Cursed from Birth

Cover credits go to: 

scattering-memories

Also; As you can see if you scroll down a bit, to the right there's a little picture, that was my first choice for a cover, but it didn't fit right sadly. It was made by Anahlynn.

*Thanks to both of you!*

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Alex looked out the window as the water hit the glass, and wondered 'Why me?'

She was never too sure why she was born with such a horrible disease. She wondered if there was anyone else in the world with her disease. All she wanted was to be normal.

Her name was Alex. She was 17 years old, and she couldn't go outside in the rain.

Why?

It burned her skin. No one had ever tested out that theory, but they knew it was so.

Don't get this wrong now, she wasn't allergic to water, she was cursed to never be able to touch rain. Not literally of course, but it sure did seem like it. To never be able to splash in a puddle, never be able to stick out your tongue in the rain.. It was taken for granted by some kids, never by Alex. She wished so many times to be able to have a cure, and nothing came her way.

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10 years ago;

"Mama," Alex said, "Why is it that I can't go outside again?"

Alex's mom had gone over this so many times, but every time she said it.. It never got easier. 

"Well baby, as I've told you before, you were born with a disease called Senshousen Syndrome or SS, and you cannot be in the rain because the pollutants mixed with the cloud water would make your skin crumble off, then you'd have an owie. And we don't want that huh?"

"No, mama" Alex said.

She was such a sweet innocent girl, what she didn't understand was how something so awful could happen to her, as she watched other little girls her age in their yellow rain coats and polka dotted rain boots jumping in puddles as the rain came down hard, and even her older sister Nina run inside from the rain after getting home from school. It seemed unfair. She had never touched rain, so how could they just assume she couldn't? She wanted to try.

"God I hate that rain, it soaked all my books! And I forgot to take my rain coat with me today to school." Nina said.

"Um, honey. Stop. You know how much your sister would love to go out in the rain and play? And she can't. It's arrogant of you to say that, and I don't want you to say something like that every again."

Nina in a way hated her sister, everyone treated Nina as second, because of Alex's condition. 'Oh poor Alex, can't go get soaked in the rain' Boo-hoo!' Nina thought.

Nina didn't understand how hard it was for Alex. Noone did.

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Now;

I looked out the window for the billionth time since I was born, and saw the rain pelting the ground. I'd still never touched it. I still didn't understand how they could KNOW that I was 'cursed' if we'd never 'experimented' Alex thought about all this, and then I got an idea, and smiled.

I got up and walked towards the sliding glass door, it felt like it took me forever to get there, the wood floor was cold beneath my feet, and the whole house was silent. Nobody was home. They had just started leaving me home this year, and they left Nina home alone when she was nine, and she was aloud to watch me.

'Maybe this isn't such a good idea...' The thought went through my head. Not only would my parents never trust me to stay home by myself again, they worry twenty four-seven. So they'd probably think I was suicidal or something like that.

Their crazy over protective. But I'm going to do it anyways, time for me to take charge, and besides it was just a finger.

I opened the door and stepped back, it was raining so hard it started coming in through the door. It was splashing on the floor.

I stepped closer, and stuck my finger out the door.. Nothing happened. I was over joyed, without thinking I stuck my whole hand out the door and a bit of my arm.

Then it hit me, I better not push it.. Just in case. I don't want my throat to like swell up or anything like that. I kept my hand outside while giggling. It was amazing. When I was little I used to pretend when I was in the shower that it was just rain. Real rain is nothing like the shower, it was amazing.

I pulled my hand inside, and shut the door. Just in time too because my parents walked in right after that. 

I went up to my room. I didn't understand why they'd lie to me, for all these years. Maybe they didn't lie. Maybe they just figured the doctors were right and they just were protecting me. Either way, I felt robbed. Robbed of being able to go play with the other little kids when I was little, robbed of my sisters acceptance. But I got over that long ago.

Me and Nina haven't had a good relationship for a long time.

"Knock, knock," Said my mom.

A/N; I had to go(: I'll write more later.