The Boy and the Beast

the ac's & the sp's

Well, that's a wrap

I'd just like to take a minute out of my schedule [bazinga] to thank every single person who took the time to read this story up to this point, who took time to follow the journey to the characters so close to my heart, sometimes I swear that they're real.

Thank you for pushing through the fucking long chapters and every torturing event practically paralyzing one of the characters. You, the readers, make me feel a little less useless and a little more okay, because I get to take you on a rollercoaster.

I learned a lot by writing this, I came to terms with my own confusions, I learned and now I know. And I've also learned that LGBT is not only being gay or bi or lesbian or transgender, but it's much, much more. Suddenly there's a Q+ added to represent pansexual, asexual, heteroflexible, graysexual and so on and so forth and it's just so beautiful that there's a diversity as big as this. Hell, you don't even need to be part of any of it to see it.

I love it that love is just love, and that it's no longer part of a gender.

I'd like to thank one special friend, she means a lot to me and she made sure I didn't do something completely stupid in this story [even though I did it, anyways] and she helped me with the covers and hell, even to figure out my emotions when I just wanted to delete this story so badly.

Elsje-Mari, Koljander, thank you for sticking around, even when I thought no one had my back. Thanks for listening through my cliché, heartbreaking ideas.

My readers mean a-fucking-lot to me [I would name every single one of you, but dumbass me didn't document every single special fucking fucker who decided to pick this book instead of the one next to it]. Even though I bitch a lot that the readers don't make the novel, you take a big part of the meaning of the novel. You guys don't make the novel, you guys make it better.

I will not write a sequel. I've tried it, cried about it, forced it, suggested it numerous times, but it never held my attention, I never did my ideas justice. I love this set of characters, I really do, but there won't be a sequel in the near future.

However? You're free to attempt to read the spinoff from The Boy and The Beast about Marty and Matthew, Marcelle is.

M A R C E L L E  I S

Marcelle is attractive.
Marcelle is a football player.
Marcelle is cliché.
Marcelle is a wolf in sheep clothing.
Marcelle is a Christmas fanatic.

Marcelle is just downright annoying.

Matthew Griffin is a certified theatre geek/video game nerd. And he despises [emphasis on despise]  Christmas. All he has to do is get this jock to remember his lines, even though he forgot his heart.