Brian Braxton Jemenda grew up in a sort of cult. Due to the teachings he received from the leader, he developed a very twisted view of the world he lived in and the people in it.
He learned real quick that he must obey the teachings or face severe consequences. As he reached adolescence, he was given more freedom outside of the walls of the complex he lived in.
He began exploring the world with his skewed view of how things really worked and didn’t know how to interact with people appropriately. This led him to befriend a young girl named Dani and though she was younger than him, they soon became best friends.
Eventually that friendship led to Braxton becoming a father for the first time at a young age. Dani’s father forced her to give up the baby and Braxton stepped up. He didn’t know what he was doing, but with the help of his father Jett, he was able to raise her though not very good.
As his daughter Lavana got older, Braxton fell into addiction of substances and interacted with her less so he could focus on getting his band Fueled Madness off the ground.
The band consisted of his younger brother Jerry, their father Jett, and a friend named Draven.
Braxton married a young woman named Kira and soon the two of them had a son they named Jonah, but Braxton was anything but a faithful husband. He wasn’t very good to Kira and didn’t pay much attention to either of his children. Due to his unfaithfulness, Kira began seeing other guys including Jerry, but Braxton didn’t really care about it.
He only cared about making it big with the band, but then his father Jett who played the guitar decided that he needed to quit to the band and focus on his new wife and son. This angered Braxton and caused a rift between him and his father, but it also led him to search for a new guitarist for the band.
Some guys he knew from his exploits around town suggested their teenage nephew and though he was skeptical, Braxton agreed to hear the kid play. He went to an open mic night and that was where he first met sixteen-year-old Raleigh Durand.
At first glance, Braxton believed Raleigh to be nothing more than a punk kid that he didn’t want to waste his time on. He had a brightly colored mohawk and piercings all over his face, but Braxton ignored that since he himself was covered in tattoos and also had a spikey mohawk at the time.
The thing that bothered Braxton the most was that Raleigh was in a relationship with Dani at the time, but the moment he heard Raleigh play the guitar, he knew he’d found his new band member despite everything else.
With Raleigh on the guitar, the band was able to put a demo together and the band soon hit it big. They became famous around their town and grew more popular all the time, but Braxton’s marriage to Kira suffered more than it ever had before. They fought all of the time and he was always yelling at her. They now not only had their son Jonah, but their daughter Albra had come along, and all the fighting scared them.
It didn’t take long for them to finally divorce and for Braxton to put all of his time and energy into the band. He would hook up with various women and often pass out under the influence of some substance or another.
It wasn’t until he met a woman named Silhouette that he realized that he didn’t want to continue living his life the way he had been. He managed to get himself clean and worked hard to be become the kind of man he felt she deserved. She was reluctant to date him at first, but she soon couldn’t resist his charm.
Braxton knew that Silhouette had been in love with Draven for many years, but the two had never made their relationship serious due to Draven having many issues of his own. It wasn’t until after he faked his own death that Braxton had even approached Silhouette.
Even after she discovered Draven had faked his death, Silhouette stayed with Braxton.
Their relationship grew with each passing day and Braxton felt happy for what seemed like the first time in his life. He worked hard to repair his relationship with his three kids, life couldn’t have been better. He proposed to Silhouette at a wedding of one of their friends and she accepted.
Everything seemed to be going wonderfully in his life. That is until the night before their wedding, Draven showed up at Silhouette’s house and pleaded with her not to marry Braxton. With conflicting emotions and being naïve, Silhouette ended up sleeping with Draven that night.
Braxton found out about her infidelity on a celebrity gossip channel the morning after their honeymoon. He was devastated, but instead of annulling their marriage right then and there, he decided that he wanted to try and make it work, but from there on it was a very strained relationship.
The trust had been broken and the two fought more of the time than they spent enjoying each other’s company. They had a son they named Shadow during this time, but it didn’t make anything better.
Silhouette remained in contact with Draven despite promising that she would no longer associate with him, and this led them to once again ending up in bed together. Braxton caught them and that ended their marriage that very night.
Currently Braxton is dealing with his divorce from Silhouette. He had sunken back to his old ways and is drinking heavily and doing substances. He often turns to Dani for comfort, and this has caused her to lose her boyfriend Blaze.
Stay tuned for more of Braxton’s story in future episodes of my Crossing The Wind’s Path series!
UPDATE: Braxton and Haley are currently engaged and will be getting married very soon. They are also expecting a baby!
