Umbrella

Sometimes you just feel that you need to do something, before you even knew what it is, and today was one of those days, when I opened my eyes in the morning ... I felt it something will happen; something will differ.

This feeling kept nagging me at the back of my head, while I was getting ready to go to work, I wore my coat heading for the doorway, and then I saw it, my umbrella hanging there beside the door ... I never was a weather person or even used this umbrella before ... however, today indeed was cloudy with the sun rays hardly escaping through the clouds, and before I knew, I was walking in the streets of London with the umbrella in my hand.

The clouds get thicker as I walk and my vision gets a little foggy ... Suddenly a lighting, thunder lit up the sky with its sound roaring across the air, while the gates of the skies open up letting the raindrops into the air, and for some reason, I just stood there looking at the falling rain from the skies closing my eyes as I feel a mystic emotion of peace growing inside me.

Nevertheless, it didn't last as I heard a crying voice in the air, at first I thought it came from the sky before I realize that it was from a dark alley beside me so I looked at it with strange fear in me and with no control, I began to walk into the alley while it gets more foggy and unclear to, see and the rain sounds getting louder as it hits the streets.

Then I saw her with the sound of roaring thunder merging with her long cries, a little girl there, sitting beside a trash can with a worn-out clothes and a dark long hair covering her face, I got scared at first; however, my legs didn't stop moving towards her like an unknown force pushing me to into her a force called destiny.

She raised her head as she felt me standing there in front of her, looking at me with her crystal blue eyes with tears sliding down her cheeks, it took a moment as both of us just kept staring at each other as the time pass by ... a silent story told through the air, a story about hers ... how she got abandoned ... what hardships she struggled through ... the horrors she faced until now.

I felt her suffering surging through my heart with her tiny white face carving its marks inside me, and my tears just fall from my eyes mixing with the rain drops on my face ... wishing that I had the power to change this world for the happiness of this girl.

With a smile on my face as I opened the umbrella and without words, I gave it to her ... For a moment, she hesitated, not believing if this is true or not, but as the rainy storm raged on, she took the umbrella to shield herself, she wanted to thank me, but her voice was gone from the crying, and I didn't wait for her thanks as I was late at work, so I began to walk away outside the alley feeling like I am leaving a part of me behind with her.

As suddenly as it began the storm stopped the moment I walked out of the alley with the sun rays finally succeeded in passing through the clouds giving a sweet warmth inside one's soul ... I looked back to her, and she was there standing one her tiny feet looking at me with the umbrella shielding her, and then I saw it the smile of hope crossing her tiny lips, with her smile I felt somehow that even an umbrella can change the world.

THE END