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Jaxson 'Jax' Tesla Remember the words you told me, you'd love til the day I die? Surrender my everything cause you made me believe you're mine. Yeah, you used to call me baby now you're calling me by name. Takes one to know one yeah. You beat me at my own damn game. 

[jaxtesla]

cntxros:

Harmony smirked, looking over at Jax’s friends drooling over her friend Michelle. “Yeah, you don’t really seem like the strip club type. But then again, I barely know you. Maybe you secretly are the strip club type.” Her focus turned back to his friends, and then she gave Jax a sly smile. “You want to show them you’re having a good time?” she asked, a plan formulating in her brain. “Because I have an idea.”

Jax let out a laugh as he shook his head. “Nah, you got it right the first time. I’m pretty much an open book, especially when I’m drunk. Honestly I surprised even myself by coming  here today.” Jax raised a brow, the girl seemed like trouble in the best way. He was honestly scared by the thought of her plan but then again, he had nothing to lose. “Tell me more, I’m intrigued.” A sly smiled crossed his face as he looked back at her, hanging on her every word. 

[mchcxl-blog]

“This is what feminism looks like, sir,” Harmony said to the customer wearing a Make America Great Again hat as she moved away from him and towards the other club patrons. Being the lead dancer of the shift, Harmony had the freedom to do what she wanted on the stage. And people like him made her angry, because she knew that they probably thought less of her for being on that stage so scantily clad, even though he was the one paying money to see it. “Hello, there,” she said to the familiar face she spotted in the audience. “Surprised to see you here.”

@jaxtesla

[jaxtesla]

After a lot of fighting and guilt trips his friend finally managed to convince Jax to come to his bachelor party at a strip club. He sipped on his beer as he looked around trying to get comfortable, but he was having a hard time. His eyes flitted up to the stage for a second but he was shocked to see a familiar face. The girl that had helped him a couple of nights ago dancing on stage. He was so in shock he didn’t notice she was walking towards him until he heard her voice. “I could say that surprise is mutual.” A smirk gracing his face. “I’m just here for my buddy’s bachelor party, always the type to go out with a bang. Literally.” He said as he rolled his eyes at his friends that were currently throwing dollar bills at another dancer. 

[jaxtesla]

luc-ian:

 Lucian knew the hit would lead to swollen knuckles but it beat the sound of the nagging voice in his head any longer. He was still peaked with anger and would be for a while since his control of it was obviously little to none. “He fucking needed to learn his place.” Lucian mumbled rubbing his knuckles. “Don’t fucking annoy me and shit doesn’t come right for your face.” 

Jax put his arms up in defense although it was obvious he wasn’t sacred of him. Jax had been in worse situations, all of this coming as no surprise. “Hey you wont see any trouble coming from me. I like my face the way it it.” He joked, then stuffing his hands in his pockets. “Why don’t we go check first aid? See if we can find an ice pack or something.”

[luc-ian]

 Not even five minutes into the ferry ride and Lucian was having a full blown episode once again. People knew just how to push his buttons and with the excitement of the crowd already stirring things up Lucian began to tick when one person becan to push his anger all until Lucian turned around quick and decked the guy in the face with full forced anger. Once the guy was down and not saying anything else, Luc huffed and looked around. “What you got anything you want to fucking add?” 

[jaxtesla]

Jax leaned against the railing of the ferry, puffing smoke from his cigarette. He hadn’t been on the island for long but he already missed the mainland. The ferry, of course, was over crowed with people that were just as eager as him to get the fuck out of there. One person in particular was annoying and getting on Jax’s last nerve, he had half a mind to tell him something until someone beat him to the punch. Literally. The amusement was clear on his face as the man went down. As everyone stood around stunned, Jax started to clap with a smile on his face. “Thank you, seriously. Someone had to take the prick down and you clearly just did us all a service. I don’t think I could’ve listened to him for another second.”

[jaxtesla]

cntxros:

Laughing, Harmony linked his pinky with her own, and smiled at him. “Alright, I’ll hold you too that. If we aren’t the best of friends by the end of this walk, I’ll be upset.” As he rambled, she shook her head to herself. God, he was plastered. He definitely didn’t seem like the type of guy who went out and got hammered frequently. She nodded along with his thought process as he talked about directions, and shrugged as he talked about her nickname. “I don’t think Harmony is longer than Victoria, actually, bud. Harmony’s three syllables, Victoria’s four. I got it at my job, just don’t know what I did to get it.” Once again, Harmony nodded. “Yep. My whole life, me and my sister have dreamed of finding our soulmates on the beautiful Anteros Island. Seems like a bunch of bullshit now. How about you?”

“Not just friends, best friends. It’s an important difference. Best friends are forever, remember that.” He pointed at her trying to give a serious look but failing. “Vic-tor-i-a. Har-mon-y.” He said as he clapped along with the syllables like they teach you in elementary. “Huh, I guess you’re right. Your job? That where you’re walking home from?” He usually wasn’t this talkative or intrusive, but something about the alcohol made him push all that aside. “I moved here with my girlfriend and one of my best friends. My girlfriend and I thought we would be soulmates but turns out we were wrong and the universe put me in some big cosmic joke. So yeah, complete bullshit. I mean who could be better for her than me?” He stopped him his tracks and threw out his arms. “Fuck you, universe.” He yelled out, throwing his head back. 

[jaxtesla]

cntxros:

“Thought’cha had a girlfriend, handsome,” Harmony replied with a smirk. She looked at the direction he was pointing, and then at her phone for a compass. “That’s East, actually,” she remarked, “but North works too. It’s not that big of a deal–we can just say forward, if that makes it easier for you.” She laughed a little bit at his drunken comments, shaking her head as he laughed at his own joke. “Victoria Collier, but everyone just calls me Harmony. Don’t ask how I got the nickname, because I have no idea.”

“More like win you over in a friend way, completely platonic. Pinky promise.” In his drunken state he scouts honored instead of a pinky promise. Jax looked in in the direction he pointed like it had betrayed him. “Eh, North, East, never eat soggy waffles. All the same, no one really keeps up with it really. But, forward works. Less thinking.” He nodded as he walked along side her. “See, I got my nickname because Jax is a shorter version of Jaxson but Harmony is even longer than Victoria, how does that even make sense? But I like it, it suits you better.” He gave her a sloppy smile as he continued walking. “Have you always lived here?”

[jaxtesla]

cntxros:

“We’ll see if I believe you after this walk,” she said, putting her hand on his back to usher him forward. “Where do you live? Like, what direction? Also, are you going to vomit while we do this, because if you are, warn me.” She looked around the busy streets of Anteros and took in the beauty. She hoped that walking this man home would help her feel safer while she made her nightly walk, one that didn’t always end in getting home safe. “What’s your name, sugar?” she asked, trying to make conversation with this complete stranger.

“Oh, so now I have a chance to win you over? I can promise that I won’t disappoint.” He smiled at her then looked around trying to find a familiar landmark that would point him in the right direction. “North.” He shouted as he pointed to a familiar statue to the left of him. “I’m just kidding, I actually have no idea what direction north is right now, but it’s that way and I will give you a warning signal before anything goes south. Heh, North and South” He chuckled under his breath at his unplanned joke. “I’m Jaxson Tesla, but everyone just calls me Jax. And you are?”

[jaxtesla]

jfcryanscott:

“You know that once i get going on a drawing i completely zone out.” she laughed, not evening looking up to him while he talked “see that older man over there?” she asked “the one in the rocking chair outside his hardware shop, he always as the biggest smile on his face.” her attention turned to the man he was talking about who was doing yoga. “Jax, my god that’s disgusting.” 

Jax wanted to tell her that the habit was dangerous but he let it slide for now and scanned the park for the man she was talking about. His eyes finally caught him  and darted back and forth between the drawing and the man. “Wow, it looks scarily accurate. My new goal in life is to be just as happy as that man.” He let out a laugh at her reaction. “I told you it was bad, you didn’t have to look but now at least you feel my pain.”

[jaxtesla]

oliver-forrest:

“We could go to the grocery store,” Ollie suggesting, laughing at the image of the pair strolling through the produce aisle together. “I always forget to put my take-out in the fridge, y’know?” He thought that he’d learned his lesson when he’d eaten an entire plate of spoiled take-out a few months ago. He thought that he’d never recover. “I’m starting to think that my soulmate doesn’t exist,” he explained with a laugh, masking his discontent with the situation. “I haven’t seen a laurel leaf anywhere…” He was jealous of Jax, who’d already found his match in Sofia – Ollie assumed, anyway. “We’re alright,” he replied with a shrug, taking a sip of his beer. “How’s Sofia?”

“We could, but the real question is are we going to?” Jax knew it would never really happen. He only went to the grocery store when it was a really necessity, usually opting to just order in.  “I know that and sadly so do bugs.” He said, giving him a pointed look. Jax always tried to catch whenever Ollie left his food out but sometimes it was fun letting Ollie find it himself. “Me too. Starting to believe this whole soulmates thing is bullshit. Sofia and I are great, I love her. How could there be someone out there that’s better for her than me?” Jax shook his head and propped his feet up on a chair. “Alright, huh?” Jax could sense that there was something there bothering him, but he didn’t want to pry too far. “Sof’s good, I just wish we could spend more time together but between classes and life we hardly ever get time. But we’re still good.”

[jfcsamcohen]

It had been less than a week that Ryan had showed up on the Island. She was still getting used to the place, she had met a few people. Her favorite spot to hang out was outside in the corner table at the coffee shop, it had a great view and heavily populated so she could easily find a muse and draw for hours on end. She hadn’t heard the person come up next to her. “Holy shit, you scared me.” she said covering her sketchbook before looking up. 

[jaxtesla]

Jax smiled down at the girl he had grown to call a friend. “Sorry Ry, I told you I was just going to get a coffee.” He said as he sat down next to her . “So who’s you latest victim? Please don’t tell me it’s that old man doing yoga because I really do not want to see that illustrated. Hell, I don’t even want to see that now.” He said looking over at him wishing he could shoo him away. “That image it permanently burned in my cornea.”

[jaxtesla]

cntxros:

“It doesn’t, really,” Harmony admitted, waiting for him to take her phone. “I get a lot of people who have girlfriends or wives who still try and make a move on me, but you seem like a nice guy, so I guess I believe you.” She smirked as he panicked about Uber. “There’s no Uber here, sorry. I could call you a taxi, or I could be a nice person and walk you home… whichever you’d prefer.” She looked at him, putting her phone back in her pocket.

“Well that’s fucking depressing. I promise you that I’m not like that, although I get the feeling that you won’t believe me no matter what I say.” He said as he took the phone from her hand. He opened it only to be disappointing when she said that there wasn’t Uber. He handed her phone back to her and checked his pockets. “Well, considering the fact that I don’t have and cash I think I might have to take you up on that walk. They really should get Uber here though, taxi’s are just inconvenient.” He shook his head as he looked back at her.

[pencap]

You love him,  you do, and here’s the miracle: he loves you too. You are allowed to lick off the colour from his lips to listen to the hymns in his pulse to bask in the sunlight of his voice You are allowed  to have him. You love each other, you do, and here’s the tragedy: it’s not enough. You are allowed to watch the sun swallow him whole and burn him up to stain your fingers to the bone holding him together to count the constellations in his eyes as they blink out You are not allowed to save him.

you can love him, but you can’t keep him ( j.p. )

[jaxtesla]

oliver-forrest:

Ollie swung around in his desk chair, turning toward his open bedroom door as he heard Jax enter the apartment. “There’s only disgusting beer, too!” he called back, pushing himself up from his seat and heading toward the kitchen. “There’s some left over pizza on the stove,” he informed his friend. “I ordered some last night.” He’d stayed up far too late – avoiding a homework assignment by playing video games – and ended up calling Pizza Hut at three in the morning. “Raine and Sofia are going to leave us if we don’t start eating like adults,” he added with a laugh, grabbing a beer from the fridge.

Jax laughed as he heard Ollie yell from his room. “Fucking hell, man.” He shook his head, he settled on the var beer needing a drink after the day he had. He lifted the lid of the pizza box giving it a look. “Yeah, I don’t think there’s enough pizza. Plus, I don’t trust it. How long has this been sitting out? We have this thing called a fridge for a reason and you can’t even say that it wouldn’t fit because there is absolutely nothing.” He sat down at the table leaning back in the chair. “Isn’t that the truth, if it not that then it’s going to be this whole soulmate shit. Why did we decide to move here again?” He joked, but deep down he meant it. After they moved here things with Sofia were different, harder even. “How is it going with Raine anyway? I hardly ever see her around.”

[jaxtesla]

cntxros:

Walking home after her shift was Harmony’s least favorite thing in the world. Her apartment wasn’t too far away from the club, but there were always creeps hanging around trying to get Harmony “after hours”–something she wasn’t particularly interested in. When this young, attractive man approached her, she assumed he wanted the same. “Why do you need my phone?” she asked, raising an eyebrow. “You can borrow it, but if I go home and find a new random number in it, you can bet your ass I’ll delete it. So either do something useful with it or get out of my way.” She pulled her phone out of her bra and offered it to him, an irritated look on her face.

Jax chuckle at how forward she was, she was beautiful but he knew better than to do that. Plus he already had an amazing girlfriend. "I promise I won't put my number in. If it makes you feel any better I actually have a girlfriend." He stated hoping maybe it would make her trust him. "I just wanted to get an Uber. Do you have Uber download, please tell me you do. Wait. Fuck. Is there even Uber on this fricken island? It's like a world-wide thing, right? Or is it just in the states? God, I can't even think straight I knew I should have done another round of shots. Shit." He muttered, he hadn't been on the island that long and never really had the need for an Uber since he had a car. Now he had the feeling like he really was going to be stranded.

[jaxtesla]

Jax walked out of the bar a little buzzed, he had agreed to go out with some of his classmates and maybe let it get a little too far.  He took his phone out of his pocket, attempting to call an Uber only to find that the battery had died leaving him stranded. All of his friends had left minutes before him and now he was left with no way home. “Just my fucking luck.” He groaned, running a hand through his hair. He looked up the street and saw a figure walking. “Excuse, sorry excuse me miss.” He called running after her, a little slower than usual in his inebriated state. “Could I borrow your phone? I swear I wont run off with it, I could even give you mine as collateral. Although it is dead, so it won’t do you much good.” @cntxros

[jaxtesla]

Jax walked into the house, taking off his shoes and dropping his keys in the bowl. “Hey bro, I’m home! Please tell me we don’t just have beer in the fridge because I am staving.” He yelled throughout the apartment shrugging off his jacket and making his way to the kitchen. He swore he felt like he did groceries everyday but they still never seemed to have food in here. He opened the fridge and of course found nothing to eat. “How the hell?” He let out a huff and settled on grabbing a beer popping it open and taking a swig. @oliver-forrest

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