• I sat there the music blaring in my ears the music was appropriate for the moment Next contestant by nickel back. I turn my head looking at Cream her eyes staring at the drink and burger in front of her hands poking at a fry that didn’t look very edible. My hands sat comfortably around a cup of coffee the other grasping the handle of the 44. Shepard in my lap the gun hidden from sight by my two tails.

    Tails now that’s a name I hadn’t gone by in a long time the name seemed foreign to me now I now went by Miles. Cream on the other hand kept her name but not her life it all fell apart ten years ago on that faithful day I learned nothing can be perfect. Some people don’t recognize us anymore since we changed.

    I dawned a pair of dark blue jeans, boots, Black studded knuckle gloves, a black bulletproof vest and a forest green canvas jacket Well cant forget my glasses the nice red o shaped specs that kept the sun out my eyes. I was no longer the lovable fox everyone knew years ago that died along with sonic. Cream’s child days ended with the death of her mother.

    Yes she is dead to Cream changed for the unexpected she dawned a high denim skirt, brown high boots, and oh that deep brown halter top. I watched her quietly as she finally got around to eating I saw the looks the others were giving her and I planned to soon avert them if one stepped up.

    Oh one did sitting next to her he didn’t see the glance to back off, that was his mistake. I saw the words form on his mouth, I listened to them pour out smoothly and without care, boy was he in for a surprise. He reached his arm around her and he grasped something cold it wasn’t her shoulder but the blade of a knife.

    The screaming that poured out him was like all the others surprised maybe no just scared. He was gone in moments long off to the hospital I patted Cream’s shoulder the signal to move standing I set a few dollars on the bar and walked out with cream. I put up my collar, the cloth staying easily in position hiding my muzzle from the sand in the wind.

    Cream opened the passenger side buckling up and soon we were on the road in our once more stolen vehicle. I turned looking at her and pat her leg her eyes staring down at her feet it was sad what happened to her all those years ago. I can still remember it easily it was the day happiness ended in tragedy.

    /Ten Years Ago/

    “Sonic come on!” I screamed leaning back on the tornado Sonic munching on a chilidog as he stood and walked out the shade. “okay tails keep calm” he said patting my head I smiled up at him. I remember the look on his face as we once again were on the move so happy, carefree, so invincible.

    We happened to stop at a broken down car I was told to offer the poor cat some assistance. He seemed like a nice guy he and sonic were talking quietly. But soon I heard Sonic’s voice raise he was telling him something he didn’t like I saw sonic jump for me then the thud of his body against the road lifeless and cold.

    He held the gun as if it was nothing the 44. Shepard that glinted so deadly in the sunlight. I sat there on my knees on the hot street my knees burned and skinned as I shook my hero’s body. The man looking at me as if it was nothing I soon stood and looked at him with my tear stained face my wide eyes scared but devastated. He raised the gun again and fired the bullet met nothing but the sky as my hand wrapped around the weapon.



    We struggled and fired all but one of the six in the chambers finally the last shot fired this one into his foot he screamed as he brought his knee into my chin I crumbled from the blow. He looked at me then cursed I had hit a vessel and if he stayed to finish me he would of never made it back to town. He stole the tornado and left me to fry in the sun.

    I dragged myself back to that station and help was called I remember waking up in the hospital everyone crowded around me the words I uttered shocked everyone more then the news that sonic was dead “******** off” was all I cared enough to say to them all. Cream didn’t leave she stood there watching me talking to me even when I wouldn’t respond.

    I didn’t have the strength to tell her how I truly felt before sonic’s death and I still didn’t I felt so useless… Till the next week. Cream said I could stay with her I agreed since I didn’t have the strength to care for myself at the time. She opened the door smiling and It ended in a scream the vision of her decapitated mother burned into her brain forever.

    /Present Time/

    I awoke in a cold sweat the white crest of fur on my chest glowing in the moonlight burning its way through the window. I turned my head slowly looking at cream’s sleeping form next to me, the girl slept like a rock I had to admit that much. I slipped out of the bed not wanting to wake her and slinked into the bathroom. I stared into the window my face burned with the signs of another sleepless night.

    I returned to the room and looked at her, the girl I loved those ten years ago was grown up along with me but yet the truth had stayed a secret. I hadn’t been able to tell her about the crush I had on her but for now it was for the best. Cream hadn’t been able to sleep alone since her mothers death nightmares stained her sleep if someone wasn’t there to hold her.

    I didn’t mind it was as close as I could get to her without me revealing how I felt for her. She had gotten used to me sleeping bare-chested and I didn’t mind her awkward glances in the beginning I guess when your eight and six years old its different from when your eighteen and sixteen. It wouldn’t be morning anytime soon and we weren’t planning on leaving for another few days so I laid back next to her.

    She turned looking at me with those eyes silent messages passing from them and I just answer with a nod. She knew I had the nightmares and she had the version with her mother we were alike in a way I guess. Both broken without a place to go all of those we called friends had gotten on with their lives and only get a call from us once or twice a month. I sighed and held her in my arms a act that was just friendly between us resting our heads back down we soon drifted off to sleep. We were on the Brink of finding him we knew it, he had to be nearby.