skaterbrain | ★4 Voice

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[Alright, the experiment was weird, but he survived and now he has a more pressing problem. This...egg. The very egg that he's had strapped to himself in a backpack for the last month. Wtf does he do now?]

Anybody know how long it takes for babies ta' come outta eggs?

[For the action inclined, Beat's out around town, just rolling on his skateboard to avoid going to school with the egg in its backpack.]

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[Staring at the hand as if it's a cow with two heads for a moment before shyly reaching for it to stand up.]

Oh... I wanted to d-do some i-independent study... Th-the school here is g-good but...

[It's more light-hearted than what she expected.]

[Once he has her hand, he'll pull her up and...well, he would have smiled, but wow. Why would you ever...]

..........Man, you really like ta' study, doncha, Pinky? Why you study so much?

To get a perfect score at tests... B-but that's not h-hard here. My school and cram school at home where more h-harder and exigent.

[She will start trying to gather her books again, cleaning them well from dirt.]

Naw, I mean, afta' that. Tests ain't gonna go foreva' yo.

[And he'll help her pick them up even if he touches them like they might be full of the plague.]

I-if I get p-perfect scores I w-will be able to f-find a good job. M-maybe I could be a g-great doctor o-or even work at a b-big and s-successful company.

[Ironically she doesn't sound very excited about those prospects, it's more like she's repeating someone she has heard but not something she had thought herself.]

That..sounds hella borin', yo. Come on, ain't you got no dreams 'sides whateva' adults say ya' gotta do?

[Staring at him like he's crazy.]

I d-dream with a g-good life and f-future. O-other dreams d-don't bring f-food to the table a-and... A-And... Th-they can be d-dangerous.

[She looks terribly sad now, thanks for reminding her how her mother reacted when she said she wanted to sing a bit.]

Yo, that ain't a dream! That's a plan! A hella borin' one, too.

[Wow this feels weird. He knows it's because of Rhyme that he's saying this. He didn't have dreams either. He didn't want to do anything. But she... She had so much to live for and he took that away from her. He's going to make sure no one else loses their real dreams ever again.]

Come on! Ain't ya' got nothin' else?! Screw plans! What'dya wanna do?

[She looks sadder with each word he says. Clutching the books she has picked up against her chest as if they were a life preserver.]

I w-want to do w-what's best for me...

[Mother knows better than her about what's best for her, right?]

[Ugh, that's such an adult line coming out of a kid's mouth. Beat frowns and drops the book he has, kicking his skateboard up into his hands.]

But you ain't got no soul in yo' words, yo! Dreams're what you talk 'bout like it matters!

[Why is he getting so worked up over this? He doesn't even know. It's just...sad. And he stops, lowering his head and the board.]

...It ain't fair. Livin' wit'out dreams.

B-But it matters... I-It's this what matters, d-dreams just... S-Some dreams take time away a-and fill y-your head with p-pointless th-things for your f-future that d-don't matter... A-And t-trick you into thinking you c-can do them a-and get big but... N-not everyone can get big a-and there are m-many people with th-those same dreams so...

N-not everyone c-can be a su-superstar singing, m-many spend their lives j-just trying for a c-chance and get nothing b-before they starve. S-Studies... G-Grades are solid, f-firm, n-not everyone can get them e-either but t-there are less p-people trying to a-and they can get you a job, any job. It d-doesn't depend on l-luck or b-being liked b-by others, it d-depends just on yourself.

[And again it sounds as if she's just reciting it, repeating what she has been told, explained, over and over. That's right, so what if Kaito-sensei thought she had talent? Or the other kids in the chorus... It doesn't mean anything, maybe if she had joined the chorus and sang... Everyone else would have disliked her, or something. An d becoming a professional? That was stupid, pointless, crazy, a girl like her didn't have even the basics for it. Studies were better, safer, definitive.]

[Okay, that's a lot of talking and all Beat hears is "blah blah blah this is what I've been told."]

Bullshit. Tha's why they dreams, yo. Jus' 'cause you ain't gonna make it don' mean you don' try.

[She just looks at him.]

W-Why is my dream n-not good enough? H-how do you know other d-dreams are better than mine?

[Besides the glaring fact that it doesn't sound like her real dream.]

'Cause it don't sound like it's yo' dream, yo. Sounds like the crap my parents fed me when I told 'em I didn't like school.

W-Why can't it just be b-both my m-mama's and my dream?

[What proofs does he have of that?]

M-Maybe it j-just sounds bad t-to you...

Yeah see? It's yo' mom's dream for you, ain't it.

Listen, you really wanna do what she says? Aight, whateva' yo' choice. But if you gotta dream 'sides whateva' yo' mom says is the right thing? Maybe you betta' take a second look, yo.

You only get one shot at this, you gotta make it count.

I-if it's my c-choice... W-Why do y-you make it s-sound as if ch-choosing to a-agree with my mama i-is the w-wrong choice?

Y-You don't know... M-Maybe I a-already l-looked at th-things a-and realized th-that my m-mama's r-right. T-That o-others w-were lying t-to fool me a-and hurt me a-and my mama...

[Even if that wasn't their intention, even if they weren't after hurting them... It all happened because they were telling her she could do it and she believed it. But her mother was right, it was suspicious anyone would say she, who had never sang, had a natural talent. There wasn't such a thing after all.]

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