Chapter Text
The birds were chirping on the morning of an easy, sunny Saturday. The sun beamed through the Workshop's curtained windows and lit up the dim room, the sun's gaze slowly moving through the hours until the beam of light flows onto Tails' eyes, waking him up slowly. He groaned as he shielded his eyes from the sun, he sat up and looked around... Oh. He's woken up again on the floor, working till late hours again? He can't even remember it.
"Shit." He mumbled, rubbing his eyes.
He got up from the floor and stumbled over to his bathroom, closing the door behind him and leaning his weight against the sink. He looked terrible, staying up till 4AM that night before passing out. Vanilla is definitely going to lecture him about this again. He stared at his reflecting for a bit before rubbing his face and fixing his tired face by getting into the shower. He turned the hot water on and stepped in, washing the grease and sweat out of his fur after days of work on this new invention of his. After a few minutes he got out and dried himself off, rubbing the towel over his body roughly to make himself look like a fluffball, chuckling at his own reflection in the mirror.
"There we go, all fresh I guess." He said to himself, combing his fur down.
He went to his wardrobe near his bed and put on his labcoat and put his glasses into his pocket. Ready to start his day by leaving the workshop and walking up the garden towards the house's sliding glass door that leads into the kitchen. He slid it open and is hit with a waft of waffles and other pastries, Vanilla and Amy are working on breakfast as Cream and Charmy are mixing batter for the cupcakes. He smiled, everyone was staying round the house this week then.
"Tails! Good morning dear." Vanilla said softly, turning to him with a bowl and mixer in her hand, slowly mixing the waffle batter.
"Morning Vanilla." Tails said nicely, waving to her and Amy.
"Hey Tails!!" Amy said excitedly. "We are making a special breakfast today! Since you and Sonic destroyed that DoomsDay device Eggman made!"
"Wow- Um.. there was no need Amy-!" Tails stuttered, suprised at this revelation.
"No no! You single- well, double-handedly- saved us all!" She grinned.
Tails laughed, Maybe he deserved it, afterall! Him and Sonic did save the world the other day. He looked at Cream and Charmy mix the batter bowl, he watched Cream mix for a few minutes. She looked up at him eventually, her face beaming as she finished the batter. She looked away to go give the batter to Amy.
"Here you go Miss Amy!" She chirped happily, handing the bowl over.
"Thanks Cream! This is great!" Amy smiled, taking it from her hands.
Tails just, kind of started to stare at Cream just go about and do her thing. He didn't know what got into him but he... couldn't rip his eyes away from HER. Obviously, he forced himself to focus up as he couldn't let anybody notice this staring bullshit. He looked away and went to go help put the waffles onto a plate to place onto the table.
"Mr Prower! Sorry, morning! I forgot to say anything!" Cream gasped, looking up from her pastry work.
Tails turned around to Cream, confused. "Don't call me Mr Prower, It makes me feel old! It's Tails." Tails laughed.
"Oop-! Sorry Tails!" Cream giggled.
"Don't worry about it." Tails shook his head, grinning broadly.
They both smiled as they looked at each other, finding this amusing in every way. Charmy looked at them both with a confused manner, squinting his eyes suspiciously. Amy watched this too, Vanilla smiling to herself as she just mixed the batter and lathered it on the pancake maker. Amy turned away to do something else like prepare the coffee. Tails and Cream eventually looked away from each other, both slightly embarrassed now as everyone just watched them stare at each other.
"...Okidokie." Tails muttered, grabbing a waffle from the massive pile on the plate.
"Mm..." Cream mumbled to herself, going to the cupboard to grab plates.
15 MINUTES LATER...
Everybody sat down at the breakfast table, all looking at the yummy food they're all being served right now. Tails came into the kitchen after going upstairs to get Tangle from her nap, the only chair left (not the empty chair next to Whisper that Tangle definetly wanted to sit in) was next to Cream. That, in his opinion, made it awkward now. He shuffled over and sat down awkwardly before everyone livened up and started to chat. Cream and Tails sat there idly, just... staring at their food. Neither said a word, neither even moved to do anything. What even was going on in their heads?
Tails was sweating, he didn't want to embarrass himself infront of her- but why? why did he feel this way randomly infront of Cream? Why did he just notice her differently? She was just a friend to him correct? He just wanted to be friends with her and thats all there is to it! While Cream was also reflecting in her head, she's spent countless hours with Charmy and she hadn't fell for him- Well he isn't exactly romantical or fall-worthy but that's besides the point. She didn't know why she randomly felt weird around Tails, like trying to act cool around him, be smart, not embarrass herself around him. What was this feeling they were feeling? Tails eventually moved his hand to go grab himself a waffle... and nudged the plate to her.
"Hungry?" He mumbled, not looking at her exactly.
"Oh- Yeah, um.. thanks Tails." Cream laughed nervously.
"Yeah.. your welcome." Tails said, he just... ate. He didn't know what else to do right now.
Cream and Tails just ate in awkward silence. No idea what to do now, too awkward to even speak or socialise with others around the table. It was dead awkward. What to do? They both didn't want to seem awkward to the other person. After breakfast, what was worse is that they were both put on washing up duty together. So Tails dried the dishes and Cream washed the dishes, in PURE. SILENCE. They both stare at their work and don't even speak. Eventually, when they were both done Cream went to go leave before stopping at the door.
"Tails." She mumbled.
Tails looked up from the drying, looking at the back of her head.
"Yeah?" He said, puzzled.
"Sorry." Cream muttered to herself. "I'm being so stupid, i'm being a bad friend."
"Huh? What do you mean Cream!?" Tails said suprised, what was she talking about?
"I haven't talked to you all day basically, I don't know what got into me."
"It's okay! Don't worry about it Cream!" Tails said hastily, trying to salvage the situation.
"You mean it?" She asked, flatly.
"Yeah, of course. We are best friends ok? Don't doubt it."
"Okay, thats good then. I'll see you tommorow Tails." She said, before going to the front door to see her mom and The Chaotix. She happily greeted them before turning around to see Tails at the front door, and she waved at him before they all went to their planned day out. Sonic appeared at Tails' shoulder.
"Hey bud, whatcha smiling at?" He asked, almost knowingly.
"Nothing- don't worry about it."
"Right, of course Tails. Well anyway lets go plan for the next Eggman invasion or whatever." Sonic laughed.
"Sure! Let's go."
(To be continued next chapter!)