Protect You- Leonardo x Reader (TMNT 2012)

Forgot how to do this

hey yall....

Please don't be mad I'm sorryyyyyyyy

I've been putting off making this for a while now and I first wanna say I'm really so sorry. I don't wanna go into too much since yall didn't come here to be my therapists but my mental health has gone to absolute shit lmaooo

I first started this book when I was 15? Around there, and now I'm 17 and I'm terrified

Um I hope u guys know it was never my intent to make u feel abandoned or that I'm ungrateful cuz I really do appreciate every sweet comment and even just a view on the chapters. So many of you readers had made me continue even when I felt so exhausted.

However, that can only do so much yk? I had fallen out of the tmnt fandom and was so unbelievably burnt out. I didn't want to stop because I'm a people pleaser deep down and I didn't want to disappoint any of my readers.

I feel that you can even see that in my writing and how it slowly began to get worse and worse and even more boring. I started to stress that I was letting you guys down by not putting out my best material and I eventually just stopped writing this book.

Even reading others stories about this fandom made me insecure, how so many people who are even younger than me write better and how these amazing stories have authors that upload almost every day.

I knew I needed a break, I just didn't realize it would be this long. Maybe that's why I didn't tell u guys that I would take it. Or maybe that makes myself feel better.

However, I hope you know I don't plan to discontinue this story any time soon. This community has been so supportive of me and surprisingly like what and how I write. (Other than those few accounts who HATED me and didn't fail to remind me privately but ig those private message things are gone now so HAHAHAH)

Anyways, I want to resume this book. Honestly? Idk how. Ik that might be weird for me to say that since I'm the one writing but it's the truth lol

Ik 100% where I want this story to go, but the middle is kinda a gray area. Chapter 17 is such a pain in the ass to even THINK about writing. I need it to be a filler but idk. Kinda rambling rn.

Anyways! Um... yeah, missed me?

Sorry 😭 but uh I wanna upload a chapter very soon (hopefully) and when I do and start getting into the groves of things I'll delete this after.

Mmk, anyways, I hope you've guys been well and don't be THAT mad at me for my very long break.

Please please PLEASE, give me things yall would like to see in 17, just as a filler before I get back on track, or anything yall would want me to do or answer questions or something after my absence?

Idk.

Anyways love yall and see yall (hopefully) later 🙈🫶🫶🫶🫶

-forgot how to do my A/N so I'll look later LMAOOO 😭😞