Two Introverts ✔

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...yeah

it's done

and I'm totally not crying

listen,, when I tell you that this story has been with me through hell and heaven, I mean THIS STORY HAS BEEN WITH ME THROUGH HELL AND HEAVEN. I can now imagine the pain actual authors go through after they're done with a book, though I'm nowhere close to one. obviously I'm happy and proud that I could finish an entire ass book all by myself, but it doesn't make the void in my heart disappear 😖

I never in a million years imagined that I'd be writing a thank-you note for a story (yeah, idk why but I don't like to call it a book. it's just a fun and relatable story that was created and written by me, I don't see it as anything else) created, evolved, written and edited all by me. and for that, I'm proud. I know it contained like zero plot twists and had probably a hundred plot holes, but to know that I'm finally done working on this lifts a weight off my shoulders while placing a different kind of weight on it - sadness.

it's nowhere close to perfect, nowhere close to what I'd call an actual book, but I think through it, I was able to express myself and try new things. it kept me engaged and for once, I was eager to show someone my work rather than being eager to see theirs (does that make sense??) and one more thing, writing romance that isn't cringe-y is hard. I honestly never expected it to be as hard as it was, seeing how so many people could pull it off, but trust me, it's hard (and I now get why all your books end up in tragedy, miss tristophobic 😂)

I'm really sorry if it all seemed too rushed, I swear this is the first time I've started something and finished it, so I have very little experience with it. maybe my brain will come up with something else later-- so I'll work better and harder on it. I hope you weren't too bored, really. I tried editing out all the unnecessary details, but even after that if you were bored... I-I'm sorry 🥺

so if you've reached this far, thank you. really. this was, as I said in my "Hello" chapter, a very random idea that occurred to me the day before my science exam (welp guess who scored extremely less in it despite it being a favorite subject) and to think that it evolved into something so big (for me, it is a big thing) and so filled with things I usually wouldn't say out loud makes me wanna hide in a corner and sulk, man, because-!! it's over? already? 😔🥺😭

so, that's it, I guess. thank you. Sam, Charles, June, Maddie and Simon wave you a teary goodbye, somewhere in the distance 🥺🥺🥺

(yeah idk why I'm making this harder for myself, trust me when I say this is seriously such a painful thing to do, I've been on a wild journey with all of my characters for the past like six months,, ik it sounds less but it was filled with so many things. so many things that I now have to... s-say goodbye to... *cries*)

kay, that's all.

bye 💕