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Dear Amy Rose,

You told me that story again today. You know the one where we first met and told me you loved me and it really got me thinking about when I knew. When was that first moment I fell for you and really truly loved you.

I'm trying to pin point when it happened and it's really hard. Everyone seems to claim it's this magical moment that changes everything but I'm not so sure if I agree with that. Given the importance of it, you would have thought it'd be easier to figure out.

I definitely know when I realised that I loved you. That was an unexpected shock to the system (the good kind) so it's a lot simpler to remember and more fresh in my mind. But when I actually fell in love with you? I'm not sure.

Did I even fall? That makes it sounds so quick and instant, but I definitely don't think it was. I'm pretty sure I would notice if one moment I didn't love you and the next I did. That's the kind a thing a hedgehog would remember, ya know?

It's definitely somewhere between the day we met and the day I realised that my heart wasn't my own anymore. I say that like it's some profound discovery but I gotta start somewhere right. So let's start from the beginning.

Surely it can't be the first day because I didn't even know you so how could I have been in love with you? You were just this kinda cute girl that claimed to love me. I mean, I know there's hundreds of stories about people falling in love at 'first glance' and even you swear by it, but it doesn't sound like something that could happen to me. I think I need more than that.

I do love hearing about how you fell in love with me before we even (officially) met though. It's a little selfish I know, but I love that your feelings for me have never faltered from day one. Even when I ignored you and ran from the truth. I still don't know if I'll ever truly make up for that.

Back to the first glance thing. I'm sure it happens to people but I think that for me personally, it's a little too fast and unfamiliar. Ironic considering I'm the fastest thing alive but I guess that can't be helped.

Even as I consider the options, I think that I care for you more now than I did when I first found out I was in love with you. I don't know how that plays into everything but it's late and I'm started to feel like I'm swimming in my own thoughts so I should go.

This whole ramble might seem strange and pointless but rest assured, it is all totally and completely your fault.

How you ask?

Well.

I don't actually know yet ... but I'm positive by the time you read this I'll have thought of some fool proof way to place the entire blame on you. You're welcome, and apologies are accepted in the form of chilli dogs.

Yours now and forever,

Sonic the Hedgehog

P.S.

If I know anything then it's that the being in love is so much better than the falling in love

So I couldn't sleep and I still don't have a reason to blame you yet but I do think I've finally worked out when I fell in love with you.

I've come to the conclusion that maybe I did fall after all - but like, just super slowly - and that I have been from the moment we met.

Of course that would mean that I loved you when I met you which is weird but ... maybe a part of me did, a little. And I grew to love you more and more every day until it was such an integral part of me that I couldn't ignore it anymore.

I think maybe I'm still falling, even now. I know that I love you more than I did yesterday, and that I will never love you less than I do right now. So if I keep falling, then I guess I can only fall more and more in love with you.

And if it is true then I hope I never hit the bottom.

Yours now and forever,

Sonic the Hedgehog

P.S.

Whatever the truth is, if I know what love is then it is because of you.