I Wish I Was the Rain

--This Chapter is to the Tune of 'Iris' sung by the Goo goo Dolls.

Chapter Nine


It was a month later, after Angie's recital, that I stopped being so weepy and silly. Manny came to see me every day, calming down and saying it was okay.

Angie emailed me, saying shed talk to Craig for me, and 'stupid boy doesn't know who he really loves' but she also said how saddened she felt at me leaving at intermission.

I was working for my article for the 'Daily Voice' (How You Can Stop The Ozone From Depleting (continuing into pages 5, 6 and 7.) It was around Eleven thirty and it was raining.

I looked over at the photo of Manny and myself in Niagara Falls (which I mended with a totally new frame and a little bit of scotch tape.) I smiled, and then moved on- my eyes moved on to the picture of Craig I had stuck on my desk after our trip to the Zoo's pictures had been developed. It was the one I had threatened to sell on Ebay. I reminisced for a bit, sliding my fingers up and down the glass, then threw the picture and frame in the trashcan without standing up from my seat.


And I'd give up forever to touch you

Cause I know that you feel me somehow

You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be

And I don't wanna go home right now.


I managed to scribble down a few words on the rainforest, when the phone rang. I gave an impatient noise and threw my pen down. I grabbed the receiver and put it to my ear right at the third ring. "Hello?"

"Emma! I finally found you." It was Craig's voice. I was about to hang up on him when he said "Please, don't hang up on me, listen to what I have to say."

"You have two minutes." I said, glancing at my watch. 11:35. I was hanging up, like it or not.

"Okay, well then, I'll talk fast. Heather and I broke up."

"What?" I said, trying not to have a coronary.

"She broke up with me. She knew I was miserable, and she fell in love with someone else." There was a gulping sound on the other line. "Please let me come over to the Voice. Emma, please." His voice was pleading with me.

I could make him sweat a bit. But he was pleading. "I don't know, Craig." I was smiling. "You hurt me pretty bad."

"Please, Emma."

"Okay." I said.

I rushed down fifteen floors and out the door, and straight into Craig's arms.

"I was calling from a pay phone." He murmured into my hair, but then he pulled away, and took a step back, away from me. "Emma, I'm sorry I treated you badly... I thought breaking the engagement with Heather would be cruel, but then I realized that I was making all three of us miserable."

And then I realized that we were sopping wet, but we both didn't care. He stepped toward me, and grabbed my arms. "Emma, I'm sorry that I hurt you, I just wanted to say that I love you more than life itself." He bent down and kiss me, his hands along my jawbone, and my arms around his neck.


And all I can taste is this moment

All I can breathe is your life

And sooner or later it's over

I just don't wanna miss you tonight


"Emma," he said, quietly. Was she shy? He was shy!

"I think I just figured out something." I said, and giggled. "You know when we went looking for my dad?"

"Yeah?" he said, extremely confused.

"I don't think I asked you because I thought you'd understand, I think it was because I was in love with you."

With that statement, he started laughing. "I accepted because I just wanted to be near you!"

And I don't want the world to see me

Because I don't think they'd understand

When everything's made to be broken

I just want you to know who I am

"Manny won't be mad at you?" Craig asked, murmuring in my ear. I smiled.

"Didn't you hear?" I said, grinning like the Cheshire Cat. "She and Dan are together now!"

Craig sat dazed for a second, and I howled with laughter. "Woah, when did that happen?"

"Oh, about a week ago." He smiled goofily, and I kissed him softly.

"Hey," he said, just as soft as my kiss. "Do you want to come back to my place?"


And you can't fight the tears that aren't coming

Or the moment of truth in you're lies

When everything feels like the movies

Yeah, you bleed just to know your alive


"Yeah," I said, happily, yet I knew I was blushing... the first time a boy invited me to their place! I felt like a little girl all over again. But I remembered one more thing I had to do before I left. "Wait here a second."

I ran up fifteen floors yet again, and went to go look for my photograph. I passed Stephanie's abandoned desk and I stole a post it note. I got a pen out of her pen mug and wrote 'Remind me to give you a raise'. I drew a heart around the words and stuck it on the monitor of her computer.

I dashed in to my office and retrieved my picture of Craig that I had thrown in the trash. I lovingly traced my index finger over the silver frame, then placed it where it was before.

Then I threw myself out of the office and pelted myself down fifteen flights of stairs (occasionally I slid down the banister to save time) and ran right into Craig's drenched arms.

"Okay," I said, (not even panting!) "Let's go."


And I don't want the world to see me

Cause I don't think that they'd understand

When everything's made to be broken

I just want you to know who I am


End of Chapter Nine!

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