Our Jinxed Souls

HIS HOME

JACXON

6:20pm

Jacxon stands up for as his name was called upon along side with a ringing bell, he walks towards the counter expecting to just get their orders, he doubts that as Ashley stares at him "hey, take care of him" Ashley suddenly says making Jacxon confused, he just looks at her "he needs you" she continues, "he loves streetfoods,make sure to take him to the 5th stand on the left of this store,5th"... Jacxon nods and looks at the tray "the cake is on the house" .... "thankyou" he whispers before walking back to their table,deciding to just act normal as he spins around towards their table,hoping to actually surprise Asher. He put down their drinks, while Asher suspiciously looks at him, "she said that the cake was on the house" he says taking a sip of his drink, Asher takes one too.

"Tell me about your family" Asher suddenly brings up "If you don't mind" he adds, Jacxon hesitates, he doesn't know if Asher would understand him because he doesn't himself.
"Well, i was supposed to have a sister, but she died 7 minutes after she was born, my mom toldme it was because she inherited some of our bloodline's illness, thats why my months or even weeks are counted, i survived when j was born, i had to stay in the hospital for 6 months beforethey allowed me to go home and a few hosital visits during my childhood" .... "ohh, im sorry".... "no, dont be" he smiles, "what about you?"... "well, im an only child, half Filipino, half American, most of my life i was in america,most holidays ljke Christmas and newyears we usually visit the Philippines, my depression started when my dad died while he was driving home for the holiday, then i started self harming when my dog died 2 days after, idk what was going on,i just couldn't stop" he explains, "im-" jacxon gets cut off "don't be".

"Was it hard?" He asks out of no where, Asher gives up on guessing what he was talking about, "what's hard?".... "keeping clean" he knew exactly what he's talking about, he stares down at his tighs remembering the nights where he hid in the bathroom for hours trying to fight the urge to cut deeper than usual, he looks up again trying to hide his emotion on his face, and he did.
"Well, if you can tell, ive only been clean for a few days, maybe one or two, its hard to get rid of bat habits, its like a smal peice of broken glass in your feet, its almost impossible to get rid of but it's always possible at some point, you just gotta find the right angle, right force, like how you gotta find the right distraction,motivation, sometimes even inspiration" Asher explained hoping he didn't sound too nerdy, "that must've been hard, imean, ive overworked myself so much that it became a habit, but it's not as bad as your's, i mean, like not in a bad or disrespectful in any way,kind of bad" he stutters fearing that he might've said something off again, "good thing we're about to die then" Asher cackles, they laugh it off as they finish their meal, or whatever kind of food their having.

They both finished their food, not knowing what to feel exactly, but there they were anyways, "jacx!" Ashley called just just nefore Jacxon reaches for the door handle, he turned around, so does Asher, "5th" he mouthed, He looks at Asher completely confused to what were the two talking about and why was he not included.
They finally reach the door hearing the ringing bells one more time,"thankyou for coming" Ashley called out before they step outside, "what was that about?" Asher asks, Jacxon tries to ignore him as much as he could but he knows Asher isn't stupid enough to not know anything, "just an advive, dont think too much of it" He says as he pulls his hands towards who knows where.

Jacxon looks around with Asher being dragged by his hand, he looks to ghe left of the boba store and started counting...1st ..... 2nd.... 3rd.... 4th.... there it is, "Your Home" the sign says with a barbecue sign on both ends of the sign, "i remember this place..." Asher analyzes as Jacxon lets go of his hands, the store is not much,just a simple stand with 2 vendors operating it, meat, drinks, plates, tissues can be seen all over the counter, "so she told you about this place huh" Asher whispers into his ears while standing on his toes, "yeah,kinda" Jacxon chuckled, "so how does this work..exactly?" Jacxon asks out of curiosity, the stand was standing out from the other stores, just a simple stand, with not enough lighting, but many costumers, Asher steps forward while Jacxon just watches behind afraid to get sworn by the crowd infront of the stand, Jacxon is tall enough to be able to watch him walk between people probably saying "excus me" in his language, Jacxon's personal guess, this is a stand of Filipino or Asian street foods in general.

"5:50 pm" He reads the time on his phone, he worries that they might not be enough time to 'live their life while they can', but overthinking wont do anything good,as Asher said, he just have to let things go with it's flow,besides, he have Asher now by his side untill this super sudden possible death that might be real ornjust a massive prank.
"Prank..." he looks around desperately looking for a  camera that might be hidden to record them, but anyone wouldn't go this far won't they?, imean why would they prank us, he gives up looking for something nonexistent...

"What are you doing?" Asher creeps behind him with a bunch of plate with cooked or maybe grilled meat, "exactly, what are those?" He asks trying to change the subject, "i asked you first" Asher responds sitting beside him placing the plates infront of them, "nothing, i just thought all of this is a prank and i started looking for cameras" he paused for a hot minute "there wasn't any"... "i told you, overthinking doesn't do any good, just let things go with it's flow".... "that's exactly what i told myself".

"What are these?".... "these are some of my favorite Asian streetfoods, some sweet barbecue, chicken intestine, korean rice cake and alot more, good thing im friends with the vendors,or else we would've waited for so long" he responds wirh full brightness on his voice,it was a good idea trusting ashley for this,Jacxon thought to himself. "Here try this one" Asher says as he offers a stick of some sort of meat, Jacxon hesitates at first, making Asher take it back and feed him instead, "you're right,it is sweet".. he hums in his chewing,Asher smiles at him like a proud mom, "your clip is falling" Asher awkwardly reminds him as he take a sip of his bobba, "i forgot about that one, btw tell me about the place's name" he asks looking at the sign on top of the stand, "your home, i think it just means that the food they sell reminds you of home, like yanoe theres alot of Asian people here in America, especially here in the Asian market, speaking of market, we should buy some stuff on the supermarket later" he enthusiastically says as Jacxon just stares at him, he tries his best not to overthink about everything, remembeing Asher's words from time to time helps him alot.