10 Days To Make Him Smile

The Bet

POV Sonic

I woke up with incoming messages from Knuckles. I rolled my eyes and checked them.

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KNUX
Sorry man I didn't mean to piss you off. I was going to tell you that if you don't like her, then man up and tell her that yourself🙄
Besides that sorry for being pushy bro

Sonic
Yeah yeah I will
You are forgiven
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I chuckled to myself and smirked. It was like 6:30 in the morning and as much as I wanted to sleep a little more, my tiredness wore off. Then I heard a knock on my door, who could it be this damn early. I ran to the door to open it and found Amy standing in front of me.

Oh god here comes that hug.

I remained still, looking away and then looking back.

She didn't reach out for me this time though. She stood, right where she was, staring at me. I smacked my lips together, awkwardly as I tried to read her expression, which good for me was incredibly easy.

Her eyes remained down but then they looked to every corner of me. Her lips were slightly parted and her cheeks were a flustered pink.

Holy shit.

Is she confessing???

She sighed then took a deep breath, raising her head to look into my eyes. "Sonic, I know you've known I've liked you for a long time. I told Knuckles to ask you those questions so he could report back your answer. He was very honest." We both stayed silent for a while. "Okayy..where are you getting at?" Her eyes widened with a squint as her eyebrows furrowed.

"Where I'm getting at? Are you serious? It's—dumb! I- I had to hear those words from him?"  I didn't exactly know what she was talking about so I stayed silent. "Look Sonic I remember vividly when you told me "oh right now is not the right time." You left me wondering when will that right time be." At this point she was slowly launching herself forward as her temper rose, and I couldn't blame her. I knew why she was mad. I did say that and I never realized she was waiting.

"You gave me that sense of false hope and you're asking what's my point?" Her tone was furious, I have never heard dear sweet Amy talk to anyone this way. "If you no longer liked me the least you could've have done was tell me. You understood my signs and hints, I made it very clear." I sighed this time, everything she was saying was true. "And to find out that all of that time I used to get your attention, you've been using your time to ignore mine." I was frozen, I felt like I couldn't even blink. I never knew she felt that way.

"I'm sorry." Was all I said. "Are you? Are you really?" She began to get defensive. "Are you sorry that you made me wait for something that you already knew would never happen?" I paused again and furrowed my brows. "Are you sorry for how you made me feel? Sorry that you made me feel like a dog waiting for you to make a choice?" I looked into her eyes, those eyes of determination were furious.

"Yes Amy! I am! Look I was a complete jerk for leading you on, and even more of an idiot for not realizing that I did. But I didn't intend to hurt you." In some ways, I was starting to grow angry too. "Amy you've known me almost my whole life, when have I ever treated you like you weren't your own person?" She paused staring into my soul. "Back then I was childish, I was immature and maybe I still am but I didn't know the difference between like and love back then. I didn't even know who you were as a person, all I knew was your looks."

She took a deep breath, it was shaky and so was mine. "And yeah Amy, maybe it isn't possible for your love interest to change in the span of what? 5 years? but it happened to me." I stepped forward too, proving my point, which somehow hadn't felt good. "But you could've told me." She was in the verge of tears now and my heart sank. "All I wanted was answers. I—I just wanted to know why." It was like she was crying out of anger, she shoved her face into my chest while hitting it at the same time.