Work Text:
“SHE SAID NO!”
Sonic had fallen to his knees, clutching onto Tails who was now patting his head in awkward sympathy.
(A little grossed out his friend was getting snot all over his knee…)
“Wha- How…? She? Said no? to YOU?” This did not compute in Tails’ brain, according to all calculations of everything ever in the universe, this should have been the perfect proposal! Even if it was the most unromantic day out ever of doing the most mediocre activities, Tails had no doubt in his mind Amy would accept being proposed to by the hedgehog she’d been chasing all these years. “What went wrong? Did she say anything else? What did you say?!”
“Well…” Sonic grossly sniffled, wiping his nose with the back of his glove. “It went like this…”
———
Sonic and Amy had tired themselves out from a long day of travelling around the local carnival, it only came annually and this year was the first that Amy wouldn’t be going with Cream (since Cream was old enough now to go without grown up supervision, she went with Tails the first day of the weekend), so Sonic got the chance to invite his girlfriend on a date for the final day the travelling carnival would be up (to which Amy happily accepted).
Sonic had won Amy many prizes, he was unnaturally skilled at each stall’s game. Amy dramatically ‘kyaa~’ing and ‘aww~’ing each time he would hand the adorable pink plushie prizes right to her as if she didn’t expect it.
The one game Amy herself excelled in above all however was the ‘Test your strength!’ hammer game, in which she made the bell at the top go flying. She picked out a huge prize with Sonic in mind, and with a puffed out chest gave it to him with pride. He had no choice but to accept.
(Maybe it charmed him a little bit, but he’d never admit it aloud).
They regretted not getting food first because after going through nearly every stall, their bags and hands were filled to the brim, every so often dropping little plushies and having to bend down to get it, more fall, they have to quickly gather their bearings in the middle of the walkway and apologise to people walking around them.
But it was a carnival! So they had to at least get cotton candy, it felt wrong not to.
After much struggle, with aching feet they stumbled onto a bench.
Now they were far enough from the carnival they could hear each other no problem, but close enough to still have the distant music and colourful lights and rides still in sight.
They slumped all their bags onto the grass beneath them, not bothering to pick up the ones that tumbled to the side for now.
Amy was the first to speak up.
“Sooo did you have fun?! I sure diiid~” she slumped over onto his shoulder with a giddy smile across her face. Sonic crossed his arms.
“I guess I did.” Sonic had to stop himself from laughing as Amy sat up and pouted. The word ‘Adorable’ came to his mind.
“Hmph!” She gave a playful whack to his arm “You had fun and you know it, jerk!”
A leaf from the trees above had fallen into Amy’s quills, Sonic wordlessly and tenderly reached to dust it off her. Amy’s brain seemed to have short circuited from the small gesture, her face reddening and she turned away, embarrassed to face him.
Sonic took this opportunity to slide off the bench and knelt on one knee on the grass.
“You know Amy… I haven’t been entirely honest with you” Sonic rummaged around in his backpack, what he wanted was buried underneath a horde of plushies.
“Hm?” Amy turned back around confused, now seeing Sonic kneeling by her side.
“I invited you out today not only to have an amazing date together…” Sonic pulled out a small red box.
“Sonic…!” Amy’s hands shot up from the bench, her hands now covering her mouth in shock, she knew this position anywhere!
“I’ve been wanting the perfect excuse to ask you, Amy Rose,”
He revealed the contents of the ring box to her.
“Will you marry me?”
———
“AND THEN SHE SAID NO! AND RAN OFF AFTER YELLING AT ME!”
Sonic’s dramatic sobs had started up all over again.
“But… that sounds so up her alley?! She’s been wanting to get married since we were just kids!”
“That’s what I thought…”
Tails hmm’d and err’d to himself.
“Could i see the ring? if you don’t mind”
“Sure… I don’t know what’d change if i went for another but whatever…” Sonic handed the box up to him, slumped over in full defeat.
Tails examined the box, a nice deep red colour with a velvety texture.
He then opened it.
“…”
“… …”
“… … …”
“Sonic.”
“Mm?”
“You can’t be serious.”
Tails couldn’t believe his eyes. Inside the box there was a ring alright. A disgusting mustard yellow colour as the base, with the ‘gem’ being a mini carved diamond encrusted chilli dog.
A CHILLI DOG RING.
“Forgive my language Sonic but WHAT THE HELL DID YOU THINK WAS GONNA BE HER RESPONSE?!”
“W-What’s wrong with it?!”
“ ‘What’s wro-‘ EVERYTHING!!! where on earth did you buy something like this? who made this? why was it made?” Tails blurted out and stuttered rambles, degrading the blue hedgehog slumped beneath him for such a foolish and disgraceful choice in jewellery.
———
After a verbal beatdown from his Fox friend above, Sonic gathered his bearings and rose up. He wiped his face and in an instant was back to his regular self. He pulled out a black velvety box from… who knows where.
“Well, I guess it’s time to go do it for real. Ciao!” Sonic sped off, only a blue trail left behind to slowly dissipate, leaving Tails slack jawed and almost at a loss for words.
“You. You had a normal one the whole time?! Sonic! Sonic Amy’s gonna kill you! SONIC!!!”