[I own nothing...lol]
I was having a really bad day...
The sky was tornado gray with a flicker of red, as enough rain poured down to lift Noah's Ark.
Needless to say, it was shitty weather. The only beauty to be found was the reflection of neon pink bar lights on the washed out asphalt.
Cars rarely drove by, and I was stuck standing in the torrential downpour that cursed even my non-existent luck.
In the moments before, I was trying to piece together how I felt. My team had no use for me, since they didn't think they could trust me after 'fraternizing with a hero'. I was just...walking. I felt like everything was shattered into a thousand glass shards, mirroring the angst I was trudging through, deep like an Alabama swamp.
I was also rather bitchy at the moment, my hair lost it s'...uh, shape, and I was on the brink of pneumonia. I dreaded the moment that he showed up, the following aerodynamic gust froze me to the bone. On the other hand, I'm was just glad not to be alone.
"You look lost." ooh, so he wants to be cryptic eh?
He looked like a goldfish under that yellow streetlight... I laughed inwardly; he was soaked to the bone, gasping for breath.
Lost...?
"Do you even know what that is?" I took a nice little walk out of his way, like I was circling him. "Typically speaking, lost is when you go the wrong way and the only major inconvenience is time." he just stood there, listening. "But you, slick, can probably move soo fast that you can dodge the rain."
He pondered this a moment... the rain filling the background noise, as the cars vanish from the night.
"Maybe" he said. Maybe? Ha! He filled the entire street with one deadpan comment.
Obviously he was soaked...so what I said was kinda dumb, if he could dodge the rain, then why didn't he?
He stared straight into my eyes. "But, I think you know more about being lost than I do, so how are you out of time?"
"What?" He totally lost me, a little.
"You said lost is when you go the wrong way 'and the only major inconvenience is time'. (He took the time to make bunny ear quotation marks in the air.) "You've already gone the wrong way, and the reason your not skipping out of this muck is because you don't know where to go, or you actually like this shitty weather."
I couldn't tell if he was uncomfortable in that wet suit, or if he just wasn't comfortable with me.
He raised an eyebrow,
"How about a trade? I tell you, you tell me kinda thing." OK, that could be interesting...
"Ok, Why don't you dodge the rain?"
"Are we talking metaphorically or literally?" I looked up, the rain not letting up a bit.
"Eh, at this point I wouldn't mind hearing both."
"Well literally speaking, it would take more effort, but the same amount of time."
Ok, so the goldfish made sense.
"And metaphorically?"
"Could we go inside? I rather not have to yell it in the streets"
"Go inside where? It's late and shitty out, so I doubt we're going to..."
Neon lights flickered behind us.
"Oh... Chinese?"
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Thank you for reading, if I get some feedback, I'll gladly continue.