Chapter 6: Rain
Disclaimer: As usual I own no one but the oc.
Sorry it took me so long to get this chapter up. I promise I'll try to speed it up.
Moonriver sit alone in a patch of grass. She was only a pup. She sat looking at the Earth. A silver wolf came up beside her. "Beautiful isn't it Moonriver?" she said. "Not really mama. I hate Earth." Moonriver said. "You shouldn't honey." She said. "Why mama?" she said looking at her confused. "Because we are all doomed to one day go there, or maybe it's a blessing." She said. "How can that be? Life here on the Moon is perfect." Moonriver said. "No its not. It's like a prison." "I don't understand mama." "Oh Moonriver." She said pulling her pup closer to her. The two looked at the brilliant blue Earth in front of them. Moonriver lay down, and started falling asleep. "I hate the Earth." She said sleepily.
Moonriver woke. I haven't had that dream in awhile She thought. She was lying on River's bed. All the windows were cover with black sheets. River had gone to class. Moonriver let herself sink into the bed, the warmth of the covers tempting her to sleep again. "Thank you River." She whispered glad River hadn't gotten her up to go to class. She wouldn't have gone anyway; she just wanted to lay motionless after last night. How could it have gone so wrong? Everything was perfect she thought. Right now she didn't care. She just wanted oblivion.
River sat in first period, not really paying attention. She was sleepy from last night. "Thank god it's Friday." She whispered. "Oh Ed." She whispered to get his attention. "What River?" he said. "Could you come after school to the dorm? Um… I need your help with something." River said blushing. "Ok…." He said nervously. "Thanks." River said relieved. Ed was afraid of what she wanted help with, so didn't ask.
Later River came back to the dorm. She avoided her room at first. She didn't want to talk to Moonriver, even though she knew she had to. She pulled out a cake mix, trying to keep her mind off last night. She mixed the cake ingredients without even thinking about it. She sighed. "Maybe Moonriver would like something sweet." She said. "God knows she needs it." She poured the now very good looking chocolate mix into a cake pan. "Ah. Sweet chocolate." River said licking the utensils. She shoved the pan into the oven, set the timer, and went to her room.
"Hi Moonriver!" River said trying to sound cheery. "You owe me for today. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to make up an excuse for why you didn't come to class." Moonriver didn't say anything. She hadn't moved from the bed. "How long are you going to mope? I mean if you're going to do it, can you at least do it in your own room?" Still no responds. River sighed. "I give up, move over." She said falling on the bed. Moonriver moved over a bit. "Want some cake?" River said poking Moonriver. Still no answer. "Oh I know! You want me to go buy that really frilly pink dress." River said, trying to provoke something, even anger would be nice. Nothing. "Come on say something!" The bell rang. "Oh that's Ed!" she said jumping up. No answer.
River let Ed in. "Hi." She said. "Hi River. So want did you want help with?" Ed said. "….Um we can talk about that in a minute." She said going to the stove to take out the cake. She put the cake on a rack to cool. She sat down at the table, Ed taking a seat across from her. "Ed can you keep what I'm about to say a secret?" River said trying not to look at him. "Yeah, sure." He said not noticing her change in demeanor. "Well you see Moonriver… Moonriver did human alchemy." She said in a voice just above a whisper. "She did what!" he exclaimed. "Keep quiet. Moonriver is moping in my room and I don't want to disturb her." She said. "Not that you could." She mumbled. She sighed. "I just don't know what to do now." "Well…" Ed said, trying to think of something. "The only thing you can really do is clean up the mess, and get Moonriver to get up." "Cleaning is done." River said a note of disgust in her voice. "It's the part about Moonriver that worries me."
Moonriver looked out the sky light. It was starting to rain. The soft beat of raindrops soothed her a bit. Only rain can numb this pain she thought. The thought struck her as odd, because she had never really liked the rain. She sighed softly, and went to sleep.