CHAPTER 4
THE MORNING AFTER
The next morning, Shadow was at his house laying in his bed still asleep. He was so tired and out of it from last night, he even forgot to set his alarm clock. As he rested, he had suddenly fell to the floor. He lied there on the floor with his eyes wide open and full of anger as he stared at a white bat girl laying on his bed looking down at him. "Rouge!" He shouted in annoyance.
"Morning, Shad!"
He got up in her face in anger. "What the hell is your problem anyway? My alarm clock didn't go off yet!"
The bat pointed to the not set clock on the table beside his bed, "Apparently, you never set it so you would've woken up so much later."
Shadow slapped his forehead, "Shit! How could I have forgotten about that?" He then saw Rouge lean towards him looking as though she was staring at something on his face. "Wha-what are you staring at?"
She pointed to a dried up white spot near his mouth, "What's that white stuff near your mouth?"
His heart had beat faster in panic because Rouge spotted some of the come that was left around his mouth from last night. He placed his hand over his mouth and tried to think of an excuse, but sadly he could not think of one. "Oh, this? Um, I...it's...I gotta go to the bathroom."
With suspicion, Rouge watched as Shadow dashed into the bathroom slamming the door shut behind him. She tilted her head to the side in confusion, "Huh?"
Later, Shadow had met Rouge downstairs noticing her glaring at him with her arms crossed. He sighed, 'Shit! Rouge knows something's up, but I can't tell her! How would she react if I told her I blowed some guy to just get information out of him?' He tried to not look at her as he walked past her to gather his things for work.
Rouge became fueled with anger as he didn't say a word to her. "Don't ignore me, Shadow!"
The hedgehog slowly turned to her looking clueless.
"Spill it, Shadow! What happened last night? I know something happened!"
"Nothing!" He shouted in a panic like tone. "Nothing happened! What makes you think something happened?"
The bat placed her hands on her hips and turned away from her. "Well, it just...looks like you've done something pretty bad last night and it hurts that you don't want to tell your own girlfriend anything."
"Rouge..." He spoke softly. He didn't mean to hurt her in anyway, but he figured hiding the truth was best for her. He placed a black messenger bag over his shoulder and gently rubbed Rouge's shoulder making her face him. "Rouge, what I speak is the truth...I...I'm not hiding anything from you."
Rouge knew that he was clearly lying because of his behavior from earlier, but she didn't try to argue with him. "Okay, I believe you."
Shadow obviously knew that Rouge was still suspicious of him, but he tried not to make it look like he was knowing what she was thinking. He decided to change the subject, "Well, I'm slowly finding clues to the culprit."
"That's good", she spoke as she faced him once again. "I'm glad you're getting somewhere."
He sighed as he held her in a loving embrace, "Well, I'm going to leave a few minutes early." He kissed her soft lips and then her forehead, "I'll see you at work okay?"
She made a small nod as she watched him slowly walk out of the door.
Later, Shadow decided to take the long way to work by walking. He sighed as he walked down the sidewalk. 'That was too close. I definitely don't want Rouge to find out about this.' He was then startled when he felt a light tap on his shoulder. 'Aw shit! I hope it isn't another gay local.' When he slowly spun around, he saw a purple chameleon forming a smile.
"Hey, Shad man!"
"Espio?"He was really surprised to run into him.
"Mind if I walk with you?"
He formed a small smile, "Sure."
"We hanging out together tomorrow right?"
The hedgehog made a nod, "Of course."
As they both walked together to work, Espio turned to Shadow realizing he looked like he had a lot on his mind. "So, how did the mission go last night?"
Shadow twitched as Espio began to ask about last night and thought that it was safe to tell Espio about it, but no one else. He sighed, grabbed his wrist, and brought him into a small alley.
Espio didn't know what was going on, but he had a feeling it was connected to what Shadow had done last night. "Uh, Shad? Why did you bring me over here?" He then felt a hand being placed over his mouth.
"Espio?" He spoke hesitantly. "Can you...keep a secret?"
The chameleon couldn't speak because of Shadow's hand over his mouth, so all he did was nod. When Shadow took his hand away from his mouth, Espio immediately demanded answers from him. "Shadow, why are you acting like this? What's going on?"
"Well...", he begun. "Last night...that goth club was a gay club."
Espio's face expression had froze to a confused look.
"And no one will tell me anything about the murderer unless I...fuck them."
The chameleon gasped in shock. He never dared to imagine Shadow fucking any men. "So...what did you do?"
He hesitated to answer him, "I...sucked this guy's cock to get information about the killer."
The chameleon froze up again and wanted to faint on the ground after hearing what Shadow had done. "Shadow, you did what? That's sick! That's gay, Shadow! Extremely gay!"
The hedgehog placed his hands over the chameleon's mouth again to prevent anyone around to hear him. "Shut up! You want the entire world to hear?"
Espio took Shadow's hand away from his mouth when he became a little calm than he was. "Wh-why did you do it, Shad?"
He shook his head slowly, "Like I had a choice...and to make things worse I think I...liked it."
"You what?" After hearing that, Espio really wanted to collapse to the ground.
Shadow grabbed the chameleon's shoulders and started to shake him a bit. "Espio, snap out of it."
Espio pushed Shadow away from him and looked dead cautious. "Shadow, you like...men?"
The hedgehog sighed and wasn't even sure himself. "I...don't know." The next thing Shadow knew, he saw Espio slowly distancing himself away from him.
"Shadow, we'll...we'll talk more about this at work."
'Espio...' The hedgehog then watched Espio slowly walk away from him. He knew Espio didn't handle the situation very well because he had knew that he deeply hated gays.
A/N:
Tonya: Espio, Shadow seems a little upset, but over what? Was it because Vector didn't fill him in with the situation before?
Espio: Shadow! Wha-what are you doing!
Shadow: You think I'm just...playing around here?
Espio: St-Stop! Shadow!
