A bouyant girl leaps to say “Hi!” to a friend she strongly likes. She bounces over to her, crashes through delicate barriers, smashing them to smitherines. Her friend stands in horror as the bouyant girl doesn’t understand the cause of her dismay. The friend lifts, piece by piece, the shards of material from her barrier and tries to place them together, again, but it is not possible with the bouyant girl standing all around her.
“Please go….” the friend says through a voice that is like a shaking tree.
“What? Why!? You are the one who told me to say Hi after school!” She puts her hands on her hips. Her chest and elbows protrude into her friend’s space.
Her friend walks, away from her shattered barriers, away from the bouyant girl, and cries. She is a lucky one. Many have tried to maintain their boundaries while keeping the bouyant girl inside of them. Like the time the bouyant girl crashed through metal plating on a friend’s barriers. The girl was so shocked, the metal so warped, she had no way to re-close the barrier. The girl had to stand there in shock and pretend everything was ok, that she was happy to see the bouyant girl, that her barriers had not been punctured by the bouyant girl.
Stutz's Fairy Tales and Poems 