Fooled To Love

A Date To Die For

Shadow walked towards Sonic's shack and knocked on the door. The door opened to reveal Sonic.

"Come for another beat down?" He smirked.

"Actually, I am here for Knuckles." Shadow replied coolly.

"You're here!" A voice shouted before a clatter of things were heard. Knuckles soon came with his shoe stuck in a pot.

"Knuckles, why did you invite my enemy to my house?" Sonic asked, tapping his foot angrily.

"Don't worry, Sonic. We aren't staying." Knuckles smiled.

"Wait... are you really hanging out with him?"

"Actually, they're going on a date." A female voice was heard from the kitchen. The girl walked out to reveal Amy.

"Date!?" Sonic shouted as loud as possible.

"Yeah, a date." Shadow crossed his arms. "You have a problem with that?"

"Of course I do!" Sonic shouted. "You're the enemy! Knuckles shouldn't be with you!"

Shadow growled. "Who are you to take control of your friend's lives!?"

"It's just common sense!"

"Fight me!"

"I will!"

"Will you both stop it!" Knuckles shouted. "Can't we all just get along...? I love Shadow, Sonic. I have for a long time, but you don't need to be acting like a jerk! Just do this one thing for me and stop fighting."

Shadow glanced between Knuckles and Sonic. He didn't want to surrender because of Knuckles, but he had no choice if he wanted his plan to work. He lowered his fists as his ears went down in mock hurt. He said, almost in a whisper, "I'm sorry..."

Sonic stared at Shadow with the biggest surprised face anybody's ever seen. Knuckles smiled and hugged Shadow, who blushed slightly at the attention he was being given.

"It's okay." Knuckles smiled. "Let's go to Meh Burger."

Shadow nodded, and Knuckles and him walked out of the house, leaving a dumbstruck Sonic and a squealing Amy.

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Shadow stared at his burger. "Is this even edible?"

"Of course it is!" Knuckles smiled. "It's great with some pepper." He took a glass shaker, that contained pepper, and put some on Shadow's burger.

Shadow stared at it, wondering why anyone would ever eat something like that. He looked at Knuckles, who ate his burger happily, then looked back down to his own burger. He picked it up slowly, using both of his hands.

Knuckles smiled as he looked at Shadow. The hedgehog had the most cutest face as he stared at his burger with curiosity. Knuckles looked back at the pepper, but noticed that the sign on it was a skull with two bones making an x. He might not be the smartest one on the island, but he knew what that meant. "Shadow don't!" He quickly swatted the burger out of the hedgehog's hands.

"What was that for?" Shadow tried not to yell.

"There's poison in that burger!" Knuckles said, showing him the 'pepper' shaker.

Shadow looked at Knuckles with wide eyes. That echidna just saved his life. He looked back at the burger on the ground and cringed. He looked back at Knuckles. "Thank you..."

'This date isn't going the way I planned it to...' Knuckles thought, but he still smiled at Shadow. 'He'll never want to be my boyfriend now...'

Knuckles stood up and grabbed Shadow's hand gently. "Let's go see that movie now."

Shadow nodded and was lead by Knuckles back to the beach near Sonic's house. A romantic setup was arranged there. A white screen was in front of two chairs that had comfortable pillows on them. A small table was in between them with two sodas and one bag of popcorn. A projector was setup with Tails putting in a movie. He smiled over at the two, and Amy walked towards them.

"Aw, you two look so cute!" She smiled. "How was the food?"

"Poison." Shadow said simply. Knuckles frowned.

Amy's smiled faltered a bit, but quickly returned as she lead the two to their seats. "If you two need anything we will be in Sonic's house. Enjoy!"

Amy and Tails both left the two alone. They walked into Sonic's house, but quickly ran to the window, Amy with binoculars and Tails with a machine he made to help with hearing what they say. They both wanted to know what will happen. Meanwhile, Sonic was sitting on his couch, staring at his two friends. He honestly didn't trust Shadow, but there was nothing he could do about it. Even Sticks didn't believe him. He sighed and looked back at the TV, which stopped working. 'This just isn't my day...'

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Knuckles glanced at Shadow every now and then to see if he was enjoying the movie. Shadow just had the same emotionless look every time. Knuckles started to get nervous. All of what happened today could really cause Shadow to not like him. He looked down sadly. He lost his one chance. He blew it.

He sighed. 'Might as well ask him...'

"Uh... Shadow?"

Shadow looked over towards him, his ruby eyes seeming to glow.

"I, uh, know this day hasn't been the best, but would you please do me the honor of being... my boyfriend?"

Oh, how much the ebony one wanted to decline, but his plan brought him to nod and say, "Yes."

"Really!?" Knuckles smiled wide as Shadow nodded.

Meanwhile, Amy was squealing and Tails smiled. "He said yes!"

Sonic groaned. 'I have to see more of this...?'