Jackson Lowell (force_of_mind) wrote in light_of_may, @ 2009-11-08 09:58:00 |
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Entry tags: | 2009-06-21 |
When In Doubt
Who: Jackson and Parker
Where: Casa de Lowell
When: Late morningish
It was Father’s Day. That wasn’t unexpected. Father’s Day was a day that he always knew was coming, although sometimes he did tend to forget when it was, outside of it happening on a Sunday. Like always, Jackson wasn’t really allowed to help much with the preparations for the day, given his own natural, and completely unintended, ability for ruining whatever it was that they were going to do for Michael. As it stood, Myra was back, and, really, that was one of the best gifts that he could have gotten… which was just as well, since Jackson didn’t really have that much time to shop for a gift for his dad. He kept on putting it off, and then his sister was missing. Gift shopping just seemed stupid in comparison. If nothing else, he could throw some cash down on a gift card… and try to do better next year.
It was also Annabelle’s birthday. Now that… that was unexpected. Of course she had a birthday. Everybody did. He just didn’t know when it was. He would have learned, eventually… only, well, he asked what her family was going to do for Father’s Day while they were watching their movies and she told him that it was also her birthday. That sucked for him. Jackson was extremely new to the whole boyfriend thing. There were probably a lot of obvious rules that did not make it all the way through to the oblivious one. However, one rule that did make it through? You got your girlfriend presents on certain days. Anniversaries, Christmases, Valentine’s Days, and yes, birthdays. He wasn’t going to screw that one up. Or he wasn’t going to try and screw that one up.
Turns out, it was a lot easier said than done. As soon as Jackson got home, he started looking online at stuff that he could potentially buy Annabelle for her birthday… except that he didn’t really know what to get her. They were together, but they had only been together for so long. There was a lot that he didn’t know about Annabelle. It was funny how he knew the big thing about her, that she was a werewolf, and yet he didn’t know the little things, like her favorite color. At least he knew what her birthstone was. Alexandrite. It wasn’t all that attractive. Neither was Zircon, his birthstone, so it wasn’t like he had a great one. So, something involving the birthstone? Out of the question. He stayed up relatively late looking at things. Nothing that he could order, of course, since it was too late for that… but stores that he could easily run over to Ann Arbor and go to the mall for. He really didn’t like the mall all that much. Buying presents for a girlfriend was a complicated thing.
In the morning, after the customary father’s day morning stuff that the family always did, Jack immediately went back to work on his project. It would have been a lot easier to do if he had been more open about his relationship with Annabelle to his family, but he was still trying to keep that to himself. It wasn’t always easy. He wanted to tell them that he had a girlfriend. He wanted to let them know that he was happy, because he was. He didn’t want to tell them that she was a lycanthrope, but only because he knew that he couldn’t be the one to say something like that. It had to be her. He just wanted them to know… but at the same time he didn’t. Not yet at least. Still, after a few more hours of failed attempts, he knew that he needed help.
There were several avenues that he could take. Blake was one. Blake was also one that Jackson immediately tossed out the window. Of all of his siblings, Blake would have been the one that he would have told about Annabelle first. Except he knew that Blake was still dealing with that whole Bunny situation. Throwing out the fact that he had found someone who he could be with when his little brother had just gotten his heart stomped on and ground into the dirt wasn’t the good big brother thing to do. Jack wouldn’t let Blake know… at least not until he felt that the kid could take it.
Michael was another option. Michael was his dad, who was married to his mom, but they weren’t always married. First they had to date. Michael was probably the best option, at least as far as experience went… but Michael was also his father. And Jack really didn’t want to tell his dad something that could potentially make the man worry about certain things, especially on father’s day. Plus, Jackson probably couldn’t stand having a sex talk since Michael would think that it was just something relatively mundane in the overall scheme of things, whereas Jackson knew that sex with Annabelle, if it ever got to that point, would mean something a whole lot more. He had enough on his mind in that particular area… he didn’t need more to be added to it.
This left Parker, his big brother. Parker was in his mid-twenties. Parker had been in college for years. Parker wasn’t a dog. By default, Parker had to have had some experience in the whole relationship thing. He had to have bought a girlfriend a present at some point in his life, right? Jackson couldn’t say with absolute certainty that he had seen his brother parading around a woman, but considering that Jack himself was in a relationship and keeping it quiet, he knew that he couldn’t just expect Parker to be upfront with everything. Still, there had to be something. Parker was his best bet. When in doubt, go to your big brother, right?
Jack left his bedroom and made his way over to his brother’s room. He balled up his hand into a fist and gave it a good knock. “Hey, Parker? It’s Jack… can I talk to you for a second?”