Jeff Burton

Jesus Christ wtf did I just read 😂. The trolly went off the rails rather quickly on this one I just don’t know what to think or say but damn that humanity is leaking hard.

I figured you’d like Shay and since this is pure fiction of course she has a patient that actually listens and doesn’t complain or make excuses. 😂 And yeah Josh is an interesting character to write, more so later in the story. I’m glad you’re enjoying it.

Your the same age as my brother, and im barely 3 years older than he is lol.

I had a feeling.

Damn this just keeps getting better. And Ben, he still has the fire but the humanity continues to bleed and he’s probably not even aware of it yet.

Those pearls have more milage on them at this point than my car does. You should definitely never be afraid to jump in the fray. Everyone is welcome to contribute to our collective neurosis, especially when the same topics are breaching multiple forum threads it’s the best time to contribute to the fun. Sometimes the most fun I have on the site is when we get going on the forums because you have no idea what’s going to come next and some of us are horrible at staying on topic me included. 😂

Definitely a compliment that was the perfect level of spicy for Malik’s situation, especially the first time. I recall a similar encounter and it was actually pretty erotic. Not that I’ve been teleported to an alien world or anything.

If I ever had kids I would like to think I’d have the ability to let them figure themselves out within a set of guidelines that are really more common sense than inflexible rules. Im not even sure if my sexuality would even be called into question until it needed be. But then again I have a very different outlook on the world that’s not even a part of the straight parent vs gay parent mind set lol. But at the end of the day I’d probably make the same mistakes everyone else does and find out in family therapy that I’m the root cause of all their problems so, damned if I do damned if I don’t. 😂

I’ll have to write something some day about the evil murderous dark lord who gets turned by the village idiot.

“Why are you hugging me!? No stop! I’m darkness the shadow that stalks the night! FFS STOP WITH THE HUGGING!”

Also it’s harder to hate Ben when his humanity starts to show. 😂

That was a good chapter. This line however made me laugh so hard: Riley snorted, a wet, dismissive sound. "You're so full of shit your eyes are brown. But carry on, Picasso." I find it funny that Ben thought of Riley as just a pet both in book 1 and this story, but in that mangled mind of his he failed to notice that pets tend to find a way to worm into your chest. Honestly I’m not sure who Riley should end up with at this point.

Yes Gabriel was just meant to be a device in the machine. Now I have to find another role for him to fill. While I totally could end it here, there’s still the war with Madison and the fallout. And I haven’t hit a few tropes yet.

And she calls this a little spicy. 😂 So obviously something happened during this festival with Malik and fire, and of course somebody saw it and now Nyrra is still trying to play the “tailless one is dangerous,” card again. Rhaelce isn’t having it until he gets some, and the author leaves us on a major cliffhanger before we find out what color it is. I mean obviously we know what color the humans shoot but what about these guys? Is it green? Blue? Pink? Oh what if it’s like a gender reveal blue if it’s a boy pink if it’s a girl. 😂 Science demands answers!

This version of Ben is a bit more likable. Maybe it’s because his control is slipping because Riley just can’t be controlled lol

I'm stuck on: "Still up here." 😂 Glad to see this one going again.

Yeah speaking of both of those you know what would look good on this list? Falcon Banners Book 5 and The Watchers book 3. 😋😂 *hinthinthint* ❤️❤️

Christ this chapter made me bust more than once and no, not like that you pervs. 😂 Such a smart child that one. 😂

This came up a while back in my feed and gave it a go. I was born in the middle of those date ranges but yes I totally feel all of it. I remember when I was like five we could do four digit dialing for in town local calls, then one day it didn’t work anymore and we had to use the prefix code as well. So to go from that to the smart phones we have today is crazy when you think about it. Independent and critical thinking skills were very much required growing up because most of the time parental supervision was almost nonexistent at times. Although a group effort was made by the adults to at least keep kids in line so we didn’t become degenerates. By the time I was 18, the internet was taking off, dialup first then when I was 19 dsl came out of nowhere, then cable. It seemed like every 3 months there was something new. The iPod shook us free of our CD binders, PC gaming advances and video card technology made the original PlayStation that just a few years ago held our teenage life with such reverence seemed old and obsolete. Never mind that old Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis that propped up our social life during the middle school years. Then to have your early adult work life effected by Enron, 9/11, and when you felt like you where finally making it with a job that paid 40+k a year, making more than some of your extended family the 2008 housing crisis shows up, bringing with it massive layoffs, rapid inflation, and a mortgage you suddenly can’t pay for. So you clear the slate, get out from under it before the complete crash, and have to start over while living in an area that has a 14% unemployment rate. And you start over. Again. At this point your so disenchanted because in your short adult life you watched the towers fall, business empires collapse, your credit rating go from “sure!” to “sorry son, would love to help but can’t”, not to mention the ongoing military actions in two countries, and the bodies that keep getting sent home, you’ll believe anybody that says ‘change is something we can believe in!’ And then nothing changes. Growth is stagnant. You have experience and credentials but good luck putting any of it to use. You lose weight not because you want too, because eating costs money which is something you are in short supply of, but change is coming! Just not for you. So you stop relying on what you relied on before to provide for you. You stop believing in everything you’ve been ever told about ‘how the future will be.’ Your motivations change, your thought patterns change. You know you’re getting screwed but instead of complaining about it you consider it as ‘dancing with the devil in the pale moon light.’ You just play your part in the game, work a job you hate for a company you know doesn’t care because the pay is timely the benefits while terrible won’t leave you dying in an ER because that cold you’ve got turned out to be pneumonia. You just play your part. You smile at the things people want you to smile at, say the things that make others feel good. When really you just want to burn it all to the ground. But you’ve learned patience and resilience. And you’ve gotten strength through adversity. You know when your being lied to, you know which truths to believe. And you still play the game, but now you know. There’s a reason why we feel it, why we seem to have that disconnect, and that feeling that we are stuck in the middle. We are our own, born at that perfect time to have both feet firmly in two different worlds and the unfortunate timing of being affected by the crash as both collided with each other. Im not sure I would have had it any other way though, the lessons I learned from the experience just seem like it would be too much to give up. Anyway that kinda went ranty but those of you who know will get it lol.

This is a great collaboration, you both did this so seamlessly, I wouldn’t have been able to tell if you hadn’t said something. As for the story itself, it is cute, and I liked the way you were able to weave the pieces of the backstory in to just give glimpses into what happened before.

You sir can remain silent! 😂

While I’m proud of this story, and glad that I wrote it, I warn people about it because the first couple of chapters are dark as hell. i was going through something in my head that wasn’t good when i wrote this and despite the fact i sanitized the writing as much as i could it’s still an emotional gut punch. That feeling of being sucked into a vortex of despair, was intentional on my part because that’s what I was feeling at the time and I had to let that bleed into the writing, but I only limited it to 2 chapters. The rest of the story is the aftermath, and trying to rebuild. And yeah most of my style across my stories have that tight focused feel to it, I try not to waste time with getting side tracked lol.

Man I’m so behind so I’m just going to go with “what he said” ^ thanks Ben 😂

And if they meet are they going to have crusty sheets.

That's what you end up with when you let teenagers control the course of destiny in the world. On the surface they're in the crusades, yet two teenagers seem to be in control of whats really going on lol. Makes you wonder how often the tides of history where changed because of a teenager with crusty sheets.