The rest of the night Amy made a point to avoid Sonic, and still, he couldn't figure out why. But the werehog didn't mind this much because it gave him some time to himself without worrying that Amy would be somewhere, watching him. As the morning sun chased away the night, Sonic reverted back to his hedgehog form in the living room of Tails' house.

"Ahhh, back to normal!" He cracked his back and waited for his bones to settle back into place.

Tails appeared in the doorway to the kitchen. "There's the Sonic I know."

Sonic laughed. "Yeah…Tails, did you happen to see Blaze anywhere tonight?"

Tails flew over with his tails and plopped down on the couch and started playing with the Xbox 360 controller that was sitting on the couch cushion. "No, I didn't, why do you want to know?"

The blue hedgehog put his hands behind his back. "It's just, I haven't seen or talked to her in almost a week."

"You're worried about her?"

Sonic looked around the room.

"Amy isn't here listening Sonic, I checked."

"Are you absolutely sure?"

"Yes."

"Promise?"

"I promise, now just tell me what you were going to say."

The Blue hedgehog sighed. "Yes, I'm worried about her."

The fox stopped fiddling with the controller. "Sonic, I know how you feel about her."

"No!" He replied. "I'm her friend and, I'm just worried, as a friend would be!"

Tails chuckled a bit. "Alright, why don't you try and call her?"

"Alright, I will!"

Sonic picked up his iPhone and went into his room and closed the door. The sun was shining through his window. He sat on his bed, breathed in and looked at his phone. He went to his contacts and tapped on Blaze the Cat. He took a second to look at her picture. It was a photo of her he took one year for Halloween when she was going as a Gryffindor Hogwarts student. It was funny, with her being an actual witch and all.

The blue hedgehog blinked and remembered why he was here. He tapped on her cell phone number and put the phone to his ear. It rang a few times before Blaze picked up on the other side of the line.

The purple cat was laying in her bed in her room, surrounded by stuffed animals. She had to reach over them to get to her phone that was sitting on her night stand. She pressed "Talk" just before it went to voicemail.

"Hello?" She asked tiredly.

Sonic became alert. His ears stood straight up. "Ah- Hi Blaze, I was afraid you wouldn't pick up." He said this quickly, otherwise he might have blanked out.

The cat yawned. "I'm sorry about that." She suddenly coughed hard.

"Are you okay?" Sonic asked.

The cat got a tissue and coughed into it. The coughing fit left some mucus in it. Blaze moaned and threw the tissue away in the garbage bin her parents had moved into her room so that she wouldn't have to get up.

"Um…I haven't seen you lately."

"Oh." Blaze snuggled deeper under her covers. "I went on a trip with my parents, and I caught a sickness while we were there, and, it hasn't really gone away yet."

"You sound sick." Sonic's ears went down.

"I know…I've been tired all night…There's probably a ton of work that I've missed…"

The blue hedgehog's heart started to beat a little faster.

"Y'know…I could get all the stuff you missed and give it to you, if you want."

"Really?" Blaze started to smile. "You'd do that for me?"

"Yeah."

Blaze started to blush, but it was unclear whether it was from bashfulness or from her fever. "Thank you Sonic."

Sonic smiled also, blushing a little. "You're welcome. I hope you feel better soon, I would really like to see you in person."

"I think it won't last for much longer, then I'll be back at school and we can see each other then. Okay?"

"Okay."

"I'm going to go to sleep now, I'm sorry if you wanted to talk, but I'm just too tired."

"Oh no, it's okay, I just wanted to know why you haven't been at school."

"Okay then…Goodbye."

"Bye."

The phone clicked off and Sonic laid back on his pillow. It was nice to have somewhat of a conversation with her without the worry of Amy looking over his shoulder. His mind turned over to Amy. He hoped he didn't hurt her with what he said the other night, but he felt it was something that she needed to hear from him. She didn't really have any other interests besides him. Sonic hoped that giving her a little tough love would broaden her interests and give her another thing to focus on. After all, he was a werewolf and she was a vampire. Werewolves don't live forever as vampires do, and with that, what would she do when he inevitably passed on?

The Blue hedgehog turned over and looked at the baby neutral chao plush that lay on his pillow. He reached over and pulled it in close to snuggle as he fell asleep.


Shadow stood on the Rose's porch with a black umbrella protecting him from the sun. He sighed and rang the doorbell. Mrs. Rose opened the door after a few moments. She was a curvy pink hedgehog with long pink hair, pale skin and dark blue eyes that looked around 28 even though she was MUCH older than that. That day she was wearing a black lounge dress. Her long nails were painted Midnight Blue and she had dark blue eyeshadow that matched her eyes, along with mascara that made her eyelashes look fuller.

"Hi Shadow, come in, come in, your mother called and told me you were coming."

And with that invitation, Shadow could cross the threshold normally keeping vampires out of people's homes, even other vampires' homes. He walked into the hallway and took his umbrella down and sat it leaning against the wall. He kept looking at Mrs. Rose.

"Amy is upstairs in her room."

"Thank you, Ms. Lily." He politely told her and headed up the stairs. He walked to Amy's bedroom door and knocked on it. "Hello?"

The Evanescence music paused and Amy opened up the door. "Shadow! I didn't know you were coming over." She exclaimed.

"I'm not disturbing you, am I?" The male vampire asked.

The pink hedgehog shook her head. "Oh no, I was just reading some magazines, you can come in."

"Door open!" Amy's mom called from downstairs.

"Okay mom!" Amy replied. She hissed slightly and let Shadow into her room.

Amy's room was pink, really pink. Dark pink, light pink, every kind of pink. But her furniture was black, giving a stark contrast to it. The furniture was elegant and goat skulls hung from the ceiling. Amy's coffin was sitting on a short legged rectangular table and there were steps leading up to it. There were posters of Emo and Gothic Metal bands up on the walls and on the ceiling. She had two pink and black bean bags sitting on the floor in the middle of the room that had magazines and books sprawled out around them, and her bookshelves only held more. There weren't any windows.

"Come, sit in a beanbag, I don't bite. She started to laugh a bit.

Shadow however, didn't laugh and just sat down in one of the bean bags. "Hi." He greeted.

"Hi, did you come over to hang out?" Amy asked.

"My mom told me to stop playing Skyrim all the time and told me to go help you. Your mom apparently told her about what went on Sunday."

Amy looked down at her lap. "She did, did she?" She sighed. "Yeah, Sonic told me to stop stalking him."

The black and red hedgehog tried to cross his legs and looked at her through his glasses rather than over them. "Amy, do you seriously think that stalking someone is going to get them to like you?"

"Well…"

"Well what?"

"I can't help it, it's just something that vampires d-"

"Stop!" Shadow sighed and held up his hands.

"What?"

Shadow's face now was an irritated frown. He then put his right hand over his face and shook his head. "I fucking knew you would use that as an excuse."

"It's not an excuse-"

"Yes it is!"

"Stop raising your voice at me!"

"I have to, it's the only way anybody can ever get you to listen to them!"

"I will listen!" She started to tear up. "Don't yell at me…"

The male vampire sighed and lowered his voice. "Okay, is this better? I didn't mean to make you cry."

The female vampire sniffed. "It's better…"

"What I wanted to explain to you is that, the stalking thing. While it is true that vampires DO stalk for prey. It is abnormal to stalk for any other reason. Do you understand?"

Amy was wiping her eyes. "I thought being a vampire made my pursuit after Sonic seem normal."

"Nope." He shook his head. "Now let me ask you something important. Look at yourself, take a moment to think about what you are doing. Why are you harassing him like this?"

"I just want to be around him…"

"But don't you think you're taking it too far?"

"No."

"Amy, you're way into the "creepy" territory."

"'I'm not creepy!"

"Hey, I'm just telling the truth."

Amy just sat there looking at her hands. "Sonic has never told me that I'm being creepy." She suddenly looked up at him with an angered expression on her face. "How do you know he thinks that? You aren't Sonic."

Shadow moved his sitting position in the bean bag. "I don't. I'm just saying that if I were him that's what I would think."

"Why should I believe you?"

"Well, as a more experienced vampire, and person in general-"

""Experienced?" All you do is play video games and sleep!"

Shadow leaned back with a guilty and shocked look on his face. "How do you know that?" He asked.

Amy started to blush. "Um, well, I…"

"You, you do this to me too?"

"Sometimes…"

"Amy!" Shadow grit his teeth.

"I'm sorry!"

Amy's mom could be heard from downstairs. "Is everything all right up there?!"

Shadow poked his head out the doorway to Amy's room. "Yes Ms. Lily!"

"Are you sure? I heard yelling-"

"Yes mom! We're okay!" Amy replied. "We're just playing Monopoly!"

"…Alright, I just heard yelling and I was wondering if I would have to come up there."

"You don't have to!"

Shadow sighed. " Okay, One. More. Question. To get my point through your thick skull."

"Hey!" Amy exclaimed.

The black and red hedgehog covered her mouth with his hand quickly. "Shhhh!" He took his hand away. "Listen very carefully."

The pink hedgehog nodded, even though she knew he was talking down to her; which she hated when people did that, but she stayed quiet this time.

"Amy, you're wasting your time. Tell me this: Have you ever received any sort of reciprocation? Stop annoying him like this now, or else in the future this could escalate into something large, and you could get in a whole lot of trouble." Shadow asked and told her in his clear, dark voice. "Do you understand?"

Amy sat there for a moment to take in the male vampire's words. The more she thought, the more she realized that his words did make sense. Sonic never really seemed to return her affection in the same way she has given it to him. He had always, in the times that he had given her affection back, given it in the "friend" type of way, like how friends would interact with each other.

No! That can't be! If that was true it would mean that she had wasted YEARS of her life trying to chase after a boy that she would have never caught in the first place. No! There must be-

"Amy, are you okay?" Shadow asked.

"HE'S JUST SHY!" Amy yelled out loud suddenly. She was now out of other options, she had come to her last resort.

Shadow jumped a little at her sudden outburst. "But is he though?" He asked.

The pink vampire hedgehog glanced over at him with tears forming in her eyes, she then looked down at her knees and tried to keep her composure together. This lasted for almost a minute before Amy put her face in her hands and started to sob.

"HEEEEEEEHHH, heeeehhhhh!" She sobbed and coughed.

Shadow sat there looking at her, being not sure what to do. He wasn't so good at the "comforting" thing, or caring about other people in general. (Except for his mother, of course.) People would say that his undead heart was as cold as his skin was to the touch of non-vampires. But…He could try.

The hedgehog picked up the beanbag he was sitting in and shuffled closer to her. He thought maybe putting his arm around her would help? Shadow did to and tried to look at her face through her hair.

"Amy-"

"Don't touch ME!" She hissed and pushed his arm off of her. Her eyes were a vivid scarlet.

He backed away. "Okay, I just thought you needed someone to hug."

"I don't 'need' anyone or anything! …Just leave me alone, please!" She hugged her knees to herself and continued to let her emotions out.

Shadow sat there for a few more minutes before he figured that he should go. He got up and side-stepped out her bedroom door into the hallway and headed downstairs. Amy's mom was now watching a Chick Flick movie. He didn't know or really care what it was.

"So, which one of you won?" She asked.

"Um…Your daughter…is upstairs…crying in her room." He said.

"What?" What happened?" Lily got up out of her chair and headed towards the stairs.

"…I beat her at Monopoly…" He mumbled.

Lily started to go up the stairs. "Amy? Amy what's wrong baby?" She called to her daughter.

Shadow took this chance to grab his umbrella and casually slip out of the house and run back home before his mother would most likely be getting a phone call from Amy's house.


Lily was in Amy's room trying to calm her daughter down, there were tissues all over the floor and a box of tissues next to the both of them. Amy had burrowed her face into her mom's clothes and was still crying heavily.

"And then, he asked me if Sonic returned my feelings, and he made me realize that Sonic has totally friend-zoned me and he d-doesn't wanna be my boyfriend; he just wants to be my FRIEND! A-and that means w-we'll never get married, or have children, or be together!"

Lily gave her another tissue and patted her back. "Shhhhh. I know you like this boy but it's not the end of the world if he doesn't go out with you."

"YES IT IS! HE'S THE LOVE OF MY LIFE MOM! YOU DON'T GET IT!"

"Amy," Lily's voice turned stern. "Don't yell at me, I'm right here."

"I'm sorry…"

Lily sighed. "Amy, you're 14, I know it sounds bad to say but, I think that you're a bit too young to be thinking about spending the next 80 years of your life with the first boy you have feelings for."

"But I want to."

It was clear that she wouldn't get through to her daughter easily. "Amy, why don't you come downstairs and watch a movie with me?" She suggested to get Amy's mind off Sonic.

Amy shook her head. "No thank you, I just think I'm gonna go to bed…" She got up and walked towards her coffin. She opened up the lid and stared at the pink satin that lined the inside for a moment, it looked duller than usual. The pink hedgehog slowly climbed into it and lay her head on her pillow, hugging a stuffed hedgehog in her arms.

Lily walked over to the coffin and gave her daughter a kiss on the forehead. "Sleep well." She closed the lid of the coffin and turned off the lamp that was on. She left the room silently.

Amy lay crying quietly in her coffin before she had eventually cried herself to sleep.