BTS Kidnapped

PLEASE READ/UPDATE NOTICE

I am just REALLY super tired of writing these things and REALLY super tired of people not reading them, so this is the last time I am going to address this particular issue.

I'm sorry if this comes off hateful or blunt but that's really what it is, so here it goes.

When I said 'no pressure', I meant it. Regardless of how YOU mean it when you ask for updates or if this story has gone on hiatus, those comments come across as unnecessary and very passive aggressive. I have made several A/N's in the past about all kinds of things in my life and tend to actually overshare in most of them as well as in the replies to my readers. If any one of you read back through the last several notes you will see that this is a very difficult time in my life right now and I thought that through these notes I had given you (my readers) enough insight and warning for you all to know that the entire month of October will be a hot, spotty mess, but I guess not.

October 1st is the angel date of my baby in Heaven so the day before and the day after I intentionally stayed distracted.

October 2nd is the day I was SUPPOSED to get married but, CORONA, so I've been dealing with that as well.

October 5th is my fiance's birthday and we celebrated that very nicely.

I also took two weekends off in a row at the end of September/beginning of October to get away on a staycation with my family because Lord knows we needed it.

I'm taking another day trip to the zoo tomorrow.

In the middle of all that I had to buy a new car and that was so many days out of my life getting a loan and researching cars and test driving them and finally picking one out and completing the purchase.

FUN TIMES.

And of course here is my standard reminder that while I have a fiance I am still mostly a single mom of 3 kids who are all being HOMESCHOOLED (hopefully just til January) and I ALSO help another little boy with his school work because his grandmother is raising him and she didn't go to school.

On top of homeschooling FOUR kids (who have between 50-70 assignments EACH PER WEEK), I also have a house to maintain AND a full time job in emergency services which does come with lots of additional sometimes paid and sometimes not paid hours, according.

With that some things happened in my work related life that I am not at liberty to discuss but as my beta's (who are my friends) will tell you, I ALMOST took a trip to the psych ward.

FOR REAL.

I dealt with WEEKS of torment at my job to the point I had walking panic attacks and spent the night in the ER to get a headache cocktail because I LITERALLY thought I was having a stroke.

My fiance and I are both dealing with financial and schedule changes because for the first time in over a year our schedules match to have the weekends off and yes we have taken full advantage of that. He was lucky enough to get a dream job for him so we have transitioned from him working TWO full time jobs to just one and it has honestly been a lot of catching up and is still a lot of repairing a relationship that had suffered from very rarely seeing each other outside of shift changes and quick 5 minute porch visits because that is all our schedules allowed for and we still don't have a house together because CORONA!

Because of ALL OF THIS AND MORE, Kidnapped wasn't a good place for me and mentally I wasn't even in a spot to BE online anywhere. I did keep in contact with some close friends and otherwise I have been living in the real world doing real world things and trying to re-center my real world life which is still in chaos.

I do hope to do better starting this week, but some things will change in my actualization schedule and because of comments like the ones I have been getting when I fall off for a bit (which I have repeatedly said are not necessary or welcome and that's for ANY author) I'm not sure I will do as grand of an update as we had planned, but we will see.

As a general announcement please remember that content creators usually share their gifts FOR FREE and as such can only create and share ON THEIR OWN TIME. I understand meeting deadlines if they are paid for something, but I have never once taken donations or ko-fi's or anything like that for my work and I don't think it is right (for me) to accept or expect them from my readers since what I have to offer is very run-of-the-mill when it comes to content creation.

I know both of my beta's have made a comment to this effect but now I will as well:

The pressure that asking for updates can create for an author is unimaginable and sometimes overwhelming. To go beyond that and ask if a story is going to be discontinued is unnecessary. What is appreciated and helpful are encouraging comments if you're concerned about the author instead of the story.

I know my readers really have been here for a very long time, and I do hope that they continue to stay, but I also ask for continued and extended patience as we try to continue navigating these difficult and uncertain times in this new world we live in.

I hope you all read this A/N and absorb it and I really do hope all of you have a very blessed day.

Thank you.

K