Leaves rose and fell along their path, and they cycled their afternoon away. The sky was colored in a reddish orange shade. It looked like autumn even though its only summer.
“The sky is so big!” jimmy exclaimed, and the grin spread wide across his face.
“Yes the sky is very very big. Then got a lot of clouds, those puffy white things up there.” Jennifer found her grin too.
“I know those candy floss are made from the clouds. The candy floss man catch the clouds and then cut up the clouds and make candy floss from it right? Thats what my daddy told me.” Jimmy gazed at the puffy floss.
“No loh, that’s not how its made, candy floss is not made that way.”
Jimmy felt a prick of hurt. “really meh? Orh, then today in school I learnt that there is something called water cycle. The water from…”
“Oh, the water cycle, I know also!” Jennifer interrupted. “water from everywhere around us is always floating up to the skies, and then it forms small clouds, then the small clouds combine to big clouds, then big puffy white clouds turn into black angry clouds. They look so evil.”
“Why didn’t my teacher teach me that?” puzzled entered.
“Don’t know? Maybe she also don’t know?” Jennifer’s grin widens “I am just so smart! No one is smarter than me. Where are we going ah?”
“No loh, I am smart as well right? ...Am I?” his puzzlement turned into a sense of inferiority.
“I think so. I hope you are. If not later rain you don’t know what to do, then I really not pretty anymore. Wet wet, eeyer...”
The trees always look so comforting and home like. Yet jimmy’s sense of inferiority grew to hurt and jealousy. The leaves changed color, from warm green into amber red.
“Why you so quiet?”
“I think I am stupid.”
The words now couldn’t slip out, maybe there weren’t any words. And they cycled down the road listening to the wheels turn round and produce a repetitive monotonous sound.