A/N: A quick little note. Firstly, thank you all who have been reading and sharing this story! From the bottom of my heart y'all are real ones and I am exceptionally grateful for the love. I did get my first critique if you will, and I want to put an emphasis on it being a critique about me and not necessarily about the story. I think the issue with fanfics and the fandom is far often than not you see people leaving comments about the author and not about the story or the characters. Let me put that to rest right now. I am not nor have I ever claimed to be a writer. I fell in love with this fandom and Richonne and TWD a little over two years ago. I got to the party super late and indulged like a greedy child with what others offered me and other readers. Keeping in mind that these are individuals who so graciously take time out of their daily lives to provide. I think I have read just about every fic regarding Richonne that is available to me. It was for that reason alone that I decided to keep the fandom alive and add my contributions where I could. I'm not writing this for myself, but for others out there. I see authors who are exhausted and feeling underappreciated for their hard work, and after that one comment, I can see why. My mind has only been focused on that one negative amongst all the positive. Will I allow that to keep me from writing, absolutely not. But please be cautious and contentious that others would and will allow one comment to keep them from continuing a story.
I know y'all are not liking Rick, I get it. But please allow me to give some context to how I am choosing to write him. First, Richonne is ALWAYS going to be end game. Point, blank and a period. If you are looking for a story where there is no happy ending, you won't find that here with me. Sorry. Second, I want us to go back and remember that these two are in their late twenties. Their relationship collapsed when they were in their early twenties. If you were getting it right in your early twenties and had your life together, I applaud you. I, however, did not, nor did a lot of the people who were/are still in my life. Yes, Rick is going to have to work, yes he did fuck up, no it doesn't make a ton of sense how he could be so naïve and dumb, but for context purposes please remember he's a twenty something year old male whose playing a major league sport as the franchise player. I could have written him ten times worse, but again, that's not what I am into over here. I love a little bit of angst, and I love the fluff. I leave the hardcore stuff to those who know how to do and do it well. I ask that you all please be patient with me as I navigate this story and definitely take your commentary into consideration. You all truly have helped me to write this story whether you know it or not. I love, love, love the engagement and how invested you all are! I don't refute it, and I won't antagonize it, I do however, want you all to enjoy it and hope this context will offer some clarity.
I just finished another story, so Just Wright is about to be my main priority. I will have the next update later this week. If you read this in its entirety, thank you! Sorry for the false chapter update, but I needed to get it off my chest before I continued. I will see you all soon in the comments section and on Tumblr soon!
With Love,
Ashley