When I was small, I loved to listen to the rain's singing. Whenever its song is fortimisso, you can hear the sound of bubbles popping. Not just one, but millions and millions of them, all popping one after another. My mother usually tell me it's "raining bubbles". Here is a tale she would tell us when whenever we listen to the rain's song in the evening.
Once upon a time, there is a princess. Innocent like white puffy clouds in the sky, she played with wind and moon all day. She especially loved singing with rain. Everyone in the weather kingdom would smile whenever they saw the bubble princess and rain playing together, and even gale had exclaimed: "They are such a natural couple!"
The bubble princess loved the forgetful rain. They seem to forget about their differences when they're together, and rain sometimes even forget to bring rain down the world because he was too busy playing with the bubble princess, despite getting scolded by his parents, thunderstorm and lightning. Deep down, rain knew that he and the bubble princess cannot stay forever together, because a good weather princess cannot possibly marry a bad weather prince. He is saddened by this fact, although he never stopped smiling to the princess.
"Does it really matter if you're a good weather princess? Or if you're a bad weather prince? Is love hindered by those trifle matters?" He asked his parents.
They laughed at his naivety and replied:
"Yes, yes it does my child. We are part of the royal family. How could you possibly think of marrying that little bubble princess? Do you know how easy one can break her apart?"
"I promise I'll take care of her and make sure no one will break her" The young prince replied defiantly.
"Even so, she will break apart in your hands. Rain, why don't you look at your brother hail? He married with blizzard, why don't you do the same and marry with the-cold-wind-princess? I'm sure you two'll make a great couple"
Rain shook his head: "The-cold-wind-princess does not like me, and I do not like her either. I only like the bubble princess."
Thunderstorm sighed: "You'll understand it when you grow up, my son. Nothing can stay forever, even us citizens of the weather city."
But when Rain grew up, he still have not found anyone else that would make him feel whole the way the bubble princess did. The bubble princess insisted on staying with rain, despite numerous proposals from the mayor rainbow. "He's a fat ugly multicolor person", she would say, and he would laugh at it.
Hail, rain's brother, decided that he will not let such a weak princess stop his younger brother on the path to greatness. My younger brother shall become someone feared by those puny humans, he thought. One day, when rain is out doing his job, hail disguised as rain, and went to tell the bubble princess that he has already accepted the-cold-wind princess's proposal, and that she should go and have fun with the good weather people, and never talk to him again.
The bubble princess did not believed it. She thought that rain was drunk or something. She decided to wait until rain came back and talked to her.
But rain never came back, for he had found love with the snow princess. The bubble princess waited and waited and waited. Winter came, and the cold rain picked like needles and broke her bubbles. It was then that the bubble princess finally understood that rain had abandoned her.
From then, the bubble princess lost what humans would refer to as "emotions". She does not laugh, nor cry. She simply cried whenever she thought about rain, her tears mingling in with the rain.
