This is not the chapter that any of you are wanting...
This is going to be a rather long note. I feel a need to clarify at least one or two things that were repeatedly brought up over either in reviews or PMs to the Omake chapter: I do not claim to know the ages of my readers though I would be lying if I said I didn't make assumptions. I fear there may have been a tad bit of a disconnect age wise if my assumptions are marginally correct. When I started dating the woman who is now my wife and mother to my child, it took us OVER 3 months to get our first kiss as it took us that long to even get our fourth date in. I understand that for those of you still in your teens/early 20s and/or high school, two months seems like quite a long time relationship wise, especially if in HS as you'd likely see them in house or at sporting events or some such but, for my wife and I, we both had jobs and college and had very little time or chances to meet up that fit both our schedules. I carried that over into the story, as the two of them have little opportunity to see each other, much less go on official dates. I realize that my attempt at slowing down in the hyper accelerated dating world of sap filled fluff was... misguided but I still wished to defend my thought process.
As to the point of 'Neo growing bored or frustrated', again, I attribute it to my own experiences both in length and style, as I did and still do very much enjoy playing flirty and teasing with my wife, as she is rather similar in reaction and progression to our blonde knight. Innocence is such fun.
I guess the TL;DR version of all this is that: My personal experiences affect my writing and that there's nothing wrong with going slow in a relationship.
Also, happy one year on this story I guess? Only five updates in a year seems kind of poor though. Unfortunately, that likely won't grow rapidly any time soon. If I'm being honest with you readers, my heart's just not in this story much anymore. Sure I'll have spikes of inspiration and belt out a few hundred words and I certainly have an outline for this story with an endpoint even but most of what I wrote for it lately has been forcing it and I've seen too many stories ruined that way. Make no mistake though, I will return to it in time but for now, it'll take a further back burner than it has been on. Once I've got a chapter or two buffered up or if my inspiration for it all comes back, then this story shall burst back to life, but until then, it'll be on Hiatus. I'm sorry to all my fans of this story, especially considering that its the most popular story in my entire archive. I just don't want to ruin it by becoming frustrated or bitter with it as I have been lately.
TL;DR: Big Bowl is going on Hiatus. May the night see you safe and the dawn greet you kindly dear readers.