Kitt

Thank you T!

Have a wonderful day!

Very true. Now, has someone changed the way an AVERAGE is found since I was in school? For there to be an average number of lifetime partners there has to be people who sit at the extremes of the range. Granted Will is at the high end of the range, All that means is that there are people at the opposite end. Perhaps only a total of 15% of the boys under 15 have lost their virginity, that is not necessarily due to a lack of trying. While it is quite probable some of them are because they are "taking it slow" for others it may very well be a lack of opportunity. It would be interesting to compare that number to the number of boys in the same age group who CLAIM to have lost their virginity during locker room boasting.

Thank you Ron. People often underestimate the power of setting a little one to a task. Kayla will find ways to keep her aunt in line!

Thank you Lisa! I had fun with this one. Kayla sounds very much like a real 5 yr old I knew once. Her family moved away before I got a chance to see what sort of a teen she would be, but if the imp held sway, watch out!

Don't children hold power over us a lot more than we care to admit? Thank you for reading.

What do you think guys? I say AJ should re-post his response on his story page! Here's my attempt at #276 http://www.gayauthors.org/story/kitt/toquietthelittlevoice/14

The Babysitter. Ayla pushed herself back against the headboard. She really hated the helpless feeling several pounds of plaster on her leg caused. It was already beginning to take a toll on her moods. Who would have thought you could break your leg by stepping on a darned toy car? But a broken leg is what she ended up with – and not just one bone – she had to do things “right” and break both the tibia and the fibula. * “What do you mean I can’t even put my foot

It is a very different thing on paper - but not in reality. I remember as a fifteen yr old gal, in most cases there was one thing a 15/16 yr old guy wanted. I don't imagine it is all that different in a gay setting. There were many instances of 15 and 16 yr old gals pregnant during my junior and senior years. So - as i see it a lot of teens are promiscuous, both male and female. The difference here is the visibility level. Everyone seems to know about Wills liaisons. Most teens keep things hidden much more!

Which is exactly the point when people start criticizing Will's promiscuity. Man's body and hormones saying "screw it go screw him" yet at this point he is just developing the social filters that would slow things down. What gets me is Matt was very much the same way throughout his freshman year of college and more, yet none of the people who blast Will even seem to think about how Matt was not only screwing everything cute that waved a tush at him, he was doing it in spite of being in a relationship with Wade.

Good name for the little buggers!

Unless they move into the houses!

That's what they make those little notebooks for!

Are you TRYING to create more arachnophobes?

We have all known a James at one time or another. An Amy too for that matter. He was certainly entitled to his opinion, and what he said could very well be true, but that wasn't the time or place to express it. Unfortunately the James' of the world never realize that till the damage has been done! You captured the emotions of the situation beautifully Wayne!

The world would be a much better place if we all slowed down that two seconds rather than expect someone to speed up that much. You give the world thought,and put in that little bit more effort. That is something many more people should do!

I appreciate your position Paya, but this was not a difficulty in my ability to learn, it was a function of not being welcome in the family. I speak three languages and I am quite sure had i gotten even the smallest cooperation I would have learned much more than when to slap (metaphorically) my mother in law as she used words like gold digger and harlot in reference to me. The situation has changed little except that most times she now does the insulting in English. I am unsure if that is a function of wanting to make sure i understand or one of her parents no longer needing to, but the result is the same.

Yes you can Mickey - substitute either steamed or battered and fried cod!

Perhaps it is the fact his family doesn't think me good enough for him, ( even 31 yrs later) but I always found being excluded from the conversation by reverting to German to be demeaning, and to me it always sounded like they were angry even when they were quiet and smiling at each other. My attempts to learn the language were thwarted as well. If three people give you three completely different meanings to the same word you will never get anywhere.

"Skinny nerdy twink types" are seldom physically fit enough to put in the hours on the ice a competitive figure skater does daily. We watch the competitions on TV and see the athletes ( and make no mistake, they ARE athletes just like the football jock) make the maneuvers look easy. They are not and these men and women take many hard knocks getting there. Under that slinky one piece stretch suit or skimpy skate skirt are hard muscle. You are right in that JJ needs someone to call him on his BS, but that doesn't necessarily mean getting in his face publically and telling him to quit being an ass. I think were Alistair to be the right guy for JJ, after some initial discussion that comes close to dividing them it would come down to a gentle word or touch in public to remind JJ not to go bitchy. I have seen it work many times. It may not have been that Mark is the one changed his mind. Sometimes once you begin the actual writing the Characters themselves have more to say than the story outline thought about and they simply demand the page space. Personally, long or short, I enjoy Marks work, I appreciate the effort the rest of you on his support staff put in, and will read anything he publishes, be it a paragraph or a book the size of Websters Unabridged!

"Try not to sink more than 10" into the ice"? And just how the %#$@#$ is a pilot supposed to do that?

Let's see - JJ is just short of his 16th at the moment, in Oct. 2001. The '06 Olympics is 5 yrs away. Do you really think he is going to wait and not lose his virginity ( assuming his coach didn't already see to that) until he is 21 yrs old? Mark may just be giving us his first hints on JJ's preferences, but to expect a hormonal teenage boy to abstain till he is 21 strikes me as a tad unrealistic! Doesn't matter how many times your parental units preach "Just say no". When the feeling strikes it is GOING to happen. There would be lots fewer cases of std's and teen pregnancies if parents accepted that idea and taught their kids to be safe!

Zack's realization that he was headed down a wicked road was a bit surprising. I hadn't expected to see him wander back into the story. That he took the initiative to get away from a bad situation before things had passed the point of no return is a new twist for a lot of the Hayes boys. It's nice to see the human side of JJ starting to venture out from behind his walls. This is the first real glimpse of his sexuality we've gotten. Seems like gay doesn't quite fit right, at least not yet, but there definitely seems to be a leaning towards it. Are we about to meet our first truely bi plot development? Welcome back Mark, we missed you!

LOL I warned you WL - you've gone and opened your version of Pandora's box with holiday themes! If you do not want to or are unable to keep it up you may either want to find someone to replace you or find a nice big stone wall to hide behind!

LOL we do something similar to that with the big brothers - lobster and old bay crab boil. We cant get the little guys up here!