It's been cloudy and rainy here in Texas for the last two months. Well, mostly cloudy and humid. The only thing that expels this humidity is the rain it promises, which happens every other day in 5 minute spells. It sprinkles, stops, downpour, sprinkles, stops, sun peeks through, drizzles while sun is shining, stops, floods in front of my house, stops, and back to heavy clouds in an afternoon. Texas is bipolar when it comes to weather.

Rain

She was there again.

I almost didn't see her. The lone figure was almost completely obscured by the rain that had been falling all day.

It was sad, really, to watch her slowly become a shell of her former self.

"This isn't the ideal weather to stand vigil in." I told her.

"I have an umbrella." She muttered.

"Yes, but it is raining sideways. It defeats the purpose of overhead protection."

She shrugged as to dismiss me, however I didn't leave.

"Look, girl..."

"I have a name, you know." She snapped. "I have told you it before."

"I know." I replied casually.

"Then why don't you use it?"

"Because the person that told me was somebody completely different from you."

"What are you talking about?" I could tell she was getting irritated."I am Cream."

"The Cream I know would not be foolish enough to stand in weather like this,waiting to catch a cold."

She tore her glare abruptly from me and to the ground.

"Since when do you care about my well being?" She asked.

"Who says I don't?"

"Look, I appreciate your concern but I don't need some..."

"I know what you're going through." I interrupted.

"W-What?"

"You heard me."

"Heh. Yeah, right."

"You don't think I know how it feels to not be able to save someone,huh? You don't think that I don't how it feels to carry that guilt around forever? To wish to relive that day so that I could change their fate?" I could hear the hitch in my voice.

I saw her tremble. The practically useless umbrella fell from her hand as she took huge breaths. My arms were already out when she started to sink. I allowed her to cry against me as the rain fell on us, trying to wash our guilt away.Rain