Cream stood transfixed, gazing lovingly into the mysterious figure's sapphire eyes as he held her slim frail body close to his own strong body. His long black hooded cloak prevented her from seeing any part off his face other than his beautiful blue eyes. He dipped his face towards her own and took in a passionate kiss. Her mind swirled and she couldn't think straight as their lips meet. He broke the kiss and stepped.
"Cream." His voice seemed vaguely familiar, but she could seem to concentrate because she was still dazed from their first kiss. "It is time I reveal my true self to you." He said as he stepped back and lowered his hood.
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Her alarm rang and she snapped out of her dream. With extreme annoyance she groped her bed stand searching for the offending electrical appliance, when she found it she slammed her hand down hard onto it instantly turning it off. She once again buried her head under the pillow trying to once again continue her dream. She was just about to succeed when two small chao rammed into her knocking her off the bed.
"Cream you have to wake up you have school today." The first one a blue chao said.
"Yeah and school starts in half an hour." The brown answered this time.
She glared daggers at the two and they quickly flew out of the room. She grumpily trudged into the bathroom and twenty minutes later emerged out of her room full dressed remembering her dream. "And this time I was so close to seeing who this guy was too." She said to her self as she started to leave the house. "Oh well. Maybe next time." She said as she ran out of the house.
Ten minutes later she arrived at school and rushed to her locker. As she was getting her books a female fox approached her.
"Hey Cream, Where's Tails? I didn't see him come into school with you"
"Oh hi Jenna. He's sick at home."
"Is it serious?"
"Yeah kind of or else he'd be here in school if it wasn't" She replied slightly getting annoyed.
"What does he have?"
"How should I know? Do I look like his girlfriend?!"
"Wait? Your not his girlfriend!"
With a sigh she replied "No. We're just really good friends."
"So you mean all this time you guys have been friends and never once did you goes go out." Cream only nods. "So I've been wasting my time with all these losers when Tails has always been available." Cream replies with a nod. Jenna face turns into an expression of extreme annoyance she's about to say something when the bell interrupts her. Taking opportunity of this Cream rushes into her class and takes her usual seat in the back of the room. An old bear entered the classroom.
"Hello students I'm Mr. Chimera. Mrs. Hazel is sick so She asked me to cover her class, but since she left no assignments or anything. I guess you could use this time to complete any assignments or such." He grumbled as the class turned their attention upon him. An orange echidna enters the classroom, she has a simple blue and black striped shirt and blue shorts, her dreadlocks each have numerous beads. As soon as she enters the room the boys start catcalls and the girls shoot her dirty looks
"Oh yes, yeah, I forget mention you have a new class mate Miss..."
"Tikal" She replies in angelic voice
"Yes, Miss Tikal...uh... sit next Crème over there." He says as he points in Cream's direction. Tikal shyly walks over towards Cream and sits next to her.
Cream holds out her hand "Hello I'm Cream."
Tikal shakes her hand and replies "I'm Tikal nice to meet you."
"Let me see your schedule." Cream says as Tikal hands her the piece of paper. After examining it for a few moments. She gleefully hands the paper back to Tikal. "You have all the same classes with my Tails." "Tails?" "Yeah he's my best friend, but his sick today I wonder what he's doing right know. He's probably lying in agony."
"NOO SHADOW I BEG YOU, HAVE SOME HUMANITY! LOOK AT THE SIZE OF IT" Tails screamed as Shadow grabbed him.
"Come on Tails be a man. I mean a small child wouldn't act like this it's just a roller coaster."
"JUST A ROLLERCOASTER?!?!?!?! IT'S THE BIGGEST ONE IN THE WORLD WITH A ONE MILE DROP?!?!?"
"Yup and we're going on it." Shadow said gleefully dragging Tails towards it.
"Poor, Poor Tails, I guess I should visit him after school. To give him his homework and stuff and see how he's fairing. Hey Tikal why don't you come with me after school to see him"
She shrugs "Sure, Its not like I have any friends here or anything so why not." The bell goes off and both girls head towards there next class.
The roller coaster comes to a halt and Shadow has a look of extreme terror Tails on the other hand jumps happily out of his chair.
"That was the coolest shit in the entire world. Right Shadow." Shadow doesn't respond, but continues to stare into space. "Shadow? Shadow?"
"AHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHHH! AHHH! AHHH! AHHHHHH!" Shadow suddenly starts to scream.
"Um...Shadow its...over."
Shadow stops screaming and clutches his heart. "Oh my God I almost had a heart attack!"
"So what's next?"
"I almost had a heart attack and all you can say is what's next. There is no next we're going home."
"Can I drive?" Shadow stares at Tails as if he had another head.
"You mean my baby. The one I won't even let Sonic my twin brother touch the wheel. You must still be really sick"
"Well it was worth a try." Tails sighed as he entered the passenger seat." Shadow starts the car and blazes on the street.
"So Tikal where are you from." Cream asked as she grabbed her lunch try and sat next to her.
"Oh I from Angel Island. It's quite far from here though at least a 8 hour drive or 2 hour flight to here."
"So what's it like?"
"Oh it's the most beautiful place in the world really. It has tons of trees and lakes, rivers and mountains. I'd really like to show it to you." The girls rush down their food as and head towards their Physics class.
Several hours later Cream burst out off the school doors followed closely by Tikal.
"So I finally get to see this 'Tails' that you talk so much about" Tikal Says as she and Cream walk down the street.
"Yeah honestly he's the greatest guy in the world."
"Is he your boyfriend?"
"Him? No we just really good friends."
"Oh sure. I didn't mean..." Tikal says bowing her head with embarrassment"
Cream dismisses it with a wave of her hand "Don't worry about it. Your not the first person to ask me that."
"Really?"
"Yeah in fact just this morning another girl asked me a similar question." For the next few minutes the girls chatted until the came across a large house with a huge garage.
"He lives here, he must have a huge family!"
"Nay he lives with his three older brother, but now with them at University he mostly stays here alone except when they come every other week."
"He must be lonely."
"Not really he's use to it and people often spend the night here. Any way what are we just doing standing in front of the house lets ring the bell." She says as she press a large orange button.
A few seconds later a voice shouts I'm coming followed by a set of footsteps and then Tails opening the door. "Oh. Hi Cream." He greets he turns his attention to Tikal "And who is th--" He stops and stares dumbstruck at her Tikal after several seconds he spits out "Ti-Tikal?"
"Yes that me, but how do you know my name. I don't think we've meet before, but you do look someone I knew along time ago."
"Hm maybe this will refresh your memory." He shows her his two tails.
She stares at him for a moment before yelling "T2!" and giving him a hug. Cream can only watch the two of them with a surprised expression. "You two know each other?"
With a grin Tails replies "Yeah she was my best friend and neighbor before I moved here all those years ago. We've managed to keep into, but she never told me she was moving here."
"How was I suppose to know you lived her in this town. And besides it been some time since we've actually seen each other face to face." She says grinning still hugging him.
"Yeah" He replies remembering the day.
Flash back 10 years earlierA young Tails sits on the outside stairs of an old house watching looking anxiously towards the street as if he is looking for some one or something. After several seconds of waiting he sighs and heads towards the car.
"Are you ready Tails?" Knuckles asked as he approaches the car.
With a sigh he replies "Yeah I guess?"
"Don't little bro you find plenty of new friends in knothole." Sonic says as he walks towards the car.
"I guess so." He sighs again
"What's with all the sighing what's wrong?"
"She didn't come like she said she would."
"I don't worry about maybe it slipped her mind. If you want we can drop by her house to say good-bye."
Tails shakes his head. "No maybe it would be to pain for her that's why she didn't come." He says as he enters the car. "Come on Shadow I'm ready lets go." The engine starts and when they are about to leave a voice yells "WAIT. PLEASE WAIT!" calls an orange echidna closely followed by a blue one. Shadow stops the car and exits it.
"See I told you she'd come." Sonic says
When Tikal finally arrives she gasps and manages to force out. Sorry I'm late (Pant) (Pant) But I didn't want you to leave with out my gift." She hands him a bracelet. "It's a friendship bracelet. I have one to." She says as she reveals her own "so no matter how far away we are will still have each other. I'm going to miss you," she says as she hugs him good-bye.
Tails hugs her back and afterwards then enters the car with a slight smile on his face. Tikal and Chaos wave until the car disappears from view. Tikal then breaks down cry on to Chaos. He holds her and comforts her for several minutes until she's calmed down enough and the head home."
End flashback
"You know I still have that bracelet." Tails says as he reveals it from under his glove. "I never took it off." At the sight of the bracelet a strange feeling passes through Cream for a moment. For several seconds Tikal and Tails stare at each other. Until Tails snaps out of it. "What are we doing out here why don't we go in."
"I can't. It seems like the two you guys have a lot of catching up to do and I don't want to interrupt. I just came to see how you were doing." Cream says as she starts to leave. Tails shrugs before him and Tikal enter the house and closes the door behind them.
As Cream walks home she ponders the feeling she felt several moments ago. What was that about, She thought, its not like Tails is my boyfriend why should I be jealous about a stupid bracelet?" She feeling a little better as she walked home