Friday night was the dance and people were coming in right and left with their dates. The gymnasium was all decorated with Halloween décor and with tables with food and drinks on them. The Monster Mash was playing on the speakers and people were dancing to it. Sonic and Amy were at the punch bowl. She was wearing a yellow Belle dress from Disney's Beauty and the Beast with her hair all done up like Belle's and Sonic was dressed up in the Beast's blue French aristocrat outfit.

"Sonic, don't you think that this is just fantastic!" Amy exclaimed as she took herself a glass of punch. "I'll have to remember to congratulate Silver and Blaze later.

"You don't have to wait." Silver's voice said from behind them.

Amy turned around to see Silver and Blaze waiting to get some food from the table. They were both dressed in tuxedos, Blaze's was purple and Silver's was black.

"You two look adorable!" Amy squealed.

"You two too look adorable…" Blaze said quietly.

"What? I can't hear you!" Amy said loudly over the music.

"She said that you two look adorable also!" Silver answered for her.

"Oh, thank you!" Amy replied. "So, when did you get here?!"

"We just got here!"

"Us too!"

Silver looked around. "Where's Tails?! Isn't he with you guys?!"

Sonic shook his head. "He's somewhere with his date, Cosmo!"

"Who's Cosmo?!" Silver asked.

"I don't know, she must be a girl he met when he was still in Elementary school or something!"

"Have you seen Kris or Shadow yet?!"

"No!"

"Oh!"

"It's too loud in there…" Kris covered her ears with her leopard paws and sank down against the lockers in the hallway. Shadow stood beside her with his hands in his pockets. "We didn't have to come to this you know." He said.

"I thought it would be fun…"

"We don't have to go in the gym if you don't want to." He pointed at some people just standing in the hallways. "Look, some people are just hanging out here and in the commons area."

Kris looked up at him. "Yeah."

Shadow took one of her hands and pulled her up off the floor. "Get up. We'll go there."

"Okay." They both went into the open commons area where there was a giant chocolate fountain. Silver saw them and walked over to them with Blaze.

"Hey you guys." He greeted.

Shadow didn't respond but Kris waved hello to them.

"Why aren't you guys in the gym dancing?" Silver asked.

"Because it's too loud in there." Kris answered.

"Yeah it is. Blaze thought so too so that's why we're out here now." He got a stick and put a tiny piece of cheesecake on it and put it in the chocolate fountain. "You having fun out here though?"

Kris got a pretzel stick and put it in the chocolate fountain. "Yeah, I guess."

"You guess?"

"Yeah." The ghost took the pretzel stick out from under the chocolate fountain and stared at it.

"I thought ghosts couldn't eat." The zombie asked. "What are you going to do with that?" He took his little cheesecake out of the fountain.

"I don't know." She said. "I just did it out of impulse." She looked at her date. "Do you want this?" She asked.

Shadow shrugged. "Okay." He reached for the stick in her hand but she pulled it away.

"Let me do it."

The vampire sighed and bent down so that she could reach his face. The ghost put the chocolate covered pretzel in his mouth. Shadow held it there for a moment like it was a cigarette and then bit down and ate it. The ghost giggled.

Shadow stood up and licked some chocolate off of his face.

Silver laughed and gave Blaze the cheesecake off of the rod. Her tail started to sway back and forth.

"CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN!" Sonic came barreling towards the chocolate fountain and proceeded to put his whole head under it.

Amy came running after him. "SONIC YOU'RE A WEREWOLF YOU CAN'T EAT CHOCOLATE!"

Sonic swallowed a mouthful of liquid chocolate and took a breath. "No! Professor Lupin could have chocolate and he was a werewolf!"

"Sonic he's dead and he's a fictional character!"

"He didn't die from eating chocolate though!" He went back to filling his mouth with liquid chocolate until a teacher saw him. Then he stopped and ran into the gym again with Amy running behind him.

Silver shook his head. "Oh Sonic…"

"Hey Silver, I think I can go back in for the slow dance when it comes on." Blaze said.

"Oh really?" He asked.

"Yes."

Silver looked over at Shadow and Kris. "Are you guys going to slow dance?"

"I don't know, you want to do it?" Shadow asked his ghost girlfriend.

"Hm…As long as it's not too loud." She answered.

"It won't be. I promise." Silver promised her. "I think it's about to start. Com'on. Then we can come back for pictures."

Shadow and Kris both nodded and followed the two into the gym where the DJ was switching over to a slow song so that the couples could dance together. The song that was put on was I Can't Help Falling in Love With You by Elvis Presley so it was really slow. Sonic and Amy were in the middle of the room swaying back and forth and dancing like Belle and the Beast.

Amy smiled a soft smile and sighed dreamily. "I've been waiting for this all my life Sonic. When you and me would finally dance together like this. This makes me so happy."

Sonic swayed and twirled with her, even though it made him uncomfortable to do so. "I'm glad I could make you happy Amy. That's all that I want."

Amy rubbed up against him. "Thank you Sonic." She held him close.

Silver and Blaze swayed also back and forth. Silver looked into the cat's golden eyes.

"Blaze, I'm very glad you said yes to me. I was so nervous that you'd say no."

Blaze blushed. "Silver I would never say no to you."

Silver smiled. "I hoped you wouldn't." He wrapped his arm around her and hugged her.

Shadow and Kris danced by themselves in the corner of the gym, swaying back and forth and not really dancing even though Shadow knew how to ballroom dance. They both were just waiting for the song to be over even though Kris liked it.

Tails and Cosmo were awkwardly sitting in chairs, also waiting for the song to be over. They were kids, they didn't understand all this mushy stuff.

Ky was at the punch bowl taking to people that came without a date. He also was keeping an eye out on Kris.

When the song ended, which felt like it went on forever. The upbeat dance music started to play again and everyone who didn't want to be in there got out of there quickly. Amy pulled Sonic along for pictures even though Sonic's costume was stained with chocolate.

"Amy you won't show up in pictures though." Sonic told her. "And I have chocolate all over me."

"I don't care, I'll turn into a bat. I just want this picture!" Amy dragged him inside the photo booth and swiftly assumed her bat form. Sonic pressed a few buttons for the settings and they both got ready for the camera flash. The first pose Amy flew in the air beside Sonic, the second picture Amy was on top of Sonic's head and the third picture Amy gave Sonic a kiss on his nose. Sonic stepped out of the photo booth with Amy and took the pictures from the printer on the side.

"Wow, these look great." He commented and looked at them. He gave Amy her copies when she turned back to normal.

"Sooo cute!" Amy squealed. She hugged Sonic and gave him another kiss, getting red lipstick on his cheek. "Thank you!"

Sonic gave her a thumbs up. "No problem." He sniffed around and found a smell in the air. "Do you smell…Meat?"

Amy laughed. "Sonic you can go."

"AROOOO!" Sonic howled as he went to search for the food he smelled.

Silver and Blaze appeared in line for the photo booth with funny props to make the pictures sillier.

"You guys already took your pictures?" Silver asked them.

"Yeah." Amy replied and showed him the photos. He took them and looked at them more closely.

"Wow so you show up in pictures as a bat?" He asked.

"Yep." She answered and took them back. "It's a thing I found out a long time ago."

"Cool."

"Welp. I gotta go make sure Sonic isn't destroying anything. See you later." She waved goodbye and walked off in the direction that Sonic went. She found him in line for pork chops and beans. His tail was wagging fast.

"Sonic are you trying to eat everything that is messy tonight? Your costume will be ruined."

Sonic looked at her. "But pork and beans are SOOOO GOOD!" He whined.

Amy shook her head. "Just don't get it everywhere."

Sonic nodded and eagerly awaited his pork and beans. When he got them, he sat down at a table where Amy joined him. She put down a plastic fork and a lot of napkins.

"Here, use a fork." She told him and gave him the fork. Sonic looked at the fork in his big hand and tried to use it he stabbed a piece of pork and put it in his mouth daintily. He looked to her for approval.

"That's good Sonic."

Sonic smiled and continued to eat, looking up every so often at his date. When he was finished he offered to get her something.

"No, I ate at home." Amy answered and wiped his face with the napkins.

Sonic barked and got up from the table with her. "Can I go to the chocolate fountain again?" He asked using big puppy dog eyes.

Amy sighed. "I don't see why not."

"YAY!" Sonic excitedly walked with her to the common area to the chocolate fountain. Kris was there talking to Blaze while Shadow dipped things into the fountain.

"Sonic you can go to it but don't just put your head under it, okay?" Amy told him.

Sonic nodded and got a metal rod and stabbed a strawberry onto it. He put the strawberry into the falling chocolate and licked his lips.

"So I was saying that I don't want a big party for my birthday and he didn't listen."

Ky appeared out of the gym and got a metal rod. "So how are things going?"

Shadow looked at him. "I didn't know you were even here." He put a chocolate covered strawberry in his mouth.

"Are you guys just standing here and dipping things in chocolate all night?" The yellow hedgehog asked.

Shadow and Sonic both nodded.

"Are you just going to stand by the punch bowl and make small talk with people?" Kris asked.

"No."

"You don't even have a date, why are you here?"

Ky smirked. "To keep an eye on you."

She gave him an annoyed look.

Ky stabbed a little piece of cheesecake and put it into the fountain. "That's what big brothers do."

Sonic looked to his side and made sure Amy wasn't looking. He stuck out his tongue in the fountain. Ky saw him.

"Sonic! That's gross!"

Sonic took his tongue out and licked his lips. "Chocolate."

Ky quickly took his cheesecake and threw it in the garbage. "Gross."

Shadow was already done dipping things and was looking at his phone. "Oh shit, guess what day it is now."

Kris suddenly got very excited. "OMG!" She started to jump around.

The music in the gym changed to something more festive for the date: November 1st.

"It's the most wonderful time of the year!" Kris sang in happiness.

Ky shook his head. "Oh Lord. Two months of this coming ahead."

Silver, Blaze and Amy started to sing along with her till they all formed a chorus. Shadow and Ky just stood there while Sonic was still preoccupied with the chocolate fountain that started to rain white chocolate.

"White chocolate?! YES!" He exclaimed.

Shadow and Ky looked at each other. They both shrugged.

"Merry Christmas."