I really like the last line: "I didn't see my future, I heard it."
I don't know if you're interested in taking this further, but I think this could be expanded upon. The last line could stay for sure--as a last line, maybe, but it might end up moved to the middle of the story somewhere if you open this up enough.
Some things to expand on:
alighting every thought I had...
I understand that this sentence ends with "and shoving it back into my hands...crying 'take this, this is yours'." So I get that it makes sense to have this sentence just as it is, but at the same time...what thoughts? Yes, yes: thoughts about teachers, parents, politics, etc, but let's see some of those thoughts specifically. What does the narrator think of some of these things?
Similarly, "giving me hope that I could be whoever I wanted to be." Who is that? I'm not asking for one answer; I don't expect someone to know exactly who they want to be. But what are some of the possibilities? What are some of the things the narrator might want to be or do?
This could be stretched out until it feels like it lasts the length of a favorite song, a song that feels like it could last forever until it ends and turns to the next. Like I said, I don't know if you're actually interested in that. I don't know if you intended to get ideas for carrying this further or if you just wanted to see what people thought of exactly what's written here. But the last line is so striking that I'd love to see where else this could lead.
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