Blue midnight skies ripple with grey drops of heavy rain. “It’s pouring, it’s raining…” my mom sang as we drove home from school. It had been raining all day and all I could think about was how I hated to be cold and wet.
As we pulled into the driveway my mom suggested “Bella we should play a game of dancing and singing in the rain. Wouldn't that be fun?”, but I pouted and said “not today, the rain will come again another day!”.
"My little girl with the button nose. We should smile and dance for you only live once and when the last drop of rain falls we will have missed our chance.” But I didn't listen. I didn't want to get wet in the rain and I went inside to snuggle up with a book.
While reading a favorite book from the collection of Goose Bumps I heard the thundering of laughter. Wondering who it could be, I walked to the window.
There I saw my mom and dad playing in the rain! “How silly?”, I thought. “Why would grown ups want to dance in the rain?”. Then suddenly the loud noise of pitter patter rain drops stopped and the midnight sky became blue as day. And I wondered had my mom been right? Did I miss my chance to sing and dance? So I ran outside magically thinking the rain would start again when it saw me prepared to sing and dance, but it didn't and my face fell flushed with disappointment.
“Bella our daughter with the button nose, why do you frown?”.
“Don’t you see?”, I shouted. “The last drop of rain has hit the ground! And I have missed my chance!”
“Your chance to what?”, said dad.
“To sing and dance with you in the rain!”
My mom then smiled and said “The last drop of rain has come and gone, but the rain will come again another day just as you said”.
“When? Will it come again soon?”
My parents then smiled and my mom said, “The rain will come again and when it does you must not forget that we live only once so this is our chance to sing and dance."
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