Behind Bars

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Knuckles' own eyes grew wider as the messages finally reached his brain. "Ok we just need to keep calm," he said, but Manic was already getting into hysterics over it.

He meant to lightly slap him in the face to shake him out of it but Knuckles always forgot his own strength so the light slap in the face was actually a punch in the face and sent Manic straight to the floor.

"Whoops," said Knuckles. "Manic?"

Manic was laid silently on the floor rubbing his face, glaring up at Knuckles. "Dude!"

"Look lets just go home and you'll see in the morning everything will be fine, they probably won't even notice it was on there they'll think it's some sort of herb," said Knuckles.

Manic scratched his head. "I guess," he got back to his feet and took the fresh pizza out the oven and put it into the box.

"Trust me Manic man," said Knuckles, smiling like a cheshire cat. "Everything will be fine, now lets get going,"

Manic collected up the pizza and a few other things from the kitchen and the two of them left out the back door and headed for home.

Sonic arrived at the customer's doorstep, the pizza's were still nice and warm ready to be eaten and it wasn't long before the customer came to the door.

"Oh hey there Sally, long time no see," Sonic cried as the door opened to reveal a scantily dressed squirrel.

"Hey Sonic," she replied. "Thanks for bringing the pizzas round, they'll do nicely,"

"So what's going on?" Sonic asked, making conversation as Sally retreated into the house to get the money for him.

"Oh I've just finished looking after some of the kids from sanctuary, we thought we'd end the day with some nice warm pizza," she set the pizza boxes down on a table in the room and then walked across to where her bag was located. "And I knew your sister's place with its top reviews was the best place to order from," she retrieved her purse from out of her bag and walked back over to Sonic. "Also I hadn't seen you in a while," she pulled some coins and a couple of notes from the purse and handed them to Sonic. "And so I thought this would be the perfect excuse to see you again," she finished, smiling happily.

"Yeah Sally, its been awesome seeing you. I hope the kids enjoy the pizza,"

"Don't you want to come in and have some yourself?"

"Sally I would totally love to but its the evening shift and I'm the only one on and I gotta get back there. But I can meet you some other time and we can kick back and catch up on old times, huh?"

Sally nodded. "Okay Sonic. Take care!"

"Laters!" Sonic waved as he stepped away from the house and sped off back to the parlour.

Sally closed the door and turned back to the pizzas in the room. "Kids!" she shouted. "Dinner is here!"

Back at the Hedgehogs' home, Sonia had put on her overnight makeup and already gone to bed when Manic and Knuckles got in. They went straight up into Manic's room.

"Alright!" Knuckles shouted. "Pizza time!" he opened the box as Manic pulled the packet from his vest's inner pocket.

"Dude you wanna keep your voice down else you'll wake Sonia up!" he hissed, but was swiftly followed by a soft thudding noise on the wall anyway.

"MANIC!" her shrieky voice managed to travel through even the density of the wall. "Shut up shouting in there I can hear you and I need my sleep!"

Manic rolled his eyes. "Sorry sis!" he glared at Knuckles.

"Sorry Manic," Knuckles whispered. "Didn't think she'd wake up,"

"She was probably still awake anyway," Manic whispered back. "Anyway lets get on with this before it gets cold," he began to sprinkle the weed over the pizza, after he finished he took a slice out, Knuckles took another slice out and the two began to chow down.

Knuckles had been so right, it was the greatest thing ever! Manic had never tasted a pizza so amazingly delicious, it was as though someone had injected the flavour with a boost of unexplainable better tastes. Cheese was no longer its regular taste, it was something more, but there were no words to explain it.

Manic wasn't sure when exactly they went to bed, he just woke up to find Knuckles sprawled across the floor, the empty pizza box in the trash and about twenty minutes left to get ready before his shift started at work that day.