Cries For Help

Chapter 6

It had been two weeks since the incident at Tails' house. Sonic no longer lived in her home. She bounced from hotel to hotel, one friend's house to another, just so HE had less of a chance of finding her again. And it had been working. Sonic was finally beginning to think HE had stopped tracking her. Sonic hadn't told anyone else about being raped. Every time that Tails would call everyone together, she would disappear. She didn't want HIM to come back. If she kept quiet, maybe HE would leave her alone.

Today was the day. Today was the day that she announced to everyone that she was pregnant. She wasn't exactly excited. But, she would put on an excited face for everyone else's sake. They all sat in Sonic's favorite fast food joint, waiting on their food. Sonic was at the head at the table, her frienemy, Shadow was at the opposite end. Tails, Blaze, and Silver to her right, Amy, Cream, and Rouge to her left.

"Okay, everybody. Sonic's ready to tell you guys why we called this little meeting..." Tails addressed the others, trying to tell them that Sonic was ready to speak.

"I know some of you may have noticed I have been acting funny lately..." She hesitated. Maybe she wasn't ready for this. She had assured herself she was, but now, she was having second thoughts. What if they started asking questions? What would she tell them? What if they asked about the father? What could she possibly say?

"Go ahead, Sonic. Tell them the news you have..." Tails encouraged her.

Her eyes cut to the door. If she wanted to run, she easily could... She sighed. What was the use in hiding it? They would find out eventually.

"I'm pregnant..." Sonic let a tear slip down her left cheek. She stared down at the black and white checkered table. Weirdly, she felt as if everyone WASN'T looking at her. She lifted her head to see Rouge, Amy, Cream, Silver, and Blaze glaring at Shadow at the other end of the table.

"Why are you all glaring at me?!" Shadow asked with a raise eyebrow.

"I can't believe you two shacked up together and didn't tell any of us..." Rouge replied as she took her nail file out of her purse.

"WHAT?! You think me and him...?!" Sonic shifted uneasily in her seat. "No, he's not the one..."

Then, everyone's glare shifted toward Silver.

"Hey, it's not me! I'm with Blaze!" Silver whined.

"Then who is the father, Sonic?" Amy whispered.

No! What was she going to do? She couldn't name someone they knew! She would have to use her old story-telling skills she used when Tails was younger.

"Okay, I didn't want you guys to know. But, I was dating someone. His name was Grey. He was a snow white hedgehog with gorgeous purple eyes. He kept his quills short in the back and long in the front. Anyway, I met him...online, and we kinda clicked... We dated for like two months, and finally, we decided to 'do it'. A couple of days later, he broke up with me. That's why I've...I've kinda been staying home and being a loner. I've missed him. I thought that was the the end of the story, until, a couple of weeks ago, I had this weird sick feeling all week. So, I took a pregnancy test just to see, because, I'm almost never sick. And it was positive..." Sonic conjured up the lie quickly. She wanted to tell her friends the truth, but she didn't want to endanger anyone else.

"Have you told Grey?" Blaze asked quickly.

Uh-oh. MORE QUESTIONS...

"I tried to call him, but, he won't answer." Sonic expanded her story.

"Give me his number. I'll call him. Maybe he's not been answering because he's thinking that you're calling to beg him to take you back." Rouge replied.

"That wouldn't work. He wouldn't answer a unknown number..." Sonic was tired of 'answering' their questions.

Little did she know, there where many more to come.

2 HOURS LATER...

"Sorry, to break up the meeting, but, Blaze and I have to go to work in 30 minutes..." Silver informed them as he and Blaze stood up to leave.

"We'll come and see you after work tonight, Sonic." Blaze said with a smile.

"Come by Tails' house. I'll be there tonight." Sonic replied, glancing to Tails, who nodded.

With that, the group scattered and went on with their day.

"Sonic, when are you going to tell them the truth?" Tails wondered aloud. They had now been milling around his house for a few hours. They were doing laundry, tending to Sonic's wounds, and anything else that needed done.

"I'll do it when I have to tell the kid. I'm not telling anyone what happened to me more than I have to. It's just too painful..." Sonic replied, looking her arms over again.

"Sonic, I've been meaning to ask you...Why are you keeping a baby that was a product of a rape?" Tails asked the tough question.

"I'm hoping that this baby will make a very ugly event in my life turn into a beautiful one. A baby is a baby. Wanted or unwanted. Planned or unplanned. It's the child's life, not mine."

Sonic sat there. She realized that she was going to be a mother of a child that was conceived through an act of hate. She hated what that scum did to her. But, she could NEVER hate this child. The child couldn't control how it came into this world, but it could control what life it would have. She would tell the child what happened to her when it was time to cross that bridge.

Sonic looked over to a clock. It was 9:32PM, the same time it was when she answered Tails. She no longer felt alone. She looked around. Everything looked different, yet the same. She saw Tails sitting across from her at the table, a thoughtful expression on his face. She just sat there and stared at the fox. Something strange was happening.

Oh-no! He's here! Sonic's mind began to race!

She watched as the fox's light orange color gave way to black. Jet black. Everything in the room was turning either black or white. Black stripes appeared on the wall, circling the room slowly yet, incredibly fast. Sonic was terrified. She screamed in terror. There was no sound. She tried to move. She was paralyzed. She wept. But, no one could hear her. That made her cry more. Hours upon hours seemed to pass, still, her body was racked by sobs. In a bright flash of white, he appeared. She looked at him. Terror gripped her very soul.

NO! Please, no! Not again! WHY?!

A flash of blue showed his color, electricity dancing around him. He was the only thing she could see in color, once again, everything else remained black or white.

He floated toward her. Sonic noticed he had a razor blade in his hand.

This is it. He's come to end me. He's going to kill me and the child I am carrying.

He took the razor blade and plunged it into her right upper arm, carving the phrase: "είσαι δικός μου για πάντα".

Sonic's eyes snapped open. She was still sitting in the chair she had been earlier. Tails was in the same place he had been too. Sonic looked at the clock, it read 9:33PM. Sonic looked at her upper arm. The craving was still there, however it looked and felt as if it was now tattooed onto her arm.

"Sonic, when did you get a tattoo?" Tails asked.

"Tails, it was him-"

There was a knock at the door. Tails went to the door and opened it, revealing Silver and Blaze, also revealing Sonic bloody, tattooed arm.

"Sonic, what did you do?!"

UH-OH. How will Sonic cover this up? You'll have to find out in the next chapter... ;) I'm not sure when the next chapter will be up. Here lately, I don't start writing a chapter until I know how I want it to end. Thank you guys for being SO PATIENT!