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I don't know what to say but wow what a chance wasted! But I guess realistically it would be very hard to tell someone something that traumatic. I myself get that way sometimes when I feel I really need to say something, but like Rain I just clam up and end up saying nothing at all kinda sad really :(.

Aaaaaah!!! I'm dying! I NEED to know what happens next!! What an awesome chapter, the hook at the beginning with the 'beginning of the end' almost gave me a heart attack.

if feel like i understand things more after this chapter. i realise what my problem has been and why i was finding everything so confusing before. i made assumptions about Salem's character at the beginning. and now i realise they have been preventing me from seeing what you have been writing all along. At first i thought that Salem wasn't as screwed up as everyone said he was. he just seemed so rational (i dont really know why i thought he seemed rational... i just read to much yaoi i guess)... i get now that he is screwed up.
as for rain. stockholm syndrome surely.
then again. the next chapter might throw me back into confusion...
at the beginning of this chapter rain talks about the beginning of the end... wahhhh i dont want this story to end.
it was so good to read about salem's aunt.
i just dont get why salem insists on staying the way he is.

Grr, that is so freakin unfair of Salem DX!! He would stoop so low to just make sure Rain never leaves his demented self all by his miserable lonesome.

It's so sad to think of Salem in that classroom with kids who really need to be there. He doesn't. It's quite apparent from the report he handed in at the beginnng of the school year, that he is very intelligent. Why does he hide that? Why won't he talk to other people? Why does he WANT to be in the special ed wing?

I can definitely see why he would be upset with Rain seeing him in there. It's humiliating for him; embarrassing for him to think that Rain, who would NEVER be put in that wing, would see him like everyone else sees him; a helpless mute with no control over what goes on in there. He shows his power, his control over Rain b/c Rain lets him and Salem feels he needs someone to exert control over; he has no other control in his life. Maybe that's why he doesn't eat; the ony one he's punishing is himself and his body, but it's the only thing he has control over (besides Rain).

And if he lost that "relationship" with Rain, I don't know what he'd do. Of course I think that what Salem feels for Rain goes far beyond controlling Rain. I'm pretty sure that he loves Rain but he probaby feels that Rain would never love someone like him so he had to sort of force his hand so to speak.

Another terrific chapter Kereliah! :)

i can not wait for the day when i understand salem.
isnt it his choice to be in the "sped wing" why doesnt he just talk to people so they know that he is not as empty as he pretends to be? i get that he has been through hell and i have never experienced anything like that so how the hell would i know anything about how your fictional character should act... but still... i feel frustrated for him. how could anyone put up with that all day every day? and the way he got all embarrassed? ashamed? when he realised that raindrop had seen him and his classroom? why was he ashamed/embarrassed? it seems like he chooses to be there so why should he care that rain saw him there? he didnt seem ashamed when he stripped off in front of rain the first time and showed him the scars on his body? i am just baffled and i cant work him out.
and then there is the whole supernatural element which i thought was a part of this story. the way rain's eyes gleam in the darkness and the way he appears/disappears so mysteriously i thought you were hinting that he was something other than human. but then i have come to the conclusion that i was utterly wrong in my inferences. after all, if he had some kind of otherworldliness to him, i doubt he would have put up with all the awful things he has been through.
but then why were his eyes gleaming in the darkness?? human eyes dont do that.
and i would like to meet his aunt eventually. what does she think of him and how does she treat him? apparently he never talks to her? and yet it seems like she cares for him. or am i wrong about that too?
and yeah it was strange seeing salem like that in the classroom. after all that we have seen him do and be capable of... why does he act as far gone as he does?
what are his motivations? and where does he stash his amazing horde of sex toys so that his aunt doesnt find them?
lol
thanks for another update.
please, one day, will there be answers?

Oh my gosh this is awesome! I think I remember reading the original but this is waaay better. I'm only on chapter 4 and it's sunday today so I'm gonna read all of it today :D

i just dont know what to think.
i am baffled.
i love this.

Ugh, I feel like my face is gonna be permanantly frozen into a frown. But this does answer one question for me though, even though there are still a million more questions to go.

Wow, what an emotional chapter. I mean, I knew that Salem's parents were killed but when he described everything and sounded so loving when he talked about them and his little sister,my heart went out to him. What a terrible thing to have happened to two kids so young.

It's so sad that I can see Salem's point when he would just give in to the other kids at RT. If he tattled, he'd be beaten up worse and if he gives in he can at least feel 'protected'.


I wish he could answer all of Rain's unspoken questions but I'm glad I got to see the human side of Salem. Although his not eating is really bugging me. How does he survive? And did Salem stop speaking after his parents were killed? Or was this just the way he always was?

On a lighter note, I LOVED the Birdshit comment! Rain is pretty funny when he starts talking. He's funny w/o trying to be funny. I also loved their sort of banter back and forth before the questions became so serious.

Oh,and way to go Mom! If she only knew how much her son was gettin' some she'd be shocked. lol

Another awesome chapter Kereliah! I always do a happy dance when I see you've updated! :) This is one of my top three favorite stories on here. =)