Authors Note:

I totally missed two Firecracker Fridays! ugh I'm so dumb sometimes. Hello my beloved readers! Hope you enjoy some more snow-shredding drama :p

Today is actually the anniversary since I last saw my best friend...I really hope I'm doing well.

DONT FORGET TO LEAVE REVIEWS! lol love you guys!

X.

Chapter 5

It's Not a Competition

x. Amy .x

After signing some paperwork that Sally was hesitant to do, we geared up for the helicopter ride. After I slung the gear bags into the chopper, he pilot of the helicopter gave me a wary look and motioned me to the side while the 'princess' was settling in with her boyfriend.

"Sweets, I don't think this is a good idea" he said rubbing the back of his neck.

"I told them that already" I sighed.

"I'm not talking about them, I have that covered just fine with the safety net, I already gave Jack a call"

"Awesome, wait. Then what are you talking about Mikey?" I asked the frightened hawk

"Sweets...the last time you came up here, you were broken...you weren't focused...you could've-"

"I'm fine. I promise" I gave him a reassuring smile. "Okay guys ya ready?" I asked the already seated couple

"S-sure t-thing" Sally said still clutching Sonics arm as tightly as possible, he glanced down at her gently, and fixed a stray curl under her knitted cap. MY heart lurched, as if it were about to kill us both just watching the warm smile on his face. I remember when someone used to look at me that way.

"Too bad it was fake" I whispered before getting into the passenger seat of the chopper. I replaced my chocolate brown beanie for the earphone/mic and fit it snugly on my ears. Mikey gave me a look and I gave him a grin and an encouraging thumbs up and he signaled back, more than ready to leave the ground. To be honest I was a little excited myself, since I haven't been in one for at least two years, I missed the thrill of it. The blades could still be heard through the thick headpiece and instructions were being given to the pilot and copilot (me) as we left the ground. I heard Sally tell Sonic that she was excited and he only chuckled in response. It sounded a lot like...

"Warm Chocolate" I sighed into the headpiece.

"You hungry already Meils?" Mikey asked with a chuckle in his voice.

I snapped back to reality and shook off my embarrassment with a laugh. "You bet!" I lied. I heard a scoff from Sally's headpiece and I wrinkled my nose with frustration. If she doesn't like my eating habits, why the heck is she here?

"We aren't five minutes away from the drop zone so I suggest you help um gear up once we're a good ways up!" he informed me.

"Got ya!" I responded. I dug around my backpack and pulled out the adorable keychain before clipping it on the inside of my jacket, hoping for some luck on the stupid jump. Mikey made sure that we weren't going for 'dare devil' height jumps. We were aiming more of an easy drop off and let the camera crew work their magic.

Pathetic.

What makes it a thrill then? You'll jump off a chopper only what? I checked the contract again and almost laughed at it. She's gonna jump while we're hovering?

"Nice. Reaaall nice." I scoffed before slapping it back on the dashboard.

~Wildest Dreams by Taylor Swift Instrumental~

The scenery took my attention without any effort, some of the snowcapped mountains reminded me of the portraits in the Café and a craving for my hot chocolate began to settle in my stomach. I guess I wasn't totally lying then. It's one thing to see this on a portrait, and another to see it with your won two eyes. That's why I loved to jump; the world seems to be swallowing you into its natural beauty as your blood pumps at the thought of you swirling down to meet right up with it. But without the right flip or position...pretty easy to kill yourself if you don't know what the heck you're doing. A sinking feeling replaced the warm chocolate feeling and my palms began sweating under my rough orange gloves. I bit my lower lip and squeezed my eyes shut in attempt to get rid of the horrible memory of my life that was practically flashing before me.

Not too long after we were airborne, Mikey gave me the signal to gear up the couple with a simple jab of his thumb towards the back of the aircraft. I nodded and removed my head piece, taking off my seatbelts with fumbling fingers because Oh great cherries, I'm about to shove Sally Acorn out of a helicopter...and her hot boyfriend too. Wait, not he's not hot, he's wearing pink boots, not that's hilarious. After releasing my restraints, I made a sharp easy turn to that back and my heart stopped at the sight of tongue...two of them, exploring each other in the most intimate way I've ever seen. I mean, I've watched people kiss before, Bittersville is one of the most romantic getaways for couples who love the snow, a few proposal kisses and yada yada, but this was the kind of behavior you'd expect to indulge behind closed doors. Ya know, after a honeymoon? I honestly don't know why I didn't move, I don't know why I just stood there watching like a dumb animal, like it was the first time I've ever seen a couples kiss so intimately, maybe it was the hard hand squeezing my heart or the sudden lash of wind against my face, but I only realized it, when we made a sharp turn, and I was already slipping out of the craft in slow motion. My breathing stopped and my arms were reaching everywhere hoping to grab a rope, a limb anything… Oh God is this how I'm gonna die? Watching a squirrel and a hedgehog swap tongue? Pretty dumb if you ask me. I didn't even have my damned parachute. Maybe a full continuous 360 will help break my fall.., if I can just hold the rope…

"Gah!" I yelled when I missed it completely. Three sixty death drop it is then.

"Amy!" I heard Sonic yell as he pulled away from Sally and abruptly shoving her hard against the seats.

"Ow!" she yelled out.

He didn't waste any time to grab my numb hand, squeezing with everything he had and pulled me back before my feet edged off of the rim of the damned chopper. Not a second passed by when he smothered me into his chest, and I was awkwardly sitting in his lap with my head in a blur and my heart racing like crazy, the keychain digging hard into my left breast bone where my heartbeat was going mad. He smelled fresh, scrubbed to the bone if possible, his fur tickling my nose a little as he pressed me into his chest. I was fully aware of his large hands on my back, his hard body covered under layers of clothing that I wish wasn't between us right now. His chest rising and falling rapidly as if he just saw a ghost with his warm breath harsh on my neck. My right foot was weirdly hugging his waist and my left dangled, holding half of my body in check, but then again I was shaking like a wet dog in the cold air..

"Oh God are you okay?!" he yelled over the noise as he brought my face to his. He had removed his headphones so I doubt Mikey even caught the exchange. His emerald eyes were boring into my jade ones and I nodded mutely. He searched my face for a second before holding me into his strong hold again.

"Everything alright back there? We're just above the jump" Mikey's faint Italian accent rang through my ears.

Oh yeah reality!

"We're fine Mike!" I yelled back removing myself from my trance, and his arms. I quickly hooked myself onto the wall of the chopper and dished out their gear, with my head swarming. I helped Sally especially to make sure the hotel doesn't get a bad name, or Mikey for that matter. I wouldn't want Creams Family business to crumble over me being clumsy. After I finished strapping her up, I instructed Sonic whilst I was hooking Sally together, in effort not to touch hm again since she was already giving me the stink eye,

"Can you get this?" he asked with a lopsided grin.

"Sure" I said reaching around his waist to buckle a strap, before yanking it tight around his waist. His hot breath found my sensitive ears and he whispered something almost incoherent.

"Be careful" he said softly.

I inched back and nodded giving him a thumbs up and a wide friendly grin. "Alright Mikey they're ready!" I yelled getting back to the front of the helicopter. Mikey nodded and he set the chopper to hover over a large camera crew and a ring of lights. We rolled our eyes simultaneously and shared a laugh before he sent me back to help push the two out of the chopper.

"Are you sure you don't want a demonstration?" I asked the two while pinning them together.

"Positive" Sally spat linking her arms through Sonic's.

I raised my arms in defeat and asked them to step on the yellow line, and I stuck my head out from behind them waiting on my 'signal' from the director, when a flash of green met my eyes, and a smile that could light up New York.

More like hell . I growled inwardly.

Just as I was given the signal, and out of anger, frustration and surprise, I shoved them both out the chopper….hard. Sally screamed the entire four foot drop and I stood in the gaping doorway with an annoyed look on my face before I heard 'CUT' and jumped out myself, with my dependable pink board attached to my feet. Sonic was holding Sally, trying his best not to break out in laughter and the director was congratulating her on a job well done. A few people came up to me to thank me and I grinned at the attention. I haven't been swarmed in a while, and even though it's annoying sometimes, I didn't mind the pats on the back for not killing a celebrity.

"Great Job!"

"Awesome timing!"

"Stellar landing!"

I thanked each of them and gave Mikey a fist bump when he landed the chopper and the crew swarmed him next. I released a giggle since he's more of a shy person, so to see him getting praised made me feel pretty darned awesome.

"I didn't know you still jumped"

I froze. Dear God please, no.

"You ignoring me?"

I clenched my fists and dug my board into the snow before taking a deep breath and making a sharp turn to meet his pale blue eyes.

"What do you want Jet?" I asked, with my hand stuck to my hip.

x. Sonic x.

After we landed on the soft cloud of snow, Sally was shaking and clutching onto me tightly. She insisted on not letting go of me until she calmed down. After detaching us, she viewed the clip and pictured and was back to her old self in no time, telling everyone what to do.

"What do you want Jet?" I heard Amy say. I glanced in her direction after losing her in the crowd, and her hand was set tight on her hip, the other firmly holding her board. She was wearing an adorable dark blue snowboarding dress with heavy boots, orange goggles atop her head. Her nose was wrinkled as if she smelled something foul and I couldn't help but laugh. My smile flattened when a green hawk spread his wing around her shoulders and gave her a kiss to the cheek. I balled my fists already prepared to punch the guy and I have no clue why.

"God what's your problem?!" she yelled shoving him off of her. I released a breath I hadn't realized I had been holding and stood on the sidelines nonanchatly watching the exchange. She didn't seem to care for the person who just kissed her, but it seems that he was very much interested in her. Amy took her sleeve and scrubbed it from her face as if it were a disease and the helicopter pilot who I now know the name of; Mikey, immediately stepped in and spoke in a hushed tone to them both. Amy pulled her board from the ground and stormed off, the green hawk smiled and stuffed his hands into his black jacket with red flames along the border and smiled after her.

"See ya around Snow" he called

She responded with flipping him the bird and he chuckled, ruffling the feathers atop his head.

"Mr. Hedgehog? You requested a change of clothes?"

"Huh? Oh, yeah I did" I thanked /cheeks and took the bundle with me into the parked trailer. Cheeks was following and before I opened the door I turned to face her.

"Yes?" I asked.

"Oh! My apologies, after you've finished changing we would like to introduce you to Mr. Hawk"

"Sure" I said before closing the door in her face.

Jet the Hawk huh?

x. Amy x.

"Fucking Jet!" I mumbled kicking the snow beneath me. He just had to show up didn't he? Why the heck is he even here? I'm the one teaching the 'royals'. If he's here just to show me up one more fucking time, I swear I'll…..I'll…. sigh.

"Who am I kidding?" I choked.

I felt my legs turn into Jell-O and the cool sensation of the snow molding into my body came next as I knelt, with my hands before me, sinking into the soft snow, my board laying diagonally beside me. I wouldn't do shit. Jet won my heart and I'm still trying to get over the three years we had together. To give someone three years of your life, you can't just….let it go...just like that. It's been what? Four months since I last saw him, and that's only because I stopped partying; with him, I stopped hanging out with his circle of friends. And I'm always locked up in my cabin. I'm lucky to still hold Cream as a friend after what I did to her that night….and she still took me back in. I wouldn't take me back… My body fell limp and the snow molded into my frame and I could hardly breathe face first in the snow.

"Sonic saved my life..." I mumbled into the snow.

"And I didn't get a single 'thank you'" he said softly.

"Well sorry! I didn't want your snobby girlfriend to- wait a minute"

I rolled over and jumped to my feet and stood stiff before Sonic himself, with a shit eating grin already forming his gorgeous features.

"Still waiting" he smirked.

"T-Thanks." I mumbled shoving my hands in my dress pocket.

"Anytime" he smiled, for real this time.

"What happened back there?" I asked nudging my head back to the shoot.

"I could ask the same thing. But how about we do that over some coffee?" he asked with his eyebrow arched.

"But what about Sally?" I asked picking up my board, dusting the snow from off it.

"Sally's busy" he said darkly.

Woah, did I just hit a nerve or something? Maybe he's dangerous after all, he didn't seem to mind being shoved out of a helicopter from my pure rage. But then again…I barely know this guy….so why do I feel so safe? I scanned his face, obviously tight with anger and his hands were stuffed in his. Whoa, he changed clothes! He was wearing a dark chocolate sweater and long khakis with a green scarf that pretty much made those gorgeous eyes of his pop. God he's some serious eye candy minus the weird side of him I don't quite get yet.

Yet. I think I found my new favorite word…

"Or you wanna go somewhere else?" he asked. "You look…hungry?" he laughed

"Huh?" I blinked out of weird Amy Land.

"You've got this look in your eye.." he groaned while biting his lower lip with his fangs, achingly slow, before releasing it after, and I hadn't realized I let out a whimper.

"Well?' he smiled devilishly.

"Eh?! Nawh, coffee's good. Its great actually." I smiled. "I'll buy this time, you did great today" I rushed out.

"Ill do even better tomorrow" he promised with a wink.

And I swear all my girl parts just perked to life.