Ameles potamos

Chapter 19: Have you ever seen the rain?

"What's up with you and your stars?" I had to ask that question someday, I thought this was the perfect moment, I mean the scenery was too appropriate for me to ask anything I want, I was lying on the only bench that was present, and he was sitting right beside me.

He didn't answer right away but he eventually did,

 "Did you know that kings and queens of our past used to summon fortune tellers and ask them to foretell the future of their battles?"

 "Yeah"

"Well fortune tellers depended mostly upon stars to tell the future" he trailed off.

That didn't explain his star obsession. So I continued listening

"When lost they used to ask for the help of the stars"

 "So what makes you so obsessed?" I asked "Well... I'm not sure, at first I admired them for what they are. But now..." The look in his eyes it was insane, he was staring at the stars with much love and admiration, I swear if I was someone passing by I would guess that he was talking of his love, it didn't matter. What mattered is that his eyes... They had lust and respect in them. "And now...?" I asked. "And now I just..." He sighed

 "I just need them for guidance, maybe one day I'll know where and how my story ends. Maybe one day they'll lead me to the perfect road or maybe, Nala, they'll tell me where I'll end up what will happen of me and my soul"

I admire you, I wanted to say

Everything about you, the way you think, the way you love and the way you have perfect reasons for every single thing in life, it makes me wonder how such an amazing person would end up in a mental hospital, he looked sane to me.

I stood up suddenly that he probably freaked out, "are you okay?" he asked

"No, I'm not and I won't be" I walked in the snow watching my foot prints forming a creepy pattern.

Nickolas stood up and stared dubiously at me then out of now where I started singing

 "Someone told me long ago There's a calm before the storm,

I know; It's been comin' for some time."

"Help me, I don't remember the rest of the song" I said, apparently he was too shocked to even consider joining me.

"Come on," I continued singing, "I want to know have you ever seen the rain? I want to know have you ever seen the rain" I giggled and moved my hand for him to join me,

"Coming down on a sunny day" he said in a bored casual way and he said it very fast and in a hurry, I laughed then walked towards him, "Yes… that" I said, I stared at him expecting him to continue, but he had his poker face on, "Yesterday, and days before, Sun is cold and rain is hard,…" I paused again,

"I know; Been that way for all my time." He replied stiffly, I held his hands and started swaying them easily,

"'Til forever, on it goes Through the circle, fast and slow,

I know; It can't stop, I wonder." he pulled me closer as I sang,

"I want to know, Have you ever seen the rain?

I want to know, Have you ever seen the rain"

"You do realize you just skipped a part?" he interrupted, I squinted my eyes and ignored him,

"Comin' down on a sunny day?"  he finally sang, which made me laugh so hard,

"YEAH, that's the spirit" I joined him and we started repeating the song over and over again, we were singing too loud but we didn't care, this performance lasted for about half an hour and only the stars were left to watch us dancing and singing and swaying to the rhythm of the song.