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"So..." Shadow began casually as he swept his eyes over his guilty stricken friends. "Who broke it?

No response.

"I'm not mad." He clarified. "I just wanna know."

Everyone's gaze remained downcast and kept silent before Amy spoke up.

"I did. I broke the-"

"No. No you didn't." Shadow dismissed, placing a hand above Amy's head. Then he faced his peers. "Knuckles?"

"Don't look at me." He chastised before pointing his thumb to the hedgehog next to him. "Look at Sonic."

Baffled, Sonic immediately faced Knuckles. "What? I didn't break it."

"Huh, that's weird." Knuckles accused, staring him down. "How did you even know it was broken?"

"Because it's sitting right in front of us," Sonic said in disbelief. "and it's broken."

Knuckles turned to briefly glance at the said broken coffee maker sitting on the table before stubbornly leaning closer to Sonic. "Suspicious."

"No! It's not."

"Hon," Rouge spoke up from where she stood next to Amy. "If it matters -probably not- but Tails was the last one to use the-"

"Liar!" Tails rebutted, turning to look up at Rouge annoyed. "I don't even drink that crap."

"Oh really?" She tantalized. "Then what were you doing by the coffee cart earlier?"

"I use the wooden stirs to push back my cuticles." Tails defended immediately. "Everyone knows that, Rouge."

"Okay, okay, let's not fight." piped up Amy innocently. "I broke it, let me pay for it, Shadow."

"No." Shadow answered sternly, making everyone flinch. "Who broke it?"

Everyone avoided Shadow's ruby eyes and remained silent again before Sonic leaned closer to Shadow from across the table.

"Shads," Sonic attempted to whisper, while side-eyeing a certain hedgehog next to him. "Silver's been awfully quiet-"

But he heard.

"Really?! " Silver berated angrily, grabbing Sonic's shoulder and turned him around to face him.

"Yeah really!" Sonic said, sizing him up like Silver was doing first, as they both stared each other down.

A full argument between everyone broke out, while Amy got in between Sonic and Silver and tried to calm everyone down. Shadow watched them all from where he stood quietly.

"I broke it." He thought, amused. "It burned my hand so I punched it."

~The End~