In/Exhale Continues

Today's episode is the second half of Renee & Kai's movie night out, and holds something momentous for both of them.

I really hope you guys enjoy it.

November 17, 2000 - Part II

I was worried for a long time about this episode, but after giving it some thought in context, I think it had to happen like this. I hope you guys agree.

As usual, I've updated the Table of Contents.

I also think I will end the season two days after Thanksgiving, on November 25, 2000, then take a break while I work on some other projects and decide where the story will go for Season 3.

Thanks for being such awesome readers. :)

-CA

Devo Diary Update

Sorry for the long hiatus! I know you were all waiting to hear more about Rollerboy, so here it is, a double-length chapter:

Devo Diary Chapter 17

Enjoy!

Get caught up:

Table of Contents

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No Strings Attached

Chapter 1

Ariana sat in the waiting room of the clinic, turning the pages of a People magazine, reading up on all the newest gossip in the entertainment world. It was good to stay up to date because it could possibly come in handy for her line of work. She knew of one of her colleagues, Clarissa, who actually spent an evening with a famous musician for an award ceremony a couple of weeks ago, taking place in Vegas. Supposedly he was very nice, Clarissa had a fun night and the girls read about that exact award ceremony and that same guy in the People magazine a week later. Clarissa had insisted that her right leg in the purple glitter heel was visible in the magazine article. She had even showed her purple heels to the girls that night at Mandy’s apartment for proof of her possible leg image in the magazine. Ariana smiled thinking about that evening.

She skimmed over images of actors, singers, and other celebrities, thinking about how some of them looked very plain, sometimes not even very attractive in some of the Paparazzi photos, taken secretly from behind bushes, trash cans, or from cars. Her own clients were usually business men coming to the city for conferences, company trips, or on a private outing. She hadn’t met any actors or musicians in her two years of being an escort.

The waiting room was crowded, children crying, adults and teenagers on cell phones typing text messages or looking bored. A TV was on low, showing a children’s program with some children seated in front of it on small chairs. Ariana was here for her annual gynecologist appointment, something she always pushed off until she was overdue. Her appointment was supposed to be at 2:30, it was already after 3 pm. She expected to have to wait probably for another half hour or so. She looked around the waiting room at all the people.

Her eyes went back to the pages of the magazine. A small child started crying close to her and she glanced over seeing the mother cradling the child and trying to calm it down. It was a little girl, maybe around 3 years old. Ariana didn’t think she would ever have kids, she didn’t think she would make a good mother. She had not experienced a loving relationship with her own mother and she felt she would not be capable of being a good mother herself. Her own childhood had not been great and she didn’t think she would know how to deal with a kid.

In/Exhale Continues - Let's Go To The Movies

I'm so glad you all enjoyed last week's flashback. I know I was taking a risk with such a dramatic departure, but I hope you have a better feeling for what Kai's life was like while he and Jon were separated as well as what it may have been like if Jon had never found him.

Today was a stressful day for me, but I hope you'll enjoy the first part of a very special date night for Kai and Renee.

This day was one of the first I wrote waaaaay back when I was still posting Season 1 for you guys (the other was their date at the library). It's obviously undergone a few changes since the original draft, but I hope it'll give you some more insight into these two (and have some devvy moments, too).

Enjoy:

November 17, 2000 - Part I

I'll be back again next week with the conclusion to this day which I won't say anything about except I think you all will love it. Then I think I'll do a few more days and possibly use Thanksgiving (or maybe the day after) as the season finale as I'm definitely going to need a break soon.

Thank you all as always for your wonderful comments. They really mean a lot to me. :)

Oh, I've also updated the Table of Contents, and I made it so you can click at the top to quickly jump to Season Two. Hope that helps make things easier. :)

-CA

In/Exhale Continues - Flashback Time!

Wow, it's been so quiet on the blog lately!!

Last week, we saw the finale of Kai & Renee's Hamlet movie night, and got to meet Vicky's mom.

This week I'm doing something a little different. I know, since the beginning, a lot of you have been clamoring to see how Jon and Kai reconnected.

So this week, we'll step back from the "current events" into a flashback episode set four years ago, in 1996.

This episode is also a little different, since it encompasses the span of a week instead of a single day, but I decided this was the best way to handle it.

In this episode, we'll see how Jon and Vicky first got to know each other, as well as Jon and Kai's first reunion after twelve years apart. I hope it'll give you some interesting insight into the characters, especially Kai, and their relationships to each other.

June 15-21, 1996

Note: I haven't discussed this directly, but I'll take a quick moment to talk about the difference between "deaf" and "Deaf." The former refers to an inability to hear, whereas the latter refers to culture. Someone can be deaf but not Deaf, and Kai was raised culturally Deaf despite his ability to hear. To simplify, "Deaf" usually refers to people who use ASL as their primary language and is associated with its own cultural norms that may be very different from those of the surrounding hearing community.

I will have another flashback episode that picks up shortly after this one leaves off, on Kai's 18th birthday, but I'm not sure yet when I'll be sharing that one.

As always, I value your feedback! Let me know what you think of seeing teenage Kai :).

Next week is a really important day for Kai and Re, and though it's long enough to split into two episodes, I haven't decided if I'll divide them up into two week installments or post them all together yet. We'll see!

Oh, and the Table of Contents has been updated, as usual.

In/Exhale Continues

Last week, we saw the first part of Renee & Kai's Hamlet movie date, and Kai got to meet Renee's roommate Diane. This week, we'll see the second half of the date, including getting to meet Vicky's mom, Margaret, in preparation for Thanksgiving.

November 11, 2000 - Part II

I have three more days finished, plus the two flashbacks, though I'm not entirely sure yet where I'm going to place those, so that probably gives me another month to two months of material. I've been working a lot on the Thanksgiving episodes, which is turning into a bit of an epic and has really been very emotionally draining for me. So I might have to take a break at some point, but for now I'll just keep posting what I have and hope all goes well, lol.

Thanks again, as always, for your great comments. I really appreciate them and they do motivate me to keep going. :)

Oh, and the Table of Contents has been updated, as usual.