Wow, okay, it's been over ten years since I wrote this and I'd like to explain myself and this story a little. Over the years, I got a lot of negative reviews on the third chapter being 'disappointing' and 'out of nowhere'. I couldn't agree more.

I won't get into it really but I went through something similar within my own family and I thought my story needed an interesting and different twist in order to be good and liked, so I took from my own life and used it. Needless to say, I regretted doing that because it wasn't how I wanted the story to go from the start, it didn't match up with the plot and in the end, everyone hated it anyway lol.

It had nothing to do with me thinking that homosexuality was bad or wrong. Not at all. I truly cannot make that clear enough and I apologize if I offended anyone at the time or even to this day. It was simply how I thought, at the time, how Drake would feel, being a teenage boy if his dad came out as a gay man later in life and not really knowing how to deal with it.

My canon for the story was that his dad coming out was something fairly recent so he didn't know how to process it. Part of Drake was angry at his dad for lying to him and his mom because it wasn't a known thing for Audrey either until AFTER they even got divorced. Drake also felt almost lost and confused himself too, feeling that he was created from a marriage that was a lie. I do think that Jared loved Audrey but he wasn't in love with her and that was hard on Drake as well.

Drake was also all about how cool he wanted to be perceived and basically he was scared of how kids would think of him if they knew kind of thing, even Josh. Again, this was written over ten years ago and I was a teenager myself lol. I totally forgot about this story until recently and was compelled to explain myself and apologize.

I plan on rewriting the last chapter soon which I should've did a long time ago.