Chapter Seven

"Shadow, seriously. Who is this person you're freaking out about?" I asked. It was almost scary, the way he was so freaked about it.

"No one," he muttered.

Suddenly there was a loud knock coming from the other side of the car. I gasped, looking around. Shadow suddenly let out a low growl. I followed his gaze, outside the window to see a purple cat.

What was so threatening about that?

Shadow slowly put the window down, but said nothing.

"Hey there, Shadsy!" the purple cat squealed.

Shadow growled again.

"Touchy. I don't even get a 'hi' or a hug? You can't even open your door for me?"

Shadow still remained silent.

I took the silence as an opportunity to introduce myself. "Hi!" I waved, leaning forward, so the cat could see me, better. "I'm Amy."

Shadow slowly turned his head to glare at me. I leaned back, lowering my hand.

"Shadow, what's your deal?" the cat nearly laughed. "Amy, it's rad to meet you. I'm Blaze."

I said nothing more, afraid Shadow might react if I did.

"So, how are you two connected?" the cat continued.

Shadow suddenly revved the engine, causing Blaze to jump back.

He drove forward a few feet, and parked at the side of the road. He turned off the car and got out. I followed.

Blaze was sitting on the grass, waiting for us. I didn't understand how Blaze knew what Shadow was doing, or that Shadow knew what Blaze would do.

"Don't do anything stupid," Shadow warned, under his breath.

I nodded. I felt nervous, almost scared. I didn't know why. I felt like I was meeting Shadow's parents, or worse, he was meeting Scourge. I sat down next to the cat, leaving a fair amount of space between us, so Shadow could sit in between us, if he wanted.

"Do you know what you're getting yourself into?" blaze whispered, quickly.

I looked at her, not quite sure of what to say. Who was she? What did she mean?

Shadow suddenly sat down in between Blaze and I. Things had gotten far beyond awkward.

"It's a gorgeous day," Blaze said, after a few minutes.

"It's a stupid day," Shadow muttered.

"What's wrong with you?"

"Why are you here?"

"I can see some things never change," the cat jumped up to her feet. "I'd love to stay but I can't. I need to get settled in."

"How long are you going to be here?"

"Oh, I don't know. It could be a day, week, month, year, decade. Who knows?" she spin around and waved. "Catch ya later!"

I watched as she skipped out of sight before looking at Shadow.

Before I could say anything, he shook his head, "I don't want to talk about it."

My eyes narrowed. He was hiding something. I didn't like it. Who was that girl and what was she talking about? "I do. Who was she?"

"Don't worry about it, Amy."

"I won't worry when you tell me what's up. What don't you want me to know?"

Shadow looked at me, shaking his head. "We dated."

"What's so bad about that?"

Shadow stood up, looking at the trees behind us. Something was bothering him...

I stood up, standing beside him, looking into the trees. "What is bothering you?"

"Nothing."

"Shadow, I'm here," I interrupted, "you can talk to me. You can trust me. What's the worst that could have happened?"

"You shouldn't have so much faith in me. I'm dangerous."

"You shouldn't have so much faith in me," he smirked, "I really am dangerous."

Faith? He sounded like he knew about the conversation I had with Cream last night... "How did you?" was all I managed to say, uncertain of the situation.

"Like I said before, don't worry about it."

I sighed, "why not? Why are you acting so... weird?"

"Weird? How do you know this isn't my normal? Or maybe I'm just trying not to kill you," he chuckled

He had heard that conversation I had with Cream... He didn't even try to hide it. Was he trying to tell me something?

Was his acting strange and mysterious really his normal? Or was he just really trying not to kill me?

Shadow finally caught his breath and stopped laughing. "You think I killed my ex? Oh, that's golden. This is the crazy bullshit people make up. My ex moved away. The only reason she told me she cheated on me was because she didn't want to leave then have me find out from someone else. I didn't kill or hurt anybody. Ever."

"It's her!" I blurted out. "She cheated on you."

Shadow looked at me, as if he were entertained. He let out a slight chuckle.

"What's so funny?"

"She didn't cheat on me," he looked away from me, back at the trees.

"Then what happened?"

"Have I ever told you not to trust me?"

"No, I don't recall you ever mentioning trust."

"Well, don't ever trust me."

"Why?"

"I lie."

I rolled my eyes, "everyone lies."

"It's not about some little harmless lie. I lie about everything. You don't know me, you know a lie."

"What are you talking about?"

He looked at me, again. "I've never been cheated on."

"You said... What...?"

"Don't worry about it. It's too much to explain, anyways. Let's just go."

I nodded, frowning. Shadow began walking back to his truck, I slowly followed.

"Psst!"

I looked up, trying to find whatever made that noise. A certain purple cat caught my eye. She was in a tree... "Wh-"

"Shh! Come here," she whispered just loud enough for me to hear.

I looked at Shadow who was still walking. I looked back up at the cat... she was gone.

I shook my head. I was going insane.

Suddenly something was over my mouth and I was flung against a tree. It took a minute for me to stop struggling, and look to see what was going on.

Blaze was in front of me, looking like she was ready to kill me. "Shh!" she put her index finger up to her mouth.

A/N: It's so hard to write, when you have no idea what to put down... hmm...

Anyways, I have a slight idea as to what I'm going to do with this story... but I'm still stuck on it.

~ And, sorry this is so short! ._. It look so long to write just this. I have lots of brainstorming to do!

Anyways... Review?[: