Krista

It must feel good being first twice. 😮 and you and ideas are scary. I'm beginning to think 95% of the people who comment on this story don't need to be having very many ideas for the sake of the rest of us.

Camps were... interesting. But Band Camp does seem to get a lot of... notorious commentary surrounding it.

Aww. April fools it is not. Although, I would like it to be April. I'm done with winter.

I found this far too clever... sigh. We all can't be as clever as this.

Too tragic.

I wonder as the year goes along and Lissa gets more...likely to bite, if Joel wouldn't migrate to the 'baseball' table or wherever Davin and Gavin are sitting. If they're close to Jaxton's table though, I doubt it. It probably depends on geography, Roy, and Lorianne... he's carving out his own little friend group. It doesn't necessarily have to involved Colt, Davin, and Gavin whilst at school either. They have a nice thing going outside of school. But yeah, it would be interesting. And yeah, only one chapter left. 24k worth of reading, but only the one.

I would never. Not at all. Have you been up to something? (my new favorite .gif btw)

If you're going to assume, you may as well do it with confidence. He did like what happened in the shower and that involved some butt stuff... more than he expected... less than what Davin wanted, and awkward as hell for me to write. Aww. Good memories, sexy memories... are good memories to live in at least.

Oh.. well behaving didn't last long. And yeah, with Davin who knows, it could be a little smartassy for him to say it. Or he could know more or suspect more people that Joel will come to notice with more time.

Jockocracy... nice. Speaking in Trace: Sometimes when you introduce a second Bull to the herd, the bulls have to establish where they are in the herd. They fight, they bellow, they slobber, and then after a few hours they get over it and go back to being Bulls. I should probably leave now. He is finding his place in the world... it seems. And with a nice place, he can let some weight off those shoulders. We've not yet seen a relaxed Joel. A relaxed Joel might surprise a lot of people. And you know you gave me the idea to confirm the gay table. Because it hadn't hit me until you said it that yeah.. I kind of did make that a designated gay/queer friendly table with how I described everyone and the atmosphere. As for the rest of the tables... There can't be only one if something exists... so I guess he's just assuming there are likely others. Or, there are others that are rather obvious to someone who has been at Fletcher and knows more about the people walking the halls. And he is keeping his own very gay secret at his baseball table.

Question answered.

Maybe he'll grow to like that number. I hope that doesn't end up being the number of home runs the boy hits, that would be rather disappointing for him.

I think that's very much the reputation that Joel wanted... if he's crazy, we're not going to mess with him. The, "I don't know what he'll do..." is a very motivating thought to leave someone the hell alone. It beats the one that ran him off Tempton completely, mind you. Even though only a month of time passed, I think 'this' Joel would have stayed at Tempton though. Not with his family, but at Tempton High.

I believe you. I think you may have behaved yourself with this chapter, I'm thinking. You've also been rather busy with other things, Frosted Hearts has probably had 3 'Monday' postings in the brand new year of 2026.

I see another paranoid chick-a-dee? Sorry about that.. lol.. I needed something that rhymed with "I see.." and that's the best I came up with on the fly.

I think most people are hoping he does... lol. I know it may feel like a bit of a portion of writing that came in quick and left in a bit of a whimper. I don't know, there's only one chapter left... I don't think there's much time for Jaxton to do much about Joel. At least in the writing. Maybe.

Maybe the girlfriend told him it was over, so it is over. The power of flowers and boobs can be rather powerful... And yes, I called it a flower. And, sometimes a horse-headbutt is just a horse-headbutt. Maybe I should've just skipped that entirely, Braden has a life outside of school. He's in the Western/Rodeo world that Colt/Trace/Lacey are in, accidents on horses happen, especially if hornets are involved. I don't get too twisty with things that should cause such paranoid thinking, do I?

Hold on now, hands on learning is important too. But yeah, he did get rather scolded by Reynart for his lack of structure, the poor thing. Lance was quite the talker. Maybe there's a lot of people that wanted/likes to see Jaxton get his dues a bit. Joel needs to watch out or he may be on the short-list for shit like Prom King in the coming months... if things don't die down or get overshadowed by some other small town scandals anyway. Jaxton's struggle to get Joel off him probably did look rather... for a lack of a better word 'sus' at times. Especially since Joel was sitting in a nearly perfect position for a nice ride... Oh goodness. *slaps own wrist* You may be asking too much. I gave you a wet and naked Colt. I don't know if I'm feeling motivated enough/pressured enough to give you naked wrestling in a locker room between "Rivals.." although, if you watched 'Heated Rivalry," and got over your fear of sports balls, you might get that out of your system a little bit. The next chapter is a rather large chapter... so there's that. May be too large, we'll see. I've not looked at it for over a week. I know I reread it, trimmed it down, and rewrote some shit that became dated and no longer made sense... the next chapter scares me. It scared me a lot.

Oh gosh, with him that's a slippery slope of a loaded question, I feel.

Yeah posturing is something that I think a lot of people coming out of high school live to regret... unless they still feel like what little they accomplished in high school still matters now they're well into adulthood. If you think your social standing in high school is more important than where you are ten years later, then ouch. Situationship! 😮 Davin and Joel felt that.

Maybe Joel stood up to him enough that Jaxton doesn't see any rewards for continuing their little dance... unless he can get something out of it. Or hopes to gain something out of it. The longer Joel is there though, the more people will get to know him for just being Joel. The baseball team, the Ames twins are high in the hierarchy, Faith, Sierra, Davin and Gavin... so he's not scraping the bottom of the silly and shallow world of High School dramatics. If anything Jaxton probably heard a lot of uproar about Joel coming to the school and felt threatened. If I had to guess.

I think Mr. Swindell is trying his best. Sometimes you just get a class of unmotivated people that don't want to do the homework as well. That's where my head was when I wrote that sentence though. He does seem checked out a little bit too, Swindell. In the bogged down world of teaching Math will probably do that to you... Even the nice math teachers aren't well liked based on the subject they happen to teach. Such is life. And yeah, poor Roy doesn't know that many people he could ask for help, unless he knows people in Tempton. Being Jonny's lapdog since he was a wee little brat probably didn't earn him a lot of friends that can do Calculus though. The two dumbasses can struggle on that boat together, I'm thinking. Lorianne may save them as I doubt the Kepler twins are sneaky math geniuses. I think 'most' people probably think Joel is either in the process of dating Lorianne, or they already are... doing things. Reputations and what have you. So, unless they catch him out with Lance, Roy, or Jeremiah they probably just think he's new and lost? I don't know... If that is the 100% designated gay table, then him staying at it after being there ages might get him noticed for that... you can be new and dumb, but you can't be not new and still dumb.

Off season practices were fun, if not a little brutal... But yeah, a lot more just overall bonding and nonsense too without the stress of being within the season itself.

Same, really... had a rough start to the week and didn't want to do anything at all... I don't think I even looked at the progress of this chapter until I posted it.

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