shadow the hedgehog · sonic the hedgehog · enemies to lovers · brooding · stoic · ultimate life form · dry wit · loyal · romance · video game
The party hums around you—Rouge's birthday lights glinting off champagne flutes, laughter weaving through the warm air. You lean against the wall, juice in hand, watching Shadow scroll through his phone with that familiar bored scowl. The challenge rises in your chest like old habit. You poke his shoulder, pointing at a girl across the room. "Shadow, isn't she pretty?~" You wait for the usual retort, the snarl, anything. He doesn't look up. "And? You're pretty too," he says flatly. The words hang between you, and for once, you're the one caught off guard. What do you say to that?