The next morning, the bright light from the sun slowly filled up Amy's hotel room. She turned her head up. Her eyes squinted as she tried to force them to open. She let out a yawn as she checked her phone. She didn't have any plans today, and there were no scene's with Shadow either. She didn't know what happened but she didn't sleep very well last night. Who knows if it was because of Shadow or the crew or just all the attention she had been getting? She was knocked out of her thoughts as the shower room opened and Cream walked in humming a tune. She smiled as she took a towel and dried the fur on her ears. As Amy was about to greet her, the pink hedgehog's phone went off. She quickly grabbed it and picked it up, "Hello?"

"I'm fifteen minutes away from your hotel lobby. Be ready to get picked up."

Amy smiled, "Okay." She hung up and looked at Cream, "Blase is in town, wanna join us for breakfast?"

Cream sighed, "I wish I could Amy, but I have a lot of work to get done today..." She opens her brief case of papers, "The life of a manager..."

Amy giggled to herself as she got herself decent before turning to the door. "See you later, Cream." Amy shut the door behind her as she rushed down the hallway and into the elevator. She got in and pushed the first floor button to take her to the lobby. She looked at her phone, she was already five minutes late. She paled as she thought of what Blaze would do to her when she saw her. She tapped her foot impatiently as the elevator descended, and then bolted through as soon as they opened. She rushed to the main lobby and saw an irritated Blaze looking at her with her arms crossed and foot tapping. The purple cat rolled her eyes, "Sis, you're late."

"I know, I'm sorry." Amy puffed, "I didn't know you were coming so early.." She hugged her sister tightly, "I've missed you, Blaze!" Blaze smiled at her "sister" and hooked arms with her, "It's alright, let's go to the car." She pulled the pinkette along as they walked to Blaze's car. Amy opened the car passenger seat door and hopped in. Blaze told her to buckle up and she did, then Blaze sped out of the parking lot. Amy clung to her seat belt for dear life. She turned to Blaze,

"When did you get in?"

"About eleven last night." Blaze's golden eyes trail to her sister then back at the road and she smiles, "How is the married life? How is Sonic treating you?" Besides Amy, everyone from that side of the family thought it was Sonic she had married. She forced a smile and lied.

"We've been doing great." She quickly changed the topic, "Where are we going?"

"To lunch, there's a restaurant just down the mountain. But this afternoon, we're not eating alone. We have another person joining us." Blaze said with a smirk. Amy tilted her head curiously, "Oh? Who is that?"

Blaze blushed a little bit, "Someone who might be my boyfriend." Amy almost jumped out of her seat happily, a wide grin spreading across her face.

"Whoa! When did this happen? Why didn't you tell me about him?"

"Well, I was never too sure. But now I think something might happen." Blaze bit her lip and played with one of her quills.

"Do I know him?"

"Yeah..."

"Is it..."

"Don't start asking me question's Amy! You'll see when we get there." Blaze joked. Amy smiled.

"Alright."

They arrived to the restaurant and stepped out of the door. The two walk arm in arm to the front door with smiles on their faces. The place had a huge fish pond at the front entrance, and it was famous for serving its best brunch. Blaze turned to Amy, "I booked us a private room in advance." She walked up to the one of the waitress's.

"Reservation for Blaze."

The waitress nodded, "This way please, your other guest has already arrived." Amy smiled, as she walked with her purple cat relative and followed the bird mobian. She was about to smile at the joy of meeting someone new, when her lips dropped at the cold expression sitting on Shadow's face.


Blaze signaled for the waitress to come over as they took their seats. She brought Blaze the menu, and the purple cat instantly gave it over to Shadow. "You go ahead and order first, Shadow." From the moment Shadow entered the room, he never once looked at Blaze. When she passed him the menu, he took it, and then stole a glimpse at Amy. Amy was staring at her lap, twiddling with her fingers, lost in thought. Shadow frowned before passing the menu back to Blaze without looking at her, "I can eat anything, you guys order first."

Blaze smiled and opened the menu between her and Amy, "C'mon Amy, let's order." Amy had been in a daze and woke up at Blaze's voice. She nodded.

"Um, okay."

"Get what you want because Shadow is going to be treating the meal today." Blaze said with a wink towards Shadow. Amy felt her heart sink. Shadow was treating Blaze...? She lifted her face up to make eye contact with Shadow, who looked directly at her then back down at his phone. Amy ordered to random vegetable dishes off the menu. Blaze licked her lips and then ordered some more signature dishes with three cups of orange juice. Ten minutes later their food had arrived. Amy was very grateful. After having to hear Blaze gush and fuss over Shadow she could use a distraction. Blaze started on some chicken right away before noticing that Amy had not started eating. She placed some chicken down on her plate with a smile.

"Try some of this Amy, it's all served from the farm here. It's organic and delicious." Amy forced a smile and then forced the chicken into her mouth. It was great, but for some reason she wasn't happy enough to savor the taste. If it had been only Amy and Shadow here, the meal would have gone by silently. With Blaze, it was just nonstop chatter. Amy sat and ate slowly and quietly, her ears slightly angled downwards. Shadow would just reply to everything Blaze said with "mhm..." and would every now and then glance at Amy. Blaze noticed more of Amy's unusual behavior and stopped eating.

"Amy, what's wrong? You haven't hardly eaten at all?"

Amy nodded, "I'm alright."

Blaze smiled, "That's great. You know, Shadow was the one who told me about this restaurant." Amy at that moment became even more distressed. Amy's fists clenched. At Blaze's words, Shadow looked up and saw how tense Amy's body was. She was fooling Blaze no problem, but not him. He sighed and looked out the window.

"That's not entirely correct." He said, "Sonic and I used to fish over there by that mountain." He pointed over at it, "You went hiking with your friends and later found this restaurant, so Sonic suggested you all eat here." He looked at Amy, not wanting her to misunderstand what happened because Blaze twisted a few words around. Blaze flushed as Shadow exposed her lie and coughed, trying to change the subject.

"So uh, do the two of you have any scenes to shoot today? If not, we could go see a movie? There's that new one that just came out..." Upon realizing this would put Amy through more suffering she shook her head.

"I'm actually busy this afternoon. You two can go to the movies if you want. I wont join in." Blaze took the answer quickly as she turned to Shadow while batting her eyes, "What about you Shadow? Are you free?"

Amy could reply and refuse before Shadow could, which shocked him a little. He sent Blaze a glare that shocked her, "Not interested." Shadow stood up and kicked his chair away, surprising Blaze but not Amy. "Check please." He demanded. He signed as the waitress came back, grabbed his jacket and put it on and then left the private room. Blaze gave Amy a weird look, "What just happened?"

"Uh Blaze..." Amy started, "I thought you said the person we were meeting was supposed to be your boyfriend?"

Blaze looked down at her lap sadly, "Well at first I thought Shadow didn't really like me. But then these past few years we kept bumping into each other, and every now and then we would talk. He told me that only one woman has ever been able to catch his eye. But now that I think about it, I somehow felt that maybe it could have been me that he was interested in all this time."

Little did they know that Shadow had just heard the entire thing.


Blaze had gone to drop Amy off at the hotel. She gave the pink hedgehog a hug and watched her go inside. As she started her car back up, her passenger door opened. She jumped and got ready to grab her pepper spray to protect herself when she saw Shadow climb in. She released her spray and smiled, "Shadow!"

Before she could say anything he stopped her with his hand by pointing down the street, "Drive down there and then stop."

Blaze was confused on why he was asking her to drive to a quiet and remote place, but then she got all excited. She nodded and put the car in reverse as she back up and then drove to a quiet and remote place away from the hotel. Then she turned off the engine and turned to him as she started untying her top, but his voice cut her to pieces.

"Blaze."

The feeling she got from his tone was not a good one. She stopped and looked up at him with scared eyes.

"I don't ever remember giving you the impression that I liked you." He stated coldly. His eyes were uncaring, but his next statement came out sincerely, "I'm sorry if i ever gave you that impression, but I would like for you to never say again what you just told Amy to her or anyone else. That is false and i will not allow you to go around tainting my name like that."

"You.. heard me talking to Amy?" She asked nervously, "Were you eavesdropping?"

"Maybe I was. But that changes nothing." He glares hard at her, "I didn't have feelings for you then, and I certainly don't have feelings for you now."

She glares hard at him as she forces back tears, "Why Shadow? Ten years and the woman you love is still not with you? If you are not together with her then why bother? Move on and find someone else already, like me!" Shadow growled at her in response. She leaned back, scared by his low growl.

"Even if I did give up on her, that doesn't automatically mean I'm going to love you! Even if I did give up on her, I would NEVER fall for you." Blaze gripped the steering wheel harder, failing at keeping her tears in this time.

"Besides, I would never give up on her."

Blaze bit her lip, a feeling of anger and confusion swirled around her, could it be...? "Shadow, who is the woman that you like." Shadow said nothing but turned to get out of the passenger seat. He opened the door but she grabbed his wrist, "Shadow! Answer my question!" He glared at her sharply.

"You are not worthy enough to know." He pulled his arm from her one last time and stormed back up to the hotel. Blaze wiped the tears from her face as he stormed off, but they just kept falling and falling. Shadow made his way back to his hotel room, harshly putting the key in it. He stormed inside, and passed Tails. Tails blinked and turned back towards him, "Shadow, is everything okay?"

Shadow said nothing but mutter and curse under his breath about how much he hated people sometimes. Tails just laughed at his tantrum and then looked at the watch. "It's noon Shadow, do you want me to order you anything?"

"No, I ate already..." He turned to the fox, "If you're leaving, will you go by Rose's room and tell her to come up here as soon as possible?" Tails nodded and walked out, off to fetch Shadow's girl.