one of gold star dance studios, early 2015 ; @jiangfmd
The public is not above throwing her away like a used piece of paper when they find she is longer to their amusement or entertainment, something she is quick to find out when the first piece of rumor about her hits the media. It’s unfounded, like most rumors are, but the people eat it up like they haven’t been fed for centuries and it doesn’t stop their mouths from running haywire which only fuels the fire. The company is quick to shut it down with a strict warning to not continue spreading baseless rumors around but the blow has been dealt and damage has been done – no take backs. She is told to lay low for a while, to steer away from the topic if asked, and to appear even more sweet, gentle, pristine than ever before just to throw them off their game. And she did. All of it, and more. But the people were relentless in their opinion; once they had an image of you they were going to stick with it through hell and high water. It didn’t matter that they knew nothing of what had actually transpired, they only knew of what they read in the media and they took it as a truth.
So she stopped playing along. At least for a little while.
And so it goes over the years with Lyra playing by their rules but bending them ever so slightly when no one was looking, cheating behind people’s back and telling white lies every now and then. She had to survive, she reasoned – to herself, to anyone who dared ask. All her efforts; it payed off.
Alas working all the time left little to no room to relax but she’s Lyra. She’ll find a way to relax, and if she wanted it she would do it with the help of another person. There are risks involved befriending a trainee at the same company but the pros outweights the cons, and that’s how she finds herself with Jiang. The younger male caught her eyes when she had passed by him practicing. She wasn’t looking for a relationship, she had made that clear from the very beginning but he didn’t seem to mind. Every now and then she finds herself in his presence, and today too, she finds him in the dance studio yet again.
“Knock, knock. Can I come in?”
