AGREE WITH ROUGE
You casually and innocently shrug your shoulders. "Sorry, Knuckles," he smirks, "But you are pretty much a knucklehead. After all, you have basically lost the Master Emerald more times than I can count."
Rouge chuckles at your little joke. Knuckles narrows his eyes even more. His body nearly shakes in rage and looks ready to sock you in the face. Hard. Instead, however, he turns away and stomps out of the room.
You scratch your head, confused. "Huh," you muse, "He actually walked away from an argument. I could've sworn he was ready to try and hit me, or yell and scream even more. Wonder what's wrong with him?"
Shade responds with a hard smack to your cheek. Seeing as she was much stronger than Knuckles, that smack nearly took your head off.
"What's wrong with him?" Shade snarls, "YOU ARE! You, his own friend, just insulted him when he needed you to have his back! He helped you out this entire ordeal and stayed by your side the whole time! And this is how you repay him?" She looks at you with disgust, "You have been fighting together for years, I was told… I can only imagine just how horrible you are to him."
Shade then glares at Rouge, "And you are not much better. You may be beautiful on the outside, but inside, you're hideous." She glares back at you. "BOTH of you are." She then turns and quickly goes after Knuckles.
Rouge crosses her arms and stares down at the floor. "Well… he brings it on himself," she mutters, "I mean, he is an idiot. And gullible. And naïve. And a hard head…" She glances away, "But there's more to him than that… But you think I'm actually going to tell him?"
You eye Rouge… but you don't answer. Maybe you are a little too hard on the knucklehead. Sure, he's not the smartest guy you've ever met, but you realize you often tend to forget the good traits he has…
But like Rouge, do you really want to admit it?
So you don't have to actually answer, you decide to go visit someone else.
HEAD OVER TO CHAPTER 8: "SILVER & AMY"