this was from...a really long time ago.

I think I was in middle school when I wrote this? Either way, I'm in high school now. I actually forgot that I ever wrote this (it was literally just a stupid self-indulgent thing) and I'm actually extremely embarrassed by it. I thought I had impeccable grammar and writing back then, but looking back on it now, this has got to be one of the worst things I've ever read. It's cheesy and everything that you would expect a dumb middle-schooler to write. Being a middle schooler back then, I made a shit ton of generalizations about high school that I knew from movies, but now that I've actually been a high schooler for a few years, I can assert that high school is not at all like the stereotypes portrayed in the movies.

I actually wrote out Chapter 16 for this fic back when I was still posting updates to this story (note to self: last update was Chapter 15 on 1/18/2018 because the update date is going to change once I post this), but I wasn't satisfied with it at all so I kept delaying it more and more. I really did want to post an update since I hate it when the fanfics I read get abandoned too, but my bad...I guess this fic did end up getting abandoned. Sorry to whoever liked this. I also got really caught up in school work and got addicted to anime/manga/manhwa. And after I fell down the animanga hole, I just wasn't into the Selection anymore (or reading in general tbh- even though I was the kind of sixth grader who read To Kill a Mockingbird and Jane Austen shit).

But I've been thinking about it, and I kind of want to do a rewrite for this entire thing. I haven't written fanfiction since this one (my first and last fanfic lmao), but I think it'd be fun maybe? Just to see how my writing's changed. I know this was from almost four years ago, and no one's keeping up with it, but I'm just gonna do this for myself. I don't want to say that I abandoned this fic. (Side note: I genuinely forgot half the plot of the Selection and all its characters, so this is gonna be rough).

I think I'm also gonna change the tacky story cover and my gross username. I literally don't know what I was thinking back then.

I also took the SAT today, and I'm in a pretty good mood because I'm estimating my score to be at least 1500+. So here you go.

Big thanks to the few people who supported this story back in January 2018,

whatever my new username is going to be

Edit: I forgot to mention BabeKintarro, who left a review on February 18, 2018, saying, "Dude r u like giving up on this fanfic cuz u totally left us hanging and now ur story's been liked pushed back to page 2 already like srsly bruh post something and get it together." I remember receiving this email and feeling super guilty- I was, in fact, planning on getting it together and posting something, but I just found it impossible to write chapter 16 after all the shit I pulled for chapter 15. Your comment was a good wake-up call, though. To this day it's still my favorite comment for this entire fic. I don't know if you still even read fanfiction, but thank you, BabeKintarro.

I'm also sorry to everyone who's asked for updates throughout the years...I really did feel bad about abandoning this fic. (Did you know that sends emails to you every time someone writes a review? I actually abandoned the email I used to sign up for this account a few months after I stopped updating this fic, but back when I was using that email I would see emails about reviews every once in a while.)

I also wanted to make an extra side note about the rewrites: the main plot is going to stay mostly the same because even though I despise it, it's not going to be a real rewrite if I change half the plot. I might cut out all the stupid song lyrics I had in the middle of every damn chapter, though (my music taste also entirely changed...I'm a Chase Atlantic and Glass Animals person now). I do prefer writing in third person (BY A LOT) now, though, so I'm not quite sure how that's gonna work out since the Selection was originally written in first person POV and so was this fic. I also like using present tense now (ex. "She whispers" instead of "She whispered") so that's gonna be another change. However, I do think the plot development of the revised version is going to go much smoother, because when I wrote this for the first time, I had no idea what I was doing and just made up events as I went along. As for the old chapters, I think I'll probably keep them up.