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Yeah, maybe, but I don't think many people even remember the story on Lit anymore. I'll probably just end up feeling like an idiot. 😅 But, as I've said before, I enjoy writing it for myself first, so we'll see what comes.

Hope you'll enjoy the additions then 😉 start with chapter 5, mark goes back home. I like it, I don't know why I didn't think about adding a scene with his family when I first wrote it.

😄 They were actually hard to make because with A.I they end up looking too different from one picture to the other and it's not what I have in mind but well, you get the picture, literally 😉

@ziggy maybe, maybe...

@ziggy No, you're not way off. But I'll let you read the rest. 😄 Glad you looked up the song and the lyrics and liked it. And yeah, Loïc's great. He's so adorable and talented, and so underrated, even in France. Probably because he's Belgian. He makes me think of Mark sometimes. (One thing that's a bit different about him though is that his voice never broke, so he can do amazing things with it.)

@ziggy 😄Really? I did leave a message on Literotica just to let readers following me know that I wrote new chapters but I didn't think anybody had actually seen it. Honestly that site is doing my head in because I wanted to update the existing chapters because I've added a few things to each of them (I mention it in the prologue), but editing chapters over there takes months. It's so fucking frustrating. Here on Gay Authors I can edit whenever I want, so I thought I'd post the new chapters here first and see what people think. I might update Literotica one day, but honestly I'm not even sure these chapters really belong there. It's not like I didn't write a sex scene in each of them, as always, but I don't think that's what they're really about anymore. There hasn't been much reaction though here, so thanks for taking the time to come over here and comment, that's really cool. Apart from a couple of readers, I don't really know what people think of the new chapters, but at the same time if they didn't like it, I think I'd rather not know 😆 at least, I've really enjoyed writing them. These characters have always been my little escape whenever I'm bored.

@FanLit Thank you! 👍 It was a fun and compelling chapter to write. I kept thinking that I was basically just writing about things I'd already written about, so I just tried to make sure it wasn't boring and was still fun to read. August 2021 might be difficult to write, and sometimes I seriously wonder if it's worth it. But if I feel like writing it for myself, then I will. I'm gonna be honest, I haven't even started yet. Since the beginning of the story, I've never been able to start a new chapter until the previous one was published. I think I need to let go of it before I can move on to the next one.

@VBlew Thanks for telling me you liked, it, you and @FanLit are the only one to tell me, so that's good because I'd probably have lost all my motivations to write more otherwise. To be honest, I almost didn't write this one, but I don't regret it now. I really enjoyed writing it for myself. and no, Rob going to L.A was way before when they broke up in 2017... even I had to check the date... because you know what, I had to make a timeline to keep up with my own characters because even I get lost sometimes 😆 if you wanna know all my secrets, here's my timeline, a bit simplified: June 2008: Mark and Robbie are 18 and U-N-I starts recording its first album in Dublin. June 2009: The band's first album is released and becomes an immediate success. Summer 2009: The band moves to London, begins touring, and starts recording its second album. January 2011: The band buys the seven-apartment building in Notting Hill where they still live today. March 2011: U-N-I releases its second album. March 2011 – September 2012: The band goes on its first world tour. Throughout 2013: The band begins work on its third album. September 2013: Mark and Robbie are forced to come out publicly, Mark finds out about James Throughout 2014: Recording continues and the band collaborates with other artists 2015: The third album is released and becomes another worldwide success. September 2016: Their world tour ends and they start working on their fourth album and things start to fall apart. Summer 2017: Mark and Rob take a break and get back together in September 2019: huge world tour starts. July 2019: Mark and Robbie get married while on tour September 2019: They appear on The Ellen DeGeneres Show while the band is at the height of its success and continue touring. May 2020: birthdays in London June – July 2020: concerts across Europe. October 2020: The world tour comes to an end. January 2021: they go in Turks and Caicos. February 2021: Rachel and Damon welcome their son, Callum. April 2021: Rob and Mark appear on Le Quotidien while they do a few acoustic shows in a few european cities May – July 2021: Mark records his French EP while the band continues working on its fifth acoustic album. Mid-July 2021: Mark releases his French EP. Late August 2021: won’t say what happened here. August – November 2021: everyting stops November 2021: Mark French songs have become very popular Christmas 2021: The band returns to the studio, resumes work on the album, and Mark and Robbie decide to start a family. January 2022: Mark and Robbie begin their journey to become parents. Dylan and alicia's son Luca is born. January – June 2022: Mark writes new French songs while the fifth album continues to evolve. June 2022: Their surrogate becomes pregnant. June – December 2022: Recording continues as the French EP gradually becomes a full album. December 2022: The fifth acoustic album is released January 2023: Mark performs three special concerts at Salle Pleyel in Paris. March 23, 2023: Magie is born April – September 2023: The band focuses on family life October 2023: Filming begins for The Voice France. November 2023: Gráinne becomes pregnant. February – May 2024: The Voice France airs on television. March 2024: Magie turns one August 2024: Jordan and Gráinne welcome their daughter. Throughout 2024: The band writes and records its sixth album. March 2025: The sixth album is released as Callum turns four and Magie turns two. May 2025: Promotion for the new album begins. June – september 2025: The band starts touring again for the first time since Magie was born. April 2026: The world tour for the sixth album continues

Wow, 39 chapters! 😂 I should probably just write one more and be done with it.

ROBBIE’S POINT OF VIEW – January 2026 Mark came up behind me, and I felt his arm slide slowly around my waist, his fingers brushing teasingly against my skin as I fixed drinks by the outdoor bar for a couple of our friends. I was barefoot and wearing nothing but a pair of navy speedos. “You forgot your cap by the pool,” he laughed, dropping it onto my head. A fan had thrown it onto the stage. Rainbow stripes across the front, ‘Sounds Gay, I'm In’ stitched above the brim.

ROBBIE’S POINT OF VIEW – January 2026 Mark came up behind me, and I felt his arm slide slowly around my waist, his fingers brushing teasingly against my skin as I fixed drinks by the outdoor bar for a couple of our friends. I was barefoot and wearing nothing but a pair of navy speedos. “You forgot your cap by the pool,” he laughed, dropping it onto my head. A fan had thrown it onto the stage. Rainbow stripes across the front, ‘Sounds Gay, I'm In’ stitched above the brim. It was

I tried generating pictures for this chapter, I like it... from left to right: Mark, Amel, Hoshi, Mika

Or you can vote and leave a review, that'd be so cool 👍🏻😅☺️

@VBlew thank you for leaving a comment, always nice to get a positive reaction 👌🏻

Yeah, I originally wanted to start a new series for these chapters, but then I realised it'd probably be better to post them in the original story so people following it would actually get notified. Now I have no idea what the right thing to do is, so I ended up posting them in both. 😆

I'd say Mark is allowing himself to be happy 🙂 I love the fact that you know U-N-I better than you know Coldplay at this point 😂 Excellent. Sometimes, I wish they were real because I love them more than I love Coldplay 😂 Yeah, but will I keep writing, though? Even I don't know the answer to that, to be honest... I'll probably keep writing for myself as long as I enjoy it. . But let's just say there's a reason that line is there. 😉 Sadly, there aren't many readers, so sometimes I feel a bit silly for even wanting to write more. But at this point these characters have been living in my head for so long that I don't think they're getting rid of me that easily. And yeah, I'd already written in the conclusion that Jordan and Grainne had a six-month-old daughter, so that fit the timeline for this chapter perfectly. And let's be honest, Jordan was always going to freak out. 😆

It was November 2023, Rob said he’d come on Monday or Tuesday, but when I spoke to him that morning, he sounded very relaxed about it, like nothing was really decided yet, just something that might happen if it suited him. There was something a little strange too. Nothing obvious but every time I asked when he was coming, he’d quickly change the subject and start talking about Magie instead. He’d tell me how she was doing, put her on camera, and share little stories about her. To be fair,

It was November 2023, Rob said he’d come on Monday or Tuesday, but when I spoke to him that morning, he sounded very relaxed about it, like nothing was really decided yet, just something that might happen if it suited him. There was something a little strange too. Nothing obvious but every time I asked when he was coming, he’d quickly change the subject and start talking about Magie instead. He’d tell me how she was doing, put her on camera, and share little stories about her. To be fair,

Isn't mature content less accessible because readers need to become members? Or has it always been like that?

Great!! Since I came back to the site, i noticed there seems to be less readers than before. I thought because I hadn't updated my story in a few years so it makes sense, readers have moved on, unlike me 😂 but I noticed that other newly posted stories had a very low number of views. are there less readers than before on gayauthors ? Aw, what happens if you edit a story, do readers get a notification ? I hope not because ive edited my story way too many times recently 😆

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I added a scene with Mark's family in this chapter. Thought that'd be a nice addition.

@FanLit Yes, exactly… I love that about them, because Rob pushes Mark out of his comfort zone, but Mark pushes Rob too throughout the story, through the songs he writes and what he expects from him, and there’s no ego in it, just love.

@FanLit Thanks for commenting, as usual I love your comments. I know there aren’t many people still reading, but I still really enjoy coming back to the story anyway. What you said about Mark is probably why I loved writing this chapter so much, and why it felt so easy to write. I really loved writing the fans’ comments, I always do, it’s not the first time, because it shows how they see them… and especially how they see Mark. Not just as the guitarist and main songwriter, but as a real artist. They see something in him that he hasn’t fully embraced yet. And even though he’s never wanted the spotlight, and would rather just play guitar, write music, and be on stage with his friends, because yes, they mean everything to him, and that’s what makes him feel safe… At the same time, now that he’s older, it kind of feels like it’s time for him to come out a bit more. Not to leave the band or anything, just to let that side of him exist too. And Rob pushing him is really fun to write, but it’s also important. He doesn’t force him, he just doesn’t let him hide anymore, especially now that they’re older. This chapter actually happened because of Loïc Nottet’s song. I already had the idea, but he came back to Dancing with the Stars after 10 years and danced to his own song, and when I listened to the lyrics again… it honestly felt like Mark had whispered them to him. It was just too perfect not to write. I’ll see if inspiration strikes again, there’s still the three weeks part… I’m not really sure how/if I’m going to write it yet, because it wasn’t a fixed idea when I wrote the conclusion. I guess I’ll see what comes. So yeah… I’m really glad I waited five years to write this, because I wrote it for myself, and it just felt so easy.

@VBlew 😂 Yes , it kind of demanded to be out in the World! You should all go and listen to Loic Nottet now! Mark may be scared, but I'd say fate has its own plans for him, dragging him more into the light, whether he's ready or not.