Café Love

Chapter 2

The next morning the sun was shining over the city and you wouldn't even have thought that it had been raining the day before. Amy Rose was up early and was out buying her weekly shopping, she was looking through the shelves when someone had bumped into her.

"Ow!" She muttered when she almost dropped something.

"Oh, I'm so sorry Miss, I didn't mean to bump into you!" Said a familiar voice but Amy couldn't quite place it.

The pink hedgehog turned to the person and raised her eyes at them as they were all covered up, he wore a hood and a scarf covered his face. "Oh, Amy it's you, it great to see you again and so soon," The male muttered under his scarf.

Amy narrowed her eyes at him, "um, who are you?"

The male suddenly grabbed Amy's arm and dragged her out the shop making her drop her shopping, "quick come with me!"

"H-hey!" Amy yelled as she dropped her shopping bag.

They finally reached a quiet spot in the park and the male quickly checked around to make sure no one was there. He sighed in relief and took his hoody down and his scarf off.

Amy gasped when she saw who it was "Zach?!"

Zach grinned and rubbed the back of his head, "uh, sorry about your shopping Amy, I'll pay for it. And sorry for dragging ya off like that, if people see me out in public they go crazy. That's why I'm wearing this."

Amy sighed in relief when she it was someone she knew or sort of knew "oh it's okay, so what are you doing out anyway?"

"Just browsing the shops, beats being stuck in my hotel room." Zach shrugged.

"Yeah I wouldn't like that either I guess," Amy replied with a nod as she shuffled her feet and rubbed her arms.

Zach smiled when he spotted an ice cream stand near the fountain of the park "hey, you want some ice cream? It's on me."

Amy shrugged, "sure why not."

Zach quickly put his stuff back on and headed to the stand he asked Amy what she'd like and she told him vanilla, he took the mint and the two sat down on a park bench in a quiet area where hardly anyone ever goes expect for one certain blue hedgehog who happened to be napping up in the tree were the two hedgehogs had below.

Sonic sleepily opened one eye when he heard a familiar voice and he suddenly panicked, 'oh, no its Amy, better jet before she sees me,' He thought to himself and sat on one knee and prepared to jump down and zoom off. However he stop himself when he heard an unfamiliar voice.

The blue hedgehog raised his eyes in confusion he never seen this person before. 'huh, wonder who that is? Never seen him around before.'

The two had sat down on the bench and began talking about a lot of different things, "wow, Amy I can't believe we have so much in common, you know you should meet my band. You'd get along, great with some of the guys." Zach grinned as he finished his ice cream.

"Yeah, I'm pretty surprised myself that we like the same things. Oh sure I'd love to meet them."

"Just be warned though they can get a little crazy at times and annoying. But they're cool. In fact how bout we hang out at that café tonight? They'll be there only we won't be singing." Zach said as he leaned back on the bench.

A thud on the ground was heard behind them then a rush of wind was felt but only familiar to Amy she gasped and whipped her head around. 'Sonic?' She thought as she watched the leaves fly around.

Zach waved his hands in front of her face and snapped her out of her day dream, "uh, Amy you okay?"

The pink hedgehog blinked and shook her head, "uh, yeah sorry thought I saw something in the tree's."

Zach shrugged "meh, probably just a bird or something, so you up for tonight?"

Amy seemed to think for a minute and she realised she wasn't doing anything that night anyway, "yeah I'm up for it.

"Great how about I take ya home now and pick ya about five?"

The pink hedgehog nodded "sure that be great."

The two got up off the bench and made their way to Amy's apartment where Zach had dropped her off and headed back to the hotel that he was staying at.

He arrived to find his band members having an arm wrestling contest, two hedgehogs were going head to head while a wolf leaned against the wall watching them, "come on am gonna beat ya this time Rex." Said a purple hedgehog with red eyes and wore nothing but his white gloves and black trainers he was called Jake.

"In your dreams, maybe," replied the other hedgehog who was coloured yellow and had green eyes he wore blue gloves, a leather jacket and green trainers.

Zach sighed at the sight as he stopped by the wolf who was fully grey with brown eyes he wore nothing expect for an earing on his right ear, his name was Bolt. "They at it again?"

"Hmph, yeah they haven't stopped. You should have seen them earlier the manger came in screaming his head off saying that he wouldn't be paying for another broken hotel room." Bolt said as one Jake had finally beaten Rex.

"Yeah in your face Rex!" Jake cheered as he received a glare from Rex.

"You know I beat you all those other times," Rex mumbled.

Jake was busy doing a victory dance on top of the beds "yeah but this time I beat you!"

Zach rolled his eyes at the two and tried to get them to calm down, "okay guys can we calm down for a moment please?"

"Hey Zach where ya been man?" Jake said as he finally stopped dancing and jumped off the bed.

"Just out, but uh you know how we were going to chill in that cafe later well I'm bringing along a friend, I think you guys will like them."

"I bet its a girl." Rex smirked to Bolt who agreed with them.

Zach sighed "how'd you know?"

Rex shrugged "lucky guess, so who is she?"

"Her names Amy Rose, she's really nice one of the nicest girls I've met." Zach sighed happily.

"Amy Rose, I've heard that name before," said Bolt as he stood in a similar pose that Shadow would stand in.

Rex laughed and nudge Jake, "hey I think someone's in love."

Jake laughed along with him when he saw the dazed look in Zach, the red hedgehog snapped out of his day dream and growled at the two hedgehogs. "Hey cut it out you two. Can you guys just do one thing for me tonight? And not go stir crazy in front of her."

"We'll try Zach, but we can't promise anything." Rex smirked as he placed an arm around Jake's shoulders.

Zach rolled his eyes "don't worry Zach I'll keep these two under control." Said Bolt as the two hedgehogs stopped laughing and coward a bit under Bolts stare.

Zach nodded with a smirk, "thanks Bolt."

...

Meanwhile at Tails workshop in the Mystic Ruins the yellow fox was busy doing repairs on the Tornado when a gush of wind flew in from the open part of his workshop. Tails closed his eyes for a brief moment but soon opened them and saw his big brother Sonic come to a halt and he walked over to the couch. He seemed to be mumbling something.

"Hey, Sonic how was your run?" Tails asked now standing up from his work with a spanner in his hand.

Sonic had lay fully on the couch with his feet up, "uh, it was okay, at least until I decided to rest in the park."

Tails raised his eyes and came round to the hedgehog, "how come?"

Sonic sighed and sat up but slouch over onto his hands "Tails you know I like Amy, after you finally got me to admit it."

Tails grinned and remembered his victory, "yeah, now that took a while, so what happened?"

"Well I was resting in the tree's when Amy suddenly appeared but she wasn't alone. She was with another guy, someone I've never seen before and he asked her out on a date. What am I going to do?" Sonic growled slightly.

Tails eyes widened at this but he thought for a minute, "wow, uh well how about telling her how you feel?"

Sonic looked at the fox with a look that said are you serious? "Tails I told you my reason for not telling her!"

Tails nodded "I know and you've told me a dozen times, but you know Amy's not going to wait around forever, I don't think."

Sonic thought for a moment and nodded at his idea, "maybe Rouge might have an idea of what I can do. Catch ya later Tails!" The hedgehog yelled the last part as he zoomed back out of the workshop leaving a confused fox behind.