She wasn’t dancing gracefully. She was dancing brokenly. Her arms wrapped around herself as if Leo were still there. She spun until her hair was plastered to her cheeks and her tears mixed so completely with the raindrops that she could no longer tell them apart.
But today, the sky broke open.
Elara walked home slowly, soaked to the bone, but warm. She left the curtains open that night. And the next morning, when the sun rose clean and bright, she noticed that the calendar on her wall had finally turned to a new month all by itself. rain quotes in english