Raindrops started falling the moment I stepped out of the cafe. "D*mn!" I cursed in my mind. I was already late but rain had to come just when I was in a hurry.
I shielded the contract papers in my hand from the rain and quickly ran to the bus station. I got confused as there wasn't a single person there. I checked the time, it was already 10:00pm. The bus I had to take has already left.
My heart sank to my stomach. I had to sign a important contract today, I should have already been there with the contract but I just had to buy a coffee. I blamed myself countless times in that short moment of a water drop dripping off my face.
I took a deep breath while thinking of the consequences made my blood ran cold. I slowly walked towards and sat on the bench, finally accepting my mistake. "I don't care anymore." I thought.
The pouring rain and cold wind blowing somehow made me a little.... Lonely I may say or perhaps longing but for what I didn't know.
When a car passed by me, splashing water onto was when I realized, realized what I was longing for and why I felt lonely. My reflection on that passing and cold water splashing onto me made me wide awake.
I couldn't recognize myself of that reflection. I was no longer the young man with great ambition and eyes sparkling with hope. I no longer remained that person with aura that reflected youth.
I realized how I have changed over the years. I have gotten old. Perhaps the longing wasn't for the rain or anyone, it was for myself that I have long lost to the passage of time.
It wasn't the rain that made me stop. It was the sound of everything I've lost, falling again from the sky.