Dear Reader,
Welcome back to Always By Your Side.
I apologize for having abandoned this story for so many years now. I suppose as I got older, I became disillusioned with life and found it hard to invite the fantasies and magic back into my imagination.
When I first started this story, I was sixteen, Rose's age, and you could certainly tell from the writing! I rewrote the story during my university years from a more mature perspective before abandoning it.
In that time, I began a somewhat successful career, got married to the wrong man and bought a house with the thought of one day raising our children there. Today, I'm thirty years old, on the brink of divorce and moving back home with my parents.
Recently, I've found something pulling me back to Rose and Scorpius's love story. I thought of them as much as I thought of my life before it was filled with problems that follow you as you get older. I longed to continue writing about their love as much as I longed to be sixteen again, with nothing but my schoolwork to worry about and my imagination running rampant.
I recognize over the years, some aspects of Scorpius's nature did not age well. I understand the importance of consent and liberty over one's own body. Reading some of these passages made me a bit queasy and if they did for you as well, I apologize profusely.
Having said that, I intend to re-write some of this story. I don't want to completely change the dark and dominating Scorpius that we've all come to love and fantasize about. But I want to acknowledge that that's all it is, secret desires from the most irrational corners of our brain.
That being said, I've got a few chapters written and will begin updating shortly.
Thank you so much for those who were part of this journey with me more than a decade ago and thank you to those who continue to review and write to me, never giving up hope that I would be back.
This is for you the most.
Love,
Madamam