SHADILVER

NEW YEARS KISSES



It was 3 hours before the ball dropped and Sonic and Silver were throwing a party at there house for all their friends.  There were red, blue, green and white balloons on the ceiling, 'Happy New Year' banners stuck randomly on the walls and across doorways, and a piece of mistletoe hanging on the front door which they thought would be a good idea to greet their guests with.  Sonic was just placing the chips, dip, chillidogs and beer on the coffee table, when the doorbell went.

"Silver, could you get that!" said Sonic. Silver was just about to get himself ready, but did as he was asked and opened the door.

"HAPPY NEW YEAR!!" Amy, Rouge and Cream yelled through the door.

"Happy new year, come in" Silver then turned and shouted through the house, "Sonic, the girls are here!"

In a sonic second he was there, "Hey girls! Hello Rouge."

"Hey Sonic" she replied, leaning slightly on the door.

"Look up" he said, guesturing at the mistletoe.

"Oh, would you look at that!" Rouge said, in an almost sarcastic tone, "Someone has carelessly left mistletoe on the door!"

"You know what happens when two people are under the mistletoe, don't you?" said Sonic, his eyes narrowing.

By this time Silver and both the girls were watching and giggling from behind the sofa at Sonic's feeble attempt to get Rouge to kiss him.

"Yes I do..." finally replied Rouge in a more serious tone, "...but not until the ball drops!" and with that she walked past Sonic and sat herself down on a chair. Sonic, baffeled by his defeat, closed the door and got a beer.


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2 hours to go and Knuckles had arrived as well as Tails and Blaze, the only person who was missing was Shadow.

Sonic couldn't find Silver so he went upstairs to Silver's room and found him lying on his bed reading.

"Hey, what you doing up here? The party's downstairs."

"I don't feel like it tonight."

"But it's New Years."

"Well, I don't like New Year's that much, OK?

"Why, is it because no one will kiss you at the bells? 'Cause you could have Amy."

"No thanks, I'm not...'into' that."

"I know, why would you, she's annoying and-"

"No that's not what I meant." Silver sighed. "I'm not...'in to'...that."

Sonic's eyes widened as he sussed out what was going on here. "So...your um...gay?!"

Silver nodded and stared at his shoes, he was scared to look anywhere else. There was an awkward silence that seemed to last forever.

"So..." started Sonic, breaking the tension. "I hope you don't fancy me, do you?"

"NO!" quickly replied, unintentionally sounding offended, "I mean, your my friend so..."

"Yeah, I get ya." Sonic smiled and made his way to the door.

"Sonic, please don't tell anyone!" Silver said just before Sonic left.

"Don't worry, your secret's safe with me." and with that he went downstairs and rejoined the celebrations, with Silver following only a few minutes later.


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1 hour to go and there was an abrupt knock at the door. 'That must be Shadow' Silver thought.

"I've got it!" called out Sonic. "Hey Shadow, what took you so long?"

That was all of the conversation that Silver took notice of, he was mesmerized by his eyes, his wonderful, crimson eyes. They held so much wisdom, beauty and secrets. Silver was cut off by a two tailed fox jumping onto the couch beside him.

"Hey Silver, 1 hour to go, are you excited!"

"Yeah, ecstatic," he replied, in a not so convincing manner. "Hey, I think Cream was looking for you."

"Really! Awesome, see ya!" and off he went.

Shadow walked over and sat on the couch next to Silver, who was blushing slightly.

"So..." Shadow started, "have I missed anything?"

"Not really, except Sonic and Knuckles had a chugging contest."

"Who won?"

"Knuckles obviously, but he did throw-up 5 minutes later, so, we are all out of beer. Want some wine? It's all we have left, sorry."

"Sure."

Silver picked up the bottle that was on the coffee table and started pouring the wine, when a very drunk hedgehog stumbled onto the vacant chair beside the couch.

"You ok Sonic? You look a bit-" Shadow was cut off by Sonic yelling, "FANTASTIC!?"

"'Cause that's what i feel, fantastic! I'm gonna kiss Rouge and I'm gonna, um...yeah, kiss Rouge...en flarg mahanna wergy....."

No one could understand what he was saying, but then what he said was crystal clear.

"Hey everyone's body!" slurred Sonic, "I've got ananou, anann...something to say, I LOVE New Year's, but Silver dose not!"

'Oh no! PLEASE don't be that drunk!' thought Silver.

"He doesn't like it 'cause he cant kiss any person. You wanna know why?"

"Sonic!" but Silver couldn't finish.

"IT'S BECAUSE HE'S GAY!"

All was silent. Everyone was looking from Silver to Sonic then back to Silver again. Silver's stomach was aching, his heart was beating so fast he couldn't even hear the voices of his friends trying to make sense of this sudden outburst. Silver ran out the door, tears streaming from his face. Shadow grabbed hold of Sonic's shoulders.

"Is this true?"

"Hell yeah, he told me a few hours ago."

"Everybody stay here, I'll go and find Silver," then he ran out the door.

He called out for him, but no reply. Then he heard a whimper from behind a tree in the garden. He walked over and found Silver, his face buried in his knees.

"You ok?"

"NO I AM NOT!" cried Silver, then he said in a whisper, "This is not how i wanted them to find out."

Shadow crouched down so that he was level with Silver and put a hand on his shoulder. "It's ok. They are your friends, they'll understand."

"Sonic is not my friend anymore."

"I know that you are mad at him, but he was drunk out of his head!"

"I know." Silver sighed trying to hold back his tears.

"Hey don't cry," said Shadow, as he wiped a tear from Silver's cheek. "You will find someone."

"Really?" replied silver, wiping dry his eyes.

"Yeah! There's someone out there for you. Someone who...will kiss you good morning and cuddle you to sleep. Someone who will make you breakfast in bed and look after you when you are sick. Someone who will gaze deep into your two beautiful eyes, and tell you how wonderful you are, and that they will do anything for you, and how lucky they are to have you."

There was silence. Silver couldn't believe what he had just heard. All of those lovely things, and who was saying them. He just stared into Shadow's warm and loving eyes.

"So...where am I going to find that 'someone'?"

Shadow knelt down right next to Silver so that they were only a few inches away, and put his other hand on Silver's waist.

"He's closer than you think."

Without waiting for a response, Shadow leaned in and planted a soft kiss on Silver's lips, his eyes closed. Silver's eyes then fluttered shut and his arms wrapped around Shadows neck. Silvers heart was beating so fast, but it was good this time. Then Shadow broke the kiss.

They could faintly hear all of there friends in the house chanting, "ELEVEN... TEN... NINE..."

Then Shadow joined in, his voice so calm "Eight... seven... six..."

Silver then started to count down "Five... four... three..."

"Two... one... HAPPY NEW YEAR!"

"Happy new year Silver!"

"Happy new year Shadow!"

They shared another embrace then joined in the celebrations. 'This year is going to be a good one' thought Silver, and he had a slight suspicion that Shadow was thinking the same.