As soon as the three got home, they were greeted with the yelling of Chris asking them why they had left him alone in the motel, but they just ignored him.
As soon as Sonic got into the room he plopped down onto the bed and sighed.
"What a day." He started rubbing his head, he didn't want to do anything right now, it was too hot and he was way too tired, he lay back onto the bed and closed his eyes hoping that no one would bother him while he was trying to sleep. Meanwhile in the dining room, the three boys sat there each of them sitting with their heads on the table tiredly.
"What a day," Silver said, "well now we know that Shadow is in Almsbush, unfortunately I have no idea where that is."
"Maybe Sonic knows, he is always going out and stuff, he's got to know at least." Robbie replied
"I'm tired of that old man!" Chris practically screamed causing Silver and Robbie's head to sit up and stare blankly at him.
"Who?" Silver asked about ready to attack him if he even thought about calling Shadow an 'old man', Silver bet Shadow was young and handsome.
"That manager guy, Matt," Chris said slurring his words and saying Matt's name in an annoyed tone, Silver calmed down and Robbie threw his head back onto the table.
"Whatever, you know," Robbie started as he tapped his fingers on the table then yawned, "I'm going to bed, it's late and we've been working all day long." Silver nodded as he stood up too and started walking towards the door with Robbie.
"You coming, Chris?" Chris nodded and stood up also managing to trip on the chair's leg while walking over making Robbie roll his eyes at his clumsiness.
"Shut up!" Chris yelled towards Robbie.
"I didn't say anything." Robbie replied obviously annoyed.
"So you were thinking it!" Silver sighed as the two's argument went in one ear and out the other, he was too tired to stop them, and also too tired to want to hear them yell. His head was throbbing with pain and he desperately wanted to just lie down and go to sleep.
The three got to the room and wondered why Sonic looked so annoyed, he got up and went to go take a shower in the bathroom which reminded them that they all haven't bathed for a while, so they all took their own bathroom and got washed up.
- (Boys orphanage)
Scourge plopped down onto the couch and let out a loud sigh before chugging down his water, he was being tossed orders left, right, forward, and backwards, it was not fun at all. 'Scourge do this' and 'Scourge do that' 'Scourge can you do this for me?', 'Scourge can you get this for me?' 'Scourge I need you to take over this for me' not to mention he was doing the job for Sonic.
Ah, went over a mine, he put his head back and closed his eyes, he desperately hoped Sonic was doing okay and that he hadn't got into any trouble. Well of course he wouldn't, he was responsible enough to stay out of it but… there were bad people on the streets that could easily hurt him. Hurt Sonic. HIS Sonic. He couldn't let that happen, but then again, there's nothing much he could do but just sit there and hope that he was okay.
He sighed once again before lifting up his hand to take another drink before something happened, one minute he was about to take a wonderful refreshing sip of his water the next minute he was standing up yelling while trying to wipe the cold liquid of his pants.
"WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM!" Scourge yelled angrily towards a hot pink colored cat who was practically hissing angrily also.
"I SHOULD BE ASKING THAT TO YOU! WHAT'S WITH YOU SITTING HERE SIGHING OVER AND OVER AGAIN LIKE YOU HAVE A REAL PROBLEM ON YOUR HANDS?" Scourge growled warning him to back off.
"Ace, let's just go, he wasn't bothering-," Ace put his hand over the other speakers mouth, Scourge would have looked over to the caramel brown hedgehog of he wasn't so focused on his Rival, Ace. They've been fighting ever since they met.
"Oh, just shut up!" The youngest hedgehog gasped. "I wasn't talking to you, Basil." Ace said calmly before going into attack mode once again. "LOOK AT YOU, scaring Basil like that!" Scourge gasped angrily.
"I DIDN'T EVEN DO ANYTHING!" His tail was now wagging with rage, as well as Ace's even though his was more of a twirling motion.
The two continued to fight before some others came in and decided to break it up before they broke something (meaning their voice box or something).
Scourge quietly walked back to his room, even though Ace was an annoying ass, lately, Scourge came to realize Ace only started fighting with him when Scourge was really depressed, meaning that he was actually trying to clear his head from whatever he was thinking hardly about. He was actually doing him a favor, so he had to thank him a little for that. He then started remembering the day Basil came to him after an argument, he came up to him cautiously saying that Ace didn't want him near Scourge since he might, 'damage his mind and innocence'.
"Ace isn't that bad actually, to be honest, I think he just fights with you because he's bored sometimes and it's like playing a game with you, even though you two do get serious sometimes and almost break each other's necks."
Scourge chuckled a little, he's been thinking a whole lot lately, and he didn't like it, he was too beautiful to get stressed out. Scourge growled then, knowing that if he said that out loud many people would start laughing. Who cares though, they were just jealous of his sexyness and needed to make themselves feel better that they didn't have my body.
Scourge lied silently on his bed, throwing up his ball and catching it again in his hands repeatedly, it wasn't like him to worry but he couldn't help it, he grabbed the ball once it came back down and held it, tired of throwing it. He turned and placed the ball gently on his night stand hoping that it wouldn't roll off, because then he'd actually have to get up and get it again… or he could just leave it there, but then he would probably step on it tomorrow morning and break his neck. Thankfully it didn't.
Scourge closed his eyes ready to go to bed, he has been really tired for the past few days and it's been driving him crazy. The room was in a deadly silence as Scourge just laid there, his eyes were closed and he was just thinking about things. Random things mostly, thinking caused him to fall half asleep but yet, half awake also, a trickle of drool started rolling down his chin, before he fully fell asleep.
Scourge fell on the floor, gasping for breath, the sound of a phone ringing went throughout the small room, the same noise that almost gave Scourge a heart attack. He grumbled a little before picking himself up then wiping the drool of his chin with a rag that was in there (he wasn't sure what for though). The green hedgehog bent down and angrily picked up the phone.
"Hello?" Scourge frowned, not pleased with the way he sounded (which was really tired).
"Scourge," Scourge stopped frowning and his frowned into a small 'o' shape.
"Sonic?" There was a moment of silence and Scourge chuckled knowing that Sonic nodded instead of giving a reply, he had a problem with that.
"I mean, yeah it's me." Scourge noticed the unsure tone in his boyfriend's voice.
"What's wrong?" He asked as he sat down on his bed about to lie back again.
"Scourge, did you know that Shadow was actually living in Almsbush?" Scourge perked up a little.
"Really," Another moment of Silence, "how'd you find that out?"
"One of Shadow's friends told me, her name was… um… Amy I believe." Scourges ear twitched at the familiar name.
"Oh yeah, her, yeah I'm not that surprised she would know."
"What do you mean?" Scourge huffed.
"She was the girl that kept calling him every five minutes asking him for CD's and other useless things, really got on my nerves, Shadow didn't seem to mind though, but I knew that through that stoic face of his he was getting annoyed, geez, people these days, I mean, if something's bothering you, you should come right out and say it instead of keeping it in for the rest of your life." Sonic started to laugh a little.
"Well, then, I wasn't expecting that, anyway, do you think you know of where Shadow could be?" Scourge pouted a little, I mean no one could see so he could freely do it without being teased.
"Aw, you just called me to talk about Shadow," Scourge faked a heartbreaking voice "and here I thought that my dear boyfriend would be calling me to say hi, to say, 'Oh Scourge, I miss you so much, how are you?"" Scourge knew then that Sonic was frowning at how Scourge made his voice, "is that asking for some much?" Scourge heard Sonic huff.
"Oh Scourge, I miss you so much, how are you?" Scourge winced.
"Don't do that, it's kind of strange…" Scourge smirked as he heard Sonic angrily growl.
"You're the one!"
"It's okay, it's okay, I'm just messing with you a little," Another awkward moment of silence, "anyway about this Shadow thing, no I don't know where he could be."
"Well, you're a big help," Scourge laughed a little.
"Well what do you expect? You woke me up." Scourge said realizing that he hasn't even laid down yet.
"Oops, sorry" Scourge sighed.
"Anyway, sorry that I can't help you, you, be careful though, okay?" Another quick moment of silence, "you know I can't see you nod Sonic." Another moment of Silence, he then knew Sonic was blushing angrily then.
"W-whatever, anyway, I'm hanging up now because you're no help, goodbye Scourge."
"Bye." Scourge hung up then, but was still smiling, 'he's such a goof.'
Sonic practically threw the phone down (Matt let him borrow his cell phone), Scourge was such a goof and it made him a little irritated. Ah well, that's another thing he loved about him. He looked around him at the three sleeping faces in the beds and smiled a little. He was about to go back to bed himself, he just had an urge to call Scourge, not really sure why though. Sonic yawned (a manly yawn) then fell back onto the bed, a little roughly causing Chris to stir in his sleep.
Just as Sonic was about to finally close his eyes to doze off, he heard loud banging on the door, Sonic gave an angry face (quite a scary one) and got up to quickly answer the door, now he knew how Scourge felt.
Surprisingly the three didn't wake up, but again Chris stirred in his sleep a little, Sonic walked, well more like stomped over to the wooden door and opened it.
"What?" he asked rudely, mostly for being woken up, he then realized it was the pink girl, Amy, she was staring, a little frightened by Sonics face. "Uh, I mean, yes?" Amy giggled.
"I have some good news!" She said, quite loudly to be exact, "I found one of Shadow's buddies, and he said." Sonic twitched a little before 'gently' pulling her in.
"Don't stare at the door and talk Amy," Sonic said quietly, before making her sit on Sonic's side of the bed.
"So you all, share a room?" She asked, "Oh well of course, it would cost more, anyway about Shadow." Sonic saw Silver's ear twitch from across the room but he didn't wake up. Sonic placed his fingers on his lips telling her to talk quietly, "Oh, sorry, anyway I have good news, I saw one of Shadow's best buddies the other day and he said that he actually new where he was, unfortunately Shadow told him not to tell anyone," Sonic's ears folded against his head. "But here's the good news, he said if you paid him he'll tell you," Sonic perked up then.
"Really, how much does he want?" Sonic asked her, knowing that they actually didn't have that much money.
"Well," She started up again, "I'm not sure, but he wanted me to give this to you," She held out a small piece of paper for him. "It's his phone number, anyway that's all I wanted to tell you." She got up about to excuse herself.
"T-thank you," Sonic said still staring at the paper; this makes them so much closer to getting to Shadow. Amy waved her hand.
"I'll maybe see you soon, and good luck finding Shadow." She then walked out the door. Sonic couldn't hold it anymore; he screamed like a loon and punched the air as a victory sign causing the three sleepy head to jump up and freak out thinking they were being attacked or something.
"Sonic, what's wrong?" Robbie asked his hair sticking up like a cats.
"Oh god, he's frozen, it's just like on the TV the enemy came in and froze him!" Chris yelled before sitting down to quietly sob.
"Look at this," Sonic yelled holding out for the three to see.
"… What is it?" Robbie asked Chris looked up pleased that Sonic wasn't frozen anymore.
"This, my friends, is the key that gets us one step closer the Shadow." Robbie for one has never seen Silver's eyes light up so quickly.