Decision
Katherine
Rochholz
Copyright
2018 All Rights Reserved
Flash
Fiction Story
I sit and sip upon my only margarita
of the night. I smile as the tempo of the music changes into a classic rock
song about a boy who killed another and now had a gang after his life. Truthfully,
I never thought I would be here, after all my mother tried to stonewall me, to
preventing this, to prevent my dreams of coming true.
Everybody has a story, about what
their parents expected from them. Mine? My story is just the opposite of
normal. Well, not really, just what my mother wanted for me.
I was always a plain girl so when
the popular boy showed interest in me, I thought I had died and gone to
paradise. Needless to say, he just wanted the claim of taking my virginity.
Well, I got pregnant. My mother wanted me to work at the diner, raise the
child, become a wife, give up college. She refused to help me as I left for
college. I made my choice, no matter the roadblocks, the loans, the challenges,
I fought, and I won.
Tonight is the night before my
medical school graduation. I smile at the eighties themed birthday party my seven
year old son wanted. It was obscene the amount of eighties music my son adored,
but he was happy. I was happy.
And in six weeks I would be a surgical
intern at one of the best teaching hospitals in the world; but the best thing I
have ever done in my life, was keep my son and leave my mother’s house, making
it on my own. After all, this life, it is my story to write.
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