- Futurelearn Ideas for a Story
The
light sound of jazz played in the background. Making it easy not to
think of past or future things. As
the girl
sat at the table by the window in the neighborhood coffee
shop,slumped
over the table with
a notebook and pen, and
a
large set of keys writing
and sipping on her Styrofoam
cup filled with coffee.
At first glance she looked like most of the patrons in the coffee
shop, but then if you looked closer she had a bemused look look like
she had the weight of the world on her shoulders. The notebook was
open in front her and every once in a while she would jot something
down. She
glanced around the coffee shope at the other patrons.
There were a
couple of men having a meeting at the next table with their papers
and ceramic
coffee cups
she would look over at
them as their voices rose and fell as though their very being was
better than what she was thinking. Glancing at the notebook she was
scribbling in two words Black Sheep Black Sheep over and over. She
sat there as the coffee shop emptied out. She bent over the
notebook wrote something real quick then leaned back in the seat ,
took the last sip of her coffee. And as the waitress took her money
and if she could have read the last line of her notebook she would
have seen. “You should have been the boy and he should have been
the girl”.
She
was heading out to the old home place were gran wouldnt be there and
the memories would be. Seeing her younger Brother and Sister made her
sick to her stomach after all these years. Getting a coffee to go
she didnt quite get to the coffee shop's door before she grabed a
seat and by the window and set stariing out of it with the words “You
should have been the boy and he should have been the girl” whirling
around in her mind with so many thoughts sticking to them.
The
first time that Micky remembered hearing that she should have been
the boy she was 12 and Seth was 6.Micky couldn’t even remember what
action made her parents or grandparents say this. They just said did.
And after that first time, they said it a lot over the years.. But,
again It wasn't said in a mean way, in fact it was thought to be
funny. Ha, Ha! Who knew it was taken to heart by two kids and would
effect thier view of each other as adults. Even though Seth said he
didn’t remember it being said. But, he denied having a typical
family so what did he know. He always had selective memory about
thier lives growing up.
Thinking
back to that statement Micky, thought that was probably when she was
she started being branded the Black Sheep of the family. Of course,
she also remembered hearing later on that she got all the bad traits
of both sides of the family. Now isnt that a nice thing to say to a
kid of any age. But, was it the first statement or maybe both
statements that made her who she was inside, or who they weren’t
and could never be that made her the Black Sheep
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