#mentioned: Tsueso Yuido

[charlies-storybook]

Dancing In Sunshowers

It was a sunny summer day, specifically the 24th of June, Nailu’s birthday, and all of her friends were gathered in her home to celebrate it. Then suddenly rain started to cool the heat of the day. 

The first one to notice was Penny. “Ooo! What a nice coincidence! Sunshowers!” She smiled widely. “We should dance in them!” 

Nailu, the birthday girl, refused. She shook her head. “Niet! It’s slepoy dhezd’!” Nailu glared out of the window. “Dancing in the sunshowers! What a poor idea.” 

Penny didn’t lose her smile. “Oh? Is that what you call it in Russia? That’s cute! We all should share our stories then!” Penny clapped her hands together. “I would start but we don’t have any term for it in Spain.” Penny looked sad for a brief moment before inspecting the room for someone to start. 

Nina, Penny’s fianceé took the word. “I’ll be quick... since I’m American, it’s simply called sunshowers...” 

“Oh yeah.” Sophia cut in. “We as well, I’m British.” 

“I’ll take the word for myself and the other Japanese people, hm?” Enso started next and winked at Tsu, Gengo, and Destiny. “In Japan we call it kitsune no yomeiri-”

Gengo rolled his eyes and interrupted them. “The fox’s wedding.”

Enso shot daggers at him with their glare. “Ehm, well, yes, arigato, I knew that myself...” 

“At last, I’m British,” Teresa cut in between Enso and Gengo before they could start a fight, “but my father is German, so, we don’t really have one word for it, every country has its’ own term... But all of them have something to do with hell and the devil.”

In the meantime when the last story was told, the rain had stopped and the friend group could carry on with their celebration. 

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