CE: When you know what's rare

When you know what’s rare

“You know there’s always an easily available corsage at the closest local stores,”Amy stated patently as she fumbled with the feathery clip Sonic had just handed her.

Sonic shrugged absently, “Thanks really. I’ll keep that as a tip. Besides I didn’t want my gift to outshine your “so-lovely charms.”

“Why thank you,” beamed Amy ludicrously. Sonic tried not to roll his eyes. The girl’s lack of sense of sarcasm was exasperating but he smiled only politely in return. After all he had promised her this evening in the first place. He silently kept questioning himself ‘Why?’

He was now shaking his arm repetitively, where the yellow charm was banded with a thin coil of a charcoal thread around his arm. Sonic would NEVER agree to any piece of ostentation but then it was much better than a bracelet and Amy’s hammer… So. Suddenly Amy interrupted his train of thoughts.

“Umph-!”Amy breathed, “All done!” She said with clear satisfaction as the flamboyant clip was now neatly clutched to the border of her hair band, its silky feathers swaying in the slightest of breeze.

Sonic blinked at her. She looked much younger than him especially with a replica of her former fighting upgrade band. So many memories from the colony ark….

“So where to?” said Amy abruptly, staring at him like one would at the sun to see what time of the day it is.

“Alrighty!” Sonic exhaled as he stretched his stiff legs. Man, he needed a run and a long one at that.

“So where to?” he reiterated lazily at Amy as he did the same stretches with his arms as he was preparing for the gun fire before a race. Amy glowered at him as a vein popped on her damp forehead, feeling her previous comment completely ignored.

It was hot despite autumn being just around the corner. The sun felt oddly close and huge today, blindly staring on top of Station Square like a merciless tyrant. A few pedestrians were making their way hastily through the streets holding shady parasols or cool water bottles. Most of the shops were closed as people preferred to beat the heat with their air conditioners, comfy at home. Amy licked her dry lips as she looked around.

Sonic felt the first pangs of his uneasiness, as perspiration made its way down his temples. He was really hoping for a joyous response like “-to Twinkle Park, my date!” but all that came out was an abrupt “oh-”

“You mean you didn’t prepare before hand”, Amy darkened. Sonic flinched, “Well I thought you’d have something in mind you’d like to do, you know-” he fidgeted with his charm absently feeling her eyes boring into him.

“Perhaps Sonic. But it would really help if you would be a little serious about these little promenades.” She sighed.

“After all, this is all the time I get to spend with you since Eggman strengthened his base a few weeks ago. And I know you’ll be needed undoubtly at the front lines as usual…”
She made no attempt to hide the bitterness in her tone.

Okay this is awkward, Sonic thought as a never ending silence stood between them.

“Whatever, I was preoccupied with this before,” said Amy, as she groped blindly in her purse and retrieved a small chocolate brown box.

Sonics nerves stiffened, “Err….Amy look I can explain-” But Amy cut his protests off. “Last week” she breathed if talking of some event a thousand years ago. Little beads of perspiration felled on the ground much quicker than before as Sonic fidgeted around ….his conscious echoes…should have never agreed to this.

He repeated again what Amy failed to hear before “Look Amy I can explain-”
“What for?” Amy asked plainly as the box clicked open to reveal a heap of murky, wrinkled lavender petals.

Sonic stared at them like they contained the answers of the universe. He stared at Amy like he had been bitten. “But I thought-”-

“That I was gonna propose again? Oh please! Like I’d try to, with you so nervous right now, you look like you’re gonna faint-” Amy snickered mischievously.

Now it was Sonic’s turn to be baffled. “No, its just I didn’t think you could buy a ring that big!” He tried to cover up his embarrassment.

“Oh really? Sonic you’re a terrible liar. Did you intentionally want to sound that lame.” He grimaced as she raised an eyebrow at him.
“Err-no it was just plain observance” Sonic countered uneasily, feeling trapped in a hole of his own.
“Besides my entire annual pay won’t do it.” She giggled “but that isn’t the point idiot!”

Suddenly she softened at the sight of the petals which she was stroking delicately. Sonic stared at the wrinkled mass of the once beautiful lavender rose.

Amy trailed on if speaking to herself, “I watered it…vased it…kept it safe, but the breeze just made all the petals wither off…I’m sorry” Her eyes were downcast.

Sonic replied automatically as if on cue, “Sorry for what?”
“For ruining it,” Amy sniffed as she poked the charred, the withered petals. “It was one rare gift-”
At that Sonic couldn’t help but chuckle, eyes closed lightly.

“What’s so funny?!” demanded Amy.

The box shut with a clattering click. Sonic ignored the hostility in her voice and grabbed her free wrist. And before Amy could comprehend what just happened, she was rocketing off, ten miles east, away from the centre of Station Square. Onlookers gave them startled expressions as they cut through the small crowd assembled there at their former antics.

“SONIC THE HEDGHEOG!” she panted, “Have you been listening to a word I said?!” Amy blazed with fury as the wind cut through her face like a wild torrent.
But Sonic kept dragging her to the far side of a clearing in the heart of some wilderness. Amy panicked as her surroundings sank in.
She dug the heels of her long boots in the dirt abruptly, she was so tired from the run and angry, it was hard enough to chase Sonic all day but to be dragged by him at ear splitting speed?

This apparently made Sonic loose his balance and they both tumbled unceremoniously to the edge of the clearing.

Amy quickly got up and dusted the hem of her red dress indignantly and said with an indistinct edge in her voice “Have you been listening to a word I said?!”

“Yes I was quite frankly...” Sonic mused as he felt a newly acquired bump on his head with his hand. “But I doubt I’ll remember now.” He grinned heartily like a little child.

Amy stifled a sigh and… was that a giggle? Sonic thought. She took in her surroundings. The clear, apple green field, stretching on all four directions, had no sign of urbanization for miles. The sky was a faint pink and orange as crimson clouds floated slowly through it as cream would through a viscous soup. A creamy wisp of yellow spread it self here and there like the remnants of a rocket trail. The air was humid yet bearable. A few trees stood scattered among the smooth low hills. The place was as deserted like an old cavern yet had a warm feel to it. Amy closed her eyes with a smile as the wind kissed her lightly.

She was still taking in her picturesque surroundings when Sonic suddenly rushed by her side and she found her self drifting lightly to the heart of the field.

There in the middle of the entire wilderness, was a clear patch of them, nothing but fresh untouched lavender roses. The delicate petals swayed, glistening with fresh dew drops while the new one silently waited to bloom.

Amy was bewildered as Sonic stood awkwardly at the side of the patch as you would with a company of unknown people. His eyes were darting between her and the little garden, obviously waiting for her reply but she was dumb struck. What could you say to a person in a situation like this? So she just smiled affectionately as she caressed a rose at its centre.

As if regaining his former confident self, Sonic said comically, “Rare, aren’t they?”

He placed one hand lightly on her shoulder while the other pointed at the field of endless lavender, small heads bobbing in the breeze, stretching for miles and miles across.
Amy could only nod in silent contentment as the rose’s name sake flashed through her mind. She smiled earnestly, the outlines of a subtle blush rising on her cheeks.


Note: This takes place exactly after “Sonic X season ending” where Sonic hands Amy single lavender rose. Name sake of lavender rose is love at first sight.



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