This story and the other Pittsburgh story are fantastic enjoying them so much xx

Hi again! Gosh, how cruel and bitter Mel is. You know that I don't quite agree with your version of Mel. At least I always liked her a bit more than Lindsay. I often felt sorry for her, because Lindsay knew exactly how to play Brian and Mel against each other. And Lindsay was just annoying me at some point. This... I have a very special relationship with Brian, I am the mother of his son... She always felt so damned special in this role. So I like stories in which both Brian and Mel recognizes her bullshit for what it is, don't let themselves be played any longer and even become friends. But as I wrote before, I can understand, if and why one portrays her character like that.

Terrible and pathetic, how she blames Brian for everything. And that she doesn't even bother to listen to Brian's view of things. She could've contacted him much sooner to talk to him about Lindsay and her behavior. But no, she also has her deadlocked image of Brian full of prejudice. That all three of them don't trust him or better, wish that he matures in his life, is so fucking sad. And it's a bottomless impudence, how she treated him here. To blame him for destroying her family and her life, to say that Ted is only his friend because he bribes him with money.... To lie to Gus about Brian and the reason for his absence... And in the end, first and foremost, she's hurting only one person with her behavior, and that's Gus... This is so pathetic, cruel and I have no words for her... Poor Gus, it's really understandable, that he'll need help. First, he's lost Justin, then Lindsay and now also Mel (although I don't feel that she deserves to be around Gus any longer - I think, she would have always saw Brian in him, and wouldn't have treated Gus without prejudices). Great chapter! Warmest regards!

Wow she really didn’t love him because if she had there is no way she would let him go without getting a visitation program and promise to see him again soon 

Maybe it would have been better if Brian would have had Watson go with him to pick up Gus, instead of Ted. Maybe then, the vile, hate-filled words that spewed from Melanie's mouth could have been stopped. Watson could have pointed out the emotional, traumatic environment Gus was being raised in, and tell her he should have his client sue for defamation of character. ANYTHING to get that bitch to shut up! Brian will have Jennifer to help him with Gus, and maybe from a woman's perspective, she will be better able to help him understand the lack of Mel in his life. Mel spouted out how JR was going to be raised without Lindsay as her mother, and without Michael as her father. Well, I say 'good riddance'. Mel should have taken a page out of Ben's book and be glad they were gone.

How cruel was Melanie to not have explained everything to Gus. She didn't even have his clothes and toys packed. And the lowest of the lowest, she didn't even say goodbye to Gus. Just tossed him away. Makes you wonder how much she really loved him, or if she was she just using him to have something of Brian's that he loved and wanted. I have to wonder how Melanie felt when she saw the excirement radiated off Gus that he was going with Brian to Britin. So in regards to that, I'm happy they are all headed back to Pittsburgh. Brian can get his life back in order, and have his two Sonny Boy's with him all the time.

I know you knew what I meant when I said, I wasn't aware that you don't live in the U.S.  So, I have to commend you on your writing ability that much more. But, incase other readers and reviewers are wondering, what I meant is that it should be common knowledge that people that live in other countries other than the U.S., can read English really well, but find it hard to write in English. So, to put out a story of this magnitute, it just surprised me to learn that.

Thank you for this wonderful story. I will be looking forward to Sunday again. 

XOXO ~ Cathy