Krista

So it does... so it does.

Poor Roy, seems to have his eyes on the two girls that won't be available. At least not until after high school, but he'd have to be sure they're interested in him too, for him to wait a year. Teenage brains don't like to wait. Lorianne doesn't have any suitable date options either, but I think she'll be okay with that, she seems to be getting a lot of unwanted attention just like Joel. It would be sort of adorable for Gavin to sort of be this sneaky little cupid... a bit unhinged at times, but still cute, maybe? 😮 and yeah, now you have to wait alongside everyone else. You caught up fast.

It may be safe to say that it was a mixed bag of both. 😮 Both dumb and... brave. No one probably saw it coming.

A totally seemingly random chance meeting with Davin would've been interesting. But I think Roy or an Unnamed dude, maybe a teammate would've won out if I kept him in the Benton household. I do like a good "enemies to lovers," story.

Ohhhh! Why'd you edit out the long version... that was funny. An entirely different dynamic, but it was so good. And hot decembers.. I don't know if I should be jealous as it is 29F here. I do like a little respite from heat... but not a long one. Nice almost poetic start to the... shortened version. I'm glad @Okiegrad caught you with your writer fingers all over the keyboard. I already said I don't care if people take my characters and run. There's not a whole lot of 'my' Joel in the passages you wrote. It makes me sad to see him carefree and all the way settled, I didn't give much of that to him in the writing so far. But I don't mind you doing so, not in the least. But Gavin wouldn't have a hairy ass. Davin maybe, but not Gavin. I don't even think Gavin can grow facial hair all that well, if I'm remembering correctly.. the rest of him kind of followed that trend. and I don't know if sweet guy Roy could handle Davin, but he may like trying.

Oh for crying out...! I am so late to this... I apologize, I've not paid him close enough attention, obviously.

Aww. I wouldn't put that much faith in either one of us, but aww all the same.

I have that problem, but there's a whole man attached to that penis.

I would never! I merely was commenting that you were wanting Colt/Joel - Jolt, or more Colt than anything, but since Joel is the narrator, you might have had to settle with his moody butt. Then you found out how tall they were whilst being jockish. Although Colt isn't Jockish, he's more corn-fed and country bred... so to speak. But still tall. Lanky.. and tall, but not bookish, punk, or I can't remember all the rest. Something to do with beards, unless they're in the process of coming out of their pants? So now Roy seems to be your No. 1... which we've already discussed in private where he fell with me. And we'll have to ask @wildone to confirm his height, because I haven't a clue where he falls on that one. But he is sort of jockish, he's trying out for teams anyway.. lol.

Yeah, they are being phased out. And sneaky with that penis on the end there. And aww. I'd let you be a blurb on a book cover. And he knows more than I do, because none of what he listed was in their character descriptions in the Character sheet, mind you. I mean, he looked through them, and provided evidence and I decided to trust that. --- I know I'm calling myself out with that, but it's true. I still wouldn't know the damn dogs' names either. HE put them in the Character Sheet and then reminded me of them. --- Here you go. I'm nothing, if not generous.

He also knows that my threats could go either way. It could be my love language... or it could mean I'm debating on whether or not I'm in the mood to travel and then sway a jury. So you know, I guess you're getting a taste of that, he's lived with it since 2007ish.

Can penises be bi-polar? I mean you men can be asleep and it decides it wants attention, the needy critters that they seem to be.

I need to finish my trainwreck of a Prompt. I even poke fun of it early on in the writing. It's going to cause a lot of people to lose faith in my ability to write, I'm thinking. If this story hasn't already, I mean.

It has been eye-opening, the engagement. I've only had bits of it here on GA, because I've rarely had a project done in a timely manner that allowed for a nice posting schedule. Most of my comments were... "when is the next chapter going to be posted?" When I was struggling to write, "The Best Year." I saw with the small project "Ridley," what real engagement looked like, because I allowed for it more than I used to. But I never expected this. And I would say that some of these discussions were far better than the chapter written above them. Either way, very much loved and appreciated... especially on days/weeks like these...

Keep in mind though Davin and Gavin's school schedule could have shown Davin very willing to go to Football games in the past. So he could be breaking from his norms. And he's breaking them suddenly and both Gavin and Colt have noticed him doing so. So, it may not be something that Gavin hasn't had much of an argument with his brother over. Friday night football and maybe an after party, but now he seemingly does... and why could that be? It may be a small town thing where people know one another well enough to clue in on such things. And breaking from those being bigger than they are. Now if Davin had a good reason, I'd say Gavin would've dropped it. Like for example if Davin were to tell him that he had a night out planned with a special 'someone.' Which he probably did... but since he didn't want to out himself or Joel in that moment, he couldn't give that reason. So all Gavin and Colt saw was Davin suddenly not acting like Davin. Joel could've gotten away with telling them no, but that wouldn't have given them Davin's answer. Joel saying yes bailed him out.

Give Colt a chance, he's been trying...

Yeah, he can't be doing that. Sigh... I'll have a talk with him later.

Sighs... didn't I mention fickle. I can't believe the lengths I've gone for you in the coming chapters. No more. and yeah, I tend to slide in descriptive things here and there, but for the most part I allow people to form what they wish.. with some guidance. Like we know Joel has brown hair and brown eyes. Davin and Gavin dark brown/almost black hair, a darker complexion, and darker brown eyes. Colt has darker blond hair than his sister, and duller blue eyes than her as well. Roy is a lighter brown haired guy than all of them and his eyes are a softer brown with more reddish and yellow tones. So, there's that little run down if you want them. Davin has more small moles and body hair than Gavin. Gavin is more lanky in build than Davin who is more toned and shorter. And I'll save the rest for later.

Well look at you, you are good for something. Gold star to you for the day! Congratulations.

When I was dating jocks I was behaving myself. So, I wouldn't know. My husband is tall though, but he wasn't jock-ish in his younger years. He was athletic, but didn't play sports. He loves sports though, but he was more into outdoors stuff and sports got in the way of all of his hobbies. But I am also tall. Me and my husband are the same height at 6'3" and I was very athletic. As small as my HS was, I was the fourth tallest student on campus, third tallest athlete. I was taller than most of the men's basketball team. So the girl's team won a lot more games than they did.

I'm not sure he'd risk the wrath of a mother that's shown she's willing to cut out a child. He has to know to keep his mouth shut, at least as far as that goes. If I went that route, I'd have it backfiring, but then I'd also have Joel staying at the Benton house. It was something I sort of planned to do if I decided early in the writing to put him back there... or for him to never leave. But I liked the thought of him leaving more. I do wonder what kind of story would come along if he never left?