After Hours

14. Soak

"Done."

Rainy grinned, the deep indents in her cheeks popped out as she hit the send button on the laptop in front of her. Watching as her email disappeared out of her mailbox and into another's, she let a loud 'yes!' She had spent the last two hours searching for the best website that could write her essay for her, and she had finally found the one.

EduWrite.

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Only $21.95 per paper.

It was the best twenty one dollars she had spent.

She could hear the sounds of the kids playing in the pool through the kitchen doors. The entire family were outside, taking full advantage of the scorching heat. The double doors were open wide letting in a gentle breeze against her bikini clad body. She was in a small yellow two piece with strings that tied up, and denim shorts hiding her bottoms. Her hair was in a bun and she had no makeup on. Lifting the popsicle into her mouth, she licked the strawberry flavour sighing with the coolness hit her stained tongue.

"Boo."

Hands gripped her shoulders, shaking her suddenly.

Rainy's eyes widened as she let out a loud scream clumsily falling back in her chair. Hitting the ground with a loud thud, she instantly heard laughter fill up the room.

"I knew you were there." She muttered lowly when she narrowed her eyes down on her attacker.

Eliza chortled, coming down to sit besides her. She had a black mesh cover up over her black bikini, big gold hoops and her crazy pink hair was straightened. She watched as the red faced girl grumbled getting up from the ground and sitting back down in her seat.

"I haven't seen you all day, how's that paper coming along?" She asked her, curiously looking over at the draft word document that was across the screen.

Rainy motioned towards the laptop screen, "Oh I just finished it." She said proudly.

Despite the fact that she hadn't done any of it herself, she had actually bothered to find a good enough website which took out two hours of her time. And that was more than enough.

Watching as the pink haired girl attempted to read a little of it, she pulled back to look over at Rainy. "You take philosophy? What college?"

"Mhm." She nodded with a grin, "NYU."

"-Oh my god." Eliza rose a brow, staring at her strangely. "No way! Silver works at that college, and he's actually a philosophy professor there."

Oh shit.

Rainy found herself almost choking on her spit as she laughed at her words half heartedly, mouth open in fake pretence. "He is? That's weird, I've never seen him there."

Before she could see his name on her paper, she snatched the laptop away from her and slammed it shut. Eliza frowned at the small action but didn't question it, instead she shrugged and pushed herself up from the counter.

"Wait until I tell Silver this, he'll freak out. And in a good way." She smiled, turning on her heel to run out of the kitchen and into the backyard. "See you at dinner!"

Well that definitely didn't go as planned.

He would freak out alright.

Grabbing the laptop she had been using, Rainy grumbled under her breath scolding herself for being so stupid. She got down from the chair, heading out of the kitchen and down the long hallway. Consumed by her endless thoughts, she had her head fully down not paying any attention to her surroundings.

She stopped in front of the study where Elijah had told her to return the laptop. Opening it and entered finding a standard study, a big oak desk, a telephone, some notepads and massive bookshelf with countless books.

Moving further inside the room, she walked over to the desk and went around the back. As she placed the laptop down on-top of the empty part of the desk, she paused her eyes catching a photo frame.

Her lips curled slightly up when she spotted baby Elijah and she quickly plumped herself down onto the spin chair. Reaching over to grab the photo frame, her fingers brushed against Elijah. The photo looked like it had been taken at some sort of amusement park, the twins looked no older than ten as they stood next to each other holding large lollipops with big grins plastered across their small faces. On one side of the twins stood their parents, and the other side stood a teenage boy with curly brown hair and those same inviting dark eyes.

Rainy snorted, scanning over the boy's interesting outfit. Jeans, t-shirt and trainers. To any normal person his outfit would be usual of a teenager to wear, but since she knew it was her professor standing there in that picture. She found it amusing, she wasn't sure why but to her it seemed strange to think of him as a normal person.

He was once her age?

That made her shiver.

Putting the photo back down onto the desk, she sighed. Her hands moved to rub her eyes, unable to keep the yawn from escaping her mouth. She leaned back in the chair, and stayed there for a few seconds.

She hadn't realised just how tired she had been until she sat down inside the dimly lit room.

Rainy tried to fight it, but she had reached the point where it was not mind over matter but body over mind.

Her eyes fluttered shut as the feeling of sleep washed over her exhausted body. And before she knew it, she was fast asleep.