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"I was there for you when..." Hard to compete with that!
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Denial is a great drug!
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That hot tub is like a boiling cauldron of Rossi seminal fluids. Ew...
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So glad I can share this experience with you! Thank you!
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The weeks passed quickly from Danny’s birthday party to Easter in April. In what was a surprise to absolutely no one, Danny and Lydia broke up. Danny’s other breakups had been low-key. Kayla just quietly dumped him after he’d offended her in the hot tub, but they were still friends. Britney just decided she wasn’t ready for a relationship, but she and Danny were still friends. But Lydia… She didn’t just dump him. No, it was far worse than that. Their relationship began to turn sour after
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The most research I've done for this story was making sure I got the lingo correct for Ryan and Jake's chat. Like, was "yeet" still considered something cool to say in 2017? It was actually becoming a little bit passe by then, hence Jake thinking Ryan was a dork. The work I do for my art... 😉
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You've got to know your generation-z lingo! Stan - from Eminem's song Stan - an obsessive fan. Yeet - Cool PTO - Parent Teacher Organization. Snap - Snapchat, the kids' these days version of texting/chatting because Facebook is for "old people."
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“Happy birthday, dear Danny! Happy birthday to you!” Danny blew out the candles on his birthday cake and we all cheered for him. Everybody was all smiles. He put his arm around Lydia, our former field commander, and gave her a kiss. Danny and Lydia had become an item right after football season had ended. His friends were impressed that he’d become an item with a senior girl. We were even more impressed he’d managed to stay with her all the way through the New Year into February. Usually
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I'd like to think Danny is being sincere with his treatment of Jake. He doesn't mean to hurt him, but he can't give Jake what he wants, or be who Jake wants him to be.
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The heart wants what it wants. George Strait said it, "You can't make a heart love somebody. You can lead a heart to love but you can't make it fall."
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"Cause each night I ask the stars up above, why must I be a teenager in love?"
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"Sexuality is complicated" You've got that right! I don't know if Danny is selfish or not. He certainly finds Jake attractive. He's learning that "playing with fire" can get you burned.
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Yes, as soon as Jake said the L word he realized he was in trouble. He quickly changed from "I love you" to "I love this" but the ball had already started rolling. Jake can't help it that he wants what he wants, but neither can Danny. He clearly enjoys what he does with Jake, but he wants something else.
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Brett already was intuitive when it came to people, then he went and got a degree in psychology. Natural Talent + knowledge + Experience = one very wise young man.
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Yep. He has a right to feel the way he feels, and he doesn't want to hurt Jake, but he knows he's going to.
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"You're meant to defend me and the only one on my side is the bloodsucking lawyer!" John Hammond, Jurassic Park
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We knew Danny was going to break Jake's heart eventually. Kinda sad to watch it happen though.
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I think Jake feels the same way. "How can we open up to each other like that and not feel the same way about each other?" Mr. Reilly's a pretty good teacher. He always had a way with reading people.
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You can just feel poor Jake's heart breaking during Danny's speech at the end. That tear said so much.
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I enjoyed that scene immensely. WAR readers know far more about that gang than Jake could possibly understand. To Jake, it's just a bunch of adults acting like kids having fun. To us, it's what many of us had always hoped to see. Brett Reilly was always the heart of WAR. As for Dustin, it's nice to see him doing well. Looks like Nate's been good for him! They got divorced for a reason, right?
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I thought of this chapter as the counterpoint to the previous one. There is no one good parent and one bad parent. They both have their moments. They both vent their frustrations to their friends, unfortunately they do it in the presence of their son. Adults think kids don't hear those hushed conversations. As for the old gang, I enjoyed seeing the glimpse of the old Brett Reilly!
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There's good and bad in everybody. Bob and Karen are navigating their divorce in a very unhealthy way. Jake is a kid who has grown so used to disappointment he's surprised when his parents do something that doesn't suck. Yep, he's very sensitive to people bashing his mom or dad. Of course, he does it himself with his "This family sucks" routine, but when other people do it it hurts him a lot. I think that's what he's trying to do, but that doesn't make it any less painful.
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“Finnegan! Get that horn over the bar!” Mr. Reilly shouted at me. Getting the horn “over the bar” was Mr. Reilly’s standard even in practice. It meant you didn’t let the angle of your horn drop below your chest when you were marching. I had to admit I was dogging it on the field that day, but Mr. Reilly had been brutal on everyone that last week of the marching season. “If you think I’m going to let up on you just because it’s the last game of the season, you’re sorely mistaken!” he warn
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As I was writing, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to bring in Dustin, considering their history. It took them a lot of work to get to where they can tease each other like they did.
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They were married 15 years but they've been divorced for a year as well, so Jake was conceived within their wedded years. Doesn't mean they were ready though.
