Chapter 4: Dreams

Axel arrived home in a bad mood, he stormed upstairs and slammed his bedroom door behind him, then with an annoyed grunt he flopped onto his bed with his face in his pillow. "Well, I'm sure her personality won't be as nice as her looks anyway." he thought. This made him feel no better. "I might as well at least try to be her friend..." He pictured Blaze's angelic face and sighed, digging his head deeper in the pillow. It was getting late. He went to sleep.

Elsewhere, Sonic and Tails were saying their goodbyes for the night to Blaze and Silver, the hedgehog and cat dissapeared through the portal. Tails stared at the machine, delighted with his work, then looked around and turned to Sonic, "Hey where'd Axel go?"

"Probably home," Sonic said, "Poor guy..."

"Yeah," Tails said this sympathetically but then smirked, "Did you see the look on his face when Silver came?"

Sonic put on a false grin, said his goodbyes to Tails and made his way back home.

Sitting on his bed, Sonic's mind was on one thing; Amy. His thoughts of her lingered as he took off his shoes, pulled his covers over himself and went to sleep.

Axel's eyes opened. He looked outside, it was still dark. But he couldn't sleep, so he put on his jacket and went outside. The air was cool, and since it was October the nights were getting colder, he did not, however, feel anything but warmth. His mind was still on the wonderful lilac feline that he could most likely never have. He eventually came to where he was walking, it was a wide river, with a clean, blue, wooden bridge arched over it. Axel sat on the bridge, looking up at the black sky illuminated by the bright stars and full moon, then he heard a familiar voice behind him.

"Hey Axel," said Blaze as she sat down beside him.

"Hi" replied Axel, suddenly cheering up, "You remember my name?"

"Of course I do." Blaze smiled, which made Axel smile too, "Why are you here this late? And why did you walk away before?"

"I couldn't sleep," Axel replied, he looked up at the sky and then down at the river, "And I had to do some thinking." He looked back into her deep, amber eyes.

Sonic opened his eyes also, he was at Amy's house. It was still night but he didn't think she'd mind. He knocked on the door and Amy opened it almost immediatley, she was the most beautiful sight that Sonic had ever seen, she was wearing pink, silky pyjamas with red hearts on them.

"Amy," Sonic hesitated, "Amy I-" she pressed her index finger to his lips;

"I know." she kissed him

"I can't believe this!" was all Sonic was thinking.

Axel was thinking the exact same as Blaze leaned in to him."This is almost like a dr-"

Axel sat up in his bed, and put his head in his hands. Sonic had done the same in his house.

"NO!"

"Shut up Axel!" Amber shouted from the next room. Axel sighed, and once again took to burrying his head in his pillow, and tried to get to sleep.

Sonic was lying on his back staring at the ceiling. He too, tried to get back to sleep. They both eventually succeeded.