the little water drop written by MaxxForce Dadar illustrated by Danielle Louise once there was a little water drop who lived inside a fish's Bowl that sat beside a window ledge next to the small bed in a little girl's room and all day long she floated and swirled in and out of the coral and water plants with the other water drops they were her friends they were her family it was her home on certain days when the sun's shown just right and warmed the bowl just enough all the water drops would float up towards the surface on one such day the Sun shone and the little water drop floated up with her friends she watched two water drops float higher than she'd ever floated before higher and higher until they floated right up to the surface and flash they disappeared where did they go she wondered she'd never seen water drops disappear before she didn't even know that water drops could disappear and this frightened her just that a friendly water drop floated by so she stopped him and asked where do water drops go when they disappear at the surface the friendly water drop giggled water drops don't disappear they simply become vapor that floats beyond the surface this was all strange and new to her and it filled the little water drop with Wonder the more she wondered the more questions swirled through her mind but with more questions came fewer answers and quickly her wonder turned into fear you what is vapor how do water drops float beyond the surface what is beyond the surface and why would a water drop want to go beyond the surface she couldn't understand why water-drops would want to become vapor or go beyond the surface inside the fish's Bowl they could float in swirl there was coral and friends what more could a water drop need she wondered the little water drop thought of many reasons not to float to the surface and even more reasons not to go beyond the surface I do not want to disappear she feared the little water drop became heavy from her fear and sank down from the surface to the bottom of the fish's Bowl where she remained alone and frightened for a long time the little water drop watched from the bottom of the fish's Bowl as many of her friends floated to the surface sometimes wondering what it might be like to become vapor but still only wondering then one day the Sun shone and the little water drop thought again about all her friends who had become vapor and floated beyond the surface they did not seem afraid when they floated up and beyond the surface she thought her curiosity grew and as her curiosity grew the little water drop found herself floating up from the bottom of the fishes bowl until she stopped just below the surface you and though the little water drop was still frightened this time she felt different she was more curious than frightened so the little water drop floated up to the surface and flash she became vapor and found herself rising high above the fishes bowl and out through the window of the little girl's room as she floated higher and higher more water drops surrounded her until there were so many water drops she couldn't count them all you and the little girl's room became barely a speck on a spot on the world then one by one the water drops all around her started falling this was strange and new and at first she was scared but only a little if I can become vapor and float beyond the surface and high above the little girl's room certainly I can fall from the sky like the other water drops and with that thought the little water drop dropped she fell for a long time and as quickly as she had floated beyond the surface she found herself swirling in darkness faster than she had ever swirled before but she was not scared you why am I not scared she wondered it was dark and she was swirling very fast and very far from home but she could feel the other water drops all around her and that made her feel safe the little water drops swirled long and far through deep and shallow sometimes in darkness and sometimes in sunlight with many new water drops from all sorts of strange and wonderful places each new destination brought new water-drops who became her new friends and with her new friends she became a cloud and a lake and a river and an ocean and when the little water drop had traveled to nearly every place that a water drop could go and become nearly everything a little water drop could become she felt happy but something was missing while beyond the surface was exciting and full of adventure and new friends it was not home she missed her home so the little water drop traveled back back to the little girl's room back to the window ledge next to the small bed back to the fishes bowl and she was happy because it was home but something was different something had changed what was different she wondered the fish's Bowl was the same at the coral and the water plants even the fish was the same more or less they all looked the same all her travels and experiences had grown her appreciation for her home and her friends and her family and even the fish it was a little water drop who had changed her adventures had changed her she was no longer afraid to become vapor or float beyond the surface or drop from the sky into the darkness or swirl at great speed or do anything that a water drop could do or become anything that a water drop could become most of all she knew that she could always return to her home and that made her happy but the thing that made her the happiest was knowing that on certain days when the Sun shone just right and warmed the bowl just enough she could float up to the surface and you