TWENTY TWO

That afternoon the sky was gray and cloudy. Raindrops began to fall slowly over the cold Chicago soil. Caroline, the woman stared at the raindrops that started to wet her yard with a cloudy face because this afternoon she couldn't go out with Aleyna according to her plan this afternoon. Even though this is a good opportunity, where she happens to not be getting many clients and she is also free from the troublemaker-annoying Zillion Malloy. But maybe God hasn't allowed her to go out and have fun, so this afternoon she can only spend time at home with Aleyna while cooking mushroom soup to make her beautiful kitchen dirty because of Aleyna's act.

"Mommy, let's play in the rain outside."

Suddenly Aleyna appeared beside her in a raincoat with a green frog image on it wrapped around her tiny body. Caroline who saw that could only put her hands on her hips while preparing to scold Aleyna to immediately take off her raincoat. But before her m