(This chapter doesn't include any cafe parts, but I thought some outside-cafe moments were needed in order to gain some sort of insight as to how the characters in my stories act for those readers who may have not read any of my other stories, yet.)

(The Wattpad upload of this chapter includes an extremely blurry image of Mephiles and Silver chilling.)

Yay, that means new characters! And there will be yet another new "charrie" as I like to call them next chapter! u He's green, but not greedy... I wonder who that could be...?

That morning, when Shadow walked into the school building, Rouge and Espio met him at the door.

"You're going to be at the café this afternoon, right Shadow?" Rouge asked.

"I know I won't," Espio said.

"Fakers," Shadow said as he continued walking, not stopping. "Speaking of fakers..."

When he finally got to his destination, he found both Honest and Sonic standing in front of his locker, blocking him from accessing it.

"Good morning, Shadow!" Honest said, not looking excited one bit. In fact she look sort of menacing.

"You're looking great today," said Sonic. Actually, he didn't look very menacing as per his usual. Maybe he had lent the look to Honest.

"Get away from my locker," Shadow said, sounding angry, but not raising his voice.

"Whatever you say..." Sonic said, stepping out of the way.

As soon as Shadow opened the door to his locker, he was instantly buried in pieces of paper. "P-Paper cuts..."

Honest picked up a piece of paper that landed on her foot. "These are all those pictures you paid me to draw for you!" she yelled at Sonic.

Sonic just smiled to himself. "Job well done, myself."

Shadow made the tragic mistake of looking at one of the drawings. He blinked a few times before crumpling up the paper and throwing it at Sonic's head.

"Pick up all these drawings before someone sees!" Shadow exclaimed.

Sonic just kept smiling as he started picking up the paper and handing it in bundles to Honest to stuff in her yellow polka-dotted backpack.

...

Shadow was happy that he had finally made it to Summer break, but Honest looked sad. "No more pictures of Shadow in a schoolgirl outfit! Only pictures of Shadow in a bathing suit!"

Shadow bonked her in the head with a stick of catnip before dropping it into her arms.

"I-Is this for me?" Honest asked, looking up at him, confused. When she didn't get an answer, only a blush and a cross of the arms, she said. "That's some way of delivering it, I guess." She started nawing on it immediately, making loving cat noises as they walked. They were walking home from the café after a long day of making messes and, surprisingly, not dealing with a perverted blue hedgehog.

...

It was Friday, May 27th and Honest was going to the library with Shadow. Honest didn't really like to read all that much, so she was just there to give him company despite him telling her that he wanted to be alone.

Shadow looked at a book he got off the shelf while Honest got on one of the computers and looked at pictures of Shadow, Sonic, Silver, and Mephiles. One was of Silver and a cute, little fox. Honest turned around to look at Shadow, "Hey, Shadow. You ever thought about getting a pet?"

"We have Akane already, though," he said, absentmindedly reading the back of a book.

Honest laughed. "She doesn't count!"

"But what if we get a pet rabbit or something, and it turns out to be a rabbit girl?"

Honest sighed and went back to searching. "I actually wouldn't mind a new friend..." she said to herself. Shadow rolled his eyes and continued to scan the shelves.

"Nerd~! I'm surprised I'm not finding any pictures of you reading books, you nerd!" Honest exclaimed, looking through the pictures on DA until her eyes lit up again. "Oh! Here's one! It's of you trying to focus on reading a book over Sonic being a faker."

Shadow dashed over to see the picture. "Ha ha. Looks like just about every day."

Honest kept scrolling. "I bet I can draw a better one." Shadow just rolled his eyes yet again.

"You do know there are millions of Sonic x Readers you can read on WattPad if you want," Honest said, hanging her head backwards off her chair to see him.

Shadow's face went red. "S-So you mean the reader would become m-me?"

Honest giggled at his stuttering voice. "If you use my account, you can look at my library of Sonic fanfics and choose some that catch your eye..."

Shadow bit his lip and looked over at Honest. He stopped when Honest suddenly stood up in her chair and pointed her finger at him. "A-ha! So you do like Sonic!"

"I said nothing of the sort!" Shadow snarled. However, his cheeks said otherwise as they were beet red again in a matter of seconds. Honest laughed until her eyes flew open and her tail fluffed up as the chair collapsed underneath her and sent Honest flying into Shadow, caused them both to become a heap on the ground. "Sorry!"

...

Shadow found a book about the history of the Chaos Emeralds and was reading it as him and Honest walked towards the park where they were going to meet some friends.

"Don't they say not to read and walk?" Honest asked, her fingers entangled in Shadow's.

Shadow's expression didn't change. "You're just going to have to guide me then so that I don't run into anything," he said, not looking up.

"Then come on!" Honest sped up, no, charged off into the distance. However, her hand was still locked with his, so he ended up coming along with her, his metal shoes skidding on the concrete and sending sparks flying.

Eventually they made it to the park, where a specific pair of hedgehogs were waiting for them. They were Silver and Mephiles. They both had sodas and Mephiles had his tilted up to his mouth as if he was drinking it, but of course it wasn't actually coming out because Mephiles didn't have a mouth to drink with.

Honest's face darkened as she skidded to a stop. Shadow wasn't ready for her to abruptly stop like that, so he ended up flying past her with nothing but a brick wall to prevent him from flying all the way down the street. "I didn't know Mephiles would be here!"

Mephiles must of heard her because he looked up and said, "Where Silver goes, I go-" before drinking air through his straw. Somehow he was able to use a straw without a mouth. This only made Honest even more on edge.

Shadow, after recovering from hitting his head on the wall, found that he couldn't remember anything he had just read. "Darn," he said, snapping his fingers.

Silver used his psychokinesis to take Shadow's book from him. "Wow! Look at all the pretty pictures!"

"Hey!" Shadow said. "I need to have that book returned in two weeks or I'll get a month suspension from checking anything else out!"

"Hah, nerd," Mephiles said, taking the book from Silver and proceeding to flip through the pages.

"Hah, nerd!" Silver said, copying Mephiles.

Shadow was fuming. "I tried to tell him," Honest said, shrugging. Shadow grabbed Honest's tail and began tugging Honest back in the direction of the library.

"But wait!" Silver exclaimed, waving Shadow's book in the air above his head.

When Shadow turned around tentacles came from no where and pulled him and Honest back to the table and tied them to their seats. Mephiles narrowed his eyes. "We'll buy you ice cream."

"What?! You don't really think that something like icecream will be enough to make us stay, do you? Honest-?" Shadow turned to see Honest about to spring from her seat if she hadn't of been tied down by pure, dark energy.

"Did you say ice cream? Of course we'll stay!"

"Yay!" Silver said, and then he went to get ice cream.

...

Eventually, Silver got back with their ice creams. Honest went to work instantly, but Shadow just sat there, staring intently at the table. In time, he spoke up. "So, uh- when can I have my book back?"

"When you eat that ice cream cone," Mephiles replied instantly.

"Well, you see-"

"Eat it."

"But I'm not very hungry-"

"Eat it."

"Honest will be happy to eat mine, too-"

"Shadow," Mephiles exclaimed. "Can't you see even Honest, your best friend, wants you to eat it?"

This was the first time he had realised the look on Honest's face was telling him "eat it" as well. "Um..."

"I will make him eat it!" Honest exclaimed, standing on top of the table and announcing it to the world.

Silver and Mephiles clapped in wonderment. "W-W-What do you mean by that?" Shadow asked.

Honest looked down at him and grinned. "W-W-W-W-W-W-W-W That's you; That's what you sound like."

"Whelp," Mephiles said, standing up and releasing Shadow. Somehow Honest had used her super-mobian strengths to break free of something otherwise thought indestructible just to make an overly dramatic statement. Mephiles tossed Shadow the book. "Our job here is done. Come, Silver." Silver got up and followed Mephiles out of the park. "One of our agents will meet you on the first for a follow-up examination. Good-bye for now, Cat, Shadow."

Honest watched as Mephiles and Silver left the park before leaving, too, with Shadow.

So that was chapter 2! And also, apparently, Mephiles likes to pretend to be someone who would have agents. I dunno why. Anyway, next chapter is almost finished and ready to upload. 5 days tops. Bye!

(Actually I know why, but at the time I didn't want to discuss it because I thought I might cover it in another chapter. However, since I know I won't now... Mephiles was performing an experiment to test Shadow and see how easy it was for Honest to convince him to do something. There are more loose ends I need to handle, so don't feel these notes are spoilers or anything. My writing was pretty meh at the time, so even though I am in love with the plot of this chapter, I still need to fix some things in order for it to be easier to understand.)