Silver's part-Chapter 4

Silver looked at the clock. It read 7:53am (Author: "Told ya it was at the same time!"). "Too long of a wait!" Silver thought. He decided to go and get some roses while he waited. "Chocolates wouldn't hurt for if she says yes…" he thought, going out the door, turning in the direction of the flower shop. Sonic heard the door shut and ran downstairs from his room after putting on his shoes to catch up with him. Silver looked back, hearing Sonic's footsteps. "Hey Silver!" Sonic said, as Silver turned his head to face him. "What, Sonic? Are you stalking me?" he said, a look that said "Seriously, why are you following me?" on his surprised and questioning face.

Sonic laughed. "I'm not a stalking type, dude. I just wanted to know what you're doin'!" he explained. Silver just rolled his eyes at the blue hedgehog following him. "Just some errands I need to do. It's nothing important to YOU," Silver said, walking along, trying to ignore Sonic and his questions that followed, such as, "What errands?" or "Where're ya going? Laundromat?" and the protesting and occasional whiny, "Tell me!" He finally reached the flower shop and looked back. Sonic was gone. "Finally, he went back home…" he thought in relief.

He walked up to the shelf that had bouquets of roses. Red roses, blue roses, white roses, yellow roses, and even purple roses. He just wasn't sure which of them to choose! Silver just decided to get one of the last seven bouquets of all of them put into one. He walked to the register and said, "I would like to buy these." The clerk looked at the serial number, typed it in, and replied, "OK, that would be 25 rings." Silver nodded, and pulled out the 25 rings, taking the bouquet of roses as he paid.

As he was walking out, the clerk said, "Thank you for your patronage, and have a nice day!" Silver smiled and thought "If Blaze comes, it WILL be a nice day!"

He walked back home and looked at the clock. It now said 9:42am. "Well, at least the time passed some," he thought aloud. Shadow overheard from the hall as he walked out of his room. "What are you holding roses for? I probably don't want to know anyways," he asked, sounding like he was half asleep. "Well, uhh… It's for something I'm doing later…" he explained to the sleepy black and red hedgehog. Shadow didn't say anything, and just walked to the kitchen. "At least he didn't ask WHAT I was doing later…" Silver sighed in relief.

Shadow got himself a cup of coffee and drank it. "How long have you even been up?" he asked, just noticing the dark circles under Silver's eyes. Silver was nervous now. Should he lie about the nightmares or just come right out with it? If Shadow asked Sonic or Tails, they would tell him. He would find out anyways. Might as well get it over with now. Silver replied, "I've been up since three," and walked to the couch, grabbing the remote as he sat down. "Three? Here I am, just waking up and you've been up since then. You have such energy," Shadow replied, putting his empty mug in the sink. Silver just sighed and said, "Well, I didn't WANT to stay up since then…. Here's what happened…"

Half an hour had passed by now. "Oh…" Shadow said, nodding his head slightly. "Do you think I did the right thing, Shadow?" Silver asked, holding his hands together and looking up at Shadow. Shadow just shrugged. "I am not an expert on this kind of thing. Honestly, I could care less. It's never happened with me, and it's probably not going to," he added with a smile. "But… what will I do if Blaze DOESN'T like me back?" Silver asked. Shadow just shrugged again. "Well, it's not going to be the end of the world, Silver. At least you'll still be friends." Silver nodded and added, "Yeah, but it won't be the same…"

Shadow looked at the clock. It said 10:34am. "Silver, maybe you should get going. She might show early, and didn't you consider getting chocolates earlier?" he asked. "OH, YOU'RE RIGHT!" Silver exclaimed, grabbing the bouquet quickly, but carefully, and rushing out the door. He paused for a second and looked back. "Thanks for the talk, Shadow!" he said, turning again to go out to the park. "Whatever… WAIT!" Shadow said. Silver stopped and looked back. "What?" he asked. Shadow smiled and said, "Good luck, Silver." Silver was filled with joy. Shadow had never smiled like that before. Must be serious about the good luck thing.

As he dashed for the park, he ran into someone and accidently knocked them down. He fell too, and his roses fell to the ground. He started to quietly panic. "Oh, I'm so sorry! I didn't see you there! Are you OK?" he asked, brushing himself off, getting the roses and extending his hand to help the person up. "I'm sorry! I should've been more careful! Yeah, I'm fine, thank you! What about you?" the person asked. It was a girl that Silver had run into. "I'm OK. Sorry again," he replied, pulling the person off of the ground. She turned around and looked at Silver. Silver was shocked. He wasn't expecting this at all…

Hmm, I wonder who he ran into… Anyways, come back next Saturday for the next chapter!