Clarence yelped as we fell into the car and slammed the doors shut. “S’what I call rain!” Stella’s wet hair stuck to her head. She grabbed the towel and tried to dry it, then rubbed Darci’s head. The rain thundered down on the roof of the car. “I love it!” I shook the rain off my head, flinging drops around the car. “Hey!” Stella said. “Are you a dog?” Not many things were as exciting as a big rain, and this was huge ! We headed back home. The wind rocked the car at every stoplight. Rain pounded down so loud you had to shout to be heard. Darci leaned closer to me, stretching her seat belt. By the time we got down into the valley below Maunawili, the rain was coming down so hard Clarence had to slow the car to a crawl. You couldn’t see the road. The wipers were going as fast as they could and still you couldn’t see. “Awesome!” I shouted. It was like being tumbled around in a wave, where you didn’t know which way was up and which way was down. Cars pulled over to wait it out.
