The Love of Rain

Chapter 1 - Why Do You Like Rain

Chapter 1 - Why Do You Like Rain

It's raining as always. The girl next door is sitting right beside the widow that looks over to the house in front of her. She looks so sad with her forehead against the window and eyes glazed over like glass. Of course I really can't see her at all, the window of my room to her room isn't so clear because of the rain and I really can't see much of her beautiful face. This girl next door, even though I've never talked to her, I've learnt that I have cleared out some space on my heart just to welcome her.

This girl, I never knew her name, I didn't know how she sounds like, but observing her from my room and seeing her around the halls of school so often, it made me realize that she is amazing. (I'm not a stalker trust me.)

Wow, wait, I sound like a girl. I'm a man! I swear! A Macho Man!

I was planning on starting a conversation with this girl. I never got the guts to utter even a word to her. Maybe if I started a conversation another way...

I took my notepad and a blue marker and started writing letters that turned into words.

Hey... that's all I wrote. This is so stupid! She's just gonna think there's a creep stalking her through her bedroom window, but I didn't think that when I flashed a light into her room and stuck the notepad on the window, holding it up with my hands.

Her grassy green eyes gazed over to the piece of paper and she stumbled to her desk and wrote something on a piece of blank paper.

Umm...hi? Who are you? I read the piece of paper. Just what I thought! She would just think im a stupid, dumb creep. Dammit stupid, stupid Parker! Now im stuck in this awkward conversation between this girl I liked. Well, I have to give it a shot now.

I'm parker the guy from school. I don't think you remember me. I watched her eyes squint to read the words through the raindrops. I watched as she flipped the piece of paper and started writing down what she was going to say.

Oh, you're that guy. I remember you. You bumped into me once and made me drop all my books. My mouth made an O shape as my mind recalled the memory.

Yeah...I remember that. Sorry about that by the way.

Rain grabbed another piece of paper and wrote something long; considering she took a long time writing it.

Alright, Park, come over to my room, my hand is starting to hurt and this feels really cliché like that Taylor Swift song.

Even though it was raining right now, I was grinning wanting to take this once in a lifetime chance to talk to her. Problem is: how do I even get over there? There's this gigantic tree right beside her room. The branches fall right above her bedroom window and there's this one thick branch reaching over to my room. I hope this actually works.

I slid my window up, making sure not to create much sound that will wake people up. My hand stretched out to the branch and I caught on to it. I leaped onto it and literally hugged the tree, I was afraid of heights. I kept on telling myself: don't look down. I squeezed my eyes close and opened them once again. I'm doing this all because I wanted to talk to a girl. Stupid? Yes. Do I want to do this? Yes.

I stepped onto another branch that would lead over to her window and I accomplished it. Rain opened up the window with a grin on her face as she held her hand out for me to grab. My hand clasped onto hers and she pulled me in. That was the most frightening moment of my life. I didn't like heights at first. Now I just want it to be demolished. I now officially hate heights thanks to the girl I want to talk to and that thick huge tree outside her room.