Oh my God. It has been literally a year since I've updated this story? I'm such a bad fucking author! And writer… looking over previous chapters I don't even know what I was writing. I'm sorry you've waited, but if you're still interested I'll catch up on them all. So… the shuffle goes on:

Blink-182: Stay Together For The Kids:

The loud beeping of an alarm awoke Darren Harkness-Jones from his sleep, and he groaned in annoyance. Whacking the machine and slumping in his bed, the teenager sighed into the dark room. Downstairs he could hear shouting and screaming and- did someone just throw something? The boy sat on his bed listening. Part of him wanted to run down there and scream himself.

'Look what you're doing to this family!' He thought. 'Do you even care what you're doing to me!' But Darren knew first-hand that shouting didn't get you anywhere. 'Why can't they just stop? I'd do anything to make them stop.'

Suddenly, there was silence. Darren sat up and listened. No screaming… no yelling. 'What's going on?' He wondered as he made his way to the door and opened it slightly.

Creeping down the stairs the teen couldn't stop a small bubble of hope rise in his chest. 'Maybe they've realised how dumb they've been. Maybe they've accepted they still love each other.'

Just as he had made his way to the living room door, he heard his father yell.

"Why can't you just fucking leave, Jack!" Ianto screamed.

"Maybe I will!" His dad replied angrily.

"Would you two just stop!" Darren burst into the room and cried. "What is wrong with you!"

"Darren." Ianto said, a little calmer. "Things… things aren't right between me and you father anymore. We're going to sort this out, okay?"

"No! It's not fucking okay!" Darren screamed, startling his parents. "In 20 years time you'll look back on this and realise what you've lost! That you've made a mistake!"

"Darren… it's just-"

"It's just your father would rather go out and shag half of Cardiff than be with us." Ianto cut off Jack.

"Oh! So just because I like to go out and party every once in a while it makes me a bad person!" Jack exploded.

As the shouting continued Darren ran out of the room and slammed his bedroom door shut. Sticking two fingers in his ears he tried to shut out the screams but it didn't work. The anger hurt his ears. He couldn't understand what had gone wrong. His parents had been together for 7 years and yet instead of fixing the problems between them they never solved them. If it's what they both want then why is there so much pain?

Darren managed to fall asleep sometime during the fight, but it was a sleep plagued with nightmares and pain. The teenager knew that sometimes parents did divorce… the rate was increasing, but that didn't make it right.

Sorry again for the year wait:L but here we are