-Rock applies to various art businesses online and in person...-

"Ah... I don't think anybody big likes my art..." Rock thought as he looks at another rejection letter in his email "I might be in a little trouble...". He started looking at his and others': Rock's was more artsy and leaned into childish looking, despite his taking art. classes. "Wonder if people hate my style then? Maybe I aughtta do something more realistic or get darker?"  he thought, and started looking up more mythology and actual people. 

Whenever Rock would go anywhere, he'd draw people he'd see on a device or on paper. This continued for a long time, he'd even grow tired despite loving to draw, and had to listen to something to keep himself awake. One day, he was drawing this huge landscape picture: it looked like a magical forest full of butterflies and strange looking denizens that resembled stars or angels. It was very bright and had many detail, he even had a way to animate the art and add music to make it seem alive. Rock was worried that people would think it was a.i. art, though... there's a specific style it copies and Rock's was very far from it. "What if this doesn't work out?" he wonders "I'd hate to get into something where you have to obey people constantly and barely get paid, my previous life..... it wasn't fun, there was a sense of doom at my parents' house because of how abusive one of them was and how submissive the other was to it. And there was pain, despite all of my friends being around..when I was with strangers there was pain and dread.. I hated it, I wanted to warm up more to my friends, but that constant feeling and knowing it--this dread wasn't just in my head: I was right... I hate it... My life has been great here, I don't want to go back to that by mistake, like before, nor intentionally. That kind of tension is probably why people make horrible decisions and things continued to get worse...". He stopped drawing and almost prayed, when he noticed the video he had running in the background again: "No one knows when it's their time, that's why it's important to always do everything as if it was the last thing you'd ever do." the a.i.narration said. Rock looks at the screen.... normally he doesn't take most of these videos seriously, but he recently learned that not everybody runs prompts and uploads it to Newtube. Some actually still think out scripts and just get the a.i. to read it for them... And even though he wasn't paying deep attention, he agreed with alot of the video as it sounded more human than having repeated words he heard what seemed like over a million times. "Forget this..." Rock thought as he stood "I'll just start back doing exactly the kind of art I like and see what catches on, in the mean time: Let's party!"

Rock used the extra money he DID get and started ordering pizza en mass, he didn't tell his siblings nor his parents. This was not only supposed to be a surprise, but his parents wouldn't be into it anyway, they're rarely both in one building anyway, due to their passions. But he knew his siblings was always ready to eat. So he ordered many pizza, sodas and juices for a couple weeks later when he knew they would be on break and waited as he continued his art.

A week before the food would arrive he started to call his siblings and ask what they were doing, which made them suspicious of his asking. So Disk and Jazz considered going to Rock's office nearest their hometown where he was calling from, and Anthe realized something was up right away and so she asks: "Did you burn down your own place?" with a laugh, "No... look I was just wondering if y'all would be in the neighborhood around... the 22?". His sister laughs "I guess I will be now! This better not be a prank!", "Whaaa? Ya know I don't do that! Maybe the other 2, but I don't pull that sh..well.. no I don't do that!" Rock joked...he made jokes sometimes such as just being goofy now, but he was adverse to pranking in his previous life as well. 

The 22nd came and the siblings went to his office and went in the open door, "W.T.F?" Anthe asks, "Yea.." Disk agrees, "This IS a prank or he went senile?" Jazz suggested. Rock hears them walking and talking and turns to see them already there, he has a handful of boxes he's putting away.  "Woah kay... um I didn't think you guys would be here already!" Rock exclaims in surprise, "You literally called us over!" Anthe laughs, "Yeah, ....were you trying to get us to help you clean?" Jazz jokes, "Noooo, I hate that... Why'd I ask someone else to do it?" Rock laughs as he puts the boxes away. "You need help.." Disk replied and picks up some boxes "This office looks like a spider nest!". " I don't have webs in here... at least not that I know of....." Rock replies with a questioning tone at the end. His siblings then start following Disk's example and putting stuff away "W,wait... that wasn't the reason!" Rock says sheepishly "(Besides, I'll have to move everything around now: I had a certain place for everything...) he thought, then goes outside "Dammit, where's the.." he said to himself and notices a car pulling up "There it is! Hey this is what I needed help with!" he says and his siblings come out with him as he gets frozen pizza out of a shipper's car. They helped him get that, and several bottles of soda and juice and moved it into his office kitchen: "So we're your grocery people now?" Anthe jokes, "No, look I wanted to do a pizza thing..party! That's why I waited until now for it to come." Rock explains. Disk cheered "FOOOOD!", until Jazz revealed "Cool, but I gotta take mine to go..". "I knew we're all always busy, so I order a bunch, just take whatever when you hata go!" Rock explains with a laugh. Disk then replied "I'm getting me one now!" and ran into the kitchen as did Anthe. Rock then realizes upon seeing Jazz follow her in "Uh oh... I only have the microwave in this office, this is gonna take forever."..

The next hour or so was filled with eating, drinking and the siblings randomly leaving the office to buy or bring one of their own appliances to microwave, toast or bake more pizzas at once. As well as get toppings as Rock only ordered cheese and triple cheese toppings pizza. After a while of joking and laughing they finally started to get full...greedy..but full.... "Got to go.. Before I implode and melted cheese gets in the carpet." was says, "Mmmm, more cheese!" Anthe jokes. Rock adds "I invite you here and you're going to destroy my name brand carpet?!" with a laugh. Their sister then adds "I need to go too, the fashion guys want me to be on time for the holiday event junk, so...." The two grab stacks of still frozen pizzas and. leave. Disk meanwhile takes another stack but asks "Hey Rock, do you really want to only do art? There's a bunch of other stuff out there..", " Yeah, I tried that other stuff. It's dull and mostly just some old guy yelling at you all the time..or younger guy, either one.." Rock replies, remembering his previous life.  "It can be fun too...I was thinking of quitting everything and getting into construction! Wanna join me!?" he asks, "Um.... I got a job I like already, I mean like a actual contract thing, even if I was bored, I can't just leave..." Rock somewhat lies. "Oh... alright, but you should try something else, I went to a factory the other day, and it was so much fun!" he said as he went to his car, the a.i. does all the boring stuff!".  the car is started up, "I'll probably look at it, but I'm pretty sure there's a reason people complain about that kinda work, hahaha!" Rock laughs, they wave at each other as he drives away. Rock then notices that yeah, he's been taking a very different path than his family.. How they got around and what they tried out was starting to get kinda different than them. They loved art, but his siblings started to stray from that in a few ways. Only Anthe seemed to stay doing something artsy, but his mother and dad were going down different paths it seems too... Rock thought about his decisions: he's successful but did he want to risk doing anything outside of what he KNEW he liked to do? Finding yourself and trying different things out after this are completely different things, especially when you already thrive at what you're doing.....mostly.... Rock goes back in that office to clean it up..

Later he's driven back to the office he actually stayed at and started work again: yeah...what he did got both attention and money, but what else was missing? 

-Did he want to do as he family did, or did he want to continue to explore every avenue of what he is doing now?-