you have a name yet? Are going to feed him Chaos drives or absorb animals?" Cream asked frantically. "I can babysit whenever you want!"
Amy was about to answer until a hyperactive bee shouted out in an annoyed huff, "Is that it?!"
"I thought you were going to tell us something bigger, like you were gonna' have a baby or something..."
Sonic blushed and coughed to hide his anxiety. "Hey now, we just got a pet, let us build up to that." The irony of Sonic the hedgehog asking others to be patient was not lost his friends, and Shadow and Knuckles both smirked at each other whilst sipping tea.
"Actually..." Amy nervously twiddled her thumbs. "I have another announcement."
"Amy?!" Sonic was in the dark as all his friends were.
The pink hedgehog took a deep breath and held Sonic's hand tightly. "As some of you already know, Sonic and I celebrated our tenth anniversary and went on a worldwide vacation, and since we got back, I realised something."
She looked at Sonic intently and plainly said, "I'm pregnant."
The whole room erupted in shares of gasps and then elation as everyone cheered for the couple. To Sonic however, everything when silent. He felt he was about to faint, his were wobbling, trying to stabilise himself. Luckily everyone was too busy crowding around Amy and giving their obligatory 'congratulations' to notice the colour leave Sonic's face. It was only Shadow that offered him a shoulder to lean on and smarmily quipped, "You couldn't control yourself, could you?"
"No... I couldn't," was all Sonic had the strength to reply.
As if his heart couldn't take any more sudden, life changing news, the Chao egg as if by cruel fate, began to crack and a small, blue creature slowly crawled out of the egg, off the coffee table and into Sonic's lap.
"Chao!" The creature cried out his first words, causing his friends and his wife to crowd the Chao and the new father of two.
Sonic feeling various degrees of fear, pride and happiness, smiled and hugged his new Chao buddy.
In the 2 weeks since he turned 30, so much had changed in the blink of an eye. From a 29-year-old with a dead-end job and withering marriage with no friends to visit, Sonic had managed to turn things around for the better as he always did. Now Sonic was on another adventure with his wife by his side to look after their children.
His journey to his forties would be the wildest yet.
I actually FINISHED a story, within a month of posting the first chapter. It must be a miracle or a sign of the end of days. Writing and writing about Sonic always getting me in a creative mood and Sonic doesn't stop running, then neither shall I. It has been therapeutic writing this. Maybe next time I'll write about the GOOD FUTURE of Sonic and Amy's marriage one day. This story is technically complete, but I'm going to post another one-shot in relation to this story, but didn't fit in here.
Thank you so much for enjoying this story and I'll see you all next time when the Sonamy bug hits me again. If Frontiers is anything to go by, the next month will be a gold mine for Sonamy content so I hope all of you are hungry!