Days past as Victoria's black eye healed and so did everything else. She was sitting in a chair when she heard someone knocking on the door. She got up and answered it. It was Sonic. " Hi Victoria! You're starting to look better." Giving her a thumbs up. " Hello Sonic. Would you like to come in? It's cold outside." She asked while shivering. " It's not cold to me, but yes. Thank you" As he was walking though the door. Sonic looked at Victoria, seeing the cloths her was wearing. " Victoria, do you new clean clothes?" " Oh.. No, I'm fine…" She said looking away. Sonic looked around. "Where's Shadow?" He asked. " He is at G.U.N. making up for he's days off. He had the flu."
" I see. You wanna get new clothes?" He asked. " I'm fine, but thank you anyways." She replied. " Would you like something to drink?" Sonic put his hand on her shoulder. " Victoria, you do so much and you've been through so much. Why don't you take a break? The house looks amazing. There's nothing to clean. Please relax for once." Smiling at her. She smiled back. " Ok. If it makes you happy." Sonic gave her another thumbs up. " That's good, Victoria. I know someone that will help you."
Sonic walked over to the phone, putting a number in. After calling her, he sat down next to Victoria. "That black eye is gone. You look pretty without it." He said with a smile. She looked down and blushed. "Thank you. I have not been call something like that since my parents were killed." There was an awkward silent after she said that. " Oh… I'm sorry about that… How old were you?" He asked. " I was 7 when my parents were killed. My father died in battle and my mother and my sister were taken away…" She looked down. " Oh… I'm so sorry about that…."
The door bell rang. Sonic got up and answered it. There was a bat at the door. " Hi Rouge! I'm glad you're free from work today." He said pushing her inside. " Hi Sonic. Why do you need me here?" She asked. Then she saw Victoria sitting on the sofa. " Rouge, this is Victoria. I'm here so she can relax and get some clothes. Whatever you girls do." Sonic said while making Victoria stand up. She shook her hand. " Hello Mrs. Rouge. It is nice to meet you." She said with a smile. " It's nice to meet you too. Oh my, you do need new clothes."
Rouge took Victoria outside, as well as Sonic because that wasn't his house. " You girls have fun!" Sonic said before running off. Rouge held both her hands and flew off into the sky. Victoria wasn't scared, put she had a very tight grip. " Wow.. It's so pretty up here." He said looking down. " It is." Rouge saw what she was looking for. She flew down and landed softly on to the ground. Victoria saw a large building with a lot of people. She was confused. " This must be some market place." Once Rouge heard that, she started laughing. Victoria was confused why she was laughing. Rouge stopped laughing and looked at Victoria. " Oh, you're not kidding." " Hmm?" She replied. " This is called a mall. It's a large place where people buy clothes and other net things." She said and grabbed her hand. " Let's go in" She said with a smile. " Ok."
They walked through the door and the wind hit Victoria's face, knowing this is a new place for her. She saw stores, food, everything she could dream. " Whoa…. This place is…" She said but cut off by Rouge. " Amazing? I know. Let's get you some clothes to wear so people are not looking at you the wrong way. I'm gonna make sure you look hot that guys want you." She said, looking for a store for her. " Hot?" She asked. " Hot as meaning very attractive. I mean, look at me." Rouge replied. " you are very pretty."
"Thank you," Rouge said. " you're very nice." Then she found a store for her. She grabbed a shirt with black and white stripes with stars that would have negative color on what the stripe the star was on. Then some black jeans with some tars in them for looks. Some black high heels shoes, a cute ring to go with the outfit, and a skinny black headband with a white bow on it. She knew they would fit them and bought the clothes for her. They rushed to the bathrooms and Victoria changed her clothes.
She walked out the stall and just stood there. Rouge looked at the outfit. " Hmm… I did I great job." " Am I cute now?" She said blushing. " You've been cute. You need makeup and some perfume." "well, thank you for the clothes. I like them a lot." Victoria said smiling. Rouge took her to a store on the other side of the mall and it's a large mall. Rouge put Victoria on a chair and went to go see one of the makeup people. " Hi, my friend over there never put on makeup and it's her first time here. Can you help her please?" Rouge asked. " Yes ma'am. I'll be over there soon." She said with a smile.
Rouge walked over to Victoria. " What is going on?" She asked. Rouge leaned over to her. " You're getting makeup on. And I got someone to help you." " Thank you." Then the girl walked over. " Aw, your face is naked." She said smiling. " What?" " Let's get you some makeup on you. You're gonna look beautiful after this!" She turned the chair and started putting the makeup on her, knowing what to put on her. " I'm doing makeup that will match you the best." She said putting the light pink lip gloss on her.
After a few minutes past, she walked out. " Rouge, I'm hungry." She said. " Me too. Let's get some sushi" Rouge replied looking walking to the food court. " What is sushi?" Victoria asked looking confused as usual. " It's meat, vegetables, and rice. You'll like it." Rouge said. " Sounds good." After eating, which she enjoyed a lot, they shopped for clothes. Victoria then saw a gothic looking store. She walked in the store and looked around.
" You wanna shop here?" Rouge asked. "Yes…" She said looking through the brightly colored clothes. After buying some sunglasses, jackets, pants, skirts, shirts, dresses, shoes, and some other things, she walked out the store with her back feeling awful than usual. Rouge got an idea. "Victoria, you wanna relax?" " Wait, I thought we were doing that." Then Rouge started laughing. " I'll bring you somewhere, come see." Rouge brought Victoria to a spa.
" Oh, this looks nice." She said. " It is. I've been working hard too. So why not get a massage and everything else?" She asked. Minutes past ad they were getting back massages. Victoria never felt more relaxed than ever. " Ah… I have a knot back there that I've been having for a long time…" Victoria said with a soft smile. " Amen to that." She replied. " I've been working so hard at G.U.N. that I havn't had anytime to relax like this." She added. Victoria didn't know that she worked there. " You work with Shadow?" She asked. " Yup, All the time." " I would like to work there. Going to places, having people, it sounds like fun." She said. " And hard." Rouge said. " It's not a job you can get easy, but if you get stronger, I can see what I can do." " You'd really do that for me?" She asked. " Yup. I'm sick being one of the few girls there. And you seem nice." She said with a smile. " Thank you so much."
After the massages, Rouge walked back to the food court. " You want some ice cream?" Rouge asked her while walking to the ice cream shop. " Yes please." " What flavor?" Victoria was confused. " Wait, there's flavors?" " Hmm… I guess you never had ice cream before. I'll get you a favorite you might like." Rouge got Victoria a double scoop ice cream with vanilla, chocolate, some pokies on the side, and a half dipped chocolate cone. Rouge got herself double scoop ice cream with strawberry, cake batter, some almonds on top, some pokies as well, and a haft dipped cone with nuts.
After eating ice cream, getting tips from Rouge, and getting her ears pierced, she took her back to Shadow's house, were he was back from work. He was sitting in the chair, reading the same book. She walked through the door. " I'm back!" Victoria said holding the bags up and was in the most happiest mood. 'What the hell?' Shadow thought to himself. " Hello Victoria." He said while reading.
" You like the new look the new look? Sonic thought she needed to look good and relax. So I took her out." Rouge said while closing the door. Victoria ran to her room and put everything away. She kept her old clothes because she has an idea. She went down stairs and asked Rouge if she would like to stay for dinner. After dinner, Rouge left. Victoria was getting ready for bed and she went to go ask Shadow something.
She went down stairs and saw him reading as usual. " Shadow?" she ask while walking to him with her hands together. " What?" "Uh… I want you to be my trainer. I'm a weak and I would like to be strong and fast for protection. Please, that is all I ask." Shadow thought about it for a moment. " Hmm… What do I get out of it?" " Don't I already clean and cook for you? Want else would you want?" Shadow sighed and closed his eyes. " Sure, why not?" She hugged him with joy, thinking that he'd say no. " Thank you so much!" " Do not hug me…" Shadow said in sort of an anger tone.
She ran up stairs, took a bath, brushed her hair, and went to bed. ' Well, today was amazing. I finally got to relax for the first time in a long time. I hope to get my training done soon. Shadow will be surprised when he finds out I'm going to work with him. I finally have a chance to be something besides a maid. My parents would be proud of me. Wait… I forgot to ask him when my training will start' She thought to herself as she fell asleep.