The Rainy Evening | [MF] | [Str8]

**I’ve recently got back into writing but not too sure that I still have the spark that I used to – I’m trying though.**

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Oscar turned the key in the ignition causing the car engine and lights to cut off simultaneously, the result plunged Oscar into pitch black eternal darkness as every source of light diminished. He looked over to his house to find not a single sign of life, not a single light could be seen.

“Strange, Jessica should be home?” Oscar questioned openly to himself.

It was a rainy wintry night outside the safety of Oscar’s metal containment. A loud patter of rain could be heard as it hit the windows and windscreen of Oscar’s car, droplets of rain water danced down the glass all around him. Oscar sat in the silence for a moment as he surveyed the area in bewilderment, Oscar and Jessica shared a house in the countryside with the nearest neighbour 20 miles back down the dirt track driveway.

“I wonder where she is.” Oscar asked again as if the rain drops would give him the answer he desired.