Fics like numbers are a pain

How many sisters do you have someone asks and his mouth says seventeen without checking with his brain, the hard, high number drilled into him by years and years of repetition, by the fact that it’s always true. His name is Michael J. Caboose, he was born on the moon, and he has seventeen sisters. And then his brain catches up with his mouth, and it hurts, it hurts that his body was wrong and he said that, it hurts that he has to think, has to focus, has to remember the new number that his body hasn’t learned yet, has to speak up and correct himself long after the conversations or even the person has moved on. Actually it’s ten now he’ll say to space that’s empty by then. - Caboose left the moon with 17 sisters. He came back to 10.

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