OOC: Five Firsts, Set 001 | LOVE
Overall Rating: PG-13, for suggestive content and language.
Characters: Just ickle Jackson and a couple of peripheral Boeshane OCs.
Word Count: 500.
Author's Notes: Themes are taken from five_firsts, as I wanted a little inspiration. Prompt five is written in reference to the Nexus Time LOL.
1. Kiss
It's a lazy afternoon, one of the few between school and apprenticeship, and he's tiredly lying in the sand along the beach after an improvised ball game. A gentle breeze travels across the peninsula, cutting through the warmth of the sun and spinning the garden of pinwheels planted all around. He's twelve years old and he's content. The sand is hot beneath him and she's blotting out the sun with her huge smile and golden hair. She leans over his prone form and kisses him, chastely on the lips, because she has to go and it means nothing at all.
2. Date
It's a date, with italics and emphasis and subtle distinctions from a regular date, because there are so many variations on a theme by the fifty-first century. Dates, dates, regular dates, group dates, casual dates, serious dates, dates that lead places and ones that go nowhere. It doesn't give him a headache, because he's used to the distinction, but he still doesn't know what to expect from his emphasis-expressed-date. He's fourteen and holding hands with a boy at a party. Or, well, his date has a smooth tentacle wrapped around his wrist. It's the same thing in the fifty-first century.
3. Proposal
"Let's run away and get married."
At sixteen, Jackson's thoughts are entirely occupied with talking to his counselor about non-existent suicidal musings, taking the focus away from his dead brother, than anything else. The suggestion earns his friend a snort of laughter.
"I'm serious, Jack."
"Seriously stupid." He hates when people call him that and she knows it. It's penance for laughing.
"Don't be an asshole."
"Don't make stupid suggestions and I won't."
She's sitting up, looking for her shirt. "Forget it."
"Already have." He lets her go without regret, only stuck on the 'run away' part of the idea.
4. Break Up
As it turns out, when you refuse to take someone's casually serious suggestion of marriage at anything more than laughable face value, they don't come back from walking out on you without apology. It isn't a tragedy, in his opinion, when he isn't sorry. He's sixteen and fixated on her words, not her intentions. Who wants to get married at sixteen, anyway? Especially considering he's one of those "traditionalists" who thinks you have to feel a certain way about someone for that. Be in love. It isn't really an official break-up until he leaves for Freedom and never comes back.
5. Make Up
(Jackson does apologize eventually. He misses his mother and finally admits to himself that Gray's dead, so he returns home. It's been two years since he ran away. He tells her he's sorry, but only just before leaving again. This time, it's to join the military and do his bit. He kisses her when she cries and promises he'll be back, not knowing that when he does return he'll be too different. Indifferent. Traumatized and scarred. His mind is festering and in time everything will be poisoned.
While it doesn't actually happen, it is one possibility from an infinite number.)