One
She stared at the screen, the reflection of her eyes showed red. The girl sighed as her brother laughed, "You make so many mistakes, and get tilted so fast, no wonder you got demoted to plat." Rain got up from the broken plastic chair, ignoring her brother, and went to get a drink from the kitchen. They lived in a small apartment; two bedrooms, a kitchen joined with the living room and a tiny bathroom. Their mum was consistently at work, and their dad? No one knows what happened to him, and the way their mum reacts when either Rain or her brother, Jacob, asks, let's say no one wants to find he went.
Her brother's laughter echoed through the corridor, he was saying something about how she did the least damage in her team. This is what happens every time she plays League of Legends, doesn't matter whether Rain wins or loses, Jacob still makes fun of her. She doesn't get annoyed anymore, like she used to when they were younger, now she just rolled her eyes and replied from the kitchen, "I don't see you being a pro." Silence was all she heard next, Rain put her glass of water down, confused.
Was that too harsh? She thought, He doesn't usually get upset over small things I say. The floor creaked under her bare feet as she walked back to the room she shared with her brother.
There was no one in the room.
Her heart started to beat faster, her fingers started to shake, "Jacob?" she heard her voice crack as she tried to keep the tears from falling. Something inside of her took control, and before she knew it, she was staring at the computer screen. And that was when everything changed.
Rain felt the cold wind slapping her face. She squinted at the bright, empty blue sky, not knowing where she was or how she got there. As she got up in a sitting position, the grass broke below her. Dead grass, was her first thought. Everything around her was lifeless grass, as far as she could see, only one tree stood high and firm. She didn't hear the girl on the floating rock go behind her. Rain felt the hair on her back stand up and then was unconscious again.
"It's okay, stop crying. Now tell me from the start what happened," Rain clenched her mother's hand, tears streaming down her face. Her mother stroked her dark black hair, trying to calm her daughter down.
"Why did you have to call me 'Rain', why not anything else? All the other girls make fun of me, they say you called me 'Rain' because you knew from the start that I was trouble." Her mother smiled at the little girl's dark blue eyes. "I called you Rain because I new that you would become someone special one day, and a special person needs a special name, don't they?" Her mother looked at Rain, the way she never looked at her again. "Anyway, there's no rainbow without rain is there? I don't think rain is any trouble at all. Do you?" Rain shook her head slowly, then smiled.
The next day, she came into school finding all the mean girls with bruises on their faces, and too scared to talk to her properly. As the girls walked passed her, she heard them all mutter "sorry" under their breaths. Rain never found out who it was that stood up for her, and soon the memory was gone
