Enlighten Me

2. Rainy Nights and Daymares

.*.*.Chapter 2.*.*.

I curled up on the couch rapped up in a snugly blanket, sipped my hot chocolate and listened to the rain falling. 

The lounge curtains were still open and I could see dusk falling over the valley of our rural home. 

The rain only made it look more beautiful.

I loved rain. It sustained life and made everything fresh again. 

I loved the way it felt on my skin, it would tingle and the droplets that would touch me would glow. 

To me it had healing properties, I could go from feeling slow and sluggish to a chipmunk who drunk too much coffee from a simple walk in the rain.

Most parents don't like their children to play in the rain afraid they might catch a cold, me on the other hand if I ever feel sick I want it to rain.

I think I might go for a run before I have to go to bed. As long as I stayed on our 1000 acres of land I could go for a walk or run whenever I liked.

I thanked the heavens for mum meeting Micheal.

 He was nothing extraordinary, just a builder with a good heart. 

She was always scared to let anyone in to be apart of our little family of two but when we met Michael when I was eleven I knew his intentions where pure and we were safe with him.

He always knew I was different but it wasn't till mum was pregnant with Monique she finally got enough courage to tell him everything we knew about me. 

Instead of freaking out he broke into his family inheritance and brought this rural land on the outskirts of Auckland and built us a beautiful log house so I could be a little more free without nosey neighbours looking over the fence at me.

He was the closest thing I had to a real father and I couldn't wait till mum actually married him.

I got up off the couch and decided to get ready for my run. Which consisted of light clothes and no shoes. 

My body was buzzing with anticipation but mentally I was tired. 

My second day of school had been long.

 I had driven to school after having a long discussion with mum. As long as I took Dommy to school and picked him up everyday without fail and drove carefully she would let me drive.

But I knew the main reason she had let me was because the new baby would be here soon and it was getting hard for her.

That wasn't why my day had been long. 

I just couldn't get the mall incident out of my head. That was creepy. But somehow I knew it was significant to me and to just let it go would be foolish.

And then there was the new year 13 boy Kyle I had to show around. 

He was real shy and sweet, the typical nerd that had a good heart but would probably be picked on right up until he ends up a boss with all the 'not so smart' jerks working for him. 

But until that day came, life would be hard for him. I was willing to be his friend, but the problem was he already adored me and I didn't want him to. 

Adoration always turned into more.

It wasn't that I has shallow and didn't want to be with him. 

It was relationships in general I didn't want. Relationships where complicated. 

I hadn't had a proper boyfriend yet and I didn't want one anytime soon. I'd had a few little crushes before and even kissed a few boys but that was all.