Chapter 21: Life's Answers
"...Spines why is the king here?" Amy whispered.
Sonic sighed. "Amy, just call me Sonic, you know me." He replied. "Anyways….I need to talk to you.."
Amy nodded. "Spines, go to your room."
"Mom?"
"I said go to your room!" Amy yelled, having a change of mood.
Spines left the room not wanting to deal with his mother's wrath, however he decided to hide in a corner to overhear his parents.
Sonic and Amy stared at each other while silence filled the room, until the blue hedgehog decided to speak up.
"So….how've you been?" Sonic asked.
"I've been fine...yourself?" Amy replied.
Sonic stood up from the couch and approached her. "Could've been better...but also curious…"
"Go on…"
"Amy…" The blue hedgehog looked at her dead in her jade green eyes. "Why didn't you tell me that you were pregnant seventeen years ago?"
"Sonic…"
"Am I that much of a jerk that you'd never tell these things….especially something so big?"
"N-No Sonic, it's…"
"Amy, he's my son! I should have a right to be in his life…I would've raised him...even if Sally were to divorce me, I could never abandon my kid.." He interrupted.
"S-Sonic, let me explain!...What we did back then was wrong….we slept with one another and you were married to Sally...then I had your child...your beautiful child...I didn't want to make things more complicated for you with another baby from another woman!" She stated.
"What are you saying?" Sonic asked.
"I wanted you to have your freedom…"
Sonic chuckled at the word: freedom. It was something he knew all too well...a long time ago...before becoming king of Möbius.
"Freedom…" Sonic repeated before giving a chuckle. "Amy, I'm king of Möbius…there's practically no freedom in that…" he informed.
"Sonic..?"
"You really think I have freedom?! Amy, being king is far from having freedom!" Sonic snapped.
Spines listened to the conversation, taking it all what his parents were coming from.
"My father….he wasn't in my life as much…" Sonic whispered. "And now...I wasn't in my own son's life…"
"S-sonic don't blame yourself…" Amy whispered, placing an arm on his shoulder.
Sonic looked away from the woman. "I need to go back to the castle…" He stated. "I'll see you later." Sonic then headed out the door...with no other word said. Amy felt extremely guilty...she didn't know how much keeping their son a secretly from him would upset Sonic. Guilt ate her up even moreso after she and Sonic had that affair.
Spines casually walked down, pretending not to hear a word they said. "Well, I'm gonna get something to eat, want anything, mom?" He asked. "They have a new taco place."
"No...I'm fine…" Amy replied with no emotion. Spines looked at his mother with concern written all over his face.
"Mom?...What's wrong?" He asked.
Amy changed her mood from sadness to happy in an instant, to make her son not feel worried. "Everything's fine!" She cheered. "I have work in thirty minutes so I'll need to get ready, so you'll have the house to yourself."
Spines nodded. "Alright...I'll see you later then." He said before heading out the door.
"You too…"