Chapter One
My boyfriend's a what?
It was once again the end of the school day and all the students rushed out as soon as that bell rang. The corridors filled with hyped up students eager to start the spring half term of two whole weeks of no school, no homework and plenty of fun. Shadow stood in front of his locker and placed his things into his school bag in a fast pace, placing some personal books in there he takes everywhere he goes. Just as he zipped up his backpack, put it on and closed his locker up someone called out his name with a cheerful voice.
"Hey Shadow, what are your plans for half term break?" Sonic shouted as he jogged over to Shadow, zipping through the crowd of students quickly dispersing out of the school.
"I am going away for a few days next weekend so until then nothing, why?" Shadow said with an anxious look that went unnoticed.
"Well me and the guys were wondering, well more like I was wondering, if you wanted to come camping with us in the week. It's only going to be for a few days starting Monday afternoon and ending Thursday morning. So what do ya say, want to come?" Sonic asked with a nervous grin, really hoping his huge crush, love interest more like since he did love him, would say yes.
"You are inviting me to go camping with you and your friends?" Shadow smirked a little deviously as he locked eyes with Sonic.
"Y-yeah so fancy some great out doors, well more like the great indoors as we will be staying at a cabin in the middle of the woods close to a lake. There still will be a camp fire with roasted marshmallows and ghost story's." Sonic said as he was getting more nervous and trying to calm his heart rate from the way Shadow was smirking at him.
"Why would you want me to come when we don't really hang out during or after school? Not that I am not grateful for the invite but I am curious as to why." Shadow asked as he motioned Sonic to walk and talk so they could leave the school.
"Erm well you see, er..." Sonic stuttered as he tried to come up with a believable excuse but his mind was failing him.
"Or did you invite me because you harbour some feelings for me and wish to spend time with me without having to confess your ever dying love for me?" Shadow teased as he was fully aware of how Sonic felt about him.
"Huh? How did you...it was Rouge wasn't it? She told you or hinted out to you somehow." Sonic said as he was now looking very annoyed.
"No one told me anything, I'm sure you are very aware most if not all the students prefer to stay away from me. Well apart from you, Mephiles and Silver. Besides I knew from the moment I first stepped into our first class together. You were like all goo-goo eyes on me, I so happen to be very good at pretending I don't notice." Shadow said with a smooth voice as they both pushed the double doors open and left the school.
"Well that and I read your thoughts on me, must admit I do look sexy in that head of yours Sonic." Shadow thought as he began to smirk a little.
"You did, do!" Sonic shouted out in shock at hearing this, having some of the stragglers look their way.
"Of course I also gave you some rather discrete glances your way too. You intrigue me greatly and you make me feel strange feelings inside like this warm electric feeling explodes and I cannot control my heart rate. You are the first ever to achieve this and I've been to many different locations during my travels." Shadow said with his smirk softening to a warm smile while looking a little flirtatiously at Sonic.
"Again that and I do love the way you think about me." Shadow thought as he kept smiling at Sonic.
"Wow really? I mean cool well wanna grab an ice cream or something with me?" Sonic asked as he tried to play it cool but knew he was epically failing.
"Sure why not, I have some time to kill." Shadow replied with his smirk back in place then both walked side by side towards the ice cream parlour a few blocks away from the school.
"Shadow where you going!?" Silver called out as he ran towards the two then began to walk beside Shadow with a questionable expression.
"I'm going on a date with my new boyfriend, isn't that right Sonic." Shadow chuckled as he winked at Silver with a devious smirk.
"Yeah that's right wait did you just call me your boyfriend?" Sonic said with a raised brow, heart doing flips in his chest.
"Of course I did because you are unless you do not wish for a relationship with me and just want a bit of fun. I can go either way really but would prefer a relationship so no pressure, I'm told I'm not easy to please." Shadow said as he nudged Sonic playfully while they walked.
"But you're not that easy to please or make happy." Silver rolled his eyes at that comment since it was totally true.
"Hey I can make you happy, I can make you very happy Shads." Sonic grinned as he gave Shadow a flirtatious wink.
"Yeah sure you could." Silver said with disbelief as he has known Shadow for a very long time and has yet to see anyone deeply satisfy Shadow in any way.
"Well I'll leave you both too it and I will let Mephiles know you are not coming home until later. See ya when you get back home Shadow, enjoy your little date." Silver said then turned and walked back the way he came.
"Something tells me he doesn't like me very much." Sonic sighed as glanced at Shadow, both almost reaching their destination.
"No he doesn't, neither does Mephiles. Don't ask me why because I have no clue to that answer. You didn't do anything to them did you?" Shadow casually lied for he did know the reason then glanced at Sonic with a sly grin at his question.
"Erm..." Sonic said as he thought back under a month ago when the two of them first arrived at his school until present time.
"Nope not that I can recall and I would like to believe if I've upset someone then I'll remember." Sonic shrugged as he didn't think of anything he did, in fact he hardly spoke to them both.
"Then I really don't know what to say, maybe they just simply do not like you. Can't expect to be liked by all. Hey I can see the parlour, come on let's get this date started." Shadow said as he grabbed onto Sonic's hand then began to run towards the place, dragging Sonic in the process.
"Aren't we eager, not that I'm complaining." Sonic chuckled as he found this display rather cute.
"Damn straight and I'm also expecting an after date kiss too so be prepared to give me your best and delectable kiss." Shadow smirked as he looked back at Sonic with a wink then slowed down as they were steps away from the entrance door.
"Oh I'll give you way more than just a kiss babe." Sonic thought as he grinned at Shadow.
"Oh really now Sonic, I do wonder what you will give me." Shadow thought after hearing Sonics thoughts.
They entered the ice cream parlour holding hands and sat down in an eight seater booth, since all the tables with less spaces were already taken up, sitting very closely next to each other in the middle of the curved sofa like leather seat. They chose their desired sweet treat and waited for it to arrive.
"So this camping trip I'm attending with you and your friends, will we all be sharing a room during the night?" Shadow asked as he really didn't feel comfortable with sharing a room at night with a bunch of people he didn't know well.
"Some of us will have to share or you have the option in sleeping outside above the stars. I'm sleeping outside so I get the full camping experience." Sonic said with a smile at Shadow.
"That and I do not want you to see what I turn into when the sun sets every night. You will run for the hills and I'll never see you again." Sonic thought with a deep inner sadness at that happening, of course he never let that sadness be shown on his features.
"Right well I think I'll have a room and I doubt it any of your friends will want to share with me. They don't seem to like me very much which is why I'm surprised they agreed with you asking me to attend or do they not know yet?" Shadow smirked as he spoke to Sonic, still looking at him.
"Yeah they know and actually they were the ones to get me to ask ya. They kind of know how I feel about you and I guess they want to get to know you as well." Sonic smiled happily as he spoke back, not all that sure himself as he was surprised when his friends told him to invite Shadow this morning.
"Speaking of your friends, they seem to be walking towards the entrance door. Oh look they are walking in and spotted us." Shadow said with some amusement in his voice.
"What? Well so much for a date alone with ya." Sonic sighed but kept a smile on his muzzle as he waved back at his friends approaching him and Shadow.
"Hey we were wondering where you were Sonic. So Shadow you coming camping with us?" Amy sweetly said with a small smile at the two hedgehog's.
"That I am but still can't help but to wonder why you would want me there since you all do not like me very much." Shadow said with a semi serious expression, getting suspicious of their motives.
"I do not know who told you we didn't like you but they are lying, we just simply do not know you and want to. That and Sonic wouldn't shut up about the possibility of you coming too." Rouge said with a grin, all now sitting around the table.
"Oh so they wanted me to invite Shadow just to shut me up?" Sonic thought but kept a smile on his muzzle regardless how annoyed he felt at hearing that.
"Yeah he was like, oh wouldn't it be a great trip if Shadow was coming too...it would be the best camping trip in history if Shadow was coming too...I bet Shadow would love to come with us and make the trip even more fun...you guys are absolutely the best, I'm going to ask Shadow to come with us next week right after school today." Knuckles said as he imitated Sonics voice a little when mentioning all what the blue hedgehog had said.
"I can just imagine. So the strange looks I thought you were giving me when you didn't think I was looking your way was just all in my head? Well I am glad we cleared all of that up since I'm sure you will be seeing more of me now that I am Sonics boyfriend." Shadow smirked with an amused expression at the shocked looks from Sonic's friends.
"You are both a couple now, since when?" Tails asked as he could have sworn Sonic was a single guy during last period.
"Since twenty minutes ago." Sonic smiled in an anxious way as he was now being given disbelieved looks from his friends.
"Wait we tell you it is cool with us for you to ask Shadow to come camping and you also ask him out as well? Just goes to show you have balls Sonic." Knuckles smirks at the blue hedgehog playfully.
"You are kidding me, I thought this was just a little crush you had and that it would pass. The only reason we agreed for you to invite Shadow was so you can see he wasn't good for you." Amy cried out and not caring Shadow was there to hear her words.
"Ha! I know you all didn't like me, not that I care if you do or not but you didn't have to lie. I'm a big boy and can handle the truth ya know." Shadow smugly said as he lend back and crossed his arms while smirking a little deviously.
"Yeah ok we don't particularly trust you and have heard story's from others about you. Believable story's that have some evidence behind them." Knuckles said with an unfriendly frown at Shadow.
"Yeah like what? I haven't heard anything bad about Shadow." Sonic seriously asked as he was not all that happy right now and definitely looked it too.
"Yeah that's because you refuse to hear anything bad about Shadow." Amy rolled her eyes as this was true for as soon as Shadows name was mentioned by someone close Sonic would walk away.
"Have you been told this one? According to this guy from school I worship the Devil and sacrifice babies to him once ever three months." Shadow said in an all too serious tone then burst out laughing as he knew damn well he didn't do any of that, he didn't need to.
"Yeah we have and others." Tails said with a nervous look.
"Oh please if you listen to that and believe it then you are seriously in need of a brain. Granted I look like an evil occult member that worships the king of hell but trust me I do not drop to the ground and worship the very ground he walks upon. Also killing a baby would be barbaric and just damn right cruel, I would prefer to sacrifice a virgin teenage girl of about sixteen. Hey I'm kidding I wouldn't do that either so chill pill or something." Shadow said with a laugh as he spoke feeling very entertained right now.
"So it's not true even though this guy has a picture on his phone that he uploaded onto this website? Here I'll get the image up and show you." Rouge said as she was sitting next to Shadow then got her phone out of her jacket pocket.
"Erm here's your ice cream boys, enjoy. Can I get anybody anything?" The waitress said with a smile as she placed two bowls of ice cream in front of Sonic and Shadow.
"No thanks we are all good." Amy brightly said and had Knuckles and Tails nod in agreement.
Rouge would have nodded in agreement but she was far to busy trying to find that picture.
"Thanks." Sonic smiled back then moved the bowl closer to himself.
"Yes thank you very much Grace, it looks wonderful as usual." Shadow grinned a little flirtatiously as he looked at the grey cat while doing the same as Sonic.
"If there is anything else just call ok." Grace said with a faint blush on her cheeks then rushed off to take someone else's order.
No one seemed to have noticed that which was a good thing for Shadow as Sonic would not have been very pleased.
"Here it is, see." Rouge suddenly said with a semi loud voice then passed Shadow her phone.
Shadow took it gently then looked at the blurred image in the dark, having Sonic lean over to look also.
"Ok so you heard that story saw this photo and put two-and-two together? Sorry to say this looks nothing like me, it doesn't even look like a hedgehog. Although it might have something to do with it being a very poor quality and dark. Then again if you squint your eyes and tilt your head to the left a little then bring the picture closer to your eyes...Wow that's amazing, it's a freaking bush." Shadow said as he examined the picture like he instructed and could just make out a poorly hand shaped bush.
"So in a very strange way it is a hedge-hog. Heh-heh get it?" Sonic said as he laughed at his own joke, Shadow chuckling as well.
The friends dead-panned at the joke and didn't find it at all funny.
"Yeah whatever you say." Amy rolled her eyes, feeling a little offended by the joke, being a hedgehog herself.
"Oh lighten up you lot, it wasn't that bad of a joke." Shadow smirked then ate some of his strawberry ice cream.
"Yeah I could have said something like..." Sonic began to say but Knuckles threw a hand over his mouth.
"That will be all thank you Sonic, just eat your damn ice cream and no more cheesy jokes." Knuckles seriously said then removed his hand.
"So the story's are just rumours coming from people with over active imaginations?" Tails asked as he looked at Shadow.
"Na it's all true apart from the devil worshipping and baby killing. Oh and of course that picture is clearly fake too." Shadow casually said with a shrug.
"So you did beat a guy into a coma and went on the run for two weeks?" Tails said with wide eyes.
"And robbed a jewellery store then pawned the goods for cash?" Rouge asked with slight interest.
"And stabbed your abusive father in the gut then ran away from home where you met Silver and Mephiles, now living with them?" Knuckles asked as he was a little sceptical about that one.
"Tails it was more like broke the guys arm after being harassed by him. Rouge I stole nothing from that place so that one is not true. And Knuckles I do not have parents so how could I do that when they are not here to do so? Yes I live with Silver and Mephiles but I didn't bump into them when apparently running away from home." Shadow cleared up on all those rumours the friends have heard going around school, of course lying when he said he didn't have parents but he had good reasons to.
"Although the one about being chased by the cops is true, you heard that one?" Shadow smirked with a level of pride as he not only outran them but got away with breaking and entering someone's home.
"No we haven't, that must be a new story going around but I guess it isn't a story and true." Tails frowned as he was getting a little anxious sitting around this table with Shadow so close to him.
"Then how did you meet Silver and Mephiles?" Sonic asked with interest then scooped some bubble gum Ice cream into his mouth.
"It's complicated and a story for a time when I can trust you all. No offence but I don't trust any of you to not open your traps and talk to others about it. Before you defend yourself Sonic I trust you ok just not your friends, so I'll tell ya later on." Shadow said with a semi serious tone.
"Hey no rush, tell me in your own time besides I don't think they would like me knowing much about them considering they don't like me." Sonic grinned playfully at Shadow then nudged him lightly.
"What do you mean they don't like you?" Amy asked with a frown as she believed Sonic was very likeable.
"Oh you know they think Sonic is a fake and lying to the world about something but don't know what. They sense something inside of him that is dark in nature, I told them they are being paranoid and should just drop it." Shadow casually said as he looked into his bowl and was scraping the last of his desert with his spoon.
Sonic and the friends tensed up at that and were looking at each other with anxious expression.
"I-I thought you said you didn't know the reason?" Sonic nervously said as he glanced at Shadow.
"I didn't want to ruin our date but now it doesn't feel like a date so I'm sharing." Shadow shrugged as he replied.
"Yeah ok you are right, totally being paranoid I mean do I look the type to have something dark in me?" Sonic said as he rubbed the back of his neck while smiling at Shadow.
"Yeah Sonic is so far away from being dark and evil, he wouldn't hurt a fly buzzing around his head and we all know how annoying that can be." Knuckles said as he forced a calm voice.
"It's not like Sonic is a demon pretending to be a normal being and going around causing chaos wherever he goes. Now that would be worthy in calling someone a fake and a liar." Rouge said as she was a little angry with the accusations while also trying to change the subject, the first thing that popped into her head was demons thanks to her religious class last period.
"What is wrong with demons? I heard they are not all that bad and some can even be friendly to a select few." Shadow asked with a small level of innocence then frowned with crossed arms as all around the table began to laugh.
"You serious? Demons are the most evil, lying, scheming beings to ever walk the earth." Amy laughed as she lent back against the back rest.
"I cannot believe you actually believe in what you heard, demons being friendly that is priceless." Knuckles said as he wiped a small tear that appeared during his fit.
"Demons are in no way friendly or good Shadow. Besides they don't really exist and there is no hard evidence out there to say they do, unless you are religious." Tails said as he was calming down from laughing so much.
"Right sure of course. I know that but just had to say what I heard, needed to get you lot laughing somehow." Shadow chuckled as he put on an act, making it look as if those comments didn't hurt him deeply.
"Well it was way better than Sonic's joke that's for sure." Knuckles said with a grin, liking Shadow a little more now.
"Besides I believe demons exist and I'm in no way religious." Sonic said as he was glad the subject was changed to something other than his little secret.
"Here we go again, Sonic they do not exist there is simply just bad people about that are evil and twisted. What you think you saw was probably someone pranking you and messing with your head." Amy sighed with despair in her voice.
"Cool a ghost story, let's hear it then." Shadow said with excitement and moving very close to Sonic.
"Just keep an open mind ok Shads. Ok I was at home all alone right and I woke up at gone two in the morning because I heard a loud bang coming from the living room. So I rushed out of bed and ran down the hallway towards the living room. When I burst through the door I froze up. It was ice cold and dark in there but I could make out this shape near the TV. It has these glowing orange eyes and was growling like some wild animal. It spoke in this weird language and moved quickly towards me then I was flung backwards, landing on my butt back in the hallway. Seconds after the coldness disappeared and the figure vanished. Now tell me that was not a demon in my home because the evidence clearly state it was." Sonic explained what happened to him a few nights ago with some fear in his voice.
"Sounds like a demon." Shadow said with a calculated expression.
"Way to encourage this Shadow." Amy groaned with unhappy features.
"Hey let me finish. As I was saying it sounds like a demon but it also sounds like a tormented spirit. Do you mind if I come over and check out your place Sonic? I'm very good at this sort of thing and can get rid of anything that might be choosing to live among you without your permission." Shadow said with a way too excited expression, practically begging Sonic to say yeah sure.
"Hell yeah please, it is freaking me out big time. I come home and all my kitchen cupboards are open with food thrown all over the floor, I can never get a proper signal on the TV, things go missing then reappear someplace else and sometimes my shower turns on by itself in the night." Sonic said as he was very much looking forward to taking Shadow home after this was-a-date-but-not-any-more date with company.
"Ok how about we go now?" Shadow said with eagerness as he stood up with excitement.
"Whoa there, you guys are just going to go ghost busting and not invite us?" Knuckles said as he watched the two hedgehogs stand up, Shadow first then Sonic slowly got up after.
"Why would you all want to come when you don't even believe me?" Sonic asked as he raised a surprise brow at his friends.
"Hey let them come, we can make believers out of them." Shadow said as he grabbed Sonic's arm with both hands and looking right into Sonic's eyes that were not in his direction but in Knuckles'.
"Well alright but when this is all over I want apologise from each and every one of you." Sonic grinned with amusement as his friends groaned and they all began to stand.
"Ok I'll pay for our ice cream and meet ya outside." Shadow said then got out of his space by jumping onto the table then jumping down where there was a gap to get free.
"Did he really just do that?" Rouge asked as she was a little taken back by Shadow's actions yet held some respect for him to have the guts to do something like that.
"Yeah isn't he awesome. Come on let's go." Sonic chuckled then all began to leave the parlour.
They passed Shadow at the cash till sorting out payment then left the parlour. After a couple of minutes Shadow came out holding a slice of pie in a plastic container, using a plastic fork to eat it with.
"You got pie?" Sonic raised a brow as now he knew why Shadow was taking his time.
"Yeah, cherry. Can't banish a ghost on a pie empty stomach, here try some." Shadow smirked then slowly fed Sonic some pie seductively.
"Ok guys can you cut the sexual feeding and get going already." Rouge smirked as she did find this display quite entertaining to witness.
"Yeah yeah." Sonic said with a mouthful of pie then began to lead the way.
(Thanks for reading and if it does well and people want more I will upload the next chapter. So if you want to read more then please write a review and let me know what you think. All reviews are welcomed just don't be too harsh please.)
