Yes indeed, sex does tend to bring out all the emotions at once. Danny never would have confessed his love for Jake wirhout his emotions being all heightened by passion. Jake is just all over the place trying to sort everything out that's going on in his head. While Danny might have confessed his love for his girlfriends, maybe this is the first time he really feels it?
Wonderful comments! Thank you! There's just something about putting these two together... It both invigorates and damages them to be together. It hurts to be together, it hurts to be apart. Ah, why is youth wasted on the young!?
The running scene was one of my favorite little bits of writing for Brett, right up there with the scene of Brett "practicing" on a banana in the middle of the cafeteria in front of Emily and Billy back in the day. He's still a mischievous little devil at heart.
As I was writing round two I was thinking about the duality of feeling both right and wrong at the same time. "This time will be the last one, I swear." Yeah right!
I figured Danny had the lotion in his suitcase for solo pursuits rather than expecting anything to happen with Jake. After all, it's been months since the break-up with Lydia. A guy has needs.
Titles are fun! lol! And thanks for reading String! I've wondered how people who read it first would react going back and seeing Mr. Reilly being a total brat!
Someone asked at some point, "Do we have to call him "Mr. Reilly?" You know what? If you've seen a character naked, you can call them by their first (or middle) name.
I may add it later, but I didn't want people to have to have read WAR to enjoy this one, and seeing a "part 9" in any form, even a world, says to me personally, "Oh gee I don't have time to read 8 books before this one." If a reader needs to know something about what happened, I try to give that information without having to go back and read it.
Yeah, if it's going along well, you know the writer is up to something!
It will definitely mess with Jake's head that he acted just like his father in the worst way possible.
The fact that Mr. Reilly isn't a neurotic mess is kind of a miracle. That necklace has a lot of significance!
When Mr. Reilly said this year was going to be harder, he was referring to something like this. in that first year, he could come in with a clean slate and instill the discipline and order he wanted. After a year of being around these kids, relationships have formed and it makes it harder to be the drill sergeant. Fondness has grown on both sides.
You know the overarching irony for those who have followed all along since WAR is watching the boy who had no father become the father figure that Jake desperately needs. It was Brett's rebuke of Jake that drove Jake to Danny for comfort, like the comfort he found in him during his parents' divorce. Would it have gone as far as it did without Mr. Reilly's rejection?