Ch. 2: A big disappointment.

"La la la..." Amy sung, as she was getting ready for her old friends to come over. She was exited, seeing that she hasn't seen them in a few weeks. "This'll be a party!" She said out loud.

Sora came in rubbing his eyes. "What are you talking about, Amy?" He asked.

"Remember when I told you that you could meet my friends?" She asked.

"Yeah..."

"Well, I called all of 'em up last night, and they all agreed! Since I'm inviting so many over, I decided to just have a nice party."

"How many of them...are there?" Sora asked, a disturbed look on his face.

"Well, there's Tails, Knuckles, Cream, Rouge, Shadow, and of course Sonic!" Amy said cheerfully.

"Ugh...maybe this wasn't such a good idea..." Sora said under his breath.

"Something wrong?" Amy asked. Before Sora could say something, her doorbell rung.

"Ack! They are here already?! I'm not even done with the...grr! I'll be back Sora!" She ran to the large red door and opened it. Tails was standing at the door.

"Hello Amy!" Tails said happily.

"Where's Sonic?" She quickly asked.

"He said he had some business to take care of, and he said that he may come to you're party a bit late. He also told me to tell you not to worry, that he will come unlike last time."

"Well that's good to know..." Amy sighed. "Why does he always do this to me?!" She yelled.

Before anything else happened, Cream came to the door accompanied by Knuckles.

"Cream, Knuckles, nice to see you could come." Amy said.

"Thank you for inviting me to your party." Cream said politely.

"Why you're welcome Cream."

"Where's the others?" Knuckles asked as he sat on Amy's big pink couch.

"You, Cream, and Tails are actually early. I'm not even done getting things ready yet." Amy giggled.

"Do you need help before the rest arrive?" Asked Cream.

"Oh, I actually do! Come on Cream, I'll show you how you can help." Amy said as she walked into the kitchen and found Sora, who was still standing there.

"Amy, who's that?"

"Oh, that's my new friend Sora!" Amy replied. "Sora, meet Cream."

Cream looked up at Sora. "He looks like Sonic…" She thought as she shook his hand. 'Nice to meet you!"

Sora nodded weakly. "You too..."

"Hey, Sora, why don't you go meet the others, Knuckles and Tails."

Sora then walked into the living room, which was across from the kitchen. He sat on the couch next to Knuckles, who was sitting next to Tails. They were watching T.V.

"So you're Amy's new friend?" Knuckles asked. "I'm Knuckles the Echidna and this is Tails. I heard you looked a lot like Sonic. Amy was right." He smirked.

No one arrived for nearly an hour. Everyone thought that the others-Sonic, Shadow, and Rouge-weren't coming. Just as soon as Amy was to announce that the rest weren't coming, the doorbell rung. It was Rouge.

"Sorry I'm late." She winked. "I just had to steal this gorgeous jewel from the bank. Where's Shadow?"

"Who knows?" Amy said, her mind only focusing on Sonic.

"Oh well. Hey-y is that Sonic? No, That's that new dude you were talking about." Rouge said as she walked towards Sora, Knuckles, and Tails.

"Hey boys, nice to see ya." She said.

Knuckles smiled crossing his arms. "Long time no see Rouge. How's it going?"

"Nothing new, nothing old. Make room for me." Rouge demanded as Knuckles moved toward Tails.

Sora kept quiet, not really wanting to do with anyone but he didn't want to be rude and go back to the guest room. He continued to watch the all anime DVD that they were watching. Soon, everything was ready yet Amy didn't open to Kitchen door. She's not going to open it until Sonic arrives, it seems.

After a few minutes of seemingly endless silence from the kitchen, the doorbell rung yet again, and the Kitchen door flew open. Amy ran to the door, picked up some flowers from a vase near the T.V and opened the door.

"Sonic!" She said as she hugged the one to come to the door. "I've missed you so much!" She said. When she looked up she realized it was not Sonic, it was Shadow. Amy quickly stepped back knowing she made a terrible mistake.

"Oh Shadow! I'm so sorry! I thought you were Sonic again!" She said, appearing to be extremely embarrassed.

Shadow had a look of anger in his eyes. "Whatever..." He said as he pushed Amy out of the way.

Amy quickly ran back to the kitchen with the flowers and closed the door.

"I can't believe it..." Amy said, her voice was shaky.

"Amy..." Cream said shyly.

Amy fell to the ground. "Sonic always does this to me!" she cried. Amy slammed her fist with the flowers in them against the floor. "Sonic hates me and I love him! Every time I get a chance to share happiness with him, he takes it away! It's not fair! Does he even know what he's doing to me...?"

Cream walked over to Amy and sat down next to her to comfort her. She knew she was too young to understand, but she didn't like seeing Amy upset. "...I don't think Sonic didn't want to come to your party...he probably had so many things to do that he just couldn't go."

"...But he always avoids me..." Sobbed Amy.

Cream then stood up. "I believe in Sonic, we all do! Sonic would never do something to hurt someone else. He has to come to this party. It's not complete without him..."

Amy wiped her tears away and looked at Cream. "My life's not complete without him, Cream…"