Krista

Aww.

Yeah the poor dear waited too long to spill the tea about already knowing... now he has to come to terms with mostly everyone knowing, but still having to keep it a secret from some people just because Joel doesn't want them to know yet. He's guarded Davin's secret though, I'm sure he can manage.

The Connleys would need to put another addition onto their house. I suck at blueprints, if you saw the panic in the middle portions of the writing when I realized that I've created the Weasley house... that only magic can keep standing... don't put that on me. I refuse. But I think they'd cling to Cody, he's younger and there's a lot more legal action to be taken as far as his custody would be concerned, they dodged a bullet with Joel only because Joel decided he didn't want to cause them that damage of abandonment.

Hmm there seems to be theories floating around... about that. 😮

oh gosh.. a ballet with banjo music, male tights that resemble jeans and button-up shirts... all male cast. I think we have a hit.

Yeah, well can't say that this year can we? With the SEC or football country all folding like limp soggy toast. And I am sad that you didn't edit this to rub being first on page two in @Jason Rimbaud's face. Do consider fixing that error.

Damn, got the posting glitch.. sighs.. hold on. There was a lot to close in this chapter, a lot of it came about rather rapid fire despite the chapter being a bit massive. I probably could have trimmed out the trip to Tempton and then the Birthday BJ, but where's the fun in at least the second one. Maybe it being sort of rapid fire kind of suited the story a bit, Joel rose to the occasion, something he wouldn't have been able to do less than a month ago. Which realistically a month may not have been enough time for what he's been through. Trace and Celia cultivating a safe, accepting, and welcoming space for him though might have helped him grow a bit quicker. I don't really like Aerosmith, but I do like 'Dream On.' But we do remember how uncultured I am when it comes to music. That plot continues. You know shit is about to get real bad if the G-ma's are feisty. There must be something, apparently you have on in Encrypted, and the Grandma character in the back-burner story Ellis is also feisty, despite me having a mostly clean slate now... that story is still back burner for me.

Oh goodness, the scandal! 😮 But yeah, there was a lot of small reactions to that whole conversation.

A chaotic and a wee bit filthy book at that. The comments that is, my story is mostly wholesome with a lot of F-bombs.

Lol, that is probably Roy's major disappointment too... bless him.

I don't blame you, 24k is a lot for 6am. I am not functioning at 6am.

Joel believing in himself is a good ending to a story that's beginning for him, I think.

Wow thank you, it gives more weight to his decision. Something he probably needs to hint about when it comes to spilling his plans and dreams to his parents. They may respect/accept it more if it involves a more formal plan than just up and running off to Nashville. But I honestly don't see them hindering him if it is something he's had his heart set on for a bit. They don't seem like the types anyway.

You're just trying not to let yourself think Colt is sexy again. It's okay. Groan if you must, but a tight pair of jeans, a guitar, some angry/angst and a wet butt makes him the total package. Other than that straight thing he has going on. It was another crappy "after party" wasn't it... Fletcher sucks, Tempton definitely throws better parties. I wish I was a songwriter. I dabble at poetry and mostly suck at it.

I did... I did know that. And we already know Davin will eat both kinds of cake with enthusiasm.

Theory No. 2 has some movement in it, I hope you can deliver on it. It sounds fun. Theory No. 1 may not be far off, but it was early in the writing... lol. Joel/Joey. I find it cute when toddlers just learning to speak butcher a lot of words. I've kept the names of our dogs as their butchered attempted at saying them. My oldest named them as puppies, but the younger ones really did with their flawed pronunciation of them. So that was the birth of that idea, despite Cody being older, the habit might be something from when he was much younger and carried over. He'll probably grow out of it in a year or so, he's just turning eleven. When it does, Joel may miss ever being called Joey. I'm tearing up thinking about the casual and silent shift that often happens when something is outgrown. And oh yes, all the wet butts were for you my dear, every single one. I'm glad the brats weren't too annoying. I think Gavin really would bust some kneecaps for Davin, Joel better behave himself. I see a running joke abut Lorianne seeing Davin naked first developing whenever it crossed Gavin's mind... it obviously hasn't yet or it already would be a thing.

lol! Can't say that I have, as I've yet to read Encrypted. I'll have to slot it into my reading schedule now that I'm more or less clean slate. Feisty judgmental mothers are a thing, I'm seeing. I'm glad Trace put her in her place, she may be family, but she is also a guest. She needed to show a little bit more respect.

Yeah, the chapter was a series of revelations and unspoken things coming to light. Lorianne just has the pairing wrong. I do wonder if she'll start seeing Roy in a different light, now that she knows Roy isn't also gay. Francine McCorbyn I almost didn't write her in at all. At the time I was really bogging down the writing with negative weight. Without the new writing between this chapter and the thin agreement about him playing baseball. She might have been too much. I think the new writing saved the story quite a bit. Although, Jaxton I think fell a little short. He felt rather cliche to me anyway. Davin seems like the type that falls headfirst into strong feelings. People like that are easily broken, I'm thinking.

Nope, no Epilogue series.

Yeah I kind of swamped e-fiction with three stories, tons of chapters. I had another story here that I've since deleted, because I never finished it. I can't remember the title. Then "Roommates" followed right after, and I want to say the beginning of, "Are You Christian," so I more or less introduced myself by dropping tons of content on the clunky e-fiction system... coming right out of Yahoo groups and Nifty... It was an interesting time.

Yeah, it was a rapid fire series of events with Gavin being followed up by Lorianne. Then Joel took it further and outed his original tale of how he came to live with them. A story that Trace kept, which he promised he would. To Francine, and Celia. I thought it was a lot of steps in that direction for him to take, but we have sort of learned that Joel is reactive. So he gave the grandma more than she bargained for there. Roy is straight, bummer, those eyes, the sweetness of character... missed opportunity. Cody overall was bittersweet for me. So much.

Thank you. It was a massive chapter. I had fun writing it, I think I went a bit too big with the party. I even had Celia comment on it, thinking it was too much when a more casual thing that put more of a family connection and allowed for less distractions with Cody and him, but overall I left it all in. There was too much surrounding the backdrop chaos that I liked.

It does seem that way, me creating a female character that becomes a bit of an antagonist. For the longest time the trope was, 'accepting mother,' 'frigid/rigid unaccepting' father, or male caregiver. So I sort of balked at that in my later writing. Might be becoming a bit heavy handed with the Cindy, Franny, Lisa Benton types. They're still out there though, unaccepting people. And to be honest Franny is loosely based on someone I know, she was written a bit more extreme, but based on someone. This comment was so lovely. How you summed them all up. I will miss them for a bit, these characters.