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I've been trying but Max and crew are not cooperating...thats right I just passed the buck to make believe people

Hey everyone! Update time! So I've been plowing through Chapter 36, trying to get it out in time for my birthday. Kind of my birthday gift to all of you. I'm hoping it's out before then but, if not, I definitely want to get it out the day itself, especially since Jack and I share birthday So that's the best timeline I can give you for right now. Anyway, onto the Reality Check: - The awkward drive home is reminiscent of so many awkward drives I've had with family and friends. It's always fine if we're in a comfortable silence but awkward silence? Makes the car ride three times as long. - I worry very much the same way as Jack when I'm waiting to hear back from someone. I check my phone every few seconds, certain that I felt a vibration. It's gotten to the point where I'll feel a tremor in my leg, just because I'm so desperate to hear back from whoever I was texting. - Jack's tense conversation with his father is very similar to tense conversations I've had with my own father. In fact, I think I may have taken it verbatim from an argument we had, just changing the context a bit. - Jack 'warming up' to Rhona is very much how I myself warmed up to her real-life counterpart. For me, it was a bit more gradual than Jack, but since there is so much more to work through, I figured that dragging it out was probably not the best plan, especially since I don't want things too cluttered in the coming future. - Jack's argument with Kayla was, I hate to say it, modeled after some arguments I've had with my wife. The ones with my wife were not as severe as the one between Jack and Kayla but I still had her read it and give her permission before I posted it, just to make sure she was okay with it. And now for Bad Idea Confessional: - When Amanda was seducing Jack by having him handcuffed to the bed, I was originally going to have Kayla see it and it was going to drive a wedge between them. I dropped it for a couple reasons. First, everybody was already suggesting it and I wanted to do something a little more unexpected. Second, I felt it was too cliché and wouldn't make sense given how I'd already laid out their rooms and I'd have to come up with a plausible reason why Kayla would look out at that exact moment...it was just too much. I scrapped the idea for the better, I think, and Kayla is still unaware of what Amanda did to Jack...so far. Working as hard as I can on Chapter 36 and I'm hoping it turns out as well as I need it to. This is one where everything kind of comes to a head and I really hope it lives up to expectations. See you guys soon!

Yay gold star 😊

DA Why don't you get your own either by getting him to post another chapter OR posting a nice long CH2 of your own? B

Yep Bad Teacher!

Nah, he just pointed . I'm a bad teacher, neglecting the gold stars I don't get to use that one much either . Can you imagine, "Mommy mommy, Look I got a gold star!"

I think magus just gave DA a telling off...

AWESOME Major!

I stood today wear is my gold star

We are both special. I got a gold star from her and the old fart award from you. The reason thatvi say we are both special is that we have the best people in the world to cuddle up to. I just brought her home from our dinner date and now I am going to cuddle with her and start getting her eye better. The reason that I think both if us are special is that they stick with us when we think we are 21 year old kids and think that we can still go out and do what we did I in our younger life and they nurse us back to health even when they threaten to kick our butts doing it. Now like I said I am going to cuddle with my lovely SO, you do the same with your girls and I will talk with both later. Will be awaiting newer chapters from both of you. Like I stated before now have to great writers from the same family to follow.

he's going pretty good here, lot of quiet grumbling though...he's a little weird when he writes

Ooohhhhhh, sniper got a gold star! He's special, I never get gold stars

That's my boy, gold star for you!

I am going to read joe's next and see how good he is. Followed your shoutout with him so let me see how it is. Might have another writer to follow after reading his. Take with you later. Just got back from the eye doctor with my wife. She busted a blood vessel in teh right eye and I was worried that it was going to effect the new len in her eye. Told her it reminded me of the red eye from Terminator movie. She just said that now when she gives me the evil eye it will be just like getting the real evil eye. I hide the paddles form her but she got really evil with me. She shorten my cane two nitches that I am using for the right leg while it heals for the wound and I fell flat on my face and she was laughing so hard she did not see me sneak up on her and grabbed her and gave her a grea big hug and played kissy face with her until she stopped laughing. Now am going to take her out for dinner.

i know right? but he does look good doing it

that's what you get carrying 300 lb beams on your shoulders

hey I'm relatively healthy, just ny back is a little sore...

It is like DA stated that we men think we are 21 year old children. My wife told me when I got back from my last run with the company that involved two new marks on my body that I was not a spring chicken but a lovable old dart and I needed to start living for the rest of the family. She also said that I had a butt beating coming from her for the new wounds and she did not mean on my body but her and The family's hearts and souls. I told her I was looking forward to it. Again welcome back angeldust.