Rain:243: Intense

Synopsis

Author Notes

Yeah, I know. I’m a big jerk. This TOTALLY could’ve been a two-page update, so that it could be clearly established how Rain is presenting. But I decided, “nah, the suspense will be fun.” Best of all, there’s a lot of little hints in the last few panels that can point to it going either direction. I’d love to hear your predictions.

I will tell you though that this was meant to be a twofer. Meaning, you WILL learn the truth next time.

Transcript

You know, I tried out eHEARTyou after I saw your commerical. I'm seeing someone now.
Oh yeah? Cool.
So, I'd rather you didn't tell me things have gone sour between you and Janey!
Jessica, actually.
Well, it's not that things went sour. More like new things came up, and it was a little more intense than I expected, and I wasn't prepared for it. I needed to get out of there for a little while.
Why do all of Liriel's kids hate giving straight answers?
You're living with her, right?
And you announced your engagement on daytime TV, all after going out for only a few months......
...and something came up that was "too intense" for you?
What the hell happened?
Uh... well... you see...
H-hey... Aiken...
Oh, thank god!
Hey, baby br...

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