A Star Reignites

Trust In The Lion

"Are you nuts?!"

"Excuse me?" Star's eyes widened at Sonic's tone towards her. When she got home from a long day at the recording studio, this is not what she was expecting to be greeted with. "What are you talking about?"

"Oh don't give me that. You wrote a song about Shadow. I know you did. Everybody that was there that night knows you did."

Star frowned at him and crossed her arms. "Ok, yes, I did. So what of it?"

"So what of it?! Again, I ask, are you nuts?!" Sonic waved his arms around in disbelief. "He insulted you! He works with Eggman! He hates me! How can you possibly be in love with that guy?!"

"My heart can't control who it finds attractive, Sonic. Yes, I have a crush on him, but that's all it is. A crush. He won't talk to me. He refuses to, so I'm sure nothing is going to happen between us. My crush on him will die out. For now, it's helping me with my music, so I'll use whatever inspiration it gives me."

"... You sure it's just a crush?" Sonic had to be sure.

"Yes, Sonic. Just a crush."

"And you're sure nothing is going to happen between you two?"

"Not as long as he continues to ignore me."

Sonic waited for a moment, searching his sister's eyes for the lie. It was a thing they had as twins. They could tell when the other was lying to them. Sonic at last sighed and nodded. "Ok. I believe you. I'm sorry I yelled at you."

Star smiled and gently pulled him into a hug. "It's ok. I appreciate you looking out for me."

"Heh, I may have been born second but I'm still your brother, so I gotta protect you."

"I know." Star chuckled, playfully ruffling his quills. "Ok, I gotta go now. I promised some kids that I would perform at their children's church tomorrow, so I gotta prepare."

"Ok, sis." Sonic chuckled. "I'm sure they'll love to hear you sing for them."

Star nodded and rushed upstairs to her room to prepare her Christian songs, unaware of the events that were going to happen the next day.

Fate had a plan.

...

The next day, early in the morning at the Dark House, Shadow had been sitting at the computer for the past hour, listening to Star's new song about him over and over again as he was doing some research on her at the same time.

There was not much he was able to pull up about her, just that she was a successful singer/songwriter, that she had come from Mobias, and that she was the twin sister of Sonic the Hedgehog. Nothing that he didn't already know about her.

"Guess she doesn't really like to talk about her upbringing." Shadow hummed softly to himself.

"Stalker, much?"

Shadow jumped a bit and turned to glare behind him at Rouge, who was standing in the doorway smirking at him with a knowing look. "I'm not stalking, just researching."

"Yeah, that's stalking, honey." The bat laughed as she approached him. "Why don't you just ask her out and get it over with already?"

"I'm not doing this to ask her out. I'm not planning to ask her out. I'm doing this because it's very strange for her to just appear out of nowhere, and have no background check on her, and for her to suddenly have a crush on me when she doesn't even know me, and plus I insulted her."

"You know how she is about words. They just slide off her back. She wasn't offended by what you said at all."

"And that's suspicious to me."