Standing in the rain.

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Title: Standing in the rain.
Chapter 3.
Email: Silversun@hotmail.com.
This chapter was horrible rushed... Anyway..standard disclaimer: This story is copyrighted to me.
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Days have passed. I must have lost feeling of time, probably a few good months now, since I last cried in the rain. Tonight, Andrew is out. But he told me to clean the apartment and be dressed more appropriately than just boxers and singlet. I suspect itõ?Ts going to be an event of some kind. I donõ?Tt really know.
Iõ?Tm looking absentmindedly out the window. Itõ?Ts raining again. Why it rains so often as of late I donõ?Tt know, but even the weather seems to be against my mood. Donõ?Tt get me wrong, I love the rain, some part of me relates myself to the rainõ?Ưbut rain itself, is just too intense. Packed. Hard to say what itõ?Ts packed of..filled with, tears, sadness, confusion, memories, painsõ?Ưthis strange sensation. You know what I speak of?
Knock on door again. I wonder why he knocks. I know itõ?Ts Andrew, Andrewõ?Ts knock I call it, his distinctive way of knocking that my mind seems to have memorised.
õ?oWell. Welcome to my very own nest. This is Nina, she used to be this thing fuzzy animal thing I kept as a pet, but bah humbug, sheõ?Ts all grown up now õ?" he pauses and chuckles - roommate a.k.a best friend nowõ?. Andrew walks in the room, and his presence feels overly large for the tiny room. I stand there in my three quarters pants, staring at a strange girl behind Andrew. His hands gesture towards the apartment, and when he looks at me, there was this certain warmth of kindness in his eyes.
The woman walks towards me. She smiles, her long blonde hair seems to shine. She is wearing this fluffy white jumper, it gives me a twinge of pain. You see, I used to wear my own fluffy white jumper when I went out with õ?~the guyõ?T, and the fluff would fly everywhere everytime he hugged me tightly. He would laugh and said it feels like he was hugging a cat who was moulting. Iõ?Tm not paying attention again. Who is this woman?
õ?oHi, Nina. He talks of noone but you! So great to finally meet you at last!õ? õ?" She then proceeds to hug me. I move a little closer, but it feels very awkward.
õ?Hmm.. Great to meet you too. Great jumperõ?. I manage to stutter.
Then I look at Andrew with wild puzzlement. He laughs, heõ?Ts thinking he hasnõ?Tt seen the wild puzzlement in my eyes for a long time. My eyes seem dead nowadays, he told me. Then he speaks.
õ?oNina. This is Annie. My girlfriendõ?.
Annie has the greenest eyes I have ever seen. She also smiles a lot, and her voice sounds like tinkling bells. She wears pleasant fluffy clothes, she reminds meõ?Ư
So Andrew hasnõ?Tt told me about Annie. They have been together for a few weeks? But yes, sheõ?Ts special, he said, thatõ?Ts why I brought her to see you Nina, you have only ever met two of them, the special ones.
I donõ?Tt feel much about Andrew having a serious girlfriend. Heõ?Ts just rarely home nowadays, and the apartment seems so much cleaner, bigger, and emptier without Andrew. She does his laundry now. Which I am in no position to complain about.
Of course, there is something, I am sure of. I remember I was happier for Andrew when he received his Noir soundtrack from Japan than when heõ?Ts finally found Annie. He still takes me out every once in awhileõ?ƯIõ?Tm still Nina, his Nina, the Eskimo girl.
Iõ?Tm sitting with Chris, my coffee buddy, in this tiny boutique coffee shop. The overwhelming smell of fresh brewed coffee beans fills my nostrils. I feel a little nostalgic.
õ?oI still canõ?Tt believe he didnõ?Tt tell you earlier! Best friend and all.õ?
õ?oYou know what itõ?Ts like with Andrew, he sees too many people to ever tell me all about them. Sheõ?Ts special. Thatõ?Ts why he brought her to our apartment.õ? I speak, my nose a little higher in the air. I sniff in the strong whiff of coffee scent, looking at Chris, she seems amused.
õ?oNina, you make it sound like youõ?Tre his mum.õ?
õ?oIõ?Tm not. We just do that. My serious ones, he meets them. His serious ones, I meet themõ?. I quickly defend myself.
õ?oNina, youõ?Tve only ever had one special oneõ?Ưõ? She trails off, then quickly sips her long black and changes the subject. I see itõ?Ưsheõ?Ts avoiding speaking of õ?~the guyõ?T.
õ?oSo what is she like?õ?
õ?Who?õ?
õ?oThe girl whoõ?Ts captured Andrewõ?Ts heart of course!õ?
õ?oOh..yes. Annie. Sheõ?Tsõ?Ưshe has green eyes. She smiles a lot..very soft and sweet.õ?
õ?oThe vanilla comforting kind? Or Chocolate, knock-you-dead with passion kind?õ?
õ?oVanillaõ?Ưõ?
õ?oOh, so you donõ?Tt approve of her!õ?
õ?oThatõ?Ts absurd. I donõ?Tt approve, or disapprove. Itõ?Ts his girlfriend! His life! He spends time with her not me! They go and have coffee in the rain together, Iõ?Tm only ever invited when itõ?Ts sunnyõ?ƯI like her. Regardless, Iõ?Tm happy for themõ?. My mind speaks outloud, too fast for my liking.
Then Chris looks at me with surprise in her eyes, almost like a realisation of a kind. She doesnõ?Tt say anymore, just sips her long black faster. Then she smiles.
õ?oYou and Andrewõ?.
SOOO Bloody rushed. . But more plot is developed now.
Anyhow, will probably revise this chapter. And the next chapter should be coming up soon. Who wants to guess who our heroine Nina ends up with?