It's 7:07 AM in the morning, not too long ago I was asleep with this sweet fox... Well, this sweet fox who becomes pretty angry when a certain hedgehog appears in front of him. I'm standing in between them right now... I would have thought Sonic would be more apologetic but no... It seems he doesn't look peachy at all. As a matter of fact he looks just as angry as Tails...

"I've been calling you since 9 last night" Sonic says, showing Tails all the missed calls on his phone.

"How did you know where I was" Tails growls.

"The team tracker. You know, the thing you invented so we could all rendezvous whenever we're needed" Sonic responds, the hedgehog pinches his nose, "Tails it's been almost another month since we..."

Sonic sees Winter standing there which is why he paused

"...He told me everything already. I won't say anything to anyone though" Winter says, grinning nervously.

Sonic grumbles and turns back to Tails, "We tried this dating thing with one another and it didn't work out! You act like I've been using you for my own pleasure, which by the way was never ever my intention! Never was! I apologised to you several times and you still keep behaving like this! Treating me like this!... If I had known this was gonna happen, I wouldn't have said yes to you when you asked if we could start dating in the first place!"

"The point is Sonic! I loved you and I thought you loved me too! I wanted to have a future with you! I wanted to maybe starts something beautiful with you! But you're the one who crushed my heart, ruined something good!... Destroyed the beautiful world I had worked so hard to rebuild! I actually thought about ending myself! And if I hadn't met Winter maybe I would have!"

"I never wanted to hurt you! I just thought what we were doing was dangerous!"

"It was harmless love how is that dangerous!? We're you only afraid of us getting caught?!"

"Yes! Yes I was!"

"You're such a baby!" Tails shouts.

"Look who's talking!" Sonic fires back.

"You're more worried about your reputation being crushed than having someone who actually fucking loves you!" Tails shouts, the urge to attack him becomes harder to control.

"It wasn't just my reputation on the line! So was yours, how do you think the whole world would react if they found out you sought the relationship in me?! They would definitely not take that well at all!" Sonic shouts, also finding it hard to not want to punch him.

Tails growls and inches closer to Sonic, Sonic steps back incase he decides to take a swing at him.

"Why are you so selfish?! Of course you'd only care about how people see you! That's the only thing you could care about, not the other boy who fucking looked up to you and loved you more than anything else in the world!"

Frustrated that he wasn't getting through to Tails, cracks start forming in Sonic's patience as the both of them grow angrier with eachother.

"Oh that's funny... If I'm selfish that makes you a reckless little dumbass who doesn't understand the concept of how love actually fucking works!... And I thought you were the smart one! Clearly not!"

"I'm reckless?!" Tails laughs hysterically for a moment, "You're the one who didn't consider how I would take it if you broke up with me the way you did! If anyone is a dumbass here it's you! You souless pathetic asshole!"

Winter could feel they were going to get physical any moment so he finally steps in.

"Okay! I think that's enough shouting this early in the morning!" Winter says, stepping in between them to stop them from attacking eachother, "Do I need to remind you that you're in a residential area?!"

Sonic turns away and scoffs frustratedly, "My reason for breaking up with you is justified. End of story"

Tails, after hearing that is behind his limit, and he tries to swing at Sonic but Winter holds him back, "No it wasn't! AUUUUUGHHHHH! GO DIE IN A DITCH YOU ASSHOLE!"

"YOU FIRST YOU CLUELESS DICKHEAD!" Sonic screams.

At this point Winter realises words aren't going to work... Maybe physical violence would best get the message across!

The wolf chops Tails in the back of the head as hard as he can enough to make the fox gasp for air, then throws a fist at Sonic's face with just as much force. Tails falls forward onto the floor and Sonic falls onto his side gripping his cheek and groaning in pain, Tails coughs and rolls around on the floor in agony.

"I'm sorry, I think both of you fucking dickheads missed the part where I said we are in a residential neighbourhood with people sleeping and getting ready for work! Need I also remind you you are in public... And embarrassing me at the same time! Go your separate ways and if any of you say another fucking word to eachother I'm going to give you more of what I just gave you and I won't be nice to either one of you trust me on that!" Winter says, finally fed up with the two of them bickering and cursing at eachother on his front door.

Sonic rather than being upset was actually impressed with how hard he hit him, Tails was astonished Winter would go to such a length to get him to behave himself, yet he couldn't bring himself to be upset with Winter... It actually made him love Winter more if anything.

"Wow that was quite the punch..." Sonic says as he stands up.

Tails coughs a little as he gets back on his feet and looks up at Winter who's glaring at him, he almost immediately looks away from him ashamed to admit that he did embarrass him.

He grabs Tails by the arm and sits him down on the couch so he wasn't facing Sonic anymore.

"Winter I'm-" Tails starts.

"Just wait here... Cool off!" The wolf says, a hint of annoyance in his voice.

The fox's ears droop in shame, it was safe to say he did not feel great... At all, nervousness and shamd welling up in his chest as he sat there fighting tears. Winter walks off, Sonic still standing there.

"Where did you learn how to punch like that?" Sonic asks, a small smile appearing on his face.

"I took martial arts classes" Winter responds.

"Dang... I wish I could hit your instructor up, you know how to throw a good hook" Sonic says.

"I'm surprised you're not angry at me" Winter goes.

"Nah, you asked me to stop and I didn't, I deserved it... I hope you believe me when I say I didn't mean to hurt Tails, at the time I thought that maybe I could help him feel better about Cosmo's death by being there for him and for a while it was great to see him happy and back to his old self, but as you probably know there's a um... Sizeable age gap between us! And I had my reasons for being worried because I didn't want him thinking this was normal. I tried to tell him so many times that I wanted to stop but maybe somewhere along the way I got lost in pleasure too. We'd both be screwed if Amy or Knuckles found out" Sonic explains.

Winter nods slightly, "I see-"

"Anyway, I've caused you enough trouble and since Tails isn't going anywhere, I'm gonna head out... Take care of him will ya?" Sonic says, waving at him.

"Of course" Winter responds.

Sonic turns his back and looks at Tails' head peaking out from where the couch was in the living room... A frown appears on his face before he eventually runs off down the street. Winter closes the door and bangs his head on it a few times before turning to go to the living room to see how Tails was doing... And he wasn't doing well at all, the little fox sniffling as he sat there on the couch, sobbing to himself.

"I'm sorry Winter, I'm sorry" He sobs.

"Tails... I know you and Sonic don't see eye to eye these days but you need to control yourself during situations like that" Winter says, sitting down next to him.

The fox grabs onto him and squeezes him tighter than usual, when he looks up at Winter the wolf can see he's a mess, crying, snot leaking from his nose, "Please don't hate me! I know I lost it, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I- hic... I'm sorry!"

"What?! I don't hate you Tails! But you need to just control yourself when you're around him. Also, I know you two hate eachother but you need to consider the place and time"

"You're not... sniff upset with me?" He says throwing sobs.

"...No. I'm not" Winter answers, pulling his head gently onto his chest, Tails sobs some more as the wolf rubs his back.

"Thank you" Tails sobs.

Winter spends the next hour comforting him and gives him an ice pack for the abrupt chop he hit him with on the back of his head. After giving Tails some time to calm down, the two got ready to leave for the shopping centre, Tails' mood however was still slightly spoiled because of what happened that morning Winter could see it as he came down the steps.

The normally sunny little fox looked depressed, almost like there was an invisible storm cloud over his head. Winter puts his hand on his head prompting Tails to look up at him with a shameful expression on his face, his ears droopier than usual. Winter smiles at him but it's not enough to cheer the fox up, his eyes shifting back towards the floor.

"Still feeling down?" Winter asks.

Tails looks at Winter, back down at the floor and he nods.

"Want me to buy you a sweet treat later... I kinda feel bad for hitting you the way I did earlier" Winter offers.

"Its fine, I was being loud and you asked me not to be" Tails says.

"Still I should have gone easier on both of you. I guess I'm more crankier in the morning than I thought" Winter responds.

"Mm... Hey Wolfy?"

"Hm?"

"I don't wanna make you upset with me again... It felt like my heart was twisting and it hurt" Tails says, crossing his arms.

"Oh... Okay. I'll try and take it easy on you going forward" Winter offers.

Tails smiles at him, "Thank you"

Winter gives him a hug and a coat to wear, with that the two head out the door holding hands. Already Tails was starting to feel better, he looks up at Winter as both of them walk to the subway station smiling at him as Winter hummed a song to himself. He felt compelled to hold onto him, the urge so sudden he couldn't stop himself when it arose.

"Oh" Winter goes when he feels his arms wrap around his body, he looks down at Tails and smiles at him, petting his head, "What's this about?"

"No particular reason... You're just the best" Tails says, resting his head on his side.

"Aw, so are you" Winter responds, rubbing his head.

Tails laughs, loving his head being messaged by his gentle hands.

While the two are on the train going into the city, Winter and Tails practice their Korean by playing word games... The two are high energy the entire time they travel to the mall, their smiles growing each time they made eachother laugh. Eventually they arrive at their destination in good spirits, the Hobara Shopping Centre in East Cloverton.

It's a big glass building with halograms, servant bots tending to shoppers, bright lights some with more vibrant and lively colours. Tails' namesakes wag in anticipation for the fun they were going to have, Winter's eyes are stuck on the animated holograms as Tails jumps around excitedly.

"Ahhhhh it looks so much cooler in person!" Tails says, squeezing Winter like a doll, the wolf wheezes as the fox squeezes him tighter, the wolf flails his arms out trying to let the fox know that he was struggling to breathe.

Tails realises he's squeezing him too hard and lets go shouting when he saw Winter's face turn blue.

"Oh crap! Sorry, are you okay?" Tails asks as Winter heaves and looks down at Tails.

"Guh bluh... I'm fine... Do you live weights or something?" Winter asks as he messages his chest.

"Uhhhhhhhh" Tails goes, starting to remember the times Knuckles made him hit the gym whenever he was gonna go out with Sonic, "I guess I just have uhhhh fox muscles heh heh..."

"Do you have any idea how silly that sounds" Winter says, smirking at him.

"Yeah... It doesn't make sense, I know" Tails says, dying inside.

Was that really the best I could do?!

"Come on let's go inside the mall" Winter says, walking ahead of him.

"Huh?! No wait for me!" Tails shouts, the fox running after him and taking his hand as they go inside.

The mall is just as fantastic on the inside as it is outside, a variety of different kinds of stores, a food court, a huge sky light. Tails feels like they're on a date holding his hand while walking through a shopping mall through, Winter felt strangely good holding hands with Tails, like a small tender flame starting in his heart.

"This place is pretty swanky" Winter says, looking around the mall.

"Have you ever been to a mall before?" Tails asks.

"Like four times maybe. My parents would insist on sending the family servants out to fetch things for us. I really honestly just wanted to go get my own clothes but that's the thing growing up in a wealthy family... They make other people do the work for you" Winter explains, a little bit of frustration in his voice.

"Heh, I've never met someone that's ever really wanted to do anything themselves" Tails responds.

"Well as I kid, I uh wasn't really the biggest fan of just getting everything on a silver platter, there's no thrill in just having everything given to you at all. I just liked doing every myself" Winter says.

"...Do you and your parents not see eye to eye?"

"I wouldn't say we don't, but we do squabble about a lot of stuff. Especially the fact that I hate being treated like I'm royalty for some reason. That's one of the reasons why I left the manor and got my own place, my other siblings decided to sort of follow my lead. They accept help from our families servants though so they're not completely like me"

"Ohhh"

"I was pretty much the only person in the household who didn't really enjoy having the servants. My parents didn't mistreat them ever, but they already do enough"

"Do you have mobian servants?" Tails asks.

Winter nods, "My parents don't like servant bots. Well my mum more than my dad, it's actually one of the things that's straining their marriage right now, my father wants to replace have of our servants with servant bots, my mum doesn't want a single one of the bloody things"

"Have they separated yet?"

"Nope. If they did the news and the media would eat them alive, when they got married their was a lot of paparazzi at the wedding, so many people actually they had to hire extra security. I wasn't born yet, but my mum told me it was a nightmare"

"Oh, that sounds chaotic" Tails says, scratching his head.

The actual reason for their marriage problems is because they don't know what direction to take their assassination enterprise in, but I'll just pretend I told him that...

"Ooooh! There's the store! Come on let's go!" Tails says, pulling Winter into one of the shops on the second floor.

The fox takes Winter inside the clothing store, when they get inside Tails immediately starts looking for things for Winter to wear that he believed would suit him.

"Can I choose what to buy" Winter asks, seeing Tails was choosing shirts that were no

Tails looks back at him with a friendly smile... One that had a sinister flare to it of course, "If it's white the answer is no"

"Oh..." Winter responds, realising now the era of him in mostly white clothes was over.

...He was serious, man I'm gonna look so lame

Once the two pick out a selection of clothes, Tails takes him to the fitting room and the wolf reluctantly tries the clothes on. The first one a burgandy turtleneck, Winter's style, just not his colour.

"Mmf, this feels weird" Winter grumbles.

"It's your style though! I know you like turtlenecks and other fancier clothes so I made sure I picked out similar stuff you might like!.... Just not in white though" Tails explains.

"Why can't I get white clothes?! That's what I'm used to!" Winter whines.

"Because most of the ones you have at home are white already, you're basically naked wearing all white like that. You need some variety in your life, and it's my job to give it to you" Tails responds, a bit of seriousness in his voice.

"Ohhhh come on!" Winter shouts.

Tails tosses him a pair of grey trousers, "Put those on too"

"Fucking hell" Winter says to himself.

Winter eventually comes from behind the curtain wearing the trousers, Tails seeing how much better he looked can't help but start gushing at how handsome he looked, resisting the urge to start jumping around excitedly.

"Can I take these off now" Winter moans.

"Just a sec" Tails says, taking a moment to take a picture of Winter so he could send it to Amy later.

"I'm a model now I guess" Winter says.

"Mmm... You'd make a great one" Tails says, his tails wagging as he stares at Winter with love sick eyes, "Anyway, next outfit!"

"Oh come on!" Winter shouts frustratedly.

For the next hour almost, the Tails puts Winter in all sorts of outfits, casual, fancy, formal, colourful, dark. Winter wished the outfits were white like he preferred but any oppertunity to get one was foiled by Tails who would instead provide him with something blue, something grey, something pink, something red, something grey... Any colour as long as it wasn't white.

Winter finds himself in an all blue outfit, Tails is losing his mind, internally screaming at how cute he looked.

"Yeah we're definitely getting this for you! Ahhhh you look so good!" Tails says, jumping excitedly

"Nooooooo!" Winter whines.

Soon their time shopping for new clothes for the wolf comes to an end, the two end off their time at the shopping centre by going to the food court. Winter drained from all the excitement and craziness while in the clothing store rests his head on the table while Tails sips on his drink.

"Are you gonna eat your hot dog?" Tails asks, poking him on the nose with the straw.

Winter just lets out a loud exhausted, disappointed sounding grumble and shuts his eyes.

I can't believe he actually got me clothes that aren't white... Man...

The wolf sits up and picks up the hot dog on his plate and bites it lazily, his eyes still closed. Tails reaches into one of the bags and takes out some prop glasses with circle shaped frames he bought gently putting them on Winter's face as he rests his head back down on the table.

"What did you just put on my face silly" Winter says.

"Glasses" Tails says, taking a bite of his chilli dog before, taking his phone out and snapping a photo of the exhausted wolf laying his white fluffy head on the table.

"Mm, junior paparazzi I see" Winter says, his ear picking up on the camera shutter sound.

"You look so funny... And adorable. Can you blame me for wanting to take pictures" Tails says.

"I'm not adorable. That's your job" Winter responds, opening his eyes and looking at the fox.

Tails yips and blushes, his tails wag faster as he stares at Winter who opens his eyes when he hears no response from the fox. The fox looked like he was going to explode with how red his face was.

"Are you okay?" Winter asks.

Tails snaps out of it and shakes his head, "Yeah, yeah... I-I'm fine!"

Winter snickers, "Weirdo"

"Winter!?" A voice familiar to the wolf shouts.

Winter sits up and looks the way the voice came from, Tails looks the same way he looks and immediately recognises who called him out... The grey husky with the pink eyes in that picture in Winter's room, she was wearing a pink skirt, pink and purple shoes and a blue t-shirt with cute chibi characters on it.

"Marina?" Winter says, realising who she is.

She looks at Tails who's sitting with Winter at the table and the husky's expression goes from excited to confused almost immediately.

"Marina, I thought you were in the hospital" Winter says.

"I was... The doctor said I could leave early! Isn't that great?!" She says, excitedly taking Winter's hands and staring into his eyes.

Winter's head recoils a little when she gets close to him, her energy was a lot for him and Tails could see that, Marina looks down at Tails who just stares at the two of them. It takes a second for her to recognise who he is and when she does she shouts excitedly, grabbing hold of the fox and squeezing him tightly.

"Oh my gosh! You did it!" Marina says excitedly.

"Did what?" Winter goes watching Tails flail as she squeezes him.

"You achieved that dream of yours! You became friends with Miles Tails Prower!.... Eeeeeeee! This is so exciting!" She says, squeezing the fox tighter.

"Y-Yeah I did... Also ease up on him, your gonna crush him to death" Winter says, worried Tails would pass out.

"Oh... Oops!" She says, letting go of the fox who immediately runs over and hides behind Winter who pets him on the head.

Marina laughs embarrassed at how overexcited she got, "Joesonghabnida! I'm just a huge fan of Team Sonic... Especially Amy!... So Winter are we still gonna be able to sing together on Friday?"

The wolf was really hoping she didn't ask that question, especially since he thought Marina's hospital stay would be longer... And because Tails offered to replace her for that show. The two look at eachother nervously and then back at Marina who's becoming nervous with the silence.

"...Is something wrong?" Marina asks, her frown disappearing sort of.

"Marina... Um. I should have told you but I guess I'll have to tell you now" Winter says, looking at her with shame in his eyes.