Ghost in The Rain

As Juney was showing the photo of her family and told her stories, Dee would listen quietly untill the dark haired girl tears started to flow down her cheeks. The albino girl covered her own mouth with one hand as she heard what happened to Juney's family. She felt saddened, and her eyes would became a little teary as well, although the tears wouldn't flow.

"I-I'm sorry to hear that..." she would say softly while slowly wiping her own tears with her pale hand.

Dee thought that it must be a very painful memories for Juney, but at the same time, she felt that the dark haired girl was kind of lucky to ever see the faces of her family. As for the albino girl, she couldn't even know what her parents' faces look like. She wasn't sure whether Juney was interested in hearing that, so she decided to keep quiet about it for the time being.

"It's okay, Dee," replied Juney as she kissed each face of her family. "I know my Mom and Ericka are alive and I'll see them again soon. For now, I'm still looking." She would smile as she wiped away her tears and placed her photo back on the counter.

Juney headed back to sitting next to Dee as she said, "It's not a total loss though I feel. I was able to learn a few tricks of the trade on the streets in order to survive. Then like I said, when they offered the orphanage you were in, it's definitely a place that totally didn't meet the expectations of a loving home. Using my own strength and skill, I managed to break out of there like it was nothing."

"Yes, they should be fine!" Dee would say to cheer the dark haired girl up.

However as Juney mentioned about the orphanage, Dee's face would become a little glum and she would gazed away to hide her expression. The pale girl wished she could just forgot about that dreaded place already. She could still remember its dim lighted corridors and halls, the dark storage room where she was bullied a lot. It was there where her other self "born".

"Ah... I see..." she would say quietly as she heard how Deathbird managed to break away from that place.

What she remembered the most, however, was the huge fire that scorched the place to the ground. Dee wasn't sure how did it started, as she woke up outside the buildings to watched it burnt in the middle of the night. She had a feeling her other self might caused it, but she never learned the truth to this day, and she didn't really want to. Just the thought of herself burning down the place and caused the deaths of many made her slender body shivered a little.

"Thanks, Dee," replies Juney when Dee cheered her up to give her hope. But when the mention of the orphanage came up, the albino looked sad again as it brought so much pain in her past. "I'm sorry to bring it up, but there's something I need to tell you." she would reach for her backpack next to her drawers and brought it to her lap.

"When I revisited the orphanage, I planned to spit upon the ashes of the corrupt bodies that run that hellhole. But then, I found this." Juney opened her backpack and took out a file that was only burnt at the corne and colored dark because of the soot. "It was about one particular child who's mother had as much pain as you." Juney opened it up so both she and Dee can explore it's surviving contents.

As Juney picked up her backpack and took something from it, Dee would slowly turned her gaze at the dark haired woman. Juney would then opened a file and both of them would look at it. The albino girl didn't feel like she recognized anything from the contents and she would look at Juney rather confused.

"What is this?" she'd ask like a curious child.

As Juney opened up the file, she would speak to help Dee understand. "Well before she had the child, the Mom was single and working hard to provide for her other daughter and son. She grieved over her husband's death Since so mix weight was placed on her shoulders. Though she still loved him, she knew that he would want her to find a father for the family. So she married again and the family welcomed another daughter. But when two months had past, tradgedy struck again. The father was secretly a drunk and he often fights with his wife which frightens her greatly and the other children."

Juney showed her a picture of a car accident on a freeway and continued, "One night, the couple were driving their newborn daughter home after the baby was taken care of at the babtsitter's home. They argued again and it made them lose focus of the road. Suddenly, they were hit on the driver's side head on. The father wasn't lucky and the mother and baby survived, but the Mom was traumatized to see the sight and her daughter crying that she felt it was her fault that this happened. So she would give her away to the orphanage the next morning, feeling it was safer for her there."

She then showed another picture, featuring the family with the baby who had white hair and blue eyes. She looked a lot Deirdre for some reason.

Hearing Juney's story and looking at the picture of what supposed to be her family, Dee suddenly backed off and her eyes would widen as she glared at the dark haired girl. Her expression became cold, almost similar to her other self, although the albino wasn't realizing it yet.

"LIES!" Dee screamed all of a sudden. "I... I... was abandoned by my parents... they threw me in a trash can... You... you're making this up!"

The albino wasn't sure why she suddenly behaved like this. She would hold her head with both hand as if she was having a terrible headache. All of a sudden a nauseous feeling began to build up inside her, and she rolled of the bet and crouched on the floor as if she was having some sort of nervous breakdown.

Juney said nothing as Dee claimed that what she said were lies and had a nervous breakdown. She would continue looking at the albino and said, "That was the same thing the folks at the orphanage said when they put their file up for me. Instead of sticking to the harsh truth, they make up lies to try and spare the pain to others who never knew their parents. Believe me when I say this, Dee, I want to help you and this is no joke." Juney even knew where Dee's real mother was if only Dee would open herself up.

"No! You lie!" Dee keep screaming while still crouching on the floor and holding her head in distress.

There's a part of her that wanted to know whether Juney was telling her the truth. But she had been believing all this time that she was an unwanted child. Dee felt as if her world was shaken by the dark haired girl's story. She didn't want to believe it because she had decided a long time ago to get over this matter. The pale girl glared at Juney while gritting her teeth, trying to fight back the nauseous feeling inside her.

"Leave me alone..." she'd say with a rather pleading tone. "My life is none of your business..."

Dee couldn't believe as she heard her own words. It's as if her other self was already taking over her mind, but she knew that at the moment it was herself who just said those words. The albino then recognized the feeling inside her. It was similar to that time when she were bullied at the orphanage. Back then her other self hadn't been "born" yet. She was the one who hated all the people around her. She was trying so hard to deny this fact that she fainted out while she was beaten by the other kids.

The next thing she knew was she woke up with the other child lying around her, all beaten up and unconscious. That was the moment "Deirdre" was born. Of course she wouldn't accept that she was the one who beat all those kids, so she decided to bury all those thoughts inside her, and she became "Dee", the innocent, harmless girl that couldn't hate anything.

Right now, Dee was on the verge of losing her consciousness again as she tried to suppress her hatred towards her family, or the world. That hating part of her belongs to her other self, or at least that's what she thought.

Still saying nothing as Dee was already at war with her mind, Juney would get off of her bed and slowly go over to the albino on the floor. Instead of arguing back, she would try to get her arms around her to hug her like her little sister. "I'm sorry if what I said to you brought you so much pain. I just want to help and be your friend 'cause I too suffered loneliness, both of the heart and soul. Your right though, your life is none of my business and I'll leave you alone with it. Just please allow me to help you."