Chapter Nine

Forget Her

I got to school about ten minutes after Sonic ditched me for Sally.

To my surprise, Sonic was standing by the front doors, talking to Sally. They were usually in hiding, making out somewhere.

Sonic looked in my direction, and was suddenly standing in front of me, smiling. "So, how's about that dream?"

"We have five minutes until we have to be in class, you can't expect me to tell you about it in such little time."

"Let's skip then! Come on, I'll take you somewhere special."

I looked behind Sonic at Sally, who had her arms crossed over her chest. She was watching us, and she looked pretty damn pissed. "What about her?"

Sonic followed my eyes to Sally, and shrugged. "She's been keeping me away from you. We are the ones who need time together, what do you say?"

I smiled. Sonic may ditch me a lot, but he always made up for it later. "Alright."

Smiling, he picked me up and started running. We ended up at my front door.

"This is the special place?"

Sonic laughed, "no, I just thought you should leave that," he pointed to my back pack. I nodded, opening the door. I threw my backpack in the house and quickly closed the door, eager to see where Sonic was taking me.

He picked me up again, and ran.

After a few seconds of running, he set me down in a forest. He started walking behind a bunch of trees and bushes, until he was out of sight.

I followed him.

I gasped as I stood beside Sonic. "It's beautiful," I said, looking at everything.

We were in a little clearing, with flowers everywhere. There were red, yellow and white ones. Most of them were probably weeds, but they were the prettiest weeds I've ever seen. There was a small waterfall on the other side, it connected to a small pond in the center of the field by a little river. Trees surrounded the entire place, making it completely unknown to anyone who didn't already know it was here.

"I know," Sonic said. I looked over at him, he was smiling.

"How did you find this place?"

"When you run around, you tend to find some interesting places from time to time."

"Have you ever shown anyone else?" I had to ask, I was pretty curious. You'd think he'd take his girlfriend to a beautiful place like this, to spend time together, not his best friend.

"No, if I took Sally here, she'd, well... She'd expect more."

I nodded, understandingly and agreeingly. Whatever Sonic did for Sally, usually wasn't good enough. She wanted more. He got her this silver necklace once, with the letter 'S' on it. She refused to wear it because it wasn't gold.

"So, how about that dream?"

"Oh, right! I completely forgot about that!" I sat down on the grass, patting the grass next to me for Sonic to sit. Once he sat, I continued telling him my dream. "Well, I had two. They were sort of within each other. In the one, I was this -"

I was cut off by Sonic's ring tone. The ring tone he had set for Sally.

Sighing, he answered his phone. "Hi, Sally." After about thirty seconds, he spoke again. "Sally, I barely -" He got cut off by Sally yelling. I could hear her from where I was sitting, but I couldn't make out what she was saying. "Okay, I'll be there soon." he closed his flip phone, turning to face me.

"It's okay," I told him, before he could tell me what Sally said. Even though I couldn't hear what she said, I knew what it was. It was always the same. Sonic and I were spending too much time together.

It was pathetic... Sally never let Sonic spend time with me. Even five minutes was too long. I hated it, and I know Sonic did, too. As much as I wanted to say something to Sally or Sonic, I wouldn't. Sonic loved Sally, no matter how little time she allowed us to spend together.

Sonic gave a me a sad smile. "Sorry," he whispered, standing up. He put his hand out, offering to help me up.

I took his hand and he pulled me up off the ground.

"Do you want to walk?" he asked, still holding my hand.

"As much as I'd love to say yes, I don't think the Queen would be very happy about that."

"Yeah, I guess you're right," he sighed, letting my hand go. He picked me up, and started running.

Seconds later, he set me down outside the front doors of the school.

"Maybe we should just chill out here for a while. I mean, you know how the teachers are, they'd kill us for being late because we went to the forest to hang out for a bit."

"Sally?"

"Well.. Fuck her, -"

"Well that's not very nice," Sally's voice said, from behind me.

I gave Sonic a death stare, "why didn't you tell me she was there?" I asked through my eyes.

He have me an apologetic look.

I sighed, about to give Sally a piece of my mind.

"Don't," Sonic mouthed, pleadingly.

I was torn between respecting my best friend's girlfriend, and telling her off. I guess as much as I wanted to, I couldn't do anything to her. I couldn't do that to Sonic.

"Sorry," I told Sally as I turned around to face her.

"Oh it's fine, don't worry. I actually have respect for the other people in Sonic's life."

I suddenly felt this overwhelming need to strangle her. She could not be any worse! I will never understand what Sonic see's in her.

Losing my cool, I stepped towards Sally, ready to really give it to her. I completely froze when Sonic put his hand on my shoulder.

"Thank you," I said, after a moment, gritting my teeth. I shrugged Sonic's hand off my shoulder, and began walking away.

A/N: Sorry this is pretty short, and boring. The next one will be much better... and possibly the last chapter! Hehehe, review?[: