Rainy Day
Jason Zhang
If you like something, like calorie-free pizza and you eat it all the time, it isn’t as special
as if you ate it once a month. For California, if you like rain, it rains about once every three
months. But if you lived in Seattle, where it rains almost every day, you would be used to rain,
and maybe even detest it. Well, because Santiago Hills is in California, the students there love
rain. When it’s a rainy day, they get to play on the iPod touches and the board games and stuff.
And some random day in April, it started to rain. At first, there was a light drizzle
outside. Next, the rain increased, and there was a tapping sound on the roof of the portable.
“YAY,” cried Aniket, “there’s no outdoor recess today!” Aniket hated outdoor recess.
There were a couple of groans and a couple of cheers. The rain started to intensify, and the
tapping sound on the roof turned into a constant hum as if someone was brushing the top of the
portable with a giant paint brush.
Whenever it rains at Santiago Hills, there are always repeating effects. Next to the water
fountain outside is a drain pipe. When it rains, the water that falls on the roof is expelled from
these drains. When it rains cats and dogs, the old man snores, the streets are filled with a feline
versus canine brawl, people are mauled by rabid cats and mad dogs, and sewage is spewed out of
the pipes along with water.
Also, in front of Ms. Babish’s class was a 30 foot deep ditch that floods when it rains at
any degree. It was made when the custodians attempted to level out the ground but
miscalculated and created a ditch. If it sprinkles for one second, the ditch fills up with
rainwater. If there’s a hurricane for three days, the ditch becomes a lake, and you can’t step
anywhere without getting your shoes wet.
Now, two old men were snoring, cats were replaced by tigers and dogs were replaced by
wolves. It was raining tigers and wolves. Sewage was coughed up by the pipes, and Ms. Babish’s
ditch became a lake. Hail the size of Smart Cars rained down on the school, burning up through
the atmosphere and turning into meteors. Don’t ask me how they burned without melting.
BOOM! PFOO! SPLASH! A meteor vaporized Ms. Babish’s lake. BOOM! A meteor landed
on the playground. BOOM! A meteor landed on Alex. I don’t know what he was doing outside.
“Yes!” shouted Iris.
BOOM! A meteor landed on the field. SPLAT SPLAT BOOM SPLAT SPLAT BOOM
SPLAT SPLAT BOOM SPLAT SPLAT BOOM SPLAT SPLAT BOOM SPLAT SPLAT BOOM
SPLAT SPLAT BOOM SPLAT SPLAT BOOM! A hail airplane flew overhead and dropped hail
bombs and shot hail cannons.
Now the rain wasn’t falling in rain drops. It was falling in waves. A layer of rain landed
on the school, and in a few seconds another layer of rain devastated the campus. Lightning and
thunder reined the skies, but the children were used to it because of the corner bookshelf, which
was the only place on Earth with indoor weather. Lightning struck the hail airplane, and the
plane, burning, crash-landed into the basketball court, and sent small pieces of hail flying
everywhere.
80 mph winds and tornadoes caused panic and pandemonium as cars, monkey bars, and
cows flew through the air (you can’t have a good tornado without cows in it, right?).
“Yeah!” shouted Aniket. “There’s definitely no outdoor recess!”
“Uh, Aniket?” asked Mehar. “Did you realize there are tornadoes, tigers, wolves, meteors,
and a lake outside?
“What la- Oh,” stated Aniket.
Now the rainwater was three feet high, and water was seeping through the doorway.
Meteors collided with the classroom, and hail bombers governed the skies. Cracks appeared in
the classroom walls on impact of crashing hail bombers, hail bombs, hail meteors, and lightning.
The walls crumbled, and the foundation of the classroom collapsed like a model Eiffel Tower
made of crumbs.
“EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF!” hollered Jordan over the wind as he climbed into his
paper airplane, started the ignition, and found himself inside a mess of soggy paper. “Darn it!”
Some others were luckier. Jason opened his umbrella and flipped it upside down. It
floated! He climbed inside like a raft, and managed to escape the perilous flood and fury of the
wrathful rain. Amrit attached a rope to his flash drive and spun it around like a helicopter. He
lifted higher, and higher, and eventually was able to control his motion. Anthony took an
umbrella, unfolded it, and jumped into the air. The wind raised him high above the air like Marry
Poppins. Alex used the computer monitor as a surfboard, and Kurt, Matthew, and Charles
climbed into the bookshelf and used it as a life raft. Aniket used the force and created a personal
bubble for himself.
But, the lucky turned unlucky. Jason’s metal umbrella was shocked by lightning, and
sunk into the murky depths of the flood.
“Amrit! Watch out!” screamed Anthony in warning. A downed hail airplane was
careening at Amrit’s flash drive propeller. Amrit attempted to maneuver around the hail plane,
but the airplane rammed into him at full force, driving him toward the waters of the flood.
“NOOOOO!” cried Anthony, as his umbrella was ripped by the ferocious rain and was
sucked into the tornado like that pesky piece of lint in front of a vacuum cleaner. Alex’s
computer monitor surfboard collided head-on with Amrit’s spinning flash drive rope, which
flew out of his hand and was still spinning. It caught around Alex’s legs, and he was tied up and
couldn’t move. Without control, he was then inhaled into Charybdis’ whirlpool, which
happened to be under the basketball court.
“AAAAAAHHH!” shouted Kurt, Matthew, and Charles simultaneously as a flying cow
wrecked their life raft. Aniket began to run out of energy, and he collapsed in exhaustion. His
force field bubble faded away, encompassing him in a dark vortex of water.