PART 2
Blaze awoke, sitting on the end of her bed, last night being all on her mind. She tried to ignore the feelings she had for Amy- keep it hidden from them, but now? There’s no way she could even try. “But how will I tell her? Was she just trying to be nice last night?” Blaze speaks to herself, resting her head in her hands as she thinks about what to do next. “Who can I even tell this? Who would keep this a secret?” She says, Amy being the one she would tell- the one she could trust with anything, but this time? Amy is the one she needs to keep the secret from. “…Does she know I’ve got feelings for her? Was it that obvious? Should I not have left the note? What if I go back and she doesn’t feel the same way? That entire encounter could’ve been platonic- Ugh, I’m overthinking this.” Blaze says to herself, taking a deep breath and leaving her quarters. “I…should simply try and visit them again. Amy will- hopefully- tell me if she has feeling for me…I hope.” Blaze continues, heading to the palace gardens and admiring the flowers. She sits down on the stone pathway, and plucks a single flower from the inbetween the grass. “Oh, sweet flower.” Blaze spoke, “You are so free. You shine your colours brightly, without fear or worry. You…” Blaze stops for a moment, lying the flower back onto the ground. She stands and sighs, “You remind me so much of her.” Blaze gathers her courage and begins to form a portal- she can’t hide her feelings, so she may aswell try and face them.
Meanwhile, Amy had just woken up. She rubs her eyes and turns to where Blaze once was; “…Huh?…Blaze?” She says as her vision begins to adjust, turning her head down towards the note Blaze left behind. Amy yawns and reaches for it, reading it to herself. “Amy. It seems we all fell asleep- likely during the movie- and I was the only one to awake. I have headed back to my dimension, but I had a lovely time here. I hope to see you all again. Love, Blaze.” Amy says quietly. “Oh.”, She says, heading over to the kitchen and placing it on the counter. “I had a lovely time too, Blaze.” Amy speaks, leaning over the kitchen counter and staring through the window at the dawning sun, a unique kind of flaming beauty unlike any other. It reminds her of Blaze. Amy raises her arms, stretching, and then walks back towards Sonic and Tails. She taps Sonic on the shoulder. “Uhm, Sonic?” She says politely. No response. “Oh, great.” Amy states in a tired voice. “Sooonicc! C'mon, wake up!” She yells, shaking Sonic until his eyes begin to open. “Phew. You’re up! Okay, so, we kinda all slept in. We completely fell asleep during the movie- Blaze went home a few hours ago.” Amy explains to Sonic, who groans as he gets up from the sofa. He runs around in a small circle a few times, becoming refreshed and energetic as ever afterwards. Tails climbed off the sofa soon after, yawning quietly and heading over to Sonic.
“Huh. Guess me and Tails should get going, then- I think he’s still a little tired.” Sonic says, turning to a sleepy and wobbling Tails who looks on the verge of falling asleep. “Yeah. He’s definitely still a bit tired.” Sonic says in a joking tone, placing Tails on his back and opening the door to leave. “Bye, Sonic! See you later!” Amy yells as she stands at the door, waving as Sonic runs back to his apartment. Amy closes her door and heads back to her kitchen to make breakfast- Meanwhile, a spark of flame flutters in the air and turns into an inferno as a portal appears, Blaze entering this dimension through it. She awkwardly stands next to a flower shop, walking in and looking through their selection calmly. “I…suppose roses would work well. I wonder- is there any pink ones here?” Blaze sorts through the flowers, until she eventually reaches the 'valentine’ section. “Oh dear…” She says, sighing as she sees the only pink roses in the valentine section, with a heart attached to the bouquet. “…This may be a bit too obvious.” Blaze continues, walking over to the valentine section and quietly grabbing a bouquet of pink roses. She brings them over to the counter, slightly embarrassed. “Could I have the heart removed? It seems a little…on the nose, I suppose.” She asks, the cashier replying “Sure.” as they remove the heart with a pair of scissors, but adding “However, if you wanna be discreet, I wouldn’t recommend going for a bouquet of pink roses. Kinda obvious in itself.” the cashier says jokingly. Blaze simply nods and takes her bouquet, making her way over to Amy’s house.
Eventually, she arrives at the door. She sits there for a minute straight (or not so straight), trying to gather her courage. “The worst she can say is no. The worst she can say is n-” Blaze had been repeating to herself, until the door cut her off as it opened, Amy standing behind it. “Hi, Blaze! Saw you standing there for awhile, you alright?” Amy asks. Blaze’s face turns red as she turns away, embarrassed. “Uhm, Yes. I’m alright. I was going to ask…If you’d like to maybe, if you have the time, come with me to the coffee shop not too far away from here? You don’t have to, bu-” Blaze replies awkwardly, being interrupted yet again, this time by Amy, “Blaze, that’d be great! It’s a date, then.” Amy states, overjoyed. Blaze blushes and turns to Amy, presenting her the flowers she bought. “I…yes, a date. That’d be great. I brought you these. Some flowers that reminded me of you.” Blaze spoke, shyly handing Amy the bouquet. “This is wonderful, Blaze. Thank you!” Amy continues, placing the bouquet in a nearby vase and walking out her door, grabbing both of Blaze’s hands and asking her, “So, when are we going?”. Blaze stuttered for a moment, as if she was trying to process everything that had just happened. “…Now?” Blaze says with a red face. “Great!” Amy replies, “I think I know the coffee shop you meant, aswell. 'The Myth’, right?” Amy continues as she runs down the street towards the shop while holding Blaze’s hand, Blaze nodding in reply. They walked into the shop, no longer holding hands as they sit down at a small table in the corner of the shop. “…What would you like to order?” Blaze asks, looking through the menu that was left on the table. “Hm…could get some coffee? I’ll go for a caramel frappuccino. What about you?” Amy replies, moving over to sit next to Blaze, looking at the menu with her. “Uhm…a frappuccino, aswell?” Blaze asks, confused at coffee terminology. “Okay! Should we get a frappucino to share, then? It’s just, pretty much, a large frappucino with two straws.” Amy says in response, Blaze awkwardly nodding in reply. “Sweet! I’ll go order, then.” Amy says as walks over to go and order, Blaze covers her face with the menu, thinking to herself. “This is really happening. This is actually happening.” She says to herself, panicking slightly. She takes a deep breath and sighs as Amy comes back to the table, lying her menu back down on the table. “Frappuccino’s gonna be ready in a minute. So, what’s it like in your dimension, Blaze?” Amy asks. Blaze is briefly surprised at the question, but then answers; “It's…alright. I do prefer it here, at times, with you- In, um, this dimension. But my dimension does have it’s beauty, and that I cherish. Why do you ask?” Blaze says, Amy replying soon after, “Because I like hearing about you. I like you.” She says calmly, “Frappuccino’s ready!” Amy continues as she walks over to the counter, the employee having yelled that the order is ready a moment ago. Blaze sits in thought while Amy gets the frappuccino, but she quickly returns and sits on the opposite side of the table, this time, placing the frappuccino on the table as she sits. Amy starts drinking the frappuccino, Blaze staring at her for a moment before she starts drinking it aswell. The day passes in a blink of the eye, and sooner than later, Blaze is walking Amy home from the coffee shop. They arrive at her house, and Blaze waves goodbye to Amy as she begins to make a portal home. “Goodbye! Love you!” Amy says as Blaze walks through the portal, Blaze heading to her chambers. Amy heads to her house and goes to bed, Blaze thinking about the words Amy said as she left- the entire day, she thinks about. They went on a date. An actual date. Amy even called it a date. “Wow. I think I’m in love with her.” Blaze says to herself as she collapses onto her bed, falling asleep soon after.Blaze woke up, climbing out of bed and preparing for her day- tending to the gardens, training to help master her powers, and then, heading back to her chambers, where she began to form a portal. This time, however, she was not anxious or worried, but completely ecstatic. Nearly overwhelmed with joy, lovestruck and still processing everything that happened last time she visited, Blaze headed through the portal, meanwhile Amy was in a small shop not too far from her house, a jewelry store, to be exact. Amy walked up to the cashier, and spoke, “Hi, I’m here to pick up my locket? I sent the emerald here to get it made awhile ago.” Amy said as the cashier replied, “Oh- yeah, I’ll go get it for you.” as they went further into the store and brought out a locket necklace, which they then gave to Amy. “Thank you!” Amy said as she walked out of the jewelry store, holding the necklace tightly in her hands and heading back to her house. Sooner than later, Amy was in her house watering a bouquet of flowers she had placed in a vase very recently, the flowers being roses of a pink hue- a gift from a very good friend. Amy then headed to her kitchen where she had a plate of sandwiches and fruits, alongside a picnic basket on the counter. “Everything here?…” Amy said to herself as she sorted through the basket, revealing a picnic blanket, what seems to be a necklace, but too covered up by the other items to be entirely visible, napkins, and small paper plates. “Okay, everything’s here.” She said in a relieved tone, placing the sandwiches and fruit in the basket moments after. Amy then closes the picnic basket and heads over to her window, where she sees a blazing inferno spark into existence, Blaze emerging from it as she walks down the street next to Amy’s house. Amy rushed over to her door, leaving her house and rushing over to Blaze- “Hey, Blaze!” Amy yelled as she ran over to her, waving. Blaze was surprised at first, jumping back slightly, but quickly realized it was Amy. She walked over to Amy, who grabbed her hands and asked her, “Blaze! Would you like to go on a picnic? I thought since you took me out yesterday, I could take you out for a picnic today.- If you have the time, of course.” Amy spoke, Blaze blushing slightly and nodding her head awkwardly in response. “That’d be, uhm, wonderful, thank you.” Blaze said in reply, “Cool! There’s this field not too far away we could head to- it actually kinda reminds me of Green Hills!” Amy continued as she gestured Blaze to follow her, walking throughout the city and eventually arriving at a large field past it. Amy found a small tree to sit under, setting down the picnic basket and placing the picnic blanket on the floor.
“So,” Amy spoke, “This is the field! I visit here sometimes, I find it really relaxing and nice. So I brought you here!” She continued. Blaze muttered a shy “Thank you” and smiled as she gazed into Amy’s eyes as Amy brought out the sandwiches, fruit, and paper plates she would place them on, but then paused for a moment, staring at the scenery before talking again. “Hey, Blaze, is it alright if I tell you some stories of Green Hills? This place just always… brings back some memories.” Amy said somewhat sheepishly. “Sure,” Blaze replied quietly, holding her head in her hands, watching Amy as she begins to tell tales of their adventures in Green Hills. Blaze sits there thoroughly enjoying the stories for what seemed to be minutes for her, but was hours as she listened to Amy, completely invested in the stories. Eventually, they came to a halt as the sky darkened and stars revealed themselves. “Blaze,” Amy began to speak. “It’s been really nice having you around. I wish you could’ve been there with us. You- I, would’ve loved it.” Amy continues sweetly as she gazes off into the night sky, a smile on her face. “I wish I could’ve been there too.” Blaze replies as she sits next to Amy, leaning on her and holding her hand as they both gaze off into the stars. “Hey, Blaze?” Amy asked as she took something from the picnic basket. “Yes?” Blaze replied. “I love you.” Amy spoke as she revealed a golden chain necklace with a heart locket containing a red emerald in the shape of a flame, alongside a hammer carved from the same gem on the other side of the locket. “The gem…I found it with Sonic and Tails when we were going on some adventures. Apparently it’s really rare. So, I thought, uhm, that something this beautiful and unique should go to someone beautiful and unique, so I’m giving it to you. I love you, Blaze. Will you…will you be my girlfriend?” Amy continued, moving her hand as if to give Blaze the necklace. Blaze’s face turned red almost instantly as Amy asked her, Blaze frozen for a moment before answering. “I…yes. I’d like that.” Blaze answered, taking the necklace and placing it around her neck. They gazed off into the stars one last time before packing away the picnic, Blaze holding Amy’s hand as she walked alongside her back to her house. Amy opened her door and stood at the doorway as Blaze walked away from the house and began to form a portal. Blaze glared at Amy as she formed the portal, a smile on her face as Amy waved. “I love you! Goodbye!” Amy said to her as Blaze went to enter the portal, Blaze replying, “I love you too.” quietly as she walked through and went back to her dimension. “I love you too.” Blaze repeated as she arrived in her dimension, taking a deep breath then going to sleep. The last few days had been very different for Blaze- and she hopes they stay that way.