If you've come here excited and hopeful, then I'm very sorry to inform all of you that there will not be a sequel to this story. As much as I have loved writing it and getting your feedback on it all, I feel as though any attempt to continue this will ruin the ending as I've left it. Yes, I realize that there are loose ends hanging; I will allow you to draw your own conclusions on those.

I put tremendous, well, effort into this. It may not have seemed like it in the dry weeks or even months when an update was like a raindrop in a drought, but it's true. I wrote this everywhere: at school in my lap, in bed when I was supposed to be asleep, under the table at restaurants, curled in a corner at get-togethers. I know it may not seem clean and organized and perfect, but it is by far, as I see it, my greatest work. I will always cherish it, and it'll stay up here forever if I can help it.

I thank all of you for your support, your nagging, your praise, and most of all your time. Thank you for taking the time to read this. I paid attention to all the reviews I've ever gotten on this, and I am truly grateful. Honestly, I've got tears in my eyes.

Thank you, thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart.