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Love the name Penguin. My cat is anything but a therapy cat:P

Happy Birthday!!!!!

In all seriousness, I'd forgotten until I saw this post. Sheesh. You're good for something Mike.

I wanted to tackle this prompt so bad but couldn't get my head wrapped around it. You did and it's a great story. So glad you jumped in. Great story.

Great thread Graeme.

Glad to have you and welcome

Happy Birthday Mattie.

I felt you tortured me with that chapter Rick hasn't made a move to rectify anything. Also, I'm wondering if James will be at the party, but of course, I'm sure you'll make me wait for that too. Sometimes I feel like Rick could be gay, but in this chapter, it's like he kinda shut down. Maybe it was because he was worrying about other people..just don't know.

The first babydoll as they called it that I got when I was about four, I promptly took to the trash barrel in the back yard and threw her in. My daddy said I told him that I didn't have time to take care of a baby and ride my tricycle too. He said he left the doll in the trash. Needless to say, my next gifts were along the lines of a bazooka, bb gun, tent, and a softball and glove. No dolls for me

Fascinating that the mother controlled the son's magic so they wouldn't go mad, and the father wound up going off the deep end. How sad for all of them. But, it says a lot for the family. Love can't fix everything. I hope Taranis doesn't walk into the trap. Can't wait to see where you go with this.

So glad you found a way to give Yadrey, Zegan's magic. I was wondering how the revenge process was going to start. Glad I could be of service with the necklace, pillow talk, etc. Love this

Rick is about to make me scream bloody murder. He's at the point of being ridiculous if he's not gay. If he's so crazy about Drew as a friend, he has to realize he's hurting him more with this deception he's got going on. On top of that, he's going to befriend James before telling Drew the truth. I guess that's insurance of trying to have a friend when the others kill him for his lies. "shakes head"

Love, love, loved it. How sweet, Ron and great writing.

If you don't quit digging this hole deeper for Rick, he's never going to claw his way out. Good grief! Now James is warning him. Still don't see Rick licking his lips over the girls tho Claire just seems to be a good friend with nice smelling hair. Revealing your own deceit is hard, but keeping it inside must be harder, especially with such a circle of great friends.

Rick's attitude is puzzling for a straight guy pretending to be straight. Somehow, I think he's not admitting his real feelings about Drew. Must be my wishful thinking I'm a romantic at heart.

I'll just say "ditto" to what Drew said.

Still trying to wrap my head around Brandon. It's funny how a character in a story draws your attention although he's not the main character. Throughout the story, his whole persona has been a mystery. Even the deal with suicide shouldn't govern his personality to this point. JMO. People handle things in different ways. Claire is quite the sassy young lady. HOpe she doesn't have to eat her words because Phil seems like a complete jerk. Period. So, James is good looking and Rick noticed. I think there's more to the James and Drew ordeal than what we know. I need to shut up and keep reading.

It's weird. Rick gets beat up for what he's not doing. I guess the two cases are alike although the relationship between him and Claire is supposedly harmless. Drew is going to be surprised, I'm sure. The jury is still out on Angus and Brandon. My thoughts with Angus if he is gay is leaning toward Drew, not Brandon. Don't know why. Guess I'll just have to read on and see. You write your characters well, but leave so much for the mind to ponder Of course, I'm sure you know that.

Rick is building up a lot of drama that is going to slap him in the face if he keeps going. I know Drew came on to him, but maybe Ricks honesty about the flowers should influence his other actions. Sheesh

I'm waiting for Brandon to have a girlfriend introduced or I'm going to really worry. If Brandon is straight, then all's well, if not... Rick's ordeal is not as bad as it sounded at first. But, when you have your little cliques at school, it works that way. You fool with one, you deal with all. It sux. Can't wait for the next make out session. lol

Rick better stay on his toes. Being around Drew's friends and keeping up the pretense of being Drew's boyfriend and showing no interest in the girls is going to be hard. I do find this all a bit humorous although I certainly don't want anyone hurt.

The reverse plot is interesting, but I see a lot of heartache on the horizon.

haven't seen it, but will check it out. Sounds great

Gotta hand it to ya. You sure can write a sex scene The realism was rearing it's head all the way through it and that says a lot for you as a writer. I've read sex scene that I felt if the participants did half of the stuff they did, they'd sleep for days. I know it like, "not complicated" at the moment, but I feel complications coming. Kinda like the white elephant in the room. Now, I'm waiting for the next chapter, or should I say, aftermath?

I'd never viewed porn until I was in my early twenties and it was with my husband. His younger brother was coming to visit, he was seventeen, and asked my husband to get him a movie to watch. (porn). My husband told me to get one at the video store that day. I was like, "What?!!!!" He looked at me strangely and said, yeah. You can rent them at the video store. I told him I'd never seen them. He told me I'd have to ask, they keep the listings for them in a notebook under the counter probably. Thank goodness I knew the lady that ran the video store. She laughed at me when I stuttered trying to tell her what I wanted. I flipped through the big notebook that contained the covers of the porn movies. I was like hmmm. Decided I'd like to see some of them so I rented five. Of course back then, you got to rent a movie for the weekend for five bucks, and anyday after that was three dollars per day. Well, hubby was shocked when he came in and I had five of the movies and told him I wanted to watch them too. His brother stayed in our back room, and I guess watched his that night. Well, I didn't realize what I was getting into. We didn't even get through the first movie over the weekend. I was fascinated, aroused, and just plain pleasantly, shocked. I took them all back that Monday morning even though we hadn't even finished the first one to keep from paying late charges. I started renting one a week. This went on for about two years. Then I graduated to m/m, and was hooked. My hubby could either watch or cover his head with the pillow. He eventually admitted that he enjoyed it also. While, I think we should take steps to try to limit what our kids are exposed to, don't fool yourself into thinking you are monitoring them all the time unless you have your finger on them. Seriously. No Way can you keep it from them. I just always hoped my daughter was as late getting exposed as I was because it was quite a nice surprise when I discovered porn. Of course, mine is pretty tame porn. I had to look up a couple of things you posted here to see what they meant. No way would I be remotely interested in it. I think my mouth was probably hanging open as I read it on my laptop. Didn't even know there was such a thing. So, I don't think you're a mence to society if you view porn or incorporate it into you and your partner's relationship if it is a mutual thing, but I'd draw a line on the type of porn I'd watch or that I'd even think of my daugher watching. It certainly takes a different mindered person to do some of the stuff I read. Each to his own I guess.