She felt rejected at that point in time. All alone in the dark under the heavy rain. Her head bent low as if discussing with the echoes of the rain on the ground. Anyone passing down that street, that particular time would surely be scared but she wasn't. She wasn't because she had other bigger things dominating her mind. For half an hour, she stood there and getting to a ful hour, she got used to the environment and she was scared of nothing.
She saw a shadow move towards her but she didn't shake. The shadow got closer and closer but she didn't tend to make a move. Just then, her eyes felt drowsy, dizzy and tired. Her legs began to shiver and her whole body, gradually began to fall like a collapsing building.
"Where am I?" Her eyes opened to a glamorous and wel furnished bedroom. Rising up to her feet, she took her glasses from where she spotted it on the cupboard. A man walked up to her with a cup of tea. "You're awake" he said. "Thank goodness" he completed. She wanted to utter a word but couldn't. Her mouth, wide opened resulting from the shock. "Who.....who are you and....and ....where am I?" She managed to say. He told her to relax that he meant no harm but she couldn't. She presently trusted no one anymore. Even when he said calming words which could bring down the nerves of people, she still didn't relax. She needed an answer, and he figured it out.
He smiled a bit and "alright, if my introduction would calm you down, well I'm Jake and I saw you in the rain and decide to bring you in here so that you won't catch a cold" he said. Well, she had got to know his name, but that wasn't a full introduction compared to what she meant and she still didn't care. What would it add to her sorrowful life?. She didn't want to know anybody. How could she forget? The pains and sufferings she had passed through, how could she?.
Then, just then her eyes flashes to a little picture on a frame. She glared deeply into it and felt something. It was a picture of little him. She looked and looked as if communicating with it through signs. He too noticed.
"That was I" he laughed gently a bit and continued "during my first camping activity,I was almost the happiest kid on earth except for the fact that I was not with my best friend, she could not attend" he paused and looked at her still glaring at the picture, then he continued. "Because, her mum died the previous night, I couldn't enjoy that happiness with her so I had that picture in remembrance of her, wherever she may be now" he said.
She lifted up her eyes and looked at him, sh glanced at that ceiling trying to recall something, but when she saw that she couldn't, she gave up. This words made her recall. "Her name was KAREN" he said. She looked at him and tears began to drop on her cheeks. The stranger looked surprised and began to think about how he made her cry. About to utter a word, she spoke up.
"Jake Matthews, Jake, oh Jake, I wish I were you, I wish I were in your shoes, I wish I had your life. It's me Karen, Karen Macbeth......"and with this, they both cried this time, hugged themselves for a period of time and she then cried again. He offered her coffee bye she rejected. After much persuasion from him, she opened up telling him all she had past through. What was it she had to say? What had she passed through?.
