ShadAmy How Can I Love You?

Day 6 Chapter 41

I didn't get one wink of sleep last night. My mind was just too occupied with Shadow and that stupid organization. I stayed up for the whole night browsing the Internet about anything on Shadow's past history. I searched up; killing sprees, government organizations, organized robbery, anything and everything that popped in my mind. I even wrote Shadow's name to see if anything popped up. But no matter what I put in the search bar, I wasn't getting the information that I wanted. It was only when I saw the sun rising in the distance through my bedroom window where I realized I stayed up the entire night for nothing. I yawned and looked around my bedroom. I had two cups of coffee, three cups of tea, a pack of skittles and piles and piles of paper with my scribbles written all over it from the information I thought was important on the Internet. I rubbed my crusty eyes lazily and decided I should take a break from this research for a little bit. I closed my laptop and rested my head on my pillow and instantly went to sleep.

---

I woke up in cold sweats and my heart pounding uncontrollably. My hand was clasped around my heart as I breathed heavily. I frantically looked around my room and relaxed my body when I realized no one else was inside. After Rouge telling me that I could be potentially killed, I've dreamt of someone stabbing me multiple times in the chest... And that person was Shadow. I ran a hand through my quills and cursed to myself for thinking that Shadow would kill me. Serious Amy? Like Shadow would kill you... But what if he was hired to kill you?... Would he do it?... I grabbed one of my pillows and threw it across the room.

"Of fucking course Shadow wouldn't do it! Just because it's his job he would kill his girlfriend!" I gasped and felt my face go blank. "But Rouge said he would do anything for that stupid group cult whatever. Also... I'm not even his girlfriend... Just a side chick..." I brought my knees to my chest and rested my head upon them. I glanced over at my clock. 3:00 pm... Man I slept for a looong time. I grabbed one of the sheets of paper and stared at it with disappointment. "I stayed up all night trying to find any sort of leads to Shadow or even this group. And what for? Absolutely useless." I let the paper drift away from my fingertips and rustled up my quills in defeat. "Why can't I just trust Shadow that he will show up today?... Why doesn't he trust me?" I looked at my pile of papers again and stared at a bolded word that spelt out "Shadow". Suddenly my eyes flickered to another word that was bolded: "past". Why would I bold out these words? These aren't important... Are they? I flipped a paper over and there it was again, another bolded out word. "Given". My sleep deprived self from last night was getting somewhere, but I K.O'ed before it could even happen. I shuffled the papers and scanned through each one. To my surprise, there were bolded words on every single one of them, and each of them were completely different. They had significants! I grabbed a blank piece of paper and wrote down all the bolded words I saw.

Given
Shadow
Past
Streets
Known
Red
Death
Caught
Kid
Dark
Lies
Secret

I stared at the new paper and still couldn't piece the puzzle together. I gritted my teeth in frustration. What the hell do these mean!? I understood that I would bold out Shadow and past, but the rest just threw me off. No... No streets made sense too. Rouge said Shadow was like her, they found him on the streets. Since they found them, they caught him... Maybe caught him when he was just a kid? Dark and red... Significant because that's the colour of his fur perhaps? Now what would given be so important? I thought back to what Rouge said and it clicked. I found the pieces to the puzzle that could help me understand Shadow's past, and potentially find out what this organization is all about. I pulled my laptop over my knees and flung it open. What I was searching last night wasn't useless, it just wasn't direct. But now, now I knew what I needed to search for. I punched in the words and watch as hundred and hundreds of articles popped up. I awed and opened 20 of them, all relating to a certain someone I was trying to help; Shadow the hedgehog.