"I'll see you at music class," Silver said and gave Shadow a kiss on his cheek. Shadow saw Mephiles also stood up and walked through the door after Silver. Shadow stood up to follow him. They went upstairs towards the chemistry classroom. Shadow also went in.
"You're not in this class," the teacher said when she saw Shadow entering the room.
"I would like to follow this course," Shadow said and looked over at Silver.
"No, we are not doing that, you will only distract Silver," She said.
"I promise I won't."
The teacher stared at Shadow questioning for a second "Well okay, but if you can't keep up, you need to go." Shadow nodded and went over to sit next to Silver.
"What are you doing here?" Silver asked.
"I'm going to follow this course as well."
"I didn't know you were interested in chemistry?" Tails said confused.
"Well I am," Shadow lied, looking over at Mephiles.
During class Shadow was bored out of his mind, as the teacher only talked gibberish. He looked over at Silver who was constantly taking notes. "Do you get this?" Shadow whispered. Silver nodded silently while paying attention to the class. Shadow just flicked the pages of Silver's book. "I don't get this."
"Shh," Silver hissed, "I'll help you with it later."
Shadow looked over at Mephiles who only stared towards the front of the class emotionless. He turned his head towards Shadow and glared at him. Shadow stared back angrily. Mephiles looked Shadow up and down and turned back towards the teacher.
'Something is up with this guy,' Shadow thought. Somehow Shadow felt he knew him.
"Come on let's go," Shadow quickly stood up when the bell rang. Shadow looked over at Mephiles while helping Silver get their stuff. He took Silver's wrist and led them out of the classroom.
"Shadow, what's going on?"
"I want you to stay away from Mephiles okay?" Shadow said.
"As if I would even want to be around that guy," Silver responded.
"Good," Shadow replied.
"See you next week, Silver," Tails said.
"Aren't you coming for your research?" Silver asked.
"Not today, I don't feel so well."
"Oh okay, just take it easy then," Silver said.
Shadow and Silver went to the theatre hall. Sonic was pacing stressfully on the stage the other band members followed him with their eyes.
"What's up?" Silver asked when they did get on stage.
"Haven't you heard?" Sonic said frustrated. "We have sports day next week."
"So?"
"That means we have one day less to practise for the Halloween party."
"Can't we practise some other time?" Silver suggested, "Maybe after school?"
"That could be a possibility," Sonic thought out loud. "At least we have the line-up already."
"Just don't freak out too much, everything went great the last time and we didn't practise much during summer break. So this should be a piece of cake," Mathilda said.
"Good you are all here," The teacher said while entering the theatre. "Let's just practise the songs you had selected for the Halloween party."
Sonic passed them all the line-up and sheet music and they looked at it.
"Hey, why do I have two songs?" Silver asked.
"Because you're good," Sonic responded.
"And I have to play violin and keyboard!?" Silver said shocked.
"Yep."
Silver sighed, "This is going to be a nightmare."
"It's Halloween, what did you expect?" Sonic joked.
"Don't worry you can do this," Shadow said.
"Do you know how difficult so many changes will be in one performance?" Silver said.
"We are all here to help you Silver, not that you need it. Besides we still have 4 weeks to practise."
They played every song twice during the lesson and the teacher corrected them when necessary. She gave them all notes with things they needed to practise on, Silver's note only said 'Smile', which made them smile.
Shadow en Silver went to do some groceries before going to Shadow's place. Silver walked behind Shadow while he was putting the groceries in a basket.
"Are you going to stay the whole weekend?" Shadow asked.
"Just for the evening, I don't want to be a burden to you," Silver said.
Shadow looked over at Silver, "You will never be a burden. You can stay as long as you want, I like having you home with me."
Silver smiled shyly. "But I also need to take care of my cats, Shadow," They said.
"Can't you feed them after work?"
Silver thought for a moment, "Maybe I could do that, but wouldn't you mind?"
Shadow rolled his eyes, "Would I suggest it if I would mind?"
Silver chuckled, "Probably not."
"So will you stay the weekend?"Shadow asked again and Silver nodded with a shy smile, "In that case we'll need some more snacks," Shadow went over to the chips and candy row. "What would you like?"
"I could make some nacho's if you want?" Silver asked.
"Oh yeah, I would like that," Shadow took a bag of nacho chips and wanted to put it in the basket.
"I want to pay for it," Silver said taking the chips from Shadow.
"You don't have to,"
"But I want to, you have been so good to me and you have already paid so much, I want to do something for you in return."
"I know some other things you could do in return," Shadow smirked.
"I-I-I…" Silver started to blush and stutter.
Shadow laughed, "I'm only kidding, I know you aren't ready," Silver sighed in relief.
Silver took all the things they needed for the nacho's and some cans of cat food. Shadow paid for the groceries by card and Silver took out a small wallet and counted all the coins to pay for the nacho ingredients and cat food. "Oh sorry, I'm 10 cents short," Silver said to the cashier and gave back one can of cat food.
"Don't be so stupid," Shadow said and gave them 10 cents.
"Thank you," Silver said feeling guilty and gave the 10 cents to the cashier.
They went to the motorcycle and loaded the groceries into the storage space of the vehicle. Shadow lifted Silver onto the vehicle and took his place in front of Silver, who hugged him tight when they drove off.
They entered Shadow's room and started to unpack the groceries. In the shop, Silver didn't really look at what Shadow bought but while unpacking they looked at the ingredients Shadow put aside for this evenings dinner. Silver suppressed a smile and looked over at Shadow, "Are we going to eat, what I think we're going to eat?"
"If you think 'food' then you are right," Shadow said with a grin.
Silver chuckled and rolled their eyes, "Did you get Mrs Prower's recipe?" they shyly asked. Shadow nodded with a smile, Silver quickly came over and hugged Shadow tight. "Thank you, thank you, thank you," Silver exclaimed.
"Calm down, calm down, it's just food," Shadow said with a smile.
"Ow no, this isn't 'just food' it's heaven!" Silver said mouthwatering. "I want to help!" they took a big knife out of the drawers which Shadow quickly took from them.
"You can use the smaller knife, I don't want you to cut yourself."
"I use the big knife all the time!" Silver said.
"But it's dangerous."
Silver rolled their eyes, "A knife itself isn't dangerous, it's the person holding it which makes it dangerous."
"Exactly my point," Shadow laughed.
"Hey!" Silver said upset with their hands on their hips.
"Come on I'm kidding, but just be careful," Shadow said as he gave back the knife. "Shall I put on some music?"
"That would be nice."
"What would you like?"
"DISCO!" Silver yelped.
"You can't be serious right?" Shadow asked awkwardly.
"What do you have against disco?"
"It's far too happy."
Silver laughed, "Come on! PLEASEEEEEEE?" they begged with big eyes.
Shadow sighed as he gave in and looked for a disco playlist on his laptop. "This is so going to screw up my algorithm," he complained.
"Don't care! DO IT!" Silver commanded. Shadow rolled his eyes and pressed play. Silver took the mushrooms and a cutting board and started to slice them as their hips started to move on the beat of the song and they started to sing.
"I don't know what's gonna happen to you, baby,
But I do know that I love you"
Shadow looked over at Silver and saw how they were moving their body.
"You walk around this town,
With your head all up in the sky,
And I do know that I…
Silver quickly turned around and pointed at Shadow.
"Want you."
They sang and winked at Shadow and turned back to chop the mushrooms with a slight blush on their cheeks.
"Let's dance, let's shout,
Shake your body down to the ground."
Silver moved down low and back up. Shadow followed their movement closely and was just completely fascinated by their movement.
"You tease me with your loving to play hard to get,
Cause you do know that I want you,
You walk around this town,
With your head all up in the sky,
And you do know that I want you."
Silver turned to look at Shadow, put down the knife and held out a hand. "Come on, dance with me," they said as they kept on moving.
"Let's dance, let's shout,
Shake your body down to the ground."
"I can't dance," Shadow replied.
Silver took his hand and pulled them closer, "Come on, everybody can dance!"
"I'd rather see you dance," Shadow said as he spun Silver around.
"Let's dance, let's shout,
Shake your body down to the ground."
Silver moved down on Shadow and back up, Shadow pulled Silver close. "You make me want to kiss you so badly." Shadow whispered as he lifted Silver up and sat them down on the counter and started to kiss them. Silver was startled by this but kissed him back. Shadow stroked their quills as they did. "Did you know your kisses taste like cherries?" Shadow whispered as the song ended. They looked at each other dreamy and rocked a little from left to right on the next song.
"I see the crystal raindrops fall
And the beauty of it all
Is when the sun comes shining through"
"Yours tastes like raspberries," Silver responded. Shadow caressed their nose with his.
"To make those rainbows in my mind
When I think of you sometime
And I wanna spend some time with you"
"I just want another taste," Shadow whispered.
"Just the two of us,
We can make it if we try,
Just the two of us."
Silver wrapped their arm around Shadow's neck and pulled him in. They closed their eyes as they both forgot about the world and only focussed on each other's touch.
"Building castles in the sky,
Just the two of us,
You and I."
…..
The songs I used in this story are:
Shake Your Body - The Jackson 5
Just the two of us - Grover Washington Jr.
