When the rain stopped, we put our rain boots on, ran outside to the park and stepped on every puddle on the way. I wished that it would always stay like that. That we could live our whole lives right at the end of the rain.
There was an upside down world in the puddles. I thought that there must also be upside down people living there. Upside down children who go swimming in the sky, and upside down dreamers who gaze at the birds which soar deep under the ground. And they have upside down parents there also, who let you eat candy before dinner, and stay up as long as you like watching nothing but horror movies.
And suddenly, when I thought about the world in the puddle and all it's people, I felt bad about stepping on them and disturbing their peaceful, upside down existence.
- It's just a reflection, stupid! Olli said and jumped violently on the watery buildings.
The whole world broke in to million little pieces, then slowly gathered back together, quaked, shivered and finally calmed down. Like nothing ever happened.
- But, how do you know that we are not their reflections? I asked Olli.
Olli stopped for a moment, and stood quietly.
- Because we brake, he then said, very slowly. - And we don't come back together again...



There was a strange look in Olli's eyes. A sad look, that I had not seen before. But, as quickly as the puddle had settled, his eyes lit up again.
I watched him as he ran down the street, jumping from puddle to puddle, and I realized how little I actually knew about him. Sure, I knew what his favorite type of aircraft was, and how far he was able to throw a stone, but I knew nothing about what he was like when I wasn't with him. What was he like when he was just with his parents, did he act differently? Or, when he was alone with a teacher who was going to punish him. Did he cry, or did he still act as the biggest and toughest in our class? Did he exist at all, when I wasn't around?
Was Olli just my reflection?
I looked down at the puddle where I was standing. I saw an airplane. It flew under my feet.

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