Who’d Believe It

It’s bucketing down and I’m getting drenched, when a stranger beckons me to join him under his umbrella.

I duck under, offer my hand and introduce myself, “Thank you, I’m Stephanie Bolt and you are?”

“Bolt? Is this some joke? Did someone set this up?” the stranger responds.

“No, why would they?” I ask in confusion.

“Why do I ask? Because my name is Nathan Bolt! So who, may I ask, is your father?”

“Sam Bolt! And yours?” I ask in amusement.

“That would be Sam Bolt,” Nathan sighs.

“No! Now you’re setting me up, surely,” I state in shock.

Wikipedia defines a drabble as follows :

A drabble is a short work of fiction of precisely one hundred words in length. The purpose of the drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in a confined space.

This Drabble has been written for Raven's Hall Drabble Prompt #2 (Raven’s Hall is a publication on Medium).

The prompt is as follows :

The Prompt

Two absolute strangers get caught in torrential rain. They are together long enough to discuss some things, and one or more surprises are revealed. What is it or are they?

There is no limit as to what you can do with this. The prompt is to inspire, and as long as your drabble is 100 words and has two people in the rain who are strangers to each other sharing an umbrella, and at least one revelation made, it’s all good.