That was good Gal. Very emotional.

Author's Response: Hi Mare! thanks! glad its readable and the readers could relate the emotions that i want to express in this story.

awww that was a very excellent story. What a great plot twist, to make her dead and watching Brian progess without her there. And to me that was kind of romance because she loved him and it was told in her point of view so those to me are two traits of a romance.

My favorite part was this: Then he kissed me. And his kiss told me I worried for nothing. He was as happy as a child in a candy store, standing inside a toy store, standing in the middle of an amusement park.

What a great description of how Brian was feeling about becoming a daddy.

:O) Well done!

Author's Response: Yay, Mare thinks it is kinda a romance story.. ;D Thanks so much Mare for taking the time to both read and review! And as for the toy store-candy store-amusement park-part. I kinda didn\'t know how to describe the way he could have felt right then and there.. So I just thought about the \'as happy as a kid in a candy store\'-phrase and all of a sudden, this came rolling out :D So I\'m very pleased with that part as well. Thanks again for reading!

What an incredibly power and haunting story. You have quite a gift for description. You made me feel what this soldier was feeling and understood why he felt the way he did with his slight hesitation at the end. What a hard subject matter to tackle as well and a sad but yet all too true ending. Beautiful story, you should try to get it published.

Author's Response: Do you really think it\'s publishable material? Coming from someone who I see has published work herself, that is a compliment that just makes me glow. Do you have any advice, any ideas as to where you could point me? I am interested in pursuing publication, but as I don\'t know where to start, I know I\'ll need all the help I can get. I\'m so, so glad you enjoyed this.

OMG Mersey that was awesome! I think I have a new favorite short by you. OMG You can never ever stop writing! You have sooo much talent and i'm always amazed by it every single time I read anything from you! I LOVED this, everything about it. I love the fact that you never let us know what Kevin and Nick were talking about because from Howie's eyes he had no clue. I love how you mention that Nick adapts to his surroundings because I can see him doing that. But most of all I love how in so few words, you managed to catch the essence of these three guys beautifully and that takes talent.



Excellent job my doppleganger! :O)

Author's Response: awww thanks mare :D well, how about you not retire from writing and i\'ll do the same? lol...deal? we\'re doppleganger afterall, if you\'re hanging your shoes (pen, keyboard...lol) i have to do the same dont i? lol

OMG okay I loved this one! You need to write along story with Nick and Kevin of when Nick was younger like this age. There were so many great parts to this fic that I would have to just copy and paste the entire thing here lol the gum was gross but lmao at Patrick. You always make me miss Kevin when you write about him and that's because you write him so well! It's hard to write Kevin but you neevr cease to amze me with how effortlessly it comes off. And aww at baby bear. I can so see that being his code name lmao too cute!

Aww first of all, I hope Nick never calls me at hime because those long babbling message would kill me! and Kevin with all his millions of dollars needs to invest in a machine that only let's people leave a 30 second messgae because I know mine would have cut him off within 30 seconds of each call lol

At first this story made me horribly sad because Kevin was ignoring Nick completely and well, that's just flat out depressing so throughout this story I was hoping you'd have him return the calls at the end and I let out a sigh of relief when you did.

I loved the part with Howie falling off the stage and the Coke versus Pepsi thing. I was meloncholy for the birthday part and yay you had them go to Peru and lmao at the spitting llamas. Did they all look like Justin?

AND you even gave my cat a shoutout! He'll be so excited! ;O)

Okay this is getting almost as long as this actual story was so i'm going to wrap it up by saying, awesome job and extremely creative and I might steal this idea and use it on the AC forum! lol

That was great Kelly but yes I think it's leaning more towards sci fi, close enough for me though. I had a hard time finding the picture description but I think I got it lol So yay *puts gold star on your head* good for you!

Author's Response: LMAO what\'d you expect, it was like 2 AM.. . *shrugs* At least I tried though, so I will proudly accept your gold star!

Congrats on writing the first Mason fic! I do believe?

I wouldn't even say this was a July pic challenge though. lol unless Mason was an alien baby.

Author's Response: Nope.. The alien life form was the one thing I couldn\'t fit into the story. That\'s why I said I didn\'t stick to all the rules in the authors note..

Author's Response: And now it does fit the rules.. (I added something) ;)