Story: Love like Rain (chapter 1)

Authors: AlexRiley

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Chapter 1

[Author's notes: I was meaning to post this elsewhere, but the other archive was down so I found this.]

As the music flowed from the speakers in the club, Riley and Willow began to dance at the upbeat tune. It was their regular routine to go clubbing at 'Twilight's Water' which was a club situated in the city centre of Faloway. It was Friday night, 11:00PM and the club was starting to get packed. The dancefloor looked to be a sea of bobbing heads, dancing to whatever the DJ played. The two friends were working up a sweat and as they looked around the club, there weren't many 'interesting' people and it was getting more and more crowded on the floor. The two decided to leave the floor, to the bar to get a drink each. Riley and Willow sat beside each other, ordering their drinks, hopefully able to get refreshed from all their hardcore dancing. Riley glanced to her left and saw a a cherry blonde sitting near her. She was looking at her phone, eager for someone to call her and somewhat save her from what hell she subjected herself to. Riley watched as the blonde look around, as if she was finding someone she actually knew. A man walked over to the blonde, which made Riley raise an eyebrow. The man looked partially drunk and the blonde looked completely annoyed, and somewhat scared. The man began to try and coax the blonde into dancing with him, but she continually declined, but the man was persistent. Riley inwardly sighed, knowing the next move she'd make would either congratulate her or haunt her. She stood up and walked over to the blonde and taller man.
"Be careful now, I don't want you to get caught in some kind of brawl again," Willow calmly stated, remembering the last time Riley stood up to someone bigger than her. The guy ended up on a hospital bed with a bruised you-know-what and practically dislocated groin, with the added fractured limb here and there. Riley shook her head and sarcastically smiled back to the redhead.
"Hi, what are you trying to do?" Riley calmly asked, looking between the blonde and the dark haired man. The man to her left looked down at the young brunette, then back to the blonde.
"Get out of here, this ain't your business," The man spat back, slowly increasing Riley's temper. Riley glanced over at the blonde who mouthed 'Help me' to her.
"It's all my business, I don't want you to hurt my girlfriend," Riley smirked, with a bit of a smile creeping at the corner of her mouth. The blonde was shocked, and the man stepped back from the two, but a hint of suspicion was in his eye. Riley realized she must have pulled them in a deep hole, because by now the 'harasser' would leave the 'harassed' with that comment. The partial drunk smirked and Riley inwardly scolded herself.
"If she is your girlfriend, kiss her," The man confidently stated, causing Riley to sigh and the blonde to open her jaw.

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