As the rain pounded on girl's back, her hair soaked and dripped with the cold, harsh liquid that fell from the sky. The gray-misted clouds hung overhead in a thick intoxicating blanket, letting out the water that it had held in for days on end. Every step up the concrete stairs echoed off the enclosed walls of the staircase and through her racked brain. Thoughts shot through her with such a jerking motion she had a migraine from the pure intensity of the images. As she approached the rough edge that marked the roof of the school, her ragged tennis shoes that scuffed the solid floor beneath her squeaked with protest against the friction of wat