So... It's been 3 years. RL hit real hard I guess. Had to cut off my toxic family and wound up with a whole load of depression. I'm better now, but the reason I haven't gotten back to updating is 2 things.

First, my writing style has changed so very much. OI was the very first thing I tried to write. I didn't know where I was going with it and I hadn't written anything in any pause The four. The most side had done was research papers for English class. I don't like working with first pov. anymore. And I definitely don't write in present tense anymore. A lot of the things I had written in OI are brief or haste or glossed over or too descriptive. So when I read this story again I can't help but see all of the flaws and all of the things I would have done differently and I feel like I would be building on something that can't support it.

The second reason is that I'm still in college and I work full time and I work on my art and keeping my fish tank healthy and reading. These things are taking up a lot of my time and I feel like taking on another hobby while I ship should be studying and preparing for my last test that would determine whether or not I can actually graduate seems like would it would be a poor decision especially considering the kind of focus and mindset you have to have in order to empathize with the characters and get the story across the way I want to.

I do, however, love the basic plot and a lot of the same details that I used in the story. I would be willing sometime in the next year or so to get started writing it again but in a way that I would be more comfortable with. This time I would be sure to not start uploading until I'm already almost finished. If I get enough people telling me that they would be interested in reading this future story then I would be all for it. But as much as I love this story, if I don't get that kind of support that I feel everyone on this website needs, I think I would feel more fulfillment in pursuing my other talents. Namely my art. I sculpt and draw all the time and it's where my biggest passion is.

I'd also like to take a moment to thank supersandy220 for giving me a very enlightening review and putting it all into perspective. I never saw my story that way and to here that someone else took it the way I had originally intended it really brought a smile to my face. And it's essentially why I'm making this update in the first place. So thank you.