In a quiet town where everything and everyone was ordinary, there lived an extraordinary girl named Lina — a girl made entirely of rubber.
Her arms stretched across classrooms when she raised her hand. Her legs bounced like springs when she ran. And when she laughed, her whole body wobbled like jelly in the sunlight.
But Lina’s gift didn’t always feel like one.
At school, kids whispered:
“Why does she move like that?”
“She’s weird.”
“She’s not like us.”
She’d hear the snickers when her feet squeaked on the hallway tiles… or when she bounced too high during gym class and hit her head on the ceiling.
So, she tried to hide it.
She tied her arms close with scarves. She walked slowly, carefully — trying not to bounce. She wore big clothes to cover the stretch marks from when she’d accidentally expanded too far.
But it only made her feel more like a shadow.
One day, during recess, a boy got stuck in the school fence chasing a soccer ball. The teachers panicked — no one could fit between the bars.
Except Lina.
Without thinking, she stretched, slid between the rails like a ribbon, and pulled the boy out to safety. The whole playground went silent.
Then someone clapped. Then more.
A teacher walked up and said,
“You were made different… but maybe you were made exactly right.”
From that day on, Lina didn’t hide.
She bounced high. She stretched far. She giggled loudly and ran like the wind. The same kids who once laughed now asked:
“Can you show me how you do that?”
“Can I sit next to you?”
Because Lina wasn’t strange anymore — she was strong, special, and stretchy in all the right ways.
