Pink Petals (Sonadow)

Bitter incident [Ch. 3] (blood warning)

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I watched blankly...something red was dripping. It wasn't my blood, how could it be? I slowly swallowed..i tasted iron. It was My blood after all. My blood that was dripping..it stained my gloves. I could wash off the bile acid with warm water enough for it to not be noticable, but blood..it will dry in it until i'm home.
I had to take it off..

I put it under the running water soaking it quickly. When i was done i heard..
something coming.

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footsteps.., i knew i had to clean up asap. Panickly i threw the bloodily soaked petals into the open bin, not really having a better idea in seconds. I didn't have the time to wash them off. I splashed water everywhere in the sink, then hid the bloody gloves into my left fist as the door was opening.
I was facing the sink and the mirror the whole time, luckily it was some random dude who didn't even look at me. I sighed in relief. But i was in here for too long now, perhaps i could throw some tissues on top of the soaked petals, hiding it from view. The most logical one would be that i wash them off first and then throw it out, but the random guy was in here too, he would have seen me and i did not want to be looked weirdly at.

I ended up doing the first thought, it was much faster, he could be coming to wash hands any second now. I looked in the mirror and wiped the blood off from the side of my mouth and walked out with the gloves in my fists. There was nothing i could do about it, and i bet it would have consequences if i just leave it in the restroom's bin.

I looked at the others when i was close enough and sat down.

"where were you?" tails asked. I took my glass with my right hand and drank the remained water in order to get the iron taste out of my mouth.

"restroom" i simply replied after.

"this long?" knuckles asked me. I just shrugged and finally took a quick look at the menu.

"where are your gloves?" knuckles asked when he noticed. I really have to come up with something good..

"mmmmmmm so you know, i just had a small incident with the water, it's soaked now and i don't want to put it on" i said, again with a half truth.

Shadow POV

I saw sonic coming back after he vanished during the ordering. Listening to their conversation i heard that sonic was in the restroom.

"this long?" knuckles asked sonic who just shrugged. He also had no gloves on, and his hands were shaking. Faker said he soaked it in water accidentally. Might be true might not be..i noticed he kept his left hand under the table, nothing suspicious right?
Being the ultimate lifeform and an agent in G.U.N. made me learn a few things.
I started sniffing, searching for something out of ordinary. Bingo. A faint bitter smell with some iron, definitely blood. What was he doing? After that incident with faker, he was acting weird everytime i was near, or maybe it has nothing to do with me and i just happen to witness these.
I scanned sonic carefully not to get caught, looking for a scar or something. Couldn't see anything so i'm sure it was his left arm. Is he bleeding? Why won't he say anything?

Then i looked at the table, nothing bizarre.
Sonic now was looking through the menu taking his focus, i bend down slowly acting like i dropped something. I frowned when i smelled way more bitter smell coming from his left hand. Something white....he was holding something white and bloody.
Oh of course, his gloves.
I went to sit back up slowly.

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Were his hands- no, maybe one but not both even though both gloves are there i'm sure. Seriously now what the heck..this is fucked up.
And also not my business. I stated in myself and leaned back on my seat waiting for the food as a reward for halfly solving the mystery.