The Contract

Chapter 16

I opened my eyes to see Rain hovering over me. 

"Kelly said you had a headache. You alright?" He asked, sitting down on the bed beside me. 

"Yea, I'm fine. I was tired and wanted an excuse to get out of the kitchen." I sighed. 

"I guess you and Laura don't get along well?" He frowned. 

"No, not really." I rolled my eyes. I checked the clock. I had only been up here for about an hour. 

"Well, your mom and Meg pretty much are taking care of the cooking, so if you want to lay up here, you can." He said, giving me a small smile. 

"Thanks." I nodded, holding Rain's pillow closer to me. "Are you having fun with the kids?" I asked, seeing Rain start to smile. 

"Yea. They are a ton of fun and really funny!" He giggled. I smiled with a nod. 

"I'm you're enjoying them. I would always be stuck babysitting them and we always had a blast." I chuckled. 

"Why don't you come down and play with us? Pleeassseeee!" He whined with a pout, making me laugh. 

"Okay fine!" I sighed, climbing out of the bed and slipping my boots back on. I followed Rain downstairs and slipped into the 2nd living room without anyone noticing me. 

"Yay! Let's play Uno!" Riley suggested, already pulling out the Uno cards. I nodded, sitting between Rain and Shelby in the circle. Riley dealed out the cards and Rain started the game. I frowned at the red and greens I had with no yellows, which what the color was. By the time it was my turn, I had to draw a card. Blue. I scoffed with an eyeroll. Rain giggled, putting down a yellow reverse. 

"Cosmo!" I groaned, drawing another red. The kids starting cackling, seeing me put down the red reverse. 

"I don't have a red..." He sent me a playful glare before drawing a card. Ginger put down a red card, as did Riley and Shelby. We kept the game going, Rain only drawing 2 more times before changing the color to green. I had 4 cards let, one of them being a green skip. Once it was my turn, I put down the skip and saw Rain's defeated face as he looked down at his 2 cards. 

"You're skipped." I said with a dirty smirk. 

"No way." He gaped at me with sarcastic tone. 

"Don't get snappy with me." I scolded with a giggle. He sent me a playful glare as the game continued. 

"Uno!" I shouted, Rain quickly following in suit. Ginger switched the color to yellow again. I sent her a look as I looked down at my red six. Shelby and Riley both put down some yellows cards before reaching me. I sighed, drawing a green eight. 

"Ha, I win!" Rain laughed, putting down his yellow card. 

"Oh come on!" I rolled my eyes, watching the kids start giggling. 

"I guess we just found out who the Uno master is." Rain huffed with triumph. 

"Oh surrrrre!" I scoffed, shaking my head. "I'm the best at Uno here. I just let you win." I grinned, watching Rain's brown eyes twinkle. 

"Keep telling yourself that, sweetheart." Rain sighed dramatically. 

"We're going to go out to the barn and look at Shelby's lambs again." Riley said, standing up. 

"Alright, have fun!" I smiled, sending them all a small wave as they left the room. 

"That was fun." Rain sighed, laying back on the floor. 

"Mhm." I nodded, scooting over to the bookcase and looking through the books. 

"We can do a 500 piece puzzle." I said, pulling out the old puzzle.