Great pics Jeremy. The Blondie song was spot on for JJ. I loved Good Charlotte. Interestingly enough, the guy who got me to listen to them was John Walsh.
July 27, 2003
Pacific Coast Highway
Santa Monica, CA
Will
“Oh, so now that you’re some big time college jock, you can’t even be seen with me?” I demanded, totally outraged.
“That has nothing to do with it,” he snapped. He was more agitated than normal. It was just a little weird.
“You don’t get to have attitude with me about this,” I yelled. “This is total bullshit.” He said nothing, just stared ahead. “Do you honestly think it’s reasonable for me to be
LOL. Nice to know I can expose you to some alternate literary venues. We'll probably find you scrounging through back issues of Tatler, totally engrossed.
Julius...used to the world of physical power and might, and now he's encountering a whole different kind of power.
Hey Maarten. While it can be distracting, sometimes these peripheral characters become less peripheral, and sometimes it's important to just close up some loops.
I completely agree with you on Will (you used his name?!) and his reaction, but he doesn't carry a grudge like JJ does. Will can go postal on someone, but when the battle is over, he can move on. JJ is a little more bitter than that.
I'm going on the assumption that Ryan knew about Will and Zach. Will would consider Ryan to be a close friend, even if they haven't talked much lately.
I posted the latest chapter pretty quickly, and I'll try to turn the next one out quickly as well. I wrote them and didn't really realize that they were both reasonably stout cliffhangers, so I'll try to atone for that.
I think that JJ is almost incapable of letting this go without at least putting up a fight. One could almost visualize this (speaking in an analogy, of course) as JJ deciding that he's going to get in a punch or two, even if he ends up getting his ass kicked.
Thanks for the great review. I think that Jeff's casual way of dropping that on Ryan was so typical of Jeff, and based on Ryan's no-emotion attitude, it probably worked like a charm.
I agree that JJ can be as ruthless, but he's not a smart and he's not as good at planning. Doesn't mean he can't raise some hell. ;-)
Thanks Edward! Zach better come down off his bitch meter a bit, or Will will flay him alive. If he was honest and straightforward with Will, he'd probably be able to get away with damn near anything.
Thanks Gary! We'll have most of Zach's picture (but not all of it) in the next chapter.
Do you really think that once that mystery is solved, the book is over? Seriously?
July 27, 2003
Fly-Over Country, USA
Will
I had to almost physically restrain myself; I was so keyed up, as if I could will the plane to go faster. I began to freak out, and wonder if I should have just called 911. Shit. If anything happened to Ryan, it was my fault for not calling 911. How many times have I heard the fucking lecture about not dicking around, and call 911? I walked over to the phone to do just that, hoping it wasn’t too late, but it