Weekly Flash Fiction Story - Grandma loves dancing

 Grandma loves dancing ***

Author: Philip Chan 

Weekly Flash fiction story 

written in English and Chinese

I ran to the front door happily and rang the doorbell.  No one answered.  I pressed it again and again.  No one came to open the door.  I started banging vigorously on the door, but no one answered.

My college friends walked around the house to see through each window to see whether my grandmother was in the house.

Soon the four of us regrouped at the front door of the house, shaking our heads.

I worried about my grandmother’s whereabouts. She was the only surviving member of my family.  She raised me since I was a 5-year-old girl. My worries gradually turned into tears.  My roommate hugged me tightly and cried with me.  The other two comforted me and told me not to worry.

At this moment, a lady wearing a big hat, sunglasses, a black mask, a floral top, a knee-long black skirt and a pair of black shoes walked towards us. She raised her voice and said, "What's going on here?"

I raised my head and screamed in surprise and excitement, "Grandma".  I hugged her tightly and stopped crying.

“Distancing.” She said. “Silly girl, why did you cry?".

I replied: “ Forget about it. Listen, Grandma. You are anti-body positive and  the four of us, Covid negative. We come and beg you to let us stay with you. Can we?”

“What happened?" She answered in a cheerful voice.

“We have enrolled online courses. Is it okay if we all stay here?"

My grandmother who once won a school dance performance award, was so excited that she started dancing with me. Then she switched to dance with my friends one by one.  

She was an excellent performer and would not stop but kept dancing with us.   Some of my neighbors came out to clap their hands.

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祖母喜歡跳舞

         用英文和中文寫的《 Covid New Life》短篇故事。

   我高興地跑到前門，然後按門鈴。 沒有人回答。 我一次又一次大力按鈴，仍然沒有人來開門。 我開始大力拍門，但沒有人回答。

    我的大學朋友走到屋子外面，看看每個窗戶，是否可以看見我的祖母在屋子裡。

   很快，我們四個人在前門重組，每個人都齊齊搖頭。

   我的祖母是我家庭的唯一生存的成員。 當我還是一個5歲的女孩時，她開始撫養我。我的擔心逐漸變成了眼淚。 我的同居書友緊緊地擁抱著我，跟我一齊哭起來。另外兩個同學盡力安慰我，並建議我不須要擔心。

   這時，一位戴著黑色大帽子，太陽眼鏡，黑色口罩，碎花上衣，及膝長的黑色裙子和一雙黑色鞋子的女士， 向著我們行過來，慢慢行到我們的身邊。 她抬高聲音說：“發生了什麼事？”

   我抬起頭，驚訝而激動地尖叫著， “嫲嫲。 “  我緊緊擁抱著她，不再哭泣。

   她很高興見到我們，說：“傻丫頭。為什麼哭？”。

   我回答：“忘記了，嫲嫲，你是抗體陽性，我們四個人Covid 隂性，求求你，讓我們與你同住，可以嗎？”

   “發生了什麼事？” 她用歡快的聲音回答。

   “我們已經註冊了網上課程。我們和你住在這裡， 可以嗎？”

   一位曾獲得學校舞蹈獎的祖毋非常激動和興奮，她開始和我跳舞，然後和我的朋友們一個接一個地跳舞。 我的祖母是一位出色的舞導者，她不斷表現她的美妙舞姿，一些鄰居看見也出來拍手。

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