I Stood in the Rain and Stared at the Stars

Chapter 1; No Sun, & Extra Shadows

"I find peace within the rain..." Louise whispered into the dark undying twilight. He had ventured outside into the heavy raining night since his parents were fighting again. They fought often now that the sun was gone. One night the sun didn't set, it fell. Never to rise again. Louise Marden was a lanky young man. He was five foot two with short blonde wavy hair with soft bangs. He had soft icy blue eyes with porcelain pale skin. Lou wore small sapphire earings and a silver necklace with a small raindrop charm. That night he wore a black and white lace button shirt with a black collar. The small black lace flowers had another layer of white roses partly covering it. His pants were skinny black jeans, cuffed half way down his lower leg, complimented by his white converse high tops. He stared deep into the rain, his parents calls growing distant and getting lost in the dead of night. The young male gasped as his father's religious hand latched onto his shoulder, lurching him forth.

"Did you not hear your mother and I calling you?" To this, Louise stared and blinked.

"O-Oh.. no. I didn't. Apologies father.." He muttered, entranced by the everlasting night. He looked vacantly behind him as he was led back to the large house that was lain in the middle of nowhere. 

Louise lived in a nice expensive house on a semi-flat plane. Across the road from the house was a dense forest that loomed in the deep night. As the family walked back, Lou's eyes staring intently behind them, a fourth shadow began to take shape. This caught the seventeen year old's attention and made him cry out in slight fear and race into the house. Mr. Marden gasped and stumbled forward. 

"what is with that boy..?" His mother had asked. She glanced behind them. Two shadows; hers and her husband's. The man sighed softly and shrugged as he staggered into the house.

Louise settled into his bed, gazing up at his ceiling, arms out beside him. He let his head collapse to his side. He felt his heart, thump thump.. thump thump.., against his ribcage as a thought creeped to the front of his mind. He slowly curled half way off the bed and dragged out an aged locked box. He slowly pulled off the taped key on the bottom and unlocked the box. He shifted in his place in bed and sat up and felt hot tears well in his blue eyes and blur his vision. He shakily slid the metal key into the keyhole and snapped it to one side, lifting the lid agape to open the small trunk. He slowly picked up the folded and crumpled old paper and slowly unfurled it. He sniffled and felt tears spill down his fragile cheeks, staining the already stained paper which read the following; Mom... Dad.. I'm sorry. I'm Gay... and you can't change it. He sighed angrily and stuffed it back into it's tomb, jamming the key back into the lock, sealing it and retaping the key to the bottom. He shoved it back beneath his bed and turned, thrusting his face into his pillow, tears quietly pooling and accumulating on the pillow. A slight tapping against the windows in his bedroom penetrated his ears as he slowly glanced up to see the rain. He began hearing the voices of his parents downstairs. His eyelids became heavy and hard to keep open. They slowly lowered until all he could see was black.

He began to hear tapping again. Not rainfall, no. This was like... a person. A person tapping on his window. Not the inside.. the outside. Someone was looking in on him. He shut his eyes tighter and tried not to let his heavy breathing become too evident upon his figure. He clutched his large blanket tighter and shook. His movements were as subtle as he could make them.

"Louiiiiise..." The voice called. This made the blonde's heart skip a million beats. There was a male voice, sounding maybe close enough to his own age, calling him. His name. How..? Lousie was a fairly shy guy. He didn't have any real friends just people that his mind had left forgotten in his lingering past.

"Louiiiiiiise!" The voice had more urgency in his voice. The shaking male slowly creeped open one eye. His eyes widened at the shadow.

'I saw him outside my house....' He thought as he stared. His entire body quivered from the fear in his heart which was evident in his wide, glazed over blue eyes.

"W-W-What do you want...? W-Who.."

Lou's eyes lazily opened to the darkness of his room. He let out a groan as he extended his limbs to relive himself of the stiffness running through his skinny body. He sat up and rubbed his head.

"That shadow.. I saw it... or him.. before but who or what is he..?" He spoke to himself. His words were soft and quiet while his breathing was quick and choppy. He stood and walked down the stairs to, what smelled to him as, breakfast.