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. 846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYzK1h8YheM
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). 846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡONsGfppZPy
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.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjK4ETscGdy
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. 846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ92sSKq1TbN
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.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKyqcAiBxSz
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.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtbkRBRIIdM
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.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpdbUOHYMsa
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.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQoLcjQIKVy
“Hi!” The boy greets.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn1bVuo50nl
“Um, hi,” May replies. She just simply wants to know the owner of the laughs, she is not planning to talk to anyone.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6zliYNKiLM
“What are you doing?” the other boy asks, still grinning as wide as before.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhUPkP2v1Qw
“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,”846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQMkyRu8DhJ
“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.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9lixJs8vP5
“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. 846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNoF05HrjjA
“But, don’t you feel lonely sometimes?”846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdoA1LN8Vhu
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. 846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUpCiP9sx4y
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.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSfoMIYWlxO
“Where is your brother?” May asks.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOy9ziSai7S
“He is somewhere on the city, I think,” Eli stretches his arms. “He ran away because mom didn't approve his love for music.”846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5HM5RmsrwP
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. 846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt3kzG59IW3
“I like his songs, though. It’s hip hop, if I’m not mistaken,”846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS8amqt52bQ
“How do you know your brother’s song?”846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt8znSfXveS
“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.”846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRpidZhtm40
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.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiq4LahdD5A
“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. 846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8rq8fSocoW
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.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2iy3Gv7wAp
“You don’t have to answer it, I’m sorry…-“846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0sb8ULoYJj
Eli stops him with a quick peck on May’s lips. He chuckles because of the younger’s expression. 846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDHEagB4oL
“Eli, what the hell…”846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7a2cHX9P2l
“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. 846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnXGSKvjHSN
“It is cute.” May admits. “You are cute.”846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQXdzKqTHcP
“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.”846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡobIjWSQKl4
Eli touches the droplets on May’s nose, takes the younger hand and intertwine their fingers together.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA0bWaIWB5D
“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.846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVd6HYyrGAd
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?”846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkqyP2Vl205
“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.”846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQZTLznszKP
“So, she knows that you talk to me right now?”846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxYSDXb5jly
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?”846Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQywRWBx43U
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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