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TITLE (EDIT)
Not Without My Future |
DESCRIPTION
A group of boys pertake on their weekly tradition of figuring out what to do next in their lives at a local Chinese resteraunt.
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TITLE KEYWORD
Teenage |
AUTHOR
Steve Deutsch |
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
I like write things.
[February 2005] |
AUTHOR'S E-MAIL ADDRESS
SDCool543@yahoo.com |
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It Happens; It Matters. (Short Stories) After a date with the girl of his dreams, a young boy thinks about the changes in life that got him to that moment. This story continues from "Step Three." [2,004 words] [Teenage]
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Step Three (Short Stories) A boy sets up his camera and wants to tell his story. This is the beggining. [657 words] [Teenage]
The Closing Of The Eyes (Short Stories) A man has to overcome his fear and destroy a part of his life. My first real descriptive story. [1,175 words] [Nature]
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Not Without My Future
Steve Deutsch
“Ugh, ‘eriously! ‘et me ‘ome ‘ilk!”
Jason’s right hand was waving in front of his mouth. His tongue was sticking out past the length of his nose.
We dared him to eat that pepper. It didn’t take much convincing to get Jason to eat the mysteriously named pepper in which nobody knew how many fires it ranked on the piquant scale.
“Dude, you totally have water sitting right in front of you,” exclaimed Andy as he pointed to Jason’s tall, icy, glass of water that sat in front of him, “Just drink that.”
With his tongue still throbbing in pain, Jason managed to slowly sputter the syllables, “ ‘ou guys ‘eally ‘uck.”
“What was that, Lassie,” I said using a derisive tone with my head tilted to one side, “Timmy is stuck in the well?”
Jim just sat there and laughed.
Suddenly, the table became wet.
That’s when Jason’s free hand slapped his glass of water in complete anger as he backed up his chair so he could be granted the ability to stand.
A few ice cubes, in a small river of water, flowed past his empty dish that once contained his Lo-Mien, as he ran to the bathroom to escape his embarrassment.
Andy called out, “Dude, you didn’t have to eat the pepper. Don’t be mad at us!”
Believe it or not, this happened every Friday night at the Golden Dragon restaurant on Fifth and Main. Every Friday, after our pointless trip through the mall, Jason, Andy, Jim and I were sitting here talking about life and usually laughing at Jason’s acts of stupidity.
I always ordered the General Tso’s. I could never finish the whole ordeal of eating every sauce-covered, boneless, piece of chicken.
Our waitress came by and placed our check on the table. She dropped four fortune cookies on top of our check and said, “Thank you very much.”
As she walked away Andy muttered, “Don’t thank me. You didn’t clean our mess up – I’m going to be leaving an insatiable tip.”
The three of us reached for one of the cookies because it was time for our weekly tradition. The opening of the fortune cookie was the main reason why we ate here every Friday. Our fortune cookie decided our future. It decided what we would do next in our lives.
One cookie still rested on top of the check. According to destiny, that’s Jason’s cookie for he has yet to return.
“Alright kids,” Andy began, “What are your goals for tonight? I’m going to ask my cookie if I should do my homework that’s due on Monday.”
Jim then said, “Dude, that’s boring. You should come up with something like mine. I’m going to ask about marriage. You know, if I should settle down soon. Ask something life-changing like that.”
“Dude, you’re seventeen,” Andy said and then added, “And a moron.”
“So, what about you? What are you going to ask?”
I answered that I didn’t know yet. I said I was still thinking.
About this time is when Jason returned from the bathroom. He kept sticking his tongue out from between his teeth as if he had an awful taste in his mouth that he wanted to exterminate.
He looked at each of us holding our wrapped fortune cookies as he sat down and said, “Dammit, I hate grabbing the last cookie. It’s almost as if I’m forced to have that destiny that is withheld within that cookie.”
“Dude,” Andy began, “destiny wants you to have that cookie. That’s why you ate the pepper and left. So we could each grab our destinies while you couldn’t.”
“Well, what if I’m not impervious to destiny. What if destiny affects me in such a way that that isn’t my cookie?”
We looked at him in confusion.
“What I mean is that what if I’m supposed to switch cookies with one of you? What if that cookie lying alone is actually supposed to be for one of you guys? My destiny made me eat that pepper so I could switch that specific cookie with somebody else’s destiny.”
His argument made a loud tocsin ring in my ears. The alarm was so loud that it made my heart jump. I took that as an omen.
So I switched cookies with him. I took his lonely cookie and he took my cookie. His destiny was now mine. My future depends on the gamble of the switching of the cookies.
“So what are you going to ask your cookie tonight, Jason?” asked Andy.
“I’m going to ask it if I should go to college.”
Andy then explained, “Alright, we just need to know your goal, now. What did you decide on letting the cookie decide for you.”
I answered, “I want to know if I should call my dad.”
Jim reached over and patted me on the back. “Good choice,” he said.
One of us yelled, “go!” and we were all opening our cookie wrappers and then smashing the cookie to bits to get to our future.
“What the hell?! There’s no fortune in mine!” yelled Jason as he dug through his cookie crumbs in hopes of finding something.
My heart skipped two beats this time. That used to be my future.
“Wow, dude, that’s freaky. So tell us,” Jim began as he turned his point of view towards my direction, “What does your fortune say?”
I read the fastidious long piece of paper slowly. Once in my head and then again moving my mouth with each syllable I read from it without letting any sound escape my lips. I had to pay attention to every bit of detail it possessed.
I then said, “It says, ‘What’s vice today may be virtue tomorrow.’”
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COPYRIGHT NOTICE
© 2004 Steve Deutsch |
STORYMANIA PUBLICATION DATE
February 2005 |
NUMBER OF TIMES TITLE VIEWED
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