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Yeah yeah Tim is fine 😁 Thanks for those who had concerns. Life gets busy and priorities change. I still mourn the disappearance of Dom Luka. I have no idea how I stumbled on his stories, but they were very important to me and opened some horizons. The stories Lem (about Lem and Mattie), It Started With Brian and the stories of Cole Parker were equally important. Then I found a story, that shall go unnamed, but it sounded so like my life in so many ways that I wanted to find more from this Mark guy..... I've been a mess ever since! 😋

Poor Jeff, he was better off with a dead father I think. I think Lark/Slater is a total loser.

I've thought all along that Jeff is another Hayes because I don't like him. But what what kind of twisted mind would drop another paternity storyline 94 chapters into a story called Paternity? Why Mark Arbour of course.

Bah.... Arbour is just too cheap to hire more characters so he sometimes makes them play multiple roles. But they didn't kill him. Here is what his wife said: “There were witnesses who said they saw him pull in front of the truck. The poor truck driver is supposed to be broken up over it,” she said, then started sobbing again. When Robbie or whomever told him JJ wouldn't be back until after the holidays and not to contact him, he may have figured his time was up and he drove in front of the semi. Now MICHAEL may have an accident soon...... So what, the "D" is Hayes boys DNA stands for Douche.

It is amazing how fast time flies by. As I've said in other comments, one day you have this 12 year old who you know loves you more than anything, then you have a 14 year old who you think hates you more than anything, then two weeks later when he 18 and graduating high school you know he always loved and two months later he is 27 with his own sons and you smile, knowing what's in store for him. JJ's molestation had nothing to do with Robbie, Jeanine or Brad, but everything to do with the coach's predation and manipulation. JJ may have had more vulnerability, but that is his make-up. Paternity Is Our Past, Our Present, Our Future! "Why? Why don’t you love me anymore?” If I had been asked that same question by my son, in the midst of a similar conversation, I would have completely lost it in sobbing, wailing and gnashing of teeth and a rending of garments. But then again it never would have gotten there because Matt (my Matt) and I have always been those parents who say to our kids, "I love you" five or six times a day.

Brad could list for the therapist (psychologist, psychiatrist?) all of JJ's behavior changes in the last 6 months and a professional would narrow down the possible reasons pretty quickly. Then the issue becomes..... JJ's therapist would be a mandated reporter. They really need to think this through... like maybe off the coach before JJ sees his therapist? That turns the duty to report murky. Don't blame Robbie, he's just reading the lines in his script Eh poetic license.... off the bastard and screw reality. I'm not entirely on board with this concept of the USFSA as a nurturing and supportive organization. I don't know...maybe it has something to do with them ultimately having to answer to Mitt Romney. 🙂 I agree that the players here are being extreme in picturing the USFSA's stance, but I still think they'd be intensely annoyed at whomever broke this thing wide open. In no way am I saying USFSA is a nurturing and supportive organization. Their policies are to protect the organization from liability. They have to appear to be a supportive organization and act swiftly to stop damage to the organization. And oh please, I never met an LDS boy who didn't love getting his dick sucked and few who wouldn't return the favor 😋

Dang, I must not have had Spell & Grammar Check turned on 10 years ago. So now, knowing where this story goes, I get why Robbie was acting as he did. He had to be clueless for the plot to take its next big lurch. And Will's room wasn't just Will's room, it was a special birthday gift given to try and convey acknowledgement that Brad and Robbie understood Will was being neglected while other matters took precedence. Even a fucked up, 'I need to be clueless a little longer' Robbie should have recognized that. In hindsight, your comments were incredibly prescient. Well done. I get the feeling that the "results-oriented" Brad is the guy you saw here, laying it on the line with JJ. It almost feels like he's talking to an employee, delineated the required performance to achieve specific rewards. I never needed a carrot or stick to externally motivate me, I had all the internal motivation I needed for sports, school and whatever I did. Will is similar, without the sports, and JJ isn't, even if there is an outside source influencing him. In my life a "basic education" was a four year degree from a top tier university. All my family and all my parents friends were college graduates from top tier schools. As a kid, I didn't know not everyone went to college. Even as a teen, it was never 'are you going to college', but 'where' and we felt in our hearts for those who answered 'Arizona State'. I get where Brad is coming from and I am surprised that Robbie, given his Ivy League pedigree, isn't there too.

I don't see Robbie ever being that self aware. Maybe he is and I forgot. Even more so this time around. Noah seems like the kind of guy to be a real friend, a normal friend. I don't recall seeing a lot of Will's friends from middle school (Jason, Travis, Lance, etc), probably because someone didn't deem them important to the plot, but it would be nice to know Will has guy friends, his age, he doesn't/can't sleep with. Tony is a work in progress. Tony can progress this,

I have no issues with Tony having sex with Will and not wanting it known. If that upsets Will, it is Will's job to tell him. I have no problem with Tony having sex with women too. But to do it in front of Will, in Will's home, just seems douchy in the extreme. If I was Will I'd lose Tony's number. I might find it when I wanted it, but I'd deny Tony any "relief" a couple of times when he really wanted it to let him know who was in control. If Will is always there when Tony wants it, but Tony ignores Will's phone calls when Will wants him, then the whole situation is very unhealthy for Will. And no, MOST nifty authors don't do better sex scenes than you, they were like a lot of real sex, arousing's enough to get you off, but left you ultimately unsatisfied.

I've agreed with Hermetically Sealed so many times and when it felt like we were the only dissenters, but this turns out to be one of my favorite chapters. Heating from Jack, Nana and Frank was important. I only wish Isidore had said something too. Second time through I am even more impressed by this chapter and the emotional toll it must have wrought. Kudos to the author.

Robbie in NYC in September 2001? You can bet on it. Oh and if only Jeanine and JJ could be with him 😏 And stop me if I am wrong, but isn't Will Jeanine's only blood and legal relation in the CAP series?

I hope you had a great Christmas. I think Will is going to have a better opportunity for more age-appropriate experiences when he gets to Menlo and he's mixed in with older kids. H-W wouldn't provide him with hunting grounds as fertile as those should be. 😉 Will was on the Lower School campus. If he'd stayed at H-W, the Upper School campus would have been more to his liking and much more amusing. I loved the "there were Nautilus machines..." reference. Nautilus Plus was the first gym I joined because it was $99 for a year, then it merged with Family Fitness and became 24 Hour Fitness. Fun trip down Memory Lane.

I think a mature, independent Will would kick Tony to the curb, in a nice way. I hated my pathetic friends who'd respond to the midnight bootie calls and were little more than cum dumps. I kind of get the Saturday party (but not really given that they are in the same class at the same school and live in the same house theoretically). I can't help but wonder if Will really does go to Harvard eventually, if he will run into Alistair there. The only two schools I see Alistair going to are Harvard or Stanford.

Damn I miss Dom.

It's funny, I so do not remember this conflict and meeting at all. I remember Nana and Noah and Alistair (upcumming), Ryan, the float trip, Jason and Carl, but this stuff with the doctor I don't remember at all. What a weenie JJ is. Why hasn't Darius throttled him long before this? I mean Will is irritating, JJ is a whole other level.

Will doesn't understand it is flashy. He hasn't been around many lower middle class kids in his life. Not every kid at Malibu Middle School or Webster Elementary School was wealthy, but there are very few lower middle class types. Noah is far from a player. He is a normal kid. Something so foreign in the CAP Universe it confuses people 😆 A player wouldn't leave a party early. I predict he doesn't. In fact, I'll predict he graduates early 😲🤔

Maturity? He still looks to me like a petulant, indulged, self-absorbed twit to me. If he doesn't get exactly what he wants he lashes out at people. Look at how he treated Ryan? A mature person wouldn't play the passive aggressive game like he did with Ryan. He would have called him, told him he was moving, tell him he missed him blah blah blah Thanks. Some people find Will to be obnoxious. I think that's part of being a teenager. Hell, I hope Mark gives him some character. I didn't bitch when Will went to a high school party for Menlo and drank, that is quasi-acceptable. Going to college parties and fucking college men when you are a first semester freshman in high school isn't mature. Neither is fucking with a 20 year old when you are 14 and not telling the other person you are 14. It is selfish and self-indulgent and dangerous for the partner. I think that this chapter shows how much Will has matured. Can you imagine if this would have happened to him before he went to Paris? Remember how he was with John? He was sad, but not devastated. See above. Give me examples of Will being mature, not a selfish, petulant ass wipe. I wanna be independent waaaaaah..... Grampa, send a plane to get me. I think Tony was a douche anyway a Will too hung up on him. Sez who? More "you can't be bi" bullshit. "if you have sex with a guy, that means you are gay" horseshit. "if you have sex with a guy and then a girl, you are confused" buffaloshit. "Will is really really mature" giraffeshit.

“Hey there. I was wondering if you’d fly me up there this weekend.” I asked. No bitch, instead of costing your grandfather $40,000-$60,000 to fly you up to Palo Alto go to BUR and get a Southwest Airlines seat seat to SJC for $39 and see what life is life for the Noahs of the world.

No one should be fooled, Lizzie is no one's fool. She is a hydra; every evil head that is chopped off, two more grow in. Wade will not pull the wool over her eyes again and she will start analyzing things better in the future. She has learned to not underestimate Wade.

My gawd I was hilarious 11 years ago 😄🤣 The beauty of rereading a story is I can start Chapter 72 in ten, nine, eight.....

Actually it is super easy. If you can keep it in CA courts, and I don't recall where this winds up being adjudicated, it, you'll have some of the top experts in the nation in the Bay Area between Stanford UC San Francisco. Momma Danfield may have the hacks she paid to keep Nana drugged up, but it will cost her a lot more to pay a respected expert to lie for her, if she can find one.

In the same way a quiver of King cobras are.....

OMG, I'd completely forgotten about "Nana". PS This was Belichik's first year at NE and Tom Brady was a rookie. If Pete Carroll had survived until Brady arrived, would he be the "genius" that Belichik is supposed to be.

I believe you mean Beatrice “Bitty” Schluter.

Much like the April 1st chapter of some long lost CAP book, I can see Robbie arguing with Mark. "Why do you have to make me such a douchebag," Robbie whined, "and I'm not whining! Erase that!" "Shut up or I'll add 15 pounds to you and make you even fatter," Arbour growled. "I'm not fat! I'm just a little fluffy! I am tried of looking so stupid, I went to Yale for gawdsake," Robbie grew louder. A withering look from Arbour told Robbie no shouting in the story pages. "Your time will come, in less than a year you'll be a hero in this family." Robbie failed to notice the devious glint in his Maker's eye.