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I think when Dallas returns to school Timmy will be shunned @VBlew. Being ostracised will likely be the worst punishment he could be subjected to.

Inbreeding and heavy amphetamine usage. Hideous people.

Perhaps you were a little younger @Mark Ponyboy Peters (about 13) and that great song by Supernaut, produced by Molly Meldrum, was riding high on the charts. I knew what it was about and loved it. Unlike you I never had a girlfriend or attempted to conform, not because I was brave or anything even remotely like that, I was just too shy and felt myself too unattractive, and am what is sometimes degradingly referred to as a "flamer", to even bother trying. This song was a huge hit in Australia in 1976 @weinerdog and left nothing to the imagination. The band was from Western Australia and they had one other hit of note, also quite sexual in tone, Too Hot To Touch.

I think in @Mark Ponyboy Peters and my age group (we are the same age @weinerdog) this would have been the default reaction of most fathers, regardless of ethnicity or religious beliefs.

No, no, no @andy cannon, not the acne (LOL). As one who had dreadful cystitis acne as a teenager, I would never wish it on anyone (well maybe some). I must say as a gay nerdy teen with acne, glasses, braces and being a poofter (1970's Australia), the acne is the thing which upset me the most. I got teased occasionally for the glasses, braces and being a poofter, but my response to all regardless of gender was "fuck off". Teasing about my acne did hurt though.

The behaviour of each in this chapter confirmed my suspicions from the last chapter @pvtguy. I believe Dallas' mother revealed the relationship between Dallas and JJ to her husband to challenge his beliefs, to confirm where he stands on the "issue" of having a gay son, and possibly to taunt him just a little too. Now she knows he doesn't want a "poofter for a son" the battle of the wills has begun, although Mr Pierce aka Pompous Pious Pierce III (PPP III) is too arrogant to even realise it yet. I sense Mrs Pierce aka Fierce Pierce is NOT going to stand for any of PPP III's priggish pugnacious pontificating. It may be a case of 'get out and don't let the door hit you on the way out'. They appear to be a family of some means, therefore I doubt PPP III will want the neighbours to know Dallas is gay AND that all is not well in the marital bed.

He usually notices the "small" details though.

That was a very welcome surprise @pvtguy, both Doug and Todd being frank and honest, and Doug extraordinarily broad-minded on the bisexual issue.

In that case, Marie-Louise and Billy are both fucked, literally and figuratively.

"Jason grinned at his Gavin. “You reckon that young Rory has got is end away yet? Properly that is?” Now that is an expression I have not heard for many a year @Robert Hugill. I grew up in rural Australia in the 1970s/early 1980's and we only had two TV stations, one commercial and one government-owned. It was the latter we watched a healthy dose of programmes on, and many were imports from the UK. Some classic 1970's comedies such as Man About The House, George & Mildred, Bless This House, Are You Being Served and The Benny Hill Show I remember well. And then there was the light entertainment shows compered by the likes of Val Doonican, Dave Allen and Cilla Black (I couldn't stand her). I don't really remember any police dramas from the 1970's from the UK, they emerged in the 1980's. The reason for this ramble, I recall many of the very English words or phrases I would hear in those programmes and have so often been reminded of them in your delightful tales. For some reason the comment above from Jason brought back these memories vividly. Jason may be a little uncouth (and I for one would certainly be a hypocrite to condemn him for this), but I think he is providing Rory with some very sensible advice about cruising, the wheres and whens, and the pitfalls. I had to laugh at Jason's reminiscences about hairy-arsed truckers, just the type I imagine appealing to Rory. Very witty @Robert Hugill. .

I am not sure how long Marie-Louise has been living with her Aunt, Uncle, Billy and Todd, but the obvious conclusion to draw is that she is pregnant to Billy, however, this may not necessarily be the case. She could have picked up and hooked up with a hitchhiker before she crashed the car she was driving when she had her accident, she could have hooked up with a nurse, some other hospital employee or patient before her Aunt and Uncle came and collected her, she could have hooked up with a guy at her new school, the mailman, garbage collector or paper boy, or some random guy off the street. The possibilities as to who the daddy might be could be endless. I assume it will be next to impossible for Marie-Louise to get a legal abortion in Tennessee @Lee Wilson, which leaves her with two options, knitting needles or going ahead with the pregnancy.

Calvin has become quite the popular young man, with a hot cop and a horny canuck competing for his affection, well at least his attention, at present. He may well find himself in the same "dire straits" as Miquel Brown aka Sinitta's mother, before much longer. A club hit (a gay club hit at least) in Australia, but not in the USA I don't believe:

A darts board?

My initial comment was way bitchier @Seraph28, but even I thought it was just a little too mean, but now I just have to to say it in response to your amusing comment. Noah is apparently not front-end loaded either according to Nick's observation. Toni is a goddess.

OMG that is soooooooooo cute @Ticklishboy30, almost as cute as my youngest, Missy.

Given the age of the subject do you think it could be considered an antique @drsawzall?

Just so long as they do not discover a painting or a blown up black and white photograph of Venetia Murray "in the altogether".

Given the following observation of Noah by Nick, there would be very little for you to whop @Seraph28: "Noah was on top; I watched as his small butt cheeks clenched as he grinded hard against the guy on the bottom. I almost threw up in my mouth." As our much loved Toni Braxton so eloquently vocalised:

It is almost as if Noah was wanting to be caught in a compromising position @Altimexis given the timing of his indiscretion. Either that, or Noah is even more arrogant than I thought him to be, believing he could have his cake and eat it too because he is so desirable and irresistible. He had treated Nick poorly before, on more than one occasion, and was able to con him into giving him another chance, and perhaps he thought he could do so again. And given Nick's thoughts below, I have to wonder if Noah may have been able to con Nick yet again had it not been for the fact Nick had just been so cruel to Jack: "And worse? Worse than all of it? Even as I watched Noah arch his back under another boy’s hands, even as I stood there humiliated and betrayed, I still thought he looked beautiful. And I was even getting hard. My stomach turned."

Only one error @KKirk, and a minor one at that. I did not occur to me that the A in APD stood for Albuquerque rather than Arizona.

Well Linda, What's Up? What You Waiting For? Get The Party Started.

Is that from a movie @Cane23?

Does that mean anyone who crosses him from now on will be "toast" @Cane23?

I have only just realised the boys have moved from Clinton, New Jersey, to Clinton, Tennessee. And I am not blonde.

Porn magazines? Aunt Marjorie? A litter of kittens of Moggie's?