S. Chensu: Today, we're not having any random characters because to be
honest, I can't be arsed to write about them.
Sonic: At last, we haven't been mentioned for ages!
Luff: Some people have egos that are far too large for their brain size.
Sonic: What are you trying to say?
Shadow: She's trying to say that you're stupid. And I agree with her.
Sonic: I'm not stupid!
Shadow: Then how come you still don't know about Knuckles and Rouge yet?
Sonic: Because the nasty authoresses did it to me!
Luff: Oh so we're nasty are we? For saying that you can read the disclaimer.
Sonic: Fine then. S. Chensu and Luff don't own us, the Sonic characters. In fact all they own is the story and Hissy the Goose.
S. Chensu: You'll find out about him later. He's a once-in-a-story character.
Shadow: Yes, thank goodness for that, after what he did to us I don't think I can ever handle bread again.
S. Chensu: But we'll let you find out about him so it's on with the episode!
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Episode ten: The boring part 2
Eggman woke up early in the morning with an aching back and sore arse. He stood up and stretched before closing the balcony window a fraction, as it had begun to get cold. He turned back and saw Rouge and Knuckles lying together on the sofa. Smiling slightly, he went to the kitchen to get some breakfast. As he sat at the table chewing on his toast, he thought about the recent events and how things were different only a couple of months ago.
~Sonic and me were deadly enemies then.~ Eggman thought. ~What happened Ivo? You would have killed all three of them by now. But I can't, not now. I think things changed a lot when we had to work together, although I told myself then it was just so I didn't die. It's hard to forget something like that.~ He looked back at Knuckles and Rouge on the sofa. ~And I don't have my full band of accomplices anymore. She would never betray him, that's for sure. Nope, things are definitely different now.~ He stood up and put the plate in the sink. Once that was done, he decided to have a look at the bedrooms.
He was pleased to see that the second coat had now dried in all three rooms. Taking some clothes from his cupboard, he went to go and have a shower.
~I'd better get the others up soon if I want to do the other rooms.~
Meanwhile, Rouge had now woken up and she moved her head round slightly so she could look at Knuckles. His mouth was slightly open and.
"Is that drool I see?" She exclaimed in disgust and after checking herself to make sure she didn't have any on her, she took a corner of the duvet and wiped his chin. Once that was done, she shut his mouth and his eyes flickered open. He frowned at her in puzzlement.
"What did you do that for?" He asked.
"You were drooling." She replied, barely able to stop herself from laughing as he blushed in embarrassment.
"Um.sorry about that." He mumbled and she shrugged her shoulders.
"It doesn't matter." She whispered before kissing him on the cheek.
"Morning all." Tails said loudly, as Shadow cleared his throat. Knuckles and Rouge stared at them, wondering how long they had been standing there. Tails elbowed Shadow, sniggering. "You were drooling." He imitated, starting to laugh uncontrollably.
"Ew, drool!" Shadow exclaimed, in a mock girly voice. He joined in laughing with Tails as they walked towards the kitchen. Rouge rolled her eyes and got up, leaving a crimson coloured Knuckles sitting on the sofa. He got up a few moments later after some encouragement from Rouge (accompanied by retching noises from Shadow and Tails) to get breakfast as well.
"You don't have to do that you know." Rouge said coldly as they sat at the table eating their food.
"Give us a reason why we shouldn't." Tails said instead.
"Because I can kick both your asses and you wouldn't be able to do a thing." She said, a smirk on her face.
"Why not?" Shadow asked.
"Because I'm a girl. You're not allowed to retaliate against me." She explained, crossing her arms.
"Typical! Exploit our weakness!" Tails exclaimed. "Nevermind, as long as you don't kick our asses anytime soon, we'll continue in our childish behaviour."
"Childish behaviour? I don't want to take part in that." Shadow commented distastefully.
"If only Sonic had enough brain cells to understand what's going on. It's very annoying to do your work when your accomplice isn't there to help." Tails said, sighing.
"Don't worry, it can't be much longer.can it?" Rouge looked at Knuckles who shrugged his shoulders.
"Depends if he's in his own little world or not. If so, he won't realise people are together until the wedding bells are ringing."
"And how soon will that be you two then?" Tails asked seriously.
"No comment." Rouge snapped, trying to stop them from embarrassing Knuckles anymore. "You really don't know when to give up, do you?" She stood up suddenly and stormed off, slamming the bathroom door behind her.
"Rouge, wait!" Knuckles shouted and he followed her into the bathroom. There was silence for a few moments.
"I think you've done it there." Shadow said quietly.
"It's not my fault she's being all sensitive. Probably that time of the month for her." Tails replied gloomily.
Just then Eggman came out of the other bathroom and frowned in puzzlement, looking from the other bathroom to Shadow and Tails sitting at the table.
"What did you do?" He asked as he took their plates and put them in the sink.
"We didn't do anything! She's just in a funny mood." Tails scoffed.
"Basically, Tails said a couple of things about Rouge and Knuckles and she was not impressed." Shadow explained.
"I guessed as much from the slamming door and the bitter attitude of Tails." Eggman commented. "Oh well, boys will be boys."
"I don't think Rouge is going to take that attitude." Shadow muttered as Sonic finally entered the room.
"Morning everyone." He said cheerfully but stopped when he saw everyone's faces. "What happened?"
"You obviously didn't hear Miss Moody slamming the door then." Tails said.
"Yes, I did actually, it woke me up. I was wondering who would do that."
"Now you know. When she comes out-"
"If she does." Tails muttered darkly.
"/When/ she comes out," Eggman repeated. "I want you all to just leave her in peace. She just needs some space and time to calm down." Tails shrugged his shoulders and he stood up to go and have a shower.
The atmosphere improved and Sonic decided to talk to Eggman while he ate his breakfast.
"So then, when are you going to do the other rooms?"
"Today, once everyone is ready. Hopefully because I will have started them earlier, you won't have to sleep on the sofas." Eggman explained.
"That's good. My room seems really empty with white walls." He commented before turning to Shadow. "So then, what shall we do today?"
"Why don't we got to the park? It's not too far away." Shadow suggested.
"Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. We just have to wait for the others to finish in the bathrooms."
"Luckily everyone is now out of their bedrooms so I can start painting." Eggman said and he stood up, walking towards Tails' room.
Sonic and Shadow sat in silence for several minutes until Rouge and Knuckles came out of the bathroom, looking cleaner than before. They looked briefly at their rooms before sitting down at the table, Rouge staring in surprise at the silence in the room.
"Hello, anyone there?" She asked, waving her hands in front of their faces.
"Eh? Sorry, just thinking." Shadow said while Sonic remained gormless.
"So then, what shall we do today?" Knuckles asked.
"We could go shopping." Rouge suggested lightly and this seemed to wake Sonic up.
"No, not shopping!" He shouted and he ran to the bathroom, closing the door behind him.
"Maybe not." Rouge said quietly.
"I had the idea that we could go to the park today." Shadow said.
"Good weather today too. Yeah, that sounds nice." Rouge said, smiling slightly at Knuckles.
"I agree. We need something relaxing after the last few days." Knuckles said. "Where's Tails?"
"In the bathroom. He's been there for a long time, I wonder what's happened to him?" Shadow pondered. Just then, Tails entered the room, scowling when he saw Rouge.
"Ah, there he is." Knuckles said as Tails sat down at the table. "If we want to do anything, you should probably get washed now Shadow." He didn't say anything but merely got up and sauntered off to the bathroom.
The three of them sat in silence for a few minutes until Rouge sighed and looked at Tails.
"Tails, I want to apologise for the way I acted earlier. I shouldn't have snapped at you like that, I'm sorry." She said quietly. Tails stared back at her and smiled.
"That's ok, maybe I shouldn't have gone that far." He paused. "But do you think you will ever get married?" Knuckles blushed slightly and Rouge laughed.
"I think it's early days yet. It depends how long we stay together. After all, we might break up." She didn't say anything else and Tails shrugged his shoulders.
"Yeah, I suppose so. Do you know what we're doing today?"
"Shadow suggested us going to the park, which I like the sound of." Rouge said. When he heard this, Tails stood up and started looking through the cupboards.
"What are you doing?" Knuckles asked, a small smile on his face.
"If we're going to the park then we need to take some bread for the ducks! You can't go to the park without feeding the ducks after all." Tails said, as though it was obvious.
"Have you looked in the bread bin yet?" Rouge asked. Tails frowned at her and tried to subtly move towards it but failed. He found half a loaf of bread and took the whole lot, putting it on the table in front of him.
"Are we trying to fatten them enough so we can eat them?" Knuckles asked.
"Oh ha ha ha! From what I saw, it looked like a big pond so there might be lots of ducks." He said as an explanation. "Anyway, I wouldn't eat a duck." He said, sniffing at Rouge and Knuckles.
"They're probably too tough anyway." Knuckles added cheerfully.
"What's too tough?" Sonic asked as he entered the room, hearing the end of the conversation.
"Never mind, I can't be bothered to explain it." Knuckles replied.
"So then, when are we going?" He asked as he sat down next to Tails.
"When Shadow's ready. Everyone else is ready at least."
"God, why does everyone take so long? This is really boring!" Sonic stood up and started jogging on the spot.
"Sonic, it's a Sunday. Just chill and slow down a bit." Tails said.
"I know but I feel all twitchy!" Suddenly he burst into song. "Why are we waiting?" He shouted loudly, just as Shadow left the bathroom.
"I don't know, why are we waiting?" Shadow asked.
"We're waiting for you!" Sonic shouted, jumping up and down in annoyance.
"Anyone want to knock him out?" Rouge asked and nobody said anything. "I'll do it if no one else will."
"Come on Sonic, we can go now." Tails said kindly and they walked towards the door. As they did so, Eggman came out of Tails' room covered in paint.
"See you lot later then." They said goodbye to him before leaving the house.
They walked along the road towards the park feeling better than they had before now that Sonic has calmed down and Rouge and Tails had made up. Tails was swinging the bread bag in his hand and by accident, he let go. It flew through the air and landed ten foot in front of them.
"Tails, that bread is completely destroyed now! What were you thinking?" Shadow tutted.
"I was thinking that it if it rains, I'm going to be very annoyed." Tails said calmly.
"You know I don't mean that." He shouted.
"Yes but you did ask what I was thinking. Anyway, it isn't alive so it doesn't matter if I destroy it! It just makes it easier for us to give to the ducks." Tails explained.
"Makes sense Shadow." Sonic added. While the conversation had been going on, no one had gone to pick up the bread. Rouge did so and she and Knuckles walked ahead of the others.
The park was fairly flat with trees lining the edge of it. The pond sat in the middle, surrounded by benches and it contained a number of various birds, mostly ducks. Couples, families, the old, and the young.everyone seemed to be there. Rouge looked at Knuckles and smiling, she passed the bread to Tails.
"Here. Me and Knuckles are just going for a walk so we'll see you by the pond ok?" Without waiting to hear their reply, she linked arms with Knuckles and strolled down the path. They watched after them in silence for a moment before Sonic turned to Tails.
"Am I missing something?"
"No Sonic, nothing at all."
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Most of the day passed without many eventful happenings (as expected on a Sunday and in the boring part of a story) but one event would surpass one hundred small things. It was in the afternoon and by now; Sonic, Shadow and Tails had decided to go for a walk around the park. Rouge and Knuckles were sitting on a sloping bank near the pond and were currently wondering where the others were.
"I wonder where the others are?" Rouge commented (Note from S. Chensu: See, I told you so).
"Probably looking for us. I don't really care where they are though." Knuckles replied.
"Oh, what's changed your attitude?" She asked, smiling to herself.
"If they do come here any time soon, they'd probably just do something to embarrass themselves." He kissed her on the cheek. "Or us."
"Yeah, they probably would." They sat in silence and watched the ducks on the pond bobbing up and down on the water.
"Today's been really nice." Knuckles said quietly. Rouge nodded her head and leant against Knuckles.
"Yes, especially with you." She whispered (Note from Luff: Yuck, disgusting!). Suddenly, they heard a thumping noise and they sat up, looking at the top of the hill.
Sonic was standing at the top along with Shadow and Tails and they were staring down at them.
"There you are! We wondered where you'd got to." Sonic shouted.
"Brilliant timing." Rouge muttered and Knuckles smiled ruefully.
"I'm sure they didn't mean it." He commented, continuing to smile at her practically disgusted face. Sonic had started to walk towards them and of course began to go faster and faster (Well at least according to the Law of Gravity he would anyway). Tails and Shadow followed him and even Tails' IQ of 150 (or whatever it is) didn't bother to remind him of what was going to happen next.
Soon they were running at full throttle and couldn't stop themselves. Knuckles used his quick reflexes to pull himself and Rouge out of the way before Sonic, Shadow and Tails hurtled past them. They got to the end of the hill and did what could only be expected: they fell straight into the pond. Sonic was not happy with this, especially when he remembered that he couldn't swim. He started thrashing about, trying desperately to get to the surface. Panic was taking over though and his movements were getting weaker. His head bobbed to the top and he saw Shadow and Tails standing there, staring at him.
"Don't just stand there, help me!" Sonic coughed before he went under. As he did so, he reflected upon his words. ~Stand there? How can they stand in water? Unless.~ He put his feet carefully down and was surprised when they hit hard ground. He stood up properly and found that the water only came up to his chest.
Very embarrassed now as well as being very annoyed at Shadow and Tails for not telling him this, he frowned at them.
"Why didn't you tell me it only went this high?" He yelled at them, his arms crossed.
"Because we thought it was obvious they wouldn't make a pond deep enough to drown in, especially as there are children coming here too." Shadow said. Sonic heard some laughter and looked up, seeing Rouge and Knuckles leaning against each other, tears in their eyes.
"Oh ha ha ha, very funny! Why did you move? You might have stopped us from falling in here!"
"Because we knew that we would fall in too, whatever you want to say about it." Knuckles replied.
"And plus it was funny to watch you thrashing about in a pond." Rouge added. "But you did scare all the ducks off." She added in mock seriousness.
"The ducks! That reminds me, we haven't fed them yet!" Tails shouted and he climbed out of the pond.
"Why bother doing that when you could just walk through the pond?" Rouge asked.
"No thank you." Tails replied as he shook his tails dry, deliberately spraying Knuckles and Rouge at the same time.
"Hey, stop it!" Knuckles moved back away from him and soon Tails stopped.
"Oh sorry, did I get you wet?" He asked sarcastically. By now, Shadow and Sonic had also got out of the pond. Knuckles, Rouge and Tails started sniggering at Shadow and Sonic when they saw the pondweed on their heads.
"Hey love the new hair extensions, where did you get them?" Rouge asked. They looked up and saw the green plants hanging on their heads. Sonic yanked his off and threw it at Rouge, missing her by several feet. She giggled and turned back to the path, the others following her.
They soon got to the part where the birds were and Tails and Sonic stood by the edge, throwing bits of bread in. A goose came waddling along and Tails held some bread out to it. It's beak snapped around his hand before it hissed at him.
"Ow!" Tails yelled and he pulled his hand away from it. "Stupid bird!" He waved his hand in the air and the goose took a step forward, trying to snap at him again.
"I don't think it liked you saying that." Shadow commented and Tails threw him a dirty look. Tails started to back away from the goose as it continued to follow him. This soon turned into a jog and then a run as Tails was forced to go faster.
"Help me, I'm being chased by a killer goose!" It flapped his wings at him and Tails hurtled down the path. The rest looked at each other before running after him.
They soon caught up with Tails and the goose and they tried to scare it away, without success.
"That's weird, normally one look at the two of you is enough to scare anything off." Rouge commented to Shadow and Sonic.
"It's all very well saying that but we still haven't managed to get rid of it." Shadow replied.
"Why don't we run out of the park? Surely the goose won't follow us out of it." Sonic suggested.
"I think that's the most intelligent thing you've said for some time Sonic." Shadow muttered. So after shouting at Tails, they headed towards the entrance.
They reached the gates and honking loudly, the goose flew into the air. The group stopped and watched it as they went higher in the sky. Tails cheered and stuck his tongue out at the goose before they began to walk home. They were nearing the block of apartments when they heard a familiar honking noise. They looked up and saw the same goose flying above them. It flew in lower before aiming its tail at them and.
"Yuck!" Rouge screamed as the bird's waste liquids were deposited on her head. "Ew!" She wailed before running along the road as fast as she could. They looked up at the bird who hissed at them before flying back towards the park. It sounded a lot like laughing though. The four of them walked quickly back to the apartment, Sonic and Tails trying not to laugh.
"Her fur is white so surely it won't make a difference will it?" Shadow asked and this make Tails and Sonic laugh even more. A look from Knuckles instantly made them cough though and they walked back in silence.
They got back to the apartment and found, as expected that one of the bathroom doors was locked. The next thing they found was that the smell of paint was even worse than yesterday and Tails had already started giggling from the fumes. They found Eggman sitting outside on the balcony and he stood up when he saw them.
"Have a nice time in the park?" He asked.
"Yeah, if falling into a pond and then being chased by a killer goose counts as a nice time." Tails said bitterly.
"Yes, I saw Rouge rushing in here saying something about wanting to kill all birds. I assume it did something she didn't like." Eggman said.
"After it chased us through the park, we thought we were safe because it flew away. But then it came back and it pooped on her head." Sonic explained.
"Ah, I don't think anyone would be happy about that." Eggman paused. "Do you think she will be ok?"
"She just needs to calm down a bit, that's all. She'll be out in a hour or so." Knuckles said, shrugging his shoulders.
"One hour? She's a girl, it's going to take at least four hours before she'll leave that bathroom." Tails said loudly.
"Probably but a bird did crap on her hair, and you know what girls are like about hair." Eggman said. "I'd better leave getting dinner started for a while then I suppose."
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A few hours later and they had had dinner and were now sitting around the coffee table in the living room, talking about tomorrow.
"I hope we don't have loads of work to do." Sonic said.
"We're going to a high school, of course we've got to do work!" Rouge exclaimed.
"But I don't want to!"
"That's because you're lazy." Knuckles pointed out. "Anyway, it's only a year and then we can leave."
"Not for me though! I'm still in primary school." Tails said, sighing softly.
"That just means your work will be easier!" Sonic said.
"It /means/ I'll be more bored." Tails retorted. "Anyway, I'm going to bed." He stood up and left the room.
The others followed his example and slowly made their way to their rooms, saying goodnight to each other. Soon everyone had gone and the room was silent. Tails was lying on his bed, staring at the ceiling.
~I really don't want to go, it'll be just like all the other times.~ He thought and images of children pushing him around and calling him names flashed through his mind. He shivered slightly at the memories before getting into bed, hoping that he would get some sleep.
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Luff: The end of another episode! *Sigh*
Sonic: What's up?
Luff: BOOOOOOOOOREDOOOOOOOM. Bored, bored, bored-diddy bored.
S. Chensu: Lovely, I'm sure.
Shadow: Yeah. He he he, poor Rouge. She got pooed on by the birdy!
Luff: Everyone's gone mad! And Chen, stop blabbering on about your drink! I couldn't care less if it had bits of poo floating in it!
S. Chensu: You would if I forced you to drink it!
Luff: Oh, whatever. Anyways, we're gonna finish here 'cos I'm tired and it's almost quarter to one in the morning. Don't ask. -_-zz
S. Chensu: *Continues to drink Reef* Review everyone! *Falls over in drunken stupor* @_@
Sonic: At last, we haven't been mentioned for ages!
Luff: Some people have egos that are far too large for their brain size.
Sonic: What are you trying to say?
Shadow: She's trying to say that you're stupid. And I agree with her.
Sonic: I'm not stupid!
Shadow: Then how come you still don't know about Knuckles and Rouge yet?
Sonic: Because the nasty authoresses did it to me!
Luff: Oh so we're nasty are we? For saying that you can read the disclaimer.
Sonic: Fine then. S. Chensu and Luff don't own us, the Sonic characters. In fact all they own is the story and Hissy the Goose.
S. Chensu: You'll find out about him later. He's a once-in-a-story character.
Shadow: Yes, thank goodness for that, after what he did to us I don't think I can ever handle bread again.
S. Chensu: But we'll let you find out about him so it's on with the episode!
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Episode ten: The boring part 2
Eggman woke up early in the morning with an aching back and sore arse. He stood up and stretched before closing the balcony window a fraction, as it had begun to get cold. He turned back and saw Rouge and Knuckles lying together on the sofa. Smiling slightly, he went to the kitchen to get some breakfast. As he sat at the table chewing on his toast, he thought about the recent events and how things were different only a couple of months ago.
~Sonic and me were deadly enemies then.~ Eggman thought. ~What happened Ivo? You would have killed all three of them by now. But I can't, not now. I think things changed a lot when we had to work together, although I told myself then it was just so I didn't die. It's hard to forget something like that.~ He looked back at Knuckles and Rouge on the sofa. ~And I don't have my full band of accomplices anymore. She would never betray him, that's for sure. Nope, things are definitely different now.~ He stood up and put the plate in the sink. Once that was done, he decided to have a look at the bedrooms.
He was pleased to see that the second coat had now dried in all three rooms. Taking some clothes from his cupboard, he went to go and have a shower.
~I'd better get the others up soon if I want to do the other rooms.~
Meanwhile, Rouge had now woken up and she moved her head round slightly so she could look at Knuckles. His mouth was slightly open and.
"Is that drool I see?" She exclaimed in disgust and after checking herself to make sure she didn't have any on her, she took a corner of the duvet and wiped his chin. Once that was done, she shut his mouth and his eyes flickered open. He frowned at her in puzzlement.
"What did you do that for?" He asked.
"You were drooling." She replied, barely able to stop herself from laughing as he blushed in embarrassment.
"Um.sorry about that." He mumbled and she shrugged her shoulders.
"It doesn't matter." She whispered before kissing him on the cheek.
"Morning all." Tails said loudly, as Shadow cleared his throat. Knuckles and Rouge stared at them, wondering how long they had been standing there. Tails elbowed Shadow, sniggering. "You were drooling." He imitated, starting to laugh uncontrollably.
"Ew, drool!" Shadow exclaimed, in a mock girly voice. He joined in laughing with Tails as they walked towards the kitchen. Rouge rolled her eyes and got up, leaving a crimson coloured Knuckles sitting on the sofa. He got up a few moments later after some encouragement from Rouge (accompanied by retching noises from Shadow and Tails) to get breakfast as well.
"You don't have to do that you know." Rouge said coldly as they sat at the table eating their food.
"Give us a reason why we shouldn't." Tails said instead.
"Because I can kick both your asses and you wouldn't be able to do a thing." She said, a smirk on her face.
"Why not?" Shadow asked.
"Because I'm a girl. You're not allowed to retaliate against me." She explained, crossing her arms.
"Typical! Exploit our weakness!" Tails exclaimed. "Nevermind, as long as you don't kick our asses anytime soon, we'll continue in our childish behaviour."
"Childish behaviour? I don't want to take part in that." Shadow commented distastefully.
"If only Sonic had enough brain cells to understand what's going on. It's very annoying to do your work when your accomplice isn't there to help." Tails said, sighing.
"Don't worry, it can't be much longer.can it?" Rouge looked at Knuckles who shrugged his shoulders.
"Depends if he's in his own little world or not. If so, he won't realise people are together until the wedding bells are ringing."
"And how soon will that be you two then?" Tails asked seriously.
"No comment." Rouge snapped, trying to stop them from embarrassing Knuckles anymore. "You really don't know when to give up, do you?" She stood up suddenly and stormed off, slamming the bathroom door behind her.
"Rouge, wait!" Knuckles shouted and he followed her into the bathroom. There was silence for a few moments.
"I think you've done it there." Shadow said quietly.
"It's not my fault she's being all sensitive. Probably that time of the month for her." Tails replied gloomily.
Just then Eggman came out of the other bathroom and frowned in puzzlement, looking from the other bathroom to Shadow and Tails sitting at the table.
"What did you do?" He asked as he took their plates and put them in the sink.
"We didn't do anything! She's just in a funny mood." Tails scoffed.
"Basically, Tails said a couple of things about Rouge and Knuckles and she was not impressed." Shadow explained.
"I guessed as much from the slamming door and the bitter attitude of Tails." Eggman commented. "Oh well, boys will be boys."
"I don't think Rouge is going to take that attitude." Shadow muttered as Sonic finally entered the room.
"Morning everyone." He said cheerfully but stopped when he saw everyone's faces. "What happened?"
"You obviously didn't hear Miss Moody slamming the door then." Tails said.
"Yes, I did actually, it woke me up. I was wondering who would do that."
"Now you know. When she comes out-"
"If she does." Tails muttered darkly.
"/When/ she comes out," Eggman repeated. "I want you all to just leave her in peace. She just needs some space and time to calm down." Tails shrugged his shoulders and he stood up to go and have a shower.
The atmosphere improved and Sonic decided to talk to Eggman while he ate his breakfast.
"So then, when are you going to do the other rooms?"
"Today, once everyone is ready. Hopefully because I will have started them earlier, you won't have to sleep on the sofas." Eggman explained.
"That's good. My room seems really empty with white walls." He commented before turning to Shadow. "So then, what shall we do today?"
"Why don't we got to the park? It's not too far away." Shadow suggested.
"Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. We just have to wait for the others to finish in the bathrooms."
"Luckily everyone is now out of their bedrooms so I can start painting." Eggman said and he stood up, walking towards Tails' room.
Sonic and Shadow sat in silence for several minutes until Rouge and Knuckles came out of the bathroom, looking cleaner than before. They looked briefly at their rooms before sitting down at the table, Rouge staring in surprise at the silence in the room.
"Hello, anyone there?" She asked, waving her hands in front of their faces.
"Eh? Sorry, just thinking." Shadow said while Sonic remained gormless.
"So then, what shall we do today?" Knuckles asked.
"We could go shopping." Rouge suggested lightly and this seemed to wake Sonic up.
"No, not shopping!" He shouted and he ran to the bathroom, closing the door behind him.
"Maybe not." Rouge said quietly.
"I had the idea that we could go to the park today." Shadow said.
"Good weather today too. Yeah, that sounds nice." Rouge said, smiling slightly at Knuckles.
"I agree. We need something relaxing after the last few days." Knuckles said. "Where's Tails?"
"In the bathroom. He's been there for a long time, I wonder what's happened to him?" Shadow pondered. Just then, Tails entered the room, scowling when he saw Rouge.
"Ah, there he is." Knuckles said as Tails sat down at the table. "If we want to do anything, you should probably get washed now Shadow." He didn't say anything but merely got up and sauntered off to the bathroom.
The three of them sat in silence for a few minutes until Rouge sighed and looked at Tails.
"Tails, I want to apologise for the way I acted earlier. I shouldn't have snapped at you like that, I'm sorry." She said quietly. Tails stared back at her and smiled.
"That's ok, maybe I shouldn't have gone that far." He paused. "But do you think you will ever get married?" Knuckles blushed slightly and Rouge laughed.
"I think it's early days yet. It depends how long we stay together. After all, we might break up." She didn't say anything else and Tails shrugged his shoulders.
"Yeah, I suppose so. Do you know what we're doing today?"
"Shadow suggested us going to the park, which I like the sound of." Rouge said. When he heard this, Tails stood up and started looking through the cupboards.
"What are you doing?" Knuckles asked, a small smile on his face.
"If we're going to the park then we need to take some bread for the ducks! You can't go to the park without feeding the ducks after all." Tails said, as though it was obvious.
"Have you looked in the bread bin yet?" Rouge asked. Tails frowned at her and tried to subtly move towards it but failed. He found half a loaf of bread and took the whole lot, putting it on the table in front of him.
"Are we trying to fatten them enough so we can eat them?" Knuckles asked.
"Oh ha ha ha! From what I saw, it looked like a big pond so there might be lots of ducks." He said as an explanation. "Anyway, I wouldn't eat a duck." He said, sniffing at Rouge and Knuckles.
"They're probably too tough anyway." Knuckles added cheerfully.
"What's too tough?" Sonic asked as he entered the room, hearing the end of the conversation.
"Never mind, I can't be bothered to explain it." Knuckles replied.
"So then, when are we going?" He asked as he sat down next to Tails.
"When Shadow's ready. Everyone else is ready at least."
"God, why does everyone take so long? This is really boring!" Sonic stood up and started jogging on the spot.
"Sonic, it's a Sunday. Just chill and slow down a bit." Tails said.
"I know but I feel all twitchy!" Suddenly he burst into song. "Why are we waiting?" He shouted loudly, just as Shadow left the bathroom.
"I don't know, why are we waiting?" Shadow asked.
"We're waiting for you!" Sonic shouted, jumping up and down in annoyance.
"Anyone want to knock him out?" Rouge asked and nobody said anything. "I'll do it if no one else will."
"Come on Sonic, we can go now." Tails said kindly and they walked towards the door. As they did so, Eggman came out of Tails' room covered in paint.
"See you lot later then." They said goodbye to him before leaving the house.
They walked along the road towards the park feeling better than they had before now that Sonic has calmed down and Rouge and Tails had made up. Tails was swinging the bread bag in his hand and by accident, he let go. It flew through the air and landed ten foot in front of them.
"Tails, that bread is completely destroyed now! What were you thinking?" Shadow tutted.
"I was thinking that it if it rains, I'm going to be very annoyed." Tails said calmly.
"You know I don't mean that." He shouted.
"Yes but you did ask what I was thinking. Anyway, it isn't alive so it doesn't matter if I destroy it! It just makes it easier for us to give to the ducks." Tails explained.
"Makes sense Shadow." Sonic added. While the conversation had been going on, no one had gone to pick up the bread. Rouge did so and she and Knuckles walked ahead of the others.
The park was fairly flat with trees lining the edge of it. The pond sat in the middle, surrounded by benches and it contained a number of various birds, mostly ducks. Couples, families, the old, and the young.everyone seemed to be there. Rouge looked at Knuckles and smiling, she passed the bread to Tails.
"Here. Me and Knuckles are just going for a walk so we'll see you by the pond ok?" Without waiting to hear their reply, she linked arms with Knuckles and strolled down the path. They watched after them in silence for a moment before Sonic turned to Tails.
"Am I missing something?"
"No Sonic, nothing at all."
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Most of the day passed without many eventful happenings (as expected on a Sunday and in the boring part of a story) but one event would surpass one hundred small things. It was in the afternoon and by now; Sonic, Shadow and Tails had decided to go for a walk around the park. Rouge and Knuckles were sitting on a sloping bank near the pond and were currently wondering where the others were.
"I wonder where the others are?" Rouge commented (Note from S. Chensu: See, I told you so).
"Probably looking for us. I don't really care where they are though." Knuckles replied.
"Oh, what's changed your attitude?" She asked, smiling to herself.
"If they do come here any time soon, they'd probably just do something to embarrass themselves." He kissed her on the cheek. "Or us."
"Yeah, they probably would." They sat in silence and watched the ducks on the pond bobbing up and down on the water.
"Today's been really nice." Knuckles said quietly. Rouge nodded her head and leant against Knuckles.
"Yes, especially with you." She whispered (Note from Luff: Yuck, disgusting!). Suddenly, they heard a thumping noise and they sat up, looking at the top of the hill.
Sonic was standing at the top along with Shadow and Tails and they were staring down at them.
"There you are! We wondered where you'd got to." Sonic shouted.
"Brilliant timing." Rouge muttered and Knuckles smiled ruefully.
"I'm sure they didn't mean it." He commented, continuing to smile at her practically disgusted face. Sonic had started to walk towards them and of course began to go faster and faster (Well at least according to the Law of Gravity he would anyway). Tails and Shadow followed him and even Tails' IQ of 150 (or whatever it is) didn't bother to remind him of what was going to happen next.
Soon they were running at full throttle and couldn't stop themselves. Knuckles used his quick reflexes to pull himself and Rouge out of the way before Sonic, Shadow and Tails hurtled past them. They got to the end of the hill and did what could only be expected: they fell straight into the pond. Sonic was not happy with this, especially when he remembered that he couldn't swim. He started thrashing about, trying desperately to get to the surface. Panic was taking over though and his movements were getting weaker. His head bobbed to the top and he saw Shadow and Tails standing there, staring at him.
"Don't just stand there, help me!" Sonic coughed before he went under. As he did so, he reflected upon his words. ~Stand there? How can they stand in water? Unless.~ He put his feet carefully down and was surprised when they hit hard ground. He stood up properly and found that the water only came up to his chest.
Very embarrassed now as well as being very annoyed at Shadow and Tails for not telling him this, he frowned at them.
"Why didn't you tell me it only went this high?" He yelled at them, his arms crossed.
"Because we thought it was obvious they wouldn't make a pond deep enough to drown in, especially as there are children coming here too." Shadow said. Sonic heard some laughter and looked up, seeing Rouge and Knuckles leaning against each other, tears in their eyes.
"Oh ha ha ha, very funny! Why did you move? You might have stopped us from falling in here!"
"Because we knew that we would fall in too, whatever you want to say about it." Knuckles replied.
"And plus it was funny to watch you thrashing about in a pond." Rouge added. "But you did scare all the ducks off." She added in mock seriousness.
"The ducks! That reminds me, we haven't fed them yet!" Tails shouted and he climbed out of the pond.
"Why bother doing that when you could just walk through the pond?" Rouge asked.
"No thank you." Tails replied as he shook his tails dry, deliberately spraying Knuckles and Rouge at the same time.
"Hey, stop it!" Knuckles moved back away from him and soon Tails stopped.
"Oh sorry, did I get you wet?" He asked sarcastically. By now, Shadow and Sonic had also got out of the pond. Knuckles, Rouge and Tails started sniggering at Shadow and Sonic when they saw the pondweed on their heads.
"Hey love the new hair extensions, where did you get them?" Rouge asked. They looked up and saw the green plants hanging on their heads. Sonic yanked his off and threw it at Rouge, missing her by several feet. She giggled and turned back to the path, the others following her.
They soon got to the part where the birds were and Tails and Sonic stood by the edge, throwing bits of bread in. A goose came waddling along and Tails held some bread out to it. It's beak snapped around his hand before it hissed at him.
"Ow!" Tails yelled and he pulled his hand away from it. "Stupid bird!" He waved his hand in the air and the goose took a step forward, trying to snap at him again.
"I don't think it liked you saying that." Shadow commented and Tails threw him a dirty look. Tails started to back away from the goose as it continued to follow him. This soon turned into a jog and then a run as Tails was forced to go faster.
"Help me, I'm being chased by a killer goose!" It flapped his wings at him and Tails hurtled down the path. The rest looked at each other before running after him.
They soon caught up with Tails and the goose and they tried to scare it away, without success.
"That's weird, normally one look at the two of you is enough to scare anything off." Rouge commented to Shadow and Sonic.
"It's all very well saying that but we still haven't managed to get rid of it." Shadow replied.
"Why don't we run out of the park? Surely the goose won't follow us out of it." Sonic suggested.
"I think that's the most intelligent thing you've said for some time Sonic." Shadow muttered. So after shouting at Tails, they headed towards the entrance.
They reached the gates and honking loudly, the goose flew into the air. The group stopped and watched it as they went higher in the sky. Tails cheered and stuck his tongue out at the goose before they began to walk home. They were nearing the block of apartments when they heard a familiar honking noise. They looked up and saw the same goose flying above them. It flew in lower before aiming its tail at them and.
"Yuck!" Rouge screamed as the bird's waste liquids were deposited on her head. "Ew!" She wailed before running along the road as fast as she could. They looked up at the bird who hissed at them before flying back towards the park. It sounded a lot like laughing though. The four of them walked quickly back to the apartment, Sonic and Tails trying not to laugh.
"Her fur is white so surely it won't make a difference will it?" Shadow asked and this make Tails and Sonic laugh even more. A look from Knuckles instantly made them cough though and they walked back in silence.
They got back to the apartment and found, as expected that one of the bathroom doors was locked. The next thing they found was that the smell of paint was even worse than yesterday and Tails had already started giggling from the fumes. They found Eggman sitting outside on the balcony and he stood up when he saw them.
"Have a nice time in the park?" He asked.
"Yeah, if falling into a pond and then being chased by a killer goose counts as a nice time." Tails said bitterly.
"Yes, I saw Rouge rushing in here saying something about wanting to kill all birds. I assume it did something she didn't like." Eggman said.
"After it chased us through the park, we thought we were safe because it flew away. But then it came back and it pooped on her head." Sonic explained.
"Ah, I don't think anyone would be happy about that." Eggman paused. "Do you think she will be ok?"
"She just needs to calm down a bit, that's all. She'll be out in a hour or so." Knuckles said, shrugging his shoulders.
"One hour? She's a girl, it's going to take at least four hours before she'll leave that bathroom." Tails said loudly.
"Probably but a bird did crap on her hair, and you know what girls are like about hair." Eggman said. "I'd better leave getting dinner started for a while then I suppose."
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A few hours later and they had had dinner and were now sitting around the coffee table in the living room, talking about tomorrow.
"I hope we don't have loads of work to do." Sonic said.
"We're going to a high school, of course we've got to do work!" Rouge exclaimed.
"But I don't want to!"
"That's because you're lazy." Knuckles pointed out. "Anyway, it's only a year and then we can leave."
"Not for me though! I'm still in primary school." Tails said, sighing softly.
"That just means your work will be easier!" Sonic said.
"It /means/ I'll be more bored." Tails retorted. "Anyway, I'm going to bed." He stood up and left the room.
The others followed his example and slowly made their way to their rooms, saying goodnight to each other. Soon everyone had gone and the room was silent. Tails was lying on his bed, staring at the ceiling.
~I really don't want to go, it'll be just like all the other times.~ He thought and images of children pushing him around and calling him names flashed through his mind. He shivered slightly at the memories before getting into bed, hoping that he would get some sleep.
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Luff: The end of another episode! *Sigh*
Sonic: What's up?
Luff: BOOOOOOOOOREDOOOOOOOM. Bored, bored, bored-diddy bored.
S. Chensu: Lovely, I'm sure.
Shadow: Yeah. He he he, poor Rouge. She got pooed on by the birdy!
Luff: Everyone's gone mad! And Chen, stop blabbering on about your drink! I couldn't care less if it had bits of poo floating in it!
S. Chensu: You would if I forced you to drink it!
Luff: Oh, whatever. Anyways, we're gonna finish here 'cos I'm tired and it's almost quarter to one in the morning. Don't ask. -_-zz
S. Chensu: *Continues to drink Reef* Review everyone! *Falls over in drunken stupor* @_@