We pulled into the cell-phone waiting lot for the airport, a bit earlier than I had expected, might I add.
"Now what?" Shadow asked, eyes drifting about the half empty lot.
"Now… we wait…" I slumped back as well.
I set my phone on as loud as the ringer could be and set it on the center console.
A blue VW bug drove by.
I leaned over a bit and gave him a light punch on the shoulder "Blue one."
He looked over to me; his eyes tilted down to my fist then back up to me.
"Why did you just hit me?"
"It's a game, see that car, it's called a 'Bug' and every time you see one, you get to punch the other person- Lightly though- then you say the color."
"Just to get this information correct: you are giving me person to punch you."
"Lightly. But, Yes."
He scoffed "Alright then. Game on." He hummed and started searching the parking lot.
In a quick motion I was biffed in the arm, harder than I expected.
"White one."
"Damn- I said lightly!"
"That was lightly…"
"As light as I hit you earlier!"
"Then you should specify next time."
Out of the corner of my eye I saw the headlights to a bug. I leaned over and slugged him in the shoulder "Black one!"
He leaned over and punched me back "No that's dark blue."
"Ok this was a bad game to play with you."
"I'm having plenty of fun. Besides I'm winning." His voice was flat as always.
Being horribly competitive, I spun around in my seat and found another one behind us.
I leaned over and punched him again.
"Green one!"
He grabbed my wrist and we made eye contact "You better start punching softer or I'll make sure to leave a bruise next time."
Before I could reply, my phone burst into noise as my Nyan-Cat ringtone sounded.
I reached with my free hand and answered my phone "Hello mother-dearest." I smiled into the phone.
"Hey Peanut!" my mom cooed through the line "We're at door 12!"
"Kay see you in a bit!" I hung up and a knot formed in my stomach. God damnit- what am I going to do?! How do I tell them lightly that I was in the hospital?
Well anyone my parents would talk to only knew about the first time.
"Can I have my arm back?" I looked up from my phone to Shadow and he seemed to have forgotten he had my wrist hostage.
"Huh? Oh- right."
I turned the car on and looked over to him. It's going to be hard as hell hiding Him, Sonic and Amy-
"Fuck… Shad, how fast can you make it home?"
"I can make it there now." He held up the emerald.
"Awesome I need you to go home and put the spare bed away and shoo the blue annoyance and his pink counterpart out of the house until I say they can come back."
He grinned at my word choice for Sonic and right before he teleported away, realized something. "Don't call me Shad."
Then he was gone.
"I'll call you whatever I feel like calling you." I spoke triumphantly to the empty space in the car and drove away.
I pulled up to the correct door and jumped out, flinging into the arms of my parents.
"Darling how we've missed you!" my mom cheered and my dad wrapped his arms around both of us.
"Hey kiddo!" he chuckled.
"Oh my god I was so worried about you! My poor baby! I'm never leaving again!"
"I missed you too, Mama…" I smiled.
"I mean I leave for two weeks and you get attacked and end up in the hospital!"
Well shit.
At least I don't have to surprise them…
"Who told you?" I held her out at arms' length.
"Kristi texted me but sense you're father nor I had any service, we didn't know until we got to the airport!" I noticed her eyes where tearing up.
I gave her a big hug "I'm okay mama! And the insurance covered the whole thing! Besides I just had a small bump to the head and some scrapes and bruises… I could've just rubbed some dirt on it and walked it off…"
"That's my girl!" My dad gave me one of those crushing daddy-loves-you-lots hugs.
I gasped out something that sounded like "I love you too" and he let go.
"Why didn't you call us at all?" my mother jumped back in, ready to cry again.
"I knew you didn't have service…" I lied.
"Oh baby-girl! I'm glad you're okay!" I got another hug from her.
"Yep! All together and in shape! Well I'm sure everyone is tired, get in the car family!" they were reluctant to get in because I could tell the still wanted to talk. The drive home was a surprisingly calm and quiet one. My dad fell asleep in the back seat and my mom drifted in and out.
I pulled the car into the garage and my parents stirred awake.
They both grumbled and grabbed their luggage, hauling it up to their room.
"Are you sure you're okay?" my mom asked with tired eyes. "I'm fine Ma'… go to bed, I love ya." I kissed her on the cheek and she smiled. With a yawn she shut the door behind her and I walked back to the spare bedroom, pulling the bed back down.
I slipped into my room and closed the door behind me.
I turned around and jumped.
"Look Shads she drew you!" Sonic was perched on my dresser with Amy next to him. Shadow was laying on my bed with his eyes closed, arms behind his head and Luci was half asleep, purring and kneading on his chest.
He opened one eye as Sonic held up the sketchbook with it opened to the picture I had done of Shadow with my Copic markers.
"I thought I-!"
"He opened it, I didn't touch it." His eye shut again and he stroked my cat's head a bit.
"Oh cool I'm in here too!" Sonic caught my attention again.
Amy leaned over and turned the page "Hey look it's me! Aww I look so cute! She even got my hammer in there!"
There turned the page and I could see the confusion.
"Who's that?" Amy asked, pointing to the picture.
"Huh… I don't know…" Sonic looked up to Shadow and I felt my skin grow cold.
"Hey Shadow do you know who this is?" he spun the book around and I saw the picture where I had drawn myself as a mobian-esc character.
It was fairly recent because I had translated one of my everyday outfits onto said character.
Shadow shook his head after a moment of thought.
He was more observant than the other two in the room and I knew he figured something was up because it just happened to be the outfit I was wearing at the moment.
I snatched the book away and slammed it shut "Alright show and tell is over- go to bed!"
They both groaned and left the room.
My face was red with embarrassment. I normally didn't have a problem showing people my sketchbook but it was weird to show the characters I had been drawing for years.
"That was you- wasn't it?" Shadow's voice broke my thought process and I got goose bumps.
I turned around and nodded sheepishly "Yea…"
"Not bad. But you got my quills wrong." He held a serious tone for a moment but opened an eye to see my reaction.
I had re-opened the book and held it up to look between him and my drawing.
He let out a small laugh and a quaint smile.
"You're making fun of me aren't you?"
"Yes… Yes, I am." He chuckled.
I couldn't help but laugh nervously and set the book back down "I hate you…"
"The feeling is mutual." He grunted as he sat up, holding my cat and she continued to sleep in his rather large gloved hands.
"I guess someone here has to like you." I motioned to my sleeping cat.
He got off my bed and I tossed down some pillows and two blankets.
I made him look away so I could put on Pajamas.
I noticed another pair of paws come under the door and I opened it to see Cody laying on the floor.
"Hey big boy!" I cooed at my 22 pound cat, hefting him off the floor.
I kissed him on the head "Where have you been all my life?"
He purred and snuggled against me. I shut the door again and flicked off the light, my eyes doing the weird adjusting red thing again.
I flopped down onto my bed, Cody let out a small grunt.
"Goodnight, Hedgehog."
"Human."
Well it was better than a disregarding grumble…
A small shove to my shoulder woke me up. I stirred partially, my hearing fading in as well as my vision.
I met a pair of red eyes, a bit tired and aggravated. "Get the hell up. Why is that damn alarm set so early?" Shadow snarled, standing next to my bed.
I tilted my head to look at the clock and read it at 5:32am.
"Because it takes me a long time to get ready in the morning… did you turn it off?"
"Yes. It gave me a damn heart attack."
I handed him the still sleeping Cody and slipped out of my covers and to my feet.
"My parents get up around 7:30… so whatever you need to do to get everyone out of the house- do it…" I plugged in my phone to the surround sound speakers in my room and turned on my wireless base. My music filled the room so I could have a conversation with him and my parents wouldn't hear anything out of the norm.
"I have school until 2:20… wait, what day is it?"
He yawned and flopped onto my bed "Tuesday…"
"Ok change that to 3:30… I have a meeting after school." I picked out my clothes and trudged across the hall, then turned on my shower.
I walked back into my room and was about to say something else but he was asleep.
I found his difficulty waking up a bit strange… I would have imagined with all the military ops work and just his life style that waking up this early was no problem.
I let him sleep and took my shower without interruption, he was still asleep after I had dressed and dried my hair. I checked the clock and figured it was time to wake him up. I scuffled over to the bed and reached to shake him, my palm that went for his shoulder away from me glided gently across that small tuft of fur on his chest; the fibers barely grazing and tickling my slightly toughened hands.
I stood and contemplating an itching urge to just touch or pet it… only to cave and rest my hand in the puff of white.
It was as soft as the undercoat to fox or mink fur- or even the cheeks to a medium haired cat. I barely was able to get a shake in as he woke immediately, his eyes shooting open and I jumped a little.
"Good morning sunshine- the earth says hello!" I said in a sarcastically sweet and partially falsetto voice.
He looked down to my hand on his chest, partially confused, then back to me.
I took that as my cue to stop touching him and gained my distance, retreating back to my make-up and flat-iron. In the mean-time he grumbled and slipped onto the floor, then pulled on his shoes.
A small yawn sighed from him and I nodded "Yea, what you said…"
"I didn't say anything."
"I meant the yawn."
"Oh… your mind is still strange."
"This is me not caring about your opinion."
hey guys!
sorry for the wait! i started typing on the other "When Worlds Collide" story! nothing is being added quite yet but expect a decent amount sometime soon :3
oh yeah and if you haven't read the other story i suggest you catch up!
?::=+Question for the Chapter time!+=::?
What do you think Shadow's little chest puff feels like? everyone wants to touch it... everyone...
Give examples and how you would cop a feel (haha double meaning)
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sorry for the kinda slow chappy again with alot of dialog but stuff does get interesting within the next chapter :D !
~FurrReal