So I always write one before the epilogue; you've known that since the previous two books and it's always the usual, but before I thank people and stuff, I'm first going to briefly address what the epilogue is going to be about.

Since Chip and Xander never really held a wedding banquet, I've always wanted to reserve it for now. It's kind of when their hearts are finally settled and not at constant unrest. It is at this time that a reunion is due and I didn't want to put it in the middle of everything chaotic so I thought it would be better to put it at the end. 

I think what sets the Baked series and Flight School series apart is the people who read either. And though I know that Baked series will never be any better than Flight School, I try my best to make up for it in terms of the different themes I work towards in each book of the trilogy. 

While Baked and Brave Love is primarily about Chip, Xander and Giselle, Beyond Love is about extending the way in which the three of them had crossed paths to the people beyond their circle; and how this relationship of theirs has come to influence the people around them. 

The reality is that the world does not house only three people. What we do and how we perceive the world and treat those around us will determine whether or not a single line and meets another, once, will meet again. 

I never did like stories that seemed to have everything fall to the favour of the protagonists somewhat by chance or luck. How can things get solves just because luck or fortune solves it for us? 

I've always wanted my characters to have individual agency. To decide where they go with action that come purely out of their own will and not because the world in the novel so magically revolves around them. That is an incorrect representation of writing. 

The mistake that we writers tend to make is writing a story that makes it seem as though the protagonists will always have their problems solved because the creator of that world (the writer), wills it to. I think the only matter of chance that I'd ever included in this trilogy that has a great effect on the plot is Xander and Chip being home economics partners in class. Xander came back to Chip because he wanted to, out of his own will. Chip went to stop Xander from boarding the train because he willed it to. Nothing is there out of chance. Every character has a will that they carry out strongly. 

I wanted readers to see the true strength that lies within us humans—that we have the power to change things around us. Not the world, but maybe just that which is beyond our independent minds. 

You see, before I started writing this series six years ago, I honestly felt that the phrase 'you can change the world' sounded far too romanticised and seemingly out of reach for a 15 year old like myself. Those words always appeared to apply solely to superheroes and characters in movies and stuff like that. Things I'll never be. 

And over the years, people older and younger than me have told me the same thing. "You're just a small speck in the universe." "You don't really matter." 

And then I'd laugh.

Because you, reading this behind your screen right now, have become part of my life. It is important that I thank you for the role you played and the time you spent reading my words. It is you Bakers that let me see for myself what it means to change the world. 

We may never meet; never know our real names; never even speak to one another—but you've seen my words and felt the things I wanted you to feel. 

Having had readers who sent me mail saying that they'd been so affected by the characters here, going as far as to say I'd changed their life... honestly, it's an honor that some never get to experience in their entire lifetime. 

To be told that by people I'd never met, across oceans and hours and days—it truly is something I'd never thought would happen six years ago. 

And once again, all I can ever muster is

Thank you. 

I'll see you in the epilogue. And because I always read the comments and, haha, there was this Baker who sounded like she was dying for a love scene, I might write one on Inkitt. I'll see you around. 

-Cuppie.