◤𝕊𝕙𝕒𝕕𝕒𝕞𝕪◢ - It Started With Vomit!

Chapter 10: Impulse

. . .

When Amy grew up, it was generously far from a life full of turmoil and cumbersome experiences; disbarring an unbeseeming someone from the account. She had the most loving parents who outdid the marital swearing of till death do us part, and led a comfortable stay in a small but quaint townhouse. Friends were never a difficultly for the bubbly young girl to find - and neither were her urges to enter some sort of trouble, which she miraculously always went unsullied from in some twist of fate. Fortuity even. Student loans, she never took, and bad grades, she never had either. As far as she was concerned, adverse circumstances were simply made-up folk tales by the paranoid and superstitious because, what was there really to be scared of in life?

It was already so perfect. She would marry just as her parents, keep the precious company of loyal companions and never be lacking in money, health or anything that deterred from a complete life.

But now that her friend groups were being ripped apart from limb to limb, and Shadow Hedgehog's slender yet grand hands took her terribly shakey ones in his - airing a public show of beseeched affection -, it was on that remarkably bright yet fateful day the answer had dawned on her.

She was scared of this.

. . .

"Sir! When did you first meet her?!"

"Mr. Hedgehog, Is this a political stunt to divert attention from the safety concern of Hedgehog cooperations network system?!"

"Sir, can you answer a few quick questions for us?"

"Mr. Hedgehog, Is this a tactic you plan to use to spite Mrs. Maria Hedgehog after joining families and wealth with a renouned competitor??!"

"SIR! SIR!"

Camera flashes poured in and voices were cancelled out question after question, and although they weren't one-sidedly directed at her, she was trembling beyond belief at the center of it all.

"Tails." "Yes, sir," the frantic fox replied.

"Take her to safety" I ordered. 

"And where would that be exactly?? They'll be swarms of desperate cameramen chasing no matter which turn or swerve or highway--"

"Figure something out!" I gnashed at him. "Go! Now!"

"I'm demanding a pay raise after this," I heard him mutter guiding her from my arms and into the car.

I continued into the press conference venue to discuss matters with collaborating companies regarding safety issues and distribution setbacks, but during it all, several judging eyes and loud whispers failed to fade. Among it all, some from the scrutinizing lot openingly came up to rend me congratulations - even though my supposed bride hadn't really given me an answer, be it, yes or no - but nevertheless, I accepted them and thanked higher powers above for the early wrap-up.

From the depth of my pocket, I felt my phone vibrate and I moved impetuously to picked up the call: 

"WHAT POSSESSED YOU?!"

"Where did you take her to?" I ignored the caller's attempt to pierce my eardrums beyond repair. "And is she safe?"

"Your residential house-- nobody followed too closely luckily and since you're hardly seen using it, no one should suspect a thing but don't try to ignore me! Amy was off-limits and you knew it! Why did you keep this from me?"

"The real question is why your buddy, Sonic, didn't say a word of it to you."

"You stole his fiance, Shadow!"