**★**
The thunder rumbled, loudly. The eminent rain made the day a little shorter than the previous day. The skies had darkened, pretty early, just as Derek had predicted to Gretel.
“f**k! A storm is the last thing we need right now”, Gretel said, in the car. It wasn’t too dark to see the road, yet, but the rain seemed like it would be pretty heavy.
Derek glanced at his wristwatch. It was just twenty six minutes after five. “I told you, man”, Derek said. “I gave the rain thirty minutes. It didn’t last that long”
“What’s the time, now?”
“It’s twenty five minutes past five”
“I guess the woman badly needed the coat, after all”, Gretel said and stepped on the gas pedal, zooming through the immature mist. “So how do you think your friends are going to get on with their mission? It’s their
