Rain, and tears pt 1

Rosa watched Piper; she had been doing so all evening. Not that it was difficult to miss Piper this evening; she was forever forgetting the orders, slipping into daydreams while working on the till, and altogether she hadn't been herself.

Rosa was concerned, she never saw Piper like this not in all the years she had known her, and that had been many. Piper was always on the ball, even after her mother had died. Sure she had gone a bit off then shyer, quieter. But now she was lost, as though she had drifted to somewhere else, and Rosa knew there was something wrong.

It was about half an hour before they closed, there were about two people sitting in the café, and even they where only nursing cups of coffee. Rosa had owned the café for so many years she knew it as well as any. This was the time, it wouldn't come again, not that evening and if she wanted to talk to Piper this was to be the time.

Piper was daydreaming again, her face dazing out of the window, watching the drizzly rain conceal the view.

Rosa stepped behind her, and not wanting to startle her placed her hand lightly on Piper's shoulder. At first Piper didn't realise but as the pressure increased she soon turned to face Rosa's own face. She looked at Rosa's worried expression, and her's soon followed her lead.

"What is it?" she asked, Rosa picked up the worry and knew she need to calm her.

"Piper there's nothing wrong," she began but still Piper's face looked uncomfortably. "You know I was about to ask you the same thing," again Piper's facial expression changed. This time it was a little more comfortable, it showed interest instead if concern or pain. "So are you okay?" she asked again.

Piper turned away, she looked back out the window. Nah I'm fine." She looked back up to Rosa who was looking at her in disbelief, "seriously I'm fine…. Honest." An with that she turned away and returned to the kitchen.

That was all Piper and Rosa had to say bout Piper's unusual behaviour, nit that Piper had plans on taking the conversation further. She hadn't told Rosa about the ride home with Leo, or Cole's party, especially not the dinner party and the kiss, or even the fact he existed. An she wasn't going to, for weeks she had been convincing Rosa, (well not just Rosa there was also Mrs. Turner, or call me Liz as Cole had nick named his mother. But there was herself to, on some level one she had been so eager to hide she too had been having doubts about it.) The thing she had been so desperately been trying to tuck away for all, was the fact that her and Dan hadn't been okay, they hadn't fore sometime, and now she really couldn't hide it away any longer.

But still she wasn't going to start telling all that to Rosa.

It was nearly twenty minutes later when Dan's old car pulled up outside the building, only making out the bright red light that said, 'Rosa's,' and the warm golden windows that glowed out from it.

He just sat starring out towards it; he had turned of the engine, and now was just sitting. Piper had rang him that afternoon. An since he had agreed to meet her here, had been dreading it. Her voice had been wobbly, as though she was scarred of something, but in the same instant it had been as though a whole new lease of life had been born inside her.

He sat breathing the cold her that had appeared in the car, he didn't want to go in, but knew if he didn't she was going to come out and that would be just as bad. So as he steeped out into the heavy rain that pounded his body, he took a deep breath as he felt his body becoming soaked, and stepped forward.
To Be Continued...

I thin kwe all know whats gooing to happen, and I'm sorry its n two bits just this one seemed to go on forever lol so i thought i would finish there and start again nxt chapter. Please reveiw luv you all me :-)