Him. (knuxadow) ON HIATUS/THIS IS PAUSED

1: Party

Knock Knock
Shadow almost jumped out of his chair.

He had just been settling in to his new home, Rouge had been planning on this for years now. And last week she had announced that she had gained enough money to buy a big house for everybody. He hadn't thought that a house would be able to fit everyone that they had planned on moving in with but it was made clear that Rouge had used the wrong word at first.

Mansion would be a better word for it, no doubt. It was massive for chaos sake! It even had a pool! At first he was going to question where she had gotten all of the money. But then decided against it, did he really want to know where the jewel thief got hundreds of thousands of pounds?

But anyways he had just drifted off to sleep reading a book about warrior mice or something, for the love of chaos who was knocking on his room door right now?

"Shadow? It's Rouge open up!"
Ah.. of course.
He sighed and trudged over to the door. When he opened it he stood facing one of his only friends, Rouge the bat. She wasn't wearing her usual attire. Instead wearing a nice red dress with heels. She had her hands on her hips, tapping her foot impatiently.

"This will only be quick I'll be outta your face in a minute Shads," she started, "we were planning on going out for dinner tonight. Just down at a pub. You're coming with us alright?" She left no time for him to answer before butting in again. "Wear something nice okay? If you don't just know that you forced my hand when we're up here for an hour getting you ready."

He stood awkwardly listening to her rambles.
"Why do I have to go." It was less of a question more of him showing annoyance at the 'invite'.
"Because! Everyone is gonna be there!" She tutted, "Even grumpy old Knuxie is showing up in whatever formal gear Amy will manage to put him into!"

Shadow rolled his eyes.
"Fine." He grumbled.
Rouge's eyes lit up in excitement and happiness that her grumpy friend Shadow was gonna go to a social event with everyone.
"Alright! But you better wear good clothes, otherwise I'll go through with the threat I made earlier!~" She sang leaving with a wave, strutting away as her heels clicked on the floor tiles.

The hedgehog sighed in defeat. In the name of Chaos what was he supposed to wear? He stressed, looking over all of his clothing. His eyes scanned over his array of clothes until eventually he picked up something that he described as good enough.

It wasn't the best but he had a white long sleeve button up shirt thing, he didn't know what it was called but he remembered Espio had worn one once at a party Rouge forced them all to go to last year. That also was a formal-wear outing.

He also had some dark grey trousers that he thought went fine with the shirt, so he threw a belt over it, because why wouldn't he put a belt over it. He decided to swap his normal shoes for something fancier, but he'd grab a bag later and take his normal shoes with him just in case.

Then of course he went to the bathroom to do his eyeliner. He normally did it so that it didn't stand out too much, but for the sake of a party he decided to make it a bit flashier. I mean why shouldn't he?

He also perfected his hair, as he thought that it wasn't in peak condition beforehand. Oh! He should probably take a picture and send it to Rouge to see if it's good enough for her.

He pulled out his phone and stood in front of the bathroom mirror, taking a photo and sending it to Rouge who responded pretty quickly with a "YES SHADOW THAT'S PERFECT SLAY 😍" which he thought was funny.

Then she messaged him saying that their taxi is here and she needs him to finish up now.

He grabs his normal shoes and throws them in a bag, grabs his phone and earphones and runs outside to where Rouge is waiting next to the taxi.
"Took you long enough." She chuckles hopping into the taxi. Shadow swiftly follows her taking a seat.