Hey guys. This won't be an actual chapter, more of a note.

I don't think I'm going to be updating this story any more.

I started this story in 2015, when I was 13 and in a bad place in my life. I loved Miranda's Hamilton (still do), and I love and relate to Alexander a lot. I was young and hurting and I didn't know how else to cope with the situation I was in, so I wrote my favorite character in a relatable position that would end up better than the end I saw for myself back then. The mindset I had while I was writing these chapters of this story is not the same one I can write with now, and I can't honestly see myself finishing it because Alexander in this story is still that version of me who's stuck in that abusive situation and I can't write him out. And honestly, the only reason I wrote chapters 9 and 10 was because I wanted to update it before I saw Hamilton on Broadway.

I know I've told some people that I'd update this month sometime, but I really can't find a good way to finish off the story. And I know that the fact that it's so close to the end is frustrating but please know that I plan to go through and edit this whole story to be a little better and less choppy and stuff. I've recently learned that editing my work before I post it is helpful and makes things sound better (lol). I want to be happy with my work before I show it to people, and I think you all deserve better writing from me anyway.

I just wanted to tell you all this so that you wouldn't be upset that I just left it like this. I think I'll leave up the story even when I eventually publish the new one. I don't have a timeline for when that new one will be out- I'm close to graduating school and I plan to join the military and travel around the world and go to college and do things with my life.

Thank all of you for sticking with me through the shitty writing and sporadic updates, and thank you so much for reading this and unironically making this my most popular story. I really do appreciate every review I've gotten and every favorite and like.

This work will not be up for adoption, I'm sorry to say, but I'm going to make good on my promise to go through, edit, and re-publish this as a much better story with an actual ending.

However, I will not be stopping writing. I've published a lot of one-shots for Hamilton that a lot of you have enjoyed and I think I'll stick to one-shots and shorter stories with a few chapters to them. I won't be disappearing off the fanfiction radar, but I won't really be writing any more fics with a lot of chapters to them for the time being.

Thanks for reading my story. I'll see you in the next one, okay?

Love you all,

A Bean