So many things change when you become your family's disgrace, the black sheep.
Like expectations. They used to say, "What will she do?"
Now they ask, "What has she done this time?"
At least they've stopped asking for promises or excuses. Very liberating.
With their expectations in the gutter, things they'd never talk about before suddenly become dinner conversation.
And what about popularity? Boys that ignored you before are stopping and asking if you're the one..? But it never gets any farther than that because you never travel alone anymore - you've got your own personal and dedicated security entourage dragging you away.
Even public officials are keeping their eyes on you. Nobody else will get quite so many pat-downs - or as thorough. And it teaches you how not to blush.
But let's not overlook the travel opportunities. Thanks to you (and to stop hearing what the neighbors are saying), you're moving to a whole new town that doesn't know what you did - unless it hit youtube. Or got into your permanent record.
