Wilting Rose (Shadamy)

Chapter 9

  Stepping into the living room Amy sees Shadow sitting on the couch reading a book, as she walks over his ears turn in her direction as he closes the book and places it down on the table in front of him. Looking at the book he placed down she could tell the book was hers, the well worn cover was faded the cover was plain and lacked anything noteworthy no picture, color, or even a title the only thing that would draw someone too the book was the spine a dull faded emblem adorned it near the top, and the gold lacey script that allows the story's name to shine. A Maiden's Plight, a story of a young princess who falls for a knight, when she is held for ransom by her aunt, she is rescued by her knight but as the two start to ride too safety the princess throws herself into an arrow meant for her love. As the knight holds the princess he cries, lamenting his failure to save her. He buries the princess under an aged tree that as he finishes burying her, the petals begin to slowly fall as if the tree itself was weeping the loss of her life. Shaking the thoughts of the story from her head saying "That book belonged to my grandma, she used to read it to me when I was young. She never did actually finish reading it too me, before she passed. No one wanted any of her books, so I took them reading them made it feel like as if she was still there." Shadow glances to the book only giving her his full attention once she sits next to him on the couch saying "Sometimes being able to do partake in the things those we are close to loved is enough to feel as if they are still there, memories of those we have loved and lost can be the greatest comfort and a great sorrow. Just be sure not to get lost in the past, you will miss the present and stumble through the future." Amy smiles sweetly at him responding "Seems like you have been trapped alone with your thoughts far too long, if you want the offer still stands that is if your okay sleeping in a bed that is not yours." as she rest her head on the back of the couch staring at the ceiling.

Shadow says "I may have to take you up on that deal." Sonic stands there with an exasperated expression, glaring at the two after hearing their conversation not wanting to listen any longer, he swiftly walks out the door, shortly after a sonic boom can be heard as he takes off running. Giving a dry chuckle Amy turns too Shadow saying "You can give me your answer, after the movie how does that sound." Shadow pauses for a moment before he answers "I just hope that I am not intruding." Amy gently leans onto him nuzzling into his shoulder "Don't worry you're not, everyone else kind of moved onto doing their own things. We're still friends but we all have our own lives too live and ambitions to follow, we don't get together as much as we used too it's been kind of lonely. When we started to follow our dreams, I started to make friends with people outside of Team Sonic and the Restoration, but a lot of the people I met only became my friend because I am a hero just some famous person for them to brag about to their friends and family." Shadow reaches out and gives her hand a slight squeeze saying " I am sorry to hear that Rose, sometimes you can be in a crowd of people who can call you their friend but still be isolated. The sensation that you don't belong or that they are just being nice, those types of thoughts are hard too ignore. Everyone needs someone to lean on, it's something not everyone realizes but they need to know it's essentially impossible to get by fully on your own." picking up her T.V remote she starts to look for a movie to watch saying "You okay with watching a comedy?" Shadow replies "I fine with whatever you want to watch."

As she finds a movie for them to watch she lets out a small yawn, nearing the end of the movie she falls asleep. Seeing this Shadow puts his arm under her back slowly lifting her off of himself, then resting her head once more against his shoulder as he carries her too her bed. Shifting her weight so he can hold her with one hand he moves her blanket, carefully placing her down so she doesn't wake up. Before he could leave Amy mumbles "Do you love me?" stiffening on the spot he says " Sorry if I woke you up." as he slowly turns around he sees that she was only talking in her sleep. Slowly relaxing he gently pets her cheek while she nuzzles into his hand letting out a small purr Shadow whispers "I do love you sleep well, Rose." with that said he walks out of the room slowly quietly closing the door behind him. After the door closed the pink hedgehog sat up, the embarrassment of asking him out of the blue and his initial response. She second guessed herself and chose to pretend to still be asleep, only for her to get the answer she wanted because he thought she was sleeping. Laying back down she stares at the ceiling as she closes her eyes trying to sleep by counting her heart beats, as she tries to fall back to sleep her thoughts fought her back awake.