Hey guys! Sorry to get ya'll so excited, but this is just a final note, but ** PLEASE ** read it!

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Well to those of ya'll that kept on going, okidokie artichokie, I'll get straight down to business. (and I won't put this part in bold because it hurts my eyes. Ouch.)

To those of ya'll who didn't get my midnight update on New Year's, go back and read the epilogue! If I must say myself, it's a tearjerker. I didn't get many reviews, and to those of ya'll catcalling that I like reviews too much, I say: yes. I absolutely LOVEEE reviews. So suck it if you hate it.

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Next: I'm probably not going to be on very often!

Yes yes, I know, I know, I said I would update some random long story sometimes and I know I still have my little one-shot story collection on the side, but this Monday I also got my report card back.

I can hear the "ohhh's" going off in the distance.

Well, let's just say my parents were less than pleased (don't worry, I didn't fail, I just did worse than their expectations; Asian parents, sheesh), and since they only JUST found out that I was writing, they're pretty much taking away those privileges and shoving study stuff in my face. Ewww.

Don't get me wrong, I'm still going to be on, and I'll be reading and rereading a bunch of things on my bookshelf, and who knows? Maybe I'll get my laptop back and I won't have to work on this crummy old one that is r-e-a-l-l-y-h-a-r-d-t-o-t-y-p-e-on, but until then I just wanted to warn ya'll.

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Alsoooo, I wanted to mention one of my friend's work, A Gang Leader's Life is Tough! It's not very popular, but after a few revisions to her summary, trust me. It's something you don't want to miss.

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Oh oh oh, and my other friend, heartofglass99, even though he didn't request this, he writes reallyyyy good stories, and I know he also really loves reviews, so checkout his stories too! They're actually a lot lot lot lot lot better than mine. If you like Percy Jackson (gooooo Percabeth! * squealsssss * ), he just posted a story called Two Worlds Collide.

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So a few of ya'll mentioned something about CREDITS; however, because of (I'm not going to lie) the reallyyyy large amount of reviewers that I got and because of school AND because I know that later on there will be some people that come across this and be like, "Oh, this story sounds pretty good, and I'm bored, so let's read it!" AND since I know that the credits would probably be longer than even a reallyyyy long chapter, I won't do one.

However, I'm not that cruel, so just keep on going.

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I want to thank everybody who read this story! Whether they were here since the beginning (and frankly, I don't think there were many so you get special thanks), if you popped in along the way, if you just read this for the sakes of reading something, if you were one of my friends and I urged you to read this, I want to thank ALL of you. All the people with accounts, the Guest readers, the ghost readers, the people that wished I could update quickly and just dropped it after that reallyyyy long hiatus last year (haha), all of you. I know some of ya'll will sit here and think, "Jeezus pizzas this lady is boring me to death," and others will go back and reread it from top to bottom. But still, you read it right?

I met SO many wonderful people along the way and when I first started this story I never EVER would've thought that this would become something this big. I always knew that I wanted to post something one day (which is why I had (and still have and use) a big red binder overflowing with ideas, some good, some not so good, but all something that I knew at one point I wanted to use), but I just happened to use this one, and voila! It was born into the first story I ever used.

Wow.

Without you guys (yes, not ya'll like I usually say), I never would've made it this big nor would I have made it this... planned out (even though it wasn't), and so I have some words of wisdom to share, since this WAS my first story after all.

To those of you that are too scared to publish something due to the HUGE competition you have (not really; walk into Harry Potter or something, and you'll see what competition really means), I will say this.

Don't be afraid.

I know how ya'll (whoops, whatever) feel, I've been there before! Heck, everybody who's even published something on this weird website, those who are big, those who are small, those who have only posted one one-shot, those who have like, 6000000000000000 reviews (that's an exaggeration, btw), we've all gone through that experience!

I started out with maybe... what, 4 reviews on my first chapter? Sure, I though that more would be nice, so I continued and gradually I got up to nearly 20 reviews per chapter (actually, I'm around 18, but whatever)!

Don't ever be afraid to do something you're afraid you won't be able to finish, because think about it, how many stories out there are still in-progress? Actually, don't think about that. That's a lot.

But still. If you ever, EVER feel like you won't be big, don't be! I know wayyy too many authors who think that they're stories will never be huge, and wayyy too many authors that thought that and became successful! Hey, I'm one of those authors!

And, who knows, you might be too.

So just shouting that out there.

I actually didn't mean to include that, it just kinda... happened. But I'm serious! If I weren't, I probably would've deleted it immediately. But I didn't, and here you are reading it.

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Whoa, that sounded so formal, it made me giggle.

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Well, anyway, since I know that you and I (definitely I; I have a lab report due tomorrow and I haven't even finished it yet) have something better to do, I'll stop here.

I could probably go on for HOURS about all my little beliefs about writing, but I'll save them for the other stories I plan on publishing someday.

If you ever need help with a story or what not, just ask! PM me or do a review (PM would probably be better though) and I'll help! I'm always available, even if it takes some time, and I promise that I get to every PM that is sent to me, even if it takes days, even weeks, to get to reply to it.

Again, to those that didn't review on the last chapter (and heck, you can review on this chapter, since I'm a review hogger), please review! Tell all your friends to read it if you feel like you should! I don't mind, I posted this thing anyway, even though half of it was pure bull and the other half was at the time pure genius in my case.

But yeah.

(P.S. this probably won't be the last you'll hear of me. I plan on writing even more (and I'll do another announcement on this story sometime later so you can read my next story), and one day I even hope to publish something (like in REALITY, yeah the real world with real books and real people and... whoaaaa, you know?), so I'll keep in touch! Besides, Fanfiction pretty much is a part of me now.)

Thank you for taking your time to read through this, and for the last time on my very first (and hopefully not my last) story,

Fly on,

~maximumridetothemax~