Love Soaked In Rain

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 -𝟏 || 𝐄𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲

We have been waiting here at least for a full hour. But Clara didn't show up here yet. And now, the MC is calling us to go on the stage.

"Emily, she didn't come yet. What should we do now?" Zoe asks in a frightened voice.

"I guess we should go. It's going to be late if we don't go now. My sixth sense is telling me she's not coming. We've been already listed as the last participant. How can we still wait ?"

I replied flatly. My team has been selected for an interschool hiphop dance competition, helding in the district level. Today is the final round,and we've been waiting in front of the green room, for our one of the members, Clara. She knows that we have the final round today,yet she didn't come. The time is not going to let us wait. So best suggestion, we have to do it without her.

We move forward to the stage. The lightings, the cameras, the most renowned dancers as judges of the Texas, the heavy crowd cheering loudly from the auditorium seats - all of these are giving me chills down through my spine. But as a group leader, I have to handle my own panick and nervousness. Their confidence are depending on me. If I won't be able to cheer them up, low confidence and nervousness will swallow us.
And I never want to face that.
We make a round hug and hope for the best. My teammates follow me to the stage.. Bringing back our inner strengths, we are going to start our performance now.

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We have ended our performance with a full hands of claps and cheers. We bade goodbye to the audience and leave the stage. I am sweating like an ice, melting outside the refrigerator in summer. My black tee has already soaked half of my sweats. The winning announcement will be published three days later through online.
We are preparing to go back home. But I have to go to our studio,some parcels are due to be delivered today. Probably the delivery man has kept the parcels in front of the studio door and leaves.

It's been eight at night. I'm almost near to my studio.Suddenly the rain has started out of nowhere to make my path more difficult. Well I have to go to studio at any means. If my prediction is actually true that the delivery man has left the parcel outside the studio. That's mean I have to struggle to open them,because they are already become wet from this stupid rain.

And yes, I'm a good predictor.

" Fuck, why it always happened with me?"I sigh with an amount of frustration. The parcel boxes are wet in every corner of it's side, so as me.

I carry the two medium size boxes while releasing myself from my wet,muddy sneakers and open the door. I immediately step inside and close the door. It's quite silent and too dark inside the studio right now, even I can hear the snapping sounds of my own heavy breaths. I sigh as I find out I'm wetting the floor carpet by the water dripping from my jeans and tee. Gladly I'm wearing a black t-shirt today, or it would reveal my upper body, the way I've got wet by this shitty rain.

𝘐 𝘧𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯.

I try to open the boxes,dispose the cartoons and rest them in the bin. We had ordered a music speaker and some string LED lights for decorating our studio, since the old ones become too old! I sigh with a relieve, the speaker was covered with a plastic wrapper, or our money will go for a waste.
I have done with my stuffs and already slip past the door. It's still raining outside heavily. I've never seen raining heavily in Texas. I born in San Diego but had to move here with my family, because of my father's business deals,the most stupidest part of my father's career. We really had to shift in many new towns almost every year, before I was seventeen.
Now, I'm living here for pursuing my dream. It's been four years since I live in Texas alone. My family now living in San Francisco. It is really disturbing for me to shift in new towns every year,leaving behind everything in the previous resident. I have create my own dance team in Texas, when we'd been moved here. So how can I just leave everything behind and shift to a new city?

I'm too 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘦 about my dreams.
That's why I love Texas.
Because Texas made my 𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦.

I had called an Uber ten minuets ago,now I'm inside of it. This is so satisfying for me. No matter wherever you are,when you call an Uber, It will appear in time.
Finally after a spending a whole busy day with an exhausted body, I'm going to home.

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