(Ugh, I hate Sonadow. I mean, that may sound ridiculous coming from me, but I really do. When I read Sonadow stories, it's due to the other characters or overall plot of the story. In Honesty is the Best Policy, I hadn't totally figured out how much I hated it when I first started out, but later on it's basically canon that Shadow doesn't like Sonic, and it's basically one-sided. I just cannot see Shadow returning the feelings ever. I guess I always thought that to ship characters didn't mean you had to like the idea of them "together". I just liked the character dynamic. I feel like this chapter is a good example of this, but you'd have to continue on to figure out what I mean by that.)

There may or may not be Sonadow in this chapter...

It was January 20th, 2017 and Honest was exiting school that afternoon. Shadow wasn't with her. He was walking with Rouge, and she was only just now exiting her classroom. Sonic was standing by the gate to the school, waiting for someone.

"Hey, Sonic! Who're you waiting for?" Honest asked, walking up to him.

"N-No one. I, uh, you want to walk to the cafe?" he asked her.

"Uh, sure." Honest tilted her head and gave him a look. "Do you not have anything else to do after school? Can't you go hang out with Knuckles?"

Sonic laughed. "Knuckles? Are you kidding? Have you ever tried to hang with Knuckles? He is SO boring. He doesn't do anything. The other day I asked him what he was doing for lunch. He told me to follow him. He made a sandwich extremely slowly, ate it slowly, went to punch rocks. I am NOT going to watch Knuckles punch rocks." He then began laughing once more.

Honest smiled. "Okay, okay. Let's go."

They arrived at the cafe to find that Shadow and Rouge had already arrived. (Probably due to Rouge owning a car... I-It's a strange fan-canon.) The lights were on, and Rouge was laying menus on each of the thirteen tables. Honest and Sonic walked inside.

"I need to go meet Shadow in the back room to get changed into my uniform. Take a seat and decide on something to order." Sonic nodded. Honest walked through the door to their left.

Several moments after Honest left, the bells on the door sounded and Akane walked into the cafe. She saw Sonic standing in front of the backroom door, seemingly waiting for something.

"S-Sonic? Are you waiting to order?" she asked. Sonic turned around and his eyes lit up.

"Oh! Akane! How are you? I came here with Honest, and I'm just waiting for her," he explained.

Akane smiled. "Okay, then! I need to go change. I'll check on her for you."

Sonic smiled back. "Thanks."

When Akane opened the door, Shadow came walking out. "Good afternoon, Shadow," Akane said to him.

Shadow nodded and saw Sonic. He quickly went back inside, shutting Akane out.

"Sh-Shadow!" Akane yelled. She banged on the door with her fist.

"I don't want to work today," came Shadow's muffled voice from the other side of the door.

"Hey!" Honest's voice was heard a second later from inside the room. "Open the door, Shadow!"

A crash was heard and soon after the door opened, Honest had crawled over Shadow and was pushing Sonic outside. "I'm sorry, weirdo, but you need to leave right now."

"But I didn't do anything," Sonic protested. Akane opened up the front doors and Honest shoved him through. "Can't I stay for coffee?" he asked.

"No!" Honest then slammed the door in his face and her and Akane held it closed.

Now it was Sonic's voice that was coming from the other side of a door. "If you give me Shadow, I'll leave!"

"Never," Honest, Akane, and Shadow said in unison.

It was now an hour later and Sonic was still standing outside the door. Honest and Akane were still holding it closed. Shadow was sitting at the table nearest the door, asleep. Rouge had pulled up a chair and was sitting at the counter, playing a bubble popping game on her phone. A crowd of customers started forming at the door around Sonic.

Akane left Honest at the door and walked up to the counter. Rouge looked up from her game.

"What do you think we should we do? Sonic is preventing any customers from getting into the cafe!" she informed Rouge.

Rouge sighed. "We'll give Sonic what he wants, and he'll leave."

Honest turned around to look at them. "You're not saying we should give him Shadow, are you?" Shadow was asleep at the table, so he couldn't hear them.

Rouge just nodded. "Well, what would you have us do?"

"Em..." Honest looked over at Shadow.

"Hey, what are you doing? Quit-" Together Akane and Honest shoved Shadow out the door. "Run!"

Shadow looked panicked as he flew out the door and down the street. He got a distance away from the cafe before Sonic took what looked like one step, appearing beside him.

"Wanna race?" he asked. Shadow sped up, but then Sonic jumped suddenly, pulling Shadow down to the ground.

"Ah!" went Shadow. Honest and Akane pushed through the crowd and ran towards the two hedgehogs.

Shadow had a big, blue bruise above his left eye when he returned to the cafe. His dress was torn on one side. Honey had a sewing kit on hand and was on her knees, trying to stitch the tear closed. Sonic was sipping coffee by a window silently. The only good thing that came out of this was that the cafe was now filled with customers.

Shadow and Sonic were having a long-distance disagreement.

"Look what you did to my dress, faker!" Shadow yelled.

"The Ultimate Lifeform shouldn't be worried about his dress. Much less be wearing a dress," Sonic pointed out.

"B-But Rouge made me-" (Ugh, I wish I could find the lost chapter of this that explains that...)

"You're the Ultimate Lifeform. You should be able to just walk away right now."

"What's with bringing up my title all of a sudden? It doesn't mean anything anymore."

Sonic finished his coffee and sat in the chair beside Shadow.

"What are you doing? Get away from me you pathetic-" Suddenly, Sonic leaked down and kissed him on the cheek. Shadow shot up, out of his uniform, and into the back room, where Sonic guessed he felt the most safe. Honest's eyes filled with an emotion that could only be described as despair, and she ran into the back room after him. Honey just continued working on fixing Shadow's dress. Sonic just quietly stepped out the front door.

(I love how all it took was Shadow getting a little angry and flustered for Sonic to want to do something like that. But like I said at the beginning, I don't condone Sonadow in my stories. It's one-sided. ^^)