Benji

.....Ouch, 7 years down the drain, please continue this story. It looks to be a good one.

Packers all the way this time!!

.................Really, he is on a missionary??? I wonder if Donnie did that back then (Osmond)

...........Actually Phillip keeps surprising me by going against the grain of the 'advisory' and delivering a great performance. If he feels he needs to adjust, which I think he will, he will make it into the finals.

..................Ok, I'm starting to get used to this anyways, I think it is the goats way of overcompensating for himself over the cliffhangers!

...................There goes your repeat!!

Assume means here that the word makes an ASS out of U and ME, get it?

..................Hmmmm, Very interesting concept, '....finishing off Basinstoke', I had not thought of that, has Mr. B. taken that into consideration? That his life may be endangered by the cartel? Is he going to scuttle the mission and pretend to be killed by accident and leave the cartel to do the work and walk on Trevor's boat. Or fulfill the contract and try to disappear? Mr. B. is smart enough to know that 3 can keep a secret if two of the others are dead. Interesting Idea Froggy! Of course it is an assumption, and we all now what it is to assume!

I'm not sure how much they were able to hack, if anyone can answer that I'd like to know, not that I have any fear from it. Hell, I was outted 20 years ago and just found out recently. I mean there is over 6,000 members, what can the hacker possibly do? The e-mail message is very juvenile, kinda of like the Star Trek episode of 'Resistance is Futile'. I'm sure Mry is doing everything he can to catch this hacker. But I'm not worried any bit.

...... A lot of assumptions here, like I'm assuming Mr. B is planning to fake his death by an airplane accident at sea, once he is sure his computer driven plane is being tracked by the Coast Guard. Then once he assumes the heat is off him, he goes after Trevor. The cartel people Sanchez sends assume they have the right boat because Mr. B told them. Gonzales assumes Sharpton will go along with his plan. Great Chapter Goat, but you what happens when one assumes!!

......... I gave review on the GA site, if you prefer them here, I'll be happy to post them here. BTW, I thought your chapter was very well written, looking forward to more.

............An invisible cliffhanger!! How is that even possible!

.................Well that was interesting, did not see the turn of events for JT, I should have expected though seeing that JT was so controlled by his father. We wait for that other shoe to fall, however the mythology/mysticism was lost when you brought in theocracy of the religious christian concept. You started out using 'spiritual' beings, but ended up pinpointing a secular G-D. Otherwise a great chapter!

........Congrats! Mr. Q-man!!! Well deserved!

................... Have you ever started to read a new chapter of a story, then completely forget about it? Well I did, I remember reading the first chapter of Charlie, and then for some strange reason forgot I was following it Well, I found it yesterday and just finished reading it today. What a powerful, sad, funny and moving tragic love story! The ending does beg for a sequel or even a mini-epic conclusion, perhaps with the 2 in college and having resolved their differences along with resolution to Derrick's dad, someone that has worked that long and stayed away from home has had to amass a small fortune, perhaps the IRS, which reminds me they had to have filed jointly right? Then he had to come back at least once a year. Dr. Baker was a fascinating character, where the hell did you find her? Great story!! I'm so glad I found it again! I might have to re-read to figure out how Derrick's dad knew he was gay, from all I could see Derrick was violently anti-gay and outted Charlie and Travis

.........You know what I really want to go, not to stand up or anything, but to meet my real friends, I don't care about the others. 3 came out at our last re-union. And here I was with my wife now going on 29 years, what could I say, I know she knows, but I have never had the courage to utter those words to her. So here I stand, do I want to f**k with it and go and spend a lot of money? Or just leave it alone?That is my problem, I'd love to see Gyra, my girl that I had a crush on, I'd also love to see Mike who I had such a crush on that I avoided him for over 6 years, he never married that I understand, still he was a surfer boy hetero kid in my eyes. That was the hardest thing I ever had to do in my life, avoid the kid I lusted after, funny I never lusted at anyone else in school, I kept my poise straight (Haha). Strange as it is, I have had my encounters, but never a connection, if I go to the re-union I will definitely confront Mike, but should I? What am I going to tell him? That I fell in loved him since the 7th grade? That our most significance meeting was in gym class when we had to wrestle against each other, crap that is when I decided to avoid you! In one part I want to confront this, on the other I want to forget it, being outted 20 years ago and not knowing about until recently was a shock, but not one I could withstand it went from there with the 'best friend scenario doing it'. So here I go, don't' care about him, nor his peers. Do I want to see Mike? And if he says no to me it will crush me beyond your beliefs.

Great story, I wonder how it all worked out in the end!

........Yeah, don't worry about the small stuff, leave an evil cliffhanger in a chapter and you'll get plenty of grief!!

......... Great chapter, JT's father is a real piece of work. I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. I wonder if that is it for JT, and he heads for Juvie? But his dad is the more dangerous one, so we have more of this story to see where it heads to. I'm thinking of that something is going to happen at the overlook!

Hmm, the mutiny went awry, plus the 'traps set out by Fowler and the local, federal' are not going to mature, Sanchez has hired more assassins to take out Trevor and the boat, maybe the boat is the only the responsibility of the cartel's people and Mr. B. is still in charge of the gruesome task of beheading Trevor. I liked that Gonzales drew the the DEA agent out, he made himself to look like a putz, while reeling in the info, I have no idea what he is going to with it. I see a no win for him here, another death in the prolonged ending of Bridget's demise. Mr. B's. instructions have left him little choice in the matter of Trevor's demise, as I said earlier, maybe the cartel people are only interested in commandeering the boat, leaving him with only the demise of such characters. Great Chapter CJ, Looking forward to the next one(s)

..............Most of the kids I know just call me 'old'

............Congrats Kentucky, may you keep the 3 freshman and 2 sophomores for a repeat next year, and not have them head off to the draft.

............I love it!!

.........Hahaha my kid has bought them, I don't but if he won he said he would take care of me, nice, but I only wanted about $2,000 to clear myself from debt, and I told him so. A million would be nice, but after paying off the house I would most likely donate much of it to my favorite charity. I don't really need a lot of money, it would be nice, but in hindsight I would just like to live comfortable.

I actually think Tyler killed himself because he was not all the way out of the closet, he was uncomfortable in coming out. And I'm sure the sniggers and stares he got freaked him out to a point he could not face it anymore. That is my take on his he was very insecure about his sexuality and wanted it private, given time he may have come to terms with it. But forced into the limelight he panicked an ran away, if true about his mother, may she forgive herself later.