"Oh Shadow, this house is even more beautiful than I imagined." It's basically been two days since I've bought the new house and Shadow has been more than helpful with helping me move in. I even got a week off from work so that I could finish moving.
"You really bought a nice house babe." I smiled and hugged him as he put down a large box.
"This is basically the best day ever." He chuckled at my perkiness, wrapping his muscular arms around my waist.
"And how is that Rose?"
"I've got my dreamhouse, I've got you for the whole day since you don't have work and I also got a week off work as well. All I need is food and my life will be complete." He was laughing now and kissed my temple.
"Hello losers!" Just at that very moment, Rouge walked, more like barged, into the house with three large boxes of pizza and drinks in her hands and Knuckles carrying two large plastic bags of junk food and sweets. I drooled at the sight.
"Okay, my life is complete." I ran over to them. "I love you guys so much."
Rouge chuckled. "It's no problem Pinky. We wanted to celebrate for you finally buying your- Amy!" She turned to find me hugging the food they brang.
"Oh, I'm sorry Rouge. Did you say something?" She huffed and handed all the food to Knuckles and Shadow.
"Boys, put this all on the top shelf. She's too short to reach it anyways." I crossed my arms and pouted.
"Hey! 5'3 is not short!" Rouge chuckled.
"It is when your man is 5'11." She turned to Shadow. "There's a job opening at G.U.N. if you'd like to apply Red."
He raised a very sexy, perfect arched, eyebrow. "Is it to be an agent or to be a secretary or something."
She rolled her eyes. "Would I be mean enough to set you up for a secretary job? Of course it's to be an agent you idiot."
He smirked and held up his hands in defense. "Just making sure. I was afraid that you were still mad about the whole haunted house stunt a few months back."
I raised an eyebrow. "What haunted house stunt?" Knuckles chuckled.
"It's one hell of a story. It was before you and Shadow started dating. Remember the day we all went to Twinkle Park and we lost Rouge and we went to the food court instead of looking for her?" I nodded. "It happened then."
"Wait. You guys ditched me and went to a food court?!" Knuckles sighed.
"Yes and we ate some lovely burgers and chili fries. May I please continue?" I chuckled as Rouge huffed. "Rouge ended up going into a haunted house, which Shadow was working in during that time."
"It's a step up from that disgusting bear costume." The red echidna glared at him.
"As I saying before I was rudely interrupted again, since Shadow saw Rouge in the haunted house alone, he wanted to scare her. Just when she approached him, without knowing her that he was standing there, he grabbed her and pulled her away."
"I covered her mouth, so she couldn't scream and get me fired, and acted like I kidnapped her. When we got outside, I let her go and she started beating the hell out of me. I'm not lying when I saying that I had bruises on my shoulders for a few days."
Rouge chuckled. "You gave me a heart attack that day Red."
I clapped. "Okay, that was a nice story, but I have more boxes to move around and food to eat so let's pick up the pace." The other three rolled their eyes.
"Well, let's help Pinky because I agree with her second point." I chuckled and gave the red echidna a high five.
"Okay, let's do this. You two move and Shadow and I will go to G.U.N. to get him an interview."
"Don't I need to get an application first?" Rouge shook her head.
"I already recommended you to my boss and he was impressed with your skills so he only wants an interview." I pouted.
"How long will it take?"
"About an hour." Shadow came up to me and held me in an embrace.
"Don't worry Rose. You can still have me for the whole day. Just cross out an hour." I chuckled as he gave me a kiss on my forehead.
"Alright. You both better hurry though." He nodded as I gave him a kiss.
"Oh, I forgot. Red, help me load all the food into the car." Knuckles' jaw dropped.
"Why?!"
"I already know that the food will be finished by the time we come back if we leave it here with you two." I crossed my arms.
"This is abuse Rouge." She chuckled. Shadow cleared his throat.
"Or we could just lock it with a special lock of mine." Rouge raised an eyebrow at my boyfriend.
"How does it work?" He smirked.
"It looks like any ordinary lock that requires a key, but the catch with this one is that it's rubber and it'll shock anyone that attempts to pick it." She smirked as well.
"A brilliant idea Red. Put it into action." He walked over to the cupboard and put the strange lock on it. I pouted. These two were out to kill us. I don't even think we'll make it an hour without all that food.
"Have fun. Bye guys." The two walked out the door and left. Knuckles and I looked at each other.
"What should we do now?" I shrugged.
"I guess we should start unloading the boxes from the moving truck." He groaned.
"Aren't there supposed to be movers to do that?"
"The movers only bring the furniture and the other heavy stuff. I just borrowed their truck so I could bring all my boxes at one time." He raised an eyebrow and smirked.
"You know, I know how we can get to that food." Now it was my turn to raise an eyebrow at him. Not only because he went completely off-topic, but also because I wanted to hear this "brilliant" plan of his.
"How?"
"Instead of taking off the lock, we could just take down the cupboard doors." My jaw dropped.
"Hell no! Do you have any idea how much it costs to fix them?!" He chuckled.
"Take it easy Pinky. Just a suggestion."
I rolled my eyes. "Whatever Knox."
"Oh you started that nickname with me?"
"You call me Pinky."
"Knox is degrading."
"Pinky is embarrassing."
"I put consideration into that name before I started calling you that." Just that second, his phone began to ring. "Hang on. Hello?" There was a pause before he handed the phone to me. "It's for you." I raised an eyebrow at him and he merely shrugged. I took the phone from his him anyways.
"Hello?" I heard chuckling on the other end.
"Hello Ames. Miss me?" I groaned.
"Goodbye Sonic." I hung up and handed the phone back to Knuckles. His jaw dropped.
"How did I not recognize his voice?" He paused for a moment. "No, the real question is how did he even get my number?" I gave him a pat on the shoulder.
"It's okay Knux. He's really sneaky." I sighed. Why couldn't Sonic just leave me alone for even a day? I get that he wants me back, but this is too much. I wanted him back when he cheated on me with Sally, but you didn't see me stalking his crazy ass around town back then. He just can't take a hint. He just can't accept that I've moved on and fallen in love with Shadow. I swear that idiot needs to check into a mental hospital though. Whatever feelings he has for me clearly aren't healthy.
"Let's start moving these boxes. We've been sitting for a good 15 minutes." He gave a goofy grin.
"We could do that, or.." He threw a water balloon at me and ran out the back door. My jaw dropped. Where did he even get a water balloon from? I swear that echidna was full of surprises.
"Knuckles! You won't get away with that!" He laughed and keep running around the backyard, with me hot on his tail.
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"Woah. This is one huge building." Rouge chuckled at my amazement.
"It isn't really that big once you get used to it."
"You don't consider a 60 story building huge?" She smiled and shook her head. "How did you get this job anyways Rouge?" She paused for a minute before responding.
"Well, I'm a master jewel thief. I'm capable of stealing any jewel that I lay my eyes on without having the slightest fear of being spotted. I've done everything, from stealing the Queen's precious pearl necklace to simply snatching a gold chain off of a random lady on the sidewalk, there isn't anything that I haven't done. I not only have a love for jewels, but I also love the thrill of running away from the big guys. It's always fun seeing them come as a group of nearly a hundred people and not even one of them can catch me," she sighed. "The night that I was finally caught however, that was a night that no Mobian could forget. It was literally written down as one of the greatest achievements in Mobian history. I spent a few nights in jail while the court decided what my fate would be. When it was announced that I would have to serve a 35 year sentence, Matt and Commander Green came to the court hearing and made an offer with the judge: I work with G.U.N. or I go to jail. I obviously chose to work here and I'm glad I did, because I love my job." I was surprised. I never would've guessed that she had been through all that.
"Was Amy with you when all this was happening?"
She nodded. "She took it the hardest, even harder than I did. She spent hours screaming at me, asking me how I could've been so foolish, so careless, and how I shouldn't even had gone for the jewel that night. Since her and Sonic were together back then, they both tried their hardest to get the judge to lighten my punishment. It didn't work, but I was still thankful that they at least tried." I nodded.
"Look on the bright side, you'll have one hell of a story to tell your grandkids when you're older." She chuckled and shoved me.
"I guess. Being a jewel thief isn't something that I want my grandchildren to be bragging about though. I know that being related to a criminal might be cool to them, but there could be other problems that might follow them because of me." I nodded.
"I can't imagine what you're going through but I completely understand where you're coming-"
"Rouge!" We turned around to see a giant robot standing behind us. Its focus seemed to be more on me than my possible partner though.
Rouge sighed. "Omega, this is-"
"Shadow. Species: Hedgehog. Date of birth: Unknown. Created by Gerald Robotnik over 50 years ago. Physically around 18 years of age. Appearance: Red eyes, black fur with red streaks in upward pointed quills, white tuff on chest and gold inhibitors rings around wrists and ankles along with red, white and gold colored hover shoes. Special abilities: Chaos powers, speed-"
"Okay, we get it! Thank you Omega!" I chuckled at how irritated Rouge got. She looked about ready to reprogram this robot with a sledgehammer. If the robot could, he'd roll his eyes right now.
"Whatever Agent Rouge. You're no fun. You don't hear me yelling whenever you flirt with your boyfriend on the phone for hours on end." I chuckled as Rouge growled, her muzzle a light shade of red.
"Shadow, this is E-123, but he goes by the name Omega. He was one of Eggman's bad robots but he turned over to the good side and works alongside me. We aren't partners on the field but we work together in my office." I nodded.
"Is he going to work here Agent Rouge?" She turned to me with a sly smirk.
"If the interview goes well, then yes." I smirked as well.
"What is Matt like?" She turned her smirk into a small grin.
"Matt is one of the most calmest, funniest, and most caring people you'll ever meet. I forget he's my boss more than half of the time because of how laidback he is. He's a kid at heart. He's the main reason why I love my job. If I had any other boss, I wouldn't want to work for anyone except him."
"He seems young." Rouge nodded.
"He's 22." I raised my eyebrows in surprise.
"How is he in charge of this place then?" The snow white bat chuckled.
"He's a genius. He graduated from Mobius University at the age of 12. He wanted to be a brain surgeon, but they said that he had to be 18. So he gave up on that dream and started working here and soon got promoted to the CEO." She sighed. "He reminds of Tails. Those two are so much alike."
"Who's Tails?" She widened her eyes at me like I was supposed to know who this guy was.
"He's Sonic's best friend-"
"No wonder I don't know him." She glared at me for interrupting her.
"Not only that, but he's good friends with Amy, Knuckles and I."
"Where is he now?"
"He's a mechanic. He runs his own car rental shop on the other side of town. It's called X, named after his plane, the X Tornado. It's filled with cars that he bought and majority that he built himself. The place is very popular since there aren't many car rental shops on Mobius. He's very successful and he's only 19." I was impressed. This kid definitely made a name for himself. "Since the store is such a sucess, he's always busy building new cars and managing the place, so we hardly see him as much as we used to."
"Wow. Sonic is friends with a guy like that? That's not good for the kid's image. Associating with an idiot like him." Rouge shoved me.
"He isn't all bad Red. Besides what he's done to you and Pinks, he isn't really a bad guy." I raised an eyebrow. After everything that guy has done to not only her and Rose, but throughout all the years I've known him, she still has the nerve to defend him?
"Isn't such a bad guy? Rouge, you know what he's done to us. How can you still defend him like this?" She rolled her sapphire blue eyes and scoffed, putting a hand on her hip.
"Honestly Shadow, I know that you dislike him but-"
"More like hate his pathetic guts."
"I know you don't hate him as much as you claim. Back to my point, think logically Red. He hasn't done anything directly to me. I was caught in the crossfire because I associate with you and Amy. I have no reason to dislike him as much as you two do. He's still a good friend of mine. He's just blinded by his desire to win Amy's heart again. Love makes people do crazy things." Maybe she had a point, but he still didn't deserve any smpathy, at least not from Rose and I. Especially not me.
"Well I'm not going to forgive him for everything he's done to me, and I know that Rose won't either." Rouge simply shook her head.
"You're so stubborn. I don't know what Pinks sees in you." I smirked.
"I'm not only charming, but very good looking. That is one of the many things Rose adores about me." She chuckled.
"Okay Red, answer this question. Would you take a bullet for him?" I started laughing.
"Hell no. I'd most likely be the one pulling the trigger if anything." She gave me her look. I sighed. "I'd also shove him in front of one if that's the answer you're looking for." She punched me in the arm. Hard. I groaned in pain.
"I don't believe that was the answer she was looking for Mr. Shadow." Omega stated. Rouge rolled her eyes.
"Thank you for stating the obvious Omega. As for-"
"You're welcome Agent Rouge." She growled as I chuckled. I could get used to this guy. Although, if he irritated me like that, I'd toss him out of the window or turn him into a paperweight.
"As for you, Shadow. Sonic is still your cousin and it's wrong for family to hate each other. I don't know what caused you two to dislike each other this much, but this feud between you guys is extremely childish. You fight over everything. Who has a better car, who has a better place, who makes more money, who has a better girlfriend. It's was a friendly rivalry at first, correct?" Reluctantly, I nodded. "Well now it's torn you two apart and possibly messed up Blue's mental state," she placed a hand on my shoulder, "Look Red, I'm not here to nag you about what to do because you're an adult and I shouldn't have to. You should decide for yourself what's right and what's wrong. The only reason why I'm telling you all of this is because it's my honest opinion, and I woudn't say it if I believed that I was wrong." I nodded. Rouge had made a few valid points, but that doesn't mean that I would forgive Sonic straight away. After all that his sorry blue ass has done to me, he'd have to earn my respect back, and that isn't an easy task. He had made my life miserable when he stole Sally from me and I'd be damned if he did the same with Rose. I was pulled out of my train of thought when Rouge snapped her fingers in my face.
"Hello, Shadow? Earth to Red. Are you in there?" I looked down at her to see her usual smug face staring back at me. She chuckled. "I guess I turned a few gears with that little lecture, huh?" I smirked.
"Yeah you did, but not exactly in a good way." She groaned.
"Whatever. It's time for your interview anyways."
I raised an eyebrow. "I thought I was here to schedule an interview."
She chuckled again. "Oh. I guess I didn't mention it. I already had the interview scheduled and I only needed for you to come down to his office for it."
"You're one sneaky bat Rouge." She smirked.
"Of course I am Red. I wouldn't be a jewel thief then, would I?" She asked while twirling my watch on her finger. My jaw dropped.
"How did you do that?" I snatched the watch out of her hand and put it back on.
"A magician never reveals her secrets. I'm the master for a reason buddy. I'm also the best spy that this organization has."
"No wonder Matt wanted to work as a spy. You have a real talent." She gave me a toothy grin, showing off her white teeth.
"Aww. Thanks handsome. Now let's run. You're gonna be late." I smirked.
"Not a problem." I grabbed her arm and ran to Matt's office, which was all the way across the hall. Her jaw dropped.
"That was literally less than a second."
I chuckled. "Sonic isn't the fastest thing alive compared to me." I gave her a salute as I marched into Matt's office. When I was about to close the door, Rouge gave me a thumbs up while wishing me good luck and walked away. I smirked. I could get used to working alongside her. With her being my girlfriend's best friend and my best friend's girlfriend, I already see her enough so working with her shouldn't be hard. I honestly didn't have a choice. Now there was only one task that I had to complete.
Finding that bat a nickname.
x-x-x-x
"Knuckles! Did you bring in that last box?!" It's been an hour and a half since Rouge and Shadow left and Knuckles and I only start unloading the truck a half hour ago. After that idiot hit me with a water balloon, I had to go dry my hair and change my clothes while he played on his phone. Long story short, instead of breaking his phone like I dearly wanted, I stuffed it in my bra so he couldn't get it.
"I'm bringing it in right now!" I heard the red echidna yell back from outside. I arranged the boxes in a neat pile in the corner of the living room and plopped down next to it. The floor felt cold since I was wearing a flowy floral tank top, ripped jeans and gold sandals, but I didn't mind.
"I'm so tired." I heard Knuckles scoff from the kitchen as he a box down on the counter.
"How are you tired? I should be the one conplaining. I had to carry all of your heavy boxes from the truck to your house. All you did is push the boxes into a corner and make them look pretty." I rolled my eyes at his whining.
"You are complaining though, so your rant was basically pointless. Also, I did not just push boxes in a corner and make them look pretty. I also helped you unload boxes as well." He crossed his arms over his chest.
'What are you saying?" I facepalmed.
"In other words, I'm telling you to shut up."
"Hello beautiful people." Right when he was about to make another comment, Rouge and Shadow barged in through the front door. I frowned.
"I really have to start locking that." Rouge smiled and wrapped an arm around my shoulders.
"Wow, you guys did a good job. We'll start unpacking the boxes soon. What do you already have laid out in the house?" I thought for a moment.
"Just my bed and a duffel bag with a few outfits and necessities." My best friend nodded and patted my head.
"Good girl Pinks." Knuckles and I looked at each other and grinned.
"So.."
"Give us the key." Knuckles finished. Rouge blinked a few times.
"Oh! The food!" She turned to my ebony boyfriend, "Shadow, give them the key so they can unlock the cupboard and get the food." He nodded.
"Hang on." He patted his pockets and paused. He then searched his jacket pockets and slowly stopped. He looked up at us and chuckled nervously. I walked up to him.
"What's wrong sweetie?"
"I think I lost the key." My eyes widened, along with my best friend's.
"WHAT?!" We yelled in unison.
"You mean I carried all this stuff for nothing?!" Knuckles exclaimed.
"And we had to wait for an entire hour and thirty minutes just for you to tell us that you lost the key?!" I added.
Shadow paused, clearly surprised at our behavior. "...Yes?" My red friend and I growled at him. After all the hard work we've done, all the abuse we've endured of not eating any food, he goes and pulls this stunt. Oh, this hedgehog wasn't coming out of this battle alive. Knuckles and I exchanged glances and nodded.
"It's okay sweetie." Shadow looked puzzled.
"Really?"
"No." Knuckles smirked and cracked his knuckles.
"ATTACK!" Shadow let out a yell as Knuckles and I tackled him.
"ROUGE! OW! DO SOMETHING!" Knuckles was sitting on the ebony hedgehog's back and was yanking on his quills mercilessly while I held his legs at breaking point, bending them in a very awkward position.
"I'm on it!" Rouge flew over to the cupboard.
Despite the pain, Shadow smirked. "You know Rose, since you enjoy being down there, I have a different job available for you." I rolled my eyes at his dirty comment and bit his thigh hard. "OW! ROSE, LET GO!" Less than a second later, the lock was tossed, hitting Knuckles in the face.
"Ow! My head. Rouge!" He got off of Shadow and stood up, nursing his injured forhead. The slender bat giggled and shoved me off of Shadow and helped him up as well.
"I need him alive to help me at work people."
"How did you open it? You can't pick the lock." Shadow asked, nursing his pained thigh as he sat back down. He was so adorable when he was in pain. Sounds sick and twisted yes, but it's the truth. He did this little pout and his eyes grew really soft. He's got me under a spell.
"Who said anything about picking Red." She tossed him a silver object. I raised an eyebrow. A knife?
"A laser pen, of course. Did G.U.N. give you this?" She nodded.
"They"ll give you a whole bunch of weapons too. Shotguns, assault rifles, laser pens, grenades, memory eraser pens, jetpacks-"
"Cool! Wait. Why don't you have one Rouge?" She rolled her eyes at her boyfriend.
"Because, Knucklehead, I have these." She flexed her wings to emphasize her point. My jaw dropped when my attention over to the red echidna.
"Hey Knuckles! Don't finish everything!" I ran over to him, leaving a fair share amount of junk for Shads and Rouge, and began to devour the food alongside my favorite echidna. It was so good and was definitely worth the wait and beatdown. I chuckled at the memory of Knuckles and I beating up Shadow a few minutes ago. Haha, never come between hungry people and their food. Poor Shaddie has to find that out the hard way. I don't think we hurt him that much though. That was more like an eye opener in my opinion. Now he won't get hurt next time because he learned his lesson today. Anyways, about thirty mintes later, after we had finished all of the food, I stood up and faced the group with a grin.
"Okay, who wants to help me unpack these boxes?" The three groaned and sat back down. I sweatdropped. "I'm going to take that as a no."
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Wow, it's been so long since I've updated. I'm terribly sorry to my readers. I've seen all your reviews requesting that I update, but I honestly don't know what happened to me. I assume it was out of laziness, but no more of that. I'll try my hardest to update but also keep in mind that I have other stories to update as well so I can't be everywhere. Just be patient and bear with me please. The next story to be updated is Let Love Find You.
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