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Rain Stained Memories

She always thinks of him when it rains at two in the morning.

She doesn't know why because it's not like they ever had a Moment that featured rain. But she thinks that it might have something to do with the stillness of it all that reminds her of him. She sits there at nights, hugging a pillow to her chest as she watches the rain coming down, going through her memories of him.

Most of the time she doesn't think about him much (she has him locked away in a box at the back of her mind and besides there are other people that come first – her mom, Logan, her grandparents, Lane). But the moment she hears the rain start at two o'clock she looks away from the latest article she's working on, and she moves to the window with her pillow and takes out that box in her mind.

She remembers a stolen book with notes added to the margins, a car accident, and a crazy trip to New York. She remembers a kiss at a wedding followed by a summer of indecision. She remembers jealousy and stolen glances and kisses and her mom's disapproval. She remembers a bridge with a basket, a plea to run away together, and then a man who had his life together (so much better than she did). She remembers the feeling of love and knowing that she was loved in return.

But then the rain drifts away, leaving only that clean freshness that comes from a downpour and a woman still awake while the rest of the world sleeps. She packs away the box again and pushes it to its place at the back of her mind. She makes sure that it's locked tightly away and promises herself that she won't think about him again.

But as she drifts to sleep she knows that the next time the rain comes at two in the morning the box, with all its sweet and painful memories, will emerge again without fail. Because when she sees that rain he is the only one she can think of.