I'm A Loser

Too Much Rain

"Paul?!" Ivan's shouted out into the pouring rain.

The night had come and the sky was black, the moon covered by clouds.

Ivan was too scared to walk around at night by himself in a neighborhood he had never been in. He wandered up to Paul's room and began to look through his stuff. He lifted up the music box to play it and found three blades. One had a bit of dry blood on it.

Ivan studied the metal and took all three of them and carefully tossed them in the trash can.

Meanwhile, Paul was running through the dark streets, trying to get to the graveyard. Once he arrived, he ran to find John's grave, in between Julia's and George's.

He blew a kiss to Julia's tombstone, he kissed George's and placed a flower that was in his jacket on it. He walked to John's and fell to his knees.

He was crying, although nobody would've known since the rain was pouring hard on his face. Paul took out a whole bouquet of flowers he had protected under his shirt and took a few of them out. He made a flower crown in the storm and placed it on John's grave. The remaining flowers in the grave were placed next to the crown. Paul cried and cried and begged for John to come back.

Paul placed his head under his jacket and realized he was wearing John's old jacket. He cuddled into it and placed his hands in the pockets. He felt something cold in the right pocket. He pulled it out and found it to be a ring. John's old ring that he had gotten a while back.

Paul placed it on his finger and it got perfectly. He managed a small smile, thinking about when John had given him a ring before.

But Paul's mind soon left the happy memories and returned to the reality that John was gone.

Paul reluctantly headed back home.

Ivan had fallen asleep in his bed and Paul laid next to him.

"You're back." Ivan smiled as he woke up.

"Hey." Paul said and kissed him.

"But-"

"Forget it." Paul begged and cuddled into the older boy.

Ivan happily adopted Paul into his grasp.

Paul still wasn't sure what to do about Ivan.