Beautiful Mistake
Chapter 3: Not Just a Coincidence
~8:37 a.m.~
[.The Next Morning - Tuesday.]
Our ivory bat slowly awakened from her night's sleep as she felt a pair of strong arms around her waist. From the sun shining into the room from her windows, she can already tell it's morning. As she lifted her head, a pounding headache meet her.
"Oooooh..." She groaned as she rubbed her forehead while she turned over to see Knuckles as he softly snored next to her.
'Why did I get so drunk last night?
Oh, yeah... that black, red-eyed bat. I was staring at him and-
Ugh, I have to forget about whoever that was...
Knuckles must have drove me home and carried me to bed, because I don't even remember leaving that restaurant!'
As she sighed out of annoyance, her tired eyes landed on her clock sitting on her bed stand. Her eyes grew wide as she saw what time of morning it was.
"Dammit! It's waaay past eight o' clock! Why the hell didn't Claudia get us up!?"
The alarmed bat quickly rushed to awake her sleeping boyfriend, but it proved to be a tough job. "Knuckles, wake up. We're late for work!"
"F-five more minutes.." He mumbled before he let her go and turned over in his sleep. Rouge growled lowly as she cursed lowly. Lifting her tired body from the bed, she stood up beside the bed and quickly walked to her bathroom. In a few seconds, she walked back out with a cup of cold water from the sink. She smiled evilly as she tiptoed to his side of the bed.
'This should wake the knucklehead up really good...'
She smiled to herself as she tips the plastic cup over and directly onto his face. Instantly, Knuckles jerked up from the cold sensation. His teeth chattered as he turned to see the one who'd done it.
"Rouge, what the hell was that for?"
"We're late for work that's what! And if we keep being idle like this, we'll be even later than we already are!" She warned Knuckles as she watched him jump up from the bed as the cold water dripped down his face and body.
"So now we have to get dressed. I have some of your clothes hanging up in my closet, so you don't have to drop by your place, alright?"
He rolled his eyes and decided to tease her a little. "Yeah, okay, mother!"
"Oh, shut up. You better go get dried off than sitting on my bed getting it more wet than you already made it." Rouge told him as she blushed slightly.
"But you threw the water on ME!"
"And you're point is?" She questioned as she shrugged.
"Ugh, nevermind... But I don't see what the big deal about being late to work. It's not like we're going to be fired or something."
'You only say that, because you've never been late as many times as I have...'
"Just hurry and get dressed while I go and take a shower, will ya?" She shook the thought from her mind as she remembered what she should be doing.
Just as she walked off toward the bathroom, he stopped her. "Wait, why can't I take a shower before I get dressed and you do?"
Rouge turned her head and smirked. "Because some of us aren't lucky enough to wake up and magically look hot! Some of us actually have to fix up ourselves up in the morning before going out."
"And what? I don't?" Knuckles asked with cockiness in his voice.
"Yeah, yeah. Besides you don't smell, because if you did, I would have told your ass, so stop talking and starting walking to my closet to get your clothes, Knucklehead!"
Knucles sat up in bed and let out a big yawn before he stood up to his feet. Without the slightest warning, he shook his long, red dreads free of the water, but ends up splashing it right onto Rouge. She stood in front of him with an angry face as she growled at him.
"Ooops?"
"Ooops my ass! Now, I gotta blow dry my hair!"
"Weren't you gonna do that anyway if you're going to take a shower?" He asked smartly as she shot an annoyed glare at him.
Rouge clenched her fist. "Fuck you."
"Just tell me time and place, or better yet why not now?" Knuckle started to tease his frustrated again, and he gets a noticeable blush out of her.
Without saying another word, she put her back to him and walked across her room to enter the bathroom. After the door slammed shut, Knuckles laughed aloud before he walked to her closet to get dressed. Inside, he found a black wife beater, green army jeans, and a pair of black timberland boots.
He's dreads have dried up some, so he quickly gets into his clothes and turned back to Rouge's room. With extra time on his hands, Knuckles made up Rouge's bed and then sat down to wait on her.
"Now, all I have to do is wait for her." He said to himself as he yawned tiredly.
'Shouldn't be too long though. By the way she was rushing me to get up...'
Thirty minutes later...
Knuckles knocked on the bathroom door after he took a quick look at his watch. "Rouge, would you hurry up? I thought you were so worried about being late-"
Suddenly, the bathroom door slammed open to reveal Rouge all dressed and ready to go. Her outfit for the day was a blue skinny jeans, a white floral top, an aquamarine blazer with gold buttons, and black Armani boots. Her white hair was in crisp curls and her make up is delicately applied as she smiled at him.
The way she fixed herself up got Knuckles in a complete daze which made her blush.
"Heeeeeeeelllloooo? Earth to Knuckles? Is your brain still in that big head of yours?"
He shook his head and chuckled nervously. "Yeah, yeah. It's just that you look beautiful this morning."
"Awe, thanks. I try.." Rouge told him sheepishly. "So you ready to go?"
"Yeah, you?"
"Of course. Let's go before we miss anything important."
Together the two of them leave her bedroom, until...
"Wait! Forgot my bag and my cellphone!" Rouge remembered quickly and turned back to her bedroom to find it. Knuckles sighed and shook his head and stood by her door to wait. As he waited, he recalled something and decided to ask her about it.
"What about Amy? I thought you've been driving her to work all this time?" Knuckles asked her as she searched around for her bag.
She didn't respond until she found her bag hidden among her many items on her dresser. "Don't you remember Sonic taking her home yesterday? I think he'll be driving her to work from now on."
"Oh, right.."
Rouge rolled her eyes and flew over to him. She reached up to give him a kiss on the cheek. "Yeah, don't think too much. Don't wanna ruin that pretty face of yours."
"Yeah, and don't you yell at me so much. Don't wanna get wrinkles on that pretty face of yours.." Knuckles said on the sly with a smile on his face.
"What was that!?"
"N-nothing, nothing..."
"Better be nothing, now let's go!"
In the next few seconds, the two quickly jogged down the stairs to see Claudia as she busily cleaned up the house...
"CLAUDIA!"
"Huh?" The young maid turned around surprised by the sound of Rouge's angry voice. "Oh, good morning! How was your night last night?"
"Well, I didn't want to walk in on you guys just in case you were having... umm.. an early morning moment!" Claudia said nervously as she held her feather duster behind her.
Rouge, with a tint of red on her face, narrowed her eyes. "Right... in any case, we gotta get going, so come on, Knuckie!"
"Knuckie? H-hey!"
The ivory bat had grabbed her boyfriend's hand and pulled him almost forcibly out the door. Claudia laughed silently and walked to the front door to see them off.
"Goodbye, you two! Have a good day at work!"
After a fast drive across the busy streets of Metropolis, Rouge and Knuckles barely made it into the building before nine. The two ran towards the elevator door just in time before the door closed on them. Exhausted from all the running, they waited patiently for the elevator to reach their assigned floor where the meeting room is located...
[.Upper Floor of G.U.N. Building.]
"We gotta hurry! We gotta hurry!" Rouge repeated over and over again as she raced down the hall with Knuckles right behind her.
"H-hey, slow down, would ya?" He yelled while he breathed heavily from tiredness. "We're already late anyway, so why don't we just walk?"
All of a sudden, Rouge stops in the middle of the hallway with her boots scratching the floor. Frowning a bit, she folds her arms over and chest and looked back to see her boyfriend as he ran to catch up.
Knuckles came to a sudden halt, but he ended up tripping over himself right in front of her. "What was that for?"
"I can't be late anymore or they'll dock my pay, so who knows what they'll do if I show up over an hour late?"
"Wait, how many times have you been?"
"Enough talking!" Rouge reached down to grab his hand. She turned on her heels and flew down the hall and dangled him along with her.
"Aaaaah! Wait, we're only five feet from the meeting room Rouge!"
In the meeting room, many of the agents were already seated and now waited for the meeting to begin. Among the many agents are Shadow, Julie-Su, Tails, Storm, Jet, Wave, Haily, and others. They all sat at a long silver table, and all had black folders with important papers inside regarding today's meeting.
Standing at the head of the room, was the commander of G.U.N. An older, male wolf. Short, grey haircut, strong, blue eyes, and a muscular build. He was wearing a ironed black suit and shined, black shoes. He patiently tapped his foot on the floor as he looked down at his watch...
"Where in the hell is-"
All of sudden, Rouge flew through the black double doors with Knuckle's hand in hers. She let go of his hand and let him drop to the floor.
"Made it! Well.. at least we're here.."
"Hey! You coulda set me down gently. Didn't have to drop me like that." Knuckles said as he picked himself up from the floor while he rubbed his bottom.
Rouge gasped and smiled nervously as she played with her fingers. "Oh, sorry, Hun. Hehe..."
All the talking in the room immediately ceased as everyone turned to look.
"Late again.. and with Knuckles. Why am I not surprised? Shadow, who sat in his assigned seat, shook his head at the sight and then turned back to the folder in front of him.
"I'm not covering for you this time."
Rouge placed her hands on her hips. "Well, you didn't have to announce it, Shad!"
"What did I say about calling me that?" The black and red hedgehog said under his breathe.
Julie-Su laughed to herself. "Can you two stop arguing long enough to say hi to each other properly?"
"No!" Rouge and Shadow said at once which caused many of the agents to laugh.
"Excuse me?"
The commander cleared his throat to get their attention. "Thank you for joining us, Agent Rouge and Knuckles. Now if you would kindly take your seats?"
"Oh, right, but-" Rouge nodded her head nervously.
Knuckles finished her sentence. "Where should we sit? There's not many empty seats left..."
"HEY, YOU TWO CAN SIT NEXT TO ME!" A female voice called out to them. Across the room, Haily smiled gingerly as she had three empty sits next to her.
"Oh, there are some seats by Haily." Knuckles told Rouge.
She shook her head and folded her arms. "I'd rather stand on the wall."
Knuckle's laughed. "Oh, come on. She wont bite!"
"I'll bite her if she so much as touches you!" Rouge whispered harshly back to him.
"So I can assume you wont be taking those seats next to her with me, right?"
"Umm.. no!"
"Well, then.. suit yourself."
"Huh?" By the time, Rouge turned around, Knuckles already had taken a seat next to Haily and now waved for her to sit to him. The white bat groaned aloud as she had no choice, but to sit there in fear of Haily flirting with her boyfriend again or anything of that nature.
'Just my luck!'
Rouge dropped down in the chair andlooked out of the corner of her eye to see Haily as she smiled and giggled while she talked to Knuckles. Being the gentleman that he is, he talked to her right back.
"Why I outta-"
Just before she had gotten the words out, a piece of paper hit her on the head. "Alright, who threw this?"
She looked around to see Julie-Su eyes right on her from across the table. "Finally, I got your attention!"
"Oh, why'd the hell you throw a piece of paper? You could have just called my name like a normal person!"
"Well, I did like five times, but you were too busy glaring at Haily to hear me!" Julie-Su teased as Rouge only rolled her eyes.
"Whatever girl..." Rouge laughed. "So what's up? I can tell the meeting hasn't even started yet!"
'So much for running all the way here...'
"Well, word is that we have some new recruits coming in! At least that's what it says in the folders."
"Really? Boys or girls? Or both?"
Julie-Su shrugged. "Dunno. Amy is the one to tell us all this and introduce them, remember? But she isn't here yet! I thought she would be coming with you..."
"Amy? Not here?" Rouge took a quick look around and noticed that Sonic was missing as well. "Oh, well, let's just say Miss Amy had a goodnight with our boy, Sonic, so she should be arriving soon.."
"What? Really?" Julie-Su asked sounding surprised, but in truth she really wasn't. "I so knew they would get together soon."
Rouge nodded her head and took a quick look toward Knuckles to see him and Haily as they continued to talk.
"Me too..."
'Ugh! Haily, needs to shut her big mouth.
And talk to her own boyfriend!
If she ever gets one that is...'
Tails, who listened in on the conversation, laughed himself. "So that's why he didn't answer my texts last night or today."
"Yeah, so did you go to see Cream last night? She was working at her new job at ." Rouge asked him slyly.
"Oh, u-umm.. yeah." The yellow and white fox blushes slightly as he leaned back in his chair. "I picked her up from work and took her home.
Rouge smirked. "Oh really? And what did you two do after that?"
"Rouge, stop getting in their business!" Julie-Su stopped her from questioning the fox anymore. "And tell me what you and Knuckles did last night."
"Girl, we out to eat at Le Chateau Fleur De Resturante, and that food was soooo good. BUT I got so wasted by the end of the night, but luckily Knuckles drove me home and got me in bed. And my hangover is gone now!" Rouge admitted.
'Dammit!
I just remembered that guy I saw last night.
I can still feel his eyes staring at me like they did...'
Julie-Su nodded. "Aaah.. I see..."
Rouge sighed and turned away as soon as she saw someone else as they wanted to speak to Julie-Su for the moment. As she sat at her seat, her fingers tapped on the tabled before she decided to pull out her cell to text her friend.
Rouge - Where da hell r u 2?
Amy - Woke up late...
Rouge -Of course.. but from wat?
Amy - Watever, girl. Comin in a few sec. Sonic's runnin dere! :D
"In 1... 2... 3-" Rouge counted on her fingers.
The double doors suddenly opened wide and gust of wind nearly blowed everyone's papers off the table. In a split second, Amy appeared and stood in front of the room. Her attire is a short black pencil skirt, baby blue top, and black high heels. Her pink hair is slightly And right next to Rouge now sat Sonic leaning back in his chair with his arms behind his head and feet up on the table...
"Sorry for the lateness. Traffic was a bitch." Sonic said cockily as the Commander gave him an annoyed look.
Rouge rolled her eyes and tapped Knuckles on the shoulder. "Your friend is here."
"Huh?" Knuckles turned from Haily and looked toward her and the blue hedgehog next to him. "Oh, hey, man? Had a fun night?"
Sonic smirked a bit and nodded his head. "Ha! You could say that!"
"Yeah, we heard you guys when we called you too." Rouge commented with a laugh as Sonic did the same.
The Commander suddenly called everyone to attention. The whole meeting room was silent in order to listen. "Now, we can get this meeting underway! Miss Rose?"
"What? Oh, right!" Amy said nervously as she stood in front of them all. "Well, today We are welcoming five new recruits from Russia, Kuwait, and Japan. From these different countries, we've selected their best operatives to join our own forces to help on upcoming important missions. And as of today, these agents will be official members of G.U.N."
The Commander nodded in approval. "Good. Now, may you go and get them?"
"Oh, right! I will."
Rouge laughed at her friend's nervousness watched the pink hedgehog leave.
As Amy left to go and get them, everyone was talking about the identity of the new recruits...
"Wonder who'll be joining today?" Sonic asked aloud.
"Who knows? I wonder what they'll be like.." Rouge asked after him. "Hopefully not another boyfriend stealer!"
"Rouge.." Knuckles said her name. "Can you please just put that behind you?"
She shook her head. "No, because she's sitting right next to you!"
He rolled his eyes and sighed before pulling his girlfriend to his side. "I only have eyes for you, Rouge. And you should know that." He whispered in her ear making her face turn red.
"Yeah.. I know." Rouge couldn't help, but to smiled as he pulled her face toward his to kiss her lips. The feeling was intoxicating and left sparks through Rouge's whole body once they pulled away.
"Oh, there they are!" Julie-Su said in a fairly loud voice and is heard from across the table.
Rouge, along with everyone else looked up to see the doors opened as Amy walked in with the new recruits behind her.
"What the-" To Rouge complete surprise, her eyes landed on a familiar male who she never thought she would see again. It's the same black bat with short black hair with silver streaks and deep, red eyes that seemed to look right through her.
'Wait, what is HE doing here?
I only saw him just last night at the restaurant and now...
He's working at the same place as I am!?'
End~
A/N: Sorry for any mistakes and anything I missed, but I just had to get this chapter out tonight! I promise to reread and fix this chapter, if needed!
Anyway, I'm soooooooooooooo, so sorry for not updating this since last month! I have no excuse except school and work, so yeah... I'm sorry, but I managed to get this updated again before anyone starts get upset about it. Again, I'm sorry for my lateness and will try to get the next chapter up as soon as possible.
(I Promise!)
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