CHAPTER 15:D

The teapot screeched and I quickly poured the remaining contents into two cups. Placing the teapot into the sink, I grabbed the two cups and sped walked to the stairs, trying my hardest not to spill a drop. I reached the top of the stairs and quickly sped around to Silvers room to see him inside, unpacking the contents of his luggage into his closet and dresser.

"Silver! Here, this'll make you much, much better!" I handed him a cup and sat down next to his luggage.

"Uh, sure!" Silver took a sip of the hot tea and his ears perked up. "Wow, Amy. This is REALLY good!"

"I know!" I put on the only smirk as I quickly drank the enticing liquid, to the very last drop. Silver had done the same as he placed his empty cup on his dresser presuming to align his clothing in his drawers.

I stared as he folded and placed his clothes. I'm glad that even before I asked or forced him to, hehehe, he had wanted to move in with me. Seemed A LITTLE hasty, but I didn't mind, the closer I was to him, the safer and happier I felt. He still had that damp spot from when he washed off that … stuff… ech.

"Hey, Silver. Why don't you let me finish this off? You can hop in the shower before falling asleep." I smiled, looking into his eyes and wishing I could stare forever.

"Well…" He looked at me twice, seeing my smile widen, and smiled. "Sure, why not."

I got up and hugged him, he kissed my forehead and dug out one of his towels from the luggage, gray, of course! He smiled before he left the room. I turned to his clothes and began folding them neater and placing them as he was into the dresser. 'I, Amelia Rose the Hedgehog, has FINALLY found the one who will be there for me.' I thought to myself, nearly out loud. I kept that smile on my face for the remainder of the luggage's contents.

Standing up, I took the luggage and placed it underneath his bed, next to the boots he had left there. 'Oh, wow, that's right… I need to wash clothes!' I went to the dresser to get the cups and noticed Silver behind me, towel wrapped around his waist and one of my pink head towels covering his quills.

"Well, that was quick." I joked turning around with the cups in my hand, I was heading for the door when he turned and stuck his tongue out at me.

"nyahh."

"No, you nyah!" I giggled, that was adorable! It made me want to make him say stupid sentences with his tongue sticking out. I closed his door and headed for the stairs. I felt like the luckiest hedgehog alive. Point blank.

Heading down the stairs and around to the kitchen. I was not expecting what I saw.

Sonic, was sitting at the table. A hand on the table and a hand to his temple, he looked up at me with tears in his eyes, he looked upset and angry. I was half way to dropping the cups had I not gotten my balance back.

"I do not believe you!" I whisper shouted, "You told Brie where my Silver was and brought him back home! You desperate, evil hedgehog!"

"I did no such thing, it does ring a bell though. I came here today, hopefully to that annoyance being home already, and yet hes back." He seethed, wiping a tear that trailed down to his nose and looked back up at me. His puffy green eyes staring at me and a crooked smile on his face. "Why Amy?"

"What do you mean, WHY? What have you done, to me and for me, that would make me love you anymore?" I slammed the cups on the counter and stared back at him, my face turning red, not with embarrassment but with frustration.

"I gave you a reason to fight for love," He paused looking at his fingers then back at me, "Isnt that why you are so headstrong and determined now?"

I fell silent, I could not believe he was using my original determination against me, with HIM as the reason. "I wanted you, I admit, from the first time you saved me, and every time after that. But I INTENTIONALLY gave up on you, because you ran from me, hurting me in one way too many. You think youre too COOL for a relationship, that the world was your "Relationship". Truth be told, I WOULD NEVER HAD KEPT FOLLOWING YOU if you had just let me LOVE YOU! Idiot!" I got up close and personal. Stabbing my finger into his chest, my face had been drained, and adding to the fire it felt, it got hotter when tears streamed down my face. Practically POURED.

"I couldn't have loved you back, Amy. Not at that time. I was busy, saving the wor-"

"Shut the fuck up! This is what I mean!" I swatted him away, as I backed up to lean on the counter, trying to stop the tears from flooding my cheeks.

"Amy, please. Everything is fine now!" He said crying as well, the tears reactivating in the crevices of his eyes, standing up he tried walking over to me, "I can stay with you the rest of my life!"

"OH, ITS WHEN YOU WANT TO? OH GEE, I WAS HOPING AND PRAYING YOU GAVE IN." I shouted pushing him away, his grip tightening on my hands and wrists, "Get OFF me!"

"Amy, please. I love you, Ames. Please!" He tried hugging me to stop my arms and hands from moving.

I didn't know what to do or say, it was a jerk reaction when I screamed out, "SILVER!"

In a FLASH, something had knocked Sonic off of me and into and out the backyard door to the patio.

"What the HELL are you doing to her!" Silver wasnt exactly fully dressed but he had put on black and gray basketball shorts and his black sandals.

I turned to see my Silver, his arm outstretched with his hand, blazing blue, looking at the direction he flung Sonic to, sternly. I ran behind him and up the stairs, bawling my eyes out, I sat at the top, I didn't want to know what would happen next.

"Silver, why did she choose YOU? Damn! I was the one she wanted!" Sonic mumbled through tears, pounding the grass and dirt he had been flung through.

"Because I was ALWAYS there from the beginning." Silver said, capturing Sonic in his aura once more and flinging him in the air. "Now, just leave her alone, you're just hurting her more."

Tossing him across Amy's townhouse, into the middle of the street in her front yard. Sonic lay there, his face plastered to the concrete, little splinters in his back from the broken door and his tail in the air.

"Amy..?" Silver came back into the house, picking up the chair and the cups that had been shattered. "It's ok, he's gone." Silver had become cool and collected, and concerned.

I walk down the stairs, sniffling and sobbing, turning my head into the kitchen to see Silver throwing out the cups. I ran to him, back turned and all, I hugged him and sobbed even louder.

"Amy. It's ok, I wont leave you, or hurt you, or make you feel worse than that idiot did. I'll always be here, that's what I swore I'd do, and I don't go back on my word." He turned around and hugged me tightly, showing that he had NO intention of leaving me at all, I felt happier but was given a reason to cry more.

"Oh, Silver! I love you! I was so blind from the start, I shoulda never loved that FOOL, all he did was hurt me! Why didnt I leave before it came to this?" I sobbed in disbelief, "He had time for me when HE wanted to? And somehow I was OK with that? What was wrong with me?"

"It was a first love, Amy, we all have those, we just experience them differently. Remember, First Love will be remembered, but True Love will never be forgotten." He nuzzled close to me, and whispered to me softly. I felt myself so calm, safe, warm. I never wanted to feel that emptiness I had felt falling with Sonic.

"Silver, I'm so grateful that you aren't like those idiots, who put unnecessary 'tasks' before life." I looked up at him and kissed his cheek.

"I'm grateful you weren't still hung up on him. Otherwise, I would have never been here with you, like this, in a way that idiot could never had settled down to do." He kissed my forehead and rubbed my shoulder. "Now, come on… I need to fix the door."

As he sweat dropped and looked at the backyard door that was busted in half, I laughed. He laughed, too, but he was more determined to fix what he had broke. I went to the cellar door that was outside my house to get nails, ply wood, a hammer and a drill. He met me half way, helping me with the ply wood and drill, leaving me with the hammer and nails.

About an hour had passed and the door was completed, sure it was two different colors but to make it sturdy and fit back in the door frame, it was worth it.

"Well, I'm sorry." I looked sheepishly at him, while he looked back curiously.

"What cha mean?" He tilted his head taking the rest of the nails and plywood and placing them on their perspective shelves.

"For interrupting your rest, you really deserve it now." I shuffled my foot, looking down.

"Amy, if I was on my death bed and you needed me, I'd be there." He smiled sincerely and kissed me. I kissed back, getting butterflies in my tummy.

"That's sweet, but even then I wouldn't bother you." He chuckled shrugging his shoulders and guiding me out of the cellar.

It was a beautiful summer afternoon, the sun was around its highest, the streets were silent with no cars or people, and the terminal depositing and withdrawing visitors like money in a bank. I wondered what Silver did with Sonic, but I didn't let my mind think about it. I refused to let myself. Instead I stood on my front porch with Silver, admiring what this artificial nature had supplied for us. After a while of silence, my stomach growled. I look down and chuckle, Silver laughing along with me. We went inside to get something to eat.