Shadow sat on his couch, staring at his piano. It was one of tow things she had left that reminded him of her. He got up and walked over to the piano. He looked at a portrait of her as he closed his eyes and began to play. As he gently played Moonlight Sonata his eyes welled with tears. He played the piece in it's entirety. When he was finished, he walked over to is couch and began to cry. He put a face in a pillow, trying to stop his tears. He continued to cry and mourn over the death of his friend. His phone then began ringing. He pulled himself together as he picked up the phone.

[Sniff ]"Hello?" Shadow said, speaking into his phone.

"Hello Shadow, are you OK? You don't sound that well." Vanilla softly said.

"It's OK, I'm fine. What is it?"

"Well, Vector and I are going out to dinner tonight, and I was wondering if you could babysit Cream for me?"

"Fine."

"Oh thank you Shadow. How much could I pay you?"

"There's no need to."

"Oh, well if your sure. Is 6.30 OK?"

"Yes. I'll see you later." He said, hanging up.

"Cream, Shadow is going to babysit you tonight, OK?"

"Yes Mommy!" Cream happily responded, getting ready to go to Charmy's house.

"OK Charmy, remember, the microphone is your right antenna." Tails said to Charmy via a microphone that transmitted to an earpiece in Charmy's right ear.

"OK Tails!" Charmy whispered, so Vector and Espio wouldn't hear. Cream then knocked at the door.

"I'll get it." Espio said, pausing his anime and getting up to answer the door. He opened it up to find Cream staring up at him.

"Hello Mr. Espio. Charmy said I could come over and play with him today." Cream said.

"Oh, then come in." Espio said, ushering her in. Cream walked in and asked where Charmy was.

"He's in his room at the moment. Its just up the stairs on the right." Espio said, pointing the way. Cream thanked him and walked up to Charmy's room. She knocked on the door of his room.

"Come in!" Charmy said, tidying up his room. Cream walked in to see his room wasn't neat.

"Oh, would you like some help Charmy?" Cream asked, beginning to pick up his vests from the floor.

"Oh no! That's alright!" Charmy said, taking the vests from Cream.

"We can play outside instead.!" He responded.

"Tag!" Cream said to Charmy. They had been playing outside for a while and were still having fun.

They ran around playing tag and eventually lied down on the soft viridian grass.

"Hey Cream." Charmy said to Cream.

"Yes?" Cream responded.

"If you wanted anything, what would it be?"

"Well, I don't really know. If there was anything, then maybe a Chao."

"Why?"

"Well, lately Mommy and Vector have started going out to do things together more, like getting coffee and going for walks."

"CHARMY!" a distant voice cried out.

"Uh oh." Charmy whispered to Cream.

"There you are!" The peppy bee said, flying over to hug Charmy.

"Hi Saffron!" Charmy wheezed out, due to the fact Saffron the Bee was on him. As she got up, she looked over at Cream and immediately jumped to conclusions.

"Are you trying to date Charmy?!" Saffron yelled at Cream.

"N-no." Cream said, cowering behind her ears.

"Oh, OK. I'm sorry if I made you upset. I'm Saffron!" She said, sticking her hand out.

"O-OK. I'm Cream." Cream said, sticking her hand out to have it presently shaken by Saffron.

"I need to go now Cream. I'll see you later." Charmy said, flying away with Saffron.

"Did you get that Tails?" Charmy asked Tails.

"Yeah. Thanks." Tails said as he took off his headset and went out to see a friend..

"Cream needs to be in bed by 8:15, you can help yourself to anything you need and we should be back by 9:00." Vanilla told Shadow as she grabbed her purse and put in her earrings.

"OK." Shadow said.

"Thank you for doing this for us." Vanilla told him as she walked towards the door to Vector. She waved goodbye and Shadow nodded. He closed the door and went to find Cream. He found her tiding her room up. She put her crayons into her pot and turned around to see Shadow.

"Oh, hello Mister Shadow." Cream said, running over to shake his hand. Shadow was amazed at how polite she was and stuck his hand out as well.

"Would you like some sugar, or some milk?" Cream asked Shadow. She was having an imaginary tea party with Shadow and a stuffed Chao.

"Milk." Shadow said in a cold voice. Cream looked at him with a stone stare.

"Shadow, are you forgetting something?" Cream sternly said.

"Please."

"That's better." Cream said, pouring an imaginary cup of tea.

"Thank you." Shadow responded, holding it in his hand. Cream sat down on her chair and the smile fled from her face.

"What's wrong?" Shadow asked an upset Cream.

"Can I tell you a secret Mister Shadow?" Cream asked. Shadow nodded his head.

"Well, ever since Mommy and Vector have been dating and going out..." Cream stopped.

Shadow looked over at her and saw her eyes begin to tear.

"Are you OK?" Shadow asked, seemingly worried.

"Well, we barely get to do things that we used to do, like have tea parties, but Mommy is always doing things with Vector." Cream was crying now, and ran up to Shadow and hugged him.

"I just want to spend more time with Mommy!" Cream cried out, hugging Shadow with all her might. Shadow wrapped an arm around her.

"I know how you feel." He said. Cream looked up, still crying but now surprised.

"Y-you do?" Cream said, rubbing her eyes and sitting down on her chair.

"Yes. I'd rather not go into it, but I know what it's like." There was a long silence between them.

"Thank you for the tea." Shadow said, breaking the silence.

"Your welcome." She said, beginning to put hear tea set away and her stuffed Chao on her bed.

"I got this for your birthday Cream. I'm busy tomorrow so I can't come to your party." Shadow told Cream, giving her a CD. Cream took it for his and and saw it was classical music, her favourite genre.

"Thank you very much Shadow!" Cream said, running over to her CD player and put it in, placing the case next to the CD player. As the music played, Cream presently fell asleep. Shadow picked her up and placed her on her bed. He pulled the covers over her and placed the Chao next to her. He turned the light off and went downstairs to wait for Vanilla.

"Your noodles and rice." Jian said, presenting the dishes to Vector and Vanilla.

"Thank you very much." Vanilla said.

"This is a nice place isn't it?" Vector said, beginning to eat his noodles.

"Why yes, thank you for taking me here."

They ate their meal and then went to walk in the park that was less than a mile away.

"What a beautiful night." Vanilla said, gazing up at the stars.

"I know. It's beautiful isn't it?" Vector added. "Listen Vanilla, we've been dating for six months now, and we've become very close."

"Why yes." Vanilla said.

"Well, I wanted to ask you something."

"Yes?"

Vector got on his knee and pulled out a ring.

"Will you marry me?"

Vanilla covered her mouth as she gasped. She responded with one word:

"Yes!"