STH © SEGA

Sarah belongs to me, BlackPetals23. Flame and Sunny belong to Phantomask. Alicia belongs to aliciathewolf45.

Guys (and gals) I'm not taking any more OC's. I rarely do that in my stories—except for Sunny, Flame and Alicia because they're always the first OC's to borrow that pops into my mind, and they always will be. If I show OC's on here that own, that's because if I work with OC's, they most likely will be OC's of my own that I just make up on the spot. Honestly, I don't wanna use so many OC's from other people.

I like working with things that I know. Maybe one day I'll ask for your OC in my future stories as a possible background character and then ask again for another story and the character soon becomes part of the "cast". So, I'm sorry for that.

Enjoy! Sorry if there are mistakes at the end, I'm in a rush and I just wanted to upload this before I had to leave for something.

Chapter Four:

Anyone Missing A Wallet?

Red eyes watched as Sonic got out of his bed and walked into the kitchen before heading to the bathroom and closing the door.

Shadow gently got up, yanking the blankets onto Amy to keep her warm. "Sonic?" he whispered.

Sonia snorted and moved in her sleep while Sunny was about to fall off the couch. Sarah was in her bed still, not noticing that her boyfriend got out of bed at nearly four in the morning. Shadow was the only light sleeper here and he knew it—his friends slept through their neighbors having fun last night.

Shadow was now what people called "scarred for life".

Shadow opened the unlocked door to the bright bathroom. The light was on but Sonic wasn't standing up or going to the bathroom. He was in the bathtub…sleeping.

Shadow raised an eyebrow. "You really need to solve this sleepwalking problem," he said as he picked Sonic up.

The ebony hedgehog almost tripped but Sonic rolled out of his arms and onto the floor about two feet away from the edge of his bed.

Shadow pursed his lips lightly. "That'll work."

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Amy moaned and flopped over on her stomach while something growled next to her. An arm under her made it uncomfortable.

"Rose…"

Green eyes stared up at red ones. Shadow frowned and tugged his arm out from under his girlfriend. Amy closed her eyes again and went back to sleep before Shadow started stroking her quills. She groaned. "What time is it?"

She only asked this question instead of telling him to stop since she knew he wouldn't do it to be a bother towards her, he was doing it to tell her she had had enough sleep and that she needed to wake up—right now.

"Almost seven—breakfast down there ends at eight."

Amy frowned. "Why not nine?"

"I don't know—go complain to the owner if it boggles you so much."

Amy breathed in his face and he cringed. "But first, go brush your teeth."

The rose hedgehog giggled and got up, going to the bathroom with some clothes in her hands. Shadow put his arms behind his back while he heard low moaning from the other bed. He glanced over at Sonic who was rubbing his head, kneeling on the floor.

Sonic nodded his head at him, "Morning."

Shadow smiled at the thought of earlier, "Morning. How was your sleep?"

"Pretty good," Sonic then made a confused face. "Why?"

Shadow shrugged, "Nothin'."

THUD!

They lazily leaned forward to see Sunny on the floor. Shadow smirked.

She finally fell off and it only took her three hours.

Sonia jolted up and then yawned. "What time is it?"

"Seven o' five," Sonic answered.

Sonia glared at him, remembering where she actually was instead of where she would and should be—with Flame. But no, Sonic was going to have it. He shrugged her look off. "Let's get ready and head to breakfast."

Fiona tapped the table with the end of her fork while sitting across from Rouge and Blaze. Cream sat beside them with a blueberry muffin and orange juice. Rouge glanced at Cream's food then at her own breakfast—a bagel with cran-grape juice plus milk and cereal on the side.

Blaze gave her look that made her stay put. "You're fine. Cream just doesn't eat much for breakfast."

"You should see me at dinner," Cream giggled, patting her flat stomach.

"Ladies," Scourge took a seat beside Fiona who made room for him.

"Morning," Cream said.

"Where's Knuckles?" Rouge asked, looking back at the line.

Knuckles was waiting in line, standing behind Amy and Shadow while Sonic tapped his foot behind him. Knuckles reached for the grapes as did Amy and the two glared at each other.

"Those are mine," Knuckles growled.

Amy raised an eyebrow and seemed to smirk. In front of her, Shadow was glaring at Knuckles. "Give her the grapes and no one gets hurt."

Knuckles pouted and grabbed the grapes away from Amy anyway. Amy tugged back just as hard, hitting Shadow in the back with her elbow. Shadow grimaced and Sonic whistled, looking away while Mobians started watching.

Amy stopped and pushed Knuckles when he didn't. She wasn't staring at him; she was staring at the toaster near Shadow. Knuckles noticed it and his eyes bulged like Amy's.

The toaster…was moving.

All by itself.

"Ummm," Amy whimpered.

Shadow turned around but stopped to stare at the toaster. It moved over to Knuckles and the basket of grapes. The plug stretched before being yanked out. It wasn't until then that the four watching it now noticed every else was gone and eating at the tables. Sonic licked his lips and watched it nervously.

"What's happening?"

"Where's Silver?" Shadow whispered to Amy.

Amy motioned over her shoulder and back to the white hedgehog at the table with the rest of their companions, "Eating."

"Are you positive?" Knuckles whispered.

Amy slowly nodded as the toaster continued with the plug not far behind. Sonic swallowed and watched the toaster hit the wall.

It stopped. After that, everything went normal. People seemed to be talking louder and the radio was on playing 9 to 5 by Dolly Parton.

Amy hummed to the song nervously with wide eyes before Shadow turned and walked back to the table with his girlfriend on his tail. Knuckles and Sonic followed their example, leaving the toaster to stay still.

Well…after the plug twitched to the side a bit.

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"Okay," Rouge held out a map on the table after they were done with breakfast.

Amy was finishing her parfait that had just strawberries and yogurt in it, Shadow had sneakily eaten all the granola and started on the strawberries before the rose hedgehog noticed his evil plan.

"Here's a map of East Mobius—well, the places around this area."

Tails pointed to the hotel. "Here we are, next to the beach."

"Swimming?" Blaze asked hopefully.

Sonic shook his head, "No way, José."

"Too late."

Sonic's head slowly looked at Sarah. "What?"

"I signed us all up for the swimming class yesterday."

Sarah went back to looking at the map with the others while Shadow and Amy stared at Sonic. Amy licked her spoon while Shadow coughed. "Sarah. Sonic has bubbles forming in his mouth."

Sarah shrugged. "He's just a weenie."

Knuckles snorted while Silver coughed. Flame and Manic high fived each other while chuckling. Sonic glared at them—mainly Flame—before looking down the rest of the conversation.

"So," Cream laughed uneasily, "What are we doing?"

"I'm taking Fiona and Sonia to the beauty parlor on 7th and Jerry."

"Cherry?" Knuckles asked his fiancée.

Rouge shook her head. "Jerry."

"CHERRY!?" Knuckles slowly but loudly asked—making Mobians look at them from other tables.

Rouge face palmed and gave up. Knuckles stared at her and blinked. "Take. The. Damn. Cherry."

"What?" Rouge asked before looking down and seeing the cherry. "Oh!" She laughed and ate it with red cheeks.

Knuckles shook his head. "God…"

Blaze smiled. "Okay, Cream, Alicia and I are going to play tennis with Silver."

Silver frowned. "Do I have to go?"

Blaze's nails seemed scratch the grey countertop of the table. "Yes," she hissed.

The whining hedgehog smacked his head down on the table and left it there, almost mimicking the blue hedgehog across from him. Scourge was resting his cheek on his right palm. "What are the rest of us gonna do?"

Rouge shrugged. "Whatever."

Scourge's eyebrows narrowed. Before he could say anything, Fiona pitched in. "You guys have the whole eastern East Mobius to wander about and still be faithful to your girlfriends," she smiled somewhat evilly at Scourge while she patted his shoulder. "Make the right choice!" she said all too cheerful.

"…Anyone wanna trade?" Scourge looked around the table but no one volunteered.

"Why would you want to trade girlfriends?" Rouge mused. "When I'm done with her at the beauty parlor, you'll be slobbering over her like a dog."

"He already did that while we were camping," Manic snorted.

Scourge flipped him off but Amy slammed the napkin holder on his hand. "Hey!" he yelped.

Amy smirked and stood up. "Let's go, Sarah."

"Where are you two going?"

"Sarah and I are going shopping. Originally it was with Cream and Alicia but they went with Blaze."

Alicia put her hands out in a shrugging motion. "I didn't know you and Blaze were competing for the most friends."

Amy put her hands on her hips. "And I didn't know you would choose her and go play tennis instead of shopping with us."

Shadow and Knuckles were holding in their laughter, very carefully but very sloppily. Chortling or snorting was heard from the two while they looked down with Sonic, only Sonic wasn't trying to hold in his laughter.

"But don't worry," Sarah gritted her teeth and walked behind Shadow and Knuckles. "They'll come with us instead," she lifted the two by grabbing their shoulders and then just yanking on the shirts.

"Hey!" Shadow tripped while getting out of the bench like chair.

Knuckles held onto his friend's back to keep from both of them falling. Rouge smiled sweetly but in a thin line. "Have fun."

The red echidna somewhat glared at his girlfriend before pushing Shadow in front of the two girls. Sonic was following them after Amy gently pulled him up.

"See ya!" Sarah waved. "Have fun!"

Alicia glanced at Espio. "I'm just more of the athletic type."

He put his hand up to wave her off, showing she shouldn't care what Amy said. "It was just a joke."

"Well, what are you going to do?" the wolf asked her new boyfriend.

"Umm," he glanced at Vector and Charmy who were putting salt and pepper on each other, fighting. He looked at his girlfriend. "I love tennis."

The music of the beauty parlor named Betty's Justice was calming to Fiona. Sonia sighed as if she were in love with the massage she was getting on her feet. "Who knew a beauty parlor like this would do more than just trim your hair."

Fiona sighed and glanced down at her chest length hair. Rogue walked in with nail polish. "Ladies, we are one step away from beginning. Are you ready?"

"For what?" the fox leaned back on the cream, soft chair that was next to a giant mirror that went all the way down the store.

A black sink was behind her and the tub her feet were in was already making her feet soft. She moaned. "I'm already in heaven."

Sonia nodded in agreement. "Heaven…baby."

Rouge sighed but stopped and pulled out Sonia's feet.

"Hey!" Sonia whined.

"Orange or yellow?"

"…both?" Sonia replied confusingly.

Rouge nodded and went to work. Fiona felt someone pull her hair back and then the whole chair seemed to fall from under her. She yelped at first but saw it was someone getting her hair wet to trim it.

Her eyes seemed to shine at the Mobian. He was…a he. She never had someone male cut her hair. The grey fox had dark brown eyes that she got lost in.

He's so…handsome.

His bangs poofed up and out with that jagged look; his tail did the same thing. He wore black mainly but he had piercings like Manic in his left ear. His nametag had Liam in gold-colored letters on it.

Fiona smirked.

Hello, Liam.

"Why'd you come again?" Silver looked at Espio.

"Um," Espio glanced at Vector and Charmy that were in the golf cart. "You'd want to hang out with girls more often if you lived with those two."

Silver glanced over Espio's shoulder at them. "True, but…why? You could've just gone to the beach with them and then put them on a boat and take the paddles—leaving them lost at sea."

"Damn," Espio sighed. "Why didn't I think of that?"

"But no, you'd rather play tennis with a bunch of girls," Silver shook his head, "Such a shame."

"Well," Espio started. "Why did you come?"

"Blaze."

"Right…the powers of a woman."

"The powers of your girlfriend," Silver mumbled.

"Same thing," Espio whispered while the girls came over.

Blaze sighed indecisively. "Okay. Cream and I are a team. Silver, you can sit this one out."

"Yes," Silver whispered triumphantly while sitting down on the back of the golf cart they borrowed from the club that owned the tennis courts and golf park.

Other people were already playing, mainly old couples but that didn't seem to bother the group. Vector leaned against the steering wheel, bored out of his mind.

Charmy was looking at the pond in front of them. The tennis courts were on top of the small hill by the pond that held frogs and even some fish. Just no fishing. Now Charmy had absolutely nothing to do.

"Why did I come on this trip?" Silver pondered to himself.

Vector groaned. Good Lord. Not now.

"I'll tell you why," Silver answered himself. "Blaze dragged you along."

"..."

"Why do you hang out with her so much?"

Vector grunted and got out of the cart, walking over to the tennis courts. Silver didn't seem to notice, as long as he had one Mobian to talk to: Charmy.

The bee wasn't really listening. He was thinking. Thinking of how to destroy something. How to get candy too if that could happen and maybe if today was a lucky day, he could get a girlfriend too. He would've tried to date Cream but…what the hell, but? He would've tried to date her if that fox hadn't gotten in the way.

Suddenly, he felt the cart moving from under him while Vector left. He opened his mouth but only a strangled scream tried getting out which made him sound like a dying rabbit. Silver's eyebrows narrowed. "Well, she's my girlfriend. At least things haven't gone downhill since we started dating."

Charmy looked down the hill while the cart seemed to get closer and closer to the pond. He yelped and jumped out of the cart, flying into the air and leaving Silver to handle with the water if he wanted.

Silver looked forward and screamed, "BLAZE!" He hit the water with the cart and flew forward, hitting the very thin dash board and plastic glass. His cheek slid down the glass as he started to go in the water. "Cheap ass glass," he mumbled as the water took a hold of him.

Blaze watched and turned to her friends. "Let's go."

They left, leaving Silver behind…once again. Well, at least he wasn't in a dirt hole this time.

"That looks nice too," Shadow answered his girlfriend.

She held up the red dress that had sparkles on it. "You don't think it's too Barbie?"

They were shopping…of course. The three males sat on the red couch while Sarah and Amy would try on dress after dress. Knuckles asleep between the two hedgehogs while Sonic looked around—sometimes winking to the cashier who was a white ferret with short, black and yellow dyed hair. Her green eyes showed humor as she giggled.

The dress store was the first store on the list, unfortunately. The East Mobius Mall was every girl's dream (well, those of whom that love to shop). But the East Mobius Mall was also the guy's biggest nightmare (every guy).

Clothing store after clothing store. One or two book stores, one or two jewelry stores, barely one men's store that held every clothing type a guy needed but nothing else. The rest were clothing stores for women.

There was a shoe store for those that felt like spending big bucks on one pair of shoes. There was a bathing suit store, a dress store, numerous normal clothing stores and even one purse store. Anything in the large hallway separating the stores were either vending machines or booths that had elite food or something to do with perfumes or tanning lotions.

"You're not blonde, it won't matter," Shadow moaned.

Amy put her hands on her hips. "Shadow, fashion is everything."

"I'm not everything?" the ebony hedgehog inquired.

Amy was silent, which only happened every now and then, only, but always, because Shadow would say something that she actually had to think through.

She bit her bottom lip. "Ye-No-Ye—whichever one means you are almost everything."

"Almost?"

Amy paused. "Yeees…?"

Shadow sighed and got up. "Fashion is merely the clothing you wear. Call me when you know the meaning of love," he turned to leave but Amy jumped in front of him.

"I do! I do…I do."

Shadow tilted his head. "You do? Do what?"

"I do…know what love means…"

"And?"

Sonic snorted while falling asleep. Shadow flashed a glare at him but kept his gaze on Amy afterwards.

"And…I do love you…" Amy rocked back and forth on her shoes, "Right?"

Shadow sighed. "Isn't there some place us guys could go to have fun?"

Amy instantly put her hands on her hips again with narrowed eyebrows. "Here we were, just talking about love and you wanna leave me?"

"No," Shadow placed his hands on her shoulders. "I want to do something I like. Watching you try on the same dress is not fun."

"The same dress? The same dress!?" Amy yelled. "They were not the same dresses! One was blue and the other was red!"

"They're dresses; I don't care what you wear!"

Amy raised an eyebrow. "So if I wore fancy lingerie and walked around town, you wouldn't care?"

Shadow paused. "Okay, on some circumstances, I don't care. The lingerie, I do care and besides, I know you—you would never ever do that."

"How would you know?" Amy tipped her head to the side challengingly.

Sonic was suddenly interested in the conversation. Sarah was in the changing room still and Knuckles was still asleep. Shadow's eyes hardened for a second before softening. "Because," he twisted her around in a little dance and dipped her. "I would never let you dress into something like that unless it's for my eyes and for my eyes only."

Amy giggled with red cheeks. Sonic leaned back again. So much for the good conversation he was sorta hoping would turn into an argument. Honestly. What did Amy see in Shadow? Sonic always wondered that but he never butted in their relationship…well, maybe once or twice. He did kiss Amy from a dare on the camping trip.

Shadow's eyes twitched the entire time while they did that. Sarah was too busy laughing with their friends at both the kissing hedgehogs and the one that must've been having an allergic reaction.

"Okay," Amy ran her hands through his quills. "Do you like the blue dress or the red dress better?"

THUMP!

The cashier watched Shadow, Knuckles, and Sonic leave the store while Amy lie on the floor. She got up and yelled at Shadow.

"YOU DAMN HEDGEHOG! GET BACK HERE! YOU'RE JUST LIKE SONIC! YOU RAN AWAY FROM ME!"

Shadow turned around and walked backwards while she ran after him. "Correction, babe, I'm walking away from you."

He turned back around and the three left the store. Amy growled. "Sarah, let's go!"

"Where to?" Sarah came out of the changing room with a yellow dress on.

"I'm thinking about some rhinestone shoes and a zebra print leather purse. What about you?"

Sarah watched with a grin appearing on her face. Amy looked at the black leather wallet she held with a big smirk on her face.

"By then, he should notice his wallet is missing."