A promise

“In a way, I know I’m supposed to be happy that I’m going to be an aunt soon but…”

“ The mother of the child?” Viola asked, her face already red with laughter. For some reason, she found Rain’s current expression funny.

“ Not that Andrea is a bad person or anything like that,” Rain waved her hands trying to dismiss the thought from Viola’s head.

“Uh huh...” Viola said, Rain’s words only succeeding in making her laugh harder.

“Look, it’s just that she has a lot of issues and sometimes she’s like a—”

“—bitch, she’s a bitch Rain. No need to censor your words,”

Yup. She was a bitch. A stuck up bitch that shot at Rain as a warning to stay away from Alexander yet from what she’d learned at the dining table, Andrea herself had come to end things by herself.

Rain and Viola sat on opposite sides of her bed, a pillow each in their grasps and Viola looking like she would burst into laughter at any given moment.

She’s been laughing from the table when she had first heard everything but no