Aww, poor Tom. And Bill, for almost being strangled. I wonder what the deal with Tom's dad is. Excellent chapter; looking forward to seeing more!

Oh no, Tom and his dad are on the run from the law! The plot thickens :O Poor Bill, getting hurt like that. But I like the budding friendship between them x) This story actually reminds me a bit of "Have a Little Faith", with all the social differences and the reluctant love that blossoms. It's so very cute :3

I loved it! Poor Bill, the Gs aren't so nice, but at least he doesn't pay much attention to their comments =) Great chapter! Showing the page was a cool idea!

Omg, the journal page is awesome! xD It had me laughing. How adorable!

Also, this fic is so intruiging and Bill is just so funny xD So wonderfully nuts. lol.

Bill is banana sandwich, and I love it. Can't wait for more!

Bill journal was funny jajaja xD i really enjoy reading this!! =D

Gawd. Bill in this is incredibly endearing, I'm not sure how you do it. o_o

I'm so swamped right now. Your genius, both of yours, really stuns me. I haven't felt this speechless since the first TH fic I read (courtesy of captainhanzy) and I just... wow. This reminds me of this one ride I went on in Disneyland (Yes, Disneyland, shut up.) It started out slow and smooth and I was looking at all the details in the cave and all, "Huh, that's pretty interesting." and it started going faster and I was like, "Hey, wait, wait, I need to see that part again.." but it kept speeding up and I was literally giving myself whiplash trying to gather everything in at once, but it just got faster and faster and I felt like crying because fuck the ride, I just wanted to see the designs.

Now I've been told I'm complete crap at analogies so allow me to explain. The story itself is the ride. The how you wrote it is the designs.

I ended up standing in line for a total of four and a half hours to go on that ride six times. Six. No joke.

The pacing of the this chapter was perfect, just like the ride was as fast as it should have been, but I wanted it to go slower SO badly. Because once I started reading I couldn't stop and ponder in the middle, I had to keep reading, but at the same time I wanted to hold on and examine every little thing you guys did here that made the journey so effing enjoyable.

I adore Tom. I thought from the last chapter that I loved Bill so much Tom just wouldn't be able to compare, but I was so, so wrong. I think I love Bill for being so weirdly natural (or just naturally weird, they're interchangeable) but I love Tom for being human.

I'd noticed the shoplifting in the last chapter, but hadn't really paid it much attention for reasons unknown and, it's difficult to explain, you guys didn't write it in an angsty, dramatic way, but I feel for him so bad. Little lines that you phrased pretty matter of fact really got to me because they were put so simply - like it was the same old same old to Tom and that hurts. Lines like "Most people sucked anyway." makes me wonder what he went through to come to that conclusion, and "Tom didn't often give up the chance at free food."

And as for his treatment of Bill, it didn't lessen my adoration for him any. Fuck me for getting philosophical, but I hold firm in the belief that the only true sign of a bad seed is the absence of guilt. So every time he stopped to wonder if he should, or what would happen if he did, or that he didn't want to hurt Bill and see him sulk, just the mention of guilt was enough for me to forgive. ...forgive, that is, but not forget.

I don't think Bill forgets either, despite the way he seemingly brushes off everyone's insults. I think this story have every potential to be, and could have been so much more angsty and dramatic and painful, so I am *eternally* grateful that you guys have a sense of humor.

Bill's wackiness saved the day. I was about to fall into the Pit of Angsty Doom, especially after asshole!Georg and dickwad!Gustav (they're the new model, just in stores as of yesterday) showed up, but... ah, fuck, Bill is so refreshing. I think I felt it more because this chapter was Tom's POV again (which I think I mentioned before, but I love the alternating) and no matter how much Tom wants to socially camouflage himself (brilliant phrase that, btw, I might make use of it much like the kernel one, mwahaha) I think he is secretly fascinated by Bill's oddness just as much.

I LOVE how much they have in common, and how different but the same they essentially are. I thought that was a really honest portrayal of real life - how even simple things that people have in common can be varied depending on the point of view. I feel dorky explaining your own story to you (FUCK YOU, AP LIT. JUST. FUCK YOU.) but I can't help it. I love how both of them want to be accepted but take different ways around it - Tom wants to blend in and I think Bill must have tried to fit in and be friendly before his craziness caught up with him. And how they're both alone; Tom through choice and Bill through circumstance and their relationship is so freaking deformed it normally wouldn't stand a snowball's chance in hell but... I can't help but think it so damn romantic, too. I wibble a little bit inside thinking how much they could be to each other.

But deep thinking aside, Bill, LOL. (I know, abrupt change in thought, but follow along) He's so adorable, and he's so freaky and what I LOVE (hey, caps lock AND italics, hardcore) is that he's so okay with it! He doesn't try to be weird and he doesn't think that he's weird and thats what makes me think of him as a full, rounded person instead of "that creepy guy". I think my favorite line in the entire chapter (it was hard to choose, believe me) was "Bill sounded fascinated and maybe just the slightest bit disgusted. Definitely more fascinated than disgusted."

GOD, Bill.

And oh, damnit, one more: "If he hadn't been so busy devouring the lunch Bill had brought for him, he would have been upset about the fact that Bill had stalked him and dug up his shoes. That was a very creepy thing to do"

GOD, Tom.

He's every bit as weird as Bill, he just hides it better while Bill... ah, well, Bill doesn't give a shit.

And god, this review is so long I feel kind of embarrassed. There are so many other little lines I want to gush about ("holy water" and "neon green pen" god it makes sense Bill's pen would be just as weird and GOD WHAT did I say about attention to detail?! Cut it out!!) and do not, I repeat, do not, get me started on the journal page.

I like a lot of fics. If it's well written it's probably a given that I like it. But honestly, I think love is a strong word and when I say I love a fic I don't mean it lightly. To be blunt (which you should be used to as I don't know the meaning of subtle), I didn't love the fic.

Until this chapter. You've endeared me to it completely, and I can say it now: I love it. I really, really do.

I'm already thinking ahead to get you guys to extend the series until it lasts, um, kind of forever. D:

Please don't laugh at the length of my review, it's sensitive, okay? *pets*

Much love,

Ella

that "page" out of bill's notebook is really the icing on the cake ^ ^ i'm like DYING of curiosity now and wish you could update with 4 chapters each day!!! well, not really, but you know what i mean :)

the journal is adorable.