It was a dark night and the rain was pounding against the window, only one person in the entire house still awake to watch the storm in its uncontrollable, natural beauty. Silvery blue eyes were lit up with every flash of lightning, every crackle of electricity in the atmosphere.
A smile began to pull at the corners of his mouth, another flash of lightning lighting up his pale skin, his frail body propped up just to watch this last storm. He knew he was dieing, and most likely wouldn't live past the end of the storm.
He forced himself to stand, to make his way to the window on which the rain hammered out its anger. He leaned against the cool glas.s, pressing his cheek against it with a soft sigh.
"Like the rain, I have fallen for you..." he murmured, voice soft and weak as he closed his eyes. "Like the rain..."
He smiled a little wider, his fair hair falling over his eyes as he began to slide down to sit on the floor. He chuckled, the sound no more than spaces between his heavy breaths.
"I hope you never wonder why I've left you now..." he said with his last breath, all life draining steadily from his frail body.
As he breathed his last, the rain ebbed away and the lightning no longer flashed, the thunder ceasing its rumble in the clouds. The sun came out from behind the clouds, a few rays filtering through to shine right into the window that had given the young man his last view of a beautiful storm, the warm rays resting on the lifeless body, giving an almost healthy look to his pale skin and white hair.
Though that had been many years ago, I never had stopped thinking of my older brother, the sickly young man that, though he was constantly in bed with some sort of illness, always wore a smile, even when the end came for him. I couldn't help wondering why he was always so positive, so happy, even though he knew he would never live to find someone he loved and settle down. He never got the chance to be a teenager and sneak out of the house when he was grounded.
He never got to see me finally graduate from highschool. He never got to teach me how to drive... Never got to see me as I grew from a child to a legal adult.
Never got to help me through the tough times through highschool. The rough friendships, the heartbreaking breakups... Not even the day I decided I was going to run away, or the day I finally came home.
To this day, I miss him with all my heart and wish he were still here, smiling as if he hadn't a care in the world.
"Nolan..." I whispered my brother's name as I sat in my room, watching as a storm began. "I hope you can see this from wherever it is you are now," I added softly as I stood, walking over to the window, placing my palm against the cool glas.s.
"Like the rain, I have fallen for you..."
I lowered my head, closing my eyes to try and block out the tears that wanted to fall, my dark blue eyes watering up as I thought back to him, sliding down to sit on the floor, burying my face into the fabric of my old faded blue-jeans, tears escaping to soak into the denim.
As lightning flashed and thunder boomed, I sat there, in the very same spot where my brother had taken his last breath, and cried; for him and the life he never got to have. I missed him dearly and my heart ached as I thought about him.
He had looked so peaceful when I found him that morning, the rays of sunlight filtering through the clouds to light up his lifeless body, bringing a soft glow to his pale skin, accentuating the soft smile that had been on his face.
Nolan's frail body had been positioned in the floor, his left cheek against the window, his white hair covering his closed eyes, which had dulled to no more than a steely gray. He had climbed out of his bed to enjoy his very last storm, a fitting end for the young man who had always loved to sit and watch the thunderstorms, smiling wider every time the lightning flashed and the thunder boomed.
"Oh, Nolan... You left too soon..." I whispered through my sobs, the tips of my dark brown hair, which had been against my face and covering my eyes, now wet, clinging to my healthy-colored peach skin.
"I hope you never wonder why I've left you..."
"You've left me wondering why you've gone and left me alone... Why you left when I was so young and still needed you so much... Nolan, I wish you were still here to comfort me when I cried, to tell me everything will be okay..." I heard my voice crack, but I didn't care. I missed my big brother and wanted to have him back.
"I will remember you..." I sang those four words softly to myself, what was supposed to be a soft, beautiful sound ruined by my cracking voice and the sobs that prevented me from saying it just the way I wanted to.
"You've left me wondering why, Nolan... Why you left me behind..."
((Okay. So, this is just something I came up with on the spot while at the library. I think I got the whole rain and storms stuff from some of the songs I've listened to lately. Like Waterfalls by TLC and Like The Rain by Clint Black. P:
Anyways, tell me how you like it. May add more after posting it today. P:
OR. I might make an RP based on this bit...so be on the lookout, everyone~))
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