Chapter 13 of w/Sonic: Waffles and Rumors

## **Summary:**

The chapter begins with Honest waking up at 4:00 AM. She plays a few levels of a game before heading to Shadow's room. Honest then gives an explanation as to what happened with the previous plot involving her, Shadow, and Sonic intending to move out of Snow's house but deciding against it. Basically, the explanation is that Shadow couldn't stand to be in such close quarters with Sonic, and Amy lived too closely, thus Sonic wasn't on board either. Anyway, next Honest finds that Shadow has left his door open a crack, so she slips in as quietly as she can and crawls into his bed to sleep beside him. However, Honest gets cold at some point during the night, and Shadow awakes to find Honest on top of him, restricting his breathing. He sits up and attempts to knock Honest off of himself, but this just ends up waking Honest, who then proceeds to exclaim "good morning" and trap him in a hug he cannot escape. Honest eventually lets go, and Shadow asks her if she wants him to make breakfast. Honest says "sure" and springs out of bed, opening the door for him and asking if they can have waffles. Shadow doesn't respond, and they go downstairs.

Snow is in the kitchen, reading a newspaper and sipping coffee. Shadow goes to the waffle iron and Honest stands beside him as he pours the batter into it. Honest asks if she can taste it and reaches out her finger. Shadow asks "don't you want to eat it when it's cooked?". This forces Honest to rethink her actions. She decides that she does indeed want to wait until it's cooked. Honest hands a plate to Snow and asks if she wants a waffle. Snow says she thinks she will and accepts the plate. Honest then goes back to watching Shadow like a hawk. Once the waffles are finished, Shadow pours syrup over all three of their waffles and him, Snow, and Honest all settle down to eat them. Shadow drinks a cup of coffee with his. Eventually Sonic makes his way into the kitchen and says good morning to Snow, ignoring both Shadow's and Honest's existences for the time being. Sonic sits in a chair, and Shadow asks him if he wants a waffle. Sonic says he wants a pancake, but Shadow tells him to make it himself, handing Sonic the box of waffle mix. Sonic responds that he doesn't have time for cooking and zips off to get a chili dog, dropping the mix into Shadow's arms. He returns a second later, and Honest contemplates asking who in their right mind would eat a chili dog for breakfast. However, she decides against it since she knows exactly who would: Sonic. Honest goes to wake up Akane, and then the two of them, plus Shadow and Sonic, dash to school.

Time skips to Thursday, October 6th, 2016, and Honest is walking into school. Scourge is just inside the doors, talking to Jet the Hawk. Honest wonders what the "green vegetables" are up to. When they see Honest, they break up and begin to walk in separate directions. Honest is deeply bothered by this and goes to her locker, where Shadow is, to ask him if he saw that. Shadow says that he saw Jet on the way in and asks if Honest wanted to see them. Honest tells him that she doesn't, but that she saw him and Scourge whispering, she thinks, about her. Shadow tells her that he wouldn't worry about it that much. He then closes Honest's locker since she forgot what she was doing. Shadow then says that it's in Scourge's nature to spread terrible rumors. This just makes Honest worry even more. Shadow says that he meant that no one will believe him because they know his nature. Honest sighs and says that she's only worried because he's talking to Jet and that she doesn't want him to notice her in that way. Shadow rolls his eyes and tells her that they should go to English class. Later, in a class called "Business Communications", Honest draws pictures of Shadow in a bunch of different outfits. In Spanish, she works even more on it, but is unable to finish it. In seventh, Honest is unable to work on the drawing at all since the teacher is too strict. The chapter then ends with a note saying that the reader should keep an eye out for "two new stories coming soon".

## **Trivia:**

* Originally, the idea was for Snow's house to only be a temporary residence. However, eventually Honest decided that Snow having extra rooms meant she could add characters whenever she liked. However, after Akane, it took her a long time to actually start capitalizing on that.