Glad you’re still enjoying it! I totally get where you’re coming from in your first two points because they’re things that I’ve spent some time thinking about myself. About your first point, take a look at the reply I gave TomSpeedy just before your review. It sort of outlines my thought process. Really how I’m picturing it is that yes, the boys have been traumatized by their near death experiences, partly because they know it was entirely self inflicting and their trust in women has declined pretty steeply. So although Ms. Johnson knows that she needs to reinforce the idea that what they did was very wrong, she also needs to be the teacher who brings them out of their dark places and renews their young, free spirits. What better way than literally giving them free rein over her beautiful body that no man could ever resist. I’m pretty confident that would be a pretty good first step and give them all a little extra pep. So then how do you follow that up and both punish them for what they did and build up their trust at the same time. I’m hoping I’ve got a solution for that in detention :)

As for Trevor, he’s probably the most interesting character of all that will be coming out of the changeroom. I picture him as having a completely new outlook on life. Something he now treasures more than he ever did. And perhaps once he gets past the initial trauma of interacting with girls again, he’ll be all in on life. My inspiration for him is sort of taken from those crazy mountain climbers who thrive in the face of danger. Mountain almost killed me one? Let’s conquer it and then move onto something even crazier. So I’m not quite ready to let him fizzle away yet :) After all, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger… sorry, that’s pretty cheesy haha. But the boys are also young and with that comes the ability to still shape yourself for the future. Teens are hard to keep down lol.

I completely get what you’re saying about the celebs and absolutely agree. I definitely wouldn’t make them main characters, or even supporting characters for that matter. It would be a very brief appearance just to reinforce the fact that, “oh man, this club really does serve the biggest and the best.” So we’ll see if it fits once I get that far. Weird is a good word. 

So I’m going to try and answer this from memory (without going back through my notes) but from what I remember the timeline is something like this… 10 years ago the world encountered a vicious virus that wrecked the world. It damaged more than just economies, ie. killed many people. So the world spent a fews years working on a cure to this virus that was on route to cripping us. Naturally one was found… but it led to the discovery of the tech that Ms. Johnson uses every class. Flash forward to 5 years ago and we pick up Chapter 1 with Ms. Johnson and her research team experimenting with the research tech. Although maybe not stated, but Ms. Johnson is one of the leading ladies on developing the tech. Accident happen, Todd dies by the hands of Ms. Johnson, and she’s left hurting because of it. 5 more years go by and we pick up in present day with Ms. Johnson and the boys starting the first semester of high school (the boys first, not Ms. Johnson’s first year of teaching). All we know from about the 5 years that passed between the start of Chapter 1 and the end scene is that Ms. Johnson settled down and is no longer working with her research team. I have my ideas for what happened in between but those are stories for another time :) Perhaps you can even start to see some parallels beginning to appear in places. 

What the story doesn’t specify is what year it’s set in. I have my own thoughts about that and it’s basically that we’re not that far from where we are today. The tech has certainly improved, but we’re not zipping around in flying cars yet. So my idea was to tighten up those 10 years and maybe say we’re only 5 years away from where we are right now (2022). That way the world and the people in the world are very similar to what we know. That’s the part I’m undecided on though… Do I want to tighten it up and specify the year or just leave it open ended. I like both for different reasons. Right now it’s still unspecified but can be estimated.

Thanks for your continued interest! It’s always fun to dive a little deeper and be able to explain my thoughts.

Y’all of little faith lol. I know that I’ve been far too slow at pushing out each chapter but my thinking about it never really stops. I’m always poking at it here and there. It’s the long writing sessions that I need to do more of, otherwise it just doesn’t go anywhere meaningful (at least for you). If anyone is concerned that the story is lost and forgotten, just email me or message me on Discord. I keep tabs on both :)

Ms. Johnson certainly won’t let the boys’ and girls’ actions go unnoticed. But my thinking is this… if you did something really embarrassing and you knew that someone(s) knew about it, you’d be worried they’d spill that and let the whole world know about it (keep in mind that their classmates don’t know what they did). Something like this could be detrimental to the boys’ future if it ever got out. So Ms. Johnson, being the cool friend type of teacher, realizes this (and has maybe been through it before with other students in the past) and keeps it hush hush when others are around. But with the next chapter being titled “Detention”, it presents an interesting opportunity for Ms. Johnson to meet with the boys in private. The big question is obviously what kind of punishment is Ms. Johnson going to lay down? Is she going to treat the boys like criminals of war and sentence them to being disposables for as long as they live? Or will she let them off with a warning like a cool police officer? I’ve spent a bit of time thinking about a plausible answer and my thinking that maybe it’s a little of both, and a little of neither. The boys have clearly been traumatized by what they experienced. Their trust in women has probably fallen off a cliff. This is evident in Brayden’s eyes and Calvin’s quietness. With Ms. Johnson being a pretty smart gal, would she want to push the boys even closer to their breaking points? I’d like to think that she would recognize their subtle hints and try to help them at the same time as teach them. Hence this lesson and what happens in detention. What boy/man would be able to resist playing with a beautiful, nude teacher and being told to do whatever they want to her? None lol. So step one in Ms. Johnson’s plan is to get the boys back on the horse… or rather back onto/into her. I think we’ve all had at least one moment in our lives where we’ve been incredibly upset, but as soon as we start doing something enjoyable, we forget all about it. That’s really the feeling I’m going for with this lesson. Detention is a kinda sorta continuation with that, but hopefully also adding on a few “reality check” items as well. The other interesting side of the matter is what are the girls going to do… Some still won’t know about the boys’ identities, but some will. Ms. Johnson can be quite persuasive when it comes to convincing people to keep things to themselves.

I’m glad that you appreciated Liam being locked up on Ms. Johnson’s necklace. My thought was the exact same as yours. What is the cruelest thing Ms. Johnson could do as a form of punishment without just kicking him out of the classroom or hurting him? Force him to watch lol.

I’m definitely in the same celeb boat as you. I keep going back and forth on the idea but I think there are going to be a few more reasons why not to do it than to do it. Cause on one hand it’s cool to introduce the concept that you could potentially be the tiny man of anyone on Earth (in our time). But then there are the points of, what if you don’t like the celeb that’s introduced and, like you said, we already have our own mental pictures of them that can’t be rewritten by a fictional story. Plus it kind of takes away some of the authenticity of the story. Still debating about it, but I’m leaning towards the “pack it away for later” option. We shall see.