Who Are You?

Chapter 2 - Messy Memory

Sonic's POV

The clock hits 9 AM and I enter my class. I look around, trying to find the one hedgehog that maybe resembles the one that appeared in my dream last night although I absolutely don't remember how he looks like. As I keep searching and searching I still don't find the right hedgehog. It's weird how I remember and not remember it at the same time, dream truly is a bizarre experience to have when sleeping.

At the end of the lesson, I tidy my notes up and just plant my face on the table. I feel like it gets harder for me to stay motivated every day and the thought to finish my god damn education is slowly fading away. It's bad enough that I started randomly dreaming of this stranger and have him talk about the struggle of life as if I'm talking to myself. I really am going crazy.

"Sonic."

I turn my head to see who called me and I groan.

"What now, Scourge?"

"Wanna come with me to a coffee shop? I heard there's a new one down the street near your place."

I perk my ears as I realize something. My dream happened in that place, what was the meaning of that anyway? If I go there again, will I meet this mysterious hedgehog?

"Hello? Are you coming or not?" Scourge snap his fingers in front of my face to stop me from my train of thought.

"Uh- sure." I got up from my seat and followed him out.

I'm so stuck with thinking about who this hedgehog is that I completely forgot about the part where it all happened in that coffee shop. It's creepy and weird but I wanna know the connection. I hope I'm right about this, but maybe I didn't realize that I saw that hedgehog on another table yesterday. I hope he's there.

We made it to the shop, we get in line to order our coffee before finally waiting on the side of the counter to pick up our drinks. Amy came in with our orders and hand it over to us.

"Here you go, enjoy." She smiled before going back to stand behind the cashier.

"Um- Scourge, you go pick a table first."

Scourge stare at me confusingly but just shrug my question off and nodded. He left to find an empty table while I walk towards the front counter again.

"Oh, do you want to place another order?" She asked.

"No, um, I have a question actually." I chuckle nervously, "do you maybe...like...keep track on how many hedgehog customers that comes to your shop and how they look like?"

"Well there's you and your friend," she point before staring down at the counter to think, "there's not that many hedgehogs...I think there's this silver-furred hedgehog and a yellow-furred hedgehog that visited yesterday."

"I see..." I lower my ears and sigh, "well, thanks for answering, Amy." I smiled.

"You're welcome." She smiled back.

I turn around and sigh, looks like since this place is still new there's not many hedgehog customers yet. The hedgehogs that Amy described doesn't seem to trigger my memory, that means they aren't the ones that appeared in my dream last night.

I walk towards where Scourge is sitting and spent a few hours hanging out with him.

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"Well we better get going."

"Oh you can go first, I'm staying for a little bit." I smiled.

"Huh? Well, I guess I'll see you later." He stand up and wave his hand at me before leaving. I have a feeling that he wanted to question me about it but I guess he decided not to. Thank goodness for that.

I lean back on the seat and stare out the window. I'm still thinking about that weird dream, it's just too strange for me not to think about it all day. I'm starting to worry about my head more than I worry about my grades, I might actually be going crazy.

I look around the shop and stare at all the other customers, still none of them look like the one in my dream. Maybe I'm hallucinating or something. After another few minutes I finally decide to get up and leave the establishment.

Oh- right, I forgot that I wanted to bring Tails here. But...I guess I'm gonna have to wait for that. I better get home now, Tails did say he wants to visit me.

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I hear a knock on the door before it's opened by Tails. He came in and close the door while I'm sitting on the couch, watching TV.

We both really don't bother to wait for each other to answer the door, we can just come inside whenever we want since we're so used to hang out together.

"Hey there." Je smiled and sit next to me, "so how was your sleep?"

My ears perk a little as I chuckle lightly.

"Heheh...I slept pretty early last night."

His face starts beaming with joy and he pat my back like a proud dad.

"That sounds great! I'm so glad you managed to sleep early! You better not lose that and start sleeping early again tonight." He suggested and I nod my head.

"Anyway, how's your day at school?" I ask and try not to keep the previous topic any longer.

He start telling me about his day at school and I do my best and listen to every thing he said. He's pretty cute when he's so excited to tell me a story, almost like a little kid that likes to tell imaginary stories.

He then decide to stay and make dinner for me, not that I'm complaining, his cooking is so good. I guess he's just worried that I might not eat again tonight, though it's not really that big of a problem to me. We have dinner together while watching a movie, this night turn out to be pretty fun for me and it helps cool my head down from all that weird dream stuff.

Tails went home a few moments after dinner. I lock the door and sigh as I turn the living room light's off and head to my room.

I don't think I'm actually ready to go to sleep again tonight, what if I have the same dream? I still can't remember it clearly but it's still there in the back of my head. I don't want to have to overthink this too much and I'm really hoping to not dream about that hedgehog, heck I hope I don't dream at all.

It's 11 PM and I'm starting to get very sleepy, it's still very unusual for me. I only have afternoon class for tomorrow, but...Tails is right, I shouldn't keep this habit of staying up late. I gave in to my heavy eyes and slowly fell asleep.

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I sit on the usual spot at the coffee shop with the same drink. I look around and the place seems a little foggy and cloudy than it's supposed to be. I look out the window, every thing seems so blurry for some reason.

My ears perk as I hear footsteps coming closer to where I am, then I see this dark hedgehog pulling the chair in front of me and sit down with a smile.

"Hi Sonic."

I smile back and nod my head, for some reason I don't want to open my mouth.

"You seem to be doing well today, you and your friends seem to care about you."

I stare at my cup and we both stayed silent for a moment before I stare at him again. I nod my head again and he chuckle lightly.

"Are you drinking caramel macchiato again?"

I smile and nod my head.

"You really like that drink, huh? Next time I'll buy it for you."

I wag my tail in excitement after he said that. He stood up and then stand next to me, gently stroking my head with a soft smile.

"That's a promise, come back soon okay? I can't wait to see you again."

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Chaos it happened again. That was the same dream. What is going on with me? Who is that hedgehog? I can't even remember him and this is the second time he appeared in my dream! Argh this is starting to get annoying!