Rain....Is it really that good?

Oh For the Love of God

We let ourselves into her apartment and see all the bottles of beer and stronger stuff around the living room floor. Sapphire goes into her room and finds a suitcase. I sit on her bed and watch her pack her things. I watch as she grabs some booze from underneath her bed and more cigs from inside her pillowcase. I shake my head and take the booze from her hand and run to the bathroom. I lock the door and pour it down the drain. I hear her banging on the door trying to make me give her the booze. I ignore her and give her the bottle after it’s gone. I walk back into her room and look at her suitcase it was already packed and ready to go. I look at her and she nods. I walk with her to her mother’s room and we open it to find everything neat and tidy. Apparently, her father doesn’t sleep in this room for that I’m glad considering that fact that her mother died in this room and he’d only trash it and ruin the memories in this place. I look over at Sapphire and see her touching all her mother’s old stuff trying to just get close to her. I see her emotions change almost on every new object that she touches. Finally she stops at the bed and she sit on it. That’s all she does too. Just sits there thinking of something that I will never know unless she tells me. I hold her hand as she suddenly starts crying. I pull her to me as she goes full out weeping. Usually this would make guys hightail it out of there and run for the hills but to me Sapphire was someone I’d never run away from her if she was crying or anything. As I told my dad last night, I love her. She stops crying for a while and I look down at her. She was sound asleep clutching a locket that must have belonged to her mother. I carry her to my car while getting weird looks from customers. I glare at most of them while I place Sapphire in the back of the car. I run back inside and grab the suitcase and run back downstairs to find my car still there and Sapphire still sleeping. I place the bad in the passengers’ seat and start driving back home. When I pull up I see Jared’s jeep sitting in the driveway with him talking to Bliss. He sees me pull up and smiles. I park the car quickly and get out while Bliss goes to hug my legs. I laugh as I pick her up and tell Jared that Sapphire was in the back seat sleeping. He nods and opens the door to take her out. I hold Bliss as she talks about her day. Apparently, Jared took her to the mall to buy her a new dress for a dinner party that he was invited to. She also talked about how she went on a date with her dad and Sapphire. I raise my eyebrows at that and she tells me that Sapphire even stood up for her when she was being picked on by little kids and she played with her dollies with her. I smile and think of Sapphire sitting at a dinner table playing dolls with Bliss. I chuckle as Bliss says that she liked Sapphire and that she and dad should get married. I stop smiling and just look at her. She thought so fondly of Sapphire that she wanted her to be her mom. I gulp and take her inside where Jared was tucking Sapphire in with a light blanket since its summer and the air was on. I looked at Jared while he was looking at Sapphire. It didn’t seem like there was a spark there but I could have been wrong. He looks up at me and smiles.

“Don’t get too worried man she’s all yours” he said as he picked up Bliss. Bliss hugged him and kissed his cheek, “Bliss might want her to be her new mommy but I see that way you look at her and the fact that she seems so open to you shows me that I can’t come between you. But I need to ask you one thing why is she covered in bruises?” He told Bliss to go play in the playroom I had for times like these and he stared at me. He wanted me to tell the story of the girl I love when I don’t know if it was ok. I sigh and tell him the entire story. From when I met her to when I saw her get raped by her father to when I fell in love with her. Jared stands there shocked and it takes Bliss telling him that she was hungry to finally snap him out of it. Jared takes her to the kitchen and I sit in the chair next to the couch. I carefully take the locket out of Sapphire’s hand and open it. Inside was a picture of her mother and her in the hospital. Must be when she was born since she was the only one there. Looking at the picture the woman looked like an older version of Sapphire except happier. On the other side of the locket was another picture of the girl that couldn’t have been Sapphire considering she had red hair. I carefully take the picture out of the locket and look at the name on the back. Scarlet. I think puzzled to where I heard that name before…it finally snaps in my brain. Scarlet was Bliss’ mom! Which means either Sapphire knows Scarlet or they’re related. I place the picture back in and put it on the table besides the couch. Jared comes back in with Bliss sitting on his shoulders. On his head was a plate of chocolate chip pancakes which Bliss was eating happily. I laugh and Jared looks at me with a serious face then starts laughing. Sapphire grumbles in her sleep sounding something like shut up and rolls over on her side. We stop laughing and we both look at her. I could see in his eyes that he saw her more as a sister then a future mom for Bliss. We talk for a while and a few hours later he had to go saying he had a business dinner to go to. I nod and hug Bliss while I man hug Jared. Once they’re out of the driveway I look at Sapphire who was sleeping the entire time. I sigh and move a piece of hair from her face. That’s the instant that my mom and Tony come home to see me face to face with a sweet innocent girl. They look at each other but shrug as they make their way to the kitchen. They look inside the fridge to see all the food in there. They gasp when they see that the dishes were done. They come in and give me a surprised look. I point to Sapphire and they nod knowingly and go to heat up some of the food. I sigh and look at Sapphire who was still sound asleep. I didn’t know if it was normal for a girl to sleep this long. I was thinking of asking my mom when I heard a knock on the door. I stand up and open the door to glare at the person who dares to disrupt me with my Sapphire. When I open the door a lady is standing there in a suit and straight skirt that didn’t dare go above her knees. I look at her with no idea what she wanted but I sorta knew it wasn’t going to be good.

“Hello Mr. Jones?” When I nod she continues, “I’m with Social Services and I’m looking for Sapphire Johnson is she here?” I glare and didn’t say anything so she sighs, “If you don’t cooperate then I’ll have to call the cops for obstruction of justice” I point to the couch and she walks in like she owns the place. I hate her so fricken much right now. She couldn’t take Sapphire away from me so soon and I just go her back! She explains to me that Sapphire had to come with her until she was 18 and then she could come back if she liked. She tells me that she’ll come and get her tomorrow. She gets up and leaves, leaving me with a sleeping Sapphire and tears running down my cheeks. Oh For the Love of God! Why is it that something good happens to me something has to take it away from me. I lie next to Sapphire on the couch and stroke her hair while she sleeps I kiss the top of her head and feel tears running down my cheeks. I don’t want my perfect angel to go not like this. Not when we have our feeling to explore. Dear God please don’t take away the love of my life.