Dear Friends,

I bring no good news, and I'm sorry about that, but the time has come for me to man-up and end CoP. I love my story, and I love all of you, and I hope no one feels let down, although I'm sure that residual feeling of abandonment may linger.

I am ending CoP where it is for several reasons, none of them good enough, but they're all I have to give. For one, I am finished school now, and writing CoP was an excellent way for me to put off all the work I had to do and write something enjoyable. Now that the pressure has lifted, I dont' really feel like I'm running away from anything and into the story, so I'm not going into the story at all. Another reason is that as much as I love my characters and the story I chose to write, I see a first shot attempt at a fan fiction that has very little story arc, or anything realistically happening anytime soon. It's kind of a black hole of a story where I'd be describing what they had for breakfast every morning instead of actually interesting things that are happening. For the third reason, pretty simply, I can't possibly think of anything that I would want my characters to go through that is bad enough to be interesting or good enough to be hot. I know I promised I would get to that lemon soon, but every time I write anything close it makes me feel like I've sullied my story; which is totally bizarre since I started out the story only wanting to write lemons and use the phrase "throbbing member" a lot.

Maybe someday I will write a proper ending to CoP, but for now know that everyone is happy, and that Bella and Jasper are on the precipice of their date, and as Bella describes in Twilight, sometimes the hesitation is the best part, better than the kiss [or date] itself.

So thanks so SO SO SO SO much to everyone who loved this story. Please dont' hate me. There's always hope that I'll come back to this, and rest assured I feel like a massive MASSIVE failure for not finishing it the way you all deserved, but it just isn't working for me right now, and it feels like more of a duty than a recreational activity and I don't want to write just "because", I want to write because I have something to say, hopefully in a funny, eloquent, ridiculously over described way.

If, however, you feel a burning desire to read anything else written by me, I have just started a blog called The Jesstation Period, which is full of useless (hopefully comical) stories about my ACTUAL life. Sadly, my life isn't a Twilight fanfiction, but there is sex, romance, friendships and relationships involved. No story arc as of yet, but hopefully a few laughs. I have a lot of thoughts dieing to be read by unsuspecting people. Can be found at http:// jesstationperiod. blogspot .com

And after that SHAMELESS plug, I will crawl into the hole in my bed and wait for a review telling me I'm a horrible person and shoudln't have started what I couldn't finish, leaving you all high and dry. The only thing I could possible thing to give you as a peace offering would be IdreamofEddy's amazing...mouth..watering....eyes welling up in lust.....chapter 9 of The Orbiting Meteor. I had to turn on the fan in my room becuase I was so hot, my legs were sweating and I had to chug a bottle of water just to get halfway through. It is truely SMOKING hot.

Thanks again, for everything!!!

-Jess (aka IceTease69)