title: broken rain
summary: And the trick is to ignore all the pain and try to find some way to forget it all. —SasuSaku
notes: i found out that i really like lemon/ginger tea.
prompt: "rainy days"
dedication: i don't know if anyone reads this but... dedicated to xena and julie, for being such amazing people. :} me gusta.
She just ran—
The sky was a lifeless grey. She could hear her heart thud painfully inside her chest, her breathing was strained, her muscles ached, but she just kept running. The harsh patter of the rain was raucous; it was the only thing she could hear. She was completely drenched, and it made it harder to run, but she didn't stop. She ignored the pain in her legs and kept forcing them to move, even though she wasn't sure where she was running to.
She was more than relieved by the fact that no one else was outside. She couldn't take it anymore—the screaming, the yelling, the fights that never even made sense. No matter what she did, blast music, wear earplugs, lock herself in the closet, they'd never stop. The stupid arguments about money, about the house, about things that didn't even matter.
She wanted it to stop, but she didn't want a broken family.
—But wasn't it already broken?
She kept running. She didn't care anymore; she just wanted to drown out everything.
She had her eyes either closed or down at the ground, staring at her lower body, watching her legs alternate. Left, right, left right. She had no idea where she was, but she didn't care.
If it weren't raining, she would've noticed that she's been crying the entire time. Finally, her legs gave out and she collapsed. She sat there on the sidewalk, the rain pounding on her as she cried and cried. Her legs were sore, and she was gasping for air. Her heart was pounding like it was going to burst. It was cold. She started shivering.
Suddenly, the rain stopped.
She looked up to a boy who was getting pelted with rain. His hand was outstretched and the other was holding an umbrella, right above her. He looked phlegmatic, blank, completely drained of emotion, but he had just the slightest hint of a smile.
—And that alone, made her forget why she was out in the rain in the first place.