What Would You Give

Rain

Dante watched as the rain poured down outside the diner while waiting on that pizza he ordered twenty minutes ago. The grey sky outside was a perfect way to explain his mood at the moment as it was only a few months after Vergil decided to stay in the Underworld. Despite what everyone thought of him and his relationship with his brother, he did love Vergil. They did share a room for eight years and nine months. In the end they were more like rivals than brothers or perhaps thats what brothers were to begin with. Either way, it still hurt. Love thy enemy had a new meaning to Dante.

His attention turned when he saw a girl in a grey hoodie and flannel pjs running in the rain with books over her head. He almost scoffed at the scene because she was one of those college brats that literally dressed in anything to go to class. He was lucky because he didn't have to go to college or rather he chose not too. Instead he decided to open up a demon hunting business with the tuition money his mother had hidden away for her sons. Too bad Vergil didn't touch it.

When he heard the door open he knew she had come in and when Sonja's rollerskates echoed across the diner to meet the girl he almost looked to see what was going on. Instead he listened quietly as the waitress told the girl to sit at any booth she liked. He really hoped she didn't decide to come his way. Usually girls tried to flirt with him and he really didn't mind that, but today he was not in the mood.

"Hey Sonja! I'm still waiting on that pizza!" He shouted across the diner and he heard Fredi grunt from where he stood at the bar cleaning glasses. "What? It's been twenty minutes." He looked at Fredi with a half glare.

"Sorry about that Dante, I'll go check on it." Sonja said rolling by him with an apologetic look as her long hair swung back and forth. He turned his attention back outside until he felt someone enter his personal space.

"Dante? Is that you?" It was the girl that he saw running in the rain and when he turned to look up at her he couldn't quite place where he knew her from. She was familiar even though her hair was wet and sticking to the side of her face.

"Do I know you?" He asked her as she looked down at him with recognition in her grey eyes. He didn't know many red heads with grey eyes like hers.

"I guess you wouldn't recognize me, I kinda grew up." She blushed and motioned to herself. "I'm sure its been what? Eleven years since we last met?"

"I don't know what you're talking about." He swore he had seen her before but he was just going to play dumb until she stopped making him guess.

"Oh come on you jerk, I know you're just making me tell you instead of guessing. I swear you haven't changed a bit." She crossed her arms and sat down across from him with a towel across her shoulders. "Geeze its as if you don't know that I know you."

"I don't know you...or really I don't remember you?" He sighed. "I remember this girl that I used to play with all the time before my mother died. She had chestnut red hair and grey eyes. She was really annoying sometimes too, but she was still pretty cool." He shrugged suggesting that he had no clue. "Her name was Rose...Roleen....Ro something."

"Rowena." She said with a deadpan face.

"Yep, that's the one." He said leaning back with a smirk on his face. "She was a snotty little brat that always got stuck in trees or fell out of them. I always had to save her."

"Okay you can stop. I'm right here you know." She said with an irritated tone in her voice.

"What are you doing here, Roe?" Dante asked her as Sonja rolled up with the pizza he had ordered. She didn't say anything and just floated away as if she weren't disturbing a moment between two old friends.

"Missing class." She said with a blank look on her face.

"No, I mean in Capulet." He said picking off a couple of olives that he didn't care for.