May stares outside the window, observes the raindrops that slowly running down the glass. She is inside the blanket on his room, a mug of hot chocolate is warming her hand. She sighs happily. Nothing better than warm and comfy bed when the rain is coming. Her mom is probably on her room too, enjoying the k-dramas that she missed on the other day. May never understand why her mother loves drama. She can’t stand the sappy scene; she prefers horror instead. And May’s mom never understand why her daughter loves horror movies. She always tell May to close his room whenever she watches those scary movies; she can’t stand those scary sound effects. 908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8aq5aAU3U
Suddenly May hears a laugh outside. Here it comes, she thinks. An unfamiliar voice that will always heard by the rain. It’s a boy voice, May assumes the age is pretty much the same with her. Once she asked her mother; who’s living beside their house? She said it’s a normal family like them, one mother, one father, and one little boy. But May never sees any other child like her except Kara (the one living in front of May’s house) and Lucas (the one living beside Kara’s house). 908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu9n8XdIUKY
Kara is not liking the rain, May thinks. She chuckles. If Lucas finds out about this, he will drag Kara out from her house when rain comes and make her all wet. It will be fun, if they can play in the rain together. May does not hate the rain nor does she like it. She prefers staying in bed like this, but she will come if someone asks her to play in the rain. As long as there’s a company, she thinks.908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsDCFnP1roz
May’s train of thought is distracted by another laughs. It’s been raining on her city lately, so the laugh is heard almost every afternoon. The strange thing is, she never hear the laughs when it’s not raining. 908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcSVcdytDuU
Soon she feels herself leave her bed and goes to the front door. She opens it widely, and the cool air breeze right on her face, leaving the tiny drops of water on her face. May hesitates for a moment, but she steps outside anyway. She doesn't bother to wear a pair of slipper, she doesn't want to slips herself.908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl47uC0bOb6
Her front garden is not too large, a not-too-high walls separate it from the neighbor’s garden. As soon as May steps outside, she feels the water walk down her body, slip into her black shirt. She walks to her left, where the laugh is heard. The wall is a little bit too high for May, so she stands on her toes when she tries to peek at her neighbor’s garden.908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH9KDEPLpcQ
It’s a boy, probably same age as May, spreads his arms and faces the sky with an amused expression. May never see someone looking at the sky like that, this boy is surely weird. May watches the boy runs to the middle of his garden and stares down to his hands. Then, he grins; the boy smiles to his hands so wide as if his hands is the funniest thing ever. The boy scans his bare foot and looks up to the sky again, shakes his head with a laugh.908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJgiO4OBwtD
Then the boy realizes May’s stare and surprises. May, who is being caught, just smiles and waves her hand because running away is just not her style. The boy glances to his own front door for a while before walks to May’s direction.908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWpmXyFmNJL
“Hi!” The boy greets.908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFNgh3U0ykK
“Um, hi,” May replies. She just simply wants to know the owner of the laughs, she is not planning to talk to anyone.908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5DOY0a70Xa
“What are you doing?” the other boy asks, still grinning as wide as before.908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ZQabxrHdY
“Eer, nothing?” May grins shyly, she doesn’t want to admit that she just stalk someone. “I heard your laughter earlier, so I just come out to check,”908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAnPBaXNQdX
“I never go outside of my house, that’s why you never see me around.” The boy shrugs. “I’m Eli! What’s your name?”
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May learns that Eli is never leaving his house for twelve years of his life on the second time of their meeting. May’s also learns that Eli’s older brother was running away from their house plenty years ago so his mother became over protective to Eli. He is not attending the public school, his mom says homeschooling is better. And the fact that his father is already passed away.908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH10VGHJGcv
“It’s not like I haven’t go outside for my entire life, I thought my mom ever brought me to the mall a few years ago, before my brother is gone,” Eli says. They are on their own front garden; May is tip-toeing on her foot while Eli rests his hand on the wall. 908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtflbGm3wCe
“But, don’t you feel lonely sometimes?”908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK9MUjJ2z48
Eli shrugs his shoulders. “I don’t know. I never been in a crowd before and I never feel alone either. I have books on my room, and the internet,” he smiles. 908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIgbuWrj2Zr
May thinks about Kara and Lucas, who will always nags at her whenever they are bored. They are on the different state with Eli; Kara loves the crowd and Lucas himself is naturally born with an ability to attract people’s attention. May doubts if she ever sees them alone.908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM5jMqcrJL7
“Where is your brother?” May asks.908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqBRkxEd7m5
“He is somewhere on the city, I think,” Eli stretches his arms. “He ran away because mom didn't approve his love for music.”908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡspcCvLMvr4
May surprises. She herself loves to sing. Her mom never forbid her to do anything she likes, as long as it’s safe. She doesn’t know a person who don’t like music is actually exist. 908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL3qxE6Zm1X
“I like his songs, though. It’s hip hop, if I’m not mistaken,”908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ95Yp9GCceC
“How do you know your brother’s song?”908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ57DLwOLbue
“I found a couple of old mix tape on Peter’s room last year. I don’t know how he managed to record those songs, but I listen to it anyway. And those are very good.”908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs7sRDOnvpj
Eli faces the sky again, like always he does, and inhales the familiar scent of the rain. His brown hair is sticking to his face’s side, but he doesn’t mind much. He wears a blue colored t-shirt today, and May is matching her shirt with Eli’s. Both of them are drenched in rain, but none of them are really paying attention to it.908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBL27litzJy
“Why I never hear you when it’s not raining?” May speaks up. It’s always a question that she really want to ask the older, but she fears that the question may be a sensitive matter for Eli. So she decides to ask when they get closer by the time. 908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyXbAG0VA7s
Eli doesn’t give her a reply instantly. Instead, he stares down to his wet hands like May saw him two days ago. May feels himself panicking.908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVJjWWe1mnr
“You don’t have to answer it, I’m sorry…-“908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd15PpENJxP
Eli stops him with a quick peck on May’s lips. He chuckles because of the younger’s expression. 908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY4W1vnlT4Q
“Eli, what the hell…”908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNhBVaRLq3n
“Because I love it,” Eli closes his eyes. He opens his fingers so he can feel the cold air through his hand. “I love how my hand become so white and cute, look,” Eli shows May his hand. 908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRBZ1SNyJSR
“It is cute.” May admits. “You are cute.”908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwi2VDkdMd2
“Thank you,” Eli smiles. “I just love the feeling of water dripping on my body, how they melt into my skin, and how they are actually calmed my mind. It’s like the rain is a representative for my sadness, because I will never show my mom my sad face. I love her, I don’t want to make her sad because of me.”908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGPWyKLHIAz
Eli touches the droplets on May’s nose, takes the younger hand and intertwine their fingers together.908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5tPJgGHAwD
“I enjoy the sound of rain as much as I like Peter’s songs. And also because,” Eli continues. “I can’t go outside when it’s not raining. My mom is on work and she locks me in the house.”
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It is not raining for a few days now. May wonders how if the rain is never come and let the earth dry. She misses the rain so much. She checks the weather news almost every day, squeals when the short haired woman informs that the greyish cloud will come soon and ready to moisten the world.908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuSk3zxkwWC
Kara is sort of curious every time May is mumbling about the clouds outside the class. She hears something like ‘a-rage-to-run-back-home’ or something. Lucas is always noticing when May spaces out to the thick clouds outside the class. They sign a stare to each other and agree to interrogate May right after school.
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“What?”908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMyek914yTf
“Because she doesn’t go to work when it’s raining. She always come home right when the rain is coming. I don’t know why. But the reason why she let me out when it’s raining is because she can watch me by herself, behind that blurred glass.”908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdbTf5o55vs
“So, she knows that you talk to me right now?”908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn1Ih5jdhf7
Eli shakes his head. “You are the first secret that I hide from my mother.”
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“So, there’s a lot of substance containing on a single drop of rain… Yes, May?”908Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV6fKmwFiri
May clears up his throat before he speaks to the teacher. The entire class stare at her. “Is it possible to make the rain falls every day, ma’am?”
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