A cream colored rabbit shifted anxiously within her seat, while stared at the clock praying it would ring. She glanced her teacher, Mrs. Hazel her sadistic Math teacher, an extremely old rabbit whom seemed to dislike every student in the school and loved to give people tons off homework for any wrong answers in her class. As if she received some sort of pleasure watching them squirmed. She didn't seem notice Cream wasn't paying attention and continued droning her the class in another one of her lectures. Cream once again set her sights once again upon the clock. 2:27. She stared at the clock in awe. I could have sworn that it was 2:28. She thought.
"Cream! Can you tell us the answer to number ten on the board?" Mrs. Hazel called out from the other said of the room. Damn, she thought as she tried to figure out the problem before she received extra homework, and I only had two more minutes left. Oh well I guess I have extra homework. "Well."
"Um...it's...um..." she stammered trying to draw extra time
"246" whispered the boy behind
Cream smirked for a second before simply calling out "246"
"It seems as if someone hasn't been paying attention well more...Oh you're right." She raised her glasses slightly and looked at Cream with a bit of distaste, before continuing with her lesson.
"Thanks Tails" Cream whispered slightly turning to face her best friend.
"Anytime." He grinned as he put his feet up on the desk and leaned back in his seat
"Well Class." she started once she had returned to the front of the room. "Your assignment is---" The bell rang cutting her off, she looked extremely annoyed as the class rose and quickly left the room before she could give them an assignment to do over the weekend.
"I'm finally free!" Cream exclaimed as walked out of classroom and entered the hallway.
"Yeah especially, with all the homework we got do this weekend." Tails said sarcastically as entered the hall after her. He had grown much taller and was about the same size Sonic just a head taller than her. His blue jeans and white shirt matched his fur perfectly.
"Ah why'd you have to be such a spoiled sport?" She teased him. "So I'll see you at the park, kay."
"Sure at four." He said as they parted separate ways. "Later. Yo Charm wait up." Called as he ran towards the bee.
Cream stood there watching them go off, before she turned to her locker. When she opened the locker a single white cherry blossom lay on her books. This had been happening every Friday for month, every time she got a different flower. She was still clueless about who kept sending them to her, She even went to the extent of put a hidden camera, but still nothing appeared. She held it close to her heart daydreaming when a voice snapped
"Got another, hmm his time its white cherry blossom, those are extremely rare to find this guy must really like you." Cream whirled around to see Saffron next to her. "Your lucky, I wish Charmy would do the same for me. Any idea who sends them?" Cream shook her, but was still grinning madly.
"Maybe it's that guy Ryan from physics or Gage from Biology or even Tails the two of you guys are really chummy." Came another voice from her left this time.
Cream instinctively knew who it was just by the voice. "I don't think so Hope, if it was Tails I think I would have know by now don't you think. We've been best friends since He moved here." Cream replied shaking her head. Both Saffron and Hope gave out a loud sigh. They both knew it was Tails, they even helped him find the flowers he was looking for.
"Well I've got to go I don't want to be late. See ya." She called as ran out of the school.
Tails leaned on his customary spot on one of the huge branch the huge tree where he and Cream spent most of their time. It was in the center of the park so he could easily see every thing in the park. He smiled remembering the first time that they met, when he moved here a little over nine years ago.
FLASH BACK
A small rabbit, closely followed by a small chao, wondered around the park. She was approached by two hedgehog, the first being blue and the other black with red stripes.
"Excuse me little girl have you seen a fox with two tails." She shook her head
"Any luck Sonic." Called a red echidna as he ran up to him. The blue hedgehog shook his head. "He has to be here, there nowhere else." the blue hedgehog said as he ran off search the park.
She wondered towards her favorite tree, before plopping down in front of a giant tree. "I wish there was some here to play with." An orange fox fell from the tree and landed in front of her. She ran to see if he was injured.
"Are you okay?" she asked as she helped him, "Hey you're the boy that those guys are looking for. Who are they and why are they looking for you."
"I'll tell you only if you promise not to tell them where I am." She nodded. "They my adoptive brothers and they looking for me because I'm running away from them and going back to my old house."
"But why" She asked
"Because they made me move away from all my friends, now I don't have anymore friends." The boy with his ears dropping about to cry.
"I'll be your friend." She said quietly. He looked at her surprised. For the next three hours they played happily. She suddenly rose.
"I have to go home now." She said as she rose "I'd really like it if you were able to come here next week." She said quietly
"Sure," he said standing as well. "My name is Miles Prowler, but everyone calls me Tails."
"My name's Cream." She said before running off. He stood there a moment watching her run towards her house, before slowly walking towards his own home.
End flash back
He grinned recalling what happened when returned home. Sonic was first relieved and hugged him before shout at him and grounding him for a few days. His eyes fixed the on the figure that enter the park. She wore a white tank top with a matching white skirt.
"You're late." He called to her with no anger or impatience in his voice, just with a matter of fact tone of voice. He noticed that the white cherry blossom had been place her was placed neatly in her hair.
"Yeah I know sorry." She apologized before sitting down in her customary spot below his branch. Over the next hour they talk about random stuff until she asked.
"So Tails who are you taking to the dance."
He scratched his ears and half-heartedly laughed, "I really don't know."
"Oh come on you're my best friend we don't keep secrets from each other."
"Well there is this one girl..."
"Ha. I knew it. What's her name?"
"Wait, Wait, Wait I haven't even asked her yet and am not even sure she'll go with me." Cream stared at him, "What?" he asked her.
"You're crazy, which girl in her right mind would reject you." A slight blushed crept onto his face. She glanced at her watch before shouting. "Oh crap I'm late Sorry Tails I've got to get going or Amy's going to kill me. Come over to my house later and we'll talk. Bye." She said as she ran out of the park leaving him lying lazily against the tree. I guess today's as good a day as any to tell you my feelings, he thought as he spun his tails and landed lightly on the ground, before walking home.
At eight Tails walked over to Cream's house and knocked on the door. Vanilla opened the door.
"Oh Tails so nice to see you again. Cream's up stairs you already know the way. She been waiting for you a while." He made his way to Creams room.
"I have something to tell you." They said in unison. Cream was near bouncing with happiness.
"You go first." She said to him
"No, you can." He said to her
"Okay, Okay." She said nearly exploding. He could help but crack a smiling at how happy she was. "Well you remember Chaud, from school he just call to ask me to the dance." She said full of happiness. The blood drained from his face as soon he heard that, He felt as if someone had just pulled out his heart or told him that he only had one more day of life left, He just felt weak like he had nothing to live for again. "Isn't great?" she said bouncing around. Somehow he managed to nod and attempt to keep face and gave her a fake smile, but failed miserably. "What's wrong?" She asked when she saw his face.
"Um nothing." He lied, "Um look I've got to go I promised Sonic and Shadow I'd be home as soon as possible." He lied as he started towards the door.
"Well can you at least tell me about the girl you had a crush on."
A part off him wanted to scream at her, that the girl he had a crush on, no loved and wanted to spend the rest of his life with was her. He managed to keep this in check and choked out. "Someone got to her first I was just too late." Before running down the stairs.
"Leaving so soon Tails." Called Vanilla as he rushed out the house'
"Yeah I promised I'd come back home early bye Miss Rabbit." He called slamming the door after him. Once outside the tears that he held, started to leak out at a rapid rate. Why he cried why did this have to happen to him. For the next hour he wander in the rain, around the streets and found himself back at the park. The rain became heavier as he sat in the rain for an hour, uncaring about anything that was happening, before a sliver GT pulled up and Shadow emerge from it.
"Tails! I've been looking for you for. I've searched everywhere I even asked Cream and she thought you were at home." He got closer and saw the condition Tails was in. "Good God Tails! You look like shit. Come on lets go home", he said as he ushered him into the car. For a moment the street was silent. Then the engine started and the car speed forward. Leaving the park silent once again.