Flash: (winces) I'm so sorry dear reviewer!! I am afraid I just got lazy and decided I wouldn't update. So sorry!! But here is your update.
Random Dude: Like, Flash does not own Sonic. Sega-dude does. Can I go get drunk now??
Flash: Yeah, whatever. Now, shoo!! Oh, and this means flashback. Got it?
I yawn sleepily as the plane drones on. It seems my trusty CD player has failed me at the wrong time. Great, four hours of complete boredom. That leaves me with nothing to do but think. And I hate thinking. It worsens my migrane.
I search through by duffel bag, desperately looking for something interesting to do. Eventually I found a mirror, so I started reflecting the sunlight into odd shapes on the small cabin walls. This would have kept me entertained for quite a while, had not the only other passenger in the plane started glaring at me. I stick my tongue out at him.
Topaz says I need to too grow up more. But that's very hard to do when you rarely had time to in the first place....
Topaz was born to my mother out of wedlock, with a guy Mum couldn't even remember the name of. As such, she always took care to do everything as perfect as possible. She told me once, when I was eight, that she didn't want Mum to regret anything about her. However, Topaz' sheer perfection made it easy for me to slip through unnoticed.
Through my childhood, I could get away with pretty much whatever I wanted. Not to mention Da was a laid-back kind of guy. Mum always said I was just like him. And true, we both loved the same things. Da was a gem-cutter, worked for one of the finest jewelers. I remember looking at all the pretty gems, both rough and polished. I guess you can see where I got my name from.
So when Da died, I was devastated. I had nothing else to turn to; my school life sucked and at home Mum was always paying attention to Topaz.
I never really meant to start stealing gems; it just become sort of an addiction after I stole the first one. And I never got caught. But Mum was suspicious. She found one of the stolen jewels when I was around sixteen; told me she didn't want a thief in her house and kicked me out. Topaz wasn't at home at the time, she had gone away to college. Mum, with nothing else to do, reverted back into the drunken lush she used to be.
I spent the next two years in some really bad places. In and out of jail for the first year, then I got better. I suppose I got a little cocky when I started leaving thank-you notes in place of the gems I stole but-hey! Have fun with something while it lasts, I say.
Anyways, I was in the middle of a big job; attempting to steal the worlds' largest diamond. But I broke the sacred rule.
I got caught.
And can you guess who was on the security team?
I've been living with Topaz ever since then. I really am grateful to her for helping me get on the straight and narrow path, but maybe getting me into top-secret ninja stuff was a little too much.
And yet, I consider it my repentance to the world, for being another bratty teenager; to much involved with herself to care about anyone else. Besides, I am good at it. The ninja stuff that is.
Oni: Stuff a sock in it.
Flash: Review!! Pleaase!! I need an ego-boost!!
Oni: You need a boost of something...
Flash: Stuff a sock in it.