Sleep

"Oh my boy. My sweet boy. What is wrong?"

"Nanny... Rain..." he sniffed.

"What happened?" she asked again.

"I have lost Rain ".

"Enough now, stop crying Florate. Pull yourself together and tell me what really happened". She cleaned his face with her palm, trying to calm him down.

"Rain saw Lilith and I together, and misunderstood things. She thought we were betraying her" he spoke sadly.

"Oh dear. Now that's very serious. But enough of the tears already" she wiped his face the more with her palm, drying his tears like a true mother would.

"She must think I never loved her now and I do not even know what to say to convince her otherwise".

"This is all my fault" Lilith suddenly said, drawing the attention to herself. "I never should have dragged you into my personal problems Florate" tears began to flow down her cheeks.

"No" he objected sternly, looking at her. "No Lilith. Don't do this to yourself. None of this was your fault Rain just got too emotional and misunderstood" he tried to explain.

"No need to put the blame on her Florate you know she is totally blameless. Anyone in her shoes would do so. Besides, I have not even been a faithful friend so far that I should be causing you both issues in your relationship. I have kept my relationship from the two of you in utter deceit, which is very wrong and deserves no forgiveness, talk less of causing a problem between you and Rain. That was very bad of me". He bowed her head slightly.

" I have told you Lilith" he started again calmly. "This was never your fault. None of it was. You are my friend and Rain is too. I am sure she will calm down soon enough and I will go talk to her and make her understand everything. Please don't put Blame on yourself".

"It is alright Lilith dear" Nanny Adelaide turned to Lilith. "Florate is right. Rain just misunderstood, don't worry will go talk to her and make sure she understands. You both are not to be blamed for anything, and neither is Rain. She only got emotional, she only needs time to cool off a bit. Don't worry, I will go talk to her".

"No nanny don't, I will do that my self" Florate stood from the bed. "I need to be the to talk to her, I am the one she is mostly mad at. So I need to be the one to clear her head too. She is my girlfriend and I must take responsibility for this and fix our relationship because I don't want to loose her". He wore a serious look on his face.

"Well, my dear, that would be later, and definitely not now" Nanny Adelaide shook her head in disagreement.

"Please nanny don't stop me from going to Rain, because I can't spare it for one second" he looked very desperate.

"Let her rest for now my dear. And then you can talk to her all you want tomorrow or maybe next. She has indeed stressed herself today and deserves some peace and quiet at least".

"Florate nanny Adelaide is right. Let's allow Rain rest for now, and first thing tomorrow we will go and see her" Lilith looked sad too but that was the truth.

"OK fine" he finally agreed. "But there has to be someone there with her to at least take care of her nanny. At least, she has to be attended to and looked after. I am going" he made his way to the door, not minding what they might say but his nanny held him back.

"Not so my boy" she called him back.

"This is very important Nanny and I am not going to listen to your excuses. Rain needs help right now and..."

"And, she has that in abundance already" she stood up as she spoke.

"What did you just say, she has help in abundance? Who is helping her? The nurses? But they have other persons to attend to, let me help them out and be with Rain".

"Not the nurses son" she corrected sternly.

"Not the nurses?" he furrowed. "Then who. If it is you Nanny, I would like you to rest and let me do the job. You look very tired and in desperate need of rest" he held her shoulders and creased them a bit as he smiled sweetly to her.

"I no I need rest son" she smiled back, cupping his face with her palm.

"Excatly" he concurred.

"And that is why I am not going to look after your girlfriend. Some else is".

At this point, Florate gave it a quick thought who else would want to be beside Rain apart from the three of them in this room right now. Nexine'.

"Nex?" Lilith asked with wide eyes.

"But of course my dear" she turned to Lilith while Florate's face turned sour. "He is a very wonderful boy and you should be thankful to him for the time he spared just to take care of your girlfriend" she smiled cheerfully. "He is such a blessed soul and Rain seems to be getting fond of him you know".

Florate's heart shattered into pieces.

"That scum!" his voice was raised and his face was squeezed in an angry frown.

"Bring your voice down Florate" Nanny Adelaide cautioned "this is a clinic, not your combat ground" she frown slightly.

"I am so sorry Nanny" Lilith apologized on his behalf as he was too angry right now to. "But Florate is right" she affirmed just right after. "Nex is a scum, a scoundrel to be precise"

"Language Lilith!" Nanny Adelaide looked at her, very appauled at her use of words.

"You don't understand Nanny" she continued. "I once thought him as my friend but Nex is just a wolf in sheep's clothing, he is not what you think he is. He is just fooling you nanny".

"I beg your pardon?" now Nanny Adelaide was obviously angry.

"We are very sorry Nanny" Florate decided to speak.

"Sorry for yourselves" she looked at them in utter dismay. "I am very disappointed in the both of you. You see someone good and ready to help you and you call him scum! This is not the young man I trained you to be son. I am very disappointed in you and you too Lilith. What you both have said about that innocent boy is totally unacceptable and hope you realize that soon. Excuse me" she hissed and left the room with anger written all over her face, leaving Florate and Lilith, bitter with what they said, even though it was the actual truth.

"She would never understand" Lilith began, shaking her head sadly.

"Why would she, Nex is very good at fooling people you know but I promise him that I would never loose my girlfriend and nanny to his deciteful schemes. He will never be successful with any of his plans".

"Of course he won't" Lilith agreed. "My hunch is he has something to do with what happened today. It seems strange to you, doesn't it?"

"Doesn't what?" Florate looked lost.

"I mean the fact that Nex appeared just after Rain has finished cursing us. I am very sure he had all this planned out, making Rain come here, he was sure she would misunderstanding the whole situation and that would give him an upper hand to claim her as his".

Florate fell into deep thoughts. He began to see sense in what Lilith was saying. Nex's sudden appearance in the scene is very questionable plus, he had told Rain to rest and wait for him, and he knew he very well that she never disregarded his instructions. So now, he was sure someone had made her leave the room to meet him with Lilith and that person was none other than Nexine.

And now, he has gone for the finishing moves, winning her heart. No! He was never going to let that, happen, he had to meet Rain and fast.

"You are right Lilith. Nexine had this game all played out, and I must stop him. I must see Rain".

He did not wait to hear her object what he said, although she did not. Rather, she followed behind him as they made their way to Rain's room.

They hastened their steps and got to where she was in no time. They looked at the door for seconds and then exchanged glances before he finally knocked, but no one answered. He would looked through the glass upper part of the door but it's curtains were drawn so he had no choice than to open the door and they walked in to meet a most beautiful sleeping Rain.

They heaved a sigh of relief while they slowly walked to closer to her.

"She would not like to see you here" Nex said with a serious look on his face. He was standing at the door with a bowel and towel in hand.

"Not like she ever wanted you around her" Florate retorted. "Leave my girlfriend alone!"

"Shushhh" Nex frowned. "Can't you see she needs rest". He walked closer to Rain while Lilith and Florate just looked at him in utter disgust.

"Leave Rain alone Nex" Lilith made her voice low but her frown was deeper than his.

"Why should I, when the both of us are meant for each other" he smiled wickedly. "She needs my help and I am here to offer it".

"You know the game you played Nex and we are here to let you know that it would never work. Rain is our friend and..." she was still speaking when she felt strong arms grab her from behind.

She tried to set herself free with her fighting skills the owner of the arms used his mutant powers on her. He simply said "sleep" with his hands firmly on hers and she fell into the sea of darkness...