Cadences (31/35 + epilogue)

[shandyall]

Word Count: ~2300

Summary: Life doesn’t get much better than when you get to spend it with your favorite fella. Follow the boys as they navigate from young love to newlyweds to fatherhood and beyond.

Author’s Note: Thanks to the betas, Becca and Kerry.

WARNING: This chapter includes death of an OC. I’m sorry!

Comments

[vdreamgoddessv]

:( :( :( I like how it was written from Addie's perspective. There were a few things that stood out to me:

Usually he avoids speaking in public, says he’s not good at it, that no one wants to listen to him stutter and mess up. (I think he’s full of shit.)

She IS Kurt's daughter here. I felt like I could read that in his voice.

I guess that’s what happens as you get older. You start seeing people for what they are as opposed to what you want them to be.

This. So much this. It's really scary when it happens with the adults/parental role models in your life too.

I don’t understand wakes. I don’t think I want to have one. It’s so weird to have everyone stand around look at a dead body. I mean, I know I’m not the first person to ever feel this way.

I associated wakes (though here they call them visitations) with the Midwest. In CA we only had "memorials" and if there was a casket it was closed (well in my little experience, I guess I should qualify that). Now in the midwest I've been to many visitations and I feel creepy each time. I don't see the point of walking up to a dead body, it feels voyeuristic and weird. Like people want to satisfy the curiosity of death.

TLDR- I liked this chapter a lot, which is saying a lot given the subject matter.

[mugglegato]

I agree with you completely about the wakes/visitations. I grew up in AZ and do remember a few funerals when I was young that invoved viewings, though I never "viewed". I remember more of that happening when we had to go back to OH (where my parents were from) for funerals.

Then after my mom passed (where my sis and I refused to have a viewing) we were cleaning out my mom's old pictures, etc. We came across a couple of portraits that we quickly realized were funeral portraits. They were of the body in the casket, professionally done. Apparently that was something they used to do (this of course was in Ohio). Talk about something that was immediately thrown out. We couldn't get rid of those fast enough. lol

[shandyall]

I think we talked a little bit about this stuff via ask, but I really appreciate your thoughts on this. And now that you say it, I totally can read that sentence in Kurt's voice too.

Yeah, I agree with Addie about the wakes/visitation thing too.

Thanks for reading and for sharing your thoughts!