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2.17 Futurelearn Ideas for a Story Sitting in the nieghborhood Java Shop,listening to the light sound of jazz playing in the background. Maked it easy not to think of the past or future. As Micky sat at the table by the window in the Java Coffee Shop,that she had been to so many times growing up. With her shiney long hair and Bohemian styled dress, she slumped over the table with a notebook and pen, 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 two words Black Sheep Black Sheep over and over. As she sat there ] 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 that waitress could have read the last line of Micky's notebook she would have seen. “YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE BOY AND HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE GIRL” in all caps. Micky was heading out to the old home place were gran wouldnt be there, but 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 grabbed a seat by the window and set staring 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 this simple sentence. 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 it. 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 and never good thoughts far sure! Thinking back to that statement Micky, she thought that was probably when she was she was 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 was it who they weren’t and could never be that made her the Black Sheep |