Laura S. Fox

Yep, yep, yep. Alexander has really suffered through all these years... while Lyn remained oblivious. It was more performative - Lyn lost the plot quickly, lol!

I know, Chris

He-he... Lyn had a plan... and then he got derailed...

I've personally discovered to be the truth! So I guess I was waiting for the right story to say that with it...

Chapter Thirty-Two – [Memory, Summer Break after Sophomore Year] – The Clouds in Your Eyes Lyn started to suspect that he had somehow developed a sixth sense that alerted him, specifically, when Brad was near. He was out in the small lawn in front of the house, examining the flower beds with a critical eye, trying to get his mind off the peeling paint and slight cracks that would need a little more than pluckiness of character to fix. His mom had left on a trip with the widower she was stil

Absurdity is the word! Jack lives in my head rent-free, and he's among the most impulsive characters I've ever come up with! Thanks for calling me a master, I live for comedy!

It is all so very simple!

Ha-ha, awesome song, we might give it to Jack to dance on it on his way to losing his virginity, lol - as for the lyrics, they fit to a tee, and would so be something Jack would resonate with! Self-moistening, huh? You guys...

Especially the, ahem, gymnastics, will be quite elaborate!

If it's written in the stars... I mean cards...

'Things will work out' - famous last words Jokes aside, I'm glad that you're enjoying this retelling part. I hope to shed light on the things that couldn't be presented in full when Danny and Ryder were the main characters.

Not thinking at all must be Jack's middle name, lol. Interesting doesn't cover it

Chapter Five – Witchcraft and Trickery The moment of truth was near. Theodore stared into the pine forest below, his mind filled with dark thoughts. Although his hands remained steady, he could tell that what he had been living for was about to become reality. Revenge was near. He could almost taste it in the back of his throat like ashes from an urn. Cassandra – that was the only name on his mind now. His pack would be avenged and maybe, just maybe, he would find his peace. “Where doe

So true! If I had a nickel for each time I heard that our nations here have always been at the crossroads of empires...

Well, I'll reply with a famous quote from one of the novels written by a great writer in my country... I feel enormously and see monstrously. Complicated history must be to blame! And I get what you mean about the lack of expressivity! That's a bit of a running gag now, especially on social media... But give one such person a bit too much to drink, and you'll see emotions from crying uncontrollably to the most hysteric laughter!

No, I'm sorry if anything gave that impression... Those nasty things are said by those people.

Oh, once more, Maestro strikes again... I've never worked on a story as hard as on this one - not that I don't love all my stories and I don't dedicate some insane amounts of time to them - while still learning and learning about the craft so I can get better. Now I'm in a phase when I pretty much obsess over the necessity for all the elements in a scene to be indispensable... Hence, yes, the mirrors and all... very well analyzed. Alexander, as always, is honest. He tells Lyn the things others wouldn't. He corrects him and sets him straight (not that kind of straight, lol) because he knows Lyn has the intelligence to understand and it's only an emotional hang-up of one sort or another that stops him. Lyn gets unsettled by Alexander seeing through him. He tries to mask it, even as envy, hence the nickname and all. You've already commented earlier on Blanche's and Lyn's relationship, so I won't repeat the same things here. Yes, they play a part, and when you have few weapons at your disposal, the choice is a non-brainer. Lyn does 'send' a tender message with that 'You look lonely'... He also sees Alexander, and while I know it was a very, very small moment, he was about to drop pretenses when his mom walked in on his and Alexander's 'fight'. Shared loneliness is a term we should coin for them

Oh, yes, Maestro... it must be our shared Balkan ancestry that makes us receptive to stuff like this... It is deeply human, and I wanted to portray that. Dysfunctional, but it still works. And tenderness is a great word to describe this, I agree

Alexander does use the occasion to call Lyn perfect, so that Lyn can hear it... good point. And yes, you guessed right.

No, she was there with the widower, and they had to meet with him again after Blanche went after Lyn, while he - it happens off-page, of course - is talking to other people.

Oh, yes, that's one of the points of the chapter.

They are two people who, for the most part, only have each other. As for the sadness, I think I come from the right place to display it on page - there is this fragment from a poem written by a famous fellow countryman of mine which describes our country as 'sad, filled with humor' - and yes, we have a lot of dark humor, too. Lyn is formed by this dysfunctional love. I know that as the author, I know him better than the readers, and there will always be things about the characters that don't end up on page because they won't serve the story, but I want everyone to see his choices as natural because of how he grew up, because of how he shaped himself these years, because of how he learned to love. Honestly, I really hope all this makes sense!

Ha-ha, going after Maestro... But he's not wrong. I mean, I'm not a Native English speaker, so I might not catch the nuances of the word 'endearing', but I wanted to show that Lyn's love for his mom is real. When you love someone, you love them with their flaws included, and since we don't choose our parents... it's part of Lyn's personality to feel this sort of tenderness toward his mom. He's still in his formative years here, and it's not like he has other family. I know I'd hold on with everything I have in his case - so Lyn's flaws might just be mine, lol! On another note, yes, you're correct, it is dysfunctional. But as I get older, I realize that people need to live with all sorts of circumstances, and it's up to them to decide how to deal with them. This is just Lyn's method.

Alexander does want to keep Lyn on his toes by keeping him to high standards... but when someone else asks, he's all honest - Lyn is perfect