A/N: Chapter 5 is back again! Sorry for messing it up...If you read it despite the warning.

Amy's POV

I got a nasty surprise that day. After a nice breakfast(scrambled eggs),the surprise came as a letter. From my boss. It said I was fired. "It is Shadow's fault!" I growled, and considered slamming my dear Piko-piko hammer into his head. At least the sun had emerged from the clouds.
Rouge called me, asking me if we could meet at the mall. "Sure." I said. We agreed to meet there about two hours.

I took a bath before our meeting. The water temperature was just perfect, hot. Very hot. My body relaxed when I immersed myself into the water, I enjoyed the feeling and pretended that my weird problems was solved.
Some time later, when images of Shadow smiling and winking at me entered my mind, I decided to do something else. "You're nuts, Amy." I told myself. I dried my body and put on a short red skirt, a white jumper and light make-up. I brought my hammer too, just in case I met Shadow on my way.

When I emerged from my apartment I smiled at the sight of a very tired Tails. His tails trailed behind him, his eyes was half-shut. "Hey, Tails!" I shouted.
"...What?" He seemed confused, like he was deep in his thoughts. Not that it was unusual.
"Hi, Tails. Are you brooding over some new invention?" I asked innocently, knowing that he would tell me something too complicated for me to understand.
"No. Er… I gotta go now, see you later." Then he just flew away.
"Strange." I mumbled and continued my way to the mall.

Rouge was already there when I arrived. For once, she wore normal clothes. Blue jeans and a red shirt. And no make-up.
We devoted most of our time to the only activity that could cheer me up, besides attacking Shadow with my hammer. Shopping. Both of us bought a lot of dresses, shoes and various jewels. Rouge fell in love with a beautiful ruby ring, It was too expensive for her, but I think that she planned to...take... it anyway.
I felt a bit guilty, since I was currently unemployed, but every girl has a right to wear new clothes!

After using up my money, we ate chocolate cookies, chocolate mousse, and drank hot chocolate. Well, at least I did. Rouge didn't even touch her delicious chocolate. "What's wrong, Rouge?"I wondered. "Why are you and Tails acting so strange?"
"Amy... It's Sonic's fault." She said. "He is the only one who's been acting strange these days." I thought I knew what she meant.
"Pooh! He is together with Sally, so what?" I was over Sonic, and didn't want to talk about him.
"Not anymore Amy, nobody told you? He broke up with her!" By now, most the people sitting at the tables next to us was listening.
"Sh, Rouge! What's the problem then?"
"He stole the master emerald!"
"WH-WHAT? Tell me all about it." I demanded.

On my way home, I pondered about the unbelievable things Rouge had told me. Why would Sonic steal the powerful emerald? That was so not him. He was supposed to be the hero!
Suddenly, someone appeared in front of me. As soon as I recognized the person to be Shadow, I slammed my hammer into his head, just as I had imagined. I was pleased when I saw him grimace in pain. "That's for making me lose my job." I told him.
Then I got an idea. "Shadow, Can you please Chaos Control us to Tails' workshop? It is important."
"Why not." He said. If Sonic stole the master emerald, then surely Tails would know it. And who could keep up with Sonic if not Shadow? I was sooo smart. At least that's what I thought.
"CHAOS CONTROL!" Shadow shouted, and we disappeared in a bright green flashlight.