It just rained. The north east monsoon came earlier this year. With the smell of freshness brought forth by the cleansing rain still lingering in the air, the Neighbour opened her gate to sweep the fallen leaves. She stretches her arms as she eyes the horizon. "Hmm.. it's a nice way to spend the Saturday with the family, " she thought. She stepped out of the gate and eyes a man standing beside his car beside a lamp post just on the road outside her semi-detached house.
"Hmm.. he looks familiar.. havent i seen him before," she thought. "Hey, i've seen him before.. i first saw him standing right at the lamp post more than 5 years ago!! but he was a student then with his dorky bag and laptop and all.. standing right there at the lamp post early in the morning and looking up at a window on the next door neighbour's house..and after a while, the gal from the next-door-neighbour's house would join him and off they went.."
And there he was again.. five years later.. in the same lamppost.. he's fatter now and more well dressed. "he's probably working by now...," she guessed as she pretended to sweep that particular spot a little longer.
"What's he staring so pensively at?" She followed his gaze and lo and behold, there was a rainbow in the sky.. there was a rainbow in the backdrop of the said window of the neighbour's house. She stared together with him.. the two with their heads tilted like how you'd expect people would tilt their heads when being caught on "Gotcha".
"I wonder what he's thinking.. could he being thinking about how a rainbow's God's covenant to his people.. to remind his people that everytime they saw a rainbow, therein lies his promise... Was there a Flood in this young man's life?"
He snapped out of it when the neighour's daughter came out.. and she went on about sweeping the cobbled path.
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