Supposed To Be Me (Shadow x Reader)

Chapter 1 An Alien World

After the whole bank fiasco, Shadow rented out an apartment that you could use. That process took a total of another hour and ten minutes. Plus, it took forever to get there. By the time you made it that far, it was sunset. Your stomach complained about being neglected for so long and judging by Shadow's expression, you dared not ask to get something to eat. You could get water at the apartment, but the food was just going to have to wait.

Shadow stopped just outside of the apartment building and thrust the card key into your hands. "This is yours for the time being. I have other things to attend to on my own. Find the apartment and get situated," he told you.

"But where are you going? Will you ever come back to the apartment or are you abandoning me there?" you asked unsure of his true motives.

"That is up to you to figure out. However, I'd suggest you stay in the apartment considering that being out here for too long might cause some negative things to happen," he replied starting to walk off.

"Yeah?! Like what?!" you demanded.

Shadow glanced back with a smirk. "Well, if you care to know, go find out for yourself." With that, he sped away.

You blinked realizing that you were now all alone in the city. Shadow was gone and you were going to have to figure out how to get to your apartment on your own. What a nightmare.

Slowly, you entered the door of the apartment building. With card key in hand, you approached the lady behind the counter. "Excuse me, can you direct me to my room? I've never been here before..."

The lady took a long glance at you and rolled her eyes a little. "A noob college student I'm guessing? We've had too many of your kind come through here asking how to find their rooms when it's really as simple as breathing," she said without enthusiasm.

Taken aback by how rude her statement was, you bit back a list of mean things to say and had to regain your composure. "Well, you could say I'm from... out of the country! I have no idea how life works around here and an... acquaintance of mine helped me rent an apartment to live in temporarily. However, he went home, and now I'm stuck having to figure out everything. I assure you that I'm not a student or anything!" you explained cheering yourself up by your own positivity.

After hearing your explanation, the lady took a second glance at you and shrugged a little as if supposing your story was true enough. "If that's the case, then I suppose I can show you to your room then. Can I see your card key?" she asked holding her hand out.

You placed the key in her hands and glanced outside. It was black. Due to there being so many lights outside, it was well enough lit to see, but it wasn't anything compared to the beautiful sun from earlier.

"You come from the cold regions then?" the lady asked you.

"Huh?"

"The cold regions. Up north where you don't get much sun and are always wrapped up in fur jackets. Are you from there?" she asked again.

"Oh! Um... Yes! How did you know?" you improvised trying to figure out what a cold region and a fur jacket were.

The lady pointed to your arm. "Your skin is ghostly white as if it had never felt the sun even once. I've met some outsiders from up north and they were almost as snowy white as you."

"Really now?" you asked not sure what to say.

"They kept talking about how their fishing industry crashed and so they moved to the city for something or another. It's not my job to keep track, but I do get interested when foreigners come around. Too many wackos in this city if you ask me," she told you.

Awkwardly, you glanced from one end of the room to the other. Where was Shadow to explain everything when you needed him?! You closed your eyes and thought a silent thought to your sister Maria. You would know what she was talking about...sister...

"Hey! I don't know if it's okay to phase out whenever where you come from, but this really isn't the time to be consumed in thought," the lady told you.

Coming back to reality, you tried to think up another excuse. "The light was in my eyes! Sorry!" When the lady presented your key card back, you gratefully took it back. She stood up and stretched.

"Well, if you want to know where to go, you'd better follow me."

You tried your best to memorize the twists and turns in the large building. There were so many hallways and too many floors. After a few minutes of navigating the labyrinth, you finally came to your room. The door that stood before you looked exactly like all the others making it harder for you to distinguish it from the others. You didn't understand why locating a specific door in this world was so hard. The lady turned back to you, took your card key, and then jammed it into the slot which made the door unlock. She opened the door, pulled the card out, and then handed it back to you.

"If you need help with anything just pick up the phone. I'd recommend only picking it up for emergencies, though. You can make long-distance calls, but your the one paying if you do that," she told you.

Because you didn't even know what a phone was, you just nodded and pretended to know what she was talking about. The lady took your nod as her cue to leave and a few seconds after, you were alone once more. Rather than just staying in the hallway of boring beige walls, you went into your dark apartment.

It was homier than the hallway for sure. The walls were white, the two beds in the room were drenched in blankets and pillows, and the wall window gave the most amazing view of the city you had ever seen. The window reminded you of the huge windows on the Ark where you could see the planet. More than anything, you wanted to go back in time to possibly save Maria. Shadow was someone, but he wasn't very nice to you... Especially since you could see in his eyes that he blamed you for everything that happened...

Maybe things would look up in the morning. You didn't care to close to curtain because you wanted to see the stars and the moon. For the first time, the lights which you had grown up with suddenly seemed so far away. In the dark of the room and in the light of the stars, it almost felt like you were back on the Ark. Before everything.

It was with this thought in your mind that you flopped onto the bed closest to the window and drifted off to sleep.

You gave up everything to get me here, Maria. I won't throw away what you gave me, sister.