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The door slowly starts creaking, waking Tails up with the suddenness of the sound. He slowly starts sitting up and turns to the clock.
Who in the world would wake him up at 4:00am? Assuming the only one psychotic enough to do that would be Shadow, he laid back down.
“Shadow, let me sleep longer.” He whined, throwing his blanket back on and closing his eyes. Footsteps started approaching his bed and he felt someone shake him.
“Tails! It’s me!” Sonic whispered, failing miserably.
Tails sat up. Sonic’s face looks droopy, he had eye bags under his eyes and his quills were a mess.
“Sonic? It’s 4am! Why are you up?”
Sonic let out a nervous smile. The blue hedgehog started walking out the door, signaling Tails to follow. Tails sighed. It was bad enough Shadow woke him up yesterday at 5am so he would fix the Dark Rider, but now Sonic is waking him up too? Ugh. Tails stood up from his bed and threw his soft blanket onto his sheets. Each step felt heavy. Slowly going downstairs, attempting not to wake up Shadow, Tails steps on something squishy. He looks down to see batter?
Oh no. Sonic is trying to cook isn’t he. Rushing down, Tails finds a burnt pancake stuck to the kitchen ceiling and a very frazzled Sonic attempting to turn off the stove.
“Are you kidding me? You know you can’t cook!” Tails knew he was supposed to be the kid but wow did he spend most of his time lecturing Sonic.
“I was trying to do something nice for Shads. He cooked for us all day yesterday, I wanted to make him something before he woke up.” Sonic’s voice sounded very distressed.Tails’s eye started twitching, he can not be serious.
“Please, Tails! Help me make something!” He pleaded.
“I think Shadow has a cookbook. But it’s probably in your room.” Tails pointed up the stairs.
“Right! Why didn’t I think of that? Tails you’re a genius!” Sonic rushed up the stairs and came back in a second with a red book covered with labels. “Okay now what?”
“I don’t know.” Tails shrugged. “What does Shadow like?”
“Uh… Shadow is pretty fancy so I wanted to try one of those, uh, european toasts?”
“You mean french toast?” Tails replied, it was too early for this.
“Yes, that!”
“I’ll tell you the instructions while I clean. I don’t think Shadow would be pleased with you having made a mess of the house.”
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The sweet smell of syrup filled the house. Shadow had just woken up, turning to his side to kiss Sonic. Except he wasn’t there. Did he oversleep? Shadow stood up and looked at the clock. Nope, it’s 5:05 am. Maybe Sonic had to go be a hero somewhere. He approached the bathroom and started applying a special cream to his face.
“SHIT!”
Shadow stopped his routine, worried something might’ve happened to Tails or Sonic. Teleporting into the kitchen in his bathrobe with splotches of cream in his face.
“SONIC! Is everything okay?” His face was full of worry, until he looked around and saw Sonic holding a frying pan.
“HEYYY SHADS!” Sonic exclaimed.
Shadow turned to Tails, looking for an answer.
“He burned his hand.” Tails replied before stuffing a a piece of french toast in his mouth.
“So this is why you’re not allowed to cook.” He looked to Sonic and gave a snarky grin.
“Hey! I made you a perfectly good breakfast!” Sonic shot back. “Nice look by the way. You look like you stuffed your head in a cake.”
A laughter comes out from behind him. The yellow fox’s tails twirling around in amusement.
“Oh you think this is amusing, fox?” Shadow gave a stern look at Tails, holding back the soft smile attempting to form in his face.
“What?? Nooo… You look great, Shadow!” Tails nodded aggressively, attempting to hide his laughter. Another laugh, even louder and much less gentle was heard. Sonic was laughing. Shadow rapidly grabbed a paper towel and dried his face. Attempting not to smile after looking at Sonic’s beautiful laugh, Shadow grabbed the french toast Tails was eating.
“Hey Shadow that’s mine get your own!” Tails whined before Shadow threw the breakfast onto Sonic’s face. His face was left with remains of the whipped cream and syrup. Tails laughed again, followed by a light chuckle from Shadow. Sonic looked at Shadow unamused until suddenly a smile crept up.
“Hey Shads, give me a hug…” Sonic started reaching to hug Shadow before he was stopped by Shadow's palm. “Oh come on don’t you wanna give me a hug?”
“Sonic no I just washed my quills last night. Don’t you dare come near me.” Shadow glared, his arms extended to avoid getting any closer.
“Well before this involves me I think i’ll get going to the workshop.” Tails grabbed another french toast and made his way out the door. With Shadow distracted, Sonic put whipped cream on his face.
“Gotcha!.” Sonic let out a laugh. “Now actually Shads, wanna taste your breakfast?” Sonic asked with a big dumb smile on his face. He had been working on it for the past 2 hours, well, hour, the previous attempt had failed miserably.
“You know what I think I do.” Shadow glanced behind him to make sure Tails was gone before pinning Sonic to the wall.
“WOW! SHADS, THAT'S UM… NOT WHAT I MEANT AT ALL.” Sonic could feel his voice slipping away, flustered by Shadow’s swift and aggressive action.
“Oh… it’s not?” Shadow slowed and softened his voice, taunting Sonic. “Then tell me, hedgehog. What is it that you meant?”
Sonic could feel his heart quicken. Months of dating and he still doesn’t get used to the heat that rushes up to his cheeks when Shadow speaks like that. Sonic took a soft breath to compose himself, looking up at Shadow with a grin.
“Shads, are you gonna keep running your mouth or are you gonna kiss me?” Sonic taunted. Shadow started leaning in but they were stopped upon hearing a creak.
“Hey, can I have another bite?”
Luckily the little fox still hadn’t fully opened the door.
“It’s Tails, get off of me. Quick!” Sonic shoved Shadow aside and turned to the sink, pretending to wash the dishes. Shadow rapidly sat down and opened his cookbook, pretending to be immersed in reading something interesting.
“Why are you guys so red?” Tails pointed awkwardly at Shadow, who was trying to hide his face with his book.
“Oh we um…” Sonic looked around trying to think of an excuse. “We just went for a morning run!”
Shadow facepalmed. There was no way Tails would fall for that. How would they have gone for a run in the 2 seconds Tails was gone.
“Oh alright. Can i grab another piece?” Tails looked at Shadow.
But then again he was raised by Sonic.
“I think you should eat something healthier, there’s more strawberries in the fridge.” Shadow lifted his head up and pointed towards the fridge. Tails obediently grabbed some strawberries and went back to his workshop. Both Sonic and Shadow staring at Tails until he left the room.
“Phew.” Sonic let out a sigh. “We should go on a date.”
“A date?”
“Yea, i mean, we haven’t had alone time in a while and especially not since we moved in together.” Sonic replied.
“Who’d take care of Tails?” Shadow pointed with his thumb at the door that Tails had just exited.
“I don’t know but we got tons of friends! Well… I got tons of friends. But I'm sure we’ll find someone! Come on, Shads, pleaseee?” Sonic clasped his hands together in the form of a prayer and got closer to Shadow.
“Fine but I pick who watches over Tails and the house.”
“Deal!” Sonic exclaimed, leaping towards Shadow and landing a kiss on his cheek.