Chapter 22: A Joyous Celebration:
My name is Miles Prower! But everyone calls me Tails!
Boy am I glad that I summoned the courage to talk to Cream!
And I'm even MORE glad that she reciprocated my feelings!
I WOULD say that today couldn't be any better, but something's
a bit off to me. Even though I enjoyed spending the entire first half
of the day with my new girlfriend, I can't help but feel that I've been
missing out on something major back at home! Hmm...
It was half-past noon. Tails arrived home with a skip in his step. He closed and locked the front door, and happily proceeded to enter the hallway.
"Yes sir, nothing can bring me down today! I feel like I could fly right now. ...Oh wait. I can fly! Heh-heh." He said cheerfully.
As Tails was heading to his bedroom, he passed by the kitchen, where Silver and Blaze were at the table sharing a large Cuban sandwich, with Silver eating off one end, and Blaze eating off the other.
"Hey Tails! You missed the show!" Silver said.
"What did I miss?" Tails asked stepping into the kitchen as well.
"Well according to the news channel a few minutes ago, Eggman died in the explosion of the Death Egg, and Sonic and Amy are at the funeral." Blaze replied.
I THOUGHT something important was flying under my radar! Tails thought with a sigh.
"Oh, OK. I'll be sure to congratulate him on it." He said, walking away.
"Aren't you gonna have lunch? You must be hungry after you missed breakfast." Silver said, his words garbled with ham, swiss cheese, roast pork, mustard, and toasted Cuban bread.
"No thanks. I had both with Cream earlier." Tails replied.
Tails continued through the hallway and passed the living room, where he saw Rouge reaching up to dust a high shelf. She was wearing the yoga-pants outfit she had bought at the mall.
"Uh, Rouge? I've never seen you doing chores around the house before." Tails commented.
Rouge turned around and pulled down her tube top to cover some of her midriff, before quickly jerking it back up to obscure some of her cleavage.
"Well hey, we all live in this house, so we all have to pitch in. Sonic's orders, not mine." She replied.
Tails shrugged.
Both heard the front door open. There was silence for a few seconds, then a stampede of footsteps. Everyone had stopped what they were doing and hurried towards the door. Sonic and Amy were taken by surprise as they were ambushed from every which way. Questions and comments such as: "How was the funeral?" "Do you miss Eggman?" and "I know it's hard to take in. Don't worry." were passed around as the entire household was engaged in conversation.
That evening, everyone was enjoying a meal of spiral-sliced ham, baked macaroni and cheese, and green beans cooked in bacon-grease. Several toasts were made throughout the dinner. Whenever this happened, everyone would stand up, raise their whiskey glasses and clink them in the center of the table. During the last of which, Amy stood up and gently tapped her fork against her glass. The soft clinking sound silenced everyone.
"Attention everyone," She started, "As you all know, Dr. Eggman was killed when the Death Egg exploded. And obviously, as a result of that, we have finally saved our world once and for all." As if on cue, Sonic stood up next to her.
"That's right. And now that our home is at peace at last, we can all begin doing things we never had time to do before Eggman died…" Sonic said as he put a hairless arm around his fiancé and pulled her in close. "…like planning our wedding!"
In the silence of the house that night, one could hear applause coming from the kitchen, followed by the clinking of whiskey glasses, and then an outburst of conversation afterwards.