“I’m on the way now, but I seem to have…misplaced…your address. Do you mind sharing it again?” Shadow’s voice dropped to a velvety smoothness and Sonic happened to overhear it.

Sonic blushed fiercely, dropping the empty Dorito’s bag on the floor.

Oh my God, he sounds just like Keanu Reeves! So…so hot! Oh why does he sound like that? He could have sounded like Gilbert Gottfried, maybe that would have been better!

Sonic overheard him again: “Got it. It’s on the way. As am I.” The motorcycle revved, and Sonic’s heart began to race faster than usual.

“You’d better be, because if you aren’t, I—hello?! Hello!! Ugh!” Maddie hung up the phone with an angry press of a button, set it on the table, and stomped off to the backyard patio to do some stretches to work off her anger.

“Maddie,” Sonic panted, running to the backyard. He bounced up and down, suddenly excited. “Who—who was that?!”

–excerpt from Chapter 3-It’s Complicated