Rain
                                                       by Sarah


         It had never rained this hard before. Not here. Water was pooling around our bodies, mixing with our blood and all the while I couldn’t help but think, how could it have gotten so bad?

         My body trembled constantly and I realized quickly that there was no escaping the pain. No one was here to save us.

         I shut my eyes and buried my face in his chest, listening for his heartbeat. It was so light compared to my own. “I’m sorry” I whispered into the cold night air, my hands shaking as I wrapped them around his waist trying to bring him closer as if that would save us. “I can’t... I couldn’t…” He was so cold.

        “No… not…” he rasped as if he was fighting for breath, his arms gripping mine almost painfully. Then all of a sudden his body was jerking violently against mine and he was seizing and there was nothing I could do.

        I clung to him, desperately holding onto him even when his thrashing became so bad that it was hurting me. I tried so hard to calm him but I don’t think he could hear anything but my sobbing. He was dying and I knew it.