You guys got me again! 

No, seriously, I could tell as I was writing the bonus chapter that there was a lot more to this story. For every paragraph that I wrote, I wanted to dig so much deeper, and as long as that chapter was, it could easily have been three times longer. 

So, I'm going to expand it, and this story will be at least novella length (40,000-45,000 words), and we'll see how it goes from there. I plan for it to cover from about Christmas to the end of the school year, I think? And yes, it will be an HEA, so no worries, I promise. 

If the bonus chapter fits into the story as is, I'll lift it out and stick it in where it belongs; if it needs rewriting to fit in I'll rewrite it before it goes in. I'm thinking it might need to be expanded to two or three chapters to fit in seamlessly, so that might be what happens. When it does, it will probably disappear from the bonus chapters because at that point it won't make sense where it is anymore. 

And unless you want to spend the whole time looking at my pathetic covers, send me some, for heaven's sake lol! The more the better! You kind of fell off the stick on Archie and Clio, only one of you sent me a cover (though it's a great one, I think we'll all agree), so I didn't even have to make a separate chapter for them. You all know what Francie looks like, and Chester has black wavy hair, glasses and pale gray eyes, so there you go! Or they don't even have to be on it, whatever.

I'm still working on Pet Store (again, only one cover??), so updates will be spotty, but of course I can't leave the house without risking my life at this point (I now live in the epicenter of this pandemic, yikes!), so I might be extra productive, who knows?

Onward, Intrepid Readers 🤗❣️

p.s. this lovely cover is provided by the talented