Heavy Rain (OPEN)

[Rhett Goddard]

It was raining cats and dogs. It was odd, considering it was just noon, but then again, Hammel was an odd place.

It had been a long time since Rhett had simply walked into rain and have some innocent fun in it. Back when he way younger and living by himself, he used to do it often, not having toys nor friends, nor desiring them, he chose the rain as his playmate. He sincerely enjoyed it, but as he grew older, well, he just couldn't go play in the rain like he used to without raising looks and comments, so he changed it for just walking and lying beneath it. Sometimes, some days, he would just pick a moment in a rainy day and go lie outside in some park and with his eyes closed, he would listen to the rain drops hit the ground. If he concentrated enough, he could catch a particular part of th sound he loved, it transmitted him a soft feeling of numbness and calmness. It would be as good as it could get.

And so, remembering those days, Rhett had decided today was meant to be one of those days.

He slowly walked out of the dorms building and in a couple of seconds he was as wet as he could be. A few minutes later he had arrived at the pond. It was a beautiful rainy scene, and without thinking twice, he threw himself in the grass and closed his eyes. In the distance, he started hearing that peaceful sound.

[Anette Blackwood]

Anette watched the rain, not caused by her for once, pour and she stood in the middle of it, it rivering off her bright pink umbrella. Even in this kind of weather, she wore dresses or skirts, but she wore her pink and black polka-dotted rain boots along with it.
She always loved going out in the rain, only when she didn't begin it in the first place. Her emotions were happy, but couldn't bring the rainy day to a sunny one and she was kind of glad. She loved jumping into puddles and getting wet despite her umbrella.
She twirled the umbrella and could see a person lying in the grass in the distance.

She skipped her way towards the figure, which turned out to be a blonde male and bent over him, her umbrella tracking water onto his shirt, but she didn’t really notice as she was staring off into his face. He was young looking, with a boyish face. She had been there for a week and she still didn't know anyone past her brother, Arlo and Shane. It seemed to her that it was time to make new friends because she wasn't going to go through this change on her own when she could go thorugh it with people who going through the same thing as her.

She cocked her head and said quietly, “Anybody home?”

[Rhett Goddard]

Great, people. Aren't people supposed to NOT go outside when raining? It's hard to get some alone time in this school...

"I'm not home and neither are you." Rhett replied with his eyes closed. "We're both outside, which, I would dare to say, is quite obvious." She's covering my rain. "You're covering my rain, would you mind to move aside?" He opened his eyes: above him a girl with a bright pink umbrella was staring at him with, what seemed to him like, a harassing look. "What?" He stood up quickly and took a steb back from the girl. "What do you want? And why so much pink? you do know there are other colors in the rainbow, right?"

[Anette Blackwood]

Anette listened to the boy talk and watched him carefully. She didn’t say anything about her pink umbrella and twirled it in her hand. “I picked pink because it represents love and when I said is anyone home, I meant are you asleep. So if your done being mean, perhaps I should take my leave.”

She stepped into a rather large puddle, kicking up water and mud onto her lovely skirt and twirled her umbrella more. She danced her way back, not getting very far, for she was walking slowly, very slowly. "Oh! And I'm sorry for covering your rain!" She gave him a glare and the rain came down harder, if that was possible.

[Rhett Goddard]

Pfff... kids... Rhett stared with no emotion in his face at the girl who got mad just over nothing. It had been a long time since he had achieved that so quickly, and with so little effort. He loved that. There was so much fun on discovering people's buttons, pushing them in the right order and with the correct strength: it was one beautiful activity anyone should. Well, not anyone, that would most likely make the activity less fun than it actually is.

"Hey, as you wish, not like I called you here." Rhett said strongly as the girl stormed away. "Oh and I forgive you, there's always much more rain, well as long as you don't make it go away." Huh, she's a weather manipulator. I hate weather manipulators. "Did you by any chance started this rain? Seems a little over your... skill..."

Rhett wondered if she was listening to what he was saying, she was pretty far and the rain was coming down hard. Yet he didn't care, and without waiting for a response he threw himself back in the ground and closed his eyes.

[Rachael Whitfield]

Rachael screamed.

Rain! It's raining! Oh god, get me out of here!

But unfortunately, the poor girl was confined to the limited shelter under the tree. She didn't dare move, for the rain on her skin would surely send her into further hysterics.

Rachael had come out for some fresh air awhile ago. Functioning on low sleep, when her body found that Rachael had planned to chill under the sunny sky, it shut down. Now that she had awoken, the clouds were relentlessly pouring and the poor, scared girl was frozen to the tree.

She spotted a character in the distance, lapping up the rain like it was a casual shower. How could he?

But calling for help was her only option, to her (fear-muted) disgust. And so she yelped "Please, can you help me? Please!"