The sky was clear as it rained.

It wasn’t going to change anytime soon.

Summer could be like that.

Taylor walked down the street.

He carried his umbrella, yet he was soaked.

Water dripped from his black hair into his eyes as he passed the town library. He imagined the lion statues shaking their manes and trying to catch the drizzle in their gaping jaws.

This made his lips turn in a little smile.

Traffic In The Sky by JJ lazily flowed from Taylor’s headphones.

The melodies streamed from them in colors of blue, green, and yellow. They mixed and mingled with rain as they slow danced around him.

As Taylor approached a stoplight he waited for the walk sign to blink. He tilted his head back and allowed the cold sweet drops of rain roll down his face erasing the heat of the last two months.

As the chorus played Taylor mouthed the words as the world moved around him.

A tap at his shoulder.

Pulling the cord to his headphone the sound of rain slapping the pavement met his ears.

Blue eyes grinned up at him.

“Hi.”

“Um hi.”

She was drenched too. She looked cold, but her smile was warm.

“Have you ever wondered how it feels to be the rain?”

Taylor thought about it watching the sky fall without a care. Without reserve.

“I think it would feel alive.”

The girl’s smile widened.

“I think so too.”

She tilted her head back as Taylor had.

He smiled as he watched her gentle deep breaths healed something for her.

He knew

The way only one who’d been healed can.

The walk sign illuminated indicating it was time to move on.

Taylor paused.

His brown and her blue asked an unsaid question.

He grinned and made room for her under his umbrella.

She returned the look and joined him.

Together they moved on.

As they walked away weaving through the traffic in the sky, laughter harmonized with the new verse.

Taylor smirked as his voice became distant.

“By the way…

What’s your name?”

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