The alarm rang loudly as Rouge jostled awake. She read the time on the clock as she slapped the off button. 8:30 A.M. Time to get ready for work. As soon as she took the cover and the many blankets off of her she hurried over to the coat rack that she used to hold her robe. Damn it was cold, winter sucks!
"The only good thing that comes out of this time of year is the fact that the nights are longer." Rouge thought to herself.
Rouge then put on her robe and trudged through her small apartment, atop club rouge, and made her way into the kitchen. She poured herself some coffee, grabbed an apple, a banana, and a couple of grapes. Which makes since due to the fact that she is a fruit bat after all. She sat down at the dining room table and began to eat. However, there was something not quite right with this scene. Rouge looked up from her meal across the table.
"Good morning Shadow."
She sat there staring at an empty chair hoping for a reply that never came. This had been apart of a daily routine for sometime now. Usually when shadow disappears it's only for a brief while, mostly around four days to a week at the maximum. But this time he had been gone even longer, six months in fact! He did not even come to tell her how long he was going to be gone! But the alarming thing about that is that he ALWAYS tells her how long he would be gone! She had thought about going to look for her dear friend, but the others had convinced her that this was just another one of his disappearing acts, and that he probably just wanted to be alone for a while. So, she didn't.
"He's the ultimate life form after all. He can take care of himself" she had thought all those months ago.
Rouge then came out of her daydream. She glanced at the clock and hurriedly finished her breakfast. She went into the bathroom and did her morning preparations and moved back into her bedroom to get dressed. She decided to wear a star-shaped breastplate today instead of her usual heart-shaped one. The reason being that it was the last day of work before GUN lets off their agents and spies for holiday break, so she wanted to get into the spirit of the season. She put on her extremely feminine bodysuit that had sleeves due to the time of year and attached the breastplate to it. After checking in the mirror to make sure that everything looked right, she went out of her bedroom, proceeded through the front door of her apartment, locked her front door, and flew off to work.