Stepdaddy: chapter 2
Sonic's POV
I lost my dad about a year ago. My life changed after that tragic event. My mom worked late as she wanted her mind off of my dad not being here anymore. When i wasn't in school, she ahd a babysitter watch after me. The babysitter was a white bat with blue eyes. She was really nice and kinda pretty to. She was very supportive and always comforted me whenever i was sad about my dad. She played with me alot aswell. But sadly enough i wouldn't be seeing her as much anymore. When mom came back with a strange man.
I looked up to the tall green hedgehog that stood next to my mother. "honey, this is Scourge. He's a really nice man and i hope that you'll be a good boy because he's going to be your new daddy." She said with a smile on her face. I looked down to the floor. I didn't dare to look up to him. Something about his glare and smirk made me feel uncomfortable.
A pair of hands. A pair of soft warm hands, that had been laying on my shoulders, tensed and gripped my shoulders a bit tighter. As if the owner of those hands was mad at seeing this man. The owner of those hands was someone who had appeared out of nowhere only five months ago. It was a week or two after weird things started to happen in our house.
I woke up in the middle of the night when i heard some noise in my room. The noise of rummaging was heard in my room. I heard it almost everynight ever since those two weeks ago. I had opened my frightened eyes and dared to take a look around. What i found wasn't a scary monster like i had expected to. It was a normal hedgehog. Or he seemed at first glance. He had black collored fur that had some red highlights on his quills, arms and legs. He wasn't much older then me. He was only 14 years old.
He was the owner of those hands. He had been by my side ever since i met him those five months ago. Like literally the whole time. As if he was scared to lose me out of his sight for some reason. He never told me why he was here and he had never told me how he became the way he was now. If you didn't know what i meant, i meant that he wasn't exactly alive. He was more of an embodiment of his soul. Or in other words, a ghost. Being so young i didn't understand it myself, but for some reason i was the only one who could see him. My mom couldn't see him and my new dad, i guessed, couldn't see him either. That made me realise that he was a ghost and not a normal person.
It was quite a shock for me. But his personality made up for it. When i thought about ghosts, i thought about white scary poeple, but he looked like a real person and he was really nice. He played with me and talked with me. Which i didn't like to do in front of mom. She asked about it one time and i told her about the ghost boy. But she just smiled and told me that everyone has imaginary friends at some point in their life. I immediatly understood that she couldn't see him. I asked why she couldn't and Shadow, that's what he told me his name used to be, told me he wasn't powerfull enough to do so. Which really sucked. Shadow was a fun person to hang around with. I would've loved for mom to meet him.
I sat down on my bed and kept my look on the ground. "don't mind his glare." Shadow said as he stood by the door. "you seemed to know him pretty well." I said. "how do you know?" He asked. "you looked pretty angry when you saw him standing on the porch." I replied and shadow shrugged a while after. "let's get you to bed." Shadow said as he ignored my previous statement of him knowing my future stepdad and approached me. I laid down as i was already dressed in my pj's since it was really late. Shadow grabbed my covers and pulled it over me untill it reached my shoulders and i was welcomed by a cold embrace that i would soon heat up with my body's warmth. "good night." He said with a smile as he started to pick things up that were laying on the floor. He had a habit of cleaning my room at night since he couldn't sleep and was easily bored. I didn't mind his weird habit, at all. It meant that i didn't have to do it the next day. So i guess that i was gratefull for having a friend like him to be there for me. But little did i know that i was going to need him more then i thought.
