I'm just a slave: chapter 6
Sonic's POV
I smiled and sat down on the hay. I couldn't stop staring at the sleeping form next to me. Shadow seemed so peacefull. I decided to take his example and take a nap aswell. I laid down, but before closing my eyes i contemplated again. But i would go agaisnt it. i wouldn't want to freak the other out to much. I closed my eyes and slept for a while.
I was later on awoken by a yelp. I opened my eyes and saw my mom standing over me. "honey, i can't believe he made you do this." She said and kneeled in front of me. I looked behind her and saw shadow sitting on the ground with a hand rubbing his cheek while being yelled at by my dad. I had a hard time surpressing my growl. I got up and walked past my mom to approach them. "dad, it's fine. i did it because i wanted to!" I yelled and grabbed his arm when he had raised it again to hit shadow. He glared at me and pulled his hand back. He walked out and told mom to follow him. She did just that.
"shadow? are you okay?" I asked and kneeled next to him. It seemed like my dad had become really pissed at him. He was full of bruises on both his arms and face and a thin red line of blood was coming from his nose. "i had told you that it was a bad idea. you have to learn to listen to what other poeple have to say!" He yelled and ran off. "shadow, wait!" I yelled and reached for him, but he ignored me. I could'n't blame him. I had gotten him into this mess after all.
Shadow had been pissed at me the following days after. He didn't show it, but i knew he was. It had been another month. Unfortunatly, summer was over now. It wasn't exactly cold, but it had started to rain more. And today was one of those rainy days. I was looking at window whilst laying on my bed. It was raining pretty bad. And yet they had made shadow work on the barn. Even thought there was probably a chance that there would be a storm outside. That got me worried. It wasn't going to be really safe working outside on a barn with such weather. I just hoped that he would be okay.
Shadow's POV
I can't believe their so careless as to making me work with such weather. I knew that they didn't care about me, but i didn't think that they would force me to work even now. The rain made fur and clothes very heavy and sticky. My quills had lowered because of the water in them. I was cold and wet. But i still had to continue this instead of going to my room and warm up. I shivered and grabbed a ladder. I placed it against a platform from the upper level. Everything on the lower floor was finished, so all i had to do was the upper floor. I sighed. I had used 3 months to finish the lower floor and i only had 2 months left. This really was an impossible project.
I climbed on the ladder. I looked down and sighed again. I didn't like heights that very much. And even this was enough to make me nerovus. I clung tightly onto the ladder and swallowed. I wasn't going to enjoy working on the upper floor. I climbed up and reacehd the top. I was about climb up the platform untill a lighting and thunder strike shocked me. I lost my grip on the ladder and fell. Everything turned black as soon as i had hit the ground.