The Falling Rain

Chapter 3

Rain was enjoying the feeling of P'Phayu drying his hair so gently, it was really very nice, and he felt like he was about to be lulled to sleep.

Suddenly he felt the press of the other man's lips to his neck and pulled away quickly.

"Wha…" Phayu turned and threw Rain onto the bed and sat atop him talking about how they needed to discuss what Rain would offer as payment and how Rain started all this by staring at and holding onto the older boy.

"Yes, I did those things but not because I was trying to flirt!" Rain was panicking. He wasn't nearly strong enough to get the larger man off him but he couldn't quit pushing at him, even if it was in vain.

Phayu kept pushing his luck, he began feeling the soft skin of the younger man and kissing across his neck. Rain didn't want this but the foreign feelings being ignited in him were hard to fight against. He wanted the man off of him but he also wanted to chase the strange electric feeling the kisses on his neck sent through him.

It wasn't until Rain felt Phayu's hand toying with his waistband that he finally got enough self awareness back to hit Phayu in the head with a pillow and knock him off.

"Go die you fucking jerk! Asshole! I never even thought of seducing you! You're handsome but why are you like this?" Rain started to walk to the door and felt himself start to panic again when Phayu got off the bed.

"Where are you going?"

"Home! I'm not going to stay here with someone so awful!"

"In this state? Most of the mechanics are awake by now, you won't make it far." At that moment a huge flash of lightning and a crack of thunder had them both glancing to the window and l, seeing Rain hesitate, Phayu gave a smug look and placed a pillow on the couch.

Rain, seeing that expression on the other's face, felt pushed to stand up to the challenge.

"Yes. In this state!" He yelled, heading to the door. "I'd rather drown in a flood than stay the night here with someone who can't take no for an answer!"

Phayu was taken aback. He noticed the tears starting to pool in the younger man's eyes and realized he had severely misjudged this situation.

"Rain, you cannot seriously be considering walking home in this weather, you'd become deathly ill and I won't take care of you."

"No one would ask you to!" Rain said before unlocking the door and running out.

Saifah was still in the office and was incredibly confused by the barefoot young man running out of his twin's room. He went upstairs to ask what was happening but was almost run over by the man he intended to see on the stairs.

"Brother, why was there a scared youngster running barefoot from your room? Haven't we talked about being nice to those you bring home?" He teases.

"Which way did he go? Did you see?" Phayu sounded tense and it immediately made Saifah realize something was wrong.

"I'm sorry, I didn't see where he went, I thought you had just upset another lover."

"We need to find him, he can't walk home in this weather."

"Uhm…not to distract from the weather because yeah that's dangerous and all, but the kid was barefoot."

"Fuck!" Phayu shouted before running for the car they keep at the shop.

Rain had to pull his phone out sparingly in this weather to look at his map but had a general idea of how to get home. He was taking some weird twists and turns to make sure no one was following him.

He made another sudden turn when he realized he was close to Sky's dorm. He didn't want to bother his friend but he really wanted to sit down after walking for so long and he could feel his panic setting back in so he wanted a friend around to help him focus his mind elsewhere.

He couldn't get in the building this late, or early really, the doors locked from the inside after eleven and it was around 4:30 in the morning now. He didn't want to bother him but he had to call Sky.

"Rain, I hope you realize what time it is and that this better be very important."

The minute he heard his friend's voice he let out a small sob and sank to the ground, his legs unable to hold him any longer.

"Rain! What's wrong? Where are you?"

"Sky…can you come let me in please?" He was trying to suppress the crying but wasn't doing very well.

"You're here? Hang on one second!" Sky yelled and must have dropped his phone because Rain heard a small noise then the sound of Sky's door closing.

A few minutes later he saw his best friend running across the lobby, obviously still in his sleep clothes.

"Rain! Rain, why in the world are you barefoot? Where's the rest of your clothes? I'm sure this isn't what you showed me you wear to your code gathering!"

Sky was about to run his hands over his friend to check his well being but he saw Rain subtly cringe away from him. His mind immediately went to the worst scenario but he forced himself to brush that aside, he would find out what happened later.

"Come inside, you're freezing. I'm sure you have some clothes here from the last all nighter, if not I know Sig does so you can just borrow his."

He managed to get his friend up off of the ground and guided him up to his dorm. Rain hadn't said anything to him since he got to the door and that concerned him. Usually his friend was spouting words out at a thousand miles an hour, to see him so quiet and subdued made Sky uneasy again.

He did his best to distract Rain from his thoughts while he tended to his feet, they had gotten cut up from his walk but the boy hadn't noticed because they had also gone numb.

"Rain…I know you don't feel like talking right now so I won't ask you to tell me what happened yet but I want to help how I can, okay? So I'm going to grab your hands. If you want space, squeeze my left hand and I'll bring you blankets to sleep on the couch. If you need closeness then squeeze my right and you can sleep in my bed."

He watched his friend think over his words, he seemed incredibly unsure and Sky was about to try to think of a third option when he felt the smallest squeeze on his right hand. He deflated from sheer relief, if Rain hadn't wanted to be close then he would know something was wrong of an apocalyptic proportion. He could work with this, he could get his Rain back as long as he could be close to him.