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Thanks everyone for the reviews! They all mean a lot to me! Anyway, so this drabble idea (have you noticed my drabbles are getting longer…? Meh, sorry 'bout that.) came from eating at Panda Express on my trip when I ate a fortune cookie. Of course, my fortune wasn't any good, but anyway… Onwards, march!
Disclaimer: Sigh…no, I don't own the website Amy went to for fortune cookies. But it would be cool if I did…
Chapter twelve
Fortune Cookies
She had always told Sonic about a new member in a different way. When she had been pregnant with Violet, she'd just told him. With Dash, she had said the wind might have a new friend soon. And with the triplets, she had said that Sonic should be prepared to buy some crackers.
But for this pregnancy, she wanted to be creative. She wanted to be able to tell the child someday how she had told her father about the new baby. And she wanted the memory to be special.
"You could do your own fortune cookie message," Cream had suggested, when Amy had called to tell her friend the news. "It's creative, and Sonic will love it."
"But neither of us believe in superstition," Amy pointed out. "None of us do."
"Well, if you make the message sound too personal, or something, it might freak him out at least," Cream replied. "Just try it. See what happens. If it doesn't work, we can always think up another idea. Besides, do you really want to make supper tonight?" No, Amy admitted, she didn't, and Chinese food sounded good enough to her.
So, there she was, at the computer, looking up how to make her own custom message on a fortune cookies' paper. She clicked on a link that looked promising, smiling lightly as the page loaded.
"Personalize your fortune cookies with your very own custom fortune cookie messages inside each and every cookie!" the page read, in big bold letters, and Amy grinned. This looked promising. Giggling to herself, she continued reading the information, until she came to the part that said how long it would take for the fortune cookie to arrive.
"Rush Orders, and Shipping Options," the website explained, and Amy suddenly realized this could take more than a day to arrive. She wanted to tell Sonic about the baby today, not in…she continued reading. Seven days? It took seven days to send the stupid fortune cookie to her house?
Sighing in frustration, Amy about closed the tab to go look for a faster, more efficient way to get a message on a fortune cookie, when she read,
"Need them even sooner? We specialize in special requests!" Amy's eyes filled with hope. "Since we are a fortune cookie bakery, we can ship fortune cookies in 3-days, next day, and even the same day if needed. Call for details."
"Yes!" Amy yelled, clapping her hands together, giggling like a maniac. Two year old Rose, who sat beside her mother, playing with some toys, looked up, startled. Picking up the nearby phone, Amy giddily dialed the number on the screen.
"Hello, you have reached the original Fancy Fortune Cookies bakery, where we make fancy fortune cookies with your own custom messages. How may I help you?"
Amy could hardly keep herself from squealing. This was such a great plan.
"Y-yes," Amy stammered, suddenly shy. "I would like to order seven fortune cookies with my custom message." At first, Amy had only wanted one fortune cookie, that Sonic could have by himself, but she decided that if would be nice if everyone in the family, besides herself, had their own message about a new baby coming into the family. That way, she wouldn't have to tell the family more than once.
"Alrighty," the man on the other line said cheerfully. "Do you have your own messages figured out, or would you like to skim our ideas on our website?"
"Uh…" Amy hadn't thought about a message yet. Hitting herself mentally, she clicked a link saying 'Baby Shower Fortune Cookies.' "Hold on, lemme think," Amy replied, and she began going through the website's ideas on what to say. She wanted the fortune to freak Sonic out, to be humorous, and she didn't want some cliché message like, 'So sweet and cuddly, cute and fun, we're expecting a new little one!' that the site was suggesting. That would only make Sonic gag.
Sighing, she continued looking through the suggestions, seeing that most of them were about having a little girl, or thanking people for coming to a baby shower. But Amy had just learned this morning about having another baby; she had no idea if it was to be a boy or girl, and she didn't really want to know anyway. Where was the fun in buying toys and what not if you knew the baby's sex?
"Bottles and booties, diapers and pins, this is where the love begins!" read one fortune. Amy considered it quietly. It might work. It wasn't really saying that she and Sonic were having a baby, but, in a way, she wanted her own message…
"Ma'am?" the voice on the phone asked. "Don't forget, you'll need seven different messages, if you order seven like you previously said. Or, they can all be the same, as well."
"Oh, yes, right," Amy replied back, thinking. She figured the triplets would need a very simple message on their fortune cookies, since they couldn't read and since they were too young to understand what could happen with a new family member. "Have one read," Amy started, "Roses are pink, just like you, how would you like a new rose to play with you?"
"Ah," the man stated, understanding. "Expecting a little one, eh?" Amy blushed. She found it weird that this stranger knew about the new family member before Sonic.
"Yep," she shyly answered. "I want to tell each of my kids in a different way, and my husband as well."
"Well you definitely came to the right place," the man replied, and she could picture his grin. "What will the other six be, Ma'am?"
"Um…" Amy again pondered her options; thinking of what she would want Flash to see. "Have another one say, 'You've always hated being the youngest, but not anymore. Pretend for a moment you're a big brother.'"
"You're doing wonderful," the man commented. "The other five?"
Sonic came home that night with a grin on his face, like normal, and he opened his arms wide at his children's greetings.
"Dada, guess wha'?" Rose started.
"Dad, I ran a whole mile toda'!" Dash cried out proudly.
"Kitty did something real funny today, Daddy," Violet stated, giggling.
Sonic chuckled and lifted an excited Flash up his shoulders, commenting to his children's apparent fun day as he made his way towards Amy, who stood not too far away, smiling. Usually she was in the kitchen when he arrived home, so he had a feeling they were all going out tonight. Often, that was a handful; taking six active kids and themselves out to dinner would be hard.
"Hey, Ames." He leaned down and kissed her gently on the lips, and pulled away when he heard Kyler and Violet shrieking of happiness, and Dash sticking out his tongue, muttering something about it being disgusting under his breath. Flash, impatient, slipped down his father's shoulders back to the ground, still chattering away. Amy smirked at Sonic, not feeling any pity for him as the kids continued surrounding him.
"We goin' out tonight?" he questioned in between the children's comments.
"No, I ordered Chinese tonight," Amy replied, her eyes shining brighter than usual. Sonic smiled, confused.
"Not up for making supper tonight?"
"Mmm, sure." Amy giggled, and side-stepped the six children as she headed towards the dining room table, which she was setting. "Kyler, Violet, why don't you come back and help Mom set the table?" Amy suggested, leaving Sonic with the younger four kids, much to the blue hedgehog's relief.
About an hour later, the delivery man arrived, and Sonic answered the door. Grinning at the food, for he was really starting to get hungry, he quickly paid the man and shut the door, taking the food to the table.
"Time to eat, everyone!" he called, and within a minute the family all sat down in their seats, sniffing hungrily at the steaming rice.
"Flash, down boy," Sonic joked as he gently set his son back in his seat, grinning.
After a quick prayer, the family dug in, the kids chatting away so much that the parents hardly got any words of their own days in the conversation. But that was just fine with Amy, her day having been spent on the phone.
Finally, the family turned to their fortune cookies. Amy grinned evilly, unknown to the others as she watched the family read their fortunes.
"Ky, wha' i' say?" Nick cried, as he opened his, as did the other two of the set of triplets. Kyler took Nick's fortune and read it out loud to her brother.
"You love our big family, it's clear to see, how 'bout adding another?" Kyler blinked, confused and turned to Nick, who looked just as lost.
"Hey, listen to mine!" Dash cried, waving his fortune up in the air. "It says, 'You zoom through the hills every other day; your help will be needed at home in a short time.'" Dash paused. "I don't like the sounds of this." Amy laughed to herself, and Kyler turned to her own fortune.
"Well," Kyler started, "Mine says, 'You're the oldest in the family, you're such a good sister, we thought you'd be fine if we added another.'"
"'You love your siblings so well, we're both so proud, would you mind loving just one more?' is what mine says," Violet announced, blinking a few times. "This is weird. They all sound so alike."
"Yeah," Kyler replied slowly, in deep thought. "An' Rose and Flash's fortune's seemed pretty alike too."
Everyone turned to the head of the house then, who sat in his chair quietly, staring down at his own fortune, seeming to have read something unbelievable.
"What's yours say, Daddy?" Dash asked. Sonic blinked, quickly registering back into the real world.
"It says," Sonic began, his eyes shining for some unknown reason, "'You're such a good father, they love you so much, hope you don't mind, the grocery bill's about to go higher from your favorite stuff.'"
"Huh?" the six children all said at once, and Amy chuckled and looked at a dumbfounded blue hedgehog across from her.
"Seriously?" Sonic asked. "More crackers? We just got rid of them all from the last pregnancy!" Amy laughed, joyous tears striking her eyelids, and she shrugged.
"Hey, a women's allowed to love her crackers."
"And fortune cookies, I suppose," Sonic teased, and he got up from his seat, ran over to his wife, and hugged her lovingly, kissing her forehead a thousand times.
"Is anybody-e else con'used?" Dash asked no one in particular, and the other children all shrugged. They had not a clue what was going on.