(A/N Sorry about the wait, and the cussing in the last chapter, thnx for reviewing, and sorry it took so long. I'm not good with scary stories so Rouge's was a bit difficult to think of, it still sucks though. Have fun berating me some more!)

Sonic picked up his flashlight and walked up to a lighted torch. He used the torch to light the other torches and went to go sit on his bed.

"So everybody, how about a ghost story?" said Sonic.

Everyone looked around nervously expecting somebody to raise their hand or volunteer, but nobody did.

Sonic sighed and looked around again. This time, Rouge had her hand up in the air with a reluctant look on her face.

"Ok Rouge, give us what you've got." said Sonic.

story-

"Well, it was from when I was really little, and a new family moving in next door. Me and parents went over there to invite them and to see the house. We were walking around and I saw this little boy. He told me to follow him, so I did. I followed him into a room and he told me to go through the door next to the picture. There was an old black and white picture of a family, but no door. I told the boy there was no door there, and he told me to look again. When I looked back at the picture, there was a door next to it. I went through the door and he followed me. When I walked in, I was in an old fashioned oom that didn't look like it had been touched for years. I asked the boy where we were, but he didn't answer. I looked around for him, and being at that age, I was scared to shit. I finally saw a trap door an the floor beneath me. I opened it up and saw a rope tied to the handle. The rope had a person connected to it, a hanged person. I screamed and fainted." Rouge paused.

"Then what happened, were you left there?" asked Tails.

"No……..it's just that, when I woke up, the neighbors weren't moving in until tomorrow. The neighbors did move in the next day, but when we went over there, I kept on begging my mom to follow me to the room next to the picture. After hours of me begging my parents agreed to go. I went into the room and showed them the door. When we went through the door, the same trap door was there, and when my parents opened it, the body was still there." Rouge shivered.

"Wow, that's creepy." whispered Cream.

"But this is the creepy part, the people were getting rid of the picture next to the door, and when I looked at it, the boy I followed was on there and they guy that was hanged on the trap door was his brother, I think." said Rouge.

story end-

"Did you make that up?" asked Knuckles.

"Nope, it really did happen! I was little then, but I know it was true!" replied Rouge.

Knuckles rolled his eyes and leaned back against his pillow with one of those "This is so stupid its funny" looks on his face.

"That was cool, anybody else have one?" said Sonic looking around.

"No Sonic! I'm gonna have nightmares!" yelled Tails.

"Give us a break, we are all exhausted from that long walk!" said Knuckles.

"Yeah, I'm tired, I'm going to sleep." said Cream.

"Ok, we can tell more tomorrow night." said Sonic.

Tails groaned loudly.

Everybody pulled the covers over their heads except for two, Rouge and Knuckles.

Rouge couldn't help but think about the castle, she kept on picking up weird noises with her highly sensitive noises. She tossed and turned around for a long time.

Knuckles was just thinking about that story Rouge told, was it true or not? He noticed Rouge hadn't fallen asleep yet either, Knuckles was really tired, but he couldn't get the idea out of his head, it sounded so possible, yet improbable! What were the chances of that really happening to Rouge? Knuckles suddenly heard something coming from the girls side of the room. Knuckles silently jumped out of bed and walked to the girl side, he saw something. It was walking towards the exit, Knuckles jumped at it, pinned its arms to the ground, and was surprised at what he heard next.

"Knuckles, what is your problem!" whispered a familiar voice.

"Rouge? What were you doing?" whispered Knuckles.

"I was going to explore the castle a bit, I couldn't sleep, now let me up!" she whispered back.

Knuckles freed her arms and watched Rouge get up.

"If you are gonna leave, I'm going with you." Knuckles said with his arms crossed.

"Why, so you can pull more perverted moves on me?" she snapped.

"No! So you don't kill yourself in this dead decaying place." he replied.

Rouge shrugged and clicked on her flashlight.

"Come if you want, but if someone pulls down my shirt one more time, you are SO in for it." she whispered harshly.

Knuckles followed Rouge through the hallways, remembering the way they came to avoid being lost.

There were so many doors in the place, it seemed insane! They found a door leading to an old cellar they didn't dare go into, they found an old kitchen that obviously wasn't used anymore seeing how there was a kettle sitting there that was covered with dust and cobwebs, they found a dining room that still had silver dishes laid out on the table, and much more.

What really interested them though, was a purple door with stars and an inscription on it that was impossible to figure out. Rouge and Knuckles opened the door to reveal a huge library. It was beyond amazing, with more books than you could read in a lifetime, books on every subject in the world, it was humongous!

There were elegant tables with squashy armchairs scattered throughout the library and several ladders to get to the different floors. The ladders were probably used instead of stairs because stairs would take up too much room.

"This place is…….amazing!" said Rouge.

"Yeah, and creepy too. I don't like it, lets go." said Knuckles turning away from the beautiful library.

"Wait, what if……….what if we could find out more!" said Rouge biting her lip.

"More? About what?" replied Knuckles.

"This place, its so weird! We could learn everything there is to know about this place!" said Rouge. Rouge flew up to a level of shelves and looked at some titles curiously.

"Rouge, we can come back tomorrow, we can't read right now, it's too dark." said Knuckles.

"Wait!" yelled Rouge.

Something had caught her eye. It was a map stuffed inside a book she had been flipping through.

"Omigosh, this is a map of the entire place!" exclaimed Rouge.

"Great, we can use it to get back, can we go now?" Knuckles growled.

"Fine, but we are coming back tomorrow!" she replied.

"What do you mean we?" said Knuckles.

Rouge soared down in front of Knuckles.

"I need your help looking through this place, I don't want anybody else learning about it! Tails will be all over it with how much of a bookworm he is!" Rouge said jabbing Knuckles in the chest.

"Fine, I'll go, like there is much else to do around here." he grumbled.

Rouge read the ,map over carefully and soon directed them back to the ballroom.

"Thanks for coming with me." said Rouge.

Knuckles grumbled and felt Rouge's hand on his cheek. It slowly slipped away as Rouge walked towards her bed.

Knuckles, now blushing slightly, went to bed himself and pulled the cover over his head. He last thing he thought before he fell asleep was "Do I really like her?"

Knuckles then drifted off to sleep, without nightmares. They were though filled with dreams.

(A/N Hope you liked it, sorry it was short, but writers block once again. I will try my best to write a long chapter for the next one. Please review so I can get an idea of how to do the next chapter.)