remember when i joked about not coming back until march. yeah, if valentines day didn't exist that probably would've happened (had to post something for my boys on the most romantic day of the year).

anyway, was feeling experimental so wanted to try some lowercase/lapslock fanfic. was like 2 paragraphs in and wanted to get tested for dyslexia lol, it was fun and chill to write at least so who knows, might write in this style again later in the year.

though, definitely would understand if anyone wants a proper capitalized version of this. would have to be later though haha.

enjoy. sorry for any mistakes i was rushing this because i have work on a valentine's night.

as the blinding light of the rising sun illuminates the room, an amber orange fox could be heard groaning as his gloved hand shields his eyes in an attempt to protect them from the vicious sunlight.

…of course, it's a futile effort, as the sun's rays continue to pester him and seem to have no plans on stopping for at least a couple of hours.

the bed he lays on creaks as he elects to shift his body away from the light with a frown and is now greeted with the much more pleasant sight of his hedgehog partner, sonic, smiling in a goofy manner as he snored in his sleep.

the fox mirrors the smile and instinctively moves his hand to lightly caress the side of the hedgehog's face before eventually moving towards his quills. he catches the blink-and-you'll-miss-it twitch of his blue triangular ear and can't help but chuckle under his breath.

even in his sleep he seems so vibrant and carefree , tails thinks, continuing his mindless massaging of sonic's spikes, it's hard not to admire…

he doesn't get to admire it for long, however, as he catches the small movements of sonic's blue eyelids, signaling his imminent awakening.

after some mumbling and other untranslatable noises, sonic opens his eyes, a bit unfocused, but very much awake now.

"good morning, my sleeping beauty," tails says, removing his hand from sonic's snug quills to kiss the hedgehog on the nose instead, "i blocked the sun for you."

"mmmhh… " sonic stretches, "good morning, my…" he pauses and lets out a yawn, "...favorite tube of sunblock, hehe."

he starts the day off by doing his average morning routine; showering, cleaning and taking care of his two tails (this takes about an hour), grabbing something out of the fridge to eat, and finishes by brushing his teeth.

when he goes outside to check his mail, a sense of déjà vu hits him as he watches a multitude of envelopes fly out of his mailbox and flutter to the ground.

after letting out a small exclamation of surprise, tails kneels over and picks one up.

it's a standard white letter, or would be, if it weren't for the heart-shaped wax seal securing it.

definitely an out of the ordinary letter for him to receive, but looking at it causes something in the fox's brain to click and he finally remembers;

it's valentine's day.

oh yeah, right,

that exists, he thought.

he remembers last year as he skims through his mail, seeing which ones were love letters and which ones were actually of importance and, not to his surprise, all the love letters were for sonic.

again.

naturally, he felt jealous, but this time around he couldn't tell if it was because he didn't get any letters or because they were sending love letters to sonic in the first place.

…he settles on not thinking about it.

he enters the house and finds sonic already up and moving about. no surprise there.

the hedgehog stops and smirks when he sees tails carrying an abundance of letters in his arms.

"woah," he says with a whistle, "look at mr. popularity over here."

tails almost wanted to roll his eyes but contained himself.

"yeah, don't worry, i look at him everyday," when sonic seems a bit confused by his statement, tails continues with, "they're for you, mr. popularity."

curious now, sonic zooms over (with nothing flying out of tails' arms, luckily), and grabs one of the letters to inspect it.

the fox finds amusement in watching sonic slowly come to the same realization as him.

"oh yeah, right, it's valentine's day, huh?"

"yup."

there's a moment of silence until tails opens his mouth again.

"how could you ever forget?" tails teasingly asks with an exaggerated sigh, "it's only the most important time of the year, after all."

"yeah, for chocolate manufacturers, that's for sure," sonic scoffs.

they laugh for a bit.

"though, getting fifty percent off chocolate the day after doesn't sound half bad…" sonic adds, "and we both know how much you love mint chocolate."

tails' mouth waters. honestly, he could really go for some right now.

"okay, now you're just spoiling me."

"heh, when am i not?" sonic chuckles, closing the distance between them to ruffle the fox's bangs.

this time, tails rolls his eyes.

"you wrote a love letter for me?"

"yup!" the speedster replies, a cocky grin plastered on his face as he offers the envelope, "go ahead, read it!"

tails had felt bad for not giving sonic anything on valentine's day, so he spent some time in the kitchen cooking sonic a chili dog, and as he did so, it seems sonic was busy returning the favor in his own way.

so tails takes the letter, almost too excitedly, and stares at it for a moment, before finally opening it.

sonic smugly smiles, arms behind his back, as tails' eyes examines the paper.

to my dearest miles "tails" prower,

i love you.

from yours truly, sonic t. hedgehog

"this… this is…"

"amazing, ain't it?"

and like a kid who's watching their birthday balloon float into the sky, tails' smile fades dramatically.

"this is the worst love letter i have ever read."

of course, sonic didn't appreciate that very much, in fact, hearing those words causes him to clutch at his chest in (faux) pain.

"you're killing me of heartbreak over here…!" sonic says in a strained voice.

anyone with functioning eyes could tell he was trying his hardest not to smile or laugh.

"i should've known you'd never write something as sappy as a love letter," tails crosses his arms with a pout.

"huh, whad'ya mean?" sonic rests his hands on his hips as he taps his foot, a trait tails loved even in a moment like this, "it's a letter containing 'i love you', so it counts as a love letter, as simple as that."

"no way! you're not even sincere enough for it to count as a love letter, anyway."

"so you're saying i just have to act like i mean it for it to count? alright then."

with a playful smirk, sonic grabs his letter back and exits to the kitchen, leaving a confused tails behind.

the fox is unsure what is going on, even when he sees sonic pop his head out from one of the corners of the kitchen door… just to hide again.

"oh man," sonic's voice rings out from the kitchen, "i sure do hope the love of my life accepts my love letter that i worked so hard on."

sonic peaks his head out again to stare at tails, this time the fox has a deadpan expression on his face. he dunks his head back into the kitchen.

"in fact, i hope he reads it and realizes that it's the best love letter he's ever seen. a love letter so great his tails will flutter in sync with his heart and he'll blush the same color as knuckles and-"

"you're the worst," tails states plainly, arms still crossed and deadpan expression never leaving his face, "just give me the letter, you dork."

sonic laughs as he speeds back to stand in front of his love, soon wrapping his arms around the fox.

"glad you're finally accepting my letter," sonic jokes, "knew you'd come around."

tails wraps one of his arms around the spiky hedgehog's torso while using his other hand to pinch sonic's cheek ("ouch..!" sonic says faintly).

"i love you too, by the way."