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发信人: oceann (dany), 信区: English
标 题: Grandpa’s Black Umbrella
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (Wed Sep 17 22:58:19 2003)
The gray clouds covered the plumbum-color sky above the mulberry trees outside
the window. The weather in this city was always wet, and the rainy season cou
ld keep tiny puddles which floated the pink petals of Oleander all summer. The
doorbell rang. I ran away from the window where I sat, to the doorway. My gra
ndpa was standing there, watched me with benignant smile. The black umbrella t
hat he held in his fingers dripped like a small water column... however, the d
ream often broke off at this time. I got away from them and then remembered, i
t was just my memory in China. I already left there, left my grandpa.
Before I left Hangzhou, I lived there with my grandparents for almost fif
teen years. During my growth, my memory did not have any shadows of my parents
. For a little child , I just knew that my father and mother lived in a very,
very faraway place, and I got accustomed to answer people’s questions, “Are
you missing your mom and dad?“ “Yes,“ said I, but actually I was not. “Why
should I say yes?“ Sometimes I wondered, and why they smiled kindly at me wh
en I said yes. I was very happy with my grandparents, especially my grandpa.
I still remember one dust of summer.The wind blew too fiercely all aftern
oon. In the classroom of my elementary school,we could hear the huge sound of
the every window dashing against window stills frequently.The sun was already
disappearing behind the thick clouds.It foretold unpropitious coming of a heav
y rainstorm. The glasses of windows were suddenly bumped by the bright light o
f a flash, and then regained its immediately. I looked through the window, and
the only thing I could see now was the leaves flying and dancing crazy in the
rain. It was almost five o’clock, the school would end soon, and I got worri
ed about how to go home. The weathercast on the TV last night already announce
d that today was a rainy day, but I was forgetting to bring an umbrella on thi
s morning.I looked around the classroom; almost everybody had brought their um
brella or raincoat. “ Maybe I can share with Yang to go home,“ I thought tha
t was a good idea. Yang was a boy who lived in the opposite side of my home. Then the bell rang, everyone begun to leave the classroom.“Hey,
“called one of my friends, “Do you want go with me? I can ride the bike to t
ake you home.“ “Er...“ I raised my head and looked to the clock that was ha
nging on the wall.“It is five ten now. I really do not want you to take your
time for me, and your home is so far from mine...I think I can go with Yang. H
e must have an umbrella.“ “Are you sure that he have an umbrella?“ “ Yes.
See you.“ “Ok. See you tomorrow.“ After I said goodbye to my friend,I turne
d round to Yang’s table and whole classroom trying to find him; unfortunately
, I found that he had gone when I talked to my friend. I looked outside the wi
ndow again, and confirmed that I really could not go home without an umbrella
under such a bad weather. “ Now I could do nothing but just wait for rain to
be over.“ I stood in the corridor of school building, and watched another old
-style school building there with the mottled green wall and many dusky windows. The school soon became complete quiet in the dark, and a dim
lamp under the stairs lighted up. I could not help my skin from shuddering wh
en the wind blew leaves with cold into the corridor. “ Now I am a lonely one
on this world, “ I thought with a strong desolate feeling. There was no teach
er in the school right now. I could not use the phone to call my grandparents;
they won’t know that I was staying in the school for no umbrella. “ You sho
uld bring an umbrella to school.“ My grandpa reminded me this morning.“Ok. I
’ll bring one.“ Oh, how foolish I was! I complained to myself in low voice,
and looked up to the sky, it never stopped raining for a minute.
Now I heard something walking on this corridor, to break this silent rain
y night. Who was there? I was suspect and scared, then a squeaky sound came fr
om the corner- he, it was a mouse...oh, wait... there really had someone walki
ng toward me. Who was there? I wondered. “ You forgot to bring your umbrella.
“ Oh, it was grandpa’s amiable voice. He stood under the dim lamp, watched m
e with benignant smile...“ It’s too cold now.Let’s hurry up.“ The black um
brella that he held in his fingers dripped like a small water column...“ Don’
t stay there. You’ll get cold.“ I looked up into his warm eyes which reflect
ed the dim light of the small lamp, there had some soft crumples beside his ey
epits that I never noticed before...The black umbrella opened in the rain like
a beautiful jellyfish floated in the water aimlessly uncertain. A chilly wind
blew some leaves up to the cloudy night sky, but I did not feel lonely again,
because I knew there was a safety world with no worry under my grandpa’s umbrella.
I dreamed about this black umbrella again and again with too many images
of my grandpa since I left China. In a later day after I left there, my grandp
a told me on the phone that he had lost his umbrella in a bank. The time passe
d swiftly like flowing water, it drifted away his black umbrella, and then him
self, and then my whole childhood.
--
where is my first love?
i am eager to grab you
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