So I meant to post this on Monday but it was Thanksgiving in Canada, then my wifi went out on Tuesday... without further ado, I present to you, the next chapter of I'll wait for you in the garden.
To Sonicfanandotherstuff, Amy didn't die, yet *evil smirk*. Y'all will just have to wait and see what happens!
The air conditioner in the classroom made my fur stand up the moment I opened the door. I shivered ever so slightly, careful not to let the few other kids present notice that I was cold. My eyes travelled over to the back corner of the room, a seat in the natural spotlight. The seat called out to me, pulling me over to it.
Huge mistake, but I didn't know it yet, of course.
I sat down and took my phone out, since I had nothing else to do. The class wouldn't start for another 10 minutes. What else would a teenager do let's be real here? Stare at the students m slowly trickle in?
Eventually, just after a mere 5 minutes, the constant tapping at the small screen got boring and I just put my phone down with a sigh. Ugh I sigh way too much.
The moment I looked up, the door flew open. A gush of wind and some footsteps rushed through the frame and a coffee up appeared at the desk at the front. Great the teacher's here how. Let me just say this, I don't hate the teacher, it's just those types of teachers, the ones that honestly try way too hard to act like the students they teach even though they're triple the age. The teachers that make a huge entrance on the first day, in a trenchcoat or something, carrying an umbrella and a cup from some overpriced coffee joint.
A/N: Ok that paragraph was weird, idk why I wrote that... it was like 4am and I was bored
"Sorry I'm late guys!" the purple weasel said with an accent. I couldn't tell what accent it was but that didn't matter. "The line at-"
I tuned out what he was saying, as did quite a large percentage of the other students. I rest my chin on my palm and let out a breath. Just get straight to the point dude! Could this be going by any fucking slower?!
"Anyway, I'm Mr. Nack, and welcome to Mobian History 11!"
Finally. It only took like 5 minutes of talking about your coffee to get to introducing yourself. Chaos!
"I hope we all get along in this class".
Oh. That line again.
"…and best wishes to you all and remember to take a course outline from the table at the front!"
Finally that's over. It has only been like, I don't know, 1 hour?! I'm starving!
~~~Timeskip~~~
"AHHHHH!" I loudly sighed in relief as I closed the front door to my house. I was already quite tired, even though I had only spent an hour at school. High school was a crazy place okay?!
Rob wasn't home yet, and neither was mom. Dad on the other hand, went out to get milk... 7 years ago. It wasn't like anything changed after he decided to abandon us though. Mom wanted me to have her last name and most of the income came from her as well.
I decided to just relax until I had to go pick up Rob from school, maybe eat some food as well. I only had a small apple for breakfast after all.
I walked into the kitchen and peered into the basket of fruit sitting on the counter. I sighed softly in disappointment. Still no strawberries, I thought, feeling a little disappointed. Oh right, I realized. Mom was going to go buy them after her shift. There was nothing else in the kitchen I could eat though. Or more accurately, there was nothing that I could eat without feeling a lingering sense of guilt for doing so. Oh the struggles of dieting!
I sat back down on the couch and debated for a little while on whether I should just go buy some strawberries or not. Munching on the taco shells in the pantry would probably satisfy my hunger, but it would most likely also include some guiltiness in that. Why did we even just have taco shells?! We don't even really eat tacos that much.
I took out my phone and turned it on. Perhaps mindlessly scrolling through social media would take my mind off my hunger. The first thing I saw when I turned on my phone was a message from my mom, telling me what time Rob's classes would end. There were a few other notifications as well, from games and my social medias. I also saw that Silver had tagged me in a meme and Cream was asking if I wanted to hang out sometime. A small smile tugged on my muzzle. At least I wouldn't be thinking about food right now.
~~~Timeskip~~~
The loud ringing of my phone shook me awake a while later. "7 chamadas perdidas. (Like the song by Vitão lol)" said a robotisized voice. I sighed as I sat up on the couch. who would be calling me this urgently right now? I noticed that my phone had fallen onto the floor while I was deep in my slumber. With the little energy present in me, I picked the device up and turned it on.
Fuck! I muttered under my breath. It was 12:30 now... and I was supposed to pick Roberto up from school... an hour ago. All those missed calls were from the school. FUCK!
An eighth call rung through, shaking me back awake from dozing off once more. I clicked the green button on the screen in a heartbeat and held it up to the side of my face, sighing "Hello" with as much energy as I was able to muster up.
"Nossa Amy! Onde estás?! Já te tenho esperando por 1 porra hora!" (My god Amy, where are you? I've already waited for you for ONE FUCKING HOUR!)
I huffed a little. Where did he learn that kind of language!? Mamãe was going to have to give Rob a good beating. But then again, if I had spent that much time waiting to be mad, I probably would have acted in the same way. "Não fala assim comigo carinho! Meu deus. Vou te apanhar agora". (Don't talk to me that way. My god. I'm going to pick you up right now)
"Vai logo!" (Hurry up)
I rolled my eyes. Hit-ê kâu-sí-gín-á! (That little dipshit).
~~~Timeskip~~~
It was already almost 1 pm by the time I got to the elementary school.
There my brother was, sitting on a bench outside the office, glaring at me with a pout and his arms crossed. "You fell asleep again didn't you? You do that way too much".
"And you need to stop hanging out with that kid, why did you swear at me over the phone? What was his name again, that kid that swears all the time? Memphis or M-" that kid cut me off.
"Memphis?!" he laughed. "His name is Mephiles".
I rolled my eyes. "Yeah. Him".
"Why?" Rob snickered.
I groaned. "You know why".
"Cause I said "fuck" on the phone?"
I rolled my eyes again. Duh!
"It's not like you don't say it all the time!"
"No I don't Rob!"
He rolled his eyes. "You yelled it this morning, and yesterday and-"
"Okay I get it now!" I snapped. "Are you hungry?"
His head full of messy blue quills bobbed up and down.
I nodded in response. "Let's go home first okay? Tell me what you want to eat"
"Uhh," he paused and stopped walking. "I just want some uh... I don't know"
"Let's just go home first," I ruffled my hands through his head. "I'll go get something for you okay?"
Rob stayed silent as we continued to walk.
"I'm sorry that I snapped at you earlier…" I broke the awkward silence between us.
He continued to blankly stare forward.
"Amelia…"
"Sim?"
"Nevermind".
We arrived back at our complex a few minutes later. A couple of kids were knocking about in the courtyard in the middle of the rows of townhomes. Rob seemed to have recognized one of the kids, a small black hedgehog a little shorter than him, with blue streaks in his quills.
"Rob!" the black hedgehog called out to my brother.
"I want pizza Amy!" he screamed, running off to meet his friend with a hug.
I sighed. Pizza again? We had that yesterday, and I was pretty sure I put on at least half a pound just from that one pepperoni slice I ate. "Fine," I growled to myself, reaching into my pocket to make sure I had money. "I'll just make a salad or something when I get back".
As I set off walking back out to the street, a sudden sense of happiness washed over me. I felt as though, something good was coming. I didn't know what it was though, after all, I pretty much had all the things I could ever want; good friends, a happy family with whom I have good relations with, good grades in school, an ex boyfriend that wasn't exactly the prince charming type... Oh okay. Maybe not the last one.
But still, that was all I really needed to be happy. The only real problem I had was my body image issues. I had always been an overweight kid, for as long as I could remember. One day though, I snapped out of it and began to diet, cutting calories here and there, neglecting to eat over 50% of the amount I used to eat. Even though my classmates and friends would tell me that I looked great, I never took it as a compliment. It was like they were pitying me, lying to me, the fat girl, that I was pretty. I knew they only said it to not hurt my feelings and all that bullshit.
I shook off the unhappy thoughts and continued on my way to a pizza joint a few streets away. The walk wouldn't take too long, probably 10 minutes at most. I smiled, putting in my headphones and turning on a jam to make the walk go faster, probably some hip hop or reggaeton or if I was feeling adventurous, maybe some Yurasian rap or something random and "out there" that Silver would listen to. He sure was one weird kid.
I knew the pizzeria was near as I smelled the scent of the dough and cheese crisping up in the wood fired oven and the sound of them crunching as they were being sliced and then thrown in a flat cardboard box. I really loved to eat pizza when I was Rob's age. Perhaps that was why I got so fat. I found comfort in pizza but in turn, I gained weight, leading to me not being able to make a lot of friends. God dammit those shallow little dipshits from grade 2!
"Ah!" the green crocodile being the counter smiled as I pushed the door open. "Bem-vindo de novo Amy!"
"Boa tarde Vector," I returned the smile. "How are you?"
He had a large grin on his face. "Vanilla and I got engaged last week! You can guess how I am".
"Well, congratulations!" I did my best to keep the small talk going. I was never good at that. That might be why I was so bad at making friends. Now why did I start the small talk? I mentally slapped myself. Stupid hedgehog! You know you're bad at this!
"Anyway Amy, what would you like?" Vector saved me from embarrassment.
"Oh um," I thought for a bit. What would my brother want? "1 pepperoni..." I muttered after thinking for a while. "...and a cheese I guess".
"Alright Amy, 10 Mobiens please".
"Isn't it 15 for 2 slices?"
Vector stiffled a small chuckle. "You're Cream's best friend. She's pretty much my daughter now that I'm marrying Vanilla. I'm giving you a discount".
"But that's not fair to the other customers!" I retorted. "You can't jus-"
"It's final," he cut me off. "10 Mobiens".
"Fine," I muttered, handing him a M/10 note. "I'll give you the 5 when I come in next time".
"Amy," he firmly stated. "I already told you. It's fine".
Before I could reply, he went to heat up the 2 slices for me, leaving me at the counter.
A large gush of wind nearly knocked me over as I exited the pizzeria. It weirded me out a bit, even though Station Square was along the coast. Large gushes of wind weren't uncommon. This gush however, seemed to have only been close to the ground, and it smelled weirdly nice? Like some sort of cologne or something. None of the trees seemed to be moving either. Perhaps I was just hallucinating from my lack of food. I knew I wasn't though. I didn't even feel hungry, and all I'd eaten was an apple over 4 hours ago.
I shook my head, ridding my mind of these oo-pe'h thoughts, and continued on my way back to my townhouse complex once again.
A/N: I don't really know how to translate oo-pe'h into English, or any other language for that matter cause it's one of those words that kinda only has a meaning in that language ya know? If anyone that speaks Hokkien can help me that would be appreciated :) -efngpo
Rob was inside Mephiles' living room when I got back to the complex, watching some cartoon or something on the large screen. The young black hedgehog with blue streaks in his quills was next to him, munching on some popcorn.
"Finally!" he cheered. "You took so long".
I rolled my eyes. "Yeah whatever. We're going home. Say goodbye to your friend".
The other hedgehog paused the video and waved to my brother and he waved back. "Let's watch the rest of it tomorrow".
Rob nodded. "Okay Mephiles. I'll see you at school tomorrow".
As I led my brother towards the front door, I nearly crashed into another black hedgehog. I jumped back, almost dropping the pizza. "Shadow?"
He glared at me before turning away. Typical Shadow. We never got along but for some weird reason, our brothers did.
I quickly dragged Rob out the door and went next door to our unit. I handed him the pizzas and went up to my room, shutting the door and drowned myself in a K-drama, neglecting the rumbling noise my stomach had been making since I left the elementary school.
"Amelia! Rob! Come help me get the groceries!" my mother's voice shook me back awake from my slumber.
I lazily lifted my head up from my desk and yawned, stretching my arms. "I'm coming mom!"
As I emerged from my room, I heard Rob's quick and soft footsteps rush to the front door. I descended downstairs and mad my way to the entrance, giving my mom a hug as I met her. "Você comprou os morangos?"
She handed a clear box filled with small red fruits. "I finally had time to go grocery shopping again".
I smiled and picked up the other bag that Rob didn't carry and went to the kitchen to set it down. I looked at the numbers on the stove, my eyes widening. IT'S 6:30 ALREADY!?
My mom noticed my expression and turned to me. "You okay Amy?"
I turned around and nodded.
"Don't tell me you skipped lunch again".
"No mom I didn't skip lunch".
"Amelia," she put her arms on my shoulders. "It's not healthy to skip meals".
A tear escaped my eye. "It's not healthy to be fat either".
She wrapped her arms around me. "You are fine baby".
I shook my head adamantly. "I'm gonna go back to sleep".
My mom continued to hold on to me. "Come on Rosadinha. At least eat a strawberry".
I sighed and popped one in my mouth. The rest of the night was a blur.
~~~Timeskip~~~
The morning was also a blur. I didn't remember anything except getting out of my bed and entering that cold air conditioned classroom again.
"Amelia? Amelia Rosetta?" I heard my name being called.
I groaned. "Here! Also, it's just A-"
Mr. Nack and every other head in the room turned their attention towards the door. It was wide open, and the bulletin board on the wall next to the frame crashed to the ground. A draft of wind could be felt flowing into the room, distorted by the tall figure under the frame.
The purple weasel spoke up first. "Yes can I help you?"
"Um... I think I'm in this class. Is this room 111?" the figure replied. The voice that emitted from him was so familiar to me, but I wasn't sure where I had heard it before.
I rubbed my eyes, trying to clear my vision. I was sure I had seen whoever was at the door before. Whoever I thought it was, it had been such a long time since I'd seen him last, whispering "I'll be back" before dashing off to the distance with his back towards me in a trail of blue dust? Wait... dust isn't blue! That could only mean...
"Sonic the Hedgehog?" my thoughts were confirmed by Mr. Nack's deep accented voice.
"The one and only," he replied with cocky smirk. I knew it. He was still so full of himself.
"Welcome to Mobian History 11. There's a seat at the back for you".
The blue hedgehog nodded in response and walked inside the room. His eyes met mine as he got nearer and nearer. I felt a chill travel down my spine, knocking my senses back to me. I noticed that he continued to glance at me with a neutral expression. He pulled the chair out from under the table and made a thud with his bag.
I blankly stared forwards as my last memory of him flashed through my mind...
"Are you excited for badminton?" my mom questioned, still staring ahead at the cars in front of us.
I paused for a bit. Was I excited? I kind of just decided to join baseball because I wanted to make friends. No. I needed to make friends.
"Uh," the uncertainty in my voice was obvious. I adjusted the vermillion baseball cap resting on my soft pink quills. "Yeah mom I'm super excited..." I trailed off.
She stiffled a laugh. "You know Rosadinha, não precisas ir se não qu-"
"Mamãe," I cut her off before she could finish. "I want to". Não tenho amigos né?
"If you say so," she continued to drive.
We soon stopped at a metal encased building. I could hear the many excited happy screams of the kids from inside, making a smile creep onto my muzzle at the many friendship opportunities that awaited me inside.
"Amy, we're here!" my mom turned around to face me.
I turned back to face her. "Tchau mamãe".
"Have fun! I'll be back to pick you up later".
I clutched my racquet, staring at the trail of green hinted dust as my view of mom got further and further away.
"You must be the new kid," I heard a deep female voice that resembled my mothers.
I turned around and was met with a tall rabbit with kind chocolate eyes looking at me.
"uh..." I kept my eyes on the ground.
"It's fine if you're shy hon, everyone's like that on the first day".
"oh uh..." words were unable to form in my mouth as she led me inside.
"I'm Miss Vanilla, one of the coaches here," she reached her hand out to me.
I hesitantly did the same. "I'm Amy".
She led me to where a few other kids were sitting and gestured for me to do the same. "We're going to test out your skill and place you in a group with other kids that are of the same level as you okay Amy?"
I nodded. I glanced over at the bench and observed the kids sitting down. There were 3 hedgehogs, 1 blue, another green and the last one black, and a red echidna sitting down. The echidna was sitting the furthest from me, cracking his knuckles and staring dead ahead with a glare. He looked like he would probably beat the crap out of you if you ticked him off even a little.
Then there was the green hedgehog. To be honest, he looked kind of attrac- I mentally slapped myself before I could finish as a faint hint of red creeped onto my muzzle. Ugh that muzzle of his! And those messy green quills and fur! I swore I could've melted right then and there, then Miss Vanilla would've had to give a long explaination to my mom. The rabbit seemed way too nice for that to happen to her. But still though. Ack he was so...
I directed my thoughts to the other 2 hedgehogs. The black one was sitting on the other side of the green one, arguing with the blue hedgehog beside him. He looked... cold, antisocial perhaps. He seemed like he could be a bit harsh at times but always spoke the truth.
Then there was the blue one. He had his arms crossed and a smirk plastered on his muzzle. He seemed like he wanted to slap the black hedgehog, but I wouldn't know for sure. He looked like the most approachable out of the bunch. I walked over and sat down beside him.
"Hi um," the shyness in my voice was obvious. "I- I'm new here, my name is Amy".
The black and green hedgehogs and the echidna ignored me while the blue one turned towards me. "Prazer Amy, meu nome é Sonic". He saw the uncertainty on my muzzle. "Oh I mean, nice to meet you. Sorry, I kinda just assumed you spoke Portuguese since most of the people I've met do so-"
"E- eu f- falo português," I managed to get out. "It's a pleasure to meet you too".
"So I was right!" he chuckled.
"Heh," I responded. "S- so, is it competitive at this club?" I stuttered a bit. I was never good at small talk.
"Eh," Sonic replied. "Depends on the level. The beginners are just here to have fun and practice, the intermediate kids are a bit more aggressive, like Knuckles," he gestured to the red echidna. "The kids in the advanced level go to competitions and what not. You get the picture".
I don't, bruh.
"I'm in the advanced level, but I'm not ready to go to competitions y-" the black hedgehog cut him off.
"Yeah of course Faker isn't ready to go to the competitions," he scoffed.
Sonic slapped the black hedgehog on the back of the head. "Shut it Faker. You aren't skilled to go either".
The green hedgehog spoke up. "Chaos! Will both of you just shut up?!"
My cheeks reddened at his voice which was weirdly deep but high at the same time. "Y- yeah, what uh-"
"Scourge," the green hedgehog smiled.
"Yeah. What Scourge said," his name brought another blush to my muzzle. "Y- you shouldn't a- argue about this. I- I'm sure you're both very skilled badminton players".
The black hedgehog crossed his arms. "Faker's just too stubborn to admit I'm better than him".
"Yeah whatever Shads," Sonic rolled his eyes.
"Shads?" I asked the black hedgehog.
He shot the blue hedgehog a dirty look before turning towards me with a emotionless expression. "My name's Shadow by the way. The blue one's Faker. The green one, you already know".
I saw Sonic roll his eyes. "Anyway, welcome to the club Amy".
The rest of the day passed in a blue and black blur. Yep, I was somehow skilled enough to be put into the advanced group with Shadow and Sonic, but I was nowhere near their level in terms of my skill. I had no idea what Vanilla saw in me that made her think that.
"Amy!"I turned around to see Sonic running up to me.
"Oh uh hi Sonic," I replied shyly, still facing a bit away from him. "What's up?" I casually said.
"Nothing," he calmly responded. "I was just playing soccer in the field outside by the blue orchids with Knux". He gestured to a patch of blue in the sea of green. "You wanna come with? I'll wait for you there".
"Thanks for the offer Sonic, but my mom's here," I felt a little sad. At least I made some new friends today.
"Alright then Amy," he chuckled. "I'll be waiting, in the garden, if you ever decide to hang around".
I flashed him a smile. "Okay Sonic. Até logo!"
"Até logo!"
I watched him wave as my mom's green sedan got further and further away from Green Hills Badminton Club.
Before I knew it, a year had passed. I had even gone to the greater Station Square badminton playoffs, much to my surprise and Sonic and I became best friends but eventually, all good things would come to an end. He moved out of Station Square a year after I met him, since his parents moved to Chun-nan for work. Station Square's economy wasn't doing too well at that time, but my mom was one of the few fortunate ones to be able to keep her job. The last time I saw him, he sped away from the badminton gym, in a long streak of blue.
Flashback ends.
"Amy?" I heard his voice, snapping my focus back to reality. "Is that you?"
"Oh um," a small breath escaped my lips and I turned to face him. "It's been a while hasn't it Sonic?"
He put his hand behind his head and rubbed his neck. "Yeah... it has".
"How was Chun-nan?"
The cobalt hedgehog looked at me with a surprised expression. "You remembered?"
I nodded. "Of course I did! We were like best friends!"
"Oh yeah..." he trailed off. "It was hard to get adjusted at first, not just the language and new country thing. Can't you believe they don't have chilidogs there?!" I laughed at the last part. "Are you still in the badminton club?" he added
"I left last year," I shook my head. "It's a long story. I don't really wanna talk about it right now..."
"Yeah that's fine," he nodded understandingly. "You know where room 103 is? I have French there next period".
I smiled, my cheeks warming unknowing to me. "I'll take you there. I'm in the room across the hall for Biology".
He seemed to have sighed in relief.
I half-assed my way through the rest of Mobian History, eager to get to Biology.
"Ready to go Sonic?"
He nodded.
"Hold on!" I yelled, pulling him into the ocean of fellow students walking down the hall.
We arrived at the end of the hall and parted ways.
"Amy!"
I turned around to see Silver leaning on the doorframe with his earbuds in, scrolling on his phone. "Oh hi Silver!" I turned back to see if Sonic had already gone in the class or not. He hadn't yet.
The white hedgehog seemed to have noticed where my eyes had traveled and glanced at me with a smirk. He gently nudged my shoulder. "Khuànn i iân-tâu. What's his name?" (A/N: Should be pretty clear what that means *winky face*)
"His name's Sonic. He used to live in Chun-nan. Probably speaks Hokkien too. You 2 would probably get along. Why?"
"Like I said, khuànn i iân-tâu. If I were you I would go for it".
I growled at him. "Shut up. I don't like him like that! He's just an old friend".
Silver continued smirking and walked into his chemistry class next door.
I felt another faint blush rise to my tan muzzle when I looked up to see that blue hedgehog with a cocky smirk waving at me. I calmly and quickly waved back, immediately turning to hide my reddened cheeks afterwards.
Perhaps Silver was right. Perhaps I did indeed think that way, only I would have no idea, I mean it would only be canon for me to do so (shitty 4th wall break *sighs). Only time would tell, if I did indeed think of my former best friend, as much more than a best friend.
A/N: Cliché ending right? I'll get more into Amy's past in the next chapter so stay tuned! Be sure to review and what not it would be appreciated :)
Also, in case y'all were wondering, Khuànn i iân-tâu (看伊緣投) means something like "he looks handsome" in Hokkien.
Até próxima vez ~efngpo