I Love You As Much As I Hate You

12. Now He Knows

"Cloud..."

Cloud sent the email he was writing and came near the bed Rain was laying, "how do you feel?"

"Like having a car accident," she jokingly said but then remembered what happened before so stopped abruptly. "I remembered my accident Cloud, it was a truck... it just came out of nowhere and that name Mrs-"

"Shh, stop..." Cloud put his finger on her lips.

Rain frowned. "Why? Wasn't it what you wanted?" she held Cloud's hand, "if I continue to remember, you can have your answers so can I. I have to find the woman they talked on the phone."

"I don't think it is a good idea," Cloud said with an obvious weariness in his tone. He was thinking about the happenings again and again during those two days Rain was unconscious and at the end he decided it was better for her not to remember, to have a new life... with him...

She pulled Cloud to sit on the bed, "why? What happened?"

"This happened," he pointed to her, "you had an attack! You were unconscious for two days Rain!" he took a deep breath to calm himself a bit, "I don't want to go through something like that again."

Rain was shocked, so shocked that she could not talk for a while. She clearly heard the pain and desperateness in his voice which touched her heart. "You called me Rain," she said softly at the end.

"So?" Cloud did not understand what she was hinting.

"It was the first time you called me Rain," she pulled him towards herself so his face was on the crook of her neck, "I think you have just let go of the past," she said while caressing his pitch-black soft hair.

"I know," Cloud whispered, kissing her neck.

***

As Cloud confirmed that he let go of the past, the email he sent was opened by the receiver who could not believe what she read.

I know about Rain... We need to talk...

Who the hell was the sender? After one year and all those actings! She rubbed her temples, being a soft-hearted indeed doesn't pay off, she murmured while typing a reply to the unknown sender.

***

"I will be damned," she put the coffee mug onto the table and pushed her long brown hair over her shoulder, "how come it is you?"

Cloud frowned while sitting in front of her, "do you know me, Mrs. Wright?" he asked with a surprised tone.

Kera Wright rolled her eyes, "aren't you the little summer flirt of Sun?"

Cloud clenched his fists under the table. Little summer flirt? Really? He took a deep breath as he had to keep his cool, "the very same Cloud," he said with a fake smile.

"How come you two found each other again?" She exhaled heavily, "the world is really small, ha?"

"Thank you for clarifying that Rain is actually Sun even before I asked," he said wryly, "and the answer of your question is that the destiny threw her into my lap again... well, we can put it in this way. Now, would you mind if you enlighten me a little about the situation?"

Kera squinted her blue eyes while tapping her red manicured nails on the table. After a while she said "forget about the past, now you have her again so just enjoy. I assure you this version is a lot better than the original."

Cloud stared at her for a second before saying "well, then I have to ask your husband" while standing up.

"Only if you want her dead real this time," she stopped him effortlessly.