A Lover of Rain

THE END...?

CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE:

As days turned into weeks started passing by like a wind blowing through a window, the emptiness and despair I was feeling became harder to ignore. I knew that part of the reason why I was suffering was because of the mistakes I have made throughout my life which in turn, also hurted the people I cared about that prompted them to leave. I'd like to think I had been paying for my mistakes during a month and a half of agony that went by like a blink of an eye, but I guess I still had more heartbreak to endure as our school year was coming to its end.

It was like a torture during the last month of our junior year due to the constant grind in schoolworks and exams, but I treated it with a silverlining since I needed the distraction only being in third year college could offer. Most of the time I was alone, just burying myself in the amount of papers I had to write. There were moments though where I got caught in a trap of socializing with people I needed space from. Nevertheless, the school year was about to end which meant I now have the summer to look forward to.

A week before our last day, I received an invitation from Kevin to attend their exhibition at a nearby museum from our school. I was dreading if I wanted to go or not since a few days from now, Kylo was about to leave to spend the next chapter of his life taking care of a family he created with his ex-girlfriend whom Kevin was still deeply in love with. As if our lives weren't chaotic enough being in love with two people we couldn't have, Kevin and I have to suffer even more by witnessing them have a concrete future like it was set in stone.

I stared at the entrance of the museum, just standing under the scorching sun in the middle of May where the heat was unbearable. Maybe I was starting to get desensitized from all the pain I'm experiencing since even the heat couldn't bother me away from my thoughts in my head at this moment. The exterior of the museum looked modern with all the glass windows on the building but what caught my eyes from standing on the outside was the huge poster hanging on the top right corner for the exhibition of our school's sculpture and arts students. A lot of people were coming to look at the final work of the students whom I was guessing, either family members or other NEU students who wanted a glimpse of the artworks they worked for months just for this exhibition that would serve as their final project for this school year.

I was holding a small bouquet of flowers when I entered the museum to give my congratulations to Kevin. I might not have been there for him all throughout the semester he was working on his sculpture, but I wanted to be now. As I stepped foot inside the facility, there was an array of different paintings using various painting styles hanging on the wall of the museum. "Wow." I mumbled to myself while looking at the realism paintings I was passing by as I tried finding where the sculptures were.

My eyes were just shifting around the breathtaking paintings I was passing through until a particular impressionism painting in the middle of the hall caught my attention. I stood in front of a painting with a silhouette of a woman walking in the rain heading towards a path that leads to nowhere. The colors used on the art were dark, perhaps symbolizing the loneliness the woman in the painting was feeling. I looked down and found the title A Lover of Rain under the painting. I kept staring at the art just trying to absorb the feeling behind it for almost a minute when someone poked the side of my arms to steal my attention away.

"You came." Kevin exclaimed with a grin on his face before I gave him a hug.

"Congratulations, Kev! I can't believe you guys managed to pull off an exhibit this big, I'm so proud of you!" I said with pride as I handed him the bouquet I bought for him. He put his hands on his chest like he was touched from what I said, before showing me the way to the left corner of the hallway where the sculptures were displayed.