Marcia's Got a Date
Three people were in a room talking. Well, one was just observing, the second was talking, and the third was pretending not to listen.
"This isn't a good idea."
A mask was laying on a table. Pale hands reached for the mask grabbing it.
"You've been saying that for the last hour."
"You should cancel."
"No way. If I do that Marcia won't ever go on another date. This is my chance."
A figure stepped in front of the mirror and Jax was revealed smirking.
"...I still think this is a bad idea."
*SNAP*
"Mom that's enough! Please!"
"Oh, just one more!"
"Me too! Me too!"
"Star not you too!"
*SNAP*
Marcia blinked her eyes as a flash went off in her face. Star and Angie smiled as they held up cameras.
"It's not every day your daughter goes on her first date! I need lots of memories!" Angie gushed holding up a camera.
"I also need lots of pictures. This gonna go in our bestie scrapbook!" Star pulled Marcia close to her and took a selfie of them.
"Okay okay. Enough pictures Jax is gonna be here any min-"
*DING DONG*
"-unte."
"Oooo I'll get it!" Angie sang walking over to the door.
"No mom!" Marcia shouted chasing after her mother.
With a large smile, Angie opened the front door, standing with his back turned away was Jax. He was hunched over and seemed to be muttering to himself running his hands through his hair.
"Hello?" Angie called getting the boys attention.
Jax jumped and quickly turned around. "Hello! Mrs. Diaz! I am here for Marcia to go on her date with me."
"Come in, come in!" Angie tried to usher Jax inside but Marcia quickly got in between the two going outside.
"Okay, okay. Love you, Mom. I'll be back before 7. See ya Star." Marcia pushed Jax away from the door and down the front pathway all the way over to his moped.
Jax hops on the vehicle and Marcia gets on the back. Angie and Star are still standing the in the doorway smiling as they continued to snap pictures. As Jax drove off, Rafael finally arrived at the door standing behind his wife and Star.
"Oh, where is Marcia going? And who is that boy?" Rafael asked
"That's Jax," Star answered
"He's taking Marcia out on her first date," Angie smiled
"What!? Date?! Marcia's too young to date!" Rafael screamed. "Nooooo! Marcia come back!" He ran out the house into the street shouting at the moped driving off. "Marcia! Marcia! Bring back my baby girl!"
"So what are we doing?" Marcia asked Jax as he drove.
"It's a surprise but I promise you'll love it!" Jax said
After about 20 more minutes the moped slowly came to a stop and Jax hopped off. He turned and held his hand out to Marcia.
"Milady."
Marcia smiled and took Jax's hand. She looked up to see their destination and gave a delighted gasp.
"Oh wow, the Amusement Park. I haven't been here in years." Marcia smiled looking up at the sign.
"I thought you might like it," Jax said
Marcia turned away from the boy taking off her helmet and fixed her hair. As she was doing so Jax went to take off his helmet, he ruffled his hair to get it into the right style but paused when a strand of pink hair fell in front of his face.
"Wha-!"
"You say something?" Marcia asked turning around.
Jax quickly put his helmet back on giving Marcia a nervous smile. "Nope! Hey, why don't you head in while I lock my ride up."
"Okay," Marcia said
As Marcia walked away Jax removed his helmet and no longer found the pink hair. He took a deep breath to calm down.
"Okay you got this nothing is going to ruin this."
Montage Time
Marcia and Jax were walking by some vendors. She turned around to point something out to Jax she but saw the boy had a stick of cotton candy covering his face. Behind the cotton candy, Jax's eye color changed, before going back to normal.
Jax and Marcia were standing at a game booth, one where you pop balloons with darts. Jax reaches into his pocket and hands the vendor some money for the game. Marcia smiled grabbing some darts to pop the balloons. Jax went to pick up a dart but as he reached he notices the skin on his hand was turning paler. Marcia cheered as she popped a few balloons. She turned to Jax but the boy was gone. She looked around but couldn't spot him, she walked away from the booth searching for him. Once Marcia was gone Jax appeared from behind the counter of the booth looking around nervously. His hands turned back to normal, and he hopped over the booth running to Marcia had gone.
The two teens sat on a spinning teacup ride. As the ride starts up the force caused Marcia to slide into Jax. She gave a sheepish smile and blushed when Jax put an arm around her. Marcia was enjoying the ride that is until Jax suddenly pulled away from her causing her to fall face first on the seat of the teacup. She was unable to get up until the ride had stopped. As the ride ended she was finally able to sit up and watched Jax's sprinting form booking it away from the ride.
Jax led Marcia into a photo booth. The two sat down and smiled for the camera. When the pictures were over Marcia walked out grabbing the snapshots. There were five pictures starting with a smiling Marcia and Jax. The next one shows Jax pulling a blushing Marcia close to him in a side hug. The third one was of Marcia leaning in to give Jax a kiss on the cheek. The fourth one shows Jax covering his mouth, and the last one shows Marcia in the same position but Jax was midway running out of the booth.
Marcia sat on a bench her hands clenched resting on her lap as she let out a sigh frowning. Jax walked over hands behind his back. Noticing the boy, Marcia stood up facing him.
"Look, Jax, I think I'm gonna go," Marcia said
"What?! No no no!" Jax ran in front of Marcia to stop her from leaving. "Why would you want to go?"
"All day it seems like you've been avoiding me or like you don't really wanna be here with me. I guess this date just wasn't meant to be." Marcia said
Jax got a panicked look on his face. "No! No! Marcia, look, I know I've been acting….strange. But it's all me it has nothing to do with you. I'm just going through a tiny issue and I didn't want to call off the date because I...really really like you."
"Really?" Marcia asked
Jax nodded his head. "Yeah. Here," He pulled a stuffed bear from around his back. It was red with a pink bow around its neck.
Marcia smiled taking the bear.
Jax gently took Marcia's hand and guided her back over to the bench. They both sat down, rather close to one another.
Marcia's cheeks tinted pink looking shyly away from Jax. Right now was the perfect moment. They were alone, there was music in the background and the sun was setting in the distance.
Jax put a hand on Marcia's cheek and started to lean in. Marcia closed her eyes leaning in too. The two teens got closer and closer, to where they could feel their breath ghost each other's lips.
When it seemed like their lips were going to connect Jax suddenly pulled away causing Marcia's eyes to snap open. Jax was turned away from Marcia not looking at her.
"Jax? Is everything alright?" Marcia asked
"I'm sorry Marcia! T-This was a mistake."
"Jax….I don't understand. What's wrong?" Marcia tried to put a hand on his shoulder, but he jerked away.
"Get away! J-Just….." Jax trailed off, without turning to Marcia he ran off leaving the heartbroken girl.
"No!"
Objects were thrown across the room. Mirrors and various expensive things were broken and shattered.
"How could this happen! I was so close!" Jax yelled flipping a table over.
He reached up and grabbed his face and in a flash of red light his face popped off like a mask revealing the pale face beneath it.
"Tom you need to calm down."
"Not now Brian!"
Tom turned to a demon holding the Jax mask. There was a crack in the mask that was slowly growing bigger.
"I did try to warn you-"
"Oh, be quiet you. How long will it take to fix it?"
"It will be quite some time."
"Ughhhh!" Tom shouted catching on fire.
"You know this might be a sign that you should ask out that girl as Tom and not as Jax," Brian suggested
"No! This-" Tom held up the cracking mask, "-is the face that she likes. This is the face I have to keep."
"How long do you plan on keeping this up? She's going to find out sooner or later and better sooner than later." Brian said
"Just a little longer….a little longer."