Struggling To Not Try

White lights flash as Jax walks into, well anywhere, but on this particular day it was a movie premier. Enough security so that the paparazzi were stopped at the door. Jax three months ago was a nobody, just another struggling writer until he caught a break. The Noll Corporation, famous for their movies bought one of his scripts. They even invited him on set to help with the production, which wasn’t normal for the entertainment industry. The movie became a hit and suddenly Jax became famous. This premier was for another movie, A stone in time, about two star crossed lovers separated by time.

The movie light up the screen and time passed by. It seemed as though Jax blinked and the applause occurred. After the movie people started to turn their phones back on, the sound of notifications echoed in the halls. Jax’s own phone started to go off as well. He took out the plain yet sleek black mobile and checked what was going on. To say he was shocked was an understatement. What he absolutely didn’t think would greet him would be post and hype about a new movie. That in of itself was not the worrying part. New movies with advertising were a dime a dozen. The concerning part was that the plot was something that Jax was familiar with, it had the exact plot and name of the script he had finished writing yesterday. Within that hallway he stopped walking. People flowed around him talking about the new movie. Jax looked on in a daze searching more in depth for who wrote the movie, or rather who stole his work. And wasn’t that the question, how did someone get their hands on his writing? Was it a bad coincidence?

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