The Past Returns
By: Silverwolf
Jeff, Matt, Adam
Matt narrates
I stood in the hallway when I saw her. *What the hell is Rain doing here* I thought. She hadn't been around in three year. Rain and Jeff had once been lovers. She left one day never to return. I looked at her. Her face covered in tears and showing a black eye. "What happened Rain?" "Matt, I know you have some resentment towards me after leaving Jeff, but I was scared." I looked at her convinced that I shouldn't even bother, but I couldn't leave her standing there with those pleading eyes. "What do you want Rain?" "I was living with a friend, but he kicked me out. I don't have any other place to go. Matt I don't want to lose my son." "Son?" Rain took hold of my wrist and took me out of the building to an old, beat up car. I looked in the back seat and saw the sleeping child. She looked at me; "I was terrified three years ago so I ran." I looked at Rain, "how old is he?' She looked at me with tears in her eyes, "three." I told her to bring him into the building and I see what could be done. Rain woke him and took his hand. "Hun, this is Matt. He's going to try to help us out, okay?" he walked with her. She picked him up and walked along next to me. I eyed his blonde hair. It hung slightly long.
He looked at me, but didn't say anything. "Rain, you know something?" "What?" "He's alittle scrawny for three." "So your brother's alittle scrawny for twenty-five." "What's his name?" "Jeffrey," she sated without looking my way. I took him with me to get something to eat. I watched him eat what I gave greedily. Rain was quiet.
Rain finally breaks the silence. "Matt, I know you're still angry with me. I didn't know where else to go." I looked at her; " I don't know what to say to you. I know that you need to get a place for the boy before we talk.
Adam walks over, "hey man who's your friend." "Rain and we aren't friends. Hey Adam can you take her son to meet some of the guys while I talk with his mother. Adam takes Jeffrey down the hall. "I'm sorry Matt. I'm desperate, My friend and I got into a fight. He hit me and kicked me out. Also he knows that he doesn't to help me because Jeffrey isn't his." "Do you know who his father is?" "Yes." *He's here in the building* Rain thought. "My son was born a day before his father; August thirtieth." Suspicion was starting to set in. "What is it you need Rain?" "A place to stay. A chance to talk to his father." "Does his father know about him?" "No, I left when I found out." My suspicions were running wild. "Is this the reason you left Jeff?" "What do you mean?" "Rain, talk to me." "I was scared when I found out. He was twenty-two and I was twenty-one. He wouldn't have been able to support me or the baby." Before I could ask another question Jeffrey came running excitedly back to Rain. "Mommy, mommy! I saw daddy!" I looked at her, "what is he talking about?" "Seeing his father." "Who?" "I don't want to say." "Who?" "Jeff," she states with tears pouring down her face. "Jeff is his father?" "Yes!"
Rain picks up her son and begins to walk away. I'm still shocked as she disappears from sight. She avoids Jeff completely.