The rain hit her skin like it would go right through and the water washed the street like a river would rise. Beneath the sound of the city traffic, Nadia couldn't hear her own footfalls. She was so completely wet and numb that did she feel the splashing of the vehicles or the wind that blew so hard that the litter swirled into the air like poor relations of autumn leaves. The streets passed in a frigid blur, she wasn't heading for home, but for an old place everyone said was haunted. Only last year just the idea had scared her senseless, but now she felt drawn to it, it was the only place to go. It still had a roof and the windows were unbroken, even the local druggies steered clear.
Nadia looked at the old house, she'd passed it every day since she started school. It was just like all t
