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"Man, so it really has been twenty years." Sonic felt old as he looked through his book of awesome achievements. A.K.A. His scrapbook.
In this book had page after page of photos from over the years and when you have twenty years of history with more than enough memories over those years, your scrapbook can get pretty big and that's how the Blue Blur's was. From saving the small South Island to saving the entire planet. Today he celebrated his large milestone with all his friends, and with help from the Time Eater, he was able to live through some of it again. However, it a lot easier and relaxing to just look at the history from the comfort of a couch in Tails' workshop.
Looking through most of these photos, he realized he had never really looked back the beginning of the photo album. The first page had a worn newspaper article. It had a picture of him and a few of the animals he had saved with them as the cover story with the headline, 'SOUTH ISLAND'S SAVIOUR'.
Sonic never thought that any of this would happened when he was younger. He only wanted to save his friends, not expecting to travel all over the world, defeat literal gods and make new friends along the way after being on his own for most of his life.
"He or I... must've been really surprised to see what he's going to become in the future." He thought out loud.
"I'll say," a feminine voice said. Sonic look up from his nostalgia trip to see Amy Rose coming up to him and sitting down right beside him. Sonic's subconscious reaction was to move slightly away to keep the distance between them.
"There's still a party outside, you know? We can't blow out the candles without the birthday boy."
"Whatcha' doin'?" She knew about Sonic's boundaries, but still shamelessly attempted move her face closer to see what he was looking at. The blue hedgehog moved the scrapbook away from her vision swiftly, but when Amy pouted in annoyance at her crush, Sonic immediately replied with a "Kidding," and moved the book back to her and shared it between them.
"I was just looking at my scrapbook."
"Must have a lot of memories, huh," she got intensely curious just as she saw brief pictures of her hero's adventures with Tails' on what seem to be a chocolate covered mountain, while Sonic smiled happily.
"It's got everything, you have no idea how long it took me to make this."
'So creative!' Amy thought dreamily until she started to show a smirk on her face.
"Everything."
"Everything." He reassured confidently.
"So does that mean that even I'm in there..." Amy said trying to be cute, "Can I see?"
He groaned loudly. Sonic as usual saw through her stunt and slowly replied. "Sure..." He handed the book over reluctantly without even looking at her, but regardless the girl squealed in short term happiness, bouncing on the couch until she made herself comfortable as she started to look at the scrapbook from the beginning. Sonic was bored, his nostalgia trip put on hold as he rested his elbow on the chair rest, he started to get up and leave to get back to his party until he heard a girly scream come from Amy, causing him to pause.
"Oh my gosh I didn't know you used to wear a onesie."
This invasion of privacy was noted by Sonic as he urgently put his sonic speed to use and rapidly try and grabbed the book from Amy before she uncovered anything else embarrassing in his scrapbook. All the stupid things he did when he was younger were confidential. He tried to swipe it from her, but she immediately got up and held her grip on it, moving all the way to the other side of the couch, leaving Sonic to fall face first onto a soft pillow. 'Better than the ground,' he would say if wasn't humiliated.
Amy laughed hysterically as she flicked further at all the pictures of outfits Sonic wore in his 'Classic' years.
"Awww, Sonic you look so adorable."
"Hey! I only wore that, so Tails didn't feel self conscious," he barked back, remembering the days Tails was really shy.
"Give it back!"
"Or what?" She retorted back, reflecting his own cocky mannerisms. He then smirked at her sudden bravery, causing a short silence to come between them, until Sonic, again using his sonic speed to run out to the room, confusing Amy before she felt a light tap on her shoulder and looked in that direction, giving Sonic the opportunity to steal the book from her, however Amy cleverly knew his trick and gripped the scrapbook tighter, creating a tug of war between them. This went on for a few seconds until Sonic decided to put an end to this fight by letting go of the book, making the pink hedgehog think that she won.
Instead, he tried another tactic. Sonic raced behind her and start tickling her stomach through her red dress.
"HAHA... Sonic... HAHA.. Stop!"
"Not until you give it to me."
"Okay. Okay, just put me down." After that the whole workshop was filled with their laughter as Sonic soon enough let her go and they both started heaving to get their breath back. A silence soon kicked in, caused by their lack of communication about what just happened.
'Oh my gosh, I can't believe he just did that.'
'Oh my gosh, I can't believe I just did that.'
The silence was abruptly stopped when Sonic coughed and made both of them come back into reality.
"Here, I'll show you more of them," he said quickly as he went back to his seat. Amy couldn't hide her disappointment caused by the abrupt end to their 'could've been' romantic moment. This made Amy sit a fair margin away from Sonic.
He noticed this and thought, 'I'm probably going to regret this,' before closing the space between them. Sonic placed the book on her knees and put his arm around her to hold the other end of the book as well, making the two hedgehogs have no space between them, which caused her to blush for a moment until Sonic started to skim through the scrapbook from where she left off.
Amy then smiled at the new images that were soon, nudging Sonic as if she was able to pass on her excitement onto him.
"Look its us the the racing tournament!" Sonic smiled at picture, the memories coming back to him. It had the whole gang - well the classic gang; Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy and even Eggman were all holding the golden trophy. He titled that image as Sonic R.
"Then there was all of us after saving Maginaryworld, then that kart racing tournament we all did together. AH! This book is just filled with memories, when it was just us four! I remember those were the days you used to call me Rosy."
"The rosiest rascal I've ever met." This comment earned Sonic a gasp and playful slap from Amy.
"I was not that bad." She defended, but Sonic just rolled his eyes at her.
"Yeah, at the beginning." This comment earned him a death glare and that was the look he saw before the hammer came out and so instantaneously replied with another "Kidding," which did make her stop glaring at him.
"Honestly, I thought you were cool."
"Seriously?..." Her voice going a pitch higher than normal.
"Of course, I mean, what other team of heroes has a girl with a large hammer." Now this comment made her shy away and blush whilst pushing back a loose piece of her pink quills in bashfulness.
"Well thanks..."
He turned to face her, their faces way to close for comfort, but he ignored that for now, "You know, looking back at all of our history... " His tone went quieter, "Together..." He then looked into her jade eyes that reflected his own emerald ones. He almost got lost in them, which created a very weird feeling in his stomach, but he decided to ask Tails for medical advice later.
"I'm really glad I saved you..."
"Really." Amy whispered, captivated with Sonic's simple reply of "Really."
Their faces felt like magnets as they were going even closer to one another, drawing themselves in...
SLAM... Was the sound the door made suddenly causing the freedom loving dude to realize what he was about to do and moved away from the couch and the girl sitting on it, hoping that whoever walked in hadn't caught them in a compromising position. Amy also jumped in shock causing Sonic's scrapbook to fall on the floor.
"Can guys stop messing around and get out here?" The one who said that was also the same person who opened the door with such brute strength, Knuckles who was angry due to the lack of cake in his system, not even bothered to question why these hedgehog have timid faces and what they could've been doing in the room alone.
The echidna specifically turned to Sonic and impatiently said, "We've been waiting for you for ages, those candles are not going to blow out themselves!"
"Yeah, Yeah, I'm comin'." The birthday boy said calmly with a wave of his hand, signalling the echidna to chill out. The boys went outside leaving the pink hedgehog alone.
'He walked out the door as if nothing happened,' Amy thought sadly and sighed with her head falling backwards and resting on the soft head of the couch.
"I was so close!" She whined at the fact she missed the chance of having her first kiss again for the millionth time.
"Amy, you comin'," Sonic peered his head through the door to see Amy still in the same spot, showing a blank expression on her face. "I can't blow out my candles without my favourite girl." He winked.
"Thanks for the eighteen years."