There was something about Jo!
She was not like the others, although she was beautiful…very beautiful. She never cared about her appearance. I have never seen her hair tied or in another way, except being loose and blown by the wind in the autumn days, when her cheeks and the tip of her nose were rosy because of the freezing cold. I remember it once: it was a December day and it was raining so much it looked like God had poured all the Heavens waters upon us. She walked in the class fully wet from head to toe, with a lovable smile on her face. It is useless to say everybody thought she was crazy of not getting an umbrella with her that day. But she smiled so beautifully when everybody laughed at her craziness.
There was something about Jo…
She was weird… I won’t deny it. Even if I wanted to I couldn’t… cause her weirdness made her so lovely. She would do things that other people wouldn’t even dare to. Like once in the middle of October, our whole biology class went to the beach. There was this silly and yet very courageous bet that concluded somebody to be thrown in the sea, when the water was almost ice. I tried putting my hand fingers in it and when I took them out there was no sense of feeling in them. The famous girl of the college picked one very shy girl to put her conditions on.
-‘’If you dive in the water, I will accept you in our sorority, otherwise you may forget about it for all your entire college life!’’
We all felt pity about the girl. She went toward the seashore her legs shaking and her eyes tearing, but she continued walking. None of us standing there would want to be in her place; she had no choice. If she came back she would be bullied, if she walked and throw herself to the sea she would freeze herself to death!
We all felt we had to do something but none of us moved, not a hand, not a leg, not a lip. We were all waiting…until someone walked through the crowd of students and ran to the seashore. It was Jo. She caught the hand of the shy girl and whispered something in her ear that none of us could understand, and the girl shook her head as if she was saying yes to a question. Jo smiled to her and she smiled back. Then caught her hand tighter and smiled at us. Then they both ran and dive in the water like it was the middle of August. Everyone was cheering when they both got out. Jo was shaking herself, but she was tightly hugging the shy girl who looked at her with an absolute admiration. We all did...
There was something about Jo nobody understood!
We all loved college and the degrees we had chosen… at least most of us, but we could barely wait that lections were over so we could go back to our rooms, or hang out with our friends. Jo was different…she would surround herself with books in the library and wouldn’t get out of there until the late hours. There was this one time we had had a two day break, and we all thought Jo was somewhere with her family, but when we came back to classes in the morning, there was a great rumor about the art class walls being drawn by someone. Everybody who heard this ran immediately in the art class and was amazed. Who on Earth would have painted a four wide wall class in two days, with such beautiful paintings? Who on Earth, beside a beautiful freak with a smile so lovely?
I knew it was Jo, I didn’t need prove, but for all the skeptics when the janitor went in the janitor’s room, found Jo sleeping near a broom with her face and clothes covered with the colors of her paintings. The art teacher was so proud she decided to keep her room like that for the entire year. Nobody got why Jo did that, there were people that said she was showing off, but I don’t believe that. Jo was not meant to be understood, she did things and that’s it, there was no explanation understandable for us.
There was something about Jo… The way her brown eyes smiled or probably the way she bit her lip continuously… but there was something about Jo everybody noticed…and I…
I noticed her more than anybody!
