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Oh my god, you guys. So many people left me lovely reviews and I started to cry FULL OUT SOBS. I didn't update for almost a year and so many people still follow this story. This is the most amazing thing ever and I am so so grateful for all of you! You make this experience WORTH IT.

This chapter is VERY different from the others. It is basically a chapter of flashbacks that give a lot of background to the story that I thought would be fun and a torturous break from the plot. Muhahahahahha.

Enjoy!

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September 2008.

"Go wide!" Knuckles yelled as he pulled his arm back to throw the football. Sonic ran down the hallways backwards with his hands out, but he didn't realize that he was about to bump into someone. A collision followed shortly, sending both people to the ground.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to bump into you," He apologized sincerely, bending down to pick up the books that had scattered. He looked up at Knuckles who was dying of laughter and then gave him a thumbs up as he left the hedgehog behind.

"Don't worry about it. I wasn't watching where I was going!" She said cheerfully, also bending down to help pick up her books.

Sonic picked his head up and took a look to see who he bumped into. He looked over in surprise when he saw how beautiful the girl was. She had beautiful blue eyes and luscious brown hair that curled at the ends. He stopped picking up her books and continued to star in awe of her. She smiled softly and cleared her throat.

Standing up, the squirrel opened the palm of her hand and asked, "Can I have my books back?"

Sonic stood up and looked away as he flushed. Keep your shit together man. "Sorry about that, I'm a bit…slow," he said and immediately wanted to kick himself for saying that, but she found it funny. He handed her the books and watched as she pulled them closer to her chest.

"That's okay. I'm Sally by the way. I'm new," she said extending her open hand. He looked down at it and shook it with a smile.

"I'm Sonic and I'm not new."

Sally laughed and said, "Okay, Sonic and I'm not new, care to show me to my first class?" She raised one eyebrow and started down the hallway without his answer. Sonic stared at her retreating figure in awe. Damn.

He closed his mouth and trailed after her, mumbling something about looking at her schedule. She handed it to him and gazed at him with her gorgeous blue eyes. Sonic founded that he couldn't stop smiling at her or staring into her eyes. He was a complete and absolute goner.

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August 2008

"Please tell me we're watching the Hulk and not some sappy love movie," Sonic said, reaching for the popcorn. Amy rolled her eyes at how loud he was chewing. Boys.

"It's my turn to pick a movie and I say we're going to watch Titanic," she said as she sat back on Sonic's couch and turned the DVD player on.

He looked over at her with a frown. "You're kidding right?"

Amy blew the bangs out of her forehead and looked at him with exasperation. "Duh, when's the last time I wanted to see a rom com? It's like you don't even know me at all."

Sonic threw popcorn at her, which she immediately fired back with a smile. "So we're going with the Hulk?"

He smiled at her and said, "Thank god you're not one of those girls. You're a girl after my heart."

"Amen. Ps, I brought Sour Patch Watermelon and Swedish Fish to make sandwiches."

Sonic put the popcorn down and got on one knee. "That's it! Amy Rose, will you marry me?"

Amy burst into laughter and pushed him away. "Quit it, Hedgehog. The movie is starting."

"Ok. Ok, think about it."

Amy smiled at that as he got back on the couch. Out of the corner of her eye, she watched him reach for the popcorn and focus his attention on the screen. He always joked about marrying her since they were kids, but she couldn't help but feel warm and bubbly when he brought it up.

Since they were such good friends and everything…

Amy sighed and reached for the popcorn. She drew her hand back sharply when she felt his hand touch hers. Flushing, she looked at him with widened eyes. He smiled at her and said, "Sorry," and handed her the bag.

"S'okay," she squeaked out, shaking her head at the popcorn. Amy wasn't feeling hungry anymore. She rubbed her sweaty palms on her jeans and wondered what the hell was going on with her. It was just Sonic! She had known him for years now so why did she suddenly feel nervous?

Amy was uncomfortably aware of his presence. She tensed up when she felt his arm shift at his side. Out of the corner of her eye, she looked over at him. He was so beautiful and this was supposedly their awkward stage. His quills were shorter than they used to be, but he was still ruggedly handsome at such a young age. Amy wondered what it would be like to be Fiona or Mina, Sonic's latest conquests. They knew what it felt like to be picked up for a date, to hold his hand, and to kiss him. Her eyes wandered down to his lips and wanted to curse when she saw that he was licking the salt off of his lips.

Damn hormones.

Amy sighed for the second time and mentally kicked herself for not paying attention to the movie's plot. Now she was lost by the banter between the characters. And she was acutely aware of Sonic's every action and begged God to make it stop. It was driving her absolutely crazy.

Abruptly, Amy stood up and reached for her coat. "I have to go."

Sonic looked at her in confusion and said, "Why? The movie just started!"

The pink hedgehog shrugged and reached down to pat her stomach. "I feel really queasy."

Sonic stood up, setting down the popcorn bowl on the coffee table. "I have tums. Will that be okay?" He looked at her in concern and Amy's heart melted. He was so perfect, always perfect.

Damn him.

"No, I um…okay, I didn't want to say this but I have cramps. Lots of cramps, tons of them."

She felt Sonic tense and thanked Mother Nature for once. It was always a sensitive subject around guys. "Oh um, okay. I guess I'll see you later then?" He rubbed his neck uneasily.

Amy's head bobbed up and down. She felt like such an idiot. Why was she freaking out about him so much? She had noticed a change in her feelings towards Sonic. All the pink hedgehog wanted to do was spend time with him and think about him, but that didn't necessarily mean that she liked him, right?

Then why did it feel like a crush?

"I'll walk you out," Sonic said, nodding towards the doorway. She nodded and followed him to the door. Before she could escape his grip, he wrapped his arms around her and whispered bye into her ear. She couldn't even muster a bye because she was so entranced by his smell and the warmth radiating between them. Smiling tightly, she left his house in a hurry and wondered how she could kill the butterflies in her stomach. Amy needed to get rid of this ridiculous crush before their relationship was jeopardized.

But did she want to do that?

"Shut up," she whispered to herself. Amy was going to kill this crush if it was the last thing she did.

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August 2012.

Jet tapped his pen impatiently against the table and wondered if anyone would notice if he slipped out of class before the teacher showed up. Sighing, he watched with disinterest as Mr. Gobbins showed up and started his droll speech about another trite year of Literature and Composition.

Seconds after Gobbins started his monotone speech, the door flew open and a pink hedgehog strolled in nonchalantly. The teacher stopped his lecture and said, "Miss Rose, it appears that you are late."

She turned to look at him and said point blank, "Is that why all of these kids are sitting down in their seats?"

Jet stifled his laughter, but couldn't help but let a smile form on his face. Gobbins, on the other hand, was not pleased. "While humor is a great quality to possess, I believe that you owe your classmates an explanation as to why you are late."

She shrugged as she walked over to the desk next to Jet's and sat down. "I got lost." This time, Jet couldn't help but chuckle, earning a disproving look from the teacher and a smug smile from Amy. He stopped listening to what Gobbins was saying and took a second to check the hedgehog out. She was a pretty girl. Her hair was short, but curled into beautiful pink quills. Her lips were a natural, light red and her cheeks were rosy pink, but her most stunning feature were her emerald eyes.

"Would you like to say something?"

Jet stopped staring and realized Amy was asking him a question without looking at him. Her eyes were focused on the board, but her lips were curved into a smile. "Sorry?"

"You're staring at me," she said bluntly, still keeping her eyes trained on the board.

"Oh…I um wanted to know if I could…borrow a pen," Jet finished lamely, tucking his pen into his right pocket with ease.

"You want to borrow a pen?" She asked with disbelief.

"Yeah…" he said whilst scratching at his head and wondering if a person could die from embarrassment.

She opened her pencil case and for the first time she turned to look at him with her brilliant, beautiful emerald orbs. She extended the pen towards him and watched him hesitantly take it. "I don't bite," Amy said with a smirk forming, noticing how flustered he was.

"Miss Rose, would you like to tell me what the green light symbolizes and how it reflects the novel as a whole since you seem so eager to be chatting with Mr. Hawk."

Amy glanced over at the teacher with disinterest and said, "It symbolizes hope, sir. Gatsby has this perfect image of what he wants his life to be like with Daisy and the green light symbolizes that. It dies at the end with him because his image was always unrealistic and frankly, too optimistic because everyone in the book is essentially narcissistic and weak as characters."

She shut up the entire room and Jet thought he could fall in love with this girl.

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April 2011.

"I'm in love with Sally Acorn."

"Correction. You think you're in love with Sally Acorn."

Sonic rolled his eyes and tossed the football up into the air. He caught it effortlessly. "I know I am, Ames. I can feel it."

With exasperation, Amy turned around in her wheely chair from her study desk and observed Sonic lying down on her bed, tossing the football up and down. "Do you even know what love is, Hedgehog?"

"Yeah, it's what I feel for Sally."

"That's not what I meant and you know it."

"She's all I ever think about."

"Sonic, that's infatuation, not love. You can't be in love if you don't know the person. And I think you've only talked to her twice. Once you talked to her when you knocked all of her shit to the ground. Smooth move, by the way, Romeo. And the second time, you were her lab partner for the day because Bunny was gone. If I remember correctly, you said, 'oh I think it needs more salt'."

Sonic flustered with embarrassment and groaned. "Ugh, don't remind me. But I still think I love her. She's the coolest person I've met. She's really nice, fun, smart, and really hot. What isn't there to love?"

Amy rolled her eyes and clicked her tongue as she said, "That is infatuation."

"Love."

"Infatuation."

"Love."

"Infatuation."

"Love."

Amy felt her blood boil as she snapped, "You are not star crossed lovers, Hedgehog. You are just obsessing over a girl you don't know. You created her to be the perfect girl in your head, but you know nothing about her. Maybe she's not as perfect as you think." She took a deep breath and ignored Sonic's curious glance. "Love is when you know a person, like really know a person, Sonic. You can't stop thinking about them and all you want to do is be around them in any way possible. Love is between two people that have formed a rare connection, when you care about someone so much that it hurts sometimes."

Sonic stopped throwing the football and sat up. "You talk about love like you know from experience."

Amy blew her bangs out of her face. "Maybe."

Sonic laughed and teased, "Who is it, Ames? Knuckles? Silver? Shadow? Oh wait, let me guess…Scrouge? You always had a thing for the bad boys in movies."

Amy paled and wondered if she could become invisible. "Ha ha. You're so funny. Can we please get back to this bio assignment?"

"Who was it?"

"A food pyramid is graphical representation of the food chain. The different types include…"

"Ames."

"Sonic."

"Just tell me!"

"Quit whining like a twelve year old and help me get an A."

"Fine, don't tell me."

"I won't."

For a reason…

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June 1999.

She just wanted to make friends, that's all she wanted. Six-year old Amy refused to cry about it and instead commanded herself to make a move. Pushing away from the green picnic table, the overall wearing Amy walked straight up to the 'cool summer camp kids.' She tapped Rouge the bat on the shoulder and watched her turn around. "Can I play with you guys?"

Rouge frowned and looked around at the boys she was playing with. "I don't know, kid. This is big kid's game."

Amy pulled at her pigtails and defiantly said, "I am a big kid!"

Shadow poked out from behind Rouge and smirked at her. "No you're not. You can't even tie your shoes."

Amy looked down at her feet and saw that her sneakers were untied. She flushed a bright red and yelled, "I can too!" She bent down to tie them and suddenly felt herself being pushed down. She fell into the mud that was extra thick from the rain that fell early that afternoon. The pink hedgehog looked down at her overalls in disgust and sadness. Her mom spent a lot of time customizing it for her and now they were ruined. She looked up at the perpetrator and saw a red echidna laughing.

"Knuckles, I'm going to kill you!" She yelled as she stood up from the mud. Before she could make a move towards him, someone else stepped in for her. Suddenly, Knuckles was in the mud, complaining.

Amy looked over to see a blue hedgehog looking down at the red echidna with disgust. "You can't push girls, Knuckles, you jerk."

The blue hedgehog turned to Amy with an apologetic smile. "Sorry about him, he's mean. Here," he said, handing her napkins that he nicked from his lunch box. "I'm Sonic the Hedgehog by the way."

Amy looked at the napkins and then up at the little hedgehog in awe. She smiled and took the napkins to wipe off the mud as much as she could. "I'm Amy Rose. Thanks for your help."

"No problem. I like your overalls by the way."

She beamed at him and asked to race him to the swings. As they raced, she looked over at him and saw the fierce determination on his face. She couldn't help but stare in awe and hope to God they would be friends in the future.

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December 2010.

Amy tried to kill the crush; she really did, but it was impossible. Her crush on Sonic was not only here to stay, but also was growing stronger by the day. She tried her best not to think about it, not to think about him, but it was impossible.

It was December 12, 2010 that she admitted out loud that she was in love him.

She was in a hole, one that she couldn't seem to get out of. Her mother was dating Mike and he was the biggest asshole of them all. She had a fight basically every day with her mother about it. Amy was exhausted from all all of the fights that she just stopped arguing. The pink hedgehog would stay quiet or change the subject. She was done.

She flicked the lighter on and brought it closer to to lite the cigarette. Amy hated to be a cliché, but the drugs and alcohol made it a hell of a lot easier to cope with.

Today was the anniversary of her dad's death and her mother was out on a date with Mike.

So therefore, Amy was sitting on the grass, smoking a cigarette and looking out at Gilligan's lake. Her father and her used to come there often. They would take the boat out and he would teach her how to fish. They would pretend like they were sailors, sailing the wide-open ocean blue. Then, when it got dark, they would come back to shore and fly kites. These days were the best days of her lives and now they were all ruined.

It was all fucking ruined.

She tried to ignore her feelings ever since her dad died. Whenever her mother wanted to talk about it, she made up an excuse not to talk about it until her mother stopped asking her. Amy fucked around with her therapist's questions until the poor woman had to tell her mother that it was no use. She remembered their last session…

"Amy, how about telling me things about your dad that you loved."

"I rather tell you about my opinion about Kentucky Derby Races."

"Amy…"

"I think it's fucking pointless."

Her therapist nodded and smiled with relief. "Good, this is progress. Why is it pointless?"

Amy shrugged and crossed her legs as she leaned back in the couch. "I mean isn't betting on horses animal cruelty? Also, who the fuck wants to sit around and watch it on TV? It's almost as boring as golf or cricket. I don't even know if ESPEN airs cricket, that's how ridiculous it is."

The smile faded instantly.

Amy smirked to herself remembering how her therapist threw her notes on her desk and rubbed her temple. She lit the cigarette and as she was about to bring it to her mouth for a drag, a voice stopped her.

"Those things could kill you."

"I haven't heard that one before," she said with an eye roll.

Sonic sat down next to her and reached for the cigarette. He threw it on the ground and stopped the flame out. Amy watched him with a blank expression as she said, "you owe me another one." She started fidgeting with the lighter, clicking it on and then off.

He turned to look at her, his emerald eyes searching hers. Her eyes that were normally so full of life and passion were dull and empty of her usual brilliance. Sonic would do anything to see a genuine smile on her face. "You wanna sulk, Ames? Then sulk. If you want to feel sorry for yourself then feel sorry for yourself," he said unkindly.

Amy flushed bright red with anger. "You know what? I don't need this attitude from you, Sonic. I already have enough to deal with as it is."

"I know that."

"Then why are you being such a dick?" She fired back with a scowl.

Sonic frowned and spat, "I'm trying to help you. You're always feeling too damn sorry for yourself and frankly, it's pathetic."

Amy stood up abruptly and yelled down at him, "Who asked for your opinion?"

He stood up and towered over her. "Someone has to tell you to quit it or else you'll go into a fucking spiral downwards! Ames, I know that this hasn't been easy on you and your mom dating someone else this soon has got to be hard. But you're better than this. You're acting like a fucking cliché and you know it."

"Fuck you, Sonic. If I want to go have fun, I can!"

"Drinking until you pass out or smoking until I found you out of your mind is not fun and you know it. Where's the Amy Rose that beat up Knuckles in the fourth grade for putting glue in Cream's hair? Where's the Amy Rose that protested to free our seventh grade hamster from the aggression of our teachers? Where's the Amy Rose who told Fiona to stop being a fucking slut in front of the entire student body freshmen year? You're loud, opinionated, snarky, and super sarcastic to the point that people want to hit you, but you know what? I love that about you and I miss that. That's the real Amy, not this fraud," he said, motioning to her body.

Amy was silent.

"You want to be mad? Fine. Be mad. Hit me if you want to. If you want to be sad? Fine, cry it out, but don't act like this. Don't act like you don't care and like you want to be a rebel because we both know that it's not you."

And that's when she knew.

Amy threw herself instantly into Sonic's chest and started to explode into hysterics. She cried because she missed her dad. She missed their play dates. She hated the fact that her mom was dating again. She hated the fact that her mom was dating the biggest asshole in the planet. She hated the fact that she was so mean to her mom and her therapist. She lost the only girlfriends that she had over pretending not to care and she almost lost Sonic. She couldn't believe that Sonic cared about her so much, that he would always put up with her even when she was a complete fucking mess.

Amy cried because she was so in love with Sonic and he didn't know it.

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Present

Amy was drowning, drowning in him. She was losing herself and she was terrified. Amy was terrified that he would stop kissing her. She was terrified that he would regret it, that he would ask to go back to being friends. The damage was done. It was irreversible. She wanted him so badly, but she was terrified.

Amy was shaking as the lips of an angel kissed her with all of his passion. He dragged his mouth against hers slowly and sensually. His hand rested on her face and his other hand was at her waist, pulling her closer. She had been waiting for so long, for so fucking long. Amy threw herself into the kiss and it continued to grow heated. His hand slipped under her shirt and his fingertips grazed the flesh of her stomach. Amy moaned into his mouth and used her hand to run her hands through his quills. He grunted in approval and she thought it was the sexiest noise she had ever heard.

Sonic was kissing her.

And this was absolutely terrifying to her and she didn't even understand her fear. She tore her lips away from his and jumped away from him as if she had been burned. Amy stood up quickly and recollected herself. "I have to think. I just um, I just," she stumbled for words and refused to look at him. "I'm sorry," she offered lamely as she turned away from him and walked back towards her house.

Sighing, he watched her go and wondered what he could say to make her come back, but he was speechless.

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And that's where this chapter ends.

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