Beautiful Mistake

Chapter 1: Intro


I have the perfect life that any girl could ever ask or wish for. A nice sized mansion to live in, well paying job, a partner who's got my back no matter in what situation, good, close friends, I even have a hot body to rock and face to match that makes most women jealous, and... an awesome boyfriend, but-

Something feels off... I can't really explain it. It's something I've never shared with anyone hoping the feeling would go away over time. However, that didn't seem to work out. You see, it has to do with my said 'boyfriend'. He's the best in the world, more than I could ever hope for. Everyone, even our friends said we were a match made in heaven. The complete opposites to one another. He's the ying to my yang basically... but-

~Have you ever felt that being with the person that you're with...

Was a mistake?

I think... am I, and that what scares me.~

XoXooXOXooXoX

[.Monday Morning.]

*Ring* Ring* Ring*

A soft groan releases from the small mouth of a female still laying in her bed. An eyelid slowly opens to reveal a beautiful aquamarine color. In the comfortable queen sized bed with lavish covers and imported pillows, is none other than Rouge the Bat. Her white, curled hair is tucked neatly under a silk nightcap, and on her body, graces a dark, blue night gown with thin straps.

"Morning already?" She said tiredly.

Reading the clock, it's close to 7:00.

'Almost time for work. Damn...'

She yawns.

"Five more minutes..." Rouge drops her head back down on the pillow after hitting the snooze button to go off in another couple of minutes.

Ten minutes later...

A door opens to her bedroom, and a brown-haired female maid dressed in a black button up shirt, matching skirt, and white apron peeks her head inside.

"Miss Rouge?"

Stepping inside, the maid places her hands on her hips and frowns.

"Sleeping in again? You're going to be late again..." She shakes her head before storming up to the bed to grab onto the bed sheets.

"Rouge, it's time to get up.." The maid says in chipper voice.

Rouge turns over in her bed and places a pillow atop her head. "Five more minutes.. Go away."

The maid pouts and shakes her head. "But Miss-"

"I said go away!"

The brown-haired maid shakes her head. "Fine, have it your way..."

With one quick pull, the maid snatches the sheets from the bed thus causing Rouge to crash to the floor with a hard thud. She bumps her head on the edge of the bed as her butt lands hard on the carpeted floor. The maid stands back in shock as her hand covers her mouth trying to hide her huge smile.

"AAAH! CLAUDIA! WHAT THE HELL?" Rouge rubs the top of her head as a hand reaches out for her. Looking up to the hand, her blue-ish eyes land on a brown hedgehog with bright, purple eyes, and tan skin.

"Haha, sorry... I gave you a warning, didn't I?"

Rouge scrunches up her nose and takes the hand to pull herself up to her feet. Her head and her bottom aches as she stretches her body out.

"Yeah, not a very good one!"

Claudia giggles. "But it was the only way to get you up before you're late for work at G.U.N.!" She turns Rouge around and starts to push her towards the bathroom. "And your best friend is waiting for you outside!"

"Huh, you mean-" Rouge begins to say, but cannot finish.

"No, no! No, time for talking! Now, off to the bathroom you go!"

"Claudia! Wait-"

"You don't have time to wait! I already ran the bath for you, so hurry up and get in!" Claudia slams the door as soon as she shoves Rouge inside.

Rouge is trapped in the bathroom as she hears a lock click from the outside.

"Now, tell me why I decided to have a lock placed on the outside of this bathroom door!"

Claudia laughs from the outside. "Who knows, but what my luck!"

The ivory bat only rolls her eyes and yawns once more before turning towards the bath filled with warm water and sweet smelling body wash. She strips herself of her night gown and eases into the bath water feeling the warm temperature makes her hiss. In the bath, she washes and bathes herself until she feels that she's clean enough and hops out.

She grabs a towel off of the towel rack and wraps it around her body and walks to the bathroom door to knock.

"Claudia!"

In a few minutes, she gets a response...

"Yes?"

"I'm done, so open the door and let me out now."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, I've just told you."

"Positively sure?"

Rouge rolls her eyes and rest her head on the door. "Claudia... open this damn door!"

"Alrighty then!" In one second, the door is swung open to reveal her maid holding a feather duster in one hand and a broom in the other.

"I've already cleaned your room and laid out your outfit for the day, so hurry up. She's still waiting for you outside!"

Rouge nods tiredly as she walks into her room. Her bed is already maid up thanks to Claudia and on it lays an aqua top, a cream colored jacket that stops just above her chest, tight pants the same shade of color as her jacket, and brown boots that go up to her ankles. In a hurry, she slips into her selected clothes, and they fit all her curves perfectly.

In the mirror, she applies a thin, pink gloss on her lips, a bit of blue eye shadow on her eyes, and curls her hair so that it flows gently around her shoulders. Standing back a bit, she smiles at her own reflection.

'Good looking as always.' Rouge boasts as she takes a look at the clock.

~7:39 a.m.~

'Damn, I'm gonna be late again! No doubt he'll, AKA Shadow, be on my ass when I get there...'

Rouge quickly takes one more look into the mirror and grabs her cell phone from her dresser making sure it's off, because she hates receiving early phone calls in the morning, before running down the stairs, Claudia is standing next to the stairwell holding a black, designer bag and a cereal bar...

"Here you are!"

Rouge grabs them both with a frown plastered on her face. "Mmhp! What? No breakfast?"

"Well, if you had gotten up a bit sooner, you would have." Claudia says in a sing songy voice before shooing her out the door. "Now, go, go! You have work today!"

"Aah! I'm going!" Rouge stumbles outside to see a pink hedgehog standing by her car. Looking a bit closer, she recognizes her as one of her close friends, Amy Rose.

'Never thought I would call her my best friend, but I do. And I wouldn't change that for the world. She works with me at the G.U.N building. Strange, isn't it? Not really to me. She only works as a secretary under the Secretary of Defense in the main building dealing with a ton of important phone calls, case briefings, and other menial tasks. Occasionally, though, she gets to go on missions with me and a few others when we need some extra 'women power'. Thinking about it now, it's a wonder a girl like her would want to work in a career field like that! Maybe to get closer to a certain someone... hehe...'

Rouge thought as a smile forms on her face as she walks up to her. "Hey, Amy."

The pink hedgehog turns around and smiles. "Morning, Rouge! Going to be late again like always?" She laughs. Before Rouge responds to her friend's teasing, she takes a look at her outfit.

A frilly, white top with long thing sleeves to her wrist, a tight black skirt that smooths out to reveal most of her curves and stops just above her knees, and black ankle boots with three white buttons on each side. Her hair is up in a messy bun, light make-up is applied, and thin black glasses sit upon her face.

'Since when did she start wearing glasses?'

"Yeah, and you too, four eyes! Why do you even wait for me to drive to work? You have a car too." Rouge points to a two-story pink house that sits one block from her own.

Amy blushes slightly and rolls her eyes. "To save gas money, girl! Hell, I don't have money to waste like you do..." She pouts.

"So you'd rather use my gas instead of your own?" Rouge asks as she walks to unlock her purple Porsche sitting in the driveway.

"Exactly!" Amy chirps proudly as she opens the car door to hop inside.

Rouge only playfully rolls her eyes. "Awe, would a good friend I burn up all my gas money instead of my own!"

"Yes, would a good friend you have indeed!" Amy laughs along with the white bat as she starts the car.

"Bye, Claudia!" The two girls wave back to the house seeing Rouge's maid standing there.

"Goodbye.. have a good day at work!" Claudia waves back, but hears a ringing from the inside of the house.

At the front of Rouge's house...

"OH, WAIT! ROUGE-" Claudia yells out of the door, but it's too late. The purple Porsche takes off down the street before she has a chance to stop it. "Oh, phooey!"

"Hello?" A male voice from the house phone calls to her. "Claudia, are you still there?"

"Yeah, sorry, Knuckles... but she left with Amy just a few seconds ago.."

"I see...She's left for work, right?" Knuckles asks on the other end of the phone sounding a bit tired at the moment.

"Yes? I suppose you can her cellphone... tho I doubt she'll answer it this early in the morning.. OH! Call her male partner, Shadow! I'm sure you'll be able to get your message to her through him, sir."

"I suppose so... Thanks..." The phone hangs up.

Claudia frowns and shakes her head before returning back into the mansion.

'Why does he sound so tired? Must be work related...'

In Rouge's car halfway to work...

Rouge turns on the radio to listen to some music.

Hey, I just met you,

and this is crazy,

but here's my number,

so call me, maybe?

It's hard to look right,

at you baby,

but here's my number,

so call me, maybe?

In an instance, the pink hedgehog begins singing along with the song. Bobbing her head and snapping her fingers along to the beat. Rouge watches her annoyingly before changing to another station.

"Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy! I wanna meet your mother, and have your babies!" Rouge makes up her own lyrics making her own self and Amy laugh.

"Hey! I like that song!" Amy protests.

"What? You're like almost 20 now, and you still listen to songs like that?" Rouge smirks. Rouge turns to a song of her liking of her own tastes.

Amy frowns and folds her arms. "The singer of the song, Carly Rae Jepsen is 26! Six years older than me!"

Rouge laughs. "Oh, really now? I thought I heard this song before.. she's that old and still dresses like a teenager. It's a nice song, but come on, Amy. I thought you wanted to act and look older for you-know-who? I wonder what he would think if he saw you dancing and singing childishly like that..."

Out of the corner of her eye, the bat sees a small blush forming on the young girl's cheeks. "Ha, I knew it!"

"Oh, shut up!"

"Well, anyway, I'm changing the song." Rouge finds another song playing on the radio station.

As the girls quiet down, Amy stares out into the fast moving space around them...

"Hey, Rouge?"

"Mmm?"

"Do you know when the guys are coming back?"

'Guys meaning Sonic, Knuckles, and the new recruits they took with them on a mission not to long ago. Assigned by G.U.N. Yeah, they work for G.U.N. too now.'

Rouge only shrugs. "Not a clue.. I thought you would know about that before I do."

Amy sighs. "I haven't been paying attention in the meetings we've been having... hehe..."

"Ha! Too busy thinking about Sonic coming back."

"... y-yeah..." Amy admits as she continues to look away.

'It's been like two months since they've left, and they would be returning sometime this week. Doesn't seem like it's been that long. Maybe to Amy, but not me.'

"Girl, when are you going to walk up to him and admit you want to go out on a date with him! Is that why you dressed like that today? Hoping he would be coming back today, so he can see you dressed maturely like that?"

"Well.. yeah, I remember in the meeting that they would be returning either today or tomorrow..." Amy shakes her head in protest. "Rouge, it's not that easy!"

"Sure... Tell you what, I'll be there with each step of the way holding your hand for you!"

"I hate you so much right now..."

"And I love you just as much, best friend." Rouge said making Amy laugh to herself.

"How are you and Knuckles?"

Rouge finds herself driving into the largely populated city of Mobius.

"Oh, good, I guess."

Amy frowns and looks her way. "You guess? Have you talked to him lately?"

"Not since he left two months ago.." Rouge tells her.

"What? Why?"

"Amy, you know that there cannot be any communication at all with other agents when on missions, but only with the chief overseeing the mission."

Amy cannot find the words to argue with her friend. "Don't you miss him?"

"Like you miss Sonic? Ha, yeah.. but not as much." Rouge says convincingly, but feels slightly strange about saying it.

Amy narrows her eyes. "Ha, ha, ha... very funny..."

In a matter of a few more minutes, the girls make it to their place of work.

Inside the G.U.N. building...

Rouge and Amy walk off their separate ways. Looking down at her phone which she turned on upon entering the building, she sees she has 3 missed calls.

'Knuckles'

"Damn." She scolds herself. "And it's past 8:00! I'll have to give him a call later..."

Rouge quickens her pace to a nearby elevator and hops on. A few minutes, she's let off at the tenth floor where she flies down the hallway to the meeting room she was supposed to be in almost ten minutes ago. On the way, she bumps into someone landing herself on the floor.

"OW! HEY! WATCH WHERE YOU'RE-" She starts to scream, but stops seeing who it is.

Holding out a hand to help her up is none other than Shadow the hedgehog. He's dressed in a dark black muscle shirt, black jeans, and his famous red, black, and white shoes.

"Oh, thanks, Shad."

His nose twitches as he helps her up. "Don't call me that."

"Alright, Shad." Rouge says again knowing how to push his buttons.

Shadow closes his eyes and folds his arms. "You're pushing it."

"But not past the point to where you wanna hurt me, right, Shad?"

"Don't push your luck."

Rouge only laughs. "So what are you doing out in the hall? Isn't there a meeting going on in the briefing room?"

"Coming to get you. I knew you were going to be late again."

Rouge pouts. "I am NOT always late! I had a late morning is all."

"Well, you've had eight late mornings this past month! I can't keep covering for you, you know that?" Shadow warns her.

"Yeah, yeah..." She looks away from him and down back to her phone to see those three missed calls pop back up again.

'I should really call him back.'

"Are you okay?" He asks with a bit of concern, but showing almost no emotion. He has noticed the frown upon her face when she looked towards her phone.

Rouge looks up and eyes him strangely. "Yeah, why?"

"Well, you've been standing on my foot for the past minute and a half and haven't even made the slightest bit of decency to move it." Shadow tells her making her look to the floor. Indeed, her foot is atop of his running shoes.

"Oh, sorry!" She quickly moves off of him and steps back.

Shadow scoffs. "Yeah.. by the way. Knuckles called me not too long ago, saying that he, Sonic, and the rest of them are returning later today. Probably after today's work."

"Oh..." Is all Rouge could say about it. "Okay, thanks"

Shadow looks at her with a bit of surprise half expecting her to be overcome with joy as a girlfriend should. "Oh? That's it? I thought he was your boyfriend?"

"He is!" She says in defense with her hands on her hips. "And a perfect one at that! Why do you say that?"

He shrugs. "I don't know. I thought you would be more happy to hear about his return. You haven't had any contact with him in two months, so I just thought. But it's really none of my business."

"Mmph!" Rouge thinks to herself as Shadow begins to walk off down the hall.

'I should be more happier to know that Knuckles it coming back. I haven't spoken, seen, or even felt his touch in two months! Any girl would be overcome with joy with having their boyfriend back after so long! But I'm just... I don't know...'

"Rouge, come on! Before you're even more late than you already are!" Shadow yells from down the hall calling to her.

"COMING!" Rouge yells as she takes off down the hall after him.

'What's wrong with me?'


End~

Song: Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen

Finally done with the Intro... Haha, I got this idea from a song I was listening to the other day, and finally decided to write it after you guys told me what couple I should do. RougeXKnuckles, of course. Other couples will be included as well.

I really don't know how far I'll take this or how I did in this first chapter, but only reviews and feedback will tell. Also, I'm not used to writing a story with this pairing (it's my first time), so bear with me, if the first chapter is not so great, xD

I may revise this chapter later on too.

Anyway...

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