Watermelon for Two

I am ten years old. I wake up and hear the rain. I don't want to get up, but my Grandma Lyalya is already parting the heavy curtains and throwing open the window.

"Come on, princess of the sleepy kingdom, get up!" she says. "The sun has already risen for a long time!"

"There's no sun there." I pull the blanket over my head. "Because of this nasty rain, we won't go anywhere now!"

"Why is this? Ho-ho!" Grandma laughs. "While you're drinking tea, the weather will clear up. And the sun will come out. Get up! I've already served breakfast and made tea."

"You always say that," I finally wake up and sit.

"Because it's true!" Grandma leaves the room. "Get up! We'll go for a walk in the park, and on the way back, we'll buy a watermelon."

While I'm having breakfast, the sky brightens. And the rain stops. We spend several hours in our favourite park. This place has benches for Grandma and a playground with figures of fairy tale heroes carved out of wood for me. Then we return home after a walk, and Grandma turns to the market and buys a medium-sized watermelon.

After lunch, she cuts it in half. One half goes to me, the other to her.

And now, it's raining outside the window again. And we sit at the table and eat watermelon with teaspoons straight from the watermelon rinds as if they were bowls. We have fun and delicious food.

"Look how we made it on time," says Grandma, nodding at the wet window. "The rain didn't catch up with us."

Just recently, I saw watermelons in a store and remembered this episode. Of course, I bought one watermelon to split it in half with my husband that evening. When I went home, the sky darkened. But the rain didn't start until I entered the house. He didn't catch up with me. Thank you, Grandma.

Ingredients

one whole watermelon, preferred size

two favourite teaspoons

Method

STEP 1

Wash the watermelon and cut it into two halves.

STEP 2

Take your favourite teaspoons and enjoy dessert from natural bowls in pleasant company.