I am ridiculously happy to explain the situations if you actually want to know about them; I squeal stupidly whenever anyone shows interest. Internet journaling sites never seem to be much about the original fiction, and I do a bad job of giving other people feedback (despite usually loving things and at least saying that!) so this comment made me ridiculously excited to have gotten.
Since all my characters are from shared worlds I generally write things for myself and the people who already know them, meaning they're not self-contained and therefore ... people are going to end up lost. Uh. This is the first time I've posted writing non-privately in over a year.
The disease in question is congenital erythropoetic porphyria, which is really expensive to live with and treat -- the POV character is a fifteen-year-old girl in foster care, and the man in question is a big-name investment banker who also grew up in the system. He's richer than Midas, as they say, and so they were a good match in that area. She's used to getting foster parents who want the state's money and then let her get sicker.
As for the second: she initiated the entire thing. Lee recognized early on that she really didn't like high school guys, and this college professor she met at work was pretty nice to her, even gave her a ride home once in a pretty bad storm, and so she started making moves on him; he's been pretty reticent and concerned for legality and mental state and whatnot, and she's unrelenting. Not forcing herself on him, but she could tell he was receptive and is cultivating that and constantly telling him he's not taking advantage of her, she wants to be with him and she wouldn't know how he felt if she hadn't made how she felt clear ...
... and as far as the last one goes, it is potentially a setup for the woman's ghost to start hanging out a lot, and potentially a setup for a giant family feud, and as he isn't my character I'm not sure what's going to happen! Which is the best part of sharing everything. Sometimes there are still major surprises.
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Since all my characters are from shared worlds I generally write things for myself and the people who already know them, meaning they're not self-contained and therefore ... people are going to end up lost. Uh. This is the first time I've posted writing non-privately in over a year.
The disease in question is congenital erythropoetic porphyria, which is really expensive to live with and treat -- the POV character is a fifteen-year-old girl in foster care, and the man in question is a big-name investment banker who also grew up in the system. He's richer than Midas, as they say, and so they were a good match in that area. She's used to getting foster parents who want the state's money and then let her get sicker.
As for the second: she initiated the entire thing. Lee recognized early on that she really didn't like high school guys, and this college professor she met at work was pretty nice to her, even gave her a ride home once in a pretty bad storm, and so she started making moves on him; he's been pretty reticent and concerned for legality and mental state and whatnot, and she's unrelenting. Not forcing herself on him, but she could tell he was receptive and is cultivating that and constantly telling him he's not taking advantage of her, she wants to be with him and she wouldn't know how he felt if she hadn't made how she felt clear ...
... and as far as the last one goes, it is potentially a setup for the woman's ghost to start hanging out a lot, and potentially a setup for a giant family feud, and as he isn't my character I'm not sure what's going to happen! Which is the best part of sharing everything. Sometimes there are still major surprises.