Hello again. Been a while.

First and foremost, I want to apologize for abandoning this work for years now. It genuinely wasn't my intention. But as I said on the previous author's I wrote on the last chapter, I was gonna start my college years and thought that I'd have more time writing my fic before then. Turns out I was wrong, as I needed to do way more stuff than I thought I would when preparing for college.

I also was hoping that I could've find some time writing this fic while still in college — maybe not that regularly though, as I would've been swamped in my studies. But I was hoping to find some time at least. (Spoiler alert: Free time does not exist if you decided to go to art school. Don't be like me. Stay away from that thing.)

Anyway, now that I'm free from school stuff and have much more time, I thought I'd finally dive back into writing this fic after abandoning it for so long.

"Am I gonna pick up this story where I left off?" Nope, I'm just gonna rewrite the story entirely. Why? Because this shit was ass from the get-go lmao.

I still really like the story I was gonna tell, and I plan on keeping some major plotlines that I had already written down somewhere in my notes. It's just that now that I've experienced so many stuff and consumed so many stories within the years I was gone, and after rereading this version of the story, I've come to the conclusion that the direction of this story that I was going is no longer viable to me. Hence why I want to rewrite it completely.

So, while technically I am back writing this story, I'm afraid that I won't be continuing this version of the story anymore. It's been fun writing this as a 16-year-old kid back then, but it is severely flawed and outdated. I don't even know if the people who were reading this fic still exist today, but I still want to apologize to you if you were looking forward for the next update on this fic. I'm sorry, but this will be the final chapter.

But as I said before, I am writing this story again; with different writing style, different perspectives, different character motives, and a whole different goal. I hope you'd still be interested reading the new version that I'm currently working on despite everything.

I've actually already posted the first 4 chapters of the new version on AO3, which you can check it out if you like! (Same book title and username!) If you happen to read them, you'll see some similarities between the two versions despite the drastic changes. And I also will be uploading current and future chapters to this site soon as well!

TLDR; this will be the final chapter update for this version of the story, but you'll still see me writing this story in a newer version.

Thanks for reading this awfully long goodbye (but not really goodbye) note. And thanks for sticking by if you happen to be one of the people who have been waiting for so long. Cheers to new beginnings.

(also no im not gonna sign off with "carry on now", that shit died the moment i went to college. no one says that thing anymore. it's dead. kaput. i will never unironically utter those words ever again. good day.)