Sasha Distan

Better to feel everything rather than nothing - after all, like Nassau, as an empath I don't get a choice. Also, they're being sweet and adorable is just as much as part of their demonic aspect as the blood, guts, rape, and desire for glory and power. All things in balance my friend.

you can get a lot done with occasional booty-call texts and body language. Marty's parents stay together because they can't bear to shatter the illusion and perception of their perfect family. Same as they only care as long as Marty gets good grades and isn't in trouble with school or the police. Why people do this to each other is beyond me. But I feel bad for Marty. Thank you Lisa, I do so love to get your reviews.

It's taken them long enough! Kiorl's desires aren't as radical and depraved as they used to be, that's for sure. Boy's gettin' soft....

“This is heaven.” Atoki tipped his head back against his mate’s shoulder and smiled dreamily. “I’m still sure this is hell,” Vruuaska replied with a smile. The big fire demon ran his hands down Atoki’s chest under the frothy water, and felt the boy press back against him suggestively. “But it is a good bath.” “If I’d known Nassau could give us a hot tub with a massage setting, I’d have been bugging Kiorl years ago!” the boy replied. He ground his hips against his lover again, and Vruuaska gav

Yeah, but when we realised we've known each other over half our lives... then we felt old. We were kids once.

Sorry Delia Smith, but One is not Fun. Cooking for one is, after lack of sex, company, and bedtime snuggles, the worst thing about Cris being away is cooking for fucking one. I would rather not eat than cook for one. I would rather, and generally do, sit on the sofa and eat carrot sticks, chips, and dip, rather than cook for one. To be perfectly honest, I would rather starve than cook for one. I swear there is no more depressing task in the universe. I don't know how you all do it. I assume it is the threat of starvation and a terrible decline into madness is the only thing which makes you people who live alone cook. I say "you people" but I don't mean it in a bad way - I've just no experience of what your world must be like. I have never lived alone, almost never been an adult of any sort without Cris by my side. I know people who live alone and take joy in their cooking, but I've always been a feeder. There are Turkish grandmothers out there who'd be proud to own me. I like to feed people, to fill the house with warmth and scent and joy. and those of you who have read my stories, especially some of the early ones, will have read all about my food. My kids at school joke I should write a book, or a blog, or something. I smile and mutter I already do. Maybe there are people rich enough, or who live close enough to metropolis enough, to eat take-out most nights. Maybe there are people who find joy in microwave meals. But whenever I think of cooking for one, all I can hear in my mind is Akhtar from The History Boys, teasing Irwin by saying: "or do you whisk up gourmet meals for one?" Cooking for one is a thankless task. Hurry home baby.

UK college/sixth form are the same years as junior and senior year at high school. So Marty and Hrishi are eighteen, pushing nineteen. Leon's not gay....

Leon is as straight as they come I'm afraid. But he has his own secrets, you'll see.

oh to be young and full of lust and secrets! Actually, no, I'd rather not.

They both have more emotions than they are willing to admit to. They'll work it out... eventually. Maybe.

I saw, sorry you are unhappy. There is a silver lining.

that is a very succinct snippet. and all very true indeed. Hrishi is not just the geek, Marty is not just the boy with the guitar. They will learn to see each other, or one of them will explode.

isn't it just? boys will be boys...

I promise you will see the silver lining soon. Soon-ish. It's there. The drinking culture among young people is very polarised over here. It's very much all or nothing. Kids either don't drink, or they get well and truly wasted. Marty's drinking is very much a symptom of his unhappiness. He's not the type to get himself wasted every night. Leon is rather happier to drink until the sun goes down - but he prefers company. Marty's home life is what it is. There are still those who would say he is lucky because he's rich, regardless of how much his parents scream at each other. And hey, I'm not cruel to them, they are cruel to each other. I don't have a say in a single thing any of my characters ever do. They are only "mine" because mine is the brain they choose to shout in.

Oh I got some o' his everythin'! For those who hadn't worked it out Sabwones is Vinnie, my general beta, dogsbody, right hand man. We've known each other what... since we were fourteen? He's a good guy, make him welcome guys.

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Leon doesn’t understand why I don’t want to take a road trip with him and Jerome to see this awesome band we’ve all been crushing on musically for ages. “Fuck it, Marty, you’re the only other one I trust to drive my car.” “Oh, so you want to get wasted.” I frown at him; Leon has never stayed sober through an entire gig in his life. “I can’t drive your car home for you.” I’m sick of being that guy, but I don’t tell him that. “I can’t go.” “Why not?” I wish for the umpteenth time I could just

Because apparently it's impossible to get you guys to talk in the forum unless one of my characters is committing genocide? I know all the answers... as do you!

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So: Does Mart have actual feelings for Hrishi? Are they reciprocated? Is Marty ever going to stand up to Leon? Will Hrishi stand up for himself first? Are they ever going to have a proper conversation without hot sex getting in the way?

Thank you Lisa! See, I also think the swearing is adorable - but clearly we're both really weird! Oh... Marty has feelings alright. That's for damn sure. and Hrishi might even had feelings of his own... if only they'll stop being annoyed/disappointed/spiky with each other long enough for them to show...

It's about time Emmett got to be wicked, he's been such a good guy for so long. We can hope, that since Jian's extended family is rather large, that one of them might reach out to him. but yes, their loss, though he will miss them.

nah, shifter sex isn't bestiality. Emmett's the same guy, regardless of his shape. Same thoughts, feelings and emotions. No, mind blowing sex cannot solve all the problems in the world, but it can distract us from them, for a little while. nothing can be gained by curling up into a ball and crying all night, after all.

hehehehe. Thanks Jeff! I hope your shower worked!

me too.