Hey everyone. Jewlz aka NaNa-Chan finally here again. I really wanted to update this for quite some time but I got sidetracked. 1: Writers Block. Never before have I had such a tough break with it. Thank the lord my bff came over and gave me some inspiration the other day.
2: SCHOOL. There was never any time cuz of the constant homework and when I did get time i was trying to chill cuz of stress. Boy am I glad it's summer.
I'm sorry to announce that there will probably be quite a bit of waiting seeing how nothing is really planned and I'm getting homework for summer for the first time ever. So suggestions and ideas for future chapters are appreciated. Please bear with me and enjoy the story~.
Chapter 2: Donut Dates
"I loved almost everything about you. Just as I do now. You've always managed to amaze me and to make me say "Wow." I wished that I could tell you how I truly feel. But you didn't even know me, at least not for real. You'd seen me once or twice. Yes you knew my face. But we weren't on a close level. So I knew I had to change the pace. But I kept missing my chance-" Silver T. Hedgehog
Silver stared at his red and black friend with a look of uncertainty. They'd talked about this subject time and time and time again. Silver just wasn't sure if he could do it. The subject I am referring to is Silver's feelings for a certain blue hedgehog and the need to do something about it.
"Shadow, I understand I need to sit down and get to know him and all but are you sure this is a good idea? I mean DD is a public place what if I say something embarrassing?"
Silver was flipping out just thinking about it.
"Silver, you need to calm down. Jewlz helps out her sister there regularly you'll be fine. The more people that are around that you're comfortable with the better off you'll be. Besides a public place leaves more chances of random events occurring which leaves more chances for conversation starters."
In Silver's opinion the ebony hedgehog had a ridiculously large positive view of the situation for someone with a normally negative personality. Maybe he'd been able to stay in Earth's atmosphere long enough for the fresh air to do him some good? The world may never know.
In Shadow's opinion Silver had a far too negative outlook on the situation for someone with a normally positive personality. Maybe he was starting to rub off on him? Chaos only knows.
Whatever replies that were about to be spoken were cut off when the blue devil himself walked in. Did I mention that they were at Sonic's house?
They couldn't have family game night because they weren't family, but they could have Friendly Fun Fridays (and whatever creative name they could come up with for every other day of the week.)
Sonic sat down to resume their game of monopoly while Knuckles, Scourge, and Amy followed suit with snacks in their hands. Rouge reached over to swipe a fruit from Knuckles. No complaints were heard as they settled their arm-full's on the table. Amy did look like she wanted to kill something though...
Shadow got up to go to the bathroom nudging Silver as he did so. It was time to put their plan into action. Now if only the ivory could focus and not cop out...
Silver's eyes widened; pupils shrinking as he watched Shadow head for the bathroom. His eyes turned in the direction of the front door. Maybe he could make a run for it? No, he had to do this now...but how would he do it without embarrassing himself too badly? He had an idea.
Silver rested his head on the table in a nonchalant way as Sonic took his turn.
"I want a donut."
"Knuckles has the last one." Amy seemed somewhat smug in her announcement.
"Damn it!" Silver threw down the dice a little harder than normal.
"DD should still be open. Why not go?" Scourge calmly took the dice and rolled.
"It's 11:50. By the time I get there they'll be closed." Silver set his pass go money from the previous turn down.
"Go tomorrow then, hun." Rouge bought Park Place and three groans were heard throughout the room.
Now came the hard part. He needed an excuse to get Sonic to go with him. He hadn't been to any fast food restaurant in a very long time...
"Go fish Amy. Silver are you okay? Your face is red."Knuckles took another bite of his donut.
"Y-yeah, I'm just a little hot is all." He hadn't noticed he'd been blushing. He quickly took off his jacket to avoid suspicion.
"Come to think of it when was the last time you went to DD?" Amy drew a card.
"I can't seem to remember." Silver averted his eyes.
"Well if you're nervous I'll go with you." Sonic bought Board Walk and again the groans were heard.
"Really? Thank you!" Silver passed go with a smile bigger than the Sun.
"Is it just me or does he seem too happy? It's like he doesn't even notice he's losing." Scourge whispered to Rouge as he rolled.
"I'd agree if he weren't such an adorable little kid." Rouge snickered as she took her turn.
A glowing glass of water was suddenly dumped on Rouge's head.
"I think he heard you." Knuckles laughed and looked through his cards. Rouge looked like she was going to throw a fit when Amy intervened:
"Don't worry about it Rouge. When he acts like a child it only further proves your point. Go fish Knuckles." Again you could hear the smugness in her voice.
When it came down to it, they were like a family. Never really getting along but loving the shit out of each other anyway.
It was only slightly snowing that morning which for Silver meant busting out the ski gear but he was fine with it and for good reason. He'd finally done it. Silver had actually gotten Sonic to go on a date with him. Technically it didn't count because Sonic didn't know it was a date but the details didn't matter to Silver as long as it was just the two of them.
"Yo Silver!" Was the cheerful greeting he got when the blue blur finally showed up. Silver's heart beat in his ears and a grin spread across his face before he could stop it. But then why hide his happiness? Things were finally going his way after all.
"Good morning Sonic!" His reply was twice as cheerful. "Ready to go?"
"Race you there?" The speedster was already stretching his legs.
"Alright." The somewhat exasperated reply came quickly.
Silver closed his eyes and concentrated. The familiar turquoise glow surrounded him and when he opened his eyes it was all that was noticeable within them. Floating off the ground he turned himself in the direction of DD.
Sonic crouched low in the standard runner's position. "On your mark."
He threw his weight back on his right foot lifting his head to focus on the road in front of him. Above him silver curled his body bringing his hands to his chest. "Get set."
They both tensed their bodies preparing themselves for the green light. "Go!"
Their bodies were springs uncoiling as they shot forward toward their destination. One was fueled by his need for speed and the other by his excitement for the time ahead. Yes things would be good today. Or that's what they'd hoped.
Standing where they'd just been a familiar pink hedgehog glared after them, eyes narrowed. She'd be damned if she let Silver get away with what she knew he was planning. She wasn't about to leave them to themselves. Not if she could help it.
"Alright you win." Silver purposely gave Sonic the victory of the race even though he knew he'd been just a bit ahead of him. It was Sonic. That was a small price to pay for what he really wanted. Opening the door of DD they went in taking in the scent of coffee and freshly baked things. It'd been a really long time since Silver had been there.
"I'm gonna go ahead and order." Sonic's hand came to Silver's shoulder snapping him out of his thoughts. "What do you want?"
"Um... a vanilla latte and a chocolate glazed donut with sprinkles." Silver's lips quirked up in an adorable somewhat childish smile toward the end of the sentence.
Sonic laughed a friendly laugh at this. "Alright then buddy why don't you go ahead and find us a table while I order?" He jabbed his thumb in the direction of the tables before turning and making his way over to the counter to order.
Silver just nodded in response. He walked over to one of the booths and slid in twiddling his thumbs as he did. Nervousness kicking in for the umpteenth time that day, his cheerful smile quickly morphed into a frown. Looking over to his right he could see his friend Jewlz the Catsune behind the counter. She gave him a quick thumbs up in encouragement, calming his nerves to a considerable degree.
Pleased to see her friend chilling out she quickly picked up the two coffees and the donuts to pass them to Sonic. The blue hedgehog thanked her before taking them from her and heading over to the booth to slide in across from Silver. Said white hedgehog's frown changed to a bright smile at his return.
Silver reached for his bag taking the donut and biting into it without a second thought. An adorable "Nom," escaping his mouth as it was filled with that chocolaty flavor he'd missed. At this another kind hearted laugh was heard from the blue speedster as he sipped his coffee and bit into his strawberry glazed donut.
Silver coughed and blushed realizing his actions. Putting down his donut slowly, he crossed his arms on the table and cleared his throat. "Um, Sonic?"
"Deah Silvh?" Was the muffled response he got from the blue blur.
Letting out a shy laugh at the other's antics Silver responded, "We spend a fairly large amount of time together but I honestly don't know that much about you other than that you're fast and love chilidogs. I'd like to get to know you a lil' better." At the other's blank expression he threw in a nervous, "I-if that's alright with you." His eyes looked everywhere but at the blue hedgehog himself, his cheeks quickly heating up.
Sonic swallowed the remainder of his donut and took a sip of his coffee before mimicking the other and crossing his arms on the table. "Well what would you like to know?"
From there the mood lightened considerably and Silver learned a lot in that little amount of time. He then came to find that Sonic was equally curious about him. Just when he was about to divulge into what little he could remember before the flames and the Iblis Trigger, an annoyingly familiar voice rang through the air.
"Oh Sonic!" With that simple call an entire morning's worth of work went down the drain in Silver's eyes. They were actually having a genuine conversation and Amy had to go and ruin it.
The pink hedgehog quickly made a show of seating herself and fawning over Sonic, though said hedgehog was more interested in the sudden drop in Silver's mood rather than anything Amy had to say. The blue furred hedgehog found it quite a nuisance that the pink bitch wasn't giving him any chances to talk or ask Silver why he looked so upset. Just as Silver was about to excuse himself, there was a commotion at the counter and suddenly the portion directly across from their booth was covered in flames.
Silver froze in fear as haunting images of his past flashed before his eyes. And just like that it was over. The flames were doused and the images went with them. The white hedgehog looked up to find a concerned Sonic standing over him, an annoyed Amy not far behind him. He hadn't noticed that during that little stunt he'd slipped onto the floor and curled up into a ball his hands on his head.
Silver covered his face in embarrassment. Sonic being the caring friend that he was took the opportunity to pull Silver off the floor and out of the restaurant grabbing their coffee on the way. No, he didn't need the judgmental eyes and nosey people staring at him right then.
Quickly sitting Silver down on a bench and handing him his coffee, Sonic politely asked Amy to leave and didn't turn to him until she begrudgingly did so.
"What happened in there?"
Silver quickly downed the rest of his coffee. He knew there was no way he was going to talk himself out of this one. So focusing his mortified stare at the ground he steeled himself to give his explanation
"This has been happening for awhile, since we saved the world together actually. Every time I get close to a fire I hear the screaming and the cries for help. I can see the flames all around me again and I just end up reliving my past. But the last thing I always see before the flames go out is Blaze giving her life to stop the fire and all I can think about is how it should've been me. My mind is telling me to move away from the fire and survive but the only thing I can think about is how I shouldn't be alive. Halfway through it just gets to be too much and I just want it all to go away. Which is what you saw when I was on the floor." He put his head in his hands to stop the tears and stifle his breaking voice. "I'm pathetic."
As he broke down Silver could feel familiar peach arms encircle him and hold him against a warm furry chest. He could hear that strong voice telling him he was anything but pathetic and if Blaze could see him she'd hit him for thinking so. In the end they'd won. They'd righted the wrong and Silver couldn't go on holding her death against himself forever. It wasn't his fault and he needed to stop living in the past. Beyond the fur and trivial things there was a pure hearted righteous individual who had a lot of potential. He needed to start seeing that for himself lest it all go to waste.
Of course, hearing these things only made him cry harder but for joy, because he'd never known Sonic thought of him that highly. They stayed like that for awhile before Silver was able to sit up again and sniffle the last of his dark feelings away.
Sonic downed the rest of his own coffee before pulling Silver up off the bench. With a bright grin he said, "Come on. I'll race ya home."
"It didn't turn out that bad in the end. I learned more about you but we didn't finish the full exchange because of Amy, at least not until sometime during the next date. That woman was always screwing up my chances. "
Silver finished his recollection looking just a bit less annoyed than when he started.
"True. But when did Shadow take the picture? I don't even remember seeing him at all." Sonic screwed up his face in concentration, trying to remember when Shadow had been there.
"I didn't see him either actually. He came and showed me the picture the next day. When I asked him about it he said he'd been sitting on the other side of the restaurant the whole time. He would have asked us to pose but we looked like we were getting along so well he didn't want to interrupt. Too bad Amy had to interrupt anyway." Silver recalled his friend's wasted thoughtfulness with a shake of his head.
"Sneaky bastard he is. Well what about this one?" The blue blur's finger made its way to the third oldest picture. The two of them had their arms around each other posing with peace signs. They were decked out in skinny jeans and t-shirts for a well known band with black Doc Martens boots to top it off.
A grin spread across Silver's face. "This is before we went to that ADTR concert. We were so pumped up on the way there. "
He leaned back a dreamy look in his eyes as resumed his pose of reminiscence.
Well there ya go. Originally I was gonna go with something else rather than a concert for the next chappie (i did try to plan a lil) but recently I fell in love with A Day To Remember so much that I wanted to insert them in the story in some way. I figured writing about going to a concert would be fun
. even though I've never been to one.
I may just end up writing what they talk about on the trip there but that depends. Well since it's almost 5 in the morning I'm probably gonna go to bed but before I do... I wanna say thank you to those people who favorited but... PLEASE REVIEW. SERIOUSLY COMMENTS AND THOUGHTS ARE MORE MOTIVATING THAN FAVORITES. I'd like to know what you like about my story as well as what to improve so PLEASEreview. Thanks again~.