I was walking home. I felt excited, like something grand was going to happen tonight, something that would surely change my life around. In one hand I held a white plastic bag. I don't know what the contents are, but a delicious smell comes from it. I can feel a smile present on my muzzle. It feels rare. I stop. I heard something. The screeching of car tires? I turn around halfway and see these two bright lights heading straight for me. There is this massive force that blows me back and then nothing.
"Hey, Shad!" A voice pulls me from my memory, startling me. I turn around to face whoever called my name and see Sonic smiling back at me, approaching from behind to get to my side. Why look at that. It's been at least a month since I've last seen him. I guess he was right about seeing me around after all. I almost feared he had been lying to me. "Eh, Sonic, hey." I greeted him back with obvious awkwardness. "How're you doing? How's the little one doing?" The cobalt hedgehog asked me as he smiled. Unlike the time we met, or reunited I suppose I should say, he looked glad now. My pregnant bump doesn't seem to bother him anymore apparently. "We're both doing fine, thank you." I responded, a hand unconsciously stroking over my belly. I was about six months far now and my so far my baby had proven to be a calm one. Now there was something that I needed to know. Like what was up with his behaviour when he first appeared on my doorstep? He was obviously trying to trigger some sort of memory, but then he just suddenly stopped when he realised he was getting nowhere. I had tried to invite him in to talk about it and instead he just took off, stating that he'd see me later. "Sonic, what was wrong with you? You just appear on my doorstep late in the evening, start babbling about a dinner, and then ran away! Granted, Rouge warned me she'd send you to my place, but that wasn't really what I expected to happen." I asked as maybe this time he'd tell me instead of running away again. "That's good to hear. So what is it anyway? A strapping boy? An adorable girl?" He asked with his hands in his pockets, completely ignoring the question. I still don't get why he's being so cheery with me all of a sudden. "Did you just avoid the damn question?" I asked, my ears going flat. If I hadn't been carrying this heavy bag of groceries, I would've crossed my arms. "Shad, that's ancient history, 'kay? So about the kid.." Yes, he was indeed avoiding the question and he did it with a smile. So he's just going to be all cheery with me now? He's not going to explain his behaviour from a month ago? I had, admittedly, been very bothered by that. I suppose I can't force him to talk. "I don't know... I..." My voice trailed off and I looked down, gazing at my swollen abdomen. Sonic noticed the sudden change in my demeanor and frowned. He wondered what was going on in my head. "Shad? You okay?" He asked, concern evident in his eyes. I couldn't help but answer. "Nothing, I just realised how much of a terrible parent I already am." I responded, feeling my chest constrict. Unemployed, lazy, a slacker and easy. That's what I was according to Scourge and I've already worked on two of those as I cleaned the apartment and shopped for groceries every Friday. That was something, at least. Well, I wasn't exactly easy anymore either. Scourge didn't advance on me as much anymore ever since we discovered that I was pregnant. So I suppose that's three things down. I am still unemployed though. I'm so far in my pregnancy, no one in their right mind would hire me now. But besides those four things, it looks like I'll have to work on how to be a parent too. "Shad?" Sonic called my attention again. Looks like I zoned out once more, that seems to be a common occurence. "I kind of haven't had a check up yet." I responded reluctantly, one of Sonic's brows raising. "You're six months pregnant and you haven't been to a doctor yet?" He asked. The hedgehog could hardly believe his ears. "I've barely been out. The farthest I've been is to the grocery store and that's the only reason why I leave the house. I don't know anything here." I shrugged uncomfortably, knowing how bad I looked. How could I be so irresponsible? Haven't I learned my lesson by not using protection during sex in the first place? The day I had met Rouge was my first day out. I had actually been wandering around for quite a while before I found my way to the grocery store and back. Even a month later all I know in this city is where to find the store. "Are you kidding me?! This won't do at all!" Sonic said with a shake of his head, though his smile told me he wasn't as disapproving as I thought he would be. He understood my reason for staying inside all day everyday. He seemed like someone who'd try to understand you no matter what. "So what do you suggest I do, Hedgehog?" I was simply asking, but somehow my simple question made his smile grow brighter. "I say we're going for a check up right now. If we're lucky we might get to see a doctor" He said and lifted me up in his arms so suddenly. "What're you doing?!" I yelped as I got picked up in his arms out of nowhere. I could only just hold onto the grocery bag. I was perfectly capable of walking on my own two feet! Scourge has picked me up like this before, but only when he wanted to get me in bed quicker. "Oh, you'll find out!" That hedgehog told me with a smirk, which I really did not trust, before sprinting off into the direction of the hospital at an impossible speed. "What're you doing?!" I shouted louder this time as I held onto him for dear life, losing the grocery bag somewhere along the way. "What does it look like I'm doing? Making sure you get that check up." Sonic responded, as if this was normal. In quite literally less then a minute we arrived at the hospital. Sonic wanted to put me down, but I was still clinging onto him like life itself depended on it. My chest was heaving in a fast pace and my pulse was elevated. "You okay?" Sonic asked sheepishly, obviously noticing that I was tad bit reluctant to let go of him. "Y-yes, just... Just how fast were you going?! And how?!" I practically shouted, letting go of him when I was confident I could stand on my own two feet again. "No idea, I don't usually pay attention to how fast I run." He said, like it was no big deal. "How fast you run? So I wasn't imagining it, you really were running!" Why did he act like that was completely normal? "You okay? You look like you're freaking out." The hedgehog stated, giving me a look of confusion. I'm freaking out? Of course, I'm freaking out! He blasted off with speeds I've never seen a hedgehog achieve before with me in his arms. I nearly had a heart attack! Not to mention that it wasn't scientifically possible for someone to be that fast. "Calm down, getting worked up like this can't be good for the baby. Before you know it that stress is going to make your water pop. Besides, it's not like my speed is new to you, right?" Sonic asked, urging me to take a seat on a nearby bench. He took a seat next to me and one of his hands did stroke my abdomen, to which my child kicked. He wasn't so bothered now. "What's that supposed to mean?" I asked. How could this not be new to me? Even if I've seen him run that fast before, I certainly wouldn't remember now. "Oh well... Scourge can run that fast, so can you. I figured you would've found that out on your own by now." Sonic responded, shooting me a sheepish smile. He noticed that he was only confusing me even more. "I can really run that fast?" I asked, completely taken by surprise. I never knew I was capable of such speeds. I don't know how I'd find out as running wasn't exactly the wisest decision to make. Scourge hadn't told me so either. What else was I unaware of? "Come on, let's get you that appointment. I'll tell you all that you want to know later." Sonic promised me as he took my hand to help me up, squeezing the limb gently before reluctantly letting go. He accompanied me as I requested an appointment with a gynaecologist, I was lucky to get one at all, and waited in the waiting room together with me. When Sonic said he was going to make sure I'd get to meet a doctor, he took that quite literally. I sighed as I sat in the waiting room. Once again the baby was kicking up a storm in there. It was often a calm one, but it had its moments. I rubbed my belly to try and calm it down and I can feel Sonic's gaze on me as he looks at me from the corners of his eyes. "Is Scourge excited to have the baby?" He asked, facing me. "Hmm, I don't know. He looked sort of exhilirated when we found out, but now he's just sort of indifferent." I answered, a deep frown on my muzzle. Whenever I'm enjoying the kicking in my womb as I lay in bed, I tell Scourge about it and he does take the time to feel it with me, but all too soon he just turns on his side and dozes off. Sonic replicated that frown, seemingly a little peeved. "So no pampering and showering with affections for you while you carry all that weight inside?" He asked, trying to pull a sympathetic smile. I huffed. I was six months far, but the weight I had to carry in my womb already felt very heavy. Backpains, aching feet and the like were already a big problem for me. Being pampered and spoiled sounded like a great idea to me. "Mrs. Hedgehog?" "Dear Chaos." I sighed upon being called Mrs. instead of Mr. I moved to push myself up, but Sonic already jumped up from his seat to lend me a hand. I was surprised at first, but this was the guy who had picked me up and brought me to the hospital without a second thought. I took his hand and Sonic pulled me up to my feet before we followed the doctor. "By the way, 'Hedgehog'? Why did you give that as your last name?" He asked, somehow very confused. "Scourge told me that was my last name. Was he wrong?" I asked, looking up to him in concern. I knew it had felt weird! Sonic noticed the look I was giving him. Not wanting to rouse any more worry in me, he decided to tweak his original answer a little. "I'm sure he just made a mistake, but your last name is Robotnik." He told me, shocking me to a halt. "Robotnik? Like that madman I see appearing on tv from time to time?" I asked, now even more worried. I had heard of the name Robotnik before. He was that man who tried to level whole cities with his dreadful creations. Whenever I see him on tv, I often wonder if I didn't accidentally woke up in a movie all those months ago. One of those attacks had actually taken place on a Friday in the very same city I lived in. Scourge had done the shopping that day when I expressed my concern about getting mixed up in all of that. "Uhmm... No?" Was the uncertain answer and I felt surprise reeling me back. So my real last name was 'Robotnik'. Was I somehow related to the madman? Did I and my apparent untold speed ever aid him in his schemes? Or was me being somehow related to him the reason why I ended up as such a slacker? No, a better question should be 'why am I accepting all of this as truth?' Sonic seems like an honest young man, but all of this seemed just too ridiculous for words. Why would I just take his word for it? "Mrs. Hedgehog!" No time to question him now, the doctor was getting impatient. Walking into the O.B doctor's office, I started to feel nervous all of a sudden and certain thoughts began to fill my head with even more questions. Like what would it be? A boy or a girl? Would it be healthy? What if my irresponsibility had let to it becoming malformed or ill all because I didn't take the time to visit a doctor. So many questions that needed answering too and each of them made me more nervous. "I understand that this is your first check up?" The doctor asked as we all sat down. She was an older lady. "Uh, yes." I answered whenever she asked me a question. About how far along I suspected myself to be, if I had been experiencing any complications, if Sonic was the father, ... "No, he's not the father. The real one is off doing something else." I answered honestly. I really didn't know what Scourge was up to whenever he was out, I never asked. And that made the doctor give me a look. "What's up with that look, I'm telling you the truth." I told her, but it didn't seem to work. "Let's just get to the ultra sound." She said and I couldn't agree more. The sooner I had it, the faster we'd be done here. I had to sit down on this chair with my legs spread, one that tilted backwards. Lying here made me nervous and I anxiously watched her as she approached my side and turned on this device. "Sonic!" For some reason I hated showing how vulnerable this made me feel, but I called the hedgehog's name nonetheless and he was quick to join me, pretty much jumping up from his chair in an instance. That woman told me to undo my jeans and pull my shirt up, which I complied to, albeit nervously. And then she squirted this cold goo on my swollen pregnant bump, which really didn't settle my anxiety. But then she searched for my baby and when I saw it appear on the screen, that nervous feeling was replaced with wonder. It was so big already and at the same time still so small. It was definitely well developed as it had a fingers and toes and I could see soft quills already present. "Well, look at that. It's health and seems to have a strong heartbeat." She stated and turned the sound on, allowing us to listen to its rapid beating heart. What was this that I was feeling? I knew I loved it already, but now I felt something that I could only describe as wonder. "Do you want to know its gender?" The doctor asked and I looked at her in surprise. "Already?" I asked as I didn't know that was possible. But since it was, I would definitely want to know. "It's a girl." She told me and I just didn't know what to respond. I was carrying a little girl. Our child was going to be a daughter. If Sonic's silence was any indication, I can tell that he's just as speechless as I was.
A while later we were walking back to Scourge's place. I was content with the appointment I just had and Sonic seemed to be genuinely happy for me. "Thank you for forcing me to go. I don't understand why I've waited this long." I told him gratefully, my hands on my belly as we walked. "No prob! I'm kinda glad I saw her too." Sonic responded, which made me take my gaze off the road ahead to settle on him. "You are?" I asked. Even despites how weird he acted when he first noticed my pregnancy? Rouge had seemed to take it a lot better than him as she only subtely let the news sink in. "Well yeah. I mean, it kinda made me realise she's yours too, not just Scourge's." Upon that, I made him stop walking. "So is that why you were so weird about it a month ago? Because this is Scourge's baby?" I asked, turning to face him. It was Winter, so it was cold, but I could take this moment to talk to him. Sonic didn't seem to want to, though. "Shad, we should really get the two of you home." The cobalt hedgehog said instead of answering. "Sonic, please, what was or am I to you?" I asked, grasping his upper arm to keep him from leaving and perhaps to urge him to tell me. The blue speedster looked down on me, looked at the plea I had put in my eyes, and for some reason found himself to be speechless. "Sonic..." I called his name to snap him out of his trance. "You know, you're almost like a different person. Almost. And I'm saying that as a good thing." Was his final answer and with an arm around my shoulder he got to drag me back to my apartment, back to Scourge. "Fine, I'll go home, I'm tired anyway, but you still owe me new groceries." I stated as I let him drag me home this time. It was odd to say goodbye to him, though we were certainly going our separate ways on better terms now.
I always thought Scourge was a jealous man. He liked to flaunt with me in clubs, but at the same time he'd pick a fight with any who dared to even breath wrong in my direction. Yet when I found myself pregnant with his daughter, his interest in me has been lessening over the course of the last three months. And yet, when Sonic started showing up around me... "Scourge, please..." I panted as I lay on my side on the bed underneath the covers, one of my knees a little in the air as I allowed the other's hand to fondle me between my legs. Scourge was lying behind me, lips kissing my shoulder and neck, of which I showed more, and his hand way down south. I've always known him to be experienced, but this time it felt like he was actively trying to get me off or at least close before we'd even get to the real deal. I could feel his fingers rub my clit fervently between my two lower lips and occasionally he'd dib them in my folds to stretch what was already accustomed to him. I was so soaked already, my juices covering my gender, a bit of my inner thighs, and his hand. "I'm tired." I finally finished my sentence, moaning as I just let him have his way with me. He had me so close already. I nuzzled my pillow as I could feel my pleasure reach its boiling point very quickly. I moaned as I rolled just a bit on my back, which didn't deter Scourge from continuing to play with my pussy as I gave him more room to work with. "So? All you have to do is lie there and let me take care of you." The green hedgehog told me, for once actually sweet before he was about to take me again. Usually he just requests the position, I do it, and he gets off while barely uttering a sensible word, somehow pleasuring us both. But this time was different. I wondered if it was because I told him that our baby was a girl. Or was he trying so hard all of a sudden because he saw me come home with Sonic? Either way, I'm not complaining. Scourge wanted a change in position. So I leant on my knees while my arms were wrapped around my pillow, my head resting on top. Like this, Scourge could go to town on me and the baby wouldn't be bothered so much. I watched him from over my shoulder as he moved behind me, his hands briefly stroking over my rounded belly before his erection prodded my pussy. The anticipation right before the actual penetration was always something I enjoyed, though. The hedgehog's hands settled on my hips and pulled me towards him as he thrusted, causing our bodies to meet as his stiff shaft sank completely into my folds, disappearing as a whole. I could only gasp as I was being filled, the sensation still strangely both off and enjoyable to me. Somehow, I had never gotten used to making love with him. The first time I remember, just a week after the car accident I was in, I had noted how wrong it felt to be taken by him. That feeling had never left, even though we did it multiple times a week during the first three months. It had only faded a bit, but never disappeared completely. Carrying his baby had helped in lessening it, but meeting old friends had made it slightly worse. It was... odd... to say the least. "Oh, Scourge.." I moaned softly as the pace was even and fast, his shaft sliding in and out of me with the utmost ease. My head was reeling back as I could feel his erection pulling at my folds as he left and pushed himself back in. His pelvis moved forward as he drove his erection inside, filling my pussy repeatedly. I could tell that he enjoyed my moist warmth as he groaned and panted, soon holding onto the headboard as his hips snapped forward. The pace quickened a little, urging me to moan and breath faster and keep a steadier hold on the pillow as if for support. My legs spread a little wider, his crotch hitting my butt as he thrusted from behind. I could feel jolts coming from my clit too. "Stripes..." A common nickname he used for me, I knew what it meant and I reached a hand back to pull on my buttocks and reveal more to him. Apparently, that's what the old sleazy me gladly used to do... Revealing more for the hungry eye... 'You know, you're almost like a different person. Almost. And I'm saying that as a good thing' That's what Sonic had told me before bringing me home. I suppose I really am a different person now. My moans grew louder as the gesture got Scourge to thrust harder, go deeper, pounding me from behind and creating these lewd noises that I still wasn't used to. And then I came. As I already had a headstart, it was of no surprise that I climaxed before Scourge did. I held my breath momentarily as pleasure washed all over my body, causing my pussy to clamp down on the thick erection inside, making it more difficult for him to move. "Fuck, that's tight." I could hear him state as his thrusting slowed down for just a moment, thoroughly enjoying the extra tight hold. Sometimes he'd use dirty talk, which had never failed in embarrassing me, but this time it seemed like he was leaving that behind him. Or he would've said something vulgar like me begging for it or milking him or some such kinky nonsense. He was still going hard on me, but this was so much better. No unnecessary talking, just our bodies connecting in a most intimate way. But as my orgasm faded away, it was his time to let go, a good few minutes after I had come. I held steady and still as I let him climax deep inside me as usual. With his manhood all the way to the root inside, I swore I could feel him cumming. My lips were parted in a silent moan, my eyes closed as he really did succeed in making me enjoy it. And he didn't pull out just yet. I held onto the headboard too as I let him take the time he wanted to leave every little squirt inside, resting my forehead against the wooden surface, thoughtfully. It was weird in the beginning, very weird, but I had come to enjoy the, what I would call, raunchy sex with him. But it had returned. That nagging feeling that he was the wrong guy. Now I was no idiot, not at all. I felt that way when we first started doing it, started following this agreement, but then I met Rouge and she told me that I had actually been living with her until shortly before my accident. And then I spend the day with Sonic and... It had felt so right. The more I thought of it, the more confused I became. I actually felt my chest constrict again in slight anxiety Was my intuition right all along? Had I let the wrong guy knock me up? Scourge pulling his limp member out of me was what snapped me out of my train of thoughts. He flopped down on his back, satisfied, and I followed his example, albeit a little more careful. My body was surely content, but my mind was not. "I really am tired now, I'm just going ahead and get some sleep, okay?" I told him and pressed my lips on his, like I always did, and turned to lay on my side, facing away from him. My gender did feel a bit too uncomfortably wet now, though. I wonder if I'll be able to sleep like this. "Yeah, sure, whatever. It's past midnight anyway." Was his reply and soon enough he had dozed off already, leaving me alone with my thoughts and worries.
I wanted to know more about him, this supposed 'right guy'. "Tell you about Sonic?" The white bat who had called herself my best friend asked as we sat in this cozy café. She drank a coffee while I had decaf, for the baby's sake. I had called her pretty much the next morning as soon as Scourge was out the door to do whatever it is that he keeps himself busy with. It certainly wasn't a job as he told me he didn't have one and we'd been living on savings for a long while now. We were both unemployed, lazy, irresponsible parents. What a great start our daughter will have. Rouge was happy to hear from me again and we had arranged to meet up a week later as she couldn't because of her job. She was apparently a goverment spy. We met up and once we found a table to have a peaceful chat at, I decided to go straight down to business. "Yes, I want to know more about him. Don't ask why." I didn't want to explain because that meant mentioning the agreement my roomie and I had. "My, Sonic told me you seemed like a different person, but there are some things that don't change apparently." Rouge appeared to be amused by this and if I knew who exactly the old me was, maybe I could've shared in her amusement. "Are you two gossiping about me behind my back?" I was lying if I said that didn't concern me. "Only because we care, Hun." She told me, sipping from her hot cup of coffee. 'Hun' sounded so natural to me, like I wasn't used to being called anything else by her. I wanted my answers, but that did sound like something I wanted to know. "We were really close, weren't we?" I asked, barely able to keep my expression neutral. It seemed to faze her, but she quickly shrugged it off. "Yes, we were. We've lived together for years before you decided to move out and have a place of your own. Though, I don't know how you ended up 'living' with Scourge of all people." Rouge put such emphasis on 'living', like it was a joke to even think about it. "Why?" I asked, referring to why that was so strange. "You can't stand him, Hun! Or you didn't used to." She answered, like she promised me she would earlier this week. I didn't want to question why I supposedly could not stand him. "Okay, we're getting off track. Can you tell me about Sonic?" I asked to get back on our original topic of conversation. "Well, what do you want to know?" She asked, awaiting my next inquiry patiently. "What was our relationship?" I decided that should be my first question to ask. "You were friends. You couldn't really stand eachother in the beginning, but you grew closer, especially towards the last few months before your accident. And I mean very close." Rouge complied and answered. So at first I couldn't stand Sonic and then we had grown to be really close with eachother? Well, I couldn't stand Scourge according to her, so I suppose I must've grown close him too. Was it right to compare the two situations and draw a conclusion from that? No, I probably need more information. "How close is 'close'?" Was my next question. Were Sonic and I as close as Scourge and I? Or perhaps were we more like the 'our periods would synchronise if we had one' kind of close? Though, that kind of looks like how close Rouge and I used to be. The bat wanted to answer, but it was then that she received a text message. She looked at it for a moment and pulled a surprised expression. "Well?" I asked, wondering if that text would have any influence on our conversation. Rouge looked back at me and I knew that was exactly what was going to happen. "I'm sorry, Hun, but I can't answer any more question." She told me and gave me a sympathetic look. I was more devastated than anything. I had so hoped to be brought closer to the truth of my relationship with Sonic, about the person that I once knew him to be, about the value he held for me. This was so important to me. If Sonic didn't want to tell me, than she just had to do it. "Rouge, why? I really need to know." I told her, my desperation probably very evident on my features. "Shadow, why won't you just ask questions about yourself? Aren't you curious?" She asked instead, as if I was someone worth knowing about. "No, I'm a different person now, someone that I'm actually starting to like, someone my daughter will like. What's important is who I will be in the future and if that someone is going to be a good parent. Now answer my questions." I seemed to have caught her off guard. Rouge looked totally perplexed that I was willing to bury my old self. She almost seemed... heartbroken? I suppose? How could she miss someone like that? Someone who apparently didn't find it all that important to have a job and contribute to society? Someone who would rather lazy around at home than actually do something with his time. Who sleeps with just about anybody just not to pay rent, which is actually not much different from prostitution. I don't want my little girl to grow up with a parent like that. "Why not? What has Scourge been telling you?" Rouge asked, but she never got an answer. "Hey, what's up!" The blue furred mobian I had come here to discuss in the first place had approached our table. Rouge barely seemed to noticed and just continued to stare back at me. Sonic noticed and so he turned his attention to me for now. "So Shad, how about this; You, me, the baby, and maybe a movie or something." He suggested, though I had a feeling he just wanted me to leave Rouge alone. "Fine." I sighed and pushed myself up from my chair, grabbing my scarf and coat from the back of it to pull on before I left.
I could not fight the disappointment that I felt. I was walking alongsides Sonic to where ever he wanted to go with me, which I believed was the movie theatre? I don't know why he felt like interrupting my conversation with Rouge, though it was clearly going south. But it did make me have some notion of who send that text message to shut up about him before I could ask too many questions. It wouldn't make sense of Rouge to have Scourge's number and vice versa, so I had a hunch that Sonic just might be the one. "Why are you being so difficult?" I suddenly asked after a long while of silence, causing him to look back at me in surprise. "Difficult? Why would you say that?" He asked, though I felt like he was just playing dumb with me. "You know exactly why! I ask you what I was to you, you avoid the question. I ask Rouge to tell me about you, you send her that text and conveniently walk into the same cafe where we met up!" I did feel myself grow upset with his behaviour. He made it so hard for me to understand why I feel this way. The large blank slate that is my memory from before six months ago hasn't returned even a little bit. Rouge is very familiar and so are Sonic and Scourge. Both of the former seemed to dislike the very latter, but he is the one who gave me some backstory to work with, even if it did lead to us continuing that agreement and getting expectant in the first place. Why does the one guy who feels so wrong to me make the most sense? I should've just stayed home. There I was familiar, safe, and had only Scourge's advances and this baby to worry about. "Shad, where are you going?" Upon his continued silence, I just turned on my heels and walked into the direction that I believed my apartment to be in. It had caused Sonic to become startled and call out for me. "I'm going back home! At least there everything makes sense!" I shouted back to him, but the blue hedgehog caught up with ease and cut me off. "Why would you do that? It's only in the afternoon! I thought it'd be nice for you to get out of that stuffy place and explore the city!" He stated, clearly confused. I halted and looked up to him while he looked down on me. "Sonic, I'm still grateful that you helped me get that check up at the hospital last week, but that doesn't change the fact that both you and Rouge are preventing me from getting the answers that I seek!" Suddenly the floodgates to my emotions were opened and the words just kept coming out. I was so pissed off. "Do you have any idea what it's like to just wake up one evening with terrible pain and realise that you don't remember a thing?" From the look in Sonic's eyes, I could tell that he knew a whole lectured awaited him. "I had to rely on a total stranger to tend to my every need because I couldn't get out of bed! He gave me information about myself to work with and so far you and Rouge have been denying that and showing clear dislike for the one man who helped me! And, if I may add, without telling me this supposed 'truth' to back your claims up!" They rolled off my tongue so easily as I just kept on shouting, drawing everyone's attention around us. As it was still in the afternoon, here were quite a few people out and about today, despites the freezing cold of Winter. "Shad-" Sonic tried to intervene, but I didn't let him. "It's terrifying to be pregnant and not know who I was, who I'm supposed to be, or what may lie in the future. I can't sleep at night just because of my worries concerning this baby alone! I could really do without you contradicting everything Scourge was so kind to set up for me! So if you're not going to help me, than I would rather have you out of my life instead!" I finally finished shouting, panting and rubbing my belly as my daughter had begun to kick up a storm in my womb. My stress was affecting and distressing her. The cobalt hedgehog looked down on me in shock when I had told him to get out of my life already. It was harsh of me, I just got them back a month ago, but I wasn't going to take those words back. Stability. That's what I longed for. Surprisingly enough, Scourge was what provided me with what I needed. "Fine. What do you wanna know?" Sonic spoke up in almost defeat. Whatever he tried to hide from me, it apparently wasn't worth losing me over. I felt relief. Maybe now I was finally getting somewhere, maybe even somewhere promising. "What was I to you?" He could start by finally answering this question for me. He looked at me with a frown that felt unnatural to see on his pale muzzle, but he sighed and finally answered. "Just very close friends." He pretty much told me the same thing Rouge did. "Exactly how close?" I demanded to know. I was so tired of this. He couldn't just offer up links to my past on a silver platter and then suddenly take it away again. That's just cruel. "I don't know, extremely close? Can't we just go to the movies like we were planning to?" He asked desperatly, though that just seemed so wrong to see with him. "No, we are not setting another foot until you tell me what I want, no, need to know. Now answer the damn question." I was stern with him, which was apparently enough to keep him from going. His fists tightened and he looked like he was ready to run. "Yes, we were closer than normal friends!" Finally did he give me his answer. Was that so difficult for him? Now, for the very last question. "Why was I meeting you that night?" He seemed to be caught off guard by that particular question. "You... remember that?" Sonic asked, his itching need to leave temporarily forgotten. I nodded. "That is the sole memory that I have before I woke up in Scourge's bedroom with a bruised hip and a concussion. And you told me when you showed up on my doorstep." Maybe if I told him what I remember, it might get his tongue to loosen up easier. "I was walking somewhere, I feel like I had to meet someone, and I had plastic bag of groceries with me before I got hit by a red car. The groceries and that hunch made me conclude I was meeting someone for dinner, probably at my own place since I was the one getting the ingredients. I may live with Scourge, but it wasn't him that I was meeting. It was you and I want to know why." His whole demeanor seemed to change as I recited everything that I remember, like I have done so many times in my mind before. As silence now hung in the air between us after my long-winded speech, I let Sonic think it over and, hopefully, decide to come clean. "You did invite me over for dinner and it was because you wanted to tell something important and personal to me. I waited at your place, but you never came. No one knew why until Rouge found you wondering around a month ago." Finally... Finally I had the confirmation that I wanted to hear. Chaos, it felt like such a weight had suddenly off my chest. So it's true, Scourge really was the wrong guy. The right one was standing right in front of me. Why else would I invite someone over for dinner to tell them something important if I hadn't held some sort of affection for them? "You knew what I wanted to tell you, didn't you? So why would you keep something like that from me?" I asked as the affections were returned, right? Then why would he do such a thing? And then it started all over again. "Shad, you're exhausted-" "Answer the damn-" "Shadow!" This time he was the one to bite back and snap at me, shutting me up completely. It didn't look entirely comfortable for him to yell at me like that. I could only cross my arms and look away angrily. And here I thought I was finally a step closer to finding out the truth and... just about everything, reall, and piecing that night back together. "You're six months pregnant. You have to think about your daughter first. We'll just continue this some other time, 'kay? I'm sure Scourge is missing you." Sonic told me and I suppose the emotions running high did make me a bit tired. So instead of going to the movies and getting my answers, I let that difficult hedgehog take me back home because I sure as heck didn't remember where it was. It was silent all the way back as neither one of us spoke a single word. A thick sense of awkwardness hung in the air between us and I could almost cut it with a knife. Why did this have to be so hard? We obviously liked eachother at some point. That's what I was trying to tell him with that dinner, right? He seemed to know it too. But no, he just dropped me off at my front door, where a very peeved Scourge was waiting upon seeing me return with Sonic again. My lover always had a knack for being jealous and I could see his fists tightening in the pockets of that black jacket of his. His eyes seemed to burn with a relentless fire as he glared at Sonic and, astonishingly, the blue one returned the favour. I wanted to greet him, but before I could, Scourge's arm wrapped around my shoulder. "I thought you said you wanted to meet Rouge?" He asked, eyeing Sonic suspiciously as he held me by his side. I did tell him that and he had told me where that cafe was, given me a whole route to follow. "Yes, and I did, but our meeting was cut a little short when Sonic showed up." I told him, looking up to the possessive hedgehog. How could he show so little interest in our daughter and still feel like 'defending' me like some sort of possession? He had made it perfectly clear that we weren't a couple, despites the fact that we did share a bed, did have frequent sex, and were having a baby together. I don't know what it was... Maybe Sonic noticed how close Scourge held me, or maybe it was because I let him, or... I don't know what, but he looked so sour all of a sudden. "I know you'll be able to fight off this creep if you want to, Shad, so I'll just be going home to Tails. I'll see you later, 'kay?" Sonic ran off before I could speak up again and tell him goodbye, speeding off into the distance. Just then Scourge let go of me and returned inside, though not without patting my rear. "Get in, Stripes." Great, now he was going to be aggravated for the rest of the day and I had to deal with it. "I'm coming in a minute." I told him before turning me gaze back into the direction Sonic had run off too. After all I had learned today, that aching that I felt a month ago had just grown bigger and more unbearable. Why do our meetings always have to end this way?",
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