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May 19th

This Saturday was a girls' day: Amy, Rouge, Blaze and Starr were out dress shopping for prom that was next month! The girls were searching through the racks, trying to find the perfect dress for them.

"So Rogue," Amy asked. "Did you pick a theme for prom yet?"

"No," she replied. "Everything we picked either no one liked or it's already been done. Underwater, desert, Yule ball, you name it."

"I'm sure you'll pick a good theme Rouge," Starr said.

"Thanks hon," Rouge replied. They continued to search for dresses as Amy started another topic while finding a dress.

"How about this one?" She asked. "You think Sonic will like it?"

"I think Sonic would like anything you pick Amy," Starr answered. "I can see that glow on him when he's near you."

The comment made Amy blush. She put it in her arm to try it on later. Blaze looked over at Amy and noticed that she had over half a dozen dresses in her arm.

"Amy I hate to break this to you but you can only wear one dress to prom."

"But I like them all, I can't pick just one yet!"

"Well you did pick one guy, I'm sure you can pick one dress."

"Speaking of guys, how's it going with Silver?"

"Good I guess."

"Good?" Starr said. "Their first date was really heated, I mean-"

"STARR!" Blaze remarked loudly.

"Oh sorry Blaze. That would be a private day," Starr paused. "They made out in the boiler room."

Amy and Rouge had shock on their faces, they knew that they were going out but they didn't know how it started. Blaze blushed and looked into the rack, pretending to look at dresses.

"Well never mind about hers what about yours Starr?" Blaze said trying to get the heat off of her.

"Well things are going well with us, but the thing is," Starr trailed off. "I've never heard him say 'I love you' to me."

"Shadow is one of those guys that can't really share those personal feelings," Rouge said. "But when he's dedicated to something, he's dedicated to something. If he spends all his time with you and cares about you, he loves you."

"Yeah... Yeah," she turned to Rouge. "Thanks Rouge. Speaking of you, what's it like being engaged?"

"Tough, but enjoyable all the same. No relationship is perfect but we make it the best we can. But it seems being engaged to Knuckles is easier than thinking of a theme for prom!"

Rouge was distracted then by a dress that caught her eye. Eventually the girls picked out their dresses (which will be described in the next chapter) and they went home with them.

Rouge was still hung up about a theme for prom; she was the head of the department and she had to think of a theme soon or Fiona, who was also on the committee, would pick the theme. Rouge decided to fly home and think about it. She had her dress in a shopping bag and she flew over the city thinking and thinking. She looked everywhere for ideas: the street below her, the ocean (but that was last year's theme), the forest; everywhere she looked wasn't a good idea. She finally made it home but instead of going in she went on top of her roof. She liked going up there to be alone. Up there, she saw trees that surrounded her roof, the ocean and the sunset.

Rouge thought it was the warm wind that was blowing threw the trees but something else was warming her up and it definitely wasn't the trees, but something was coming out of them...

Rouge carefully got up and went over to the branch that was closest to the roof. What caught her attention was the green light shining from the trees. It wasn't the light from the sun, it was almost gone from the sky. But by the time she got close enough to actually try and get a good look, the light blinded her and disappeared all the same. After the strange happening, she gazed into the sunset with a blank mind. Finally she got an idea, she noticed some stars on the other side of the sky that the sun wasn't on. She saw the moon and a few stars peeking out.

"A night under the stars!" Rouge exclaimed. "That's the theme for prom!"

She went inside and wrote down the idea along with the design. She drew and drew and drew until both her hands got cramped. Knuckles came home late because he was getting his suit fitted for prom, along with the rest of the guys. He found her at the kitchen table, face in the paper she was writing on.

"Mind if I take a look?" He said trying to peek over her shoulder to see what she was working on.

"Hey," she jumped as she covered the paper with her arms. "Oh sorry Knuckie. I just got the idea for prom and it's suppose to be a surprise until a certain date."

"Well congratulations on the idea. That took you weeks to come up with. How did it come?"

"I'm not sure really. I was sitting on the roof clearing my head and then I saw this bright, green light. It got so bright that it disappeared, then I came up with the idea!" Rouge got up from the table with the papers. "Now I'm going to put these in a safe spot until Monday so I can show it to the committee."

"Can you at least give me a hint?" Knuckles begged.

"It's romantic..." She sung as she put her index finger under his chin to draw it in her direction. She walked away to put the papers in a binder in her bag.

Yes this is shorter than the average chapter, but I'm one of those people who like the action in a movie (if it HAS any action in it). The next chapter is the peak of the story and I promise that it will keep you on your toes!