The Marble: The Arrival Part I

    My name is Cloud.  I am a marble.  I am round and smooth with a background of sky blue with a small spot of white in the center.  During my early years I lived in the closet of a nameless boy.  He never took me out to play, he never polished me or showed me to his friends.  One fateful day he was going through his closet and he took me out!  I has so excited, he took me over to the window that the sun was shining through.  It was time to start my life outside the closet.  To my surprise he held me up to the window alright just long enough to throw me out into the yard.  I was alone in a big world, I wondered what would become of me? For the first time in my five years I was afraid...