The purple hedgehog walked into her room, she slumped on the bed. Clasping her head in her hands, she looked down to the floor and sighed. She has confessed almost everything. She only hoped that Laura would tell them the rest. There was no strength left in her heart to do that. Her friend could at least tell half the story for her.
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"Tails, you should go talk to her."
"Why me?"
"Because you know what its like to lose a loved one."
"Yeah, but…"
Sonic and tails' conversation was cut short by Laura.
"No ones going to talk to her right now and that's that!"
"Who says you're the boss of everything?" said Sonic, sarcastically.
"Trust me..." she sighed.
"Why should we trust a mental cat?"
"The real question is: why would you trust a mental cat?"
"Just answer my first question…"sighed Sonic.
"Fine, lets just say, you get to know someone when you're in the army with them."
"You two were in the army?" Tails pitched in, surprise was clear through his tone of voice.
Laura nodded.
Lucy walked into the room. Her fringe was covering her face.
"Hey. How you feeling?" said sonic sympathetically.
"I could be better" she replied coldly.
"Why? What's wrong?" tails asked curiously.
"I lost contact lenses and now I have to wear my glasses until the package with the new one's gets here"
"I've never seen you with glasses on. Your eyesight can't be that bad." Sonic remarked.
The purple hedgehog looked at him poker-faced and said "last time I flew the plane, without contact lenses or glasses on; I crashed straight into a tree."
"Oh…" He said, looking away.
There was silence.
"Were you really in the army?" tails asked, breaking the silence.
Both the red cat and the purple hedgehog nodded with a smile creeping onto their faces.
"You're bluffing" sonic smirked.
Lucy pulled her ear down and showed everyone in the room. She pointed to a chip at the top of her ear.
"Got that when I was in the army" she smiled.
"I didn't think its something to be proud of. Getting an injury in the army. You're scarred for life." Said a concerned Tails.
"Well it was one of the best times of my life."
"What do you mean? You were at war, weren't you?" said Amy, who hadn't spoken until now.
"Well it did have its fun times." Lucy smirked.
"Like the time when the sergeant came round to check if everybody's lights were out. And Jester said that it would be funny and stuff. So we all yelled at the top of our voices 'kiss me goodnight sergeant major' and we were just singing really loudly. We had to get out of bed and do five hundred press ups!" Giggled Laura.
"It was worth it, just to see the look on his face!" laughed Lucy.
"Who's Jester?" asked Tails.
"We all had nicknames, and 'because he was really funny, we called him Jester." Replied Laura.
"What were your nicknames?" grinned Sonic.
"Mine was Flash, 'because I can run really fast." Said Laura.
"Not as fast as me!" retorted Sonic.
"Look, I told you before! I cant race yet 'cause there's too many evil mice around!" moaned Laura.
"Well anyway, what was your nickname Lucy?" asked Sonic.
"Sparky…" muttered Lucy.
"Why Sparky?"
"I had a slight accident involving a toaster and a screwdriver…" she muttered again.
With that, the whole room burst into an uproar of laughter. Meanwhile, Lucy sat down on one of the chairs at the table. She put the weight of her head onto her hand, but winced at the all too familiar pain. Immediately, she pulled of her black fingerless glove.
The room was silent.
Scars ran around her left wrist like lace on a dress. The purple hedgehog gingerly inspected her hand. Just the sight of it made Tails and Sonic feel sick.
"Lucy? Are y-you a… cutter?" Sonic asked suspiciously.
Lucy immediately turned to him with a serious face, and shook her head.
"I've come close, but I would never do something like that."
"Then why is you hand like that?" asked Tails, in a worried voice.
She sighed and simply said "sometimes I ask myself that same question…"
"I told you the battle gloves weren't ready!" said Laura.
"And I don't know why I didn't listen…" Lucy sighed.
"I'll get you a bandage" said Amy, as she stood up and got the first-aid box.
Lucy nodded then looked at her hand. It was bleeding slightly. She looked at it poker-faced, then at Laura.
"Flash?" she asked.
"Yes sparky?" the red cat replied.
"I don't understand… I mean, I've been in loads of scrapes. I've had a hell of a lot of injuries…yet, how do we always pull through in the end?"
"Maybe someone's watching over us…"
Lucy looked up at the ceiling and whispered.
"Like Cloud…"
She suddenly winced at the pain of Amy wrapping a bandage around her hand.
"Sorry" said Amy, in a small voice.
"It's fine, really" Lucy waved off the apology with her free hand.
She looked over to Laura. The red cat was looking down at the floor poker-faced.
"What's with the poker-face?" Lucy asked.
Laura looked up and suddenly smiled.
"Cant read my, cant read my, no you can't read 'em my poker face, poker face!" she sang while dancing around the room.
The whole room stared at her in silence. Lucy broke the silence by laughing.
Once Lucy had finally stopped her mental laughing, Amy spoke up.
"I've done wrapping your hand up"
"Thanks, I owe you one." Lucy replied while standing up and walking over to where Laura was standing.
"Do have training tomorrow, or are we fixing the plane." She asked.
"The planes fine. Besides, I got to find someone to race. If been itching to run ever since we got here!"
"Hey don't look at me! You know I only do running for the fun of it. I'm only good at sprints"
"You used to run long distance!"
"I've been in a lot of battles, I got some bad injuries. Lets face it; i'm not what I used to be!"
"You're talking like a really old guy!"
"Find someone else to race you!"
"I'll race you!" yelled Sonic.
"Thank god that's settled, we race at 12 noon tomorrow, ok?" said Laura, sounding relived.
"Sure" replied Sonic
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sorry for the loooooooong wait but I had lots of school work… i'm on half term break now so I can do more writing yay! Review please!