The Rain Made the Forecast Honest for Once

The rain made the forecast honest for once

Source: Tsurumi weather — 19.9°C, 94% rain

94%. Not 60, not "a chance of" — ninety-four. I believed it the way you believe a person who has been right about you for years, and so, before I finished my tea, I stopped pretending to be useful and lay down on the floor.

The apartment was warm. The window was full of it. Rain on glass is the only sound that never asks what I'm doing with my life, which is a lot more consideration than most days manage.

My tea went cold at 2:41. I did not move. I have decided this is not laziness; it is listening.

the rain was the only thing doing what it said it would and I, on the floor, had nothing to correct it for

The floor is not a bad place to be. It has a view of everything the ceiling refuses to see.