Here's the chapter. Thanks to MissMJS for telling me about the problem. I dunno if it was a bug or not, but it surely did surprised me. Enjoy the chapter.

Chapter 9: An Unrealized Interest

While we were approaching Tails' Training Lab, Amy was still talking about how happy she was going as fast as me. I never seen her so happy, but I can accurately say that because of me putting in time to hang out with her, and help her out, she's been on the happy train for quite a while. I'm not mad about it either. In fact, I'm actually quite happy with the way our friendship's been progressing. I don't have to worry about her chasing me like she usually does. What does concern me, was this hidden warmth that suddenly popped up out of nowhere. I was busy in my thoughts, when-

"Sonic?"

"Yeah, Amy?"

"You've been thinking quite hard since the walk back to Tails' Lab. Is something wrong?"

"No. Nothing's the matter. I've just been thinking about something."

"Oh? About what?"

I thought about it for a moment, and then came to a realization that I was probably getting hot. I did run for a while, so I brushed it off.

"Nothing. I thought it would be bothersome, but I think I might be getting hot from all the running we did."

"I see. Well, if anything is bothering you, Sonic. Don't hesitate to ask me, alright?"

"Yeah. Thanks, Amy."

I gave her a smile. She returns a smile, blushing a bit.

"You're welcome."

"If it isn't the two lovebirds. You two seem very close."

Amy and I turned to look at Tails, who was coming out from his newly built lab. It seems like he just got done making it.

"That's because I decided to train her early in the morning to get used to her new speed."

"Oh? Did she perform well?"

Amy jumps for joy, and smiles as she laughed.

"I did great, Tails! You should've saw me out there, I caught up to Sonic!"

Tails smiles at her.

"That's good! All you need to do now is try to catch him when he's running his fastest, which is light speed."

Amy looked at him for a bit, and giggled before turning to look at me.

"That will take a while, but I'm sure that will happen someday, right, Sonic?"

"Well… I've tested that Gem out, and it's only limited to running at Sonic Boom. You'd have to combine Blue Gem with the Red Gem in order to catch up to me."

"I see. So... Even if I were to use it, you wouldn't be able to teach me because of how slow you'd talk."

"Sadly, yes."

Amy looks down a bit, before looking back up.

"Well, whenever we get to you showing me your full speed, you can tell me about it first, and then I can use it."

I smile at her and give her a thumbs up.

"Sounds like a plan."

Tails observe us closely, before turning to walk back into his lab.

"Why don't the lovely couple follow me, so we can begin Amy's training?"

I look at him.

"You would say that, Tails. Just because Amy and I have gotten a little closer as friends, doesn't mean you can misunderstand."

Tails laughs for a bit as we follow him.

"Anyone can misunderstand the relationship you two have. As much as Knuckles and I have been making fun of you for playing with Amy's heart all this time, it's nice to see you too actually hanging out for once."

"That sounds a bit harsh if you put it like that."

"I agree with Sonic. It's not like he wanted to play with my feelings. He was only being considerate of both his and my feelings, and was uncomfortable with me being so straightforward with him."

I nod my head in agreement.

"Yeah, what Amy said."

Tails turns to look at the both of us, smirking. Something about that smile of his gave me chills down my spine.

"Amy, you've been chasing after Sonic, right?"

"Yes. For a long time I have. Why?"

"As you can see, Sonic has gotten closer to you, not only because of your training, but because something happened between the both of you. I want to know what happened."

I looked at him with a face of disappointment. Is that really all he wanted to know?

"Is that it?"

"Yeah."

"Well, on the day that we were taking a walk like I promised her, we've cleared things up about her straightforward tactics, and reached an agreement. We're friends until I end up falling in love with her which, as we both know, is not going to happen."

Tails observed me in a way that made me uncomfortable.

"Is that so?"

"Yeah…"

"Alright then. Follow me."

We follow him into the training lab, as we entered it, we came into a studio where all of the devices were set up on the left side from my view while the keyboard to process the holograms were set up on the right side. Amy, Tails, and I walk in some more and look out a window to our right, and see a big square space. It looks like we'll be training, but I'm not sure what Tails is going to do, so I wait for his response.

"Alright. First, Amy. I'm going to need you to come with me for a bit."

"Why, Tails?"

"I need to build you some armor to tightly secure those gems. I know you've been using the Hammer Space to keep them there."

"You know about Hammer Space?"

"Yeah. I've seen you use it to bring out another hammer when you battled against Eggman."

"Oh yeah! That was when we came back here from Chris's world."

"Yep! Anyway, come with me to the tech room. I have all of my tools in there."

"Ok, Tails."

"I'll wait here then. You guys take your time."

I see the two head off for Tails tech room, leaving me behind. I was pretty curious as to how Tails was going to build Amy some equipment to keep those gems secured, so I imagined how it would look. Some were pretty cool, while others were… Well… Let's just say they didn't leave the mind for awhile, but as I began thinking about Amy, her image fills my mind again. I didn't want to think about her, but my mind couldn't help it. I couldn't figure it out at the time, however, I began to find her very interesting and cool to be around, which was a first for me. The next thing you know, that warm feeling appeared again.

"There's that warm feeling again. Is it because I'm thinking about Amy?"

I shook my head to erase that nonsense out of my mind. I couldn't have fallen in love with Amy.

"Nah. It can't be. I think my mind's playing with me. There's no way I can fall in love with her."

I ignore that feeling in my heart once again. Hopefully when Tails gets done with making the armor, her looks won't trigger that warmth. If it does… I might actually be...

I'll post the next two chapters this week. Since I'm two chapters behind, I'll get working on them sometime tomorrow.