TIME SKIP! Short chapter, I know, but I'm grounded and aren't even supposed to be on here. I also have mid terms coming up. I SHOULD have studied, but I did this instead.

David slammed his fist into the wall again and again. "Why, Dwayne, why?" His voice held pain. Pain that it never had before. "Why does she hate me?"

"I'm not the one to ask. If any one knows, it would be Marco. Go ask him before you make me AND Paul go crazy." Paul walked out of his eavesdropping place.

"Yeah man, or ask HER. Rain would tell you in a heartbeat," he said. "You did ask her didn't you?"

"...Where's Marco?"

"He is, out. Said he was hungry." Dwayne was still a bit wary of letting Rain know about them killing people.

"Tell him to find me as soon as he gets back." David waited till he saw both heads bob 'yes,' and he turned and left.

Walking up to the top of the cliff, David saw Rain sitting on the edge. Before she saw him he hid in the tree a few feet behind her. His Angel was humming a song she must have heard on the radio.

'Annie, are you OK

You OK

Are you OK, Annie

You've been hit by

You've been struck by

A smooth criminal.'

"Love! Have you seen David?" Marco interrupted the song she was singing.

"No." Her voice went slightly cold. Marco didn't sense David in the tree right above him.

"Why are you like that about David?" She looked slightly shocked.

"What do you mean? Like what?" Did she honestly not realize what she was doing to the older male? Did she not realize that to David everything she did was of terrible beauty?

"After the, uh, encounter," that was how Marco summarized the terrifying experience with the hunter, as an encounter, "you have seemed a bit more distant with him." Rain still looked away. David looked to Marco. Marco let his eyes flick up and back to Rain several times. He knew David was there. He also thought that David should hear this with his own ears. "Like you don't think of him as family or anything any more."

Rain's gasp was very audible. "I- he-you- but then- he hates- I- I- I just want things the way they were before!" Rain held back the tears that threatened to march a parade down her cheeks.

"I want us to back to having fun with each other. Not 'you watch Rain while I go get food.' or 'I'll stay with her. Go eat and get food. I'll go tomorrow.' I want us to be like a family again. I don't want to be a bother anyone anymore, especially David."

"You aren't a 'bother' to any of us Rain." David spoke as he climbed out of the tree. Opening his arms he took a few steps towards her then stopped. Running into his arms Rain mumbled something to him. "What?"

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to distance you."