Krista

Waking up the next morning, I was actually surprised to see that the bed beside me was empty. Luke had come over so late at night. Looking over, I saw that my alarm had been turned off. Scratching my head, I looked out the window to see a blanket of white on my window and more flakes hitting it and melting. Rolling out of bed I walked across the hall and used the bathroom before returning to slide into a pair of shorts. It was rare for this time of year for us to get enough snow to call off scho

Get to steppin' Rose Garden, now! Grab the shovel on the way.

Shame on you Steven, a lady doesn't divulge such things. Tsk tsk tsk. As far as what we're doing for the holidays, I can assume there will not be Trick-o-treating, it is rather up in the air right now, so I doubt even "trunk-o-treating' will be a thing. So I was thinking just doing a sort of nighttime easter egg hunt with the kiddies. I've ordered some little LED lights that you can pull a tab and light up, I'll put them in things with candy and have the kids hunt them at night by following the light. For Thanksgiving, small gathering with just people we interact with every day. My sisters admittedly are coming in, but the aunts, uncles, and such aren't coming in this year. I'll be so glad when they're finally moved back to town completely, living in different states this year has sucked. Christmas will be a bit difficult since I'll be mailing or ordering presents and sending them to people, but otherwise it will be the same as Thanksgiving and getting together within the, "bubble," so to speak.

Thank you for coming back to the story!

NNooooo! Jackson is trying to be a good boy! Lol. A kiss is worth a little trouble sometimes. I'm glad you found the story and are liking it so far. Thank you for staying with me! I'll try not to disappoint with an annoyingly erratic/slow posting schedule. *whistles* Thanks for coming back to the story! And yeah, I think I'm using this story to escape 2020 myself haha. Maybe should have restarted that grind a big earlier in the year though. I might have a few less greys to keep covering.

I am sooo looking forward to writing the Senior Prank. I've had it planned for a bit and I hope it doesn't disappoint. Will it be Jackson that planned it? Hmm. And yes, I can see Cindy needing medical assistance if/when she finds out about Luke and Jackson's relationship. Thank you for coming back to the story between the long delays.

Problem may be an understatement for Cindy.. lol. Jackson does have a nice support system with his parents and I think that support sort of bridged the gap from the beginning of the story when they were thoroughly at odds with one another. Time will tell if all of that support extends to Luke though.

Thanks for the warm welcome back! Hopefully I don't disappoint and disappear again. lol. (No promises) Thank you for enjoying the story and coming back to it.

Well 2016 wasn't that bad! That's when I started this story. 😇 The chaos of this year, mercy. I wouldn't mind having a snow storm and sneaking around with a guy being my biggest worries right now.

Lol, I was getting notifications - you zoomed through to chapter 29. I'm glad you liked the story a second time due to my neglect of it.

I don't know, I feel next door is a wee bit too close for comfort when Cinzilla is concerned... lol. He might have to find a friend who's parents aren't as observant and the house not have a close proximity to Cindy. Also someone who wouldn't be giving them the birds and the bees lecture on a daily basis since they're living under the same roof and dating. That would be awkward. Thank you for coming back to the story and reading, hopefully it won't be nearly 2 years before the next chapter. (Although I've already written it, so there's hope in that)

So, everyone knew. I went to bed thinking that everyone I cared about at school and at home knew. The thing is though, I didn’t even really know myself. Not until I looked at Ally, in all her hurting and tears. I realized that I cared for her, but never the way she wanted. That her tears were the result of my negligence, even if I hadn’t really been able to admit that to myself before then. If I had any idea or picture of what my future would be like, a guy wouldn’t have been part of it.

“Anything,” I said as I watched him chew on his bottom lip. The moon and the snow had washed all the color from him, he was all black and white. It made him look otherworldly and I wondered how I looked to him. “They’re putting my Grandma into a nursing home,” he said, his voice quiet. “I told her about us.” “You did?” I answered my eyebrows shooting upward. “Yeah, it was after a walk,” he answered, his voice slightly rushed as he looked around us. “I take walks like these to clear m

The most common ones I've been around and caught people using are: "You have the sense God gave a goat," - You're stubborn and stupid. "She/He is built like a brick shithouse," - If you're a girl you're attractive. If you're a guy, you're broad and muscled. I guess since the buildings were so small and prone to tipping over back in the day, a brick one was like going potty in a five star hotel. "Bless your heart," - You've either said or done something stupid. It isn't a compliment. "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?" - Talking either about a loose woman that you don't have to marry to have 'relations' with, or a scantily dressed woman that is showing what she has "for sell," instead of covering herself. "I don't sweat, I simply glisten," - High Society woman that never had to work for anything. Kind of a snooty insult when talking to someone she think inferior for having to work. I had an older aunt that was like this. She didn't Sweat, she glistened. She didn't fart, she simply tooted. It was always.. "simply," something. "Honey, you're like drinking sweet iced tea," - You're being nice/helpful. A compliment. Or a pick-up line, since sweet iced tea is cold and refreshing. Man talking to a woman usually. "You're as fidgety as a frog leg in a frying pan," - I guess you're nervous and when you cook a frog leg, as the tendons in the legs begin to get hot and cook it causes the frog leg to move. "You're a mouse fart in a windstorm/thunderstorm," - An insult for someone that thinks they're important. "You're as slick as water off a duck's back," - Smooth talker/clever. "I'm about to take you out behind the wood shed," - I'm about to kick your ass. (If you're talking to an adult), to a child, it means you're about to spank them.

I really wouldn't call myself a gamer type person.. I mean I only play, The Sims, Dragon Age, and Mass Effect - but this one looks really nice and the visuals (if they are able to deliver on those) are gorgeous.

Yeah, I hate the spacing myself. I'm currently working on that. Google Documents has hidden formatting, I think. I have to go back and delete the chapter, then replace it via pasting plain text and that seems to fix the issue. It will be a little slow at doing that since there are a lot of chapters.

Lol. Thank you for reading and liking the story. It was an experiment for an Anthology that GA puts on here, but I missed the deadline. It is the first time I took on anything supernatural like resurrections.

Meh, she'll take the little idiot for all he's worth. She is a fame seeker that happened upon a good fish to catch. When she realizes that she is merely tabloid fodder and has no real substance to her aside from being 'Harry's Wife,' she may settle down a wee bit.

I think a lot of that come from the fact that we demand inclusivity and diversity in 'everything,' or we decide we're going to boycott it. I do feel we've become our own worst enemy. These companies aren't blameless either though. The little segments that are supposed to satiate the, "everything has to be inclusive," crowd has only backfired. It is annoying for something to be hyped as ground breaking or whatever and it be so obscure and insignificant that there was really no point in having it in there in the first place. I think we're going to have to get over ourselves though. We can demand to be represented more, but we have to also be willing to accept that some films, shows, and books doesn't have a place for that sort of representation either and doing so hinders and restricts the makers. I wouldn't want the pressure to be on me, it would be a worry for me as a creator to attempt to suit everyone just so there isn't some sort of unjust outcry for my work to be censored or boycotted for whatever reason. There are industries out there that will represent what you wish to have represented, you just have to go find them and support them. Give them feedback to help them, etc. That is why I love Indy films over mainstream films any day.

YA authors are "queerbaiting," with their older works. There wasn't much/if any evidence of anyone's sexuality in Harry Potter unless they ended up dating/married. They 'were' likely pressured by their publishers not to be so 'out' with that sort of thing. Now though we see it in YA writing a lot more (or at least what I've picked up to read lately), but I would rather J.K Rowling say, "Sorry, there just isn't any gay, trans, queer representation in my books," instead of 'creating,' narratives that are so obscure that she has to explain them to us years down the road when there is a film adaptation, a new play coming out, and/or a series. It was a different time when she was writing Harry Potter than it is today. She can say that Dumbledore is 'gay' all she wants but the writing just isn't there to support it. To edit - I don't think less of her work within the Harry Potter series and her entire world. She is a gifted author. I'm not going to boycott her just because I think she is guilty of queerbaiting either. I would have rather she stood up for her work for what it was originally. Being reactionary like she has been is why I take offense to her in general. I honestly don't find it all that offensive or an issue overall - I think it is a dying trend. No one is going to be truly happy with the quality and quantity of how they are represented in mass media regardless.

Some queerbating is reactionary in nature. As the audience we may have perceived the, "breadcrumbs to nowhere," ourselves and instead of the creators clarifying, they bend to the fans and state, "well yeah, they were," or, "yeah they could be," which I think is on us. We've baited ourselves, especially with the examples listed in the Wiki. I never thought many of those shows were queerbaiting.. in the sense. If anything Glee did it though, because Santana and Brittany's relationship was platonic forever and then they just decided to begin making out with one another. But neither of them had said anything about having same-sex relationships. They were both kind of boycrazy beforehand. Merlin/Arthur I felt was just more of the fandom running wild with two straight guys being as close as they were... and that happens a lot. I actually despise what Authors like J.K Rowling are doing. There aren't that many subjective things in the books about the sexuality of Dumbledore until the later movies started being made. She "confirmed," his sexuality, but there wasn't anything for readers to go on within the written text. She has later said that Hermoine could have been black - which no, it plainly states she has fly away hair and 'pale' skin. It is annoying for authors and producers/writers to not stand behind their work and there characters and say, "No, they are not gay," I would respect that more than someone attempting to bend their own established writing/characters to be more inclusive. But there are people out there that hate that they are being left out of the mainstream and would boycott, so really we are our own worst enemies as fans. We're angry when we're not included and we're angry if we're not sure of the motives when we are. I would be like, "I'm sorry I didn't include more minorities and sexuality, etc, I will do better if the writing allows for that." And be done with it, to be honest. I think it is all an ill conceived attempt to placate people AND to force creators/writers to write for, "us," and not for themselves - both of which are bad.

It does remind me - style wise of Dragon Age 1 or 2. How long has the story been so far? I've not picked up a console controller in ages because I've played out Dragon Age and Mass Effect. I'm like you as well, I like single player story driven games over multiplayer. I get killed too easily.

You do see it happening in Teen dramas (in television and films) and such, they go to the restrooms and lock the stall doors so they're not caught eating lunch alone... instead of going to the cafeteria and sit at a table by themselves. I've not read or thought about this story for ages, so I'm guessing with this answer.. lol. I hope I don't confuse you. It is my 'first' ever writing project for fun back in high school (before we really got into grammar and writing structure) - fair warning it is a bit poorly written.

My old self would have said.. No.. he died shortly after that kiss and, "I love you's.." and the adoption and need for a family was driven by the death of Alex. My new self will answer you with, yes, they had a very long love life before the tragedy happened and Dan decided to move along with their plans for a family even though Alex wouldn't be there with him. So uhh.. ;)

Steven if you'd behave yourself maybe I would grace you with my presence, but you have shown that you can be a bit of a heathen. As for my plans, we're doing a lot of work around the home, as you know. The kids are in a bit of a weird age where the oldest is old enough to do a lot of things and I wouldn't have a minor heart attack watching them do it.. and the twins are not. Since I don't want to have a heart attack, probably just the usual camping, hanging out with family, might take a family trip that is more kid friendly and such. Other than that everything is up in the air.