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“I met her when I was, still with my ex but,
Her lipstick was blood red, she wore her hair messed up.
She was my best friend, when I had a boyfriend,
But she was on my mind, when I was in his bed”
Raine Whispers always thought that something in their life wasn’t fully complete. Even though they were 26, had an amazing job working as a violinist at their town's philharmonic, and even had an absolutely AMAZING and stylish fashion designer boyfriend... they couldn’t help but feel that something in their life was just... missing.
They met Edalyn Clawthorne in a bar one night after getting into a fight with Darius. After downing their 4 th gin and tonic, a wonderful chuckle that Raine would describe as absolutely intoxicating ran out from the girl next to them.
“Man cutie... you must have had a really bad day if you’re downing these drinks like they’re water”
Raine cleared their throat, getting ready to dismiss the girl next to them. However, when they turned to look at her, all the words died in their throat. Sitting next to them was what Raine thought was the most GORGEOUS woman ever to grace their presence.
She was dressed in a tight red dress that hugged her curves just right. The big gold jewel on her necklace lay just perfectly in the middle of her chest right above the shocking amount of cleavage she was showing. She was sipping on a red drink that could rival the lovely red shade of lipstick she wore while her ginger hair was tied up into a messy bun.
“Is that a banana in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”
Raine shook their head and snapped out of their daze quickly. “I-I’m sorry.”
“It’s alright. I’m just joking with you.” The stranger laughed before turning her body towards Raine. They caught a glimpse of a milky white thigh as she crossed one leg over the other.
“Name’s Eda” she smiled before extending her hand out. Raine caught a glimpse of gold in her teeth. It looked like a SHARP gold canine tooth and Raine quickly wondered how it would feel piercing the flesh on their shoulder as the gorgeous red head fell apart around their-
'No- Bad Raine. Mind out the gutter. You barely know her!'
Raine smiled back nervously before shaking her hand. “My name is Raine.”
“So. What brings you into this lovely abode?”
Raine sighed and rubbed their eyes. The liquor in their system inhibiting their resolve to not spill their entire life story to this stranger that they just met. “My boyfriend and I got into a fight...”
“Yikes.... that sound’s rough.... Want to talk about it?”
They talked for 2 more hours before the vibrating in Raine’s pocket had them check their phone. It was Darius.
“I really should call him back...”
Eda nodded and placed her empty wine glass on the bar. “Here. Take my number. I just moved here so I don’t have a lot of friends...” She admitted as she wrote down her number on a napkin and handed it to Raine. “I’m a hell of a good listener.”
Raine smiled and pocketed the napkin. “I also don’t have a lot of friends so... thank you for allowing me to vent.” she sent a salute their way before placing down some money and walking out of the bar.
That night, after they had made up with Darius, they laid on their bed and stared at the napkin and their phone. Darius was snoozing next to them, oblivious to the world as the musician sighed and put the number into their phone.
“So, we kept in touch 'cause I wanted to touch her.
I got kinda drunk and told her that I liked her.
She said, "You're the best," this girl has got me all messed up.”
Friendship with Eda was definitely something Raine was missing in their life. Speaking and joking around with Eda was as easy as breathing to them. She brought such a bright light into their life and Raine couldn’t imagine the rest of their life without her.
Figuring out they were falling for Eda was like a bucket of cold ice water being poured onto their head. The question was brought up one night during their last fight with Darius by the fashion designer himself.
“Oh my god.... You're falling for her aren’t you...”
Raine’s breath hitched in their throat. “W-What? What are you talking about?”
Darius scoffed. “Oh, come off it Raine... you know who I’m talking about. Your little ginger friend.”
“Eda? I am not falling for her-”
“God Raine, would you stop and smell the roses? She is all you ever talk about anymore. ‘Me and Eda’ this and ‘Did you know Eda’ that. Every time I even try to have a proper date night, you are always on your phone texting her...” Darius said crossing his arms. “Just admit it... you want her.”
Raine looked down at their feet. The room stayed quiet, which was all the answer Darius needed.
“I hope you have a great life with her...” Was the last thing that was said before Darius stepped out of their life.
.
.
Raine was sitting on the floor of Eda’s house after the breakup. They had come over after to vent and cry to Eda as she just stood quiet and let Raine soak her shirt with their tears. After the tears, Eda had recommended that they should drink the sadness away. Which was where they were now.
“There is no way that you let go of 50 snakes in your homeroom classroom and lived to tell the tale” Raine laughed.
“What can I say, I was an absolute TERROR in high school.” Eda chuckled as they both sat on her couch. Eda had lent Raine a pair of pajamas and told them that they could stay the night if they wanted, which they happily obliged. Both adults had decided to hit Eda’s alcohol stash HARD and they started feeling the buzz after a couple of drinks. Eventually, they ended the night cuddled up watching scary movies in her living room.
Raine took in the soft snores of Eda on their shoulder as they awoke from their impromptu nap. They nuzzled their face into Eda’s ginger hair and inhaled her strawberry shampoo. Before they could stop themselves, they mumbled a tired. “I really really like you...”
“Rainestorm....You’re the best...”
Raine’s breath hitched. They assumed that Eda was asleep, not listening to their tired drunk confession. They slowly moved their face out of her hair to look at her. Letting out a relieved sigh when Eda was still passed out on their shoulder and was just mumbling in her sleep. That was a crossing they didn’t want to pass just yet.
“When she bites her lip, looks at me like that,
I wanna be morе than a friend, more than a friend.
Doеs she feel the same? Does she want me back?
I wanna be more than a friend, more than a friend
I have you close but I want more.
I want your t-shirt on the floor.
When you bite your lip, look at me like that.
I wanna be more than a friend, more than a friend.”
“What do you think Rainestorm?” Eda chuckled before twirling around and showing Raine her newest outfit. A cute tight number that hugged her curves in all the right places Raine had noted in their mind.
It had been 6 months since their breakup with Darius and lots of things had happened. They had moved out of their small apartment and moved into a bigger space with Eda as their neighbor in the apartment across the hall. Eda had tried to set them up with other people to which Raine had politely declined with the excuse of “I’m just working on myself for now.” They had bitten their lip and masked their sadness when Eda had gone out with some terrible excuses for human beings. Tonight, was another date much to the distress of the musician as they sat uncomfortable on her bed.
“It’s beautiful Eda! Whoever you’re going out with is going to love it” Raine smiled trying to hide the fact they wanted to grimace since it wasn’t them Eda was going out with.
Eda smiled, not catching onto how uncomfortable the musician was in her room. She walked over to her mirror and started putting on her jewelry. “Thanks for the offer to watch Hooty, Owlbert and King Rainestorm... but you know you can come with, right?” Eda offered as she touched up her lipstick. At the sound of their names, the black scruffily dog next to Raine on the bed lifted his head at his owner curiously as to ask why his name came out of her mouth, while the two brown owls in the large birdcage in the corner cooed and ruffled their feathers.
When they first met, Raine was a bit perturbed as to why Eda owned two owls. The latter just laughed and explained that she often volunteered to rehabilitate wild birds. Most of the birds she would rehabilitate would be owls, thus dubbing her “The Owl Lady” at the volunteering site. She took in Hooty and Owlbert after they would be deemed unfit to return to the wild.
Raine pet King and the small dog happily snuggled into their palm. “I wouldn’t want to impose. Plus, I can keep them company while you’re out”
Eda nodded and went to stand in front of Raine. “Alright then, King’s food is in the cupboard and Owlbert and Hooty have already been fed. Thanks again Rainestorm!” She smiled before grabbing her coat and purse and giving Raine a quick peck on the cheek before running out the door. “Don’t wait up~”
Raine touched their blushing cheek and sighed, turning to King. The black dog just looked at them. “Don’t look at me like that...I’ll tell your mother....one day”
If dogs could roll their eyes. Raine would have gotten so many from the tiny schnauzer that day.
“So fucking confusing, the way that she texts me.
Keeps saying, "I love you," wish she really meant it.
Sometimes she comes over, we call it a girl's night,
When she takes her clothes off, I know that she's my type.
So we kept in touch 'cause I wanted to touch her.
I got kinda drunk and told her that I liked her.
She said, "You're the best," this girl has got me all messed up, up, up
'Cause-”
Calamit y <3
Raine 12:20 AM
Rainey 12:20 AM
Rainnnnne 12:22 AM
Rainestormmm 12:25 AM
Are you awake? 12:30 AM
He was a total dick head Raine. The WORST date ever 12:35 AM
I need youuu 12:38 AM
Answer your damn phone! 12:39 AM
Rainestorm
I’m awake. I'm awake. Need to come over and vent? 12:40 AM
Calamity <3
Yayyyy Perfect. I’m on my way 12:42 AM
I Love You~ 12:43 AM
Raine sighed as they looked at their phone. An unsent “I love you too Eda” on the message bar stared back at them almost mocking them.
“If only it was that easy” they huffed as they deleted the message to go open the door for Eda.
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.
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"And then he had the AUDACITY to tell me that I was nothing but a pretty face and I should just sleep with him already. Can you believe that Raine?” Eda scoffed as she hung upside down on Raine’s couch. It had just hit 3am and Raine yawned as they let Eda vent all about the date.
“Mmm.. That’s a pretty dick move... did you punch him?” the musician questioned.
Eda placed her hand on her heart in a shocked gesture. “Rainestorm.... have you no faith in me?” she laughed as she flipped herself over to sit upright. “I obviously took the very expensive wine he bought and dumped it on his ugly lap”
Raine took a moment for her words to sink in before letting out a cackle. “You didn’t!”
“I sure did!” She smiled before going for her drink and completely missing, dropping it all over herself in the process. “Shit shit shit-”
Raine quickly got up and grabbed a towel to clean up the mess. “It’s okay. I have some spare towels and spare pajamas in my room if you want to use those”
Eda nodded and quickly discarded her dress in front of them before heading to the bathroom, causing the musician to hold in a breath and divert their eyes.
‘Holy shit she just undressed in front of me...’ Raine blushed before continuing to clean up the mess. They heard the door down the hall close and the shower turn on before they exhaled and sat on the couch.
“When she bites her lip, looks at me like that.
I wanna be more than a friend, more than a friend.
Does she feel the same? Does she want me back?
I wanna be more than a friend, more than a friend.
I have you close but I want more.
I want your T-shirt on the floor.
When you bite your lip, look at me like that.
I wanna be more than a friend, more than a friend.”
After cleaning up the mess. Raine stood and cracked their back before heading down to their room to change into their pajamas. As they were pulling up their pajama pants, Eda walked in and Raine had to stop to stare. She wore their longest pajama shirt that cut off right on her mid thigh. Green eyes traced the curves of her thighs and down her legs to rest on the adorable bunny socks that covered her feet. Her ginger hair was wrapped up in the towel she had borrowed.
“Sorry...I should have knocked...I just figured you came to bed since all the lights in the living room are off”
“N-No it’s alright! I just finished changing.” Raine said smiling. “Want me to braid your hair?”
Eda smiled and nodded before climbing on Raines bed happily, letting her ginger hair fall out of the towel wrap.
Raine took a bit of time combing through Eda’s hair, relishing how soft it was. They noted some white strands which Eda jokingly called her curse hairs while tying her hair off and smiled. “Alright. All done” They announced before getting up to put the brush and hair ties on their dresser. When they turned around, Eda was behind them. “E-Eda?” They held their breath as she got closer to them and figured out they were pinned when their lower back hit the edge of the dresser.
“Y’know Rainestorm... you’re not really good at hiding stuff” They heard Eda whisper.
‘H-Hiding stuff? What is she talking about?’ They thought to themselves.
“W-What are you talking about? I-I'm not hiding anything...?”
“Bullshit Rainestom....I saw the way you were staring at me.”
Raine froze. Their palms grabbed the edge of the dresser for purchase and their knuckles went white with the force of their grip. They felt Eda get closer to them, her chest touching theirs.
“Be honest with me Raine...” Oh no... That was her serious voice.
Golden eyes looked up to confused green ones.
“Do you like me...?”
“My hands 'round her body,
Her perfume left on me.
It felt like ages had passed in Raines mind after Eda’s question. They thought up so many scenarios of what to say but their body betrayed their mind and they quickly took Eda’s lips with their own. They felt Eda softly gasp into their mouth before they felt her arms wrap around their neck and Eda eagerly met their kisses with her own.
On top of the dresser,
I wanna undress her.
Reaching behind themself, they brushed off everything to the side of the dresser before they hoisted Eda up to place her on the newly cleaned dresser. Their fingers trailed up her bare legs before hesitating right before the edge of the shirt she wore, asking for permission. They felt Eda remove the hand she had on the back of their neck to grab Raines and move it under the shirt as a silent ‘go ahead’.
Raine didn’t have to ask twice.
My hands 'round her body,
Her perfume left on me.
This girl's got me all messed up.”
When the light shone through the curtains the next morning, Raine cursed themselves for not listening to Eda and investing in blackout curtains. Groaning, they sat up and tried to get up when they realized the heavy weight on their arm. Using their free hand to reach for their glasses, they felt their breath get caught in their throat when they noticed the VERY naked red-headed woman lying next to them.
Eda looked absolutely ETHERAL in the sunlight. Raine took in the light dusting of freckles decorating her nose and shoulder blades before tracing the curve of her body to where it disappeared under the covers. Raine blushed as the moments of last night flooded their memories.
The wonderful sound of Eda’s gasp she made when Raine hit the one spot she wanted.
The feeling of her nails as they scratched new marks on the musician's back.
The sweet pitch of the whines that left her mouth when Raine teased her just the right amount.
Right before the absolute SYMPHONY that graced Raine’s ears of her screaming out their name before -
“ Up early Rainestorm....?”
Raine shook the thoughts out of their head before looking over their shoulder to the woman in their bed. They smiled before kissing her on the forehead.
“Apparently the sun has other plans for me.” They laughed.
They watched as Eda smiled a bit before it went away. Almost as if she was lost in thought. Raine took this opportunity to lie down next to her again and look her in the eyes.
“Hey....Penny for your thoughts?”
Eda scanned their eyes. Almost as to contemplate her next words carefully.
“W... What are we?” she asked softly.
Raine moved their hand to caress her cheek.
“I think you know...”
“What if I want you to say it...?
Raine stilled their hand. Taking the opportunity to cup her face.
“I like you... I really do. Do you like me?”
Eda smiled before letting out a light chuckle.
“Boy I sure hope so...or else what we did last night would be really awkward wouldn’t it”
Raine rolled their eyes. “You know what I mean Eda”
Smiling, the red head scooted over and kissed their nose.
“Yeah Yeah... I like you too dingus.”
“When she bites her lip, looks at me like that.
I wanna be more than a friend, more than a friend.
Does she feel the same? Does she want me back?
I wanna be more than a friend, more than a friend.
I have you close but I want more.
I want your t-shirt on my floor.
When you bite your lip, look at me like that,
I wanna be more than a friend, more than a friend…”