PrivateTim

As my comment in my review of the newest chapter said, I hope Gathan takes Kristin (where did you get that spelling by the way, can we blame jeremy? It seems like it should be Kristen or Kirsten) home and talks with her parents. We know Kristin loves her parents very much and they love her very much. I think they both overreacted in the emotion of a moment. Kristin's dad has to know that Gathan is a young man with a good future and Kristin's mom must know that forbidding anything to a teen a like waving a red flag to do it. I think it would show a maturity and seriousness about Gathan that might impress upon her parents his seriousness about her and that it isn't some summer fling. P.S. at the rate we are moving now, hour by hour, day by day per chapter, I'll be collecting Social Security and Medicare before Will starts shaving

I am hoping Gathan man's up and takes Kristin home and talks with her parents. They all love each other and the parents are overreacting and so is Kristin. As they all cool off I think both sides can see they acted in haste. Gathan is clearly someone going places and Kristin's dad would recognize that and Kristin's mom would know, after reflection, that the worst thing you can do with a teen is to try and forbid something. Better to let Gathan go off to college and let nature take its course. As I recall from my ute, there were not a lot of small penises in Italy, but I suppose it happens.

Even more fun, a video that shows a bit of the campus, a bit of LA including the 3rd Promenade, a bit of the kinds of houses HW kids live in and a glimpse at the kind of resources they have available.

HW Lacrosse, note the field... artifical turf. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK4aumQK03A

Interesting storylines developing.... a jealous ex of Berto's, foreshadowing of Zach causing problems, Berto becoming Will's Robbie..... Although to be honest, how many people in life wind up with the boyfriend or girlfriend they had when they are 14? Maybe they get together and stay together until their early 20's even, but making it to 70? JP & Stef didn't start out there, they went through a lot of others first. The male penis is just the most evil organ there is because its wants and needs often overrule good judgment and good behavior. If previous partners of JP and Stef had been able to keep them in their pants, JP and Stef may never have gotten together. I am not suggesting Berto is Will's love for life at this point, but having been a 14 yo boy and raised a 14 yo boy, I know it is very hard to keep that thing under control.

I think I'll go with Tommy and An Evening in Roma... ha ha

What the fu#k is wrong with "Andy" that he has to analyze everything and want to talk about it? Why can't he just take life as it comes at him? It was a great chapter, but I can never get Chapter 1 out of my head.

Ha Tom is right, it absolutely grates on me when people call the Moana, "the Westin", the St. Francis, "the Westin" and the Excelsior, "the Westin" or when any classic old hotel is bought by a chain and they change or corrupt the name. This Berto could be interesting. I wonder how you are going to get him to Los Angeles? Maybe his uncle or cousin who owns an Italian restaurant in Santa Monica?

Oy vey, so Ace is Brad's brother even though they don't have any common parents and his adoptive father married his adoptive mother who was the lover of JP's boyfriend?? You missed your calling in life.... they'd never take off All My Children if you were doing the writing.

That is why they say Carmen is b!tch,

Happy Birthday NightOwl and your friend too!

Remind me what happened to Ace? And what was his given name?

Nice work as usual. It is nice to see John and Will figuring out what their relationship probably really is for right now, best friends with benefits. Not a bad arrangement at that age. I do see a bit of foreshadowing for Gathan as he wants to go into politics and Zach being a problem.

Meh! I am with Matt, Parker Coffin for Will. He has the quintessential CA surf look.

When I saw this I thought, "Darius" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niVc2CVARoM

It depends on how long they dated, how the relationship ended, what my best friend feels about it, how long ago it was and is my best friend in a relationship now. If my best friend dumped him or her, is in a relationship now, it was a three month relationship two years ago, sure..... If it is a recent break-up of a three year relationship where the ex did the dumping, no. Or at least not for a while and even then it would depend on how circumstances play out.

I am hooked on these two now. Baptize Me

Seriously? I wonder if you have read the same Dom Luka stories I have. The only one where a kid was beaten for being gay was The Long Way and that is a reality many gay kids have had to deal with and it was really a minor part of The Long Way & In the Fish Bowl. Dennis was abused bu his father and brother, but not for being gay, just because that is who his father was, that too is a reality for lots of kids. Rory didn't fit any of the formula BigDave laid out, neither does Quinn and certainly not Nelson & Milo. I thought BigDave was really right on with his formula for Nifty and The Fort maybe, but the character development of Dom is so much deeper and the situations and reactions so much more realistic I just don't see the formula BigDave laid out.

That might be the Nifty formula, but not what I have read in the works of Dom Luka, Mark Arbour, Adam Phillips and what limited dkstories I've read. I've also read some works of the newer younger authors and they may not have the sophistication of the people I've noted, but there have been some fine works.

76 is the new 61.... or something like that. My grandfather at 82(almost) still surfs with his buds three days a week.

Really great chapter Mark, one of your best efforts. You are painting Will's angst like Monet would paint a painting. You get all the emotion, but you don't need a completely clear picture, the impression conveys everything.

Neither Robbie or Jeanie is the glue that holds together the family, they have created a ton of drama in the family. People might go to Robbie & Jeanie with their problems because they are the weak ones who won't give them grief. Most people don't like having tough conversations so they avoid them. In human kind the Alpha Male isn't necessarily the strongest of the herd physically, money is power too and in most ways more important, so is a strong will. That is what made JP the Alpha Male of his generation and why Brad is for his. As to athletes in fraternities, I knew a lot of guys in fraternities like me who were athletes. My house was the water polo swim house at Cal, another house had the football players, a third had the baseball players. It was the same with my friends at Stanfurd, certain houses had more athletes and of a certain sport. Here is the 2009 Fraternity All American Football Team. These are DI & DII players who were All Americans and were in fraternity houses. 2009 Fraternity All American Football Team

Not Gathan's fault, blame Arbour, I swear he always has sex on his mind! If Brad is okay, and we don't know that yet, I don't see Will being especially scarred by the incident. I can see some guilt issues, but not major, Will seems pretty resilient and I assume it is going to lead to an incredible sex scene between him and John as soon as the occasion arises. I was disappointed that Gustave didn't turn out to be a good guy.

I am so disappointed that Gustave turned out to be a ship (with a t). Nice to see JP reassert himself as the Alpha male of the herd. We don't know if Brad was in the same area or not or if the crazy old prof took him someplace else. Nice chapter though except that it might ruin Paris for Will. Personally I've never been a huge fan of Paris, I am more of a Nice, Arles, Aix-en-Provance kinda guy.