The last chapter of "Band Geek Diary" is in the queue (great word, queue, it can be worth a lot in a game of Scrabble) and should post in the morning. The long journey is over for me after just more than five years. I feel like I accomplished what I set out to do: to write a tale that looks at the story, "Band Parents" through the lens of their son. He had his own story, too, and I tried to make that a sweet high school romance. I may have intended to write a shorter story, but the characters had a mind of their own.
Also, as intended, the story stops at the end of the school year. I never meant for it to go longer. I also didn't want to follow the track of so many other SOL authors, so young John only deflowers one virgin and even his adult lover decides to let him go. This way, he begins with meeting the girl and he ends up with her when the story ends. As John says in this last chapter, "Can I really ask for much more?"
Well, maybe YOU could, but I can't. There's a keyboard or its equivalent in front of you if you want to continue his story. You'd even be welcome to post it in the Band Parents universe, which is open to anyone on SOL who wants to post in it. As for me? I'm moving on to something else, maybe one of those two dozen stories my fickle muse started on me while I was trying to work on BGD.
Thanks for reading and voting. Thanks for all your comments, public and private. I've had fun writing the story.