1THE RAIN
And now he's gone and people say.
Is you gotta live 'cause life goes on.
But now I see I mortal too.
I can't live my life like you . . .
GREEN DAY
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He walked out the door and looked at his two girls one more time, he loved them with all his heart. In a slight whisper he said, "I love you." Alex heard the slight rumble of his words as she tried to drift off to sleep. He did not know that ths would be the last time he would see them. Or the last time he would be able to kiss the goodnight and say "I love you". He did not know that the doom of death he had been waiting for laid before him this night.
Alex woke up a few minuets later unable to sleep with the rain still pounding out her window and the thunder rumbling above. It was the lighting that frightened her but the rumbles of thunder above, along with the dreams she had while in her slumber. It was always raining when it happed, when the horrible death of her father took place.
She got up out of her bed, just wanting to wonder the hallways at night and probably find a new book to read. The library was her comfort. The hallway was dark and long but she did not tremble in the blackness of the night. It was only another August thunderstorm, there was nothing new about this year than the last.
Alex's heart began to skip a beat and she felt like this had happened before. The library was not that far from her room but in the night it was easy to lose the way. Alex closed her eyes as she saw her father climb up the stairs, he had just come up from the kitchen. She began to walk still along the long hallway.
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Richard turned and looked at the door next to the top of the stair case. He though he heard voices inside. Seductive and secretive voices luring him to their sound. His heart began to skip a beat when he heard his brother, Steve, speak so calmly to the other person inside. Richard was unable to find the topic of the conversation but only heard his daughters names.
Then his heart stopped. This voice that was talking to his brother was not a woman's voice, not even Steve's wife voice but a deep manly voice. He wanted now to run, wonderin what was hidden behind the door. Who the figure was, talking about his daughter? Richard's Amy and Alex, it frightened him.
Though he was curious about what the person wanted to know about his daughters and so he listened. "So how are the girls?"
Steve paused wondering how to answer this question, "They're fine, absolutely fine."
"Their powers are growing then?" The manly voiced asked, he was thirsty for power and lust, it was part of his check up on the deal. The pact made so long ago, when the girls were born on All Saints Day. Steve nodded but Richard could not see the movement his brother had made. "Good, good all going according to plan. Now no one knows about this right?"
"Yes sir no one knows, not even their father." Richard heard some pain in Steve's voice as he said this. It worried him very much, the talk was not going into the direction he wanted. This man or what ever he was made his little girls sound like pieces of meat, only to be used and never loved by anyone.
He could not stand it any longer he had to see who Steve was talking to, who this figure was. He stood up and began to walk toward the door.
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Alex wanted to run and warn her father not to do what he did next but by the time she was going to it was too late. Richard stood up and opened the door. His face looked surpised and frightened at the same time. He only mouthed the word "why?" before an energy ball flew at his chest and sent him flying toward the railing by the stairs.
Alex ran with all her might to the dying body of her father. Tears streaked down her face as she glanced toward the door in which Richard had open. Her uncle stood there both surpised and scared about the act that had been done. A rage filled Alex but Uncle Steve just materlized away from the scene.
She was left alone next to her dead father wondering when she would wake-up from the nightmare that she dreamt so many nights before.
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