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It was promptly 11:25 PM. Wind howled along the streets, light-post flickered on and off, and cars drove by. The dead of night where all should have been asleep already.
But who really needs a bedtime if it’s a secret sleepover?
A havoc of button mashing, character catch-phrases yelling, and groans from one kid while another cries in glee could be heard inside a living room.
Tails sat crisscrossed with a controller in his hands, a confinement and cocky smirk on his face as his eyes narrowed in pristine focus.
Besides him was Charmy, the exact opposite of the fox next to him. The bee’s face was one of frustration and uncontrollable annoyance he couldn’t hide. His own hands mangling around the buttons of his own controller, yet he found no victory.
The tv screen in front of them shinned brightly a “PLAYER 2 WINS!” and Charmy groaned the loudest he had groaned that night, throwing his controller off to the side and falling on his back in defeat. Meanwhile Tails celebrated his 12th victory of the night proudly with a stunning Woo-Hoo.
“It’s no fair! You cheated!” Charmy yelled out to his friend, pointing an accusing finger at the fox. Tails only raised an eyebrow and smiled more widely.
“If you think me making calculated decisions for a video game character is cheating, then you wouldn’t stand a chance in an online lobby.” The fox replied back, taking out the game to put back on the shelf. “Whatever” the grumpy bee grumbled back, rolling onto his chest and looking up at the couch. There sat another kid.
Cream
The rabbit had been there the whole night, watching them go at it back and forth. She hadn’t expected herself being convinced by them to sneak out and come with them back to “Sonic’s house” hours ago. The rabbit had felt guilty at the idea, but still came along. She hadn’t regretted it now.
Cream looked down at Charmy, thinking of something to say “So, what are you guys gonna do now?” She asked
curiously.
“I dunno” the insect mobian replied bluntly, looking over to the side to watch Tails contemplate what other game they’re gonna play. Still feeling salty about the losses.
The bunny mobian looked over to the side for a second, thinking to herself before prompting Charmy to come sit on the sofa with her. The bumblebee tilted his head slightly, confused, but followed her actions.
Charmy sat onto the couch right next to Cream, and the girl leaned in to whisper something in his ear. The boy listened and gasped at first, before growing a mischievous grin and looking back at Tails. “HEY TAILS!” The bee yelled, and the fox winced. Turning his head quickly and shooting the bee a quick look, Miles asked “What is it, Charmy?”
The insect motioned for the tod to come right up on the couch to talk, and Tails stopped what he was doing to do so.
When he was on the couch, the other boy leaned in and whispered the same thing that Cream had whispered in his. Tails’ expression of suspicion had vastly changed to one of surprise, a fainting pink playing onto his white cheeks.
“R-Relationships? We’ve never discussed that before!” Tails whisper-yelled, voice strained, and Charmy’s grin grew.
“I know! Now is the best time ain’t it!” The pollinator said excitedly, Cream looked at Tails from behind Charmy. A shy, little smile on her face as she nodded to him.
“Hmmmm, well it isn’t exactly a bad idea.” The Vulpus Vulpus talked condescendingly, halfly agreeing with the idea yet not fully going against it.
“Alright! Where should we start?” The bee looked side to side from each of his friends, wanting ideas fast.
“Uh, well. Maybe we could start with my mom and Mr. Vector?” Cream put out there and the bee besides her immediately accepted. “Yeah! Let’s start from there!”
Soon enough the three of them were chatting amongst themselves. “It’s so obvious that Vector likes Vanilla, like, too obviously” Tails said to the two of them, Charmy responded back “Yeah! And it’s a shock that Vanilla doesn’t notice! How obvious can he be!”, “Oh, well my mom isn’t the most observant to say…” Cream butted in, looking the other way and scratching the back of her head. A bit embarrassed about her mother’s obliviousness.
“Oh don’t worry too about it, Cream” Tails said to the flustered rabbit. “I’m sure your mom will notice one day”
“Yeah, like in a million years” Charmy said under his breath and Miles hissed at him. “Charmy” the fox grunted through his teeth. “What? I’m just stating the obvious facts!”
“Oh it’s alright guys, I’m sure one day my mommy will notice Mr. Vector. We’ll just have to wait.” Cream said to the both of ‘em, not feeling offended at all by Charmy’s behavior.
The hours went by, and the kids talked and talked and talked for an eternity. Discussing different relationships and what they thought about them. Like Sonic’s and Amy’s relationship, which they found a bit concerning but hopeful. Knuckles’ Rouge’s relationship, in which was a bit tough for the kids to fully grasp. Not knowing if they did like each other or if it was just a tease game for the bat while the echidna protected the Mastered Emerald obvious to it. But the three of them settled that it was just one of those things you couldn’t put a pin on.
Thought relationship talking soon became more, like how many people can be in a relationship together?
“Well, I think only two people could be in a relationship together.” Cream said, finding the concept of more than two people in a relationship a bit confusing. But she never said anything negative about it otherwise. “Eh, actually Cream. Lots of studies show that it is possible to have more than two people in a relationship. I believe it is called a polyamorous relationship?” Tails calmly argued against Cream’s uncertain statement, giving some of his information on it. “Like there can be three people in a relationship, called a throuple! Or four people called a quad relationship! Or a-“
“How do they kiss?” Charmy blurted out, stunning Tails and Cream for a quick moment.
The genius fox opened his mouth to say something before closing, opening it again only to close it once more. The question stumped him
The rabbit on the other side had only tilted her own head, thinking deeply to herself. She may not understand much on MORE open relationships, but she certainly knew that kisses were important to any relationship. No matter what.
So how do more than two people in a relationship kiss?
Finally, Charmy came up with an answer. Not a very convinced answer, but an answer. “Maybe…maybe they do it at a time?” He spoke. Both Tails and Cream looked at him, taking in his suggestion. “Well that would be the most plausible explanation.” The fox replied, “Yeah, I suppose too.” The rabbit followed behind with her own voice.
It went silent for a while, a rather awkward silence. Then Charmy came in to break it. “Well…we really wouldn’t know for true without seeing it for ourselves, right?” The insect looked back at his friends, his voice quiet and unsure. Tails gulped and answered “Well, that would be true. But where would we be able to see it now?”
“What if we do it ourselves?” Cream had said, meant to be to herself but had said out loud.
“WHAT!?” Both Charmy and Tails screamed in utter disbelief! Not expecting to have heard that come from Cream at all!
Meanwhile Cream had just gotten herself to look exactly like a tomato, where covered her face with her ears as she blabbled on with a pasty apology. But then, Charmy took in her idea. Surprising both Cream and Tails.
“We can try it at least once, right guys? We are friends after all, and friends do things together to prove things. Right?” The bee said convincingly and curious, glancing back at his most trusted companions. Tails glanced away for a second and Cream thought silently.
“Alright, we can do this. But we must never speak about it again, alright?” The tod now said. “Yeah, never speak of this again!” The bee said himself. The two boys looked at Cream to see if she agreed too. And quietly and cautiously, the rabbit replied “Yeah…just this once, that’s it” She smiled smally at her friends.
Taking in deep breaths, they prepared for their experiment. Nerves shaking and emotions tingling. Charmy decided to lean over to Cream first, and Cream leaned forward to meet him. Their lips pressed against each other tig before they quickly pulled away, faces painted in blush. Tails had watched the scene with nervous anticipation, finding it extremely weird that his two tails began wagging at the moment Charmy and Cream kissed. Yet he didn’t speak about it. Soon enough now the bee was coming in to lean at him, Tails’ muzzle scrunched at first before he just decided to get it over with and just as quickly as the bee’s and the rabbit’s kiss, the fox and insect’s lips only met for a few seconds before departing. Catching his breath, Tails looked at Cream and Cream looked at Tails, and leaned in at each other. Repeating the quickness of the other kisses they got from the bee.
After their little kissing experiment, they didn’t say much for a good minute. Until Cream broke the silence “Well…that wasn’t the most terrible thing we’ve done.” Charmy swished his head over to her “Yeah, you’re right. It is the most terrible, actually! It might be the most interesting thing we’ve ever done! Maybe we should do it more!” The bee said gleefully, wrapping his arms around both the bunny and fox and pulling them in for a close hug.
Tails’ face grew a faint red, his voice stammering “C-Charmy! We s-said we were o-only going to d-do i-it once! AND ONLY ONCE!” The fox flusteredly yelled out as he squirmed in Charmy’s grip.
Meanwhile Cream stayed silent, her eyes wide as she thought about the idea. Having her own faint pink on her cheeks that matched Tails’.
“Well, who knows what the future has for us in store. Maybe Sonic will finally accept Amy as his love, maybe we will find out if Knuckles and Rouge are in a relationship, and maybe we will be given the opportunity to kiss one another more often!” The bee exclaimed teasingly yet excitedly.
“CHARMY!” Tails screamed for the last time that night.
The End