As the morning wore on, Amy and Shadow put up decorations, made food, blew up balloon and all of the things people usually do for parties. Once they had finally finished, Shadow flumped into a big armchair.

"Phew! It's finally done!" he said, wiping his forehead.

He looked up at the clock, sitting on Amy's wall. The time was 3:30pm.

"Only half an hour left to get ready!" Amy squealed. "Well it's never happened before, but I'm gonna have to go extra fast!" she said and ran upstairs.

About 20 minutes later, the doorbell rang. Shadow blinked.

"Aaaah! Someone's early! Quick Shadow, answer the door, I'm not ready yet!" Amy's voice screamed, in a girly way, from upstairs.

Shadow chuckled and went to open the door. Tails was standing on the doorstep, carrying a medium sized present.

"Hey Tails!" Shadow greeted him.
"Hey there Shadow, sorry I'm early. I wasn't sure how long it'd take me to fly here." Tails replied, pointing to his plane, the Tornado, sitting in Amy's driveway.

"No problem. Better early than never!" Shadow said, and let Tails in.

"Amy's still getting ready." Shadow said quietly, pointing upstairs.
"Ah well, that's Amy for you." Tails replied.

"I can hear you from up here ya know!" came a voice from upstairs.
Tails and Shadow chuckled. They both sat down and Tails placed his present on a table left unclear, which he guessed was to put the presents on.

"Do you want a drink Tails?" Shadow offered.
"Yeah please! I'm parched!" Tails answered. "Have you got any WKDs?"
"Yeah but aren't you a bit young?"
"I'm more grown up than any other 16 year old!"
"That's true. Ok then. I guess you're mature enough." Shadow said, and handed Tails his alcipop.

A few minutes later, Amy came downstairs. She was wearing a pretty black top with a maroon coloured skirt. She also wore the necklace, Shadow had bought for her, and little back heels.

Shadow and Tails stood up.
"Wow Amy! You look beautiful!" Shadow remarked.
"Thanks" Am replied, blushing a little bit.

Just outside, Sonic was sitting just behind Tails' plane, with a small gift wrapped box next to him. He couldn't seem to conjure up the courage to go in. He sat there, trying to reassure himself to go in.

"Ok…ok you can do this! I mean, you'll never know what her answer will be unless you go, so what other choice do you have eh? Oh…but what if she says no? Then what'll happen?"

Just then he heard someone approaching. It was Knuckles and Rouge. Knuckles saw Sonic and went over to him.

"Sonic? What are you doing out here? Isn't the party indoors?" he asked.

Sonic jumped.

"Oh! Knuckles don't do that! You made me jump!" Sonic said.
"Sorry!" Knuckles said.
"Are you alright Sonic?" Rouge asked.
"Yeah…I'm fine. Come on. Let's go inside."

Sonic picked up his gift and the three walked to Amy's front door. Rouge rang the bell. Sonic stood behind Knuckles, so he'd be unseen if Amy opened the door. Sure enough, Amy answered.

"Hi guys! I'm glad you could come!" Amy greeted them and let them in. She blinked as she spotted Sonic.

"Sonic! You're here too!"

Sonic redeemed himself and smiled.

"Of course I am!" he replied.

Amy hugged him.
"It's really great to see you!" she said.

Sonic gasped a little, but returned the hug.

"You to Amy…you too."