Will You Let Me?

I knocked lightly on the rainy window. The odd boy who was walking in the rain stopped and turned to me.

I signalled for him to walk over. He looked at me skeptically but finally made his way to the window by my front door.

I careful my set my hand against the thing later of glass that was separating me from another person my age.

He put his hand against the glass right were mine would be if there was no glass at all.

"Father!" I called. "Yes child?" He called back from the kitchen.

"Just this once... Will you let me go outside?"