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A bit of a bitter sweet, realistic ending though I’m glad to see things turned out as well as they did.

Marty’s situation is a bit interesting given that those who see their treatment of him or justify it anyway as punishment for his raping a child are technically raping a child themselves as he’s still underage. I’m not sure how I feel about it as while what he did was horrible I can’t help feeling pity for him.

I hope Blake is ok though I’m not optimistic. One thought that come to mind instantly is his parents might send him off to a conversion camp. Seth’s mother is crazy on top of homophobic so I think it’s only a matter of time before he loses it with her. I probably would have already lost my tempter dealing with her.

Dang Drew’s dad is a real piece of… work but it looks like his mom has things somewhat handled for now.

Glad to see Matt & Reggie work things out and the Marty situation resolved quit nicely. 🙄 Come on Drew if you can talk about your attraction to a teacher or wanting to see Candy naked Matt can talk about how hot Ken is. You better get used to having gay friends as you’re outnumbered. 😂

To some extent I understand Stacy’s anger and the whole boyfriend stealing thing yet his mother’s rant of “Then why did you let it happen? Why did you seduce him? Couldn’t you have found your own boyfriend? Did you have to take Stacy’s boyfriend? feels homophobic. I mean the gay son automatically gets 100% of the blame when it takes two people plus who was caught sucking who? Looked more like Craig was doing the seducing. There’s no excuse for hitting your son and I definitely think his staying at the aunt & uncle’s at least until things calm down a bit is for the best. I feel given enough time and assuming it really was a heat of the moment type thing Seth might be able to forgive his mother though I’m unsure how things will progress with Stacy. Her anger is to an extent justified, but in her current state she’s downright dangerous. At the moment I think there’s a chance he could end up living with his aunt & uncle permanently going forward.

Glad to see Matt is doing ok all things considering with no lasting physical damage and seems like he’ll be fine emotionally with Reggie’s support. Marty went from stupid to brain dead fast, though like @weinerdog after getting to know his father I have the tiniest bit of sympathy for him. Of course that flicker of sympathy doesn’t negate my joy at his arrest and what seems like a likely prison sentence.

Matt may have the courage to bring it up yet when someone of any age is found beaten & naked I’d expect some comment about the possibility of rape rather than the line “I believe it looks a lot worse than it is.”. It seems like the possibility never crossed their minds as clearly they haven’t examined him for signs of sexual assault.

Thank goodness for Aunt Marie & Uncle Steve. Hopefully Craig can get the help he needs, though what they’re going to do about his parents I have no idea. We’ve got three family’s worth of drama to deal still and I’m not sure how that’s all going to go down.

I don’t know how much time has passed but I’m a little surprised Aiden went from telling Jason, a guy he had feelings for, that he wasn’t ready for anal sex due to the understandable trauma of being raped to essentially begging Brent, who he’s just using for revenge sex, to fuck him. He also found Brent being dominant/aggressive a turn on which I’d expect to trigger the exact opposite reaction at the very least. I’m glad to see he’s doing so well on that front.

What a disgusting pair trying to profit off their child’s suffering.

What kind of pastor hides a revolver in the pulpit??!

There’s being religious and there’s child abuse/neglect. To think they’d take time to pray away the gay but attend to their son’s medical needs is crazy. I suppose they saw his injury as punishment from God for protecting someone they judge as sinful. Glad he had Ricky and his family to turn to.

Rereading it I had forgotten how triggering this chapter was. Matt’s father had already shown he was a piece of… work even before he started in on the homophobia and I’m beyond proud of Matt for standing up to him.

Craig has a rough ride ahead and it’s going to be hard to convince him life is worth living with how bad its bound to get. Thankfully he has at least one member of his family to rely on for support and as weird as the current triangle is potentially Blake along with Seth of course. Hopefully he can be made to see his life isn’t over. I have a feeling/hope Seth’s mom will be ok when she inevitably finds out he’s gay but worse case scenario at least his aunt is accepting so her family could take him in. Still he’s not only been outed but has the scandal of “stealing” his sister’s boyfriend so that’ll be some hot gossip.