Hehe…. Thanks again to all the reviewers! Love y'all to bits. S'very very encouraging.
Chapter 4
A Question
"QUERY: ROUGE, WHY ARE YOU COMING HOME SO LATE?" Omega asked the moment Shadow and Rouge came in the door. Rouge waved a hand as though to wave the question away.
"Nothing. Just thought I'd stay out late is all. Any dinner left?" Rouge was, somewhat conspicuously, trying to change the subject. Shadow spotted this and narrowed his eyes slightly.
"Rouge…. What happened? There's something you're not telling us." The white bat looked the other way, avoiding eye contact.
"I told you, it was nothing. I just decided to stay out late. Omega, how about dinner? I'm hungry." Her attempts to distract them were getting a little desperate sounding. 'If I tell them what happened, they'll just think I'm crazy. I can't have that.' She made for the kitchen and Shadow did not stop her, as much as he wanted to. Instead, he watched her until she was out of sight, eyes narrowed in suspicion. Omega followed after, pretending that he hadn't noticed anything strange about her behavior.
"I'm going to sleep." Shadow lay down on the couch and shut his eyes, but was really listening carefully to Rouge and Omega.
"'Night Shadow."
"GOOD NIGHT."
Rouge sat down in the chair with a heavy sigh and rested her forehead in her hand, her elbow on the table. "QUERY: ROUGE, WHAT HAPPENED?" This was met with a small, irritated growl.
"I told you, NOTHING HAPPENED!"
"SENSORS DETECT ELEVATED HEART RATE. QUERY: WHY ARE YOU LYING?"
"…Forget this. I'm going to bed." Rouge let out a little 'hmph' and stood, not bothering to push in her chair before going off towards her room, her footsteps a little heavier than necessary. Omega just watched her leave and began to put away the dishes. Unbeknownst to Rouge, a pair of red eyes watched her enter her room and shut the door a little harder than absolutely necessary. The owner of the eyes frowned and turned over, closing them and attempting to go to sleep.
These attempts were rather fruitless, as Shadow's mind was plagued with questions. Long after Omega had gone to his little broom closet to go into sleep mode, Shadow tossed and turned, unable to sleep. 'What was bothering Rouge? I'll bet my quills she wasn't just 'happy to see me'. What is it she's not telling me? More importantly, why in the world did she hug me?' Some part of him in the back of his mind decided to chime in. 'Not that you didn't like it.' He opened his eyes; keeping them closed wasn't helping anything anyway. 'I did, didn't I? It made me feel… warm inside. What was that feeling? Oh well…. I'll ask Omega or Rouge about it in the morning. One of them will know.'
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Hehe! Shadow can be so naive sometimes. Or at least, I made him that way. XD
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Shadow's eyes opened slowly and he sat up. He had finally gotten to sleep, but still didn't feel rested. "GOOD MORNING."
"Morning Omega." This was followed up by a yawn that revealed his pointy little teeth. He looked over at the door to Rouge's room as it clicked open. Rouge came out in all her early morning glory; she had already put on her make-up, but she still looked very tired and more than a little irritable. Shadow decided to put off questioning her until later. It was then that he noticed something odd. There was a strange warm feeling in his chest that hadn't been there before. 'What's going on? I really have to ask Omega about this.'
Shadow was about to go into the kitchen to see what was for breakfast when the phone rang. "Oh, what now?" exclaimed a rather irritated sounding Rouge. She was not a morning person. There was a click as the phone was picked up. "Hello, Rouge the Bat speaking." There was the sound of someone speaking on the other end of the line, but from where he was, even Shadow's sensitive ears couldn't decipher what the person was saying. "What? But I just- …. …Fine. I'll be there in a few." She set the phone down. "I've got another assignment. I'll be back later." She snatched a bit of toast off the plate Omega offered and headed for her room to change into her regular outfit, but Shadow was in her way. She blinked a few times. "Shadow, ged oud uff my way!" She was muffled by the toast in her mouth.
"Oh, sorry." He stepped out of the way. 'What was I thinking, just standing there staring like that?' He mentally smacked himself in the head. He really needed to talk to Omega.
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Heh…. Well, no time to write anymore. Gonna get sent to be any minute. Meh…. Sorry for the shortness and cya next chapter!