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Chapter Four: Thanks to a Thief
~Rouge's mansion~
"What? You want to stay here? But you've got your own house." Rouge told Amy as she polished a jewel,
"But I get lonely sometimes, I want some company." Amy pleaded,
"Oh, alright but you stick to my rules: No stealing my stuff, no breaking my stuff, no dirtying my stuff and no bothering me!" Rouge said, "Your room's up the stairs; second on the right."
"Thanks Rouge!" Amy replied cheerfully and went on upstairs, when she found her room she simply stood back to admire it, it had a four poster bed, a wardrobe with wonderful clothing, a balcony facing the emerald coast, even a jewel alarm clock.
She put her things down on the bed and sat down to think, 'ahh, this is a great place to stay, with a good view of the sea and people to talk to'.
She then unpacked and went downstairs where Shadow was cooking in the kitchen and Rouge was watching a romantic film, Amy walked over to Shadow and said,
"What are you cooking?"
"Just a roast meal, nothing too special." Shadow answered
"Okay; I'll leave you to it." Amy said
"Thanks"
Half an hour later the meal was ready, as Shadow took the roast out of the oven he called to the girls in the lounge, who were laughing their heads off;
"Suppers ready!" The two girls got up, still giggling and went into the dining room, Shadow had laid out quite a spread. When they sat down to eat Amy said
"Mmmmm. This is really good, Shadow, where'd you learn to cook this well?" and she continued to eat, savouring every mouthful,
"By living on my own for twelve years" he said, and continued to quietly eat his meal, the girls carried on chatting about what they had been talking about in the other room, Shadow paid no attention as he quietly ate his food.
The girls talked about hair, jewellery and then they talked about boys, laughing and joking idly, as if Shadow wasn't there, he didn't care about their business anyway, once he finished his food he walked off into the next room, when he was gone, Rouge said to Amy
"Would you date him?" Amy seemed confused,
"Who?" she asked
"You know, Shadow." Rouge whispered
"I don't know, I mean he's kind and thoughtful when he wants to be, but… I don't know." Amy explained
"Okay, if you don't know that's fine" said Rouge, but she had a glint in her eye.
Once the girls had finished their supper Rouge continued to watch her movie and Shadow was lying on a sofa with his eyes closed and his arms folded, but he was not asleep. Amy walked over and sat next to him.
"What are you doing Shadow?" she asked
"I'm thinking" he replied
"What about?," he sighed and said
"What I should do now"
"What do you mean?" she asked, confused
"To occupy myself; I do get bored you know," he explained
"Oh" she said
"Anything else?" he said patiently
"No, nothing" she replied then went to sit with Rouge to watch the film, after several hours they all went to bed.
Rouge went to sleep almost immediately, but Amy couldn't even close her eyes, she was restless, on her thirteenth trip downstairs to get a glass of water she saw Shadow walking back to his room,
"Hey Shadow!" Amy said as she walked up to him,
"Hello Amy" Shadow replied and stopped walking, "What do you want?"
"I just wanted to know what you're doing," She said with that attitude in her voice, he spotted this and said;
"I'm sorry, I'm just rather tired"
"What were you doing anyway?" she asked
"Just writing" he told her
"What about?"
"Nothing"
"Okay… 'night!" she finished and started to walk away but stopped just before Shadow got into his room and said
"Umm…Shadow?"
"Yes, what?" He replied with a slight sigh
"Well I never really repaid you for saving me…"
"You don't need to, I'm just pleased you're feeling better"
"Still, I owe you this" She then pressed her lips to his and kissed him, Shadow tried to pull away, but she pushed him up against the door, when she finally pulled back, she took a deep breath, stood back and looked at Shadow, he simply said;
"Goodnight Amy" slightly coldly and went into his room.
She sighed and went to her room, glad that at least she had repaid Shadow for saving her, but slightly disappointed as well.
Meanwhile in Shadow's room, his mind was racing, thinking; questioning what had just happened, 'Why did she do that? I told her she didn't need to pay me back for what I did! What does it mean? I don't know what to think! Does she think that I can love? I'm a weapon? But……if I'm a weapon…why can I feel…pain…sorrow…pity…compassion?' He then closed his eyes and slept another dreamless night.
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