I get it, I understand. Where have I been, why haven't I uploaded, when will I upload? 

You have questions. I understand that it's been over a year since I last uploaded and not a day goes by where I don't think of this story, whether it be because of how many people love it, comment on it or wonder when, if ever, I would come back and finish it. This isn't a new chapter like many of you have hoped for for so long, but in this chapter I just wanted to let you know what my intentions are for this book going forward and something I have coming up that I want to implement soon. 

For those of you who have read my Was It Worth It? story, you know I haven't been gone for a whole year, and I've written 15 chapters for that book since I left this one. There's a very simple reason for that; I like that story a lot more than this one.

Was It Worth It? for me is a story that is better written, with a more consistent plot line and a much more compelling love story between the main characters. I enjoy putting a story with more structure together much more than what this book turned out to be, which was little more than a problem being fixed over and over again. I was much less experienced when I wrote this book and as it started to show that it wasn't going to be the story I always wanted to write I began to shift my focus to other things. 

Of course I'm grateful for everyone's support and almost 60k reads later I'm glad that I was able to entertain so many people, but I can't attribute all that progress to myself and I know that. The fact that that there are so many people that still read and like this story at least made it worth something even if I wasn't happy with it myself. Before I get into what I wanted to talk about, I wanted to thank each and every one of you once more for reading, voting and commenting here over the years. It's been a very long project to work on and very tiring toward the end. Coming up with the later chapters and even some of the earlier ones took a long time. With that out of the way, let's get the painful part out of the way: 

I'm not going to continue this story. Now some of you might think that me coming back after a year only to tell you that it's over was unnecessary or even mean on my part, but I wanted to write this chapter to outline why I'm not going to, as well as round it off with some good news. 

Firstly, my passion for this story is all but gone. With other stories on my profile that I prefer and the amount of time it's been since I last updated this, I figured that some of you already knew that. It's not easy for me to say this since I cared for this story very fondly at the beginning, but I supposed I've moved on from a story which I said before was poorly made. Other stories on my profile are better than this and while I appreciate that a lot of people love this story, I unfortunately no longer share that view. I tried to come up with a new chapter idea recently which just amounted to nothing, and that was what made me realize that this story had lost its spark for me. It also leads on to the next reason why I won't be continuing this story. 

The story's most recent chapter, Resolutions, already has a satisfactory ending for me. With Ryan and Fia finally getting together and the matter between Ruby and Vincent resolved (unhappily, but still resolved), there aren't any more loose ends to my memory that need to be tied up, and I'm now beyond the point of opening up more with a new chapter. I don't have the drive to spend another two or three chapters resolving new issues anymore, and the book would be upward of 40 chapters long if I did. Those final few relationships also help reflect on what started this story in the first place, the idea of the main two developing a loving relationship while their friends around them did the same. Some of you might want more, and I've tried to think about where to take this story next, but the truth is I like it where it is now and I think it would be best to leave it alone. When I left this story over a year ago I said that the story was nearing its end, because at that point I thought I would be able to write a new part to follow. It soon dawned on me that it wasn't going to be so easy with so many other things going on in my life and soon my attention shifted to other stories. With the story ending for me at least at a satisfactory point, I decided that it would be best to leave it where it was and think of something later down the line. 

With those first two points in mind, it's worth noting that I, like a lot of you, have an education to focus on and that takes up a lot of time I previously had to write. I'm now in the final year of my university degree and that in itself is very time consuming. My writing has taken a back seat while I focus on studying for all of the assignments I have coming up, and as unfortunate as it is that I can't write as much anymore, the much more free and relaxed schedule I had while in high school is but a memory. Stories written by teenagers and unexpectedly ending is nothing new, and one of the main causes of that is because writers grow up and have more serious commitments, ones that overshadow the stories they write online as hobbies. This isn't really any different to that but I wanted to come back and at least tell you what was going on since I saw a few of you ask. 

So now you know some of the main reasons why I won't be continuing this book. There are a whole bunch of other small ones but we'd be here all day if I wrote them all down and the ones above are the ones you need to know in my opinion. I love each and every one of you for being part of this journey and supporting this story but with so many of you commenting about how long it's been and asking where I was, I figured this was long overdue. I understand that some of the ideas I came up with, such as the character form I opened up after 20k reads, just didn't end up happening and that's on me. I was overexcited at reaching such a milestone and didn't plan ahead to properly integrate any of those characters into the story. 

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, though. Despite everything I've said about the story already ending on a good note, I do want to give the story a proper ending, one that actually tells the audience that they've reached the end instead of being left for a year to figure it out for themselves. Therefore I will release one more chapter to round off the story and bring everything to a close. I don't know when that will be, but I will try to release it soon. Don't quote me on that though. By this point most of you are used to me breaking promises and returning months after saying I'd be 'back again soon'. 

I have another idea which I'm floating around, and I'll be mentioning that in a community post on my profile once I decide how I want to go about it. Keep an eye out for that whenever I post it.

I think with that out of the way, that's all I wanted to say for now. I know that for a lot of you this will be very sad news and I apologize for bringing it upon you so suddenly. I ask you all to please understand that things have moved on and as lovely as this story was to write, it's more or less at an end. I'm not leaving wattpad or anything, and I'll still be updating other stories when I can. Thanks again for all of your support and I would never have imagined all those years ago that my story would ever get this big. I'll see you all in the last chapter. 

-Pokemonfan472