Autor's Note

English is not my mother tongue, so I appreciate your support for any corrections.


Once there was this girl who
Wouldn't go and change with the girls in the change room
But when they finally made her
They saw birthmarks all over her body
She couldn't quite explain it
They'd always just been there

SECOND VERSE

Sara was born in the middle of the winter, her parents were so happy and excited about her arrival; the doctors say she was so anxious to meet them that she came a whole moth before due time. She was very little and didn't have enough weight, the first time her mother saw her she was cover all over his body with red stains and the doctors put her in an incubator and give her antibiotics to treat her rash, for a moth she was treated and when at three months old she was discharge from the hospital and go home for the first time, she still had stains and the doctors say that some of them were going to disappear before two years and some others never, including the ones in his neck and back , but she was healthy.

She grow up happy and bright and tried too hard to never let anyone sees his marks because she was afraid of been observe by the rest of the school, she loves books, and spend his time in the library, and tried to hide from his parents her lack of friends, she wasn't that good talking to people and she didn't have the courage to speak in class, so she keep to herself her thoughts and dreams, and she was a good student, but she always wait for the other girls to shower before going in herself and she always get to the locker room before them so she change hers clothes alone and the other girls feel like she was a weird girl and try to not feel hurt by her attitude.

Sara had 14 years when his life took a turn…

The girls decided to try and be friends with her and ask her to go change with them or at least tell them why she was so scared of sharing the showers and Sara decided that if she wants to ever have friends she may be willing to be open about what she doesn't like about her body. So she decides to trust the girls and she goes with them to the locker room, and when they see the birthmarks in her back they decided that she has nothing to be ashamed of and became their friends. After all, every girl has something she doesn't like about her body.

So, by the end of the school year she has friends and his parents been spiritual persons, take her to the church every Sunday and they stay to help the minister's wife with the dominical school when they hear a noise, a massive collision in the road to the church, his father been a paramedic, runs of to help and with a lot of care and help they rescue a boy, unconscious but alive, his parents are not that lucky and she recognize him, he was on church every Sunday and in the same school, but not in the same group so she never know his name.

She was in the hospital after his treatment to treat her rash, when ears a scream she runs, there was a little crow of people outside of a room when a doctor and a men running into, the doctor leave like half hour later, but the man stays inside and she decides to leave.

The school year was nearly over, so with her grades she was able to miss the last classes and prepare for the summer camp.

She was leaving the hospital after her therapy when first saw him, he was trying crutches for the first time, she notices his hair but doesn't wonder…

When the summer ends, she is ready for the new school, most of her friends are with her, so she is not alone but she knows there will be some new classmates to face but she is not scared, not anymore…

She walks down the hallway and finds is locker, while she is ordering his things the hallway became silence, she does look but it's only the boy from the hospital, she remembers him, his white air and now he uses a cane, she finish organizing his locker and close it, she walks to class while everybody eyes follow him.

She find her classroom and has a habit, she sits in the corner at the end of the classroom, her friends convince her to sit with them and so, she took a sit on the second row of the class and start the day, She notes some people trying to look at the end of the class room but, she doesn't care, after class and during lunch his friends are in other activities, but they comment about the kid in class with his bright white hair looking for him on the cafeteria, but not seeing him, she doesn't care, she is looking at the application she find in the board about voluntaries for the library, after all she loves books…

After school she stays with the librarian she is the only volunteer and the librarian is old so the work is hard, but she loves it, is quiet and has some sort of calm, she stays every day after school so his friends are not idea that she goes to the hospital each week for therapy and she prefers it that way, after volunteering or therapy she goes home and does her homework in her room with soft music in the background.

She has dinner with her parents and told them all about her first day and the library, and they are hopeful that she makes more friends.

Before she realizes a week as pass and the boy with white hair is old news, nobody talk about him anymore, in the library she has starting to think about the future and in one of her daydreams the voice of a boy interrupts her, he is looking for a book about photography, he smiles and his bright white hair gives her a sensation of warm, she helps him and says goodbye with a smile, he looks at her with curiosity, and she pulls of his long shelve blouse, he says thank you and leaves, that afternoon she told his parents about her plans and they smile at the happiness they see in her eyes, later, she tells her mother about the boy in the library and her mom is happy that she is growing up and learning to be happy with herself.

Sara spends most of her time in the library, but also in the school paper and drama club, she writes reviews for the paper and helps the drama teacher with the screenplays, she became friend of a lot of people they find odd that she spends a lot of time in the library because she really love that place and in some ways, she feel free while reads about all the places around the world where the authors find inspiration, she pictures herself in the highlands of Scotland and England, in the big gardens of Japan, the beautiful temples in Asia, the vast of the regions in Africa even finds a magazine with the most beautiful pictures of those places, she even make his parents to order it by mail since it was an old edition, and even try to convince them to get a subscription, she fails, but her parents are happy that she is open herself up to the world.

Even with all the activities she does, she still loves spend time in the library, finds peace in the words of others and eventually uses her imagination to write her own stories, her own tales and maybe someday, she'll make a living of it.

When the boy of the photography books come back and they start talking, they share their dreams, he tells her that someday he will be a photographer and she tell him that she will be a writer, both smile because neither of those chosen career paths are conventional and the halls know rumor about them their friendship is by far the most rare in the school because they don't care about the other distinctiveness, I mean, she uses a turtleneck blouse, with long sleeves and he has brightly white hair and uses a cane to walk...

Sara is overjoy, not only she has finish High School, but also she will attend the college of her choice with the prospect of doing a double major in literature and admin, after all, she has a new dream that allow her to have not only time for writing, but to be surrender by books, is new dream is to own a nice library…

But perhaps the happiest moment of the final year was her boyfriend taking her to her prom, wearing a beautiful soft blue, sleeveless dress; she finally was comfortable with herself and with the birth marks in her body, the ones that never faint…

At 23 she gave birth to his son, a beautiful baby boy, his godfather was their best friend, newly drafted in the NFL, beaming of happiness, she smiles to her husband and see in his eyes all the love she fells just like a mirror, she started to write her first book of children during the last months of her pregnancy hoping she interest a publisher soon, while she works in a little coffee shop, her husband is back for the born of his baby and love every second of his presence, but she knows that he is in the pad of his dream, he was hired barely a month ago in the job of his dreams, both of them are in the pad to their dreams…

Now at 30, she is a writer in her own right, she start small, publish little story's for kids and became famous among the children's authors, she have a series of books that make children's imagine and follow clues, and be happy, now she want to write something for adults, some mystery, maybe suspense, but not romance, she prefer to live it, for now she doesn't know what to write for adults, but that has little meaning, because she knows, she can do anything she dream.

Some nights, when her husband pick up their 7 years old son from school he'll take him to bought ice cream, she love strawberry, they will sit together without talking just enjoying their time together, smiles when he confirm that won't leave before their son's birthday party and that will help him to blow up the candles, he will kiss the birthmarks she have in the back of her neck, and she pass is hand over his bright white air, knowing how much her son loves it and remembers the first time they spoke to each other….