Chapter one: Photoshoot
The twilight, end of summer sky, had shades of purple and orange, as the sun sets beyond the deep blue sea.
Meanwhile, at a private beach, with white sand as long as the eyes can see, and coconut trees waving softly at the wind, would be an almost idylic paradise, if there wasn't other noisy guests to bother a dark hedgehog forcing him to have shallow group photos.
"Come here Shadow! Lets take some pictures together!" - says Rouge slightly drunk with a half cocktail in one hand while pushing his arm with the other.
While Rouge was pulling him to the midle of the horde as he let go some sighs.
Every step closer to the center of the party, was a strugle to control the social anxiety whispering in his mind saying "Chaos Control away from here… get the fuck out…"
A blue drunk hedgehog was mocking a controlled but jealous red echidna, while his girlfriend were grabbing the dark hedgehog by almost crushing her voluptous chest covered only with small purple fabric triangles of the bikini on his left, stiff arm.
The photographer wasn't helping as well. Amy Rose was hiperactive that day. There has been a while since the gang were together and she was collect every single moment of her pink Pentax instashot camera with a blinding flash.
"Enough!" - the ebony hedgehog says at the 10th photo, ruining the photo with one hand in front of the lens.
He walks away leaving Rouge dumbfounded , while his eyes were recovering from the annoying bright flash's and his ears from the females high pitch squeals.
"Hey Shads, are u afraid of some boobies?" - shoots Sonic, with red drunk cheeks, only to be punched at the back of the head by pissed of Knuckles.
Shadow didin't even bother to reply while some of the guests were laughing at the scene. While he was walking away at the moment he pass by an annoying bee that was still giggling, his intimidating blood red iris looks straight at Charmy's made the giggles fades away...
The white bat was almost returning to pick up Shadow again if wasn't for Knuckles to push her away trying to put some sense on her mind, slightly ashamed by Rouge's behaviour. Tails was playing with Cream and Sticks some voley ball, when Sonic joined them still thinking how to annoy Shadow.
The only one who shows some concern with him was Amy. Even that she enjoyed to laugh and party with the gang, the pink female knew that it was starting to push some nerves on Shadow.
The last time she saw him was exactly one year ago, at club that Rouge owns.
She deduced that he only apears to honor and respect the friendship he has with the ivory bat otherwise he wouldn't be there.
Shadow took some deep breaths when he aproached the bar, few meters further away from heart of the party. While he sits, pickes up some random cocktail thriving for some peace and quiet, when his peripheral vision noticed a pink blur.
"What do you want?..." - he asks bitter, in between sips of the drink, not even bothering to turn his head towards Amy.
"To apologize." - she simply replied, grabbing a drink for herself.
"Did you enjoyed laugh about me?" - Shadow looks aside, still bitter.
"That's why I'm here... to apologize…." - she says looking at her drink, picking up with care the right words - "I know Sonic sometimes can be a dick."
"Hmpf I'm suprised…" - he says with implicit sarcasm staring at her -" Its the first time I see the wannabe faker's girlfriend not even trying to protect him..."
That last Shadow's sentence unnerved the diplomatic female. She fakes a smile and replies with sarcasm as well:
"The wannabe faker's girlfriend pitties you, because you do not have anyone to stand by your side while others were laughing, even your oldest friend Rouge laughed at you." she takes the drink at one shot and gets up from the stool to leave when Shadow grabs her arm "Now, what do you want?"
"I want you to rip those photos of me..." and in one second he takes her camera from her hands "or else you can say bye-bye to this thing."
"If you want the photos, you can ask them to Rouge. But if you break the camera I'll crush your head with my hammer!" Amy replies with clenched fists, trying to control herself from summon her giant ass weapon.
Shadow smirks at her while his mind imagined ways to annoy her more, just because of the caustic words she had towards him. He didin't even notice of how it ammused him to see her mad:
"I'll give the camera to you… But you have to get it first!"
Amy growled and pulls herself towards the camera countless times while Shadow dodged with no effort and blinds her with the bright flash every single time she gots too close.
It was almost he was taking a photoshoot of Amy's rage while avoids to be smacked by her hammer.
At the other end of the party, Sonic and Tails were talking about the voley game they just did, when the azure hedgehog hears from Vector and Vanilla having an amuzed chit chat about Shadow's taking Amy's camera. Sonic became instantly stiff as he feels a cold on his stomach everytime he hears Amy and Shadow at the same sentence. When he gently push some people aside, he sees clearly see Shadow teasing Amy mad with a giant hammer, trying to get the camera from his grip and her rage horrid pictures scattered on the ground.
Within a second, he caught Shadow out of guard, taking from his loosen grip the pink camera and pushing him against the bamboo cocktail bar, breaking it loudly as the glass of countless drinks shatters on the bar floor, leaving the black hedgehog soaked in booze and everyone's sudently silence while staring…
To be continued...