Okay so I know an authors note isn't allowed as a chapter as says in the rules, but some people do it anyway, however mine is an update, I pretty much whipped this up because I had not properly introduced the ages of each character. (As seeing as I told most of the story in Mandie's Pov and she's got the mind of a child, so it wouldn't be in her interest to show detail or age to anyone). This being my first story, I also missed it, and I'm sorry, I probably could have fit descriptions and ages in somewhere, I'm sure I think I did it with Andi, and definitely with Mandie but not too many other people. In the near future on any stories I'll have to work on that. So I thought I'd put this in. I took the ages from the book and looked at them, my story is two years later after the book, so I made them two years older.
Now when I looked them up on Wikipedia, yes I used the Internet, and rechecked some things in the books like no ages mentioned. And yes I didn't get an age for a certain amount of characters so I gave them ages, to what I seemed fit. And again I do not own the Host or it's characters.
Jamie is 14 in the book, 16 in my story.
Melanie is 20 in the book, 22 in my story.
Jared is 28 in the book, 30 in my story.
Now there is no age for Jeb. And I did not give him one, nor did I give Doc an age.
Ian and Kyle didn't have an age so I assumed in the book Ian was 27 and Kyle 28, so therefore they'd be 29 and 30 in my story. I made them a year apart. (Any one who wants to correct me or possibly change it I can I don't mind, if the ages of the characters with ? marks don't fit I can edit. For now they're ages are only listed here so it'd only be edited here. And if so edited I will make a note to let everyone know).
As to the characters I added.
Mandie is 5 (Having the mind of a 5 year old I saw fit to make her that age).
Neo is 20
Zac is 16
Andi is 20
Kurt is 22 (22 as in of the story taking place, not in the flashbacks, who knows I might add him or I might have Andi mention a distant memory of him...that's a surprise).
Those are all the characters I have mentioned so far in the story, I believe. Any questions or screw ups on ages let me know. Hope this helps a tad if you're wondering anything else let me know.
Also for those reading and wondering if Burns and Nate and their little crew are going to be added. I'm not sure if I'm having them show up yet, if they don't show up I will however mention them, probably only a slight mention but none the less they will be added some how.
AN: I know this is a whole note but I wanted this to be just me lol. Anyways. With Christmas it took a while for me to make a chapter. I have a couple written, but won't add them just yet. I'm writing a few before I add them. Yes I write them first, then as I type them I edit and add stuff if I think it may be too short, or find something I missed. So writing takes slightly longer. Lol However, I will admit that I don't write full chapters for all of them haha.
I will also ask that whoever reads this that they review on the count I want to know if this helped or not. ^-^