A secret date on Valentine's day

It was a cold winters day, but you could feel the warmth in the air as it was Valentine's Day. Many couples were walking the streets hand in hand, their breaths forming clouds in the cold air and red noses from the cold touched as couples now and again shared a kiss on the corner of the streets.

Because of all the lovey dovey couples on the streets the day didn't feel as cold as it actually was, it only did for one snowy white hedgehog who was sitting on a park bench. He had his feet on the seat as he held his knees close to his chest. He now and again looked up at a couple passing by and seeing those smiling faces only made him miss his best friend even more.

It wasn't to long ago that his best friend came to die by an accident, leaving him behind in a different timeline, where he didn't know many people in this area. Only recently he started to get to know a few others around and got introduced in a group of friends. It did make him feel better to at least know a few people, but he felt like an intruder as this group was very close. But he was grateful for the dark hedgehog to include him in this group of friends, it did make him feel less alone.

He let out a big sigh and rested his head on his knees as he stared to the group as seeing all those couples only made him more upset. He didn't notice a pair of feet coming to a hold next to the bench.

"Hey," a voice said with a relieved smile, "good to see you here."

Silver's ear twitched as he heard the voice but didn't take in his words as he didn't think it was meant for him. The owner of the voice bend over to pop in Silver's eyesight, "Contact to Silver," he said with a sweet smile.

Silver froze surprised to see his new friend Shadow here and straightened up by seeing him. "Oh hey," he said a little startled.

Shadow smiled at him, "It's good to see you here," he repeated and took the seat next to him. He had his hands inside of the pockets of his jacket and looked at Silver and frowned a little. "Is everything okay?" He asked concerned as he could see something was up.

Silver shrugged his shoulders, "I just hate this day," he whispered.

"Oh," Shadow said as a response and looked up sad to Silver, "How come?"

He looked back at the ground and sighed, "I just miss Blaze so much and this holiday and all these people aren't exactly helping," he spoke frustrated.

"Oh," Shadow said a little up sad and frowned, "Were you to like..." he said uncomfortable by making a 'being together'- kind of gesture.

"Oh no no," Silver said quickly as he noticed what Shadow meant, "She was my best friend, we did everything together, I think of her like my big sis," he explained to him.

Shadow nodded understanding and looked at Silver who was looking at the ground again, looking very lonely and broken. It hurt him to see his new friend like this and felt like he wanted to cheer him up. "Do you maybe want to go somewhere else?"

Silver frowned and looked over at Shadow, "Don't you have other plans for the day?" he asked as he might have thought Shadow could be having a date or something, he was quite handsome so it wouldn't surprise him if there would be some girls trying to date him.

"Nope," Shadow said and excitedly stood up from the bench and smiled down at Silver, "come on, let me buy you a drink."

Silver looked surprised up at him. He held out his hand to help him off of the bench. Silver frowned and looked at Shadow's hand and back to his enthusiastic smile. "Oh uhm, yeah okay," he said with a blush as he noticed the handsome smile and took Shadow's hand a bit doubtful as it sort of felt weird to him, but it would be rude not to accept it. He took Shadow's hand and let him help himself to get off the bench and wiped his trousers for any dirt from the park bench.

As they walked next to each other both with their hands in the pockets of their jackets, Silver had his shoulders shrugged because of the cold and the scarf he wore around his neck covered his muzzle. His red nose from the cold stuck out from above the scarf.

"You really aren't used to these temperatures aren't you?" Shadow said with a chuckle who walked quite relaxed next to him. He watched him with a smile as he thought his friend looked quite cute all snuggled up in his oversized winter coat.

"I just can't believe you can walk around in a vest and not even doing the zipper," Silver said as he only felt even colder by seeing what Shadow was wearing today. "Why aren't you freezing?"

Shadow shrugged his shoulders casually, "I just never get cold."

"Never?"

"Never," he responded with a chuckle.