Why do I keep letting myself get into these things?! It's so fucking stupid!

Why did you have to raise me to be responsible!

God Damnit.

All this stupid vampire crap, and the Clubhouse, and just fucking everything, then I'm cleaning up my desk and getting all the stupid vampire crap together so Marcus can make some sort of report if he needs to, and what do I find under all that crap?

The pile of forms Cameron dumped on me at the beginning of summer.

Jesus Christ I'm the Cheerleading Team captain.

Cameron said these were supposed to be turned in last week, but they say they can be turned in as late as the first week of school. Hopefully I don't fuck this up. I don't need another year of shit at school on top of everything else.


Mako's Message:

Hey all.

So, things have been really bad this last month. Not anything externally bad, like, illness or loss of job, but internally bad. My head has just been an utter wreck, and I really need to try and fix it. Which means I had to make some tough decisions.

The first of which was to fast track us to Ch220, which I feel is a safe stopping point. You probably won't agree, but it's a nice round number. It'll be the end one thing and the start of another which will allow me to just chill and take some pressure off for a bit.

I've also decided the "Extend" PC to 360 chapters. I know that may sound ridiculous since the story seems to just keep going, but it'll give me some breathing room in regards to how I'm going to hit all my plot points while still giving me a nice round number of "Books". Even if 6 is a strange number of books in a series as opposed to 3(the original intention) or 5(the previous intention).

Third, for those of you who have been keeping track or anyone who just binged the whole thing may have noticed... there was no mention of the Ch200 bonus after Ch200. And that's because I never got it finished. This does mean something good for you though. The bonus chapters for Ch200 AND Ch220, will go out to anyone who has reviewed 10 chapters between Ch180 and Ch220. So that's TWICE the bonus for HALF the work. I will also NOT be counting the reviews until both Bonuses are finished and Ch221 is complete.

The catch there, is that Ch221 will not be making an appearance until both bonuses are finally complete.

Finally, I'm taking a break. This is a gamble, but I think it's one I need to make to wrestle some order from the chaos that is my life. Ch220 will be another short one, and after that I will be taking some time off for mental health reasons. You all have been awesome and this story has been an amazing buoy in tough times when it's gone well... but when it hasn't gone well, it's been a rock. An obligation that tugs on my mind and showers me in guilt. As much as I never want to let you down, I have to remember the reason I started this: To hone my craft so that I may one day write for profit.

I need to write for me and cannot let the fear and worry of disappointing you drag me down. I will finish this story, let there be no doubt about that, but I need to put myself ahead of the story for a bit, instead of the other way around, just until I can pull myself together and start functioning like a normal human being again.

See you soon.

Makokam out.