Hey guys, welcome to my new project! This story is going to be unlike anything I've ever written, in the sense that it won't really have a linear plot... it'll be more like a series of drabbles, in first person, each character telling their boyfriend/girlfriend how they changed their life. Some of the stuff is going to be a little uncanon (how they first met and stuff...I"m gonna create a story... what, isn't that what this site is for...?), but I'll keep it as in character as possible. I'll start out with Silver and Blaze, doing a separate chapter on each of their thoughts, then move onto my other favorite couples: KnucklesxRouge, ShadowxTikal, TailsxCream, and ending with my favorite, SonicxAmy, to give me some sort of motivation and encouragement to finish this thing... Enjoy.

Until I Found You

Chapter 1: Silver

Life before you... although short, it's not really a happy memory; I try not to think about it. I really wasn't anyone special... besides the fact that I'm a silver hedgehog with telekinesis powers. Okay, so I was a bit of a freak. But still, I tried to fit into the crowd as best as I could, because I wanted to be accepted. Being a little different from everyone else, I was rejected quite a bit, though. I've often had other people turn their back on me. Teased, bullied, harassed... yeah, I've been there.

It was just one thing after another with the bullies... they could always find something to harass me about. My powers made me even weaker (somehow), my quills made me look like a parrot, my voice was too high... I just didn't know how to handle it all. Growing up, my parents protected me from all that. I was fairly sheltered and isolated, being the "special one with powers" in my family. This made me incredibly naive and rather out of touch with the outside world.

But with all this teasing... I guess I became more than a little self-conscious and insecure. Being called girly and gay and other names I don't want to repeat will do that to you. For a while I pretty much doubted my own worth... I felt awful and like I just... didn't belong here. Like I was different from everyone else.

I cared deeply about things no one else seemed to even think about. I used to sit and dream a lot, just thinking of a better world and future, where pain was minimized and everyone lived happily... and I wanted to help create that world and live in it. I was an idealist, a dreamer, I guess you could say. I saw things how they should be, how to improve them, not as they were.

I had this inbred urge in me to save the world. It sounds silly, yeah, but I wanted to be a hero. I certainly didn't feel like one 99% of the time... but that didn't stop me from wanting it and feeling like it was what I should be doing with my life.

And most of all, I was alone. I had friends, sure, but I only had them because being uncomfortable in a crowd was by far much better than being alone. Loneliness was something I desperately wanted to avoid... and that was how I constantly felt, alone in a group of people. But I wasn't happy... I felt like I was made for more than what I was living. I belonged in a different plane of existence than everyone else.

So that was my life: I was teased, lonely, dreaming of a better world, dissatisfied, insecure, naive...

Luckily, I managed to find you... and if I hadn't, I have no idea where I'd be right now. I don't really want to think about it.

When I first saw you, Blaze, you were sitting all alone, in the corner of the classroom. Yes, this was way back before Iblis destroyed everything and we still were forced to go to school. You were all by yourself... and you didn't seem to mind it. In fact, any time someone approached you, you pushed them away, saying that you wanted to be alone.

And this, I could never understand... why would you WANT to be alone? I immediately became captivated by you, and why you thought the way you did.

I tried to find out everything I could about you, Blaze, and although you pushed even me away at first, I just couldn't give up, and so I went to others to find out what they knew. It was from them that I found out that you were a displaced princess, the almost legendary Guardian of the Sol Emeralds, and, most importantly to me, you had powers...

Just like me.

You know how much that simple fact meant to me? I was so used to being different that I didn't think there'd be anyway that I could find someone else who could remotely relate to me. Sure, I'd dreamt about it constantly... meeting someone... a girl... who could understand me and that I could team up with to save the world... and I could scarcely believe that I'd actually found you. You were my dream come true.

Could it be that... I had finally found someone who could understand me? Who knew what it was like to be blessed by Sol the way all beings with powers had been?

Of course, that wasn't the only thing that caught my attention - you were amazingly pretty and still are, Blaze... I mean, you have these shiny golden eyes, soft purple fur, pretty pink lips... I was captivated by everything about you.

Your beauty and powers were all I needed to get me hooked and trying and get to know you. Yeah, I guess I had been convinced from the get-go that we were meant to be together. I'm sure you remember those days when I first hung around you... it wasn't easy, because you were so private and kept everyone out of your inner life... you were shy, but it went beyond that. You had these gigantic walls built up around your heart... and I was so curious as to why you'd put them up in the first place. I'm absolutely sure that for awhile, you got annoyed by me... I was just the lost little desperate puppy following you around. I was really clingy... and every time that you glared at me or ignored me or anything, it would kill me on the inside. So I started talking with you, hoping beyond hope that you'd open up, start to smile...

I'll never forget the first time you smiled at me. It was after those darn bullies had started picking on you, and I, somehow, gathered the nerve to tell them off. It's strange, because I'd learned to (try and) ignore them when they bothered me, but when you were their victim... I just couldn't take that. But anyway, after I told them off and they left (probably upset that I wasn't giving in and crying anymore... their power over me had vanished) I saw the most beautiful thing in the world. You turned to me... and a lovely smile turned your lips upward for the very first time. Oh man... my heart skipped around in my chest and beat so loudly when I saw that... your smile was so pretty, I can't even begin to describe it. It was beautiful because it was rare - I was sure that I was the only one alive that you'd ever smiled at... and that made me feel ten feet tall. I've never felt so... special, so... loved before. I was enchanted by you, Blaze, and for days afterward, I was in complete daze. I dreamed of that beautiful smile that made me feel so wonderful and had the same effect on my lips...

But those magical moments were few and far between. Still, I was patient. In order to be with you and be your friend, I'd do anything, including wait. Because, naively, and innocently, I just knew that you were made for me. I don't know if it was a crush, or if I was just curious, or what... but I felt some sort of connection to you. Heck, it was probably the former, I won't lie...

And then, slowly but surely, you started opening up to me. You still haven't told me why you changed your mind and accepted me instead of everyone else... but I don't think you have any idea how happy you made me, just by giving me a friend. Even one is distant as you, I still felt closer to you than I'd felt to any of my "friends" before.

I'd have to say, it was after Iblis launched his attacks and counterattacks that we became so close... fighting side by side with someone will have that bonding effect on anyone. While part of me was (and still is) weary of fighting an immortal, unbeatable being, part of me is happy that something good could come out of it: me and you, Blaze. Us.

We'd teamed up, become the duo practically destined to save the world. With you, I felt like I found my place in the world, my destiny.

You became my best friend. The one I could count on, that I could turn to, that I could lean on... you meant everything to me, Blaze... and you still do.

You became my stability. Whenever my emotions got the best of me, I know that I could always go to you, as nothing ever seemed to affect you, and you always kept a level head. Sometimes I wondered whether you actually felt any emotions at all, because I envied how you managed to hide them... but then there were those few times, when you'd look at me with just a hint of tenderness in your eyes and smile... and my heart would do flip flops, because I know that your beautiful smile was reserved just for me.

You made me feel important, like I was worth something. Like I was doing something right, and what I should be doing. I always wanted to save the world, and you were my partner in the fight for justice.

Without you, I just feel so lost... and alone and insecure and useless. Without you, I feel like I'm nothing, just wandering around without a purpose.

And even though we've known each other for years, Blaze... I'm still finding out more stuff about you. Every day you manage to surprise me, by revealing just a little more of your heart.

I don't know when I realized that I loved you as more than a friend,like in a romantic way. I guess I always suspected or at least dreamed that I'd end up marrying you or something... but part of me absolutely knew my place. There was no way that you would ever love me in return; you were the princess, someone important, something that I wasn't. So I kept my mouth shut and kept those feelings bottled up, because... well, we have a special friendship, and I was terribly afraid of ruining it because I felt too much and wanted more than just friendship with you. I knew that you were reserved, and so I didn't want to push you.

Still, what I felt for you... I just had to get it out of my heart.

I remember confessing to you my true feelings (it took me years to work up the nerve), and how I was shaking in my boots, terrified that you'd turn me down and say you'd never thought of me like and you just wanted to be friends, and then we'd be all awkward and our friendship would be ruined...

But then... just like I'd hoped, you took my face in your hands, in a gesture more tender than any I'd seen from you... and said that you felt the same way, but just didn't know how to show it... you'd often felt different around me, and that your heart would beat wildly, but that you didn't know what it meant, let alone how to tell me, so you secretly locked it in your heart, almost afraid of those feelings... and it wasn't until I confessed that you were able to see that what you felt for me transcended even our deep friendship.

I just couldn't believe it at first - that someone like you could love someone like me. I didn't think anyone could love me, let alone someone as perfect and beautiful as you... I mean, you were the Guardian of the Sol Emeralds, the princess... and I was just some lonely, lost, naive little kid. It was almost too much, that you could love me like this... I felt like I didn't deserve it, that I had gotten too lucky...

But no, as I look into your gorgeous golden eyes, even today, I still see nothing but pure love shining in them. Love for me.

So Blaze, I just had to tell you how much you mean to me... you've just done so much and helped me out more than you even know. And I've never been happier, now that I've found exactly where I'm meant to be - here, with you, in your arms, loving you and saving the world with you. Thanks Blaze, for everything.

I love you.