What Can You Do?! Author's Note

First and foremost, I would like to thank my wonderful fans who bare with me through thick and thin and long periods of time between posts. You guys are the reason I'm still writing. You ALL rock my socks!

And now I shall answer some questions that might be lingering.

1. Yes, Dwayne is dead. Yes, it is horribly sad. Yes, it was extremely difficult to kill him off. Yes, it did take some careful thought and consideration to kill him off. I personally like Dwayne a lot. He was crucial to the story, since he was Nia's only close friend, but that's why he had to die.

2. Yes, Portman killed Dwayne. Yes, it was on purpose. No, he doesn't really care about anyone but himself. Yes, Fulton & Smash & even Puck know just how Portman really is. They can't expose him for what he is because they haven't put the pieces together yet. When they know the truth, you'll find out. Smash can't really go around telling how Portman is, she tried to kill herself for seemingly no reason as far as the team is concerned. Plus, she was in an insane asylum for two & a half years, would you really believe someone spouting something that seems unbelievable if they had spent any time in an asylum?

3. Nia is not only oblivious to the fact that Dwayne wouldn't have killed himself, she is in love with Portman and wouldn't hear a bad word about him. Now she's addicted to drugs along with everything else. She's not in the position to be listening to anything but the truth.

As to the mystery of what will happen when the team finds out about Portman killing Dwayne…I'm afraid that I cannot reveal that information. I absolutely HATE spoilers, so you will all just have to wait and read for yourselves.

Thank you all again.

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