Cloudboy part 2

One day when I was standing and watching out of the window I heard sobbing. As I knew that I couldn’t be wrong, I climbed to the roof. There I found Cloudboy, who was sitting on the edge of his cloud and was sobbing badly. „ What’s wrong? “ I asked him. Without saying anything he extended a hand in which was a little ladybug. Confused I watched him and the ladybug. Finally he started to talk. “Little ladybug is here by herself. I found her at a leaf of my flower. She is definitely lost and can’t find a way home.” It was hard to understand the end of the sentence, because he was crying too badly. I sighed. No matter how well you think you know him, he can always surprise you. Then I said, “Ok take your stuff. Let’s go and find the ladybug’s family.” “ Are we really going on an adventure” he asked glad and hopefully. I answered roughly: ”No! No adventures. We are just going to take Ladybug home and come back home.” But he didn’t listen to the last things I said. He was already hopping to his house. I sighed and climbed down from the roof. I only was in the house for 5 minutes, when Cloudboy was already behind me. At first sight I almost burst out into laughter. He was wearing the biggest backpack I have ever seen. It was almost twice his size. “Where are you going like this? Are you planning to move somewhere?” I grinned. Cloudboy took offence: ” Those things are needed for everything that might happen.” “If you say so.” I raised my shoulders.

So we left. Couldboy looked at everything with big eyes. From his cloud he could see far, but he didn’t know life on Earth very well. With astonishment he looked at the colourful flowers, which were very different from the flowers on his cloud. He was surprised about the size of everything. From his cloud everything seemed to be so small, but now no so small anymore. So he had lots of things to look at and to remember. Suddenly a little bird jumped in front of us. Cloudboy stopped squat down in front of the bird with his eyes wide open. “Who are you?” he asked. The bird answered” I am Parus” “you have such a beautiful yellow coat.” Parus went fluffy of pride.” Sure I have a beautiful coat. Mine is the most beautiful of all.” He kept hopping in front of Cloudboy, suddenly he stopped:” who are you anyway? I know her. She is one of the Big People. But you are of weird. Look a little bit like a dwarf.. You don’t look similar to her nor the Children” Cloudboy took offence:” I am no dwarf. I am Cloudboy and we are on the way to find Ladybug’s family.” And he stretched his arm and hand in which was an unhappy ladybug.” A ladybug. No I don’t know anything about ladybugs. I don’t eat them. But if I should see one, I’ll let you know.” Said Parus, waved his wings and flied away.

Cloudboy sighed and rose up as good and as bad as his backpack allowed him and we moved on. Soon we reached the end of the lane. In front of us there were fields of grass. Cloudboy didn’t say a word while walking. Suddenly we saw a great cloud of dust coming towards us. As we got scared, we stood in the middle of the road. The cloud of dust came closer and closer until it was in front of us. From inside the cloud appeared a Big Truck. He said: “Go away from the road, it isn’t a place for playing.” “We are sorry” said Cloudboy, “We are searching for ladybug’s family. Maybe you could tell us where to find them?” asked Cloudboy with hope in his voice. “Ladybug?” asked Truck surprised. If he would have had eyebrows, then he would have raised them but he didn’t had them. “What is it?” he continued his question. Cloudboy started to explain: Ladybug is a beautiful little insect who has small black spots on her back. Big Truck fell into his mind. After a while he started to speak: “I know roads that lead to different ways, I know fields and towns, but I have never heard about a ladybug. Cloudboy sighed and Big Truck continued his journey.

Finally we reached the big forest and stood there thinking where we should go next. Cloudboy was really unhappy by that time. He was really worried about Ladybug. He sat on a big rock and opened his hand. Ladybug who was tired of always being there straightened her wings and flied away. Cloudboy couldn't react quickly enough, but then he jumped up and shouted: “Where are you going, you will get more lost!” Do you think she listened to him? Of course not. So what else could we do than going back home. We had quietly walked a little while when Cloudboy shouted:” Look!” He sneaked to the side of the road, squat down and started to clap his hands happily. So I thought that I had to go to see what was there. I bowed down and saw two Ladybugs crawling there. Cloudboy whispered: “This is the same Ladybug. And look she has found her mother!” “Sure I guess that’s the same” I told him. Because actually I wanted to get back home already. I was surprised that he could recognize mother and daughter in those two. To be honest I don’t know how to recognize which is male and which is female. But it didn’t matter. What matters was that Couldboy was so happy now. On that day I saw that he could be so caring. The whole way home he was hopping. I even needed sunglasses, because his smile was so bright.

When we got back home he went back straight to his cloud. I on the other hand didn’t even want to do anything so I lied down in front of the TV. It was quite dark outside already when Cloudboy suddenly was in front of me holding something behind him. “Look what I made” he said and he took a picture on which two Ladybugs were flying towards the sun. He gave it to me and left without saying anything. In his usual way, through the open window. One day I have to solve the mystery and ask how he can get from my window to his cloud. I stood up from the couch and went to the window. I saw a beautiful sight there. It was sunset, and I could almost see two Ladybugs flying.

“Yes” I said. It was a nice day.

part 1

Do you think it’s impossible to live on a cloud? If you say it is, then it’s the wrong answer, actually it is possible. In fact I know one person who lives there. I have one really good friend who lives on a cloud above my house. He likes being mysterious so usually he doesn’t show himself to other people (it’s more like other people don’t see him). I call him Cloudboy. I don’t know if he has any other names, at least he hasn’t told me them, also he likes me calling him like this. It would be also weird to call him “hey you there“.

Cloudboy likes to tease me sometimes. That is why he comes to talk with me while there are many people on the street. And while talking, he goes as far as he can so I have to speak with a very loud voice. People don’t find it normal if somebody is standing on the street, watching the sky and talking to a cloud. Well, of course they don’t see Cloudboy. This is how he likes to get me in trouble. Once when I was talking to him about some philosophical question, a lady who passed by me, got so very scared that she grabbed her phone and started to yell in it. Right a way came a car with blinkers, in which were sitting two men in blue clothes. They came to me and asked why I was scaring people here like this. I answered that I was just talking to my friend. As they didn’t see anybody they whispered a little and then told me that if I’ll be acting like this one more time, they are going to take me into a certain building where people wear white shirts. Then it was time for me to be scared so I promised not to act like this anymore. After that, the men left, but Cloudboy was sitting on his cloud and laughing. After that I’m always checking if the street is empty when I’m going to talk with Cloudboy.

Maybe I’ll tell you a little more about the cloud that Cloudboy is living on. His cloud is one part of big Cloudkingdom (luckily the whole kingdom isn’t above my house). Cloudboy’s cloud isn’t big or small. Exactly the right size for his house and a little garden. House in blue, mixed with a little grey and white, for people think that it’s a rain cloud. So you can imagine what it feels to live under a rain cloud all the time. Cloudboy’s house is very colourful at the inside. Most of all he likes to watch the sunrise and sunset so he has painted his rooms in different red, yellow and orange tints. Curtains he has just as the sun, so for people on the ground they seem like sunrays. (I haven’t been in his house, but this is how he once described it to me.) Around Cloudboy’s house is a small garden. Especially flowers he loves, they mainly grow on the sides of his cloud. That is why I have often gotten wet when he is watering them. Every other person would be mad at him but not me. His cloud flowers are just so beautiful. Many times he has brought them for me while visiting. Even right now one is in my vase, and it smells incredibly good. While watering he is always humming the same melody. One I asked him what song it is, but then he just smiled a mysterious smile and hop scotched away.
Maybe you are interested in how he looks. It’s really hard to describe him. I can only say that his eyes are sometimes brown, and sometimes green.. His hair is almost brown, but definitely not blond. He is wearing rainbow-coloured clothes. Not all the colours, but every day a different colour.
Cloudboy is always smiling. I haven’t ever seen him angry. Actually once he was. It happened when naughty Wind broke one of his flowers. Then I had a storm cloud over my head. He didn’t smile, until Wind brought him a different type of flower seeds. Then Cloudboy even hugged Wind. I know it because I happened to be outside at that moment.
Cloudboy is visiting me twice a week- on Tuesdays and on Fridays. It doesn’t mean that he doesn’t visit me at other days. It is just on these days we watch the sunsets and drink tea together. On other days he is watching the sunsets by himself sitting on his cloud. Sometimes he doesn’t sit, but paints. He loves painting. Sometimes when he finishes his new painting, he brings it to show me, and he doesn’t care if it’s day or night. I have been woken up during the night because of that. Now I am going because it’s Friday and we are going to watch the sunset. I can already hear him, humming his mysterious melody.