"A-Amy?" Shadow asked, shaking.

Amy was slouched in her chair, smiling huge, and giggling. Knuckles had her arm around her, and Rouge was smoking, looking at her reflection in her phone.

Sonic stood across from Shadow, taking a hit from the smoke, and sighed. "Ah, jeez. Good thing I'm here now. Amy, can you hear me?"

Amy giggled. "aaaah, Sonic! It's you. I waited ages. I had a few drinks cause - cause I was so - impatient - wanted to make time - go faster. Ha! I'm funny." Amy closed her eyes and held up her drink in a "cheers" manner. Rouge laughed.

"Hey, maybe I was wrong, Shadow. Amy's pretty cool after all."

Shadow gritted his teeth and whispered in Rouge's ear. "Did you fucking do it? You bitch."

"Relax, mister. I haven't touched any of her drinks, yet."

"Please don't," Shadow pleaded. "Sonic will hate me. Amy will hate me... I'll be a goner."

Rouge looked up at him. "I'd never do that to you, Shads. Besides, by the look of how things might end up, I may not even need to play a part. Let's just have some fun." Rouge lit up a joint and passed it to Shadow, who smiled faintly, sitting down.

"Hey Amy!" Knuckles said excitingly. He wasn't even that intoxicated - Amy was too much entertainment for him. "Can I ask you something babe?"

"Sure, Knuckie." she giggled. Sonic was taken aback by her flirtiness.

I wonder how what happened happened. Sonic thought. I hope I'm not putting her in a repeat situation. That'd be fucking terrible.

"Do you think I'm hot?" Knuckles nudged her as Rouge laughed.

"No," Rouge said. "Nobody does. Not even me."

"Shut up, Rouge! I'm talking to Aaaamy." He put his hand in her hair and she smiled happily. "Yeah, sure! Everyone's hot, all of you. I love you all!"

Shadow rolled his eyes, looking at Sonic, who was hardly participating.

Sonic had gone from "Fuck yes, let's get wasted," to, "Shit, I need to watch Amy, I can't drink. I can't let her get hurt." Sonic knew that no one would hurt her there anyway, but he needed to make sure everything would be okay. He couldn't stop repeating Sally's words in his head.

There's a reason she is that way, SOnic...

You need to protect her...

Don't let her get hurt again...

I trust you...

Sonic sighed.

Shadow became agitated, wondering why Sonic was blowing him off. He didn't even LOVE Sonic romantically, he just had cute feelings toward him. He just wanted to cuddle him, and nuzzle him, and watch movies. Is that even a relationship?

Knuckles and Amy continued to giggle and make jokes.

"Okay, guys," Rouge interrupted, "It's time for phase two. Shadow..." She suggested.

"Oh yeah, sure. Card games, anyone?"

Everyone said yes, even Amy, who then added, "I don't know how they work!"

"It's easy, you just play, and if you lose, you pay the price, but if you win, you make someone else pay." Rouge grinned. "Since half of us don't wear clothes anyway, we had to substitute STRIP in Poker to DARE. I hope that's ok."

Sonic smiled. "Fine with me. But, I will be daring you to get naked as a dare, Rouge. So, watch out."

Amy smiled and laughed. "Same here! I wanna see Rouge's boobies!"

It was evident that Amy was tipsy, but she was clearly not completely wasted. Sonic was happy with this, and felt he didn't need to interfere just yet. As long as he didn't get too drunk, which was pretty hard to do due to his tolerance, everything would be fine.

They all went inside, Knuckles lifting Amy, showing off his muscles. Sonic was happy that Knuckles had taken on such a friendly role, as he knew Knuckles was only interested in Rouge. He was so relieved to know his friends kinda liked her, and were helping him out.

They all sat down at the table in a circle. Knuckles sat next to both Amy and Rouge. Rouge sat next to Shadow, followed by Sonic, then connecting to Amy.

They played a game of poker, Amy losing poorly, and Shadow and Rouge taking the lead.

(Disclaimer: I don't know much about poker, sorry. I prefer blackjack... So... I'm just gonna make this up.)

Rouge had taken another win, and started her dare. "Alright. Shadow, I dare you to kiss Knuckles."

Shadow groaned. "For gods sake." Shadow muttered. "Fine."

He kissed Knuckles, who reacted humourously, grabbing his arms and pulling him in, and teasing his fur. Shadow broke the kiss and glared at him. "Damn it Knuckles! Don't turn me on like that."

Everyone laughed as Shadow returned to his seat. Amy continued laughing hysterically.

"Oh man, Shadow, that is what I call chemistry!" She giggled more, and Rouge smiled. Sonic didn't make any eye contact whatsoever with anybody, just listening, and making sure Amy was okay in his mind.

Don't let her take her clothes off. Don't let her drink too much. Don't let her in a room with Knuckles or Shadow or anyone. Especially me...

Sonic pondered whether he should tell someone, preferably Shadow - his best mate - but he felt too scared to talk to Shadow at the same time.

They played another round, and Knuckles had won. "Woo! I won! Don't know how I managed to do that." He scratched his head.

"Anyway, I dare Sonic to do a line."

"A line?" Amy asked innocently.

"Cocaine," Rouge finished. Amy was taken aback. "what's the matter, sweetie? Do you want to go home?"

"Nope! It's all good." Amy smiled putting her hands in her lap, happily. "I like being here."

Sonic looked to Knuckles. "Man, one line? That won't do shit." Sonic grinned and Knuckles passed over a tray. Sonic felt Amy's eyes on him, but didn't respond. He couldn't fight the challenge, he couldn't say no to a dare! And besides, he could handle drugs, it would be fine.

Moments passed, and not much had really changed. The group had gone on to play beer pong. Sonic could feel himself becoming more attracted to Amy, more compelled to grab her and kiss her, and make her his. He completely forgot about what Sally had said, but he was luckily able to control himself despite such urge.

Amy was hanging around Sonic and Shadow, who both were quite reasonable and rational in their behaviour still.

Amy had felt happy, and she had felt proud that she'd done such a thing. She started to speak, but fell over, dropping her nearly-finished blue cup filled with soda and vodka, hitting the wooden floor. Shadow reacted first, falling down next to her, trying to wake her up. "Amy? Amy! Amy, talk to me." Shadow knew what had happened... Or maybe she just couldn't handle her liquor? Either way, she was definitely fucked up, definitely passed out.

Sonic followed, and was surprised at Shadow's caring toward Amy. "Fuck," Sonic said, "This is my fault."

"Nah man." Shadow sighed. He looked over at Rouge and Knuckles, playing beer pong, and whispered, "It's Rouge's, she was planning to roofie her. And you. I don't know, maybe Amy just got a bit too drunk."

Sonic panicked. "Jesus, okay. Well let's just take her into your room. Maybe get some extra sheets incase she throws up or something."

Shadow nodded and acted fast.

Shadow and Sonic were sitting on Shadow's bed, both facing Amy, who was murmuring on the bed. She kept saying one name repeatedly, but neither of them could make it out.

"Damn it Amy, wake up!" Sonic yelled.

"Chill, man. She'll be okay. It's only been like, twenty minutes."

"She's so little, man. Her body is tiny, she has hardly ever drank before, and Rouge could have put something in her drink. Why the hell would she do that anyway?!"

Shadow blinked and sighed. "Because she thinks I want you."

Sonic stared, not following what Shadow meant. "Want me? Like, what, to sleep with?"

"Yeah. That's right." Shadow said, blushing.

"So why Amy?!" Sonic shouted through gritted teeth. "I would sooner sleep with you than her!"

Shadow looked up in surprise. "What?!"

"Man, Amy is off limits. To me, and to everyone. She is not a sexual kind of girl. Maybe she can party, and have fun like she did tonight, and maybe she comes off as flirtatious when she's DRUNK, but she isn't - she can't - no."

"What, because she's a virgin?" Shadow scoffed. "Didn't think that'd stop you."

"No." Sonic stammered. "B-because she was raped."