During church services we noticed Jo was not quite right. She became very agitated and nervous for some unknown reason. Her parents made her wear magnetic insoles in her shoes. Most people wear them today because they are a fad. They are supposed to boost your energy level, help you to lose weight and work with nature to bring balance into your life. Our group suspected all that was a bunch of commercial horse manure. She says it is for a nervous condition. We decided to take her or leave her at her word because we liked her.
After church services and everyone had left the building, the cathedral collapsed for no known reason. Every stone of the ancient structure came apart. Every steeple collapsed into dust. Fortunately no one got hurt or died. Only God remained inside. We pray that the saints preserve Him. We feel sure He will be alright. After all, He created the universe.
Jo, on the other hand was an entirely different story. We were becoming concerned about her and her condition. All we know about her is that she comes from an unknown country, has a mom, a dad and a small dog. She is twelve years old like us, and the youngest nuclear physicist in the history of our local university. They hired her to crack nuclear codes. She is also a student. Our click does not have snobs in it. We accept nerds and the like. We accept them with their handicaps and abnormalities in life. Jo was becoming a challenge to behold. She was as shocked as us about our cathedral turning to dust. During the Mass we noticed that her eyes started to glow with a bright blue light. They were naturally blue and she wore a matching pretty blue dress but this light flooding out of her eyes was becoming a bit much. We instructed her to “Stop it!” She was beginning to annoy the priest and about to interrupt the service with her light show so she closed her eyes for the rest of the proceedings. People around her thought she was in deep prayer and meditation.
We were walking up the hill from the former cathedral, now a ruble of stones, when Jo's condition worsened. Her eyes went from glowing green to orange to red in seconds. They then began to grow brighter and pulsate with a vivid bright white light. At that point we knew something was wrong. Jo was also a pretty girl with long blonde hair and a lovely ivory complexion. All of a sudden her skin turned metallic silvery blue and all of her hair fell out. She even lost her long luscious eye lashes. We were all sure she was sad to see them go.
Jo began to cry. She made a confession...or a lie.....It was hard to surmise since she has this prevailing condition or aversion to the truth. It is just plain hard to discern fact from fiction where she is concerned.
She told us that perhaps she might be the cause of the cathedral collapse. We stopped in our tracks, frozen in time, we were all ears and filled with fear. Our little group included; Mary, Annie, Nancy and me, Cindy....but I prefer Cin.
We had to make a solemn oath and binding pack to never reveal Jo's secret before she would agree to continue with the gory details. We all made a sacred vow on our parents graves that we would never tell. The oaths didn't hold much water or merit for that matter since we were all at odds with our parents. Some of the girls out and out hated them.
Jo told us everything. She and her parents lived at and worked at Cern. You know. The place with the giant nuclear particle exploder called The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
While looking for the mysterious particle called the Higgs-boson something went wrong.
Some background: The Higgs-boson was the last unobserved fundamental particle in the Standard Model of particle physics. It was discovered in March of 2013. Everyone was thrilled. Not true. Not everyone was thrilled. Jo tells us, along with other recognized scientists, that mini-black holes could come out of these experiments. If true, these tiny black holes could fall through the Earth or bore a hole through it to its core and destroy our planet. Even tiny black holes can do a lot of damage. Destruction of a planet is a serious matter.
Jo thinks that she and her parents, along with others, might have been exposed to some of the negative particle fall out from these experiments. There is a chance that these exposures might be gradually working on her system with unknown consequences.
She said the cathedral is the first true incident of destruction in her estimation, that is, where she can say definitively and that she is convinced, she was the cause. She can confirm this hypothesis with the following facts; She tells us that when she closed her eyes in the church she felt a great surge of energy, a great force welling up inside her. She was surprised that she did not explode into nothingness with all this power that she felt inside overwhelming her in body and mind. Apparently she is gradually building up a resistance to these unknown forces. When she was about to leave the cathedral she could feel a pulse, a release of this dynamic phenomenal thing surging from her body into the immediate environment around her in a tsunami like silent invisible wave. She was happy when the feeling ended and she could go back to being herself. She was also pleased with herself to have shared with us her sacred secret.
Jo looked at me and said, “So Cin, do you and the girls wanna get a soda?” Soda was the last thing on my mind. I'm sure the girls agreed on that front. We were not worried about God either. He was well taken care of. Invisibility and invincibility has got to be a plus. We were thinking about our lost place of worship and about the planet. We wished other people would too.
Jo was not herself. We did not know what would become of her. She had changed so drastically. She wanted to go to the theater in the center of town later on. We did our best to talk her out of that idea. Maybe a trip to a remote desert or wilderness is in order, like maybe with a team of scientists by her side to figure things out would suffice for the time being. She still had a glowing personality and a figure to match when she left. We are going to miss her. We hope she does not explode and we wish her well.