Jasmine could already read when she entered primary school. Her younger brother, Eden, could just walk and make a few sounds, most of the time he would shout and scream. Especially, if he didn't get what he wanted. Jasmine observed how her parents would consider the yelling and shouting to be cute most of the time, while her efforts of reading out loud the supermarket's advertisements to her parents seemed to bore or even annoy them, as they would often only nod to Jasmine, saying "well done" or "yes, nice", and, with a heavy sigh, turn to Eden again. When one day a parcel was delivered to her parents, Jasmine helped unpacking it, grabbed the little plastic bag with lots of warnings printed on it, which she, as the only person, would read carefully. Her parents told Jasmine to throw the plastic bag away, turning to Eden again, who was throwing around some of the parcel's contents - batteries and such - which his parents considered to be an "innovative use of technical equipment", and cheered him on to repeat this. Jasmine did as she had been told and threw the little plastic bag into a trash can. The one in Eden's room. She hadn't tied a knot into the bag, since - so she thought - her parents hadn't told her to and apparently no one was interested if she could read this specific warning or not.
During the years to follow, Jasmine would have to hear the reproach over and over: Hadn't she been the one who had already been able to read? Why hadn't she done so? Eden would probably still be alive, they said. Jasmine never told anybody that she had read all the warnings, that she had understood all of them. Instead, she tried to live with the looks and the silence and the feeling of relieve that she wasn't supposed to have.
Third part of what I call #picstories -- a series of very short stories behind a picture/photo
#picstories, part 1: Patent leather shoes: https://steemit.com/story/@storytllng.rocks/patent-leather-shoes
#picstories, part 2: Breakfast: https://steemit.com/story/@storytllng.rocks/breakfast
A very clever story telling, for sure. It would make a great script for a short film, I think.
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Thank you so much, @prydefoltz ! Interesting you're mentioning scripts, I have kind of given up on screenplays last year, but maybe I should give it another try with this story!
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I think so ... it seems a tale made for the screen:)
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