The Bet

Chapter 1

3:16 pm

Station Square Park

Chatter, laughter, yelling, and whooping all came from this very park. People on the sidewalk that passed were shocked such a small group could be so loud. What group you may ask?

The group was Team Sonic, no doubt.

Sonic, Tails, Amy, Cream, Rouge, Knuckles, Blaze, Silver, and Shadow had shown up. They were joined by the Chaotix Team; Charmy, Espio, and Vector. And over the years, they picked up a couple of new faces such as, Mystique the Hedgehog, Snowlina Jackson, Zariqua Jones, D`Angelo Jackson, and Bryan the Hedgehog.

The reason for their presence in the usually quiet park was a celebration. A celebration of two birthdays. The special birthday girl was Amy Rose and the not-so-happy birthday boy was Shadow the Hedgehog.

They were the only ones in the group with the same birthday, but were two years apart. Amy was turning 18 and Shadow, 20 (physically anyway).

The boys and girls set up different parties, each on different sides of the park. That explains the noise levels.

The BOYS' Party

"So, Shadow, how does feel being physically twenty?" Silver asked.

Shadow just simply shrugged his shoulders. "What's there to feel? It just means another year gone by in my immortal life."

"Dude, you got to look past that! Sure, you live forever, but that doesn't mean you have to waste it being single. You're twenty years old, with a job, money, and nice house, and the only thing missin' is a girl." Sonic exclaimed.

He was tired sitting back watching his now close friend grow 'old' without someone to love or love him. Matter of fact, just about all of his friends were getting on his case about being single.

By now, mostly everyone was in a relationship. Tails had Cream, Knuckles had Rouge, Charmy supposedly has a girlfriend that lives a ways from the city, and Silver has yet to get with Blaze. Not that many singles left. At least single girls, to be exact.

"I don't need a girl in my life. Love is for those who needs another person to depend on for a happy life. My life is alright the way it is." Shadow explained.

Sonic sighed. He's had enough. "Shadow, you really are stubborn sometimes. That's why I want to make you a deal." Shadow suddenly became interested in Sonics' conversation.

"What might this deal be about?" He was rather impatient.

Sonic smirked. "I'm willing to give one hundred dollars to try and get into a girl's pants. If 100 isn't enough, I'll double it depending on who you chose."

Shadow's interest had faded away. 'Is he really that desperate to see me with a girl?' Shadow thought.

"What girls do I have to chose from?"

"Any girl at Amy's party." Silver suggested. Sonic agreed. He liked that idea very much.

"You have to be kidding me? There are four girls there actually single, Snowlina said she has a boyfriend somewhere, Blaze has yet to admit her feelings to any of you, and Zariqua is just simply annoying." Shadow said. He was going to get out of this.

"What about Amy? It could be one heck of a birthday for her." Silver said.

"Rose and I have a friendship that is complicated. I wouldn't say I'm close to her but, I really don't know that much about her." Shadow said. Hopefully they bought that and would leave it alone, but he was wrong.

"Okay, you'll have two months to get to know her better and make her fall in love with you. As long as you score her virginity, you get the money." Sonic explained with a smile.

Shadow was glaring daggers at the boy when they were interrupted by none other than Amy Rose herself.

"Um, guys?" she nervously asked.

Sonic looked towards Amy with a smile. "Yes, Amy? Is it something you need?"

"I was wondering if you had any extra whipped cream 'cause I need it for something." she explained.

Sonic got up, and found a can of whipped cream for Amy. He came back and handed it to her. "Bye." and with that, she walked off.

"Okay, that was kind of awkward." Silver said.

"I wonder what they're doing. They had at least six cans yesterday." Knuckles said. Sonic got a very mischievous idea.

"Let's find out. I think it might be worth the while."

Everyone agreed, but Shadow had no choice and was dragged along. They hid in some bushes next to the girls' area where Amy's birthday was being celebrated. What they found shocked them more than being hit with a 10,000 volt ray-gun.

The girls were all in bikinis run around spraying each other with whipped cream. The park sprinklers were on as well and they were wet with whipped cream dripping from different places on their bodies. They giggled as Zariqua pulled Rouge's bikini shorts to put whipped cream in there.

Amy was sitting by herself, in her bikini on her IPod, just watching as they ran around. Her eyes were red as if she had been crying and was wet as well with whipped cream all over her. She looked sad and was.

"What's wrong with her?" Silver asked out loud.

"You think if I knew I would be here? Seriously, Silver, you act slow sometimes." Knuckles said.

"Shadow, go see what's wrong with her." Sonic said. He had an idea but needed Shadow away to help get it together.

"Why me? We're not even supposed to be here!" Shadow said pissed off. Sonic was up to something and he didn't like it.

"Come on, Shadow! Are you scared she'll turn you down and slap you in the face?" Knuckles joked. Shadow glared at the echidna for all it was worth.

"I'll go, but when I get back Sonic better not try anything funny." Shadow explained before getting up from his spot.

Sonic laughed as his plan worked. Boy, was he gonna have some fun!

Shadow carefully and slowly made his way over to the tree Amy was sitting under. She was still crying as she looked at the Ipod in her hands. Shadow cleared his throat to get her attention. She just looked at him.

"What?" she said in a raspy voice.

"I was seeing if you still had the can of whipped cream when I saw you crying." he smoothly lied.

"Why do you care?! Nobody seems to care, I'm just annoying to everyone…" she screamed. Her temper was still the same.

"If that's the way you feel, I'll just leave then." he turned to leave, but before he could get five feet away he was called backed.

"W-Wait! I didn't mean it like that, it-it's just…" she trailed off.

Shadow came back and sat down. He just sat there and listened to her. He found out that the girls weren't really celebrating Amy's birthday, but more like celebrating that Amy had finally stopped her ways of being a bratty teenager and becomes an adult. The sad part about it was that Rouge had the nerve to yell at her when she questioned her about if they were going to have an actually party for her birthday.

"So, what are you going to do about it?" Shadow questioned. He was extremely pissed off, even more so that Sonics' mischievous behavior towards the bet seemed like nothing.

"What can I do? Just from asking a question, I got yelled at by Rouge, and Zariqua joined her by spraying me in the face with whipped cream. That's why I'm sitting over here away from them."

She explained.

"Hmph." was all Shadow could. As much as he wanted to go and beat Rouge and Zariqua, they were girls. His temper was worse than Amy's, he had hoped.

Then he remembered something. The bet came to his mind. Should she tell her or just go along with it. But he's been honest with for as long as he could remember. So he was telling her…just to mess with Sonic.

"Amy?"

"Yea?"

"How would you feel if I told you I made a bet with Sonic that I could… um… make you fall for me?" he said carefully. She stared at him for a minute. She didn't know if he was lying.

"Are you for real?" she asked. He nodded.

"It was Sonics' idea, not mine." he said quickly knowing where it was going.

"So why are you telling me?"

"I didn't want to lie to you, so I told you."

They were silence just staring at each other. No one said anything as the girls laughter was still heard. Sonic and the guys were wondering what was happening.

"Okay, so you thought telling me would help you win it?" she said after a while.

"No, but you can help me. I'll split the money with you."

"How much?" she had skeptical look. If she was getting involved, she needed to know the details.

"Two hundred even. We go 50/50 and all you have to do is act like you like me." Shadow said. Sonic had a plan, but so did Shadow as of now.

To hear Shadow say this so coolly was amazing and honestly, Amy was starting to like it. Well, Amy secretly liked him, but was to afraid to admit it herself.

She nodded. "I guess I'll help, but you have to take me shopping for my birthday." she said.

He hesitated. He knew how out of control girls can get with shopping but agreed anyway. He got up and was about to leave before he remember his gift(s) to her.

He reached in his pocket and pulled out three small boxes. He was his birthday, but it was hers too.

"This is for you. Happy Birthday Rose." he walked off after that.

When he got far enough she looked at the boxes. One had a necklace with a heart shaped locket with her name on it. Inside the locket was a picture of her and Shadow at the Forth of July party they had last year.

Inside the second box, was a bracelet. It silver like the necklace and her name on it as well. The third and final one had a ring. It was a silver band with a Amethyst on it. Her birthstone. How he knew was a mystery to her.

She noticed that inside the ring was a message. She held it up in the sunlight to read it. 'To the most beautiful girl that ever lived…' and the ring had the rest. '…Happy Birthday, Shadow 3'

The guys watched as he came back.

"So… how did it go?" Knuckles asked.

"They're not celebrating her birthday." Shadow said.

Everyone looked confused. "What?" Shadow continued to walk as they followed him, still confused.

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After an hour, everyone gathered to help Shadow and Amy open their presents. Cream helped Amy and Knuckles helped Shadow.

"Okay, you each open one present at a time and we take a picture of it." Rouge explained.

By the time they were done, Shadow had a dog tag necklace from Sonic, some clothes from Knuckles and Tails, a watch from Rouge, a pair of headphones and a couple of movies from Silver, and two books with a pair of sunglasses from Amy.

Amy had a bag of candy from Zariqua, a mini snow cone machine from Rouge, a set of earrings from Blaze, a 'How To…' book from Sonic, jewelry from Knuckles and Tails, and Shadow's gift that she decided not to share.

Afterwards, they played some games and went home. Shadow and Amy went to the mall like he said.

S'up! This is my new story. I was wondering if you guys like? If you do, should I continue it of leave it as it is? I'd like to hear back in a review please. If I get enough votes saying yes, I will. Bye!