January 2nd, 2011 at 11:59pm
This is amazing momma, it really is.
I love how nervous Brenny is throughout the whole piece.
The emotion drips and makes my heart sink at how worked up he's getting about how worked up he's getting over the whole matter. But with Ryan by his side, I'm glad he's able to open up and admit that he's gay to his open-armed parents.
Brendon was definitely adorable being jumpy throughout it. That's something I'm not used to because in a lot of your other stories you make him the dominant partner, I guess you'd call him. I'm used to reading him as the stronger one and it was switched here so it threw me off just a bit. XD But not much. I like that he felt like he had to steal the car and go out driving to avoid coming out to his parents, and I definitely really love the prayer. Yeah, I'm Christian, but that's not the reason. It was just really moving and touching, you know? The fact that he was willing to jump for anything to save him and make him stronger and that he even resorted to going to God, who he's not even sure is real. I liked Kara, too. Her prayer was nice. "Nothing we can do will make You love us any less." It's so true. :')
Ryan driving him back was pretty un-cliche, too. I've seen a lot of coming-out stories or similar things where the boy will sleep over his boyfriend's house and the parents get all worried and when the boy comes back they're all "OMG WHERE WERE YOU". I seem to dislike the stories where the parents are very accepting of it because a lot of times that's not really what happened but you put it in perfect balance with the grounding at the end. :3 If it was me I would have totally twisted it and made them be worried about him but then have them be angry and...well, not shun him, but whatever the word for a less serious form of that is. XD That's what I would have done personally but I'm always one for very unexpected endings and this ending definitely works with you.
Very nice, and the emotion was just beautiful. :3