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Payphone- Maroon 5

Chapter 13: Harmless

Emi entered her room that was as dark as a pit black hole. She was too tired to search for the light switch that was beside the door. She closed the door behind her and gave out a hopeless sigh. Walking in pure darkness down to her bed she began pondering about many things. She held her necklace tightly in her grip and stopped by her small desk. She lifted her hands up to her neck and slowly began to untie the necklace off her neck.

She opened a drawer and in went the golden necklace. She pushed the drawer shut and walked to her bed. She jumped and landed on her back, sprawled on the bed with another sigh, exasperated. It had been a long day. Cherry's complains, so much cleaning to do, decorations—the only fun she's had was in the afternoon. Cooking. She sucked in her lips, licking them nervously. It was funny how she automatically knew somehow how to cook the dogs. She followed her instincts. She shook her head. Looking up at the ceiling she began to wonder also why Tails kept muttering stuff to Sonic while they both eyed her. It caused her to nervous. Cherry absolutely hated her guts now by winning Sonic's like and the maids were impressed of how she made her chili dogs. Rouge, she was the only one who said nothing. Nothing at all. She began acting weird too, her eyes glaring at her and then turning away and walking off somewhere.

"Go to sleep Emi. You need it." She told herself, patiently. 'Emi,'

She rose up from her laying position and turned. A small flower pot sat beside her on a small desk. Lavender. She eyed it carefully and touched its small little purple flowers. Emi raised an eye brow and huffed. A knock was heard on the door and Emi yelped with a scare accidentally dropping the pot to the marble floor making a loud bang.

"No," She gasped her feet sliding down to the floor.

The door flew opened Sonic rushing in. "What happened?" He asked his concern face looking at Emi. Emi shook her head vigorously. "N-nothing, my flower fell." She wasted no time to fall to the floor and picking up the broken pieces of the pot.

Sonic bend down and picked up her hands. He helped her up and stared into her eyes which he couldn't really see. "I'll take care of this later, but I really need to ask you something." He paused and looked around then back at her. "Why is it so dark here?" he asked without thinking.

"I was going to sleep. I didn't bother to turn on the lights." She jerked away from his grip and walked passed him to the lights. Switching them on, Sonic got a look at Emi. She still wore her maid dress and her quills were now falling to her shoulder. His eyes quickly searched her neck remembering why he had come in the first place, but to his disappointment he saw nothing shiny.

"Was that all you majesty?" She asked.

Sonic shook her head and walked to the door. "I came to say…" He paused and looked at her finally. Her eyes weren't half bad. They sparkled with a sweet shimmering of light. He thought her eyes were dark not bright Jade.

"Thank you for your Chili dog receipt. I cannot tell you how glad I am for good fresh dogs now. I honestly am surprised-" As Sonic babbled on, Emi's mind got lost in the way he talked. Something about him made her want to roll her eyes and laugh out loud. He was such a babble mouth. He couldn't stop making his little reasons, obviously hiding from what he really wanted to. She moved her hand up to her mouth and giggled.

Sonic noticed and stopped talking, his eyes narrowing into a scowl look. Emi's eyes widened and she stopped laughing. "I'm sorry, Sir." She amended, her hands locked in front of her and her head down.

Sonic wasn't angry. He was in total shock. Maybe a bit angry, but it was Emi's laugh that caused the shock. Her laugh, it was flattering and somehow familiar. "No, It's fine, but can you-" He stopped again. He wanted to ask her to laugh again, but that was crazy. "Please not do that again," he said instead. He lied.

"Not laugh?" She asked, saddened.

He hesitated but said, "Yes," No.

Emi nodded. "Yes sir, Sorry."

Sonic stood still for a while unable to process her laugh and the way he acted. At the end he walked out not saying anything else and left Emi there.

.:XxX:.

Tails and Sonic were in the throne room late at night. It was still very alive and everyone was working. The councils were discussing the play games for the festival out in the village. The head maids Cherry, a yellow rabbit named Bunnie and a black cat Hershey, were all deciding in how they would be part of the festival, serving or entertaining.

"The villagers all pitched in on giving money for the food, Sir." A black sheep told the Sonic from afar.

Sonic woke up from his daze and looked down at the sheep. "Oh, yes, Thank you," He said nervously smiling. Tails who was aside him glared at him.

The sheep bowed down and skipped away.

Sonic slouched back on his chair and sigh holding his head in the palm of his hand. Tails leaned near him a little and whispered, "You ok? You look a little down."

Sonic turned and smiled a reassuring smirk. "I'm fine, bro. just tired. "

"You sure?" he asked.

"Yea, no worries." Sonic replied.

Tails leaned back in the chair and muttered. "That's when I tend to worry the most."

Suddenly a white dove flew in through the window and swiftly down to the red carpet. Sonic's eyes widened in astonishment. Tails' smile widened in happiness. The dove landed in front of the stairs just below Sonic.

"King Sonic the Hedgehog?" He asked.

Sonic straightened and nodded. "Yea, that's me."

"I have come from the land of Acorn. There king send me to deliver you a message." He said. "A ask for the princess's hand in marriage. Sally Acorn."

"Sally?!" Sonic exclaimed. Tails laughed and turned to Sonic. "Dude, Sally. She's like very pretty and smart-" Sonic cut him off short. "I know who Sally is."

"Well," The dove wondered to himself. Sonic thought Sally was a gorgeous mobian, best personality, stupendous figure and cooked the best foods. He had met her when he had visited the Acorn's village with his mother at age fifteen. She was outgoing, wild, and wasn't afraid of anything. Just his type. He had dated her long ago but she dumped him when she found out about his secret crush on Cherry. He still kind of liked her and wondered.

"Well, umm, Tell the king that I-"

An old but strong voice spoke over everyone's voice in the room. "Doesn't except," Turning to his surprise Queen Aleena was standing firmly next to Tails. There mouth's dropped and the dove smiled and bowed down. "Thank you. I will tell the king right away." The dove flew away and Sonic narrowed his eyes.

"Thank you,"

"Mom, why did you do that?" He couldn't help but ask. Aleena walked in front of Sonic. She smiled at him.

"You'll thank me some other time." Was all she said and walked away back down the stairs and the other hall way. Sonic got up from the chair and so did Tails.

"Mom," He called out. "You're the one wanting me to get married and live life and have kids and so on, and now you say no." He complained.

"I never said no." She had had her eyes closed as she walked away and she finally opened them and turned 90 degrees towards them. "I simple said no for you to marry her." She corrected him.

Sonic was about to angrily complain but Tails grabbed his arm yanking him back. Sonic turned and Tails shook her head slowly giving him the message to stop. Sonic stopped following her and Aleena just kept walking away until she was out of sight.

"Your mom's up to something, dude." Tails observed. Sonic straightened his body and he agreed, she was, but what.

Emi was taking a look at the flowers out back. She felt upset for the way Sonic had been earlier. She wanted somehow to talk to Cream, but she was already beyond being awake and Tails, she hardly knew Tails but he seemed like a sweet person, but no. Rouge, she hadn't seen her all day. The rest she didn't trust as much. She wanted a friend and so went to talk to the flowers.

The night was black with a few bright stars. Emi walked quietly down the row of flowers in the garden. She touched each flower's petals to sweetly see if they were awake, but each of them was shut closed.

Then she came across some Blue petunias that were still opened, even after the sun had gone down and Emi began to wonder why. She touched its stem lightly. She half closed her eyes as if to be concentrating. Emi gasped and jerked away pulling her hand back as if it had burn the tips of her fingers. She bit her lip. The plant was seriously upset and she didn't like it. Narrowing her eyebrows and her eyes creating a straight hard line, she clenched her fist. "Sonic," She hissed under her breath.

.:XxX:.

Sonic walked down the hall in the tallest tower in the castle. He yawned and whipped his face with his hand. He was very sleepy after a lot of things that had happened today. The Acorn arrangement hit him like a tornado and his mom decline to it was like a slap his mother gave him to wake up.

Tired of the thoughts, he reached his door and opened it to his room. It was dark and cold but the first thing he saw was Emi right in front of him with a bag of small little seeds hanging in her right hand. Emi gasped with shivers running down her spine and goose bumps forming in her arms. Flabbergasted, Sonic back away.

"Emi," Sonic said with an astonishing tone.

Emi said nothing. She couldn't. Her mouth was shut closed unable to even balance. When she said nothing a scowl crept on his face. "What," he said, with his voice sharp and deliberate annoyance. "Do you think you're doing?"

Emi began to panic once his voice again reached her ears. The dangerousness voice she had not yet heard. His white teeth were now showing. His fists curled up into a ball, seeming to want to get into a fighting position.

"I c-can explain," She shuttered.

"My snacks. You're stealing my snacks?" He asked in disbelief anger.

"No-no, l-lo-look—Listen, These—you can't eat them," She stuttered nervously looking from Sonic to the seeds.

Sonic's hand darted for the bag but quickly Emi yanked herself back. Sonic found that threating and sped to her pushing her down the room and to a wall at the end. Her head hit the wall hard and she yelped dropping the seeds.

"What are you Emi?" Sonic snarled, his breath spreading down her face, making her dizzy. It was all so fast. She had no time to answer him. It scared her too. Sonic grabbed her arms tightly and she cried out in pain.

"Are you a spy for the Shadow Landers?" He growled. Emi shook her head, before she could tell him anything he spoke before her. "The quiet ones are always suspicious."

"Sonic, Please," She pleaded.

"Your mine,"

"What are you? Why are you in my room? Are you a spy?" He kept asking.

"No, Stop it," Sonic's grip was already hurting her and the blood wouldn't flow through. Drops of sweat slid down her forehead. Her lip quivered and she felt like she couldn't breathe.

"You're going to die, Emi. And you will die in my arms!"

"No!" She cried and bite Sonic's arm. "Ahh!" he yelled, letting her go. Sonic would have expected her to have run away but she stayed there looking scared. Her eyes held fear but she was strong enough to stay for what he would do next.

"You little," He snarled going for her but Emi shouted, "Sonic, These seeds are babies you've been stealing from the petunias!"

Sonic stopped in place and blinked rapidly. She was panting and was the only thing that could be heard. After a while Sonic stopped rubbing her arm and back away from her.

"I don't understand," He said softly.

"Well you would've if you only could've listened to me!" She spat. There it was again, the fearsome talk back to the King.

"Then explain yourself," He shouted back.

Emi crossed her arms and angrily glared at him. "Those mid-night snacks of yours are small little kids that plants are now losing." She explained. She dropped her hands and picked up the bag. "Sonic, You're eating there're kids."

"That's ridiculous. You're insane." He roared, not taking in her words.

"You plucked it out of them as if they were strawberries!" She retorted.

"You are completely-" And he stopped. His head had a question in mind that he had yet not thought of and that was how she knew he was going to eat them. More importantly were they were.

"How did you find out I was eating seeds coming from the petunias?" He asked quietly.

"Have you forgotten I talk to plants?" She almost wanted to slap him hard in the face but she knew that would do no better than the position she was already in.

She sighed and bowed down politely wishing she could start to fix things. "I didn't mean any harm you Sir," She sadly said. Sonic looked at his arm and blew upwards. "It's ok," He finally amended.

"No, it's not ok. I hurt you," She cried out feeling worse than what she had when he had her pressed against the wall. Seeing the big purple bruise in his arm pained her even more.

"It's just like a scar. Leave it alone." He insisted.

"No, it's a large bruise and it's my fault. I'm sorry." She apologized.

"No, I'm the one who should be sorry. I gave you a good head ache I saw." He said shameful.

Emi nervously gave out a laugh, her voice ringing in his ears. "I guess were both at fault here." She joked, but when she saw him staring at her emotionlessly she stopped. "I'm sorry for laughing," She stutters.

"No, no don't apologize. I" he paused hesitating to say those words. "I like your laugh," He admitted.

Emi smiled up at him and he offered her the small reassuring smile. After a while of silence she whispered. "I have to return their babies back if you don't mind."

Sonic cleared his throat and nodded. "Yea, it's cool, but uhh," He scratched the side of his head. "Can I come along?" He asked.

Fluttered, she blushed and averted to the side. "Yea,"

.:XxX:.

Walking down the path of the garden the two battered along now finding come confidence over each other after fighting. It was the two under the dark sky. Sonic was still a shame for him jumping to conclusions that she was a threat when all she wanted was to save the small little baby seeds.

"Again I'm sorry for hurting you. I—it was very sudden grip and I got scared." She explained.

"I said it was chill, Relax," He said calmly like if it were trifles. "I'm the one who should be sorry. I caused you enough trouble." He said.

Emi smiled up at him. "Eating Seeds, Why?" She wondered.

"Hey, I never meant to kill babies. I was just hungry." He paused. "Ok, that sounded very wrong."

Emi laughed. Sonic laughed along with her unable to hold his laugh.

As they approached the patch of petunias, Emi opened the bag and looked at Sonic. "You want to help me throw them into the soil?" She asked.

Sonic grinned. "Give me some,"

Emi handed him a few little brown seeds to throw and Emi got a few of her own too. Together they threw them up into the air until they landed next to their large parents.

They stood side by side looking down at the plants under the moon light. Slowly the petunias closed, each one feeling happier than ever. Sonic's hands crossed in amusement and turned to Emi. Her eyes filled relief and joy. Something most girls did not possess.

"They're all asleep and thanked you for returning their seeds." She whispered, softly.

Sonic gave out a chuckle "Tell 'em no prob,"

Emi giggled. Emi's laugh was soothing and calm, like a soft winter breeze or the sweet noise of music in his ears. Minutes passed and all was calm again. Turning to Emi he chuckled. "You went through all this trouble for a flower?"

"I care about other's feeling other than my own. Everyone has a saying to things." She said happily.

"Ok," He smirked, amused by her. Emi turned towards the castle entrance. "It's late. I have to go to bed." She nervously said.

Sonic felt a tint of disappointment but shoved it off by offering her something. "I'll take you back."
Emi's eyes grew. "You sure?" she questioned.

He threw her a smile and a nod. "Course I'm sure. It's the least I can do. You made me a chili tree, you helped decorated the ball room, made the best chili dogs and saved my life. How 'bout I return you this favor?" He had a point.

Emi flushed and bit her lip so she wouldn't be smiling too much. Only Sonic caught her. He grinned brightly and He caught her as her knees buckled, swinging her up into his arms.

"Hold on," He said, winking before he sped off into the dark world.

He was beginning to trust her. Without the doubt. She was something else. Something He never knew she could be. Not only was she innocently faithful, she was harmless as well.

Well, well, well, I don't think Sonic's going to be eviler than he was on this chapter. I personally think it was lame, but I hope you all like it because I did it for you all. Review and tell me If this chapter was lame or If you liked it. Please do.

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