Hi. I can't believe it only took me two tries to get my password right.

As you all can see, it's been nearly five years since I initially published this fic. When I began writing 'His Neighbour,' I was twelve years old. Twelve. And currently, I'm an 18-year-old, typing this from my dorm in college. In that time, I've grown and changed significantly, as one does over five years. I rarely watch anime. I haven't been on this website in at least four years. And yet, here I am.

One of my pet peeves about fanfiction is that authors often abandon their works; is that not the most hypocritical complaint? So I thought, "I don't want to be one of those people who leaves something that was once important to them and never talks about it again." Let me tell you, writing on this website was insanely important to my twelve-year-old self. I would log in every day and read the positive responses from my followers, and these comments made me feel so confident and important.

I'm here to offer some closure-not just for "His Neighbour," but for my entire account and the point in my pre-teen days where I would soul-search on the Internet, trying desperately to find something I was good at. Age-twelve me truly believed I would be an author in the future, but I'm currently studying fine arts with a focus in oil painting at university. Things change. But I feel like those of you still subscribed to this story deserve to know where I've been, and I want to hear where you guys have been, too!

Just because I haven't been active on this site since forever doesn't mean I haven't thought about it. I still write fanfiction-all the time, actually. My best works have over 2000 kudos and 32k hits. It's remarkable to think back on how 50 faves meant so much to me at one time, and I thought I had achieved success. I still haven't achieved success in any form, and my idea of 'success' itself has evolved over the years (Spoiler alert: it doesn't exist). So this website (and this fic in particular) was my origin story. I just read all the comments on this fic and it was so refreshing to know that in 2017, people still care. Some of you thought I died, which obviously I didn't (and yes, I did get Lizzie's age wrong in the 5th chapter lol I'm not fixing it). Also my chapters were short af hahaha today I won't even publish a chapter less than 5k words without regret.

It's so dumb that I'm even writing this omg I can't even look back on my own work without cringing and wanting to recede into my very soul, but this is truly where I began what has become an important hobby for me, even today. In late 2015, after three long years of not writing anything except essays for school, I opened an AO3 account, an AsianFanFics account, and a Tumblr. At this time, I also opened a new Word document and started writing again. I have a new pen-name, and write about different fandoms. I'm a K-Pop author now, and my work has gotten far more intelligent (and sexy) since 2012. What changed? Why have I not thought about Black Butler in years when I went so far as to cosplay Ciel back in the day? The answer: I don't know. I just lost interest, and someday, I might lose interest in K-Pop, too (2012 was actually when I got into K-Pop, so you can blame that as part of my abandonment issues haha).

I'm marking this as complete because as far as I'm concerned, this is the end. This fic was never meant to be 'finished' (I never even wrote an outline for it so I was just making things up along the way lol shame on me!) and "His Neighbour" has served its purpose as the spark to my current love for writing fanfiction.

If anyone is reading this who wants to check up on me and see what I'm currently writing (let me tell you, a massive improvement), my new pen-name is 'melecs' and I'm active on most social media. You can e-mail me at melecslol , because if people send me their fics I will read them and give you feedback! It's so important to edit well and that's why I consider myself an editor first, and then a writer. Social media links are at the bottom! Side note, soon I am moving to Japan for a year for college so the culture that interested me so long ago is still a part of my life, and I think that's super cool.

tl;dr - It's weird to look back on this as a grown woman. I won't write any more chapters to this fic but it is finished in my eyes. I still write fanfiction on a different website (below). I love you all.

My Tumblr (I do little prompt fills here awww you guys can request fics)

My Twitter

AO3 (This is where all my fics are. I DO have a Yuri! on Ice fic posted here if y'all are interested)

AFF

Thank you all so much for being the amazing readers who meant the world to me five years ago, and good-bye for now

-melecs