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Let me ask you, a few questions.
And you need to answer them honestly if you choose to.
First:
Do you love music?
....yeah. Stupid question. Who doesn't?
Everyone loves at least one form of music or another.
They might make us feel sad. Feel happy. Feel motivated. Feel Energized and Alive. Etc Etc.
Anyway, Second Question:
Do you feel like you're good enough at just being who you are?
As if do you Ever felt like, you were never good enough for whatever you're Passionate about?
And everyone tells you to just....quit?
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Third question:
Have you ever felt lost? Aimless? Thrown away and discarded?
Nothing to do. No goals. Struggling to...just, find SOMETHING, ANYTHING to Do or Be?
We all have at least some goals set in our heads. A kid wants to be an astronaut when he grows up. And at least 4 or 3 out of 10 kids, actually go to NASA Training for that when they grow up.
So with that, What about YOU? Have YOU ever had a goal set in your mind, or are you left without one?
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...fourth question:
Ever wanted to be something more? Or something else?
Let's interpret this question in two metaphors.
first:
Imagine you've been caged up. You've got food, water, a TV, PC, Cellphone, Some plants for you to water, all of that.
But you want to leave that cage, and be whatever you want to be. To be something Big. Strong. Confident.
You're probably scared to walk out of that cage.
You're probably too weak to break out.
Or some 3rd thing.
second:
Imagine you're Small. Small as an ant. So small no one even notices you.
You fall down and hurt yourself. No one sees or cares.
You start crying, yelling or screaming. No one hears or bothers.
You want to be BIG. So big, no one can ignore you anymore.
Everyone can hear you. Everyone can see you.
Have you ever felt like one of these 2 examples?
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...Fifth Question:
Ever felt like you're a burden on your friends and Family?
Like, do you have a stable relationship with them?
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...Final question:
Who are you?
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........Alright, Okay.
I'll stop.
You're clearly just getting confused at all of this.
You're here for a story.
Not...therapy. Or whatever the hell this is.
To tell you the truth, these question's really don't matter in the grand scheme of things. You can just ignore them if you want.
You can answer or not. Your choice.
But all of that aside. Let's finally get to this story.
This is a story, about losing your way.
This is a story, about making up for mistakes.
This is a story, about standing up for one's self.
This is a story, about becoming more than what you're told you are.
But more than anything else,
This, is a Love Story.
Well, ALL stories are kind of Love stories.
At least the good ones are.
But this one...
This is A love story....
about a Rockstar,
and a Nobody.
Oh. Look at the clock.
We're out of time.
Be seeing ya later!
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"Uuuh, You coming up?"
The Radio blurted out.
"Need a sec. Stop worrying." Eve answered the radio on the front pocket of her jacket.
...while still just sitting and just snaping her fingers.
"They're waiting."
"Don't we like them waiting a little?" Eve smirked.
"Yeah, but we don't like them Bored."
"Then don't be boring." Eve sassed further.
But then she flicked the cigarette out of her mouth and jumped up on her feet. She walked past a photo on the wall of herself, a green haired girl and a red haired man, all posing infront of a large building with the words: "Vanderlay" placed at the said building.
Eve walks infront of a mirror and checks out her hair.
"I can only noodle a sixteen for so long."
A different voice came from the radio.
"Sorry babe. Do a little flare or something. Make is Snazzy." Eve said
"Okay but seriously you need to get up here right-"
"Another second, alright? Pick the horses back up. Both of you." Eve said and kept checking her self out in the mirror one last time.
She tightened the scarf on her neck, but then her phone began to ring.
She pulled her phone out, with the word 'Daddy' Flashing on the call screen.
"Bombs away." Eve joked and pressed the green phone icon.
"WHERE ARE YOU?!?!"
"Getting ready."
"No. You're WASTING TIME! Get your butt on that stage or I'm coming down there MYSELF!"
"Daddy, chill out. Remember what Mamma said about your anger issues."
"Don't...don't bring your mother into this young lady!"
"Then stop being so angry all the time."
"We've burned too much Money on this and I won't let it go to waste because you're TOO BUSY BEING-"
"Abababab. I'm getting Angry vibes again."
"...Get. on. the. stage. NOW."
"Roger Roger. And...Daddy?"
"What now?"
"Love you."
"...Me too darlin'."
"Howl on!"
Eve said and hung up.
"Your daddy got angry again?"
The female voice from the radio teasingly asked.
"Nah. Crisis averted." Eve said.
She took one last look at herself in the mirror.
"...That's Eve." She quietly said, and looked down on the table beside the mirror and picked up a small picture of a baby, and placed it in her coat.
"Alright. I'm coming up now." Eve said into the Radio.
"Sorry to make you both worried."
"I wasn't worried."
The female voice said.
Eve leave's her room and walks past a few small little robots who were cleaning the floors.
And as she walked down the corridor, she came across a guitarist performer who was just sitting down.
"Heeeeeeey Eve. Weird that this is the end, isn't it? Well, for you. Not for me, obviously. My band is gonna keep doin stuff." the Guitarist said.
"Eh. Wasn't planning on doing this forever anyway." Eve said.
"Well, Still love you forever. Don't be strange." The Guitarist said.
"Right back. Maybe without us hugging the spotlight, you can have a real shot now." Eve joked.
"You kidding me? We're already cooler than you." the Guitarist shot back.
She walks further down, and finds another robot standing by the entrance to the stage.
It was short, ran on two wheels and had one eye.
"Miss Eve. Before you enter the stage I'd love to congratulate you on a well lived career." The robot talks with a fancy tone.
"Aww, Thanks." Eve smiled at the robot.
"Yes, It feels like it was just yesterday when I'd be gathering all the broken stage accessories and decorations after your performances. Ah, such nostalgic memories." The robot said.
"Aww, I'm flattered!" Eve said.
"Guess I'm just That Cool."
"Indeed." The Robot nodded.
The Eve walked to the entrance to the stage
But she then stopped right in the middle of the entrance.
"Hey." She spoke into the Radio.
"Yeah?"
The male voice asked.
"Guys, We'll be fine." Eve assured.
"But...It's just_"
The female voice tried to speak.
"We're gonna be okay. Okay?" Eve said.
"...We'll be fine."
The female voice sighed.
"Let's...make a memory." Eve said, and finally walked onto the stage.
Soon, Eve stood on the stage with her 2 bandmates right there with her.
And the first few notes finally rang out for the crowd.
The crowd screams as the music finally starts.
As the guitar notes play out, Eve could feel one singular tear drop down from her face before she stands right before the mic infront of her.
"...I had it all again last night"
"the shiver in your eyes"
"The pictures into time"
"a mirror into my..."
"But why does it hurt so much this time?"
Then, the drummer starts to join in.
"I never thought it'd be this soon"
"I lay awake inside my room"
"Close my eyes and ask at you"
"And why do I care so much this time?"
Eve sings along, and slowly walks over to the crowd as they all cheer for her.
"You're just a part of my life"
"and you're just a part of my life"
"and you're just a part of my life..."
Then, her eyes falls on a kid in a yellow T-Shirt in the crowd, staring at her mesmerized.
Eve smiles and waves at the kid as the kids just stares in awe.
"...And I can't get rid of you..."
The boy reaches out to Eve...before everything went blank.
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"...you're jus'...a part a' mah liiife.....you're jus' a parta mah liiiiiiife....."
"Next."
"...Justa parta mah liiiiiiiife...."
"Neeeext."
"Can't get......rida....yoooouuuuuuuuu~~~"
"I said NEXT!"
"GAH!!"
Finally, a teenage boy with short brown hair, yellow jacket and his right arm in a cast, who was...apparently singing in his sleep, fell from his seat into a rude wakeup call.
"Uuh huh?" The boy stood up, in a confused state.
"Heeeeeey." The Robot from behind the desk calls out in boredom.
"OH!" The boy finally got back up and walked over to the desk, and placed a paper down before the robot.
The Robot took the paper and looks into it.
"Chai...is it?"
"YYYup." Chai proudly nodded.
"Profession....'Rockstar'?" The Robot asked, looking up at Chai who was posing just like his photo.
"FUTURE, Rockstar~" Chai corrected.
And the Robot just stares unimpressed.
"Ya know...Like them??" He then pointed at a poster on the wall, containing Eve and her band.
The Robot keeps staring unimpressed.
And Chai then follows up with simulating the act of playing a guitar on stage.
"...Are you done?" The Robot asked.
"Uh-em...Yes?" Chai answered.
"Ugh. Whatever." The robot then handed over a card to Chai.
"Here's your Project Armstrong Pass. And Welcome to Vanderlay Campus."
Chai took the pass and runs through the hallways into an open area
As he runs through the streets, a projection of a blonde lady in a colorful outfit begins to speak.
"Welcome, Applicant, to Project Armstrong: technology perfectly fused with the human body. Together, we create better lives."
Soon, Chai made it to a public gathering with many other people present.
"And now! The CEO of Vandelay Technologies...KALE VANDELAY!"
An announcer speaks as someone walks on the platform above the crowd.
The crowd cheer and clap as Kale Vandelay waves.
"What a historic day! You're the best of the best, and about to be even better, Thanks to our Robot enhancements." The CEO announces.
"Vandelay has always been about helping those in need. And you all in Project Armstrong, are about to show the world just how special you can become."
The crowd breaks into cheers.
"Now go! Get ready for a better life!
As Kale Vandelay walks away, a...strangely glowing cat also jumps down from one of the upper structures to somewhere else.
Chai then starts to move through the crowd toward the front gate.
"Uh, I'm with him...Special pass here, OOPS, Sorry They called my name. OW!"
But then he felt someone running into his stomach.
He looks down and sees a small, blue haired girl in a school uniform and a white bow on the back of her hair.
"S-Sorry!!" the girl said and ran off.
"N-No problem!!" Chai called out to the girl, at least tried to, before he kept moving one.
And then he jumped over two teens his age, both with purple hair with the exception of one of them having shorter hair and the other having a long ponytail.
"H-HEY!" the girl angrily called out.
"Sorry! Gotta go in!" Chai called out.
"Wait you A$$&%le It's my BROTHER'S TURN_" The girl angrily yelled, but the automated door closes right behind Chai as he...pretty much cuts in line through someone elses turn.
Then, a much newer Robot demands Chai to give in his belongings.
Chai was then left in a hospital gown with his arm still in a cast, and he puts in his music player last before the Robot...aggressively kicks him away before putting his belongings on a moving platform.
While Chai moves on through the facility, Just above him was Kale Vandelay followed by a giant female in a uniform, a man in white coat and a hat, and a pare of blonde Twins.
"You two promised me the best of the best!" Kaled yelled at the twins.
"Kale, it's like, DAY ONE." One of the twins said.
"We only make the news and commercials. It takes time to have people get the word around that it works." The other twin said.
"Don't Pin it on Rekka! Tell those Grandstander Zanzo and that MAD SCIENTICT Sforzando Whackjobs in R&D to_" The big female one tried to argue.
"Ugh, Rekka, blaming those two for your MID performance is like, SOOOOO Last gen now." One of the twins sassily mocked.
"Like, you don't even know how Sforzando looks like." The other twin also sassed.
"Well if he or she wasn't such an ANTI SOCIALLY COWARD rekka woulda have her have a piece of my_"
"ENOUGH!! We need people with influence, And you're giving me..." he then...just so CONVENIENTLY... picked up Chai's music player from one of the moving belonging's case.
"...LOSERS!!"
"Kale, you need to give this time." One of the twins said.
"Rome wasn't made in One day." The other twin also said.
"They've got a point, ya know." The man in the white trench coat and the hat said.
"Oh what? WHAT? you're a businessman now DC? Are you now?" Kale said to the DC.
"Listen up! No Slip-ups! And No Defects!"
He then starts to walk away with DC following him.
"Well? Have you found her yet?" Kale asked.
"Not yet. She's been really absent these past few weeks." DC answered.
"So what? She finally gave up? That what you're saying." Kale asked.
"Doubt it." DC shrugged.
"Don't worry. Rest and H.A.R.M will take care of her if she starts up anything again."
"You better! I don't outfit your little band for free." Kale said as he looks over Chai's music player.
"Psh. Piece of junk."
And then throws it away off the railings.
"...You...do know that belonged to one of the candidates, right?" DC pointed out, which Kale didn't bother listening to.
As Chai's music player falls, it also falls into a moving cart filled with...strange, battery shaped containers inside it.
"You sure it's safe to move these stuff here? I mean...this is where Project Armstrong is getting handled." One Robot that was moving the Cart asked.
"Sforzando said to just put them wherever. So....Wherever!" The other robot answered.
"Okaaaaay....but what exactly are these things anyway?" The first Robot asked.
"Dunno. Some outdated energy capsules apparently. Just put 'em over there." The second Robot instructed.
So they pushed the cart and left it in a corner, which caused the music player to bump into the edge of one of the batteries and one of the songs started playing on low Volume.
....And then the battery close to it started to shake.
Meanwhile, Chai was literally strapped to a metal bedframe, which was moving down a railing.
He felt excited, REALLY Excited.
Until...His Music player fell right on his chest, which was playing one of his music's he had saved onto it.
"Huh?" Chai looked down, and saw it was indeed, his own Music player.
"Uuhhh...What is_"
But then he heard the sound of some stuff falling over from his right.
He notices a wrench and a few other equipment's all falling from an upper platform.
He looks up to see what was going on....Uuuuuntil Someone fell next.
"OOF!" the person, falling from what seemed to be at least 10 feet from above, grunts as they fall down.
"WHOA!!" Chai gasps, still strapped to the metal frame.
"H-Hey! Are you okay?"
"...Oooow....." The person grunts and finally sits up.
"...whoa...." Chai stares in awe, with a blush running across his face.
And just on cue...One of the songs in his music player starts randomly.
"I see trees of Green~"
"Red Roses too~"
The pink haired girl stands up, with a yellow jacket wrapped around her waist and a pink suitcase also beside her.
"I see them bloom"
"For me and you"
"Where....am I?" She asked as she looked around.
Chai, still blushing, quickly cleared his throat before he regained his composure.
"Ehem...Hey there, beautiful~" Chai said in a cool tone.
"You come around these parts often?"
"And I think to myself~"
"...Dude, Are you hitting on me right now?" The girl asked.
*SLAM!*
Just in time for an upper part of the project to come down right onto Chai's face.
"What a wonderful world~~~"
This is a love story.
About a Rockstar...and a Nobody