lutteoficweek july 2017

The Rain, The Umbrella And The Sharing

chool was over and Luna couldn't wait to go to Roller. She almost ran out of the door. But of course Luna was being Luna and she forgot all of her stuff. Luckily, Nina noticed it in time. She took all of her stuff and went to the exit of the school. But as soon as she was outside, she felt water on her face. She checked to see if there was a leak. When she didn't see any, she thought that these drops of water were her sweat, because she was feeling hot from all that running. Then she realized that it was raining.

Luck was on her side today because her mom gave her an umbrella to take to school because she knew that there was a great chance of rain. She opened the umbrella started walking to Roller, she wanted to call Tino to pick her up but she knew that Ámbar would never allow that.

When she was walking down the street, she didn't realize it at first but someone was walking next to her. Of course she couldn't see if someone was close to her because she had to look at her feet to keep herself from tripping over something. The chances of that happening was way bigger now that it was raining, she could slip because of the wet ground.

She tilted her umbrella a little to the side so that she could see who was walking next to her. She didn't believe it at first, but it was Matteo. He has been silent the entire time. Luna couldn't take this silence so she said: "Chico fresa, I didn't realize you were walking next to me."

"I can believe that, you hold the umbrella so low above your head that you can't see anyone taller than you and I think you were on the moon again." He answered with a big smirk on his face.

She shook her head in disapproval: "I'm sorry that I was born small."

"That you were." He simply said.

Luna looked up at him and saw that he was completely wet from the rain and she couldn't help but feel sorry for him so she asked: "Would you like to share?" she made a gesture to make him clear that she was talking about the umbrella."

He took the umbrella from her and held it above both of them and they started walking again. It started raining harder and the wind turned so that the raindrops would blow in her face. There was so much rain that she couldn't see anything in front of her anymore so she stopped. It took Matteo a while to realize that she had stopped. When he didn't see Luna next to him anymore, he turned around. He didn't understand what was going on, why she stopped so suddenly. "Is something wrong?" he asked after a few glances back and forth. He frowned his eyebrows, confused by the situation.

After a few seconds of silence, she finally answered his question: "It's raining and you forgot your umbrella so I offered for us to share but this was a mistake because you're tall and I am not and the wind is blowing water in my face and goddammit get down here." She pointed to the ground to make her point clearer.

Matteo obeyed immediately, he had to laugh a little tough. He loved it when she talked like that. "Can you please stop making fun of my height?" she was more serious now but he couldn't stop laughing. She started to look angry after a few minutes of silent laughs heard from Matteo. When she got a little angry, he stopped.

"Fine, I stopped." He tried to smile and she smiled back right away. "I'll hold the umbrella a little lower, señorita" he bowed a little to pretend that he's her servant, she liked the joke and couldn't help but giggle.

"Okay, let's go then." They both smiled and started walking to Roller again. They joked around for the rest of the walk. Luna was happy to have bumped into Matteo today. Was it really a coincidence that he was taking the same street as Luna?