JJQuinn

--chuckles- Thanks. There will be soooo much more snark and smut throughout the novel. Sam and Ben started intensely bur moved to the more tenser romance quickly despite Sams reservations. Max and Roman are the reverse 😆. They start with a BANG and eventually will become more loyal and romantically intense but the snark...that stays. The next chapter will start off steamy and snarky, but then will eventually become more about sharing pizza and conversation. The chapter after that, we will see Roman get to be as much a "knight in shining armor" as Max will let him...which...we'll knowing Max...not much 😆

-giggles- Tara is a piece of work. She's literally a female Max so the snark is unending!

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. --John Barrymore BY THE TIME I’d finished my seven hours at the mobile unit, long after Katie, the other night nurse had left the mobile trailer, I’d come up with a plan to work a little more dawdling into my day before I went home. That plan had started with walking Susie out to the parking lot with Evan, our security guard, at a little after 3:00 in the morning. We’d shut down around 2:00

I do too! I feel like it gives us a glimpse into the authors and their writing style!

Thanks so much! I'm happy to be here and glad the story was enjoyed. I'm trying to read the massive tbr pile.of things I want to get through here. It's daunting! So.many good things!

😆 they totally are. But once they figure it out....you'll see the Teflon tendencies that Roman's mild OCD and Max's sense of dogged loyalty create when they live for one another. Oh... it's coming 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 Tara is a female Max with even less filter so it's a show. Roman can handle it. He is the king of the MFMT! Yes she did! Lots of changes. New characters will create even more ripples. All the stories feature different main characters but there's a lot of overlap and bleeding into one another’s stories. Pieces of this will set up for both Tara and Caydens future stories as well as Whelans though that will be subtle in this one. One of these years when they're all done, anyone who reads them in order will probably pick up on all the little nuances.

You know me by now @Cane23. I weeble and wobble bub don't fall down. And if I do, I get up after being dramatic fiest 😉. I appreciate the support! Halos is a tough one for most people especially the beginning. I'm hoping people if they give the lighter things a go first, will be less intimidated or think that's all I write. I try to go all over the map. Max and Roman have justvstarted and are already very diff. Buuut anyone wanting to try Halos and the rest of the series can now find them clumped under the Finding Home series so hopefully that helps. Tha know you for all your support from day one! ❤️ 💙 💜

Oh it's ok. I'm grateful you read and enjoyed it! Short, sweet and I am giggling that you picked up the references. My age often shows. I cannot for the life of me do the modern stuff like "bruh.'nope sir no thanks. Thanks for reading and commenting..I appreciate it! ❤️

I was a sped certified and I worked with 5 to 5 kids in private programs that worked in a lot of ABA and it was tough. Lots of internal singing. I only worked with one 6th grader once and lord Jesus... I was literally singing Sing Low Sweet Chariot...I have loooots of coping strategies if you ever need them. I'm working towards getting my CPS cert so it's all deep breaths and finding a happy place. I agree that in recent years behaviors are worse but a lot it parenting or, the lack thereof. I used to tell my Littles, we are in school and school has rules. That's it. Not mom and not dad. I was very lovey but also very very structured and would give "the eye" even during covid with stipid masks and they knew. I give you credit for still doing it daily. I'm serious about if you ever need strategies. I started in 2010 as a sub and Para first so I have an ungodly number of stories of things slung at me and hospital visits with black eyes and bites that needed tetanus shots. -smh-

😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 I was the scaredy-cat who sat in the center and watched everyone else fly off as I held on for dear life. I'll own it!

News make the world go round! AND we get cool glasses to wear now! Those allergies will get you every single time . Always get me. Extra tissues to share at movies where allergies often occur 😆 I can't eat oreos anymore but I used to separate them [when they still used lard and you could lol] and then carefully stack all the fillings between two cookies, dunk and eat. The others I'd smash obto pieces and pour into some milk in a glass and let them get mushy and it was like a soggy oreo flurry!

😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 My husband is almost there [n June] so I get the exposure. Technically I'm a "or. Millenial " because of where my birthday falls in January 81 not 80 but I was an 80s kid and 90s teen. We rolled a different way. I think the non giving a frig is embedded in our DNA 😆 4 words..."metal merry-go-round" If ya know, ya know 😀 Thanks so much!

Hehe they will become a hit!!!

Yessss it's been tough. Hah just turned 44 here and yep after 40, the warranties all wear out. My dad died earlier this January so it's been tough though it was twice because his dementia was so advanced. He needed to go home. I was happy to play along! Author support is so important. Keeps usball motivated. 😆 evil noooo..creative, YEP. I am like that as well. I like to write the fluffy stuff like Just Keep Swimming, but I do the gritty stuff when I need to get out of my head, like Halos where there are so many characters and things going on. The prompts help with that. Like I mentioned I have some new things I'm working on based off the prompts when I need breaks from longer pieces. Have you ever written the "death" of characters that seem very similar to real-life folks you know??? I have 😆 🤣 😂 And oye...do I know..I used to have 3 teacher voices; beginning of year it was sweetness and light, so happy to see them. By mid year we'd gone to "Kindy-pause!" and a reminder of the rules. By the end of the year it was all "no thank you sir/ma'am! Get it together please people!" That was when the singing would begin- me singing about leaving on a jet plane, unsure if I'd be back again. They found it funnier than my flight attendant voice. I loved them all, but it was daily survival games 😆 I'm actually working on a prek teacher piece for a prompt because the first line was something about if you touch my child I'll end you or something like that and my first thought was, PRE K/Kindy and the fruit loop parents. So that's happy fluff. They're all old prompts, but I just like them as little kick offs when I need motivation or a break from other things especially that I can't work anymore with Littles because of my MS progression. Helps keep my mind full. Thanks again! ❤️ 💙 💜

Thank you!

Thank you so much @BendtedWreath! I try to always respond candidly. Getting over the age of forty hump a few years ago is equivalent with the less giving a frig about always seeming to have it all together 😉. We learn to keep swimming so to speak. Being an 80s kid helps 😆 I hope you enjoy the chapters and story, and will let me and all the readers know what you think. Feedback/critiques/thoughts of all kinds are motivating and help.me become a better writer! Have. Great day ❤️

Thanks Gary! It's not terribly long. But it is a lot of fluff so it can hold for anytime you just want some lighthearted romance. ❤️

Thanks! Hope you enjoy/ed the story!

@Cane23 Runaway Bride! 😆 🤣 😂 Max overall is very much a smartass lol and I think it comes across in his POV pretty well. Sam was more reserved most of the time. Tara and Max together....good lord..Roman needs to buckle up! Yep Max is a closeted good guy. He talks a lot of trash and yep he gets around and is nowhere near the choir boy Ben, or even Sam is, but he has a soft spot for women, children and all the underdogs. Hehe that's riiiiight. I forgot about that scene to be honest. In Max's defense, he eluded that Roman could call or stay, just in his Max way. Roman isn't going anywhere. Sam totally called it. And Max....will hate it...and love it at the same time. And of course the family will all be up in his business. Recurring characters plus some new ones. I had considered bringing Whelan in, but Max is living in Miami now so it wouldn't be an easy pick up and delivery to where Sam and Ben live. But, don't worry, Whelan will be making a reappearance along with new characters such as Dimitri, Roman's mother [towards the very end] and his little sister who he didn't even know about until she tracks him down halfway through. Her appearing in my head completely changed a future scene I planned and I think it will be stronger as we move away from the kinky shenanigans a little, slowing them down enough for a real relationship to build. Oh and Laurie, the surrogate makes an appearance as well as the misfits at the club, AND Max's parents AND Sloane since she will be introducing Tara to her future love interest, Fiona, in a storyline that will start in this story and then carry onto to Tara's. They're all interconnected novels in some way. LOTS going to go on! Pancakes 😆.... try pizza but no mushrooms because Tara says they look like cock and balls. Roman, buckle up buttercup.

@Cia Its been quite the beginning to a new year. Lots of ups and downs, but trying to keep swimming helps keeps us from being sucked up by the floods of life. I'm very touched that I am being features since im so new to GA, so thank you all for that. Being around so many skilled writers makes me feel like I found a tribe! I hope the story was read and enjoyed by a few new folks. I'd love to hear all thoughts and critiques, and am happy to answer in more detail to any of the questions asked, or any others that readers come up with. Thanks again all! On another note, to anyone following the Finding Home series, chapter 04 of Hood and Holy Water is up as of today, and I managed to figure out how to put it and the other stories and in that series, under a series block. Woo hoo! Take care y'all and I look forward to hearing from you! JJ

Everything happens for a reason, but sometimes the reason is just that you’re stupid and make bad decisions. -Unknown LATER, turned out to be at seven o’clock that same evening according to the red numbers on my nightstand alarm clock. I blinked blearily, reluctant to leave the unusual comfort of a deep sleep. A slumber that was trying to coax me back down with soothing tendrils of what might’ve been some pretty good dreams, but until I actually closed my eyes and drifted off again

Such an old film but it was one of the first to do the really mean kids who are next level twisted. So it is a compliment because I didn't see the plot twist! Second time you caught me 😆

Poor Emily, bur other than that this had me giggling because Anthony met with a fitting end. I got Cruel Intentions vibes-the original movie with Reese Witherspoon not the lousy remake.

😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆 🤣 maybe. He DID say his dick was getting tired 😆 and then Roman showed up!

Hehe I was waiting for you to chime in! Yep totally Max. Sooo much sex and snark. Most of the time I try not to do sex-centric chapters, but I also make all attempts to stay to the personality of the character, especially when doing first person POV, and this...is Max. A horny family man, though that will appear more later. To infinity and beyond!