NOTE: Words actually in English are written like this. They are speaking in Japanese.

Never ever.

"Yomi?"

"Yeah Tomo?" replied her friend, sitting next to her under a blossom tree. The petals had just started to come out, and the warm spring air was making them both sleepy.

"What the hell did that english song Yukari was singing mean? That `Drip drip drop April showers` thing?"

Yomi gave this due thought, which took a while in her state.

"Well, April is English for the month we are in now right?"

"Is it?"

"Tomo, do you ever listen in English class?"

"Nope! That's your job!"

Work it out!

Yomi pinched the edge of her nose hard and shook her head.

"Tomo, what I am going to do with you?"

"I dunno."

"I know you don't know idiot! That's why I need to work it out because you aren't going to!"

"Hahaha? You, work it out! Not likely! Idiot! Idiot! Idiot!"

"Just...shut up."

"Idiot! Idiot!"

"Tomo...."

"Okay, I'll shut up."

Yomi breathed a sigh of relief and leaned back on the grass.
"Finally..."

"If you work out what the hell an April shower is."

"Knew it wouldn't be that easy."

A shower

Sighing, Yomi pulled her English translation dictionary out of her bag and began flipping through the pages.

"A shower is...a shower."

"You serious? A shower is a shower?"

"That's what it says." She said, shutting the book and putting it back in the leather schoolbag.

"Man, that doesn't make sense at all..."

Yomi looked over at Tomo sharply, in case she was going to show yet more misunderstandings of say, her own language.

"I mean, is an April shower a shower that only happens in April now? Do the English only have it in April? Man they are unclean."

"Don't be like that Tomo. It's probably just a saying, like having a cat's tongue or something. Shower probably has some slang meaning in English."

"That's a dumb explanation Yomi. I prefer mine!"

"Yeah, you would."

"Blegh, Yomi's mean. Mean mean mean....ooh!"

"What the hell is it now Tomo?"

"It's raining." Said Tomo, as a second drop of water ran through the tree leaves and landed on her head next to the first.

"So it is."

Beautiful.

Calling it rain would be an overstatement. It was a fine drizzle, that lasted only for a few minutes, before it hurtled onwards, carried by a brief but sudden gust of wind. Still, it was enough to Yomi want to leave for shelter, an idea not made easier by her friend's refusal to move.

"Come on Tomo! My glasses are getting soaked, I can barely see."

"Why?"

"Damnit Tomo, because it's raining!"

"Why is that a reason to leave?"

"Because...oh."

Yomi followed where Tomo's finger was pointing, through a gap in the tree branches surrounded by pink flowers, their colours magnified by the droplets of water left by the rain. All seemed much brighter: the leaves were a far more vivid green than she remembered, and the flowers looked like someone had spilt pastel colours over the tree. Beyond that, a great rainbow arched its way through the sky, contrasting with the blue of the air and the white of the clouds. The sight of it was enough to make Yomi's breath catch in her throat. She lowered the hand that was wiping away the water from her glasses. The rain had stopped now, moved on by the wind.

"It's beautiful."

"Ain't it though?"

"Tomo?"

"Yeah Yomi?"

"Let's stay. Just a while long."

"Yeah, let's."