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With Kayla, I think at the time she had talked herself into it, but deep down inside didn't want to. Thought she was helping a friend. Now she has to face up to her own actions.

That's where it was Jack's job (in her mind) to save Kayla from her own bad decision.

So, Tara thinks it's her fault, Kayla thinks its her fault and Jack didn't stop her, and Jack didn't wanted to do it in the first place but now wants to move past it so life can go back to normal...whatever normal is for these guys?

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or it takes Jack an extra second to look away when the new girl's wearing her shorts in gym class

That is not the definition of female logic.

We had two concert tickets, but she went into false labor. Everything was stabilized, but she had to spend the night.

"Go ahead, go to the concert"

"Are you sure?"

"Yes - go!"

"The concert was great!"

"You went??"

"You told me I could!"

"You should know I didn't mean that!"

So, lemme get this straight, Kayla did not want Jack to go through with the threesome? Jack didn't wanna do it in the first place! He even had problems when he was doing it! Come on, Kayla!

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Well, I'm thinking, last September Jack hated to get out of bed, had to shut off that alarm and drag himself off to the first day of school...and then he met Kayla. A year later, it's time to start his Junior year. Are there any new girls at Brow Ridge? Will Jack notice? Will Kayla notice first? Will Kayla be keeping an eye on Jack for any sign that he notices?

Or BOOM WOW Jack doesn't even have time to realize he's been washed over by a tidal wave...but he already has Kayla. How does he calm down his hormones and stay faithful to his true love?

I made a list of 12 over the last 40 years, 8 in the 30 years that I've been married. It can be real distracting, but I haven't strayed.

With the current scenario, Kayla will be keeping an eye on Jack, his hormones will rage but he'll try his hardest to control them and stray faithful to his girlfriend.

That's if they have a talk and Kayla's insecurities somewhat go away, or they don't have a talk and she's getting really insecure, she senses Jack's discomfort and mistakes it for attraction, blowing it outta proportion = highly likely.

Personally, i blame Kayla, it was her fucking idea, she MADE Jack go through with the threesome, and now she's acting all pissy at him like he did something wrong, "oh, my boyfriend had sex with another girl before my very eyes", Yeah, because you fucking made him!

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Were all hard wired like that (to the gender we like). Its just because the animalistic side of human nature isn't hard wired for long term relationships.

Look at an alpha male in a lion pride. He doesn't stick to one female he bangs the whole lot of them as much as possible because every mammal strives to procreate. Society invented marriage and relationships, so its still perfectly natural to like other people too.

Liking other people is ok, acting on those urges is not. Yeah, at one point in a person's relationship he/she's eyes wander, sure they look at other people and they may appreciate what they see, they may even have an initial reaction of attraction, but what matters is that it remains just that, it doesn't go any further than that.

I'm asking specifically about an overwhelming non-rational response. No time to think.

Yeah, happened to me tons of times, but i was always single.

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Yes, I see the problems. Yes, I understand that a lot of strife and pain is occurring. Yes, I see how things don't always end well. Yes, I'm aware that we're all making an assumption on this.

I just don't see how the story can't end well. It's She Is The One. Kayla is The One. I think we can make an inference that 34 chapters with Kayla, and Jack saying(or thinking) She is the one, means she'll be the one. Not Tara, not any other girl. In one way or another, it'll end with Jack and Kayla together. No matter the circumstances, when the story ends with Jack and Kayla together, for better or for worse, it'll be a happy ending to me. I get that negative theories are fun to discuss and ponder. I enjoy them. But in the end it's just not plausible for them to split or fail.

If anything, even if they, in the far, far, future, spilt up, Jack and Kayla will be together for a long time.

If it ends bad, I will literally eat my hat.

If Jack and Kayla end up together (which i hope and pray to God they do), it will be a good ending, it will be a happy ending. As far as i know, the concept of The One implies the person who is perfect for you, a person who is there for you every step of the way, a person who loves you, cares for you, protects you, cherishes you, a person who is your soulmate, a person who you're destined to be with, forever. So, considering that definition, i don't think Kayla and Jack will split, sure they may take a break, but they can't be away from each other, hell THEY are each other's soulmates, they're crazy about each other, that's why Kayla's hurting so much, no matter what they'll end up together (God, i sure hope so)...unless, Joe decides to get sadistic, i mean George .R.R. Martin level sadistic.

I came up with the theory because i'm trying to keep a good sense of realism, because in real life shit doesn't always happen to your plans and expectations, sometimes the person you love the most ends up hurting you the most, and leaves your heart ripped out to shreds, so yeah, that's why that theory.

I'm also going to present two theories concerning Brad and Jeff.

Brad= Instead of Jack and Brad stand off, it's Joe and Brad stand off. The truth about Joe's crush comes out, it gets ugly Jack tries to save Joe, gets hit.

Jeff= Jeff comes back, Kayla wants a threesome with him...i haven't thought what happens afterwards...Jack goes through with the idea reluctantly, it even a bigger disaster than the previous one, Jack and Kayla split (hey, so maybe that's how it doesn't turn out to be a happy ending).

Again, i'm not saying that's how its gonna happen (although Brad/Joe standoff will be really interesting) and God i hope it does NOT turn out to be that way. So, i guess i'm trying to eliminate unlikely theories by coming up with them or something equally stupid.

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People of Capua!!! Are we even certain that this story has a happy ending???

I know most of us seem to believe that this story does, in fact, has a happy ending, but in the light of recent events i'm leaning towards the possibility that something irreparable is going to happen or has already happened. Popular theory is Joe's (the one from the story) is gonna make a move on Sam, take that piece of info and add it on what we already know, Kayla's freaked out about the 3some and has refused sex to Jack, Tara feels guilty for driving a wedge in between them, Jack has been dealing with problems after problems for a year and i'm thinking he's nearing his breaking point, and Kayla also has issues of her parents to deal with, and on top of that someone we know is coming back, hmm? I don't know about you guys but this looks like a perfect recipe for a major cluster fuck, a really bad, irreparable cluster fuck.

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and you remember there were whispers here in the peanut gallery about which team Sam was really playing for. Does Belle know as much about Joe as we do? How would Amanda handle finding her boyfriend making out with Joe?

Joe might want to get it on with Sam, but there is obviously Sam's consent required over here, Sam might not wanna do it with Joe, whatever the fuck 'it' is. Joe doesn't seem like the cheater type, so at least he'll tell Belle about what he wants, wait!!!!

Joe used to have a crush on Brad, what if he returns, and this time its just Joe and Brad., they face off each other, now that'll be something.

Yeah, Kayla is going to be reminded that Jack and Tara did it, every time she sees Tara she's going to see those images in her head, and she's not fucking Jack anytime soon.

I agree with @thismy that we probably got like a 2-3 chapters left, at this rate, i'd say a surprise will be waiting for them when they return, either this saga is ending with a cliffhanger, or its going to be the longest one yet.

Well, at least i got my finals to keep me keep me dreadful company till the next chapter comes out...yaaay. Kill me, just fucking kill me.

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I don't think the Jack/Kayla/Tara discomfort will be the major concern, at leats not fro the foreseeable future. Kayla could still have flash backs.

But yeah, something will pounce on them. Jeff's probably been doing Internet searches to see what schools put on Suessical and find out where Kayla lives.

I'd also say Carson is a possibility as well, i mean he did pretty much break Tara's heart, so as to speak, so him returning could spark something.

I agree with Jack and Kayla both loving Tara, being a person they both care about will be something that can expedite the process of recovery from the threesome, so if Kayla talks in the next chapter, i'd say there's a big possibility of them getting over it without anymore pain and shit and making more painful and awkward choices.

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Finished on an up note, the arc may be over (for now).

Well, i think its about to get worse, i don't know exactly what but i see some problems beginning to brew, this chapter was just the calm before the storm before all hell breaks lose or shit hits the fan or quite simply everything gets fucked...badly, in the ass, with a cactus, that's on fire, with no lube whatsoever

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Chapter 34 is just the calm before the storm, IMO. If you think Chapter 33 was heavy, you better get ready because i have feeling that something big, something bigger than Craig fight, Brad fight, Walburn suicide, and The Twins is coming next and believe me when i say this, it's gonna change everything.

Wow, i sound like a really bad trailer, anyway, anyone care present any theories or predictions? I'll probably through some of mine as well, but i wan't someone else to get the ball rolling first.

I'm really conflicted in my opinions, on one hand i want to believe that Jack and Kayla can figure all this out, that this incident was just a small bump in the road, and they'll move and be back to normal. But on the other hand i think its something that'll take nothing short of a miracle for them to get over. Jack's personality is the fixer type, he is giving Kayla her space but pretty soon he's going to get impatient and will approach her and try to talk to her, they both are crazy in love that much is certain, so for the sake of each other, i'd say that they will try to fix this. They also love Tara as well, so they'll also fix that as well, either individually or together i cant say. I want to believe that this will blow over and the threesome was the only painful event concerning Kayla and Jack's relationship, but i have this dreadful feeling in my gut that something bad is gonna happen, plus there's the issue of the familiar face.

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been making a living, I'll get to it a little later. the response deserves more time to reflect

oh, it's okay, don't let me keep you then.

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Hey @Joe Long, i sent you a PM, check it out.

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Isn't that basically Fallout? Haven't played them yet but meaning to.

And if you are talking metal, ADTR and ATR are awesomeness. Plenty of other melo/death/core but thems happy music.

\:D/

Fallout is post-apocalyptic as far as i know, i'm talking about like entire cities of the cyberpunk era. Think like Deus Ex: Human Revolution, fit the tech, the environment, and stuff from that era into Skyrim. Imagine Breezehome in Whiterun like a futristic apartment, The Civil War can fit here perfectly as well, though not sure how to fit the dragons...but still.

And yep, they indeed are, got whole discographies of them, really cool stuff.

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I really wish I'd played these games, along with many others, but my parents didn't (don't) like gaming systems. And I have an Apple Mac. I honestly have only played KOTOR, COD (4 in particular, since it's actually decent), and Minecraft. I want Civ, bio shock, ect, but I just don't have the money.

I'd suggest Skyrim (its awesome on PC because you can mod the hell outta that), Crysis trilogy, Assassin's Creed (2, Brotherhood and Revelations to be more precise), and Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

To those who have played Skyrim, i have a thought in my head, imagine the gameplay and immersiveness of Skyrim, and put it in futuristic cyber-punk world. Just take Skyrim, and advance the technology and the world up to Cyber-punk era, How cool would that be?

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speaking of relationships, one young lady I follow on Twitter just posted this

followed by

#YoureAllowedToHaveFriendsOfTheOppositeSexWithoutItBeingRomantic

hahaha, well i do admire her spirit.

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I have "Reinventing Your Exit" and Writing on the Walls" on my iPod, but not in my big playlist.

I listen to metalcore, but I prefer the more melodic versions. My favorite band is Demon Hunter, with songs like "Fire to my Soul", Follow the Wolves", "My Destiny", "God Forsaken" and "What I'm Not". My favorite album is "The Tryptich" which gets pretty heavy, but I also really like their new one, "Extremist" which is somewhat more melodic.

Thank you. I'm still hoping wisdom comes with age.

I have never respected you more, dude, i am honored to have met you, finding another person who listens to the same music you do is really cool. I have heard about Demon Hunter, i have no idea why i didn't check em out, i mean they showed up when i searched for new bands but...i honestly don't know why i didn't check em out, oh well, thanks to you now i will. The Devil Wears Prada and Underoath are my all time favorite bands.

Yes, you are pretty wise already, so i'd say you're off to a wonderful start

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Look for someone you can have fun with, share the things you like, and is kind in return. There may be more beautiful girls on the outside, but it's there on the inside.

Truer words have never been spoken.

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I woke up this morning to "Calm the Storm" playing in my head. One of my all time favorites, it's on a short list of songs I've considered quoting lyrics of for my story, although the songs are more contemporary.

Here's where to listen to that one and two more that help capture the feeling of frustration and hope

Dear Angel, April Sixth (2005)

City of Anger, Mad at the World (1990)

Calm the Storm, Spoken (2013)

I see you have an awesome taste in music, when i'm feeling frustrated, hurt, angry and i need my release and to get re-motivated, i listen to Returning Empty Handed by Underoath. A word of warning, they're pretty extreme, the genre is metalcore, and there are heavy distortion guitars and screaming, so it might not be according to your taste, anyway, right in the bridge when he screams "as the light begins to breach...", feeling of pure bliss and relaxation.

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Haha thanks, but there's my anxiety. I have a massive fear of rejection. I'm working on it, but yeah. Also I don't know her. I know her name, and that's about it. I mean, she recognizes me, but I don't know.

I know what you mean, i went through it too, hell i still go through it every day. All you need to do, is take a few deep breaths, calm yourself, smile (but not too creepily) and just be yourself. Strike up conversation, look up openers online or just go with the flow, improvise. I had an opportunity with a friend of mine, i really liked her and was afraid that if i told her, she'll reject me and i'll even lose my friendship with her, but one day i made a choice that i was gonna do it, because when i died many years from now, i didn't wanted to regret not telling her, so i manned up and i told her, she was silent for 15-20 minutes, those were the longest minutes of my life, but then she told me the best four words in the world, "I like you too".

Dude, just go for it, life's too friggin short to worry about the what ifs, who knows maybe she likes you too. ; )

Agreeing with @Jashley13, keep it casual, a coffee place is fair game, food court, etc. Girls sometimes reject because with a restaurant date there is too much pressure of it being a "date", and they get nervous themselves. Next time when you see her, try to strike up normal conversation, and see how it goes from there. Good Luck man, you're gonna be alright.

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I also sorta have a crush on this cute girl who sometimes works the register.

Ask her out? come on what's the worst that can happen?

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I was not intending to compare our miseries.

I felt I needed to share, to offer encouragement, to show that it's something that many of us suffer through but to have faith and persevere.

I still have anxieties, but it's not nearly what I used to endure. My weak spot is sex, something I didn't experience back then and unfortunately not now. I've never touched anyone else since I've been married, and only once tried to. But I do have wandering eyes and fantasies.

I love my wife but sometimes she's mean, and there have been times I've needed affirmation, that I am someone others want to be friends with. Ten years ago everyone I knew was either at work, church or family. I really didn't get out much. In the years since I've been in the public eye with my hobby (which is turning into a consulting business) and that's given me a chance to interact with many new people and for me to have faith in my ability do develop friendly as well as professional relationships with men and women. I went from catfishing on MySpace to openly having female friends and followers on Twitter, who enjoy me for being me.

Dude, it was not my intention either, and yeah i shared too, it felt good to do so and after hearing your story, i know i have to hang on, i know i won't give up.

I can relate to your anxieties my friend, i used to have the same problems not too long ago, you remember what i said about a friend helping me? Yeah, so i read a book in which a character much like myself, uses magic tricks, (up close and personal, street magic, card trick stuff) to get over some problems, mainly approach anxiety and other issues, so i sorta followed his example, at first my main goal was to get a date, somehow impress the girl and take her out (keep in mind, i was still a teenager back then, and kinda stupid), i never got the date, but i t helped me with my anxiety problems, allowed me to handle stressful situations ( it is quite stressing when you know every eye is on you and you can't screw up), but most importantly i made friends, more friends than i can count, and most of them were female.

In y previous post, which actually prompted you to reply by sharing (which has taught me a valuable lesson, thank you for that), i seem quite depressed, because my find was, and is somewhat, filled with doubt, and it's killing me, i went to the shrink for this reason among the nightmares, i will not share it over here publically but if you want PM me and i will tell you, i think you may be able to help me.

And once again, Thank You, you have helped me out in more ways than you know.

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Yeah, that's the truth. Lots of times, life sucks. It kicks you while you're down and then laughs. But so often, people forget what's ahead of them. I'm not going to sit here and say my life is awful. It isn't. But I sure as hell don't live a great life. Yeah, I'm better off than what, 90% of the rest of the world? Just because I live in America. (But man, fuck those people you shame you for having problems. If you tell someone about a problem, and they make some reference to kids in Africa or something like that, fuck them. They're shits. That type of response/ideal peeves me so much.)

Some things seem to get better with age, others get worse. (I'm not a sage though, I'm 19) I write based off my somewhat limited experience. Good and bad. I'm sorta like Joe Long, relationship wise. I've had one girlfriend. Still a virgin.(I've not really decided what I think about that one.) For the longest time, I didn't fit in with any group of my friends. I drifted and didn't hang out. I was lonely. Hell, right now I'm semi-depressed because I'm still lonely. Wait. Where am I going with this?

Ah. I my point being, life has ups and downs. Joe Long's post seems to sum that up. I'm sure I'm gonna face a lot of shit in the future. So that's where I'm coming from when I write. Sometimes I write characters as what I couldn't be. But I don't forget what I can do. I don't lose sight of that possibility of things I have the ability to do. (That's pretty damn cheesy)

Dude, you're totally right, yeah life sucks, and everyone is going through their personal hell, just because someone else isn't going through the same shit as you does not give them the right to tell you to just shut up, seriously that Africa excuse is just wrong.

I'm 20, i'm still a virgin, hell i had my first kiss when i turned 20. You're story is similar to mine as well, i can't fit in still, and maybe i'm depressed (i dunno how i feel about that).

Actually, i'm thinking of writing my story on a character that i couldn't be, that i want to be, someone who i should have been. I have summer school, and its coming to an end in a couple of weeks, so my instructors are frantic and everything is just way too hectic for me to write, i'll probably start in the the first or second week of July.

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I'm 55 with children and grandchildren, make a good amount of money, enjoy my work, am well respected...so life is good - and it totally sucked when I was your age.

Please don't give up hope - take a long term look on life. I've been married for 30 years, and there have been some downs, but I treat them as bumps in the road.

I wrote my story based on events in my life, but the story comes out much better than real life. I got the girl, at least for awhile. I've already written the last scene, where I say goodbye to that girl and take my place beside the woman I would marry, and realize "I am blessed."

I graduated high school without having ever kissed a girl. Unlike the story, I graduated college while still a virgin. My father constantly berated me for not being good enough. My parents divorced and I was torn trying to keep both of them happy with me. When I was 23 and not yet out of college my father threatened to throw me out unless I got a job. Crushed, I went to the house of my girlfriend of three months (the longest lasting of my life) for her to tell me she didn't want to see me anymore. But I survived.

I got a job flipping burgers, even if I had to ride my bicycle through the snow after wrecking my car. Four months later, after trying to date someone new, I went back to the first girl, took her out for Valentine's Day, and a year and a half later married her. (That was the only girl I ever dumped. She worked in the same restaurant, and just despised that I came in to the place with someone else, especially when that someone else had a ring and then was pregnant.)

I suffered so much pain, but I endured. I have to say how I met my wife. Absolutely true. I can't put in my story because so many people know. One day I went to my car. After not having even turned on the CB radio for over a year, a voice said, "Turn on the radio and see who's on." I knew it was not my voice that resides in my head. I looked around, saw nothing, but said out loud, "OK".

I was fascinated by the woman's voice I heard on the radio, and kept trying to break in to get her handle. Eventually she gave her location and I drove over to see the car, driven by her friend, pass by. I told them on the radio that I was following, but after a few red lights lost them until she said, "We're down here, where are you?" In two weeks it will be thirty-three years since that day. I thank God for leading me to her, and for her leading me to God.

Thanks man, i needed like a veteran at life, much like yourself, to tell em to hold on, to tell me that its worth it. I'm in college, i got absolutely no action in high school, hell most of my highschool years were spent in surviving sexual abuse (i got when i was 10, didn't tell anyone until recently), extreme bullying, and depression. I'm currently a junior in college, and for the first two years here,things were better than highschool, but not that much. Bullying continued and it made its way to social networking sites, were it not for a certain friend of mine i would not have been able to return, he helped me a lot through all that and showed me what i could do, who i'm truly am, then i met my best friend who recently graduated, she was the light in my darkness, with her i finally felt like i belonged somewhere, also she was the first person who i ever told about my abuse. Shortly i had turned 20, i met my first girlfriend, she was amazing but it was long distance and it did not work out, she was the first girl i ever loved and even a second spent with her felt like i was on cloud 9, shortly after she went away, but before she went away she told me somethings that plague my mind to this very day, in a way she got through all my defenses and broke apart my insides, i'm learning to move on now, its slow but im getting there. I had my first kiss a month after we broke up, with another friend of mine, she was the second person who i ever told, we fooled around some but never gotten further than 2nd base, that went on for roughly a month and since then i haven't gotten any action. Before me and my ex, the long distance one, Emily was here name, broke up she told me she wanted a MMF threesome, now i won't lie, before i met her i had that fantasy myself, but after her...well, things change and i couldn't even stand the idea of another man touching my girl, i declined and we moved on from that conversation and never paid any mind to it...until 3 months ago.

For the last three or so i'm going through a mental and emotional hell, much like the same thing Kayla is going through. I dunno how it came to be, but i stumbled upon some material that focused on what Emily wanted from me, i was searching for regular porn and i accidentally clicked on something that lead me to amateur threesome, swinger porn, that sorta stuff. It triggered a delayed much more intense response to Emily asking me for a MMF threesome, as a result i lost hope. I lost sight of the only thing that was driving me forward, a nice quite life with the woman i love, in its stead i had to endure images of my future girl getting it on with some guy. It got worse recently, so much that i had to seek out therapy.

My point is not a pissing contest that who life's screwing harder, nor am i crying over my somewhat f---ed up life, but my point is that we all went through, are going through, and in the case of @thismy and me, will probably go through a lot of hardship and pain. Looking back over every experience that I've been through, i wouldn't change a damn thing, because every experience taught me a valuable lesson or something about myself, and because of that i've become better each time. All i wanted to know that is it worth it, is it worth going through all of this shit? and thanks to you @Joe Long, i have my answer, that yeah, it is worth it, that she is worth it. Thanks for your words man, i needed them.

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That's the definition of fan fiction.

Joe created the characters and the over-arching story line, but from that you created a new scene that was true to the original and was very well written. I don't see it much differently than being in a writing class and being given a premise of, "New girl moves to town and falls in love with the boy next door. A few months later he inadvertently reads a series of texts from her old boyfriend, and discovers she wasn't the virgin that she claimed to be." From there - go, write!

Much of what we write comes from what we've known in our lives. My story is heavily based on my own experiences at ages 19 and 20. Joe's about 25 now, a couple of you are still 19 and 20.

You got that right, i indeed am 20, and also i am basing my ideas on my real life experiences, which i have faced and am facing, and trust me when i say this, i'm toning it down when i write, the truth is real life experiences really suck, a fact that everyone can attest to, in my version of the theories Jack and Kayla somehow work it out and their relationship emerges stronger than ever, but if i had to base it 100% on my real life experiences they never patch up, Kayla tortures Jack for a long time and even then she's reluctant to fix things, Jack is working his ass off to fix everything but no avail, eventually Jack gets so depressed that he kills himself, Why? Because when the light in the darkness of your life goes out, you tend to think there's nothing left fighting for. Or, in the fight, Jack dies or Kayal dies, and the hospital scene never happens. Everybody makes a theory based of their own experiences, Joe's writing the story using the same principle, bloil it down to the most basic idea, we've just been giving him events, the way he carries them out will be different from ours.

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I don't see Kayla growing that apart from Jack. Not my previous posts about this. If Kayla cares, even an ounce, about her relationship, she's gonna try to figure out the problem. Jack's not gonna let her drift. If she closes out, yeah he'll get depressed. But that won't stop him.

I hope that's the way it turns out man, i really hope so.