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A most interesting chapter. If Robbie and Brad are competing for the same guy, I think Robbie is the loser, 9 times out of 10. The danger Robbie is facing that he has awakened Brad's sleeping libido. Brad loved Robbie more than anything, but Robbie thought he needed more. He risks winding up with nothing.

It somehow seems slightly creepy to be hitting on college twinks to me. It would be one thing for the twink to be doing the hitting, but Brad's full court press seems creepy.

It is pretty ironic Matt being pissed at Robbie, when he does the same thing to Wade. Damn fucked up Hayes genes. If I was Brad I'd have found out where Robbie and the gold digging, fucking WeHo piece of shit were staying in Cancun, flown down with Cody on Stef's plane and booked the biggest damn suite in the resort.

Unfortunately trusts don't work like that. The trust is not his yet. After he is 18, he could direct the assets. As I understand this trust, if Travis dies before he reaches his majority, the trust would revert to his father and mother. I also remember some kind of morals clause, but I doubt any probate court would enforce that, and isn't there a compromising tape of Curtis Buck raping the underage girl?

Brad is not an idiot and Robbie is not "fucking a twink". Robbie is taking a gold digging, fucking WeHo piece of shit off on an excursion 5 hours away to a luxury hotel. That is not "fucking a twink". Even going to Palm Springs or San Diego for the weekend would be more than "fucking a twink". A trip to Cancun is serious shit, especially to a gold digging, fucking WeHo piece of shit. The gold digging, fucking WeHo piece of shit has ONE goal and that is to take Robbie away from Brad so the gold digging, fucking WeHo piece of shit can live a life of luxury and leisure. And Robbie is too fucking stupid to see it, just like he was with Neil. One day Robbie will need to choke this gold digging, fucking WeHo piece of shit to death too.

Corporate boards are the ultimate good ol' boys club. Even the girls who get on boards now are part of the good ol' boys club. Very few boards are truly independent. You get on a board because people think you'll be a team player and if you are not a team player, you get on the board as a token and they know they can out vote you. A CEO at a Fortune 100 company has to really F up before they'll dump him.

One more reason to hate Lark. My esteem for Claire dropped considerably. You think that you want to bed a hot young chick yourself 🤣 I am a little shocked at Brad's statement that for the first time in his life, Brad has a "true partner" Really? 16 years with Robbie. Just because there are lows and bad times with a partner, they are still your partner for 'better or worse'. How long has Brad been with Jake? A few months? As to college choices, I am glad I chose Cal, but I've often wondered how different my life would have been had I chosen from one of my other choices. I applied to and visited, Princeton, Dartmouth, University of Florida, Vanderbilt and Southern Methodist. My "safety schools" were ASU and San Diego State. USC was an obligatory application, but I knew I'd never go there. Of all the schools, oddly enough the one I like the most now is ASU. All my friends who went there had a blast and I loved visiting it, still do.

I like the idea of Greg Anders. It would bond Stef to Travis and make Travis a permanent part of the ohana.

I don't think Stef gave Brad the wrong advice and I think Brad analyzed it out right, but I think Robbie sleeping with other people was inevitable, because he really wanted to. And I think there is someone specific he wants to do. I don't think it is 'just a twink in the office', but someone who is fueling Robbie's lust and maybe fanning the flame with actions and nuances. Hollywood/West Hollywood is full of shitty little twinks who'd happily break up a marriage to get a Mercedes Benz, a nice house and money to burn. If Robbie really wanted to stay faithful to Brad he'd be asking David to help him with coping mechanisms so he could stay faithful. As to business, if I was Brad I'd write down the name of every guy at Gunn I'd pissed off, Dan, Doug, Lark...... well it is a long list, and then hire an investigation firm to do a work-up on each individual.

And people wonder why I've never liked most of the Hayes boys.... We all know Robbie is making a huge mistake. Does he really think having a younger guy's dick in his ass is going to help get in touch with young people? No, I don't suppose in his core even he believes that, but he sees these hot young guys, many of whom are throwing themselves at him he wonders what he is missing. So we have Matt being an ass, Robbie being an ass, who is the next Hayes to be a disappointment?

Still talking about Vietnam in 1995? Wow JP, way to milk a topic.... Another marvelous Book Mark. I think I like these smaller books vs the 80 chapter ones. It seems you involve more narrators and involve more storylines.

Things are going too well.... someone needs a fatal disease or we need a half brother of Stef's to show up or something. I would say tsunami in Malibu, but we need too many of these characters moving forward.

I am just dying to comment on Brian, but I can't without huge spoilers.....

It is a bit of a stretch to say they "are going strong" as if they had been committed the whole time. They are more like "back together", which I can see more than solid, unwavering commitment. Commitment in my mind will always mean, "forsaking all others"'

“A Mr. Brian Parnell. Dun dun dunh! “No,” JP said.

Ah Stef is about to jump on his carousel of PAs. Nice to see Casey and Alejandro having a good time, they seem good for each other. I honestly forget how they wind up, but the odds are against a high school romance.

“When did you sleep with a woman?” Brad asked. It was interesting that they had never covered this issue before. “Couple of hours ago,” he joked. Brad didn't laugh. “In high school, before all that shit happened to me.” Hunh..... I wonder...... Naw, that could never happen. Jenny seems nice, PFLAG is such a great organization.

I crack me up.

Bitty couldn't just show up in Malibu and blindside Brad with a custody order from Ohio. If Bitty had been the custodial parent and Brad had absconded with the children from OH, then she could have. But in this case, she would have had to notify Brad 15 days before a hearing in Ohio to decide custody. Most courts, I'd dare say any court, would look at the record of custody and she would never get custody. If she found the one idiot judge who believed the kids always belonged with a mother, she still could not just show up to collect the kids. She would have to register the out of state custody order in California and Brad could contest it in CA courts because the children are California residents. It is unlikely she'd find an idiot judge two hearings in a row. Option two is just Jeff her.

Oh Bruno, in the words of Mr. Wizard, "Drizzle, Drazzle, Druzzle, Dread, time for this one to be dead". Oh Max, in the words of Joni Mitchell, "Don't it always seem to go, That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone".

Poor Alejandro. He comes from a completely foreign culture and in 1995 Mexico he would not have seen any loving, meaningful gay relationships, just older guys who abused young guys for their own pleasure and not their "partner". His world is very dark. I am not thrilled by Cody's approach.

So is Alejandro going to live in Palo Alto or Malibu? Or maybe go to Cate or Thatcher? Good thing Will is only 9, otherwise he'd have Alejandro bent over in two days.

PS here is Jackie.

What on Earth can Marcel be upset over?

It is funny, it feels in Gap Year like JP and Stef have been a couple forever, but the first seven books of CAP cover 33 years, while the last nine books (excluding The Box), cover six years. More to the point, those are CAP years; in human years Bloodlines, our next CAP adventure, posted on the old GA site maybe early 2010 and took place in 1998. Gap Year is only six years later, 2004, but it is ten books and 13 years later. So yeah... it feels like Stef and John Paul have been an item longer than it has been.