Perfect Imperfections

Elizabeth Rain.

Alexander Blue.

Two unalike characters, ones you wouldn't expect. The coulombs law; states, opposites attract and likes repel.

I wouldn't have expected this to happen Ella with Alex? They never even spoke until I introduced them and Alex didn't even want a girlfriend then! Now that I think about it neither did Elizabeth. What's a relationship anyways? We're kids, it's not like anything's going to stay, not like its going to mean anything. Right?

Well these two totally different people made me think again.

Ella, she's cool, I guess I mean I was in her classes for the past two years. But we didn't really hit it off until this year, now me and her are really close friends. I don't know if there's a closer.

Alex, where do I start. Me and him are no best of friends. Like we're okay but you put us in a room together for an hour, all we'll do is argue.

They're so different it doesn't make sense! But I see it happening I see everything, do they see it too?

Elizabeth, she's different then the other girls, its a good different. Like she doesn't care what people think and she wants everyone to be straight up and be themselves. I wish everyone was like that. She hangs out with my group which is five guys and.... her. I didn't realize that before. Well she does always say there is less drama with guys.

She's just laid back and fun I guess. What else do I say? That she is cool, that's a great description. I suppose you just have to judge her yourself, because to describe her well, you'll understand.

Alexander on the other hand, he is a nerd, total smarty. Not a know it all, he doesn't rub it in your face but he is very smart. Actually he can be a bit cocky, pfft what am I saying he is cocky. He has talent in most things. I kind of envy some of his skills. Though I'm good at a lot too. He's shy though sticks to a main couple friends, I'm not even his close friend, I was surprised how fast him and Ella became friends like that.

To understand him; uhg, you can't. But apparently she, oops Ella has found some sort of way to make him, make sense.

Our group? Well there's Alexander, Ella and I. Plus Dylan, Zachary and Lewis. The three other boys. We're actually a pretty tight group, like we hang out with different people too, but anyone does anything to the one of us and we jump up.

We're just all good friends, I mean we're actually all really close to Ella to be honest... Myself and Alex the most, S is close. Oh sorry Lewis has a nick name because its not Louis he pronounces the s so we just call him S. Anyways him and her are pretty good friends, then Dylan is really, really out going so he's friends with everyone. Zachary is laid back and chill, verging what people would call a "pot head" well he does smoke... again hard to explain, he has his reasons. So he easily relates to most, and he opens up to her a lot.

But then again, me and Zachary are really close friends I would consider him my best friend. Then Alexander and Lewis are close, then Dylan he has his best friend at another school, but he rotates between everyone.

Oh and my name is Vern.

Vern Rico

Zachary Senza

Dylan Chain

Lewis Tong

Alexander Blue

and,

Elizabeth Rain.

I walked into school early Monday morning, I'm always one of the first kids here. I hate life at home. I wait where our group always meets in a section of the school that no one really goes to. Its on the far side, strictly for science experiments only, we're allowed to be there, its just kind of spooky and separated tones of rumors fly around about the section of the school. But we like the peace of it, no screaming girls, no pushing through people to get places.

Calm, quiet, and relaxing.

Zachary and Dylan come in together racing down the lonely stretch of the hallway I hear them coming as I pull out my chair to sit down.

The bell rings at eight-thirty am I got here at seven am its now seven-fifteen.

Alex and S follow in and we're all sitting at the table talking about the weekend. It goes silent for a moment and you can hear the door at the end of the hallway creak. "That would be Ella" I said standing to peer through the doors window. "What is she wearing..?"

She walked in wearing her normal blue jeans and sneakers, with her long sleeved shirt? "What's with the get up?" S joked, "Wake up late?" I join in and tease. Dylan and Zachary are laughing pretty hard beside me.

Ella never wears long sleeved shirts, its an old family tradition on her moms side that you always wear a T-shirt, its supposed to represent strength or something, she never really talks about why.

As we're cracking out jokes and teasing her, Alex says nothing he just kind of looks at her, she doesn't meet his eyes, she doesn't meet any of our eyes.

"Okay come on, I thought it was like your religion not to wear long sleeved shirts?" I said nudging her arm with my elbow, she flinched away before I could even touch her. We went kind of quiet her hood fell off revealing her cut lip and black eye.

"Hey guys" she said plopping herself down pulling out a cheese stick and lightly pulling off the strings. No one responded to her for a while, we just sat waiting for an explanation, who we needed to go beat the shit out of. She didn't say a word.

Alex walked up behind her and put his hands on her shoulders, her face creased in pain. "Girl what happened?" S was giving her the look, which meant he wasn't going to give in until she told us, or at least him. "Just an accident, its nothing to worry about" that was the biggest lie out of her mouth. We had 40 minutes to the bell and we just sat there in silence.

The bell rang and she got up and walked out without waiting for us.

"Vern do you know what happened to her?" S asked quietly as we watched her leave.

"Not a clue, Alex?" I turned my head to look at him.

"No idea."

This is the story of Rain.