-Sorry this chapter is a bit short. This was just to see the rest of Shadow and Rouge's day off and I didn't have many ideas on places they could go that would fit them.-
Rouge walked up to the entrance of the Mall with Shadow, dragging his feet behind her.
"Rouge, I just want to go home now." Shadow mumbled.
"Shadow, what did I tell you? Behave. The Mall isn't bad. Quit pouting."
Shadow sat down on a bench and yawned. Rouge put her hand on her hip and looked at him.
"Shadow are you tired already? You can't be, we've only been out for a few hours."
Rouge picked him up off the bench and stood him up on his feet.
"Shadow don't do this again. You promised me. No more acting like a little child. You're a grown married man."
Shadow flopped back onto the bench.
"I didn't promise you that. I said it depends on what you do to me and right now you're almost doing it again. I'm just tired, nothing else."
Rouge sighed. "You hardly did anything today. You could just sleep on a bench…Fine, we'll go home so you can take a nap or whatever. Let's go."
Rouge pulled Shadow up.
"Wait, there is 1 place that I want to check out first. We'll go home afterwards I promise."
Rouge walked in the direction of the nearest Kiko's.
"Rouge don't you think you should be looking for maternity clothes since you're…?" Shadow asked.
Rouge shot him a glare.
"Not yet."
Rouge walked into Kiko's, the manager of that particular store greeted her from behind the checkout counter.
"Hello" said the female cat. "Feel free to look around the store; we'll help you if you need anything."
Rouge nodded and went over to the racks that had some of the summer clothes on it. Shadow followed her.
"Shadow look over there by the jewelry; there are chairs there, go sit." Rouge told him when she felt his chest on her back.
Shadow backed off and walked over to the chair on the left side of the jewelry display and plopped down in it. Rouge picked out a shirt and a skirt out of the racks.
"Rouge is that really something you'd wear?"
"Shadow go to sleep. You said you were tired earlier."
"You told me that we would go home."
"I said we would go home after this 1 store. Look I didn't bring your special thing you sleep with but just sleep and we'll be out fast."
Rouge hung the clothes over her arm and walked toward the changing rooms while Shadow drifted off.
"Shadow, how do I look?"
Rouge came out of the changing rooms in the clothes that she picked out. Shadow was snoring and had drool dribbling down his chin.
"Shadow wake up!"
Rouge tapped Shadow on the shoulder and closed his jaw. Shadow stirred and blinked.
"Yes dear?"
"Do I look nice?" Rouge asked.
"Oh yeah, y-you look nice." Shadow yawned. "Com'on let's go, I'm done here, I need my thing."
Rouge huffed and went back into the changing room to change back into her regular clothes. She put the clothes back on their hangers. Shadow got up from the chair and gave a victorious smirk.
"Bye, " One of the salesladies called after them as Rouge and Shadow went out the doors of the store. Shadow walked with his head hung.
"There was nothing in there that is of my interest." Shadow said while keeping his smirk.
"You could have been a little more thoughtful."
Rouge flapped her wings and flew up into the air while holding Shadow in her arms to let him sleep just in case he drifted off.
Once Rouge flew home she laid the sleeping Shadow down on their bed, covered him up and gave him his Maria doll. She sighed and looked at him.
"I swear it's like I already have a baby in the house. Why are you acting like this, maybe a defense mechanism or something? You've never acted like this before."
She got into bed next to him and closed her eyes.
"He just has to get past this. It'll be okay."
-Shadow is really still not comfortable with all of this is he? I promise the next chapter will be longer.-
