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Blue.
That was all that could be seen in the distance from the seashore.
Beautifully bright blue; it was painted across the sky and bled into the horizon like fresh watercolour. It reflected into the endless ocean that flowed below, twinkling with every ripple in reaction to the beaming sunlight that simply made the blue of the sky lighter rather than projecting a different colour.
All blue.
(Y/n) Wachowski kept her gaze focused on the sky above, almost waiting for a cloud to pass by as it was something that hadn't happened in hours. Heated breezes swept her (h/c) hair aside in a soothing manner, nothing but relaxation crashing over her like how the waves ahead slithered down the shore.
Something else that was blue sat by her side.
Or, more like someone.
Sonic was perched by (Y/n)'s side, the little blue hedgehog playing with one of the only things surrounding his human companion you could label as a colour contrasting that of the sky, the sea, and indeed himself.
The sand. The rich, golden, sand.
Sonic fiddled with it in his gloved hands, the aureate dust sticking to them as he waved them about to remove it every few moments. But when his hands were cleansed enough to go back to touching the sand, he would pat it into shapes with deep concentration.
The hedgehog slapped a hump of sand that raised up to his knees in his stance where they were held to his chest. His orbs matching the vivid shade of green you could notice shimmering in an emerald kept focus to the movement of the sand. He would even reach the point where he would fall into the inevitable trap of such deep attentiveness his tongue would absentmindedly stick out, causing (Y/n) to giggle whenever she noticed it from the corner of her (e/c) eye.
Sonic quickly raised himself up from the turquoise towel keeping his fluffy tail from the rest of the sand that coated the beach, (Y/n)'s gaze shifting from the clearest sky she could imagine to her delighted hedgehog companion.
His socked feet met the towel, hands holding his hips with pride after knocking his hands together to remove the final flecks of sand from his otherwise immaculate gloves.
"Finished!" Sonic called out, smiling to his collection of sandy mounds creating an army of magnificent medieval castles in his wild imagination.
(Y/n) turned her head to see him, grinning in support of his achievements he couldn't appear any more gratified by. She could hear the screaming of seagulls and crashing of waves in the distance, turning back to see the ripples of water pressing moist sand back towards her as the sea slowly began to approach.
Sonic frowned as he noticed (Y/n)'s distraction of the sea, socked feet clambering over his roughly shaped sand castles so he could perch beside her bare feet buried in the glistening sand. He sighed deeply, gloved fingers twiddling with one another anxiously from the sound of crashing waves that always sent a shiver down his tiny spine.
(Y/n) noticed his apprehensiveness, (e/c) orbs no longer sparkling with admiration for the breathtaking shoreline but with more of a glint of concern. Sonic kept a frown carved into his adorably fluffy face, his stomach stirring just at the sight of the water that seemed to flow into the distance forever.
"What's the matter?"
Sonic shook his head. "I don't like the sea."
(Y/n) tilted her head that remained balanced against her folded arms before raising herself up to meet Sonic's view of the seemingly gentle ocean ahead. She couldn't possibly imagine why he wouldn't enjoy the calm crashes that every tiny ripple created once it touched the shore, and the tranquil shade of blue that matched the sky but also somehow appeared more vibrant.
"Why?"
"I can't swim." was Sonic's simple reasoning.
(Y/n) frowned in concern, lifting herself up from her comfortable seating within the silky lilac towel underneath her that sank into the sand from her weight against it. She sat next to her anxious hedgehog companion, an arm resting around his fragile shoulders as the softness of his cerulean fur delighted her fingertips.
She watched the sea slowly come closer, Sonic wincing and shivering a little at the sight like a menacing beast was coming to attack. (Y/n) soothed his shoulder with a gentle rub, her cheek meeting the top of his head and just about avoiding the prickly sensation of his vivid blue quills.
"Have you ever thought about learning?"
Sonic shook his head with aggressive certainty.
"Nope."
(Y/n) didn't want to keep pressing on with questions, not wanting to put him under pressure of sentences needing answers. But before she could ask anything else, Sonic replied like he read her mind.
"I've almost drowned before, so the sight of water doesn't sit well with me anymore."
He could feel the nodding of (Y/n)'s head against the top of his own, a reassuring smile forming from the previous frown across his fuzzy muzzle.
Just as he gently allowed his emerald orbs to close in relaxation, something tickled at his toes. Something wet. Something that soaked straight through his socks. Something he had just mentioned about not wanting to touch, as if nature had heard him and wanted to cackle up above watching him shrivel up in fear.
Sonic's eyes quickly shot back open, his tiny body scuttling backwards across the sand to avoid the ripple of sea water that knocked against his toes. He buried his worried face into his arms that folded over his raised knees, watching the water pull itself back with droplets of moist sand along with it.
The same thing happened to (Y/n), but she didn't seem to mind. She rather liked the feeling of the cool water calming down the burning feeling of her bare feet in the summer's strong heat. She pushed herself back as her hands slid into the sand, wrapping her arms back around Sonic's tense shoulders as soon as the two became side by side again.
"It's okay. Look." (Y/n) reassured, gesturing towards the ripples of ocean that carefully approached them.
Sonic's emeralds sparkled with interest and curiosity, watching (Y/n)'s fingers briskly swipe through the foam of the tiny wave. It didn't seem to do her any damage, giving him a small smile of reassurance.
He carefully pulled out his gloved hand, dampening his fingers a little with a smooth tap to the top of the water as the small wavelet broke. Sonic's smile grew, feeling a little more comfortable.
(Y/n) smiled, hands remaining around his shoulders as she buried his head into her neck. She balanced her face into his cerulean quills, feeling the tickling of the silky fur between them.
"See, it's okay." She smiled into his head before planting a gentle kiss to it.
Sonic grinned, spreading out his socked feet in front of him. Soon enough, the ripples brushed across the shimmering sand until the crystal clear water touched his toes as he released a quiet giggle.
Maybe the ocean that seemed to flow on forever into the buttermilk that bled into the horizon far into the distance wasn't so bad after all. Almost calming.
Sonic carefully closed his green orbs glistening with contentment, living in the moment perfectly with the smooth rubbing of (Y/n)'s hands to his shoulder.
However, the tranquillity that seemed almost too good to be true was interrupted again, Sonic groaning in agitation that he couldn't just enjoy the warmth of summer that surrounded him and the soothing touch of the sand in peace.
He heard (Y/n) giggle uncontrollably as the feeling of her hands holding his shoulder broke free. He quickly opened his eyes again to see her stood by his side, knocking herself dry with soaked hands from the wave that had burst closer to them than predicted.
Sonic noticed the sensation of water dampening his fur from underneath where he sat, scanning his surrounding patch of sand to see it soaked in the unpredictable sea. He shot up in a frantic manner, mimicking (Y/n)'s actions of knocking his gloved hands to the rest of his body to dry himself off.
"Yuck!" Sonic called out, examining the sand that now slipped like slime down his gloves, becoming a disorderly shade of brown rather than the enticing gold of before.
He turned to see the sand drenched around him, but he was still able to see his own socked, and now soaked, feet underneath the water as clear as a pane of glass. Sonic pouted at the mounds of sand he had spent what felt like forever constructing beforehand, the army of imaginary castles becoming a nothing but a lump of drenched mud.
He crossed his arms in frustration, storming up to the point where the foams of the end of the ripple met the untouched sand, the dry shingle glued to his socks.
"Me and the sea aren't friends anymore."
(Y/n) smiled, scooping up the towels and their other belongings before the ocean could target them as its next victims. She clambered the hill shaped sands to reach Sonic, taking him in her arms again for comfort.
Sonic smiled, his head burying into (Y/n)'s side. He grinned at the blue that matched the shade of his own fur painted in every crack of the sky and ripple of the ocean, letting the annoyance of the collapsed castles leave him be to take in the final few minutes of irresistible seashore tranquillity.
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