UPDATED 22/12/08 – certain things have been corrected and/or re-written to what I believe is better

-Here is Chapter 2, thanks for all your reviews ;-) Hope you like it-

Chapter 2

The Plan

"A girl! Really." Amy's gaze turned razor-sharp. "Well, tell me about her: what's her name, how'd you guys meet…"

"Why are you interested all of a sudden?" Sonic inquired, feeling uncomfortable. "You weren't like this when I told you about my guy friend."

"Well…" Amy couldn't really answer that to his face. How about because I'm hopelessly in love with you, and I'd like to know everything about this girl you're dating so I can prove to you that I'm better for you than she is? she thought.

Sonic didn't wait for her to give him a proper answer. "Anyway, I prefer to respect the privacy of the girl I'm seeing and keep the details of our relationship to myself."

"Even to me – one of your oldest and best friends?" she pushed.

"Sorry," he offered. "It's just how I am."

"I bet you would tell Tails or Knuckles," Amy accused him, a little harshly. "You never hide anything from them!"

"Amy, I can assure you that they won't be hearing anything from me either. Alright? You need to calm down."

"Calm? I am calm!" She jabbed a finger at him. "I can't believe you'd be so incredibly self-absorbed as to think that I wouldn't be calm if I ever found out that you were dating somebody!"

Now Sonic raised his eyebrow at her as her voice reached near-hysteria.

"All this saving the world business has completely gone to your head and inflated your ego! You need to be taken down a notch, that's what I think! I mean, seriously!" Amy threw her arms up in the air.

"Amy," Sonic interrupted her ranting. "I can't say I know why you're acting like this, but I didn't mean to offend you." He hesitated before putting his hand on her shoulder.

Amy closed her eyes and took in a deep breath. Then she blew it out, and looked into Sonic's eyes. "It's just…the way you're hiding this from me, I can't help but wonder if the person you're seeing is Sally, or-"

"It's not Sally or anyone you've met…"

"Thank God," Amy muttered.

"…yet," Sonic finished. "And I say yet because…well…I'd like you and the others to meet her soon. We've been dating for a few months, after all."

She flinched at the 'months' part, but managed to put on a smile for him. "I'm sure we'll get along great." Wow…did that sound as phoney out-loud as it did in my head?

Sonic returned the smile, and he leaned in to hug her. "There's the positive Amy Rose that I know and love."

Amy sighed and was just wrapping her arms around him when Sonic's wristwatch began to make beeping noises. He pulled away from her and peered down at it. "Darn. I'm late."

She sighed. "Better go, then."

Sonic nodded. "It was great seeing you, Amy. We'll have to go grab a coffee or something sometime." Then he sped off in a gust of wind, leaving Amy by herself.

She leaned against the alley wall weakly, the façade that she had put on in front of Sonic gone. Thoughts swirled in her head. Sonic with another girl…Sonic kissing another girl…it was too hard to fathom. It was supposed to be Sonic with Amy, Sonic kissing Amy! How was this possible? They were simply meant to be!

Amy left the alley and returned to the busy sidewalk angrily, her face a new shade of cherry-red and her green eyes dark. "Sonic has sure got nerve," she growled quietly. "First he tells me that he's got a date with some hussy, then he pretends not to know about my feelings for him!" Her hands tightened into fists at her sides. "I have to show him what this is like…I have to make him feel what I feel at this moment…but how?" Amy looked up at the sky, as if the answer was written up there somewhere.

Wait. Out of nowhere, an idea struck her like a bolt of lightning. What if I made him…jealous? Yes…jealousy! "That's what I'll do." A devilish smirk crossed Amy's lips. "I'll get him nice and jealous, and he'll realize – finally – that he can't live without me! It's perfect, absolutely perfect."

And now to get a date with another guy.

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