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I totally fucked up the last two posts. The first part of this post, Furball and Bourbon eating breakfast together, should have been part of the last post. It works, I think, how it ended up, but the breakfast scene should have been with the previous section. So… oops.

The scene in the garage is one of my favorites. Some of my readers have already noted, in reviews or comments, that this is a slow story. That’s exactly what I like to go for when I’m writing. I like quiet moments. And I suppose you could make the argument that 7 Days is entirely quiet moments, and you’d be right. But this moment, the moment in the garage stands out to me.

I suppose it’s the examination of Bryan and Ty’s relationship that does it. Ty knows her way around a car, and works on them for fun. Bryan, on the other hand, is useless when it comes to cars. So he “helps,” which basically amounts to Bryan handing Ty what she needs. By the way, if you’re keeping track at home, you can add “Wrench Wench” to the list of tropes that show up in this story.

Ty has already mentioned that she was “such a girl” when her parents were still alive. After her parents died, she was the middle child, stuck in the realm of boys, so if she wanted to hang out with the boys, she had to learn how to do “boy things.” This all sounds so silly now, but when I first started writing this story, I knew one girl, maybe two, that knew about and/or had played Sega Genesis. These were rare girls. Sometime since I started this story and the present, girls discovered video games, or it became OK for girls to admit to liking video games.

At any rate, Ty is who she is because she had to enter TJ and Farly’s world. Ty decided to learn how to work on cars because it meant she and TJ would have some common ground. Now it’s one of her hobbies. And her protectiveness, I’d say, comes from the loss of her parents. She didn’t have to ascend to the mother role in her house when her mother died — TJ covered that role pretty well. But having lost her parents, she wants to make sure the people she loves are safe.

As always, any questions you have are welcome.

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