It was June, with nearly a month left before the end of the term, and the city was about to enter its rainy season. The days of cloudless skies and radiant sunshine were gone, replaced by an invisible, intangible sauna that seemed to envelop the land.
The ground was always damp, the uneven bluestone slabs still bearing the water marks from the previous day, or even several days before. The sporadic rain was frustratingly drizzly, doing nothing to alleviate the heat and restlessness in the air; instead, the sticky droplets only added to the irritation when they landed on one's skin.
The clothes that were taken off and hung out to dry would still not lose their dampness even after several days and nights, and they could only be worn after being blown dry with a hairdryer.
However, for a pair of teenagers living in this narrow alley, every day was still full of sunshine.
"Did you put all your stuff in your bag?"
