This was one of the hardest stories I had to name. I thought about a title while writing the story, then while reading it over again, and then again when I was putting it into HTML format, but throughout all of that I couldn't come up with anything. I noticed one thing, however, while reading the story: the subject of a new day, birth, and starting over came up quite often, as did the phrase "In the morning" (a whopping 35 times. I counted.) After 11 failed titles, that phrase just clicked and here we are. It captures one motif I was trying to emulate in this story--with every end there is a new beginning.
This is a Taylor story, which is a first when it comes to my Log series, and is my first Taylor story since Blue Envy. It's in first person from his point of view; the only full Taylor story where that's ever happened. In this one Zac and Ginger are on the back burner while we look through Taylor's eyes at how their (Zac and Ginger, I mean) relationship unfolds, and how he meets Kris for the first time. I have to admit I really don't like how, although it is a Taylor and Kris story, Zac and/or Ginger are always around, but they are the stars of the series, so they couldn't go away completely.
We start in the morning on a late February day in the Tulsa home. The boys are working diligently on their new album, trying to get it finished and out to their fans. Isaac has just moved out of the house and an almost twenty-year-old Taylor is starting to follow in his footsteps. Zac has been sneaking out every day for the past week to see someone (oh, gee, I wonder who), and the story starts with Taylor in bed with one of many, many ladies. Enjoy!
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
Chapter Thirty-Five
Chapter Thirty-Six
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Chapter Forty
Epilogue
On a whim I decided to write a short story about something that happened in the epilogue. Don't read it unless you've finished the story! It's called Leo and you can read it here. Enjoy!
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