UPDATE:I edited the age of amy! I totally stuffed that up. She is 21. But still cute (^-^)
After her date, Amy arrived back at the house and sat on the couch watching TV. Knuckles walked out of his bedroom and sat down next to her, on his mobile, with an angry expression on his face.
"What are you doing?" Amy asked sleepily.
Knuckles glared at her and noticed she was happy, which made him even more angry... "Nothing. I had a fight with Rouge."
"Ah. I see." Amy said lightly as she started to close her eyes. Then, they sprung open as she realised what he had said. "Wait, what? Like a real fight?"
"Yes, a real fight. I think we're done... I think she's seeing someone. Or whatever. I don't know. Fuck it, I'm going on tinder. How was your night anyway?"
"Good." Amy smiled. "I went out for dinner."
"With that blue asshole?" Knuckles glared. "Jesus, Amy. You know you can do-"
"It wasn't like that. I told him I wasn't interested in anything other than friends... Then he made it... weird."
"Yeah, well. He's a guy, that's what we do - we ruin everything apparently."
"Hmmm. Seems that fight really beat you up, huh, Knuckles. Do I need to give you some ice cream to cheer you up...?"
Knuckles looked up sadly. "I think so."
Amy grabbed ice cream out of the freezer and got it for both of them. "So where is Sonic anyway?"
"No idea. I would have thought he'd be here by now. Where's Rouge?"
"No idea."
They looked at eachother suspiciously. "You don't think...?"
"Alright, Sonic. What is it?" Rouge leaned against the wall of the shopping centre where Sonic had asked her to meet him. "I don't have much time, I have a knucklehead to go and apologise to."
"Right. Well, I need help... With Amy."
"Again? What did you do this time?
"Nothing! Well... I told her how I felt about the other night. I told her I wanted her to be special to me and everything - and she became weirded out. Surprised, confused, all that. I would have thought she'd have been ecstatic..."
"You know, she's not a 12 year old with an obsession anymore, Sonic. She's a 21 year old lady with ambition and priorities. A job. A love for her friends. She'd probably want nothing more than to keep us all as her close friends, even if it did mean ending up married to you or something."
"Married? I... Look, I just want her and I to... you know... Get along." Sonic looked away and tried to cover his feelings.
"You mean, you want to date her? Sleep with her? Have her be yours?"
"Yeah. That's what I want. I don't know how to go about it, though. She was always the leader in these cases. I just..."
"Sonic, here's what you have to do. You need to prove to her that you're still who she wanted so long ago. That you're still hard to get, but you need also to show kindness and respect. Don't always be available, don't always chase after her. Not that that should be a problem, but... You never know how strong your feelings should get. The rest will fall into place, believe me. Just play it cool, and don't reveal too much like the other night. Ok?"
"Wow. Thank you, Rouge. I guess that's why she's stayed interested for so many years."
"Just remember," Rouge said cautiously, "There's a line you shouldn't cross, a line that separates being a tease, and being ... rude, or abusive." Rouge sighed. "Not that I've met a guy who knows that yet." She muttered under her breath, something like, "Damn it Knuckles," and signaled for him to follow her back home.
Without dashing home, it took about an hour to return to the house.
Meanwhile...
Amy continued to scoop ice cream, but now she was blending it with cocktail spirits and watching late night music videos with Knuckles, laughing their heads off, forgetting their love lives and problems.
"So Amy," Knuckles broke the happy mood. "What was your first time like?"
Amy's eyes widened and she chuckled nervously. "ah ha... Yeah... um, fine, I guess. You?"
Knuckles put his drink down and looked at her, shockingly. "You haven't... I don't believe it..."
"Shut up, Knuckles. Don't you dare tell anyone." Amy laughed. "Who cares? No one I've met deserves me anyway."
Knuckles was indeed surprised by her outright confidence. "Wow. Awesome, Ames. You know, I hope you do find someone who deserves you. Not Sonic, or anyone else... Like him... I think... you..."
Knuckles leaned in and put his hand on Amy's knee. Amy was not drunk, but she was tipsy. She became trapped in Knuckles eyes and let him nearly kiss her, until the door opened and Sonic and Rouge walked in, talking quietly and laughing. Amy was too slow to notice, and went in to kiss Knuckles, but he had already turned away to question his girlfriend.
"Hey!" Knuckles shouted. "What the hell is this?"
"Oh, hey darling. I was just giving Sonic some... uh... You know, what we all talked about the other day. Damn it, is Amy drinking again?!"
"Oh, yeah. Not much though. We made some ice cream cocktails. Look, we need to talk." Knuckles dragged Rouge down to his room as Rouge winked and waved to Sonic mouthing "good luck".
"Hey Amy," Sonic said sweetly, then caught himself and realised he needed to be "more cool". "Been doing much tonight?" It was like he was speaking without thinking. He didn't say anything, but he saw her about to kiss Knuckles, and felt an immense rage of jealousy.
"Ah, no. Just... Knuckles..." Sonics eyes widened. "I mean... we just hung out... I didn't "do" him. Oops."
"Got it..." Sonic said uneasily. "Uh, well, I'm going to bed. Night, Ames."
"Cool, night, Sonic." Amy sunk down into the couch with her eyes closed.
Sonic walked over as she was clearly asleep and said in an undetectable voice, "Still want that kiss?"
Amy smiled, thinking it was Knuckles, and nodded. Sonic's lips met hers and she awoke after a few seconds to notice that surrounding her was blue and not red, which made her only continue the kiss.
