Topaz POV:
Having met up with the boy who saved my life, at first I was reluctant to tell him anything about me. But the look on his face has told me that nothing I say will convince him otherwise, I might as well just tell him the truth instead of hiding it from him and having a stalker chase me around. Listening to his rapid-fire questioning, in the end, I give up and run away. Using my skills at disappearance magic, I manage to trick him into thinking I ran down an alley when I actually snuck straight ahead in a disguise.
"Damn, what's up with this persistence" I growl quietly to myself, hand placed over an incoming headache on my forehead, ignoring the stares directed my way as I progress down the street, taking in the sights and clutching the guitar close to my chest, blocking it from the view of most people behind me, not taking any chances the boy has caught onto my tail. You never know with fans, they tend to do that after finding out your true identity, or so I have heard from friends.
Finally making my way to the marketplace for foodstuffs, I take out the shopping list mother had placed on the side and start buying the essentials we need, using the money saved up on my account which I had made during random events I have done in parks after leaving PriPara over the past few years. What can I say, people gave me money even though I was just playing the guitar to satisfy myself, taking me for another street performer. Never deny the hospitality of other though, hence I accepted it.
An hour of shopping, browsing and exploring later, I walk away from the marketplace with two big bags at my side, looking at the contents, they are from discount food stores and full of proteins and vegetables, planning on making proper food for my family, rather than forcing them to be under the recommended level of nutrients, like my own meager self. Smiling faintly when I see the food in my bags, I clench my hands around the bag straps and make my way home, getting the odd feeling that somebody is watching me, but ignoring it as I do not feel any harm in letting people stare, idols get stared at all the time do they not? I have come to terms with it.
Finding my way home took me another hour, curse you pedestrian traffic and crowded streets with barely any signs! Curse you short height that can hardly see above anybody else's chests! Grumbling nonsensically to myself, I walk in the front door to a panicked mother and a worried faced little sister. I smile softly at them and raise my grocery hands towards them, indicating where I have been. My mother sighs with visible relief on her face while Alice comes to drag me inside, clearly unamused with how long I was gone. What can I say, being in a coma for three years then, soon after waking up, going to explore the city, is most likely a very bad idea.
Setting the food on the counter, I start preparing ingredients for the meal while getting an earful from my worried family members, telling me to be more careful and to stop taking so many risks, worrying them so much. I pay it very little heed, although I might sound mean and selfish, but I have things to do now. I can't just sit back and relax when the goals I have to reach are so far away. I have been looking at PriRhym all this time and, no surprise here, they are even higher leveled than before. If I continue letting them get ahead of me, I won't be able to wipe the influence they have grown up all this time, in the end, this will lead to them having a stable foothold over future idols and the power to push them towards a certain path. I can tell the path my former teammates will take is likely horrible.
Having resigned myself to doing my all to stop them, I continue making food. Family having finally calmed down slightly and gone back to their own thing, I finish preparations and start making the curry. Humming my the song signature to idols, the same one Lala sung on her first audition. Even adding a dance to my steps as I move around the kitchen, apparently used to cooking and dancing at the same time even though the experience is entirely foreign to me, being careful not to accidentally fall on a knife and destroy all of the progress I have made over the time I have been training, not that its all physical progress, recently it has been mostly mental afterall.
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Pri Para, Stand Back Up!
FanfictionTopaz was once a member of the Pri Para idol group PriRhym, one of the greatest up and coming idol groups at the time. Her team members consisted of Pearl, Diamond and Gemstone, although the team seemed really close on the outside, every in the team...
