Rainfall by Darkdestiny7 (i love reading TXT) 📕

most probably she must have caught a cold from yesterday I thought. Her father answered the phone and told me that she is sleeping at the moment due to that she is not well. It really troubled me that she seemed fine yesterday when I was with her and even more that she left her house to go out after that but now she is not even well enough to talk on the phone. I left my phone number with her dad and asked for him to tell her to give me a call when she’s feeling better.


The two following days it rained cats and dogs outside, a chilling wind blowing the autumn leaves everywhere so I couldn’t go see her and she still had yet to ring me back. I started worrying, maybe I did something wrong and she’s avoiding me or something had happened, I had to find out who she was with later that day, the missing link to this mystery. I started thinking of ways to figure out what happened that day when I remembered that Steve’s cousin Mario lives on the same road as she does, maybe he saw something. So I called up Steve and in turn he called Mario to find out. As I wait for Steve’s call the doorbell rings and surprisingly enough it was Maria at the door, I was baffled by her presence here and even more too how she knew where I lived! We go up to my room and I ask her what happened that day she said that Matt came and picked her up and they went for a drive with his car.

Blood suddenly rushed to my head, jealousy bug overreacting again but I didn’t show it and calmly asked her what she is doing here if she was supposedly sick. “I wasn’t sick, well I ain't sick, I was grounded cause I got home drunk and late and was throwing up all morning that’s why I couldn’t come to school” she explained to me. I asked her why she got drunk with Matt and she replied with a simple and firm answer “Cause I like it” that made me jump the gun and ask her straight out “Do you like Matt as well?” she paused for a bit and answered with “I like him as a friend to hang out but not anything more then that, why do you care anyway?” she asks me with a irritated tone of voice.
“I was just wondering…” I replied and quickly changed the subject which she didn’t seem to mind. We talked for a bit and then she said I have to go now because her parents would be start searching the streets for her. I said to her “I will walk you home but she denied it repeatedly. At the front door we looked at each other for a while without speaking, this fed the butterflies with tremendous vigor. “Well ill see you at school I guess” she said as I interrupted her saying “If you ever need someone to talk with I will always be here”. She smiled and kissed me on the lips for about two seconds, my feet started to float and my heart was about to explode. “Thank you for being a nice guy” she said, I was speechless due to what had just happened, she turns around and waves goodbye to me, as she walks out the gate I manage to mumble a bye which I don’t think she heard and see her walk off smiling at she takes a last look at me. I ran to my room, closed the door and jumped on the bed where I laid in perfect happiness for an hour. I was mind blown by what has just happened and perfectly assured that she does like me more then a friend. I was defiantly in love with this girl.

“Joshua, phone for you, its Steve” my mother yelled from downstairs, I rushed to get it to see what he had found out and if she actually was telling the truth about that night, Steve’s cousin saw them together outside her house as he was dropping her off, although he didn’t say anything about her being in a drunken state, I thought maybe its not something he noticed, even though she said to me she was pretty sick the following morning from the drinking. I didn’t care for any of the details, I was still shook up by her actions towards me and that she does really like me. Wow what a feeling it is to be in love with someone, you are so happy that even the pain from stubbing your toe on the dresser seems to last only an instant, it still hurt like hell but I didn’t care for anything else apart from Maria and her smile.


As the weatherman said the storm was here, pouring down and crackling the sky with booms of thunder, illuminating the night. I stared out of my window into street, looking at the rain fall upon the cars and trees wondering what she was doing, what she was thinking. I’ll give her a ring and see how she is I thought. Her mother answered the phone quite fast and anxiously asked who it was, I said “Its Joshua Ms. Tobias, could I speak with Maria please?” “She left the house and hasn’t come back yet, if you hear from her please let us know…” she said and I asked her if something was wrong when she said that they had a big argument and she stormed out of the house, I told her that she was at my house before and was alright, that soothed her worries a bit but she still pleaded that I contact her if I speak with her again. “What’s going on with Maria, where did she go if she didn’t go home after she left here?” I asked myself. I hope nothing has gone wrong, I hope she is alright.

The following morning at school I was completely spaced out of class, the English teacher asked me if could read the passage on page 47 and I replied with”Yes I can read” and spaced out again blanking him and the whole class, thinking where she could be. After school I decided to go to her house and see if her parents had heard from her or if she was already home, would be great to get to the bottom of this here and now. Arriving at her house I hear cries from inside, I reluctantly ring the door bell and wait. Her father opens the door, his eyes sore and red, I ask “Hi Mr. Tobias is Maria home?” he says come inside boy. I enter and I see her family in tears, I am wondering “What’s going on? What has happened?” Her father sits me down and delivers the devastating news that Maria was in car accident last night, she died on the way to the hospital. Time froze at that point, my heart seemed to stop beating, and I was crushed by what my ears had just heard. I got up, said i am sorry and run out the door crying. I could not believe what I had just heard, it couldn’t be true, it can’t be so.

I rushed to the hospital and asked a nurse there if a young girl died last night from a car accident. She told me to wait for the doctor to come. I sat crying in the hall not accepting what I just found out, my heart felt like it was being strangulated by something that wouldn’t let go. The doctor came and explained to me that Maria and Matt had both been in a fatal car accident due to drinking and driving. The car swerved off the road and into a pole smashing the car to a pile of scrap metal, they where doing double the allowed speed limit. He also told me that the young girl was in the early stages of pregnancy. The news was overwhelming, it shattered my heart and soul instantly, and severed every piece of joy I had. I walked home in the rain, not caring for anything just mourning her, missing her, thinking of her.

At her funeral we gathered round her burial place, her family in sorrow, crying, grieving with bitterness that they lost their child at such a young age, the worst pain imaginable to a parent. I was depressed myself but seeing her family made me feel the pain even more. I regret not insisting on walking her home that day, I regret not chasing after her even though I knew something didn’t feel right, I regret not seeing her before she died, I regret not taking hold of the present that I had with her, what I do not regret is loving her and that is why I shall never forget her. Rainfall now will never be the same for me; it will always remind me of her and her beautiful eternal smile.
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Publication Date: 09-27-2009

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