Poisoned Heart | Chapter 1

Poisoned Heart

Sitting by herself on a bench near the beach, the lavender feline princess stared out on the beautiful landscape, slightly daydreaming as she had her hands on her lab.

She reached her hand down in her pocket and pulled out a golden necklace with an oval-formed locket, with small diamonds around it and a special wavy pattern too, hanging from it with a matching golden colour as the chain.

It was a gift from him. Her friend. The psychokinetic male who seemed to haunt her mind. Every time he was around, she always felt the very same small jump in her ice cold rock heart. A weird feeling she wanted to figure out what was.

'Why is it so difficult to find out what I feel?' She thought as she stared down in her hands, stroking her fingers over the oval-shaped golden locket. Her mind was racing through every possible emotion, but Blaze never knew how they felt and just passed them with no thoughts, no worries, of them.

Like a call for help, a voice inside the back of her head spoke to the confused feline.

"Blaze, you like him. More than just being friends. Listen to your heart. Every time he is there, it's beating faster. You are in love."

The voice seemed to be her own conscience; her own hidden emotions she never showed, not even dare feeling them. Her voice seemed to be friendly, warm and caring. Full of love.

At the state, Blaze narrowed her amber eyes in slight disgust. 'That's ridicules! I am definitely not in love with him, nor do I see him closer than what we are!'

Holding the golden necklace tightly in her hand, she swung it backwards, ready to throw it out on the open sea. She didn't need it. She never did. However, she hesitated, trying to throw it out in the water but couldn't. She couldn't. For some odd reason, she just couldn't let go of it. It was as if letting go of him. But why she couldn't let go of a simple piece of object, she did not know.

Clenching her eyes shut, and gritting her teeth at the bitter emotion she haven't really felt that many times and tried again. She took her hand backwards once again, but as before, she stopped halfway. Her hand was shaking badly as she kept her grip around the locket tightly as if it was her life she was holding. Another's life. His life. Silver's. She groaned loudly in defeat and, reluctantly, she let her arm fall back down to her lab as her eyes were closed.

'Why? Why can't I let go of this stupid... piece of... trash?! It's just an object!'

Sighing loudly out, the princess could not answer her own question. However, her conscience seemed to have an answer for its bearer.

"Because, Blaze, you care for him. He means more to you, than you can even imagine. He means everything to you. You just don't want to accept it. You see it as a weakness to love someone."

Blaze had gotten enough of the voice inside her head, trying to convince her in the thinking she was in love with a person she did know but not well enough. She interrupted the voice with her thoughts, feeling her flames slightly heat up inside her. 

'Shut it!' She screamed inside herself, her body starting to tremble with fury and flames flickering in her palms. 'One, I don't see him like that! Two, it is a weakness to show your emotions and that you care for someone! Your feelings are just getting in your way of what you have to do!' Her anger seemed to calm down and it seemed more... miserable? She sighed in somewhat defeat it seemed, but still in great irritation. 'It's the most dangerous weapon your enemy can use against you. There is no good side of feeling such thing as love.'

Calming herself down slowly by taking in deep breaths, the lavender feline felt her temper was beginning to take control of her. Putting the locket back down in her pocket, she sighed out in irritation and stroked her hand over her head. The voice spoke to her again.

"Fine, have it your way. But I warn you. You will never be at peace before you admit that you actually can care for others. If you continue to refuse it, it will bring consequences to you."

Finally the voice disappeared away from her mind, bringing her at peace at last. The cat sighed deeply out as she crossed her arms under her cleavage, looking very irritated and angry out on the sea.

The minutes went by and Blaze felt more and more isolated every single minute of her life all day long. But she didn't cared. She never cared about working alone or care for others before, so why should she do it now? There was no difference for her when it was.

"Blaze?" Said a voice from a far.

Silver the hedgehog approached the female cat with caution, his hands began sweating due to his nerves scratching to the surface of his mind, part of him wanted the ground to suck him into a bottomless black hole, but the other half of him wanted to act like a proper man and get this over with. He wanted to prove that he wasn't scared of anyone… well, anyone meaning girls. Blaze. He wasn't scared of Blaze.

'I am not frightened.'

The thought was continuous, repeating over and over in his head as if he could convince himself that he wasn't nervous about asking this girl out… on a date.

'A date!'

Oh geez, the thought of going on a date with Blaze made the entire zoo squirm inside his belly. Silver had never done anything like this before. Every attempt so far had failed miserably, crumbled to pieces like sand before his own eyes, and it was all because of his fear of rejection that made him screw up every time.

'Blaze must be sick of me by now.'

No. He mustn't allow this negativity to win; he wasn't a weakling that ran from danger. He could accomplish something good for the first time in his life.

'I can do this.'

Blaze the cat slowly turned her head in his direction, automatically crossing her right leg over the other as she turned to address him. She had her arms crossed underneath her breasts, slouching slightly against the backrest of the bench she was perched on. Silver couldn't help but feel pressured by the dirty look in her eyes. The type of expression that said 'what-do-you-want-now?’'

"I know…" Silver started nervously. "That our relationship so far has been strictly acquaintance status." His hands came together as he began fiddling with each individual finger. "Would you… like to…"

Mistakenly he peered up at her rock-like face, and he wished he hadn't. The crude glint embedded in the cat's amber orbs was making this even harder for Silver. He sighed heavily and tried again.

"Would you like to… go out on a date… with me?"

His voice squeaked on the word date, and inside, he beat himself up for sounding so ridiculous and feeble. She was just a girl, so why was this so difficult?
'It's difficult because it is Blaze,' Silver thought automatically. Blaze who can sometimes be heartless and cold.

Still - to Silver's despair - the violet cat still wore the same expression, unmoved whatsoever by his request, neither had her body language shifted, she remained as stoned as a statue. But when she eventually spoke after a couple of minutes glaring at him in silence, her voice was as bitter as winter itself, and the sound of it crushed Silver's heart like a cockroach under foot.

"No." She said bluntly before pushing herself off the bench. "No, I will not go out on a date with you. And I never will nor do I want to either."

And just like that, Blaze walked straight past the white hedgehog wordlessly without acknowledging his presence or saying goodbye.

'Rejected once again.' Silver thought, crippled and even more depressed than he felt a few minutes ago. The strong feeling of discontentment coursed deep in his veins, and he felt there was nothing else left to do than walk away and pretend that the whole thing never happened. Carry on as normal and pretend that he was alright about it. That was at least the best he could do at the moment. 'But I tried... That's all that counts.'

So he walked away with his head hung low like a cowering dog.

He sighed again but this time more in exhaustion than defeat. Silver needed to clear his head for a moment, think things though. But he couldn't. His mind was in a muddle, he kept thinking about Blaze and what she said as he created distance from the purple feline who took off in the opposite direction.

Hidden like a shadow amongst the wildlife that surrounded Silver, a pair of watchful eyes observed his every move. The eyes darted across the scene of the two animals, they saw everything. And it watched the psychokinetic teenager stroll out of their sight. A cunning grin grew widely across the girl's gorgeous face.

And silently, Amy Rose retraced Silver's steps.