Word count: 1090

First Occurrence

It's raining outside, and Selene can't help but watch through the glass as the heavy black clouds blur the outside world. The rain falls hard on the grass of her garden and she knows that she won't be able to avoid the mud tomorrow.

Perhaps she should get herself something to eat – there's a piece of chocolate cake left in the fridge and chocolate always makes her feel better – but moving feels like a bad idea. The cool glass feels good against her hot forehead and for the hundredth time that day, she wishes her mother would just hurry back home and take her to the doctor – she already took an aspirin and she doubts anyone could do much more against her fever, but still, it would be nice not to be alone for once.

With a heavy sigh, she moves to the kitchen. After all, even if she created herself quite a comfy corner against the window, she knows her mother won't be happy with her if she learns her sick daughter refused to feed herself.

It takes her a few minutes to find again the comfortable position she was in, and a few more to warm it, but once she's finally settled she's almost salivating at the thought of plunging her teeth into her mother's sweet cake.

She raises her fork to her open mouth and… Suddenly, her eyes catch sight of a young couple outside. The strange thing is that she could have sworn they weren't there a second ago. Where had they come from?

That wasn't the only weird thing about them though. The man was wearing some kind of coat she hadn't seen since she had gone through her grandparents stuff, along with bright scarlet pants and the blonde woman was dressed like one of those Japanese school girls – an uniform that looked neither comfortable or warm – except that it is purple and yellow.

Selene has to blink at that. Seriously, who even wears that kind of clothes? And by such a weather? She has to be dreaming!

She rubs her eyes and blinks again, but no such luck. The young couple is still there. They're now twirling and dancing in the middle of the street. Of her street. They look like idiots, and even though she can't see them that well, she just knows they're laughing (at what she doesn't know) by the way they're clutching at their sides as they try to walk normally. It isn't working.

Selene blinks again. This has to be a nightmare, she thinks. A punishment from whatever gods might exist for the fact that she cheated on her last Math exams. I won't ever do it again, I swear. Just please, don't let them be run over by a car just in front of my home while I'm the only one here and the phone isn't working. I'll do whatever you want, just please. I really, really don't want to see people die in front of my house.

It's just her luck to have suicidal strangers show up in the middle of the day while she's the only one in the whole neighborhood. And to say her mother kept telling her a mobile phone would be useless! Ah, to see her face when she would learn that her only daughter had had to let two strangers die in the middle of the street because the stupid phone had decided to stop working…

Of course, just as she thinks about this, a car speeds by the couple, narrowly avoiding them and copiously splashing them as they run to leave the middle of the street.

Well, there's that, she thinks. At least now they will know to… And nope. They're already back in the middle of the street, never mind that they just nearly DIED!

"Seriously, how stupid can they get?" She mumbles to herself, her teeth biting into her bottom lip anxiously. She breathes deeply and risks another look through the window. Sure enough, they're still dancing or whatever it is they decided they had to do in the middle of the street.

Selene feels slightly better – maybe it's the chocolate, or maybe it's because she finally has something else to focus on, like the two idiots who look like they won't live to see the end of the day – but she also knows that she could never live with herself if she let them outside, under the pouring rain and they got run over by a car.

Maybe they're happy, but they could very well be happy somewhere else, and if they liked standing in the rain so much nothing stopped them from doing it elsewhere, preferably far away from her. She too likes to be under the rain sometimes, but that doesn't mean that when she does it she suddenly becomes suicidal and forgets where she is, like the weirdly dressed couple apparently do.

It's with a heavy sigh that she dresses herself enough to go outside and grabs an umbrella. She just knows her mother will kill her if she knew what she's about to do, but then again if her mother disagreed that much she should have been here.

"God, please let them not be serial killers or criminals or whatever… And please let mum never find out about this," she whispers to herself as she opens the door. Immediately, the wind whips against her cloak and she hasn't even got the time to protect herself with her umbrella that she is drenched in water.

So much for staying warm and dry because she's sick.

Thanking her mum for making her buy boots able to stand water even if they're not very fashionable, she avoids the puddles and goes closer to the couple. She sees them a little better now – they look only a couple years older than her – but she doesn't talk until she's sure they can hear her. The rain's pretty loud after all.

She closed the door behind her and now she's struggling with her keys – and of course she drops them in the mud.

By the time she gets them and looks up, the couple has disappeared. She rubs her eyes and looks again, but the street is empty and the only sound she hears is the deafening sound of the water pounding on the ground.

Perhaps she dreamed it all. But a soaked yellow scarf is lying just a few feet away from her in the gutter tells her otherwise. After all, hadn't been the women wearing it?

AN/

So this is me, starting yet another story, or in this case collection. Knowing myself, it probably will evolve into something more, but for now this is just a collection of Selene (my OC) sighting witches and wizards. They're unrelated, apart from the fact that she's the one sighting them. For now at least.

This story also won't be a priority of mine. It'll be updated when I get an idea and when those are written.

Kudos to anyone who can guess who the couple was :p And if you have any suggestions, feel free to PM me or leave them in a review.

This was written for:

-the Legendary Gods and Goddesses, Hachiman

-the Colors Competition, Brown (positive)

Review to let me know what you thought?