Krista

Happy Birthday!

Well.. he was still a bit of a walking stick with no emotions as Cedric too..

Such a sad loss, he brought so much to our little GA community with his story, life, and presence. He will be missed.

I do think Tom Brady is the best modern quarterback surrounded by a lot of top talent money could buy. As for the best NFL Quarterback - ever, I wouldn't go that far, but still you cannot leave him out of that conversation regardless of anything surrounding his career. I am too young and too... not in the loop with the NFL. I personally think Peyton was a purer quarterback, so I would lean towards him - maybe because out of all the quarterbacks I've watched in my limited experience with watching the league I've saw him play the most. Aaron Rogers gets my vote for best looking though.

Thanks for the Birthday Wishes y'all. AS for a certain someone... they'll be feeling the chill of my revenge.

I didn't know much about yachts when I wrote the story, back in my earlier writings I wasn't much for research. As for the sentence of dialog, the main character was supposed to be cutting off his Mother's lecture about getting better roommates. It wasn't properly done, I apologize for the confusion.

Yeah, Brett wanted to be himself, in earlier chapters he didn't make much of an effort to conform/be proper around people that may have expected someone to change to fit their standards.

Hi! Noo, go ahead and comment if you feel you want to. I will read them, although this is an older story that I honestly would have to re-read myself to possibly fully and openly discuss without too much confusion. Thank you for starting this story.

I'm glad you enjoyed the story.

Dragon Age Origins has Zeveran (spelling), who is bisexual and romance options for both male and female Wardens. Also Liliana is bisexual. Mass Effect 2 am I forgetting something - can't you romance Kaiden as a male in ME:2? Or is That ME:3? I actually prefer playing as a Male in the ME series, I just think the romance options for the male are better thought out/written. Andromeda the characters are good.. too bad the rest of it (especially the character creation mechanics), are a bit bleh. I am in love with the Dragon Age franchise as a whole. I actually didn't like the romances in Dragon Age 2 where practically everyone was romance options for either gender. I do like there to be sexuality and limitations on what you can do based on which gender your inquisitor is. Also, maybe in the future we'll see a Transgender option for the protagonist, I mean Krem was a favorite character for a lot of people, but he wasn't a romance option. They do need a better dwarf romance... I don't play as a Dwarf because there literally are none in all three games so far. :P

Sorry! I am writing, just very slowly..

Little late to the party, but this sounds cute.

Halloween is actually seeing a bit of a comeback of sorts. It was becoming a forgotten holiday. Christmas being the one that everyone/every business are already preparing for. Aside from all the pumpkin based foods I am glad to see it coming back. Although, back when I was a kid we had to work for our candy - there was no such thing as designated Trick-or-Treating stops. We actually had to go door to door and people were generally happy to see us coming down the sidewalk. It used to take us all of the 7 - 9pm to get our sacks full of candy. Now it takes all of about 30 minutes to drive to your designated spot and get in line and just get the candy when it is your turn... But anywho, I've always liked dressing up. With kids it gives me a reason to do themed costumes.

Happy Birthday! :D Now don't hold it against me that I was a wee bit late, or I'll beat you up. :P

Happy Birthday Dave!

Hi! Thanks for liking the story, it is on hold. I will finish it, my life has a lot of time constraints right now.. and there is also some lacking of motivation/a bit of block going on. Unfortunately, I just don't have the time to settle down for long periods and really hash out the story like I need to. Hopefully I'll have some new content for y'all on this story one of these days. I want to be quite a bit farther ahead as to not have more of a wait.

Wow, I literally remember nothing from this story... lol. I know that it is just about as rough - if not more so - than, "Something Unexpected," so fair warning with that.. lol. There is a lot of overly dramatic scenes with this story. I think it developed too quickly and ended too quickly. In doing so, I think the character development is more than a bit rushed and with that, some of their actions made little sense other than the fact that they were fighting to stay in one another's lives. You have a lovely view on characterizations and how a character may be acting out of character, or doing something funny, etc. The insight into my stories have been very reasonable.

Yeah, in those situations the, "its not a matter of if, but when.." is never really a good thing to be in. At least they had one another to get through it and they stuck stubbornly together instead of allowing the people involved to push them apart. I actually 'did' start a sequel to this story, but it was later on down the road when they were in College or about to start. It started out just too different from the original and too well, dark... I may go back to the idea, but not with these characters. I think it would hurt the original if I did the sequel that way.

I'm glad you've taken the time to read and comment! It has been wonderful reading through your comments/reactions and remembering little bits of stories that I've not looked at in ages. Some of what you said got me thinking about the older stories and how I went about writing them, how some parts would have done better with a bit of a re-write or further thought that I gave them, etc.

Hi! Yeah, he did forgive Lacey, I guess he realized that she was hurting because she had this crush on him. He's a bit of a softy when it comes to seeing people upset as it is, if I'm remembering correctly. (That could be Corey, too many C names in my early writing... mercy). It did though, send the story in a bit of a downward spiral, wrecking Jonathan's relationship with his father and such. (Although it strengthened the one he had with his mother) Honestly though, that would have likely been wrecked no matter what, the father was just that kind of person. Lacey just happened to be the one that did it, and I don't think she did it maliciously, just someone who is upset and a bit dramatic/gossipy herself.

Hi! When I saw that you were reading this story, I was like...oh goodness.. lol. This story was my first ever outside-of-school writing project. I was in High School when I wrote it and I honestly didn't know much about the genre or of writing things of this length in general. I did it mostly on my own, with the help of an editor friend that sadly passed away midway through the project from complications with being HIV+. I was also of the mind that endings had to be be shocking - this one was a bit abrupt and a bit misguided looking back on it. It is also just too old for me to go back in and do the work I need to do to get it worked out the way that it should be. Chandler died, he died in a car accident. Also, if I remember correctly, Andy was using sleeping medications to help him sleep at night, a lot of those have serious side-effect and work terribly with drinking alcohol. So I'm of the mind, again, if I'm remembering correctly, that the mixture of a harder liquor like Vodka mixed with his sleeping medications is what made him pass out. He woke up in the hospital some hours later when his system recovered from doing that. The story is a bit poorly written, the ending is abrupt. In all honesty, if it wasn't the first one and on the website for as long as it has been, I wouldn't have published it to begin with. I'm honestly surprised that people get through it. lol.

I think she took over the family store to help out her father when he was older. Then her father died and she just kept it open. I guess outside of the relationship Cora had with her father, it would be scrutinized by the people around them. It would make little sense to keep a struggling store open and waste a lot of potential she has. But yes, people outright saying that is a bit rude.

Yeah, I think Jenny's intentions are good. As far as Clinton goes, I honestly cannot remember when Clinton becomes more developed and the fear of Cj dissipates so that he can approach Corey the way he wants to.

This story is a re-write from a heterosexual romance novel I started, where the "Greg," character is a bit of a antagonist/villain of sorts. The Engaged twist is an idea in both, but to be honest, I think the impact was better felt in the original concept idea than in this one. I think I kind of needed to go into more detail and have that happen later in the story to make it more central. You're bringing up good points about the Cj/Corey conflict. There does seem to be a very strong history there, but the Father is acting like it is all new. That to me, is a bit of a writing flaw on my part, but I guess I could sum it up as Corey just not telling his father these things, because he'd know how his father would respond. I mean, it would be understandable for Corey not to say anything about the bullying. lol. Also Corey may just be self-assured that Cj is just an ass and he has friends and the respect of a lot of people around him that Cj's antics doesn't bother him so much.

Jenny has a bit of a character growth as well in this story. You pointed out some things that made complete sense. No one did stand up for Corey when he was tossed into the river, but with Teenagers most of them are more comfortable being "standbys" than step into situations such as these, sadly. That's how bullies get away with a lot of their nonsense, if everyone else around them stood up to them, they'd buckle completely, for the most part I'd imagine. Also better to be quiet than not the victim sort of mindset as well. High school is a bit of a jungle in those aspects. lol. But again, nice comments.