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Begun 26-12-2004,
16:45 CET.
Ended: 26-12-2004,
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Chapter 15 has been even more anticipated by the steady readers of Summer Camp. I cannot remember that any other chapter before had so many reactions in the forum and on some topics the forum members had wild discussions, almost every day we read about some new WAGs. Chapter 15 should bring some answers we expected to be given in chapter 14 already...

For the rest of the week, things were mostly normal.
Gina and I apologized to each other for getting angry. She was still upset with Kendall, but she knew that I shared some of her frustration. For her part, Kendall refused to even discuss the party or its aftermath whenever I brought it up. So I stopped bringing it up.

It seems I got better into this chapter since the only the beginning gave me two comments. They even are about the same sentence.

For her part, Kendall refused to even discuss the party or its aftermath whenever I brought it up.

First: I am not sure, but 'Kendall' might be an issue. Kendall was not at the party and there hasn't been an aftermath for Kendall. If it is really Kendall: why should she discuss about a party she did not attend? Is this a mistake, Nick, or is this what you wanted to write? Perhaps Kendall did not want to discuss why she did not join the party (join the party is something different than visit the party isn't it?) or she feared that Big Mistake could be the topic of the discussion since Hayley-slut probably was the reason she did not wanted to go. But for Kendall the 'aftermath' would not apply. Nick, it is your story, but a change within this few lines could help.

Second: It is definitely clear that Paul talks about the 'aftermath' not because he is aware of Gina's drug use. He still has no clue. No further discussion about Paul and knowing about drugs in chapter 14!

Soon we get into Paul's sex encounter with Kendall but one point will cause some wild discussion in the forum:

When she came, she came hard. And I mean really hard. Her face and chest flushed as she held her breath. (...)
In a way, it seemed that Kendall had been in a Gina-like state of sexual overdrive. I wasn't about to complain, but I did wonder what caused it.

Aha. Paul is starting to wonder about the reason. Should also Kendall one time or another take drugs? Did Kendall use some 'aphrodisiac'? (But keep in mind: Paul has no clue!)

The following weekend Trip and Paul are visiting at Kendall's and Abby's and another guy is bringing another girl, Meredith. My first impression was: What will coming up (though she is a member of a different sorority). The impression was a mistake. Nothing about the sororities. Maybe Nick is annoyed of this itself. ;-)

Then the story is speeding up. What I want to express is: we read 14 chapters so far in SC 3 and the story telling is about six seven weeks, maybe two months. (We enjoyed the chapters 8 to 10 focusing on one weekend only with Susan). Now we read:

Unfortunately, the next month seemed to be a steadily worsening series of headaches.

And Nick is letting it up to our own fantasy.

Gina and I had another fight. Once again, it was about Kendall.
Kendall and I got into a heated discussion about, you guessed it, Gina.

Maybe another fight chapter would have annoyed us. As time goes by, some paragraphs later Paul's is speaking out, what most of us have been thinking for long:

I [was] (...) spending time with Kendall or Gina — but never Kendall and Gina — (...)

At this point it seems that the G-P-K relationship is at its end. Sorry for that, but no time for mourning ... Because we for a long time had no new riddle TERB included a new one in this chapter, and this time it was obvious (I really did not catch the watch Gina lost):

Once, when I was particularly upset (after an argument with Gina), I looked up to see tears in Christy's eyes. She smiled bashfully and wiped her cheeks, her charcoal-smudged fingers simply adding dark smears. Impulsively, I reached out and tried to clean her cheek. My hand had pencil smudges on it, though, and I only made things worse. We ended up laughing about the situation, the release of tension almost palpable. After we cleaned up and washed our hands, I asked her why she'd been crying. She wouldn't tell me. When she asked why I had been so upset, it was my turn to demur.
'We've both got our secrets ,' she said softly.
I nodded.
'Maybe I'll tell you — someday .'

How we hate TERB! How we love him!

Wren is a big tease. She is a cock teaser and she is teasing minds — Paul's, Christy's and the reader's. I am looking forward into more Wren scenes... Though Wren sometimes causes that Paul is going to harden when modeling he uses his will control and he is not speaking of his 'treacherous organ' as he did before. Has he found more self-consciousness the day he untied his tongue? Even he is not embarrassed of his hard-on...

I spent at least ten minutes with my hard-on squarely planted in the crack of Wren's ass.

Sidenote: I am starving for the revelation about some of the drawings made in this session, Christy's especially.
Another sidenote: In the crack of Wren's ass? I am sure he would like to fuck her ass...

Treacherous organ.

Oh. And it was not revealed anything about students drawings. Grrr!

Finally we learn some facts from the life of Wren and Christy. I am sure this stuff will be swagged in the forum, so I will keep this. Specially this dialogue about the 'Admiral's only daughter', the fiancé and these expression "squared away" I haven't found in my daughter's dictionary (she is 15 and questioned me last evening why I need her dictionary) This dialogue is giving some information, but OTOH a riddle started some chapters earlier, after the first modeling session, as Paul talked the first time with Christy, was not resolved. We gained so useless information it seems on the first sight — we knew that already... Or is it more than it appears on first sight?

"He took advantage of you," Wren said.
"He did not," Christy shot back.
"He did so. He knew what you were going through and he still asked you to marry him."
"Going through what?" [Paul asked.]

What happened? It must have happened these months in the spring which Christy missed, but the situation probably changed. We read some discussions about Christy's brother (perhaps his airplane crashed), but the thing cannot be such a simple thing because, it must be a serious problem. If Christy's brother simply died, there would not be anything false in Simon still asking her to marry him. IMO the problem with Christy's brother is with Simon. Perhaps Simon caused the problem Christy's brother stuck in.

(...) her eyes suddenly filled with tears. (...), but then her emotions finally overcame her.

Since Wren is a teaser she is not helping Paul (and us) in this situation by telling about the secret. I even felt she said more than she should say.

I'd begun to wonder how much of our team's cohesiveness was luck and how much was Joska's planning. The man was crafty.

Much. God is in the details.

I still didn't like him, but I'd gotten a feel for his way of doing things.

Does this mean: that time I still didn't like him, but now I am seeing this different?

At the beginning of this thoughts I wrote the story gained speed, but I was wrong. It turns out that Trip is a manipulator as well as are Gina and Kendall. Perhaps Paul needs such people around himself. I claim this from his talking Paul into the team doing an all-nighter "because of other classes" and some lines down he admits that Paul does need a break from Gina and Kendall and invites him to a visit at Trip's family.

BTW, Paul's father had birthday and so is Paul calling home. Dad and Mom and the Coulters and another couple are going to dinner.

I didn't know who the other couple was, but I grinned when I imagined what they'd be up to.

And I grinned as I imagined if perhaps the other couple's name was Hilliard.

Nothing new under the sun between Gina, Paul and Kendall...

But so does she. And also Trip. And Joska. And even Wren seems to be a master of craft in manipulation.

Paul decided to join Trip to Nashville, since he damned is aware of the problems he has with his girlfriends.

I was watching Gina slip away from me, and I didn't know what to do about it. (...) I hated what was happening to us. I simply didn't know how to fix things. Kendall, (...), wasn't any help.

And Paul still had no clue.

"You can just rent a plane?" Trip asked

And so did I. Nevertheless, they are going to rent a Cessna. I enjoyed the following talking with Christy and Wren about flying and the 'Mile High Club' — Wren is at least as horny and wild as Gina I believe. Christy is engaged as we learned earlier and that is proofing her to have a more 'stabile' character.

Sidenote: Could be interesting if Wren and Christy join Paul and Trip on their Nashville trip. That could turn out as a triple cheating! ;-)

"I want a better nickname than Bunny," she said.
"Sorry, kiddo," I said, "that's what you got. We're Mysterious, Beautiful, and Bunny.

Honey. (You got this? Think about.)

Afterwards we learn some peculiarities about Cessnas and flying in general. We learn many things in the Summer Camp.

As Paul is calling back Kendall just before midnight the discussion he has with Bill is pretty weird. More than before one gets the impression Bill might be gay:

"I'll just spend the night at Jamie's. I'm cool."

Though Jamie could be a He or a She. TERB! Kendall comes over. Again there is it, the bad word 'split':

"And it's tough splitting my time between you and Gina," I said. Her eyes grew hard. "You don't have to split."

A kiss is stopping her. Kisses are the best way to prevent an argument.

"Because I love you," I said.
"I love you too. And I love you more th..."

What she wanted to say? "And I love you more than ever before" or "And I love you more than Gina." ?? Paul does not want to argue, since he is horny. Maybe Kendall is also, but here is the answer to the question:

"You know she doesn't."

Love him as much as Kendall?

This chapter definitely is a Kendall chapter. She is getting fucked two times in chapter 15 so far. Gina was mentioned 24 times (and will be mentioned another 6 times), but she did not appear so far. Kendall got the introduction fuck to this chapter and she had several orgasms, maybe more than Gina got in SC3, 14. Have we been witnesses of Gina's last big fucking scene at the party and the night after?

Some lines later me fell the jaw. I was surprised:

"One day," she whispered, "when you come inside me, we're going to make a baby."

I see that Paul's reaction is not differing from mine so much.

My eyes snapped open. (...)
I'm eighteen years old. I'm way too young to be a father.

Kendall is nineteen. Nineteen was the average age soldiers died in Vietnam. (Also title of a song by Paul Hardcastle about this, back in 1983 or 1984, I think). To young to be a father, but old enough to die?

Was she still on the pill?

Cool it, Paul. She wants to be a psychiatric. She wants to finish study first. The pill might fail, but Kendall surely wants to finish study first.

Could I come in her mouth everytime we had sex?

That would not help: Former tennis player Boris Becker was found guilty to have impregnated a Russian model in London while he — using Bill Clinton's words — had no sex with this woman. After he came in her mouth she did not spit it out but later put the sperm in her pussy and poor stolen Boris had to pay.

"I was starting to get a cramp."

What worked with Gina is working with Kendall also. Some of the readers are concerned how Gina and Kendall have changed. So has Paul. He is a liar now and he is cheating. And sooner or later he will cheat on Gina and Kendall in reality.

Unfortunately, visions of a pregnant Kendall paraded through my imagination.

Paul's panic probably had its roots in the unprotected sex he had with Amy. And I am pretty sure that nearly every young man would have reacted like that. But it could be more — maybe he had in his mind, that Kendall could intentionally fail with the pill for convincing Paul to marry her and letting only 2nd place for Gina. But, at this point we are knowing more than Paul, because — as Nick stated earlier — Kendall is not the wife, pregnant or not. But Paul did not read that forum message!

I wanted to be a father, but on my own terms, and when I was ready. I definitely wasn't ready.

Is this the reason why Kendall and Paul will split? As I said before I do not believe that Gina's drug use — which so far was no theme in this chapter — will be the primary reason for the end of Kendall's relationship with Paul and vice versa.

Kendall wanted me to herself. I didn't have to be a couples counselor to figure that one out.

What worked with Gina is working with Kendall also. Some of the readers are concerned how Gina and Kendall have changed. So has Paul. He is a liar now and he is cheating. And sooner or later he will cheat on Gina and Kendall in reality.

Kendall wanted me to herself. I didn't have to be a couples counselor to figure that one out.

Is that why SC 3 is Kendall's book? Is she dominating Paul's life in this book, as did Susan in SC 1 and Gina in SC 2? Why did Nick split the 3rd book into two halves (SC3 and SC4)? Only because of the length? I rather think he did it because the bow from Gina to Kendall to Christy was to long — if this 'domination theory' of mine for naming the books is correct at least the 15 chapters of SC3 we already know are not dominated by Christy. Hell, we only know her name since chapter 11!

And unlike Gina, Kendall was the type of person to give me an ultimatum. I didn't think things had reached that point, but I saw the writing on the wall.

We all see them. Some of us saw them earlier. We are clever. We have life experience. Paul is 18. He is slow on the uptake. And we know that Kendall is not the wife.

Worse, I don't think she understood how much I loved Gina. The dark-haired, dark-skinned beauty was my first love, my first true love.

And who would not do anything for conserving the first love. But Paul is also the first true love for Paul, isn't she? First loves seldom are ending in a wedding. Kendall is not the wife.

I wanted to ask when life had become so complicated.

May I invent some of Paul's standard comments?
PSC #1 — Treacherous organ.
PSC #2 — When life had become so complicated.
PSC #3 — I love you.

Why don't you just drive to Nashville?" (...)
"Because I miss flying," I said.
"But it's so dangerous."

Erica Jong. Fear of Flying. (Remember those lines by Mark Twain Nick is ending his emails!) As it turns out Kendall never flew in her life before.

Then I laughed. "I thought 'fear of flying' was a metaphor," I said. "You're afraid to fly, aren't you?"

Oh!

Kendall even gets another fucking scene in the shower.

Soon after, Paul and Trip went to the airport, Paul is doing some tests and they are airborne. A pity I think, that Wren and Christy aren't with them. That would things speed up a bit. So we are taking it the long way. Probably that is more funny.

At the birthday party Paul is asking Dale how old he his, and as he answers "Five" me came in mind that some day he could be boyfriend material for Linette Raeford... Nevertheless, why we get this birthday party at this point? Is it for getting Paul's view of children more clear, maybe changed, in conjunction to his panic reaction on Kendall's "making a baby" or TERB simply wants that our external view on the things is getting more foggy again?

Then, Trip is doing a confession:

I guess I like girls who're a little bit... I dunno... wilder.

Paul knows such girls. Gina. Leah. Erin. ... Wren.

I think you're gonna be a good daddy," Trip said, smiling indulgently.
At my shocked look, his smile turned to laughter.

So why this birthday party was here?

By the time Trip's family drove us back to the airport, I felt happier than I had in a month.

Me too (concerning the story), because it was not a problematic, dark chapter, like almost every chapter in SC3 specially after Susan's visit. We got some more information about Wren and Christy. Some readers will be disappointed. We did not learn anything about Gina's results. The watch mystery was not solved. We do not know anything what Gina has done since the party's aftermath. Nothing about Memphis, nothing about the weekend Paul and Trip flew to Nashville, nothing about Gina and Regan spending days and nights together. Still Paul has no clue. None about drugs and none about what Gina is Up To.

So all our speculations will restart again and again. Some further speculations will appear: about Kendall's wish for making a baby, about Kendall gaining Paul for herself exclusively, about Trip's wild fantasies, about Christy's fiancé, maybe about Lorelei... (maybe it is simply: perhaps it is similar to David and Victoria Beckham's child Brooklyn ... Wren's parents perhaps visited the Rhein valley in Germany as they 'made a baby')

I liked this chapter, because it had Christy / Wren stuff in it. Nick did great work for our Christmas surprise and surprised us, since the story went in another direction than we had expected.

You are still thinking about Bunny / Honey? — What me came in mind was that years later Paul would not be any Mysterious anymore. Since Christy is Bunny ( Why? ) she could refer him Honey. Read the prologues.