"SINCE WHEN HAVE YOU AND SHADOW BEEN DATING?"

"AHH!"

It's not even an hour since the news came out about famous actor Shadow the Hedgehog dating Amy Rose. News which were fake. Amy had many questions. One, how did they not notice the paparazzi taking pictures of them and two ... How the hell did Sonic get inside her house?

"Sorry, Ames, I did not mean to scare you," as softly as he could, Sonic approaches Amy who sits on her couch. The laptop is open and her TV is on the channel of the same gossip news she likes to watch. "I am just surprised, I always thought we were something you know? I mean not that I care or anything, it's just-"

"Those are fake news, I am not dating Shadow," Amy did not pay attention to Sonic's sudden nervousness nor the way he sighed in relief as he hears the real news.

"Then, if I may ask, what were you and Shadow doing in the middle of the night at the beach?"

That is a real good question. Truth is, Amy was too busy recollecting information about Shadow for her ... 'ShadAmy Fanfiction'

It was something about him not being interested in her. Amy found that weird since she thought she never showed signs of wanting something romantic out of him.

In her mind, it was Shadow telling her something along the lines of 'I hate you and you hate me, but for our job's sake let's keep it civil'

Also ... he lent her his jacket.

Now that she thinks about ... Yes, it was rather romantic.

"We just made up because we were at each other's throat the whole onset," Amy lies as best as she could. In part, it was kind of true. "We were always fighting and having misunderstandings ... so we just talked those things out."

"Well, now you are going to have to tell that to the paparazzi," Sonic says as he jumps and effortlessly lands on Amy's sofa. "And think fast because I saw them coming while I was coming over here."

"I think it's better if I wait for Shadow? You know so we make a public release?"

"Oh, Shadow is not even on the Island," Sonic says. "I went to Tails workshop early in the morning and he told me he sent Shadow off on a mission. His robot friend is very damaged and Tails needs some kind of stone that's only found on the neighboring island."

Amy suddenly stands up from the sofa, walking back and forth and putting one hand on top of her eyes as she closed her eyes. Of all days Shadow had to leave the island, it had to be today.

"Do you when he is coming back?"

"I don't know, maybe a week?" Sonic was never good with words. Nonetheless, he quickly thinks of something to make Amy feel better. "Come on Ames, it's not that bad. Gossip is always like that. Give it a couple of days and everyone will forget it."

"You think so?"

The pink hedgehog sighed and sat back down on the couch, Sonic puts his hand on her shoulder to bring her some comfort.

"Of course! Don't worry, this will all be just a bad dream by the end of the week."

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It's been two weeks and he is finally home. Taking off his dirty shoes and only leaving his socks on, he jumped into the sofa wanting to close his eyes and rest. It was not a hard task. The fox boy had asked him to find some type of unique metal on Star Island, although it's the island next to them, it took him a few days to arrive on the boat.

"So, are you going to tell me or do I have to make you tell me?"

He flinches a little, not expecting to see Rouge here. He had good senses and is aware of his surroundings most of the time. Nonetheless, today he is too tired, not physically but tired of dealing with people. Also that the bat always respected the privacy of his home, never coming in uninvited ... that he knows of.

"Rouge? How the hell did you get into my house?" Shadow raises his voice, pretending to be angry when in reality he could care less. "Also weren't you on Sun Island? What made you come here?"

"Honey, I had come and see if the rumors were true," she walks past the ebony hedgehog and sits next to him on the sofa. Looks flawless as ever, even when it was 4 a.m. "So tell me everything! How did the date go with the pink one?"

"What?"

"Come on Shadow, have you not seen the news?"

Shadow looks at her unamused. Even after a few seconds, Rouge realizes how stupid of a question that was.

"And of course you haven't" she says. "Turn on your TV and you will see."

Shadow wasn't much of watching television, often he have it as background noise while he would clean his apartment or cook when he rarely had ... visitors.

He did not think too much about it and just did as Rouge told him. With one click, the TV turned on and there was that gossip show Rouge likes to watch. Shadow gives a 'what next?' look to Rouge, only for the bat to direct her eyes to the plasma TV.

"We have received news that famous actor Shadow the Hedgehog has come back from his small vacation."

There is the star of the show, a blond cat with a nice red dress. She sits on the couch long other celebrities who Shadow did not care to know their names. It's only been 15 seconds and Shadow already wanted to turn off the TV. He hates it when the media says information about his daily life.

"Maybe we can expect a ShadAmy meeting soon?" the cat asks as she looks at the camera and then at her guests. "What do you all think?"

"Shad ...Amy?" Shadow thought as his name and Amy's together sounded ridiculous.

"I don't know, this whole celebrity romance sounds a bit suspicious. Who dates someone and suddenly leaves for vacation alone?" Now it was a green monkey speaking. Again, Shadow just did not know, nor care about who these people were.

"Maybe they wanted to keep it private and Shadow decided to leave until things calmed down," the blond cat says. "Or maybe ... It was a one-night thing?"

Meanwhile, Rouge is just looking at Shadow's reaction. At first, she thought that Shadow was taking the news very calmly. Like the 23-year-old celebrity hedgehog, he is, with a cold mind and tranquil temper. However, his true emotions reveal once she noticed how quietly and slowly he pulverized the TV remote in his hand.

"That's s possibility, although I thought Shadow was one to keep things ... private."

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Steam comes out of the bathroom the moment Amy steps into her bedroom. Although she has not been outside her home, she is tired of staying inside. One towel in her hand as she dries her quills, she did not care to brush them. At least not now that she had nowhere to go.

She decides to wear her Chao in Space pajama shirt. One where the black Chao is riding a motorcycle. One of a kind that she found while going thrifting.

Amy sits on the edge of her bed and picks up her phone that is next to her lamp.

The whole 'ShadAmy' thing has not died down and if anything it has more hype in between the Sonic Boom Fandom. With her story already having 5 million reads and thousands of comments, she did not know how this came to be. But if she is completely honest ... She kinda likes having people read her story and more than that ... people were enjoying something she wrote.

Even when it was a ship she totally hated.

"Enjoying the fame, pink one?"

Amy drops her phone as soon as she hears a husky voice coming from the window. Finally, the hedgehog she is waiting for and as strange as it was, it's not Sonic. But Shadow the gloomy Hedgehog.

"What is wrong with you?" Amy takes big and heavy steps as she bends down and picks up her phone. "Coming to my room just like that! I could have been changing clothes!"

"Hmph, it's not like there is much to see. Don't flatter yourself."

Suddenly, Amy picks up her Sonic pillow and throws it at Shadow who simply caught it with his hand and throws it to the other side of the room. He jumps off the window and lands softly in Amy's room. He walks towards her, slowly but his steps had a strong presence. Amy feels intimidated for a moment as he gets too close for her comfort.

He traps her, her back on the wall and his arms beside her. Amy looks to one side, and his arm is there, she looks to the other side and his other arm is there. With no other option, she slowly kneels with the hope that Shadow will let her go. Instead, he just does the same. Following her movements with nowhere to escape.

Now they were on the floor, with the only light coming from the window. Amy has nowhere to go and nothing she could do but look away in embarrassment.

"Listen to me," Shadow says as he tilts his head, trying to get her to look at him. "I recognize that the first time we met I was being a jerk, and to make up for that I tried being nice to you. But for you and to go and say we are dating is totally fucked up."

At this Amy turns to look at him, his face too close and she is too stunned to speak.

"What happened at the beach was me trying to let you down slowly so we can continue working together as co-workers but let me tell you again," he pokes her nose and for some reason, this enraged Amy.

"I don't like you and honestly it's really strange that you act like this while you have pillows of that blue hedgehog-"

"Ok, first off, I did not say we were dating, photos of us at the beach got leaked! And everyone assumed we were dating or that we were on a date," Amy pushes him off, making him lose balance and land on his backside. Now he is at a respectable distance from her, at this Amy feels confident again.

Shadow is quiet, looking at Amy with curious eyes, like a little puppy who did not know its owner was yelling at them.

"Secondly, I don't know what I did or said to make you believe I liked you but let me make this clear ... I don't like you! Actually, it's the contrary. I hate y-"

"Where did you get that shirt?"

Shadow points at Amy's shirt, his anger completely gone.

"Uh?"

"That Chao in Space Shirt ... Where did you get it?" he gets more comfortable. Crossing his legs and moves a little closer to Amy. Almost even child-like. "I was in Chao in Space 2 but not even I could get merchandise like that."

"Oh, I actually found it the other day while I was thrifting!" Amy did the same and for a moment she forgets about getting angry at Shadow. Her fangirl side getting the best of her.

"Really? That's a limited edition shirt, that most cost a fortune."

"Yes! And I only got it for 3 bucks!"

"They don't make merchandise like that anymore," Shadow says as he puts his arms in front of his chest and sighs in disappointment. "I blame the writers of the movie. The writing was so bad that the movie flopped and the company decided not to make any more good quality merchandise."

"I agree, they should have just based the movie off the actual book instead of making it original. The book is so good!"

Being on the floor made it easy for the pink hedgehog to raise her hand, open the cabinet next to her bed and take out a black book. Chao in Space: The Rise of the Chao" was written in golden letters with two chaos as the artbook cover.

"It is! Did you like the part where the Blue Chao had to fight the space pirates to get to the princess?" Shadow's eyes sparkle a little as Amy opens the book, he looks at all the highlights and notes she made. It makes him excited to meet someone as invested in the story as he is.

"Oh yes! But My favorite part was the plot twist! Who could have thought that the Blue Chao and Dark Chao were brothers!" Amy picks up the book and points to the lines of the book in exhilaration.

"I know! I am so hyped for the next book to come out! I have read so many fan-" Shadow immediately notices his mistake and mumbles as he did not know how to fix his situation. "Fan .. Fan-"

"Fan?"

"Fan ... theories," Shadow stands up from the floor and looks around Amy's room to try and divert Amy's attention to something else. "So many, fan theories. I wonder what is going to happen next."

Amy focuses her attention on how Shadow starts to look at the pictures on her wall. Pictures of her friends and even a picture of ... him.

Not because she wanted to have a picture of Shadow, she just wanted the poster for the movie Chao In Space 2 and Shadow just happened to appear in the poster.

"You have a poster of m-"

"Yeah ... Um, anyway," Amy interrupts Shadow and pushes him away from her wall before he could embarrass her further. "What are going to do about this?"

This made Shadow laugh a little and roll his eyes. Watching her ridiculously trying to hide her poster with her small body just to fail. He lets it go as he also did not want to go back to talking about ... his previous mistake.

"Well, we just have to wait for the next book to come out. I know the writer plans to release it in three months-"

"No, Shadow, about us," that sentence makes Amy shiver and even make a disgusted face at the thought. "Well, not 'us' more like the situation ... I think we should have a press release."

Shadow simply takes out his phone from out of his jacket's pocket. Of course, he did not have a simple IPeach phone. He has a special version made just for him and Amy wonders how Shadow cared so much about her shirt when she is sure his phone alone could buy her three houses.

"Are you paying attention?" Amy crosses her arms in front of her chest and rapidly taps her foot on the floor.

"I am just telling my manager to post on my Bitter account that we are not dating and to send a statement to all media," Shadow says as he types into his phone and then press sends. "That' should fix it, by tomorrow all of this should be fixed."

Putting his phone back in his black jacket's pocket, Shadow makes his way to the window as he wants to go back to his apartment already. He just came back from Star Island and hasn't had any free time for himself. Tonight he just wants a cup of tea and his phone to read a new story.

"You came all of this way when you could have fixed it by yourself?"

"Yes, but what bother me was thinking that you made a stupid lie just to keep me to yourself," Shadow says as he looks outside the window. No one seems to be outside nor watching over them. Good.

"And I am surprised you didn't tell your manager to do the same."

"I don't have a manager, I am not that popular. I don't even use social media that much," strangely enough, Amy finds herself wanting to talk a little more with Shadow. They had a really good talk about Chao In Space and Amy is always happy to find people to talk about the story who wasn't on the internet.

"Whatever, don't care. Just text me next time stupid shit like this happens."

Then again, it's better if he leaves. She could not stand him.

"I don't have your phone number," Amy walks towards the window and low-key wishes she would just push him off and call it a night. But if she did that, Shadow may sue her.

"Do I have to do everything for you?" Shadow rolls his eyes and then looks at Amy. "0923-

"Just get out of my room already," Amy points to the window and covers her eyes with one hand out of frustration. One more word from Shadow and he would be meeting her hammer. "If anything I'll just try to contact your manager."

"Good, I don't want any fans to know my phone number anyways."

If she could punch him in the face, she would. No, even better, get her hammer and push him off the window. But she restrains herself because she knew she would eventually have to see him again at work.

The more and more she spends time with him, she could not understand ...

"How did the hell did we become such a popular couple? We hate each other!" Amy thought as she gets closer and closer to the black hedgehog in the window.

"And I don't want any jerks in my room, so go away before I throw you out of the window."

They look at each other and it's quiet between them. As if they just did not want to say goodbye.

No, what a disgusting feeling.

"As if-"

Shadow jumps out of the window, landing perfectly on the ground. Not like he was in any danger, to begin with, after all, Amy lived in a one-floor hut.

Right now he only cares about going home since a cup of coffee and a new story were waiting for him.

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She did not get out of her house the whole week. Relying on her friends to keep her company and even food from time to time. According to them, the paparazzi were still surrounding her house, hidden with the hopes to follow her wherever she decides to come out. Amy did not want to give them the satisfaction, much less risk of being interrogated and mess up. But now that she had met with Shadow and he had fixed things, she is excited to go out tomorrow.

Her phone vibrates suddenly, and a notification pops up from Xiscord. With a gentle smile, she picks up her phone and unlocks it. It's nice to see a message that was not from fanxfiction.com. As happy as she was that her fanfic had gotten somewhat popular, this couple of days had been chaotic and did not want anything that remembers her of Shadow and ... their 'celebrity romance.'

TheFanfictioner#0619: Hey, I just read your new story and I have to say it's amazing! Thank you so much for writing this for me, it means a lot and I absolutely love Shadow and Amy now! And it seems like I am not the only one.

Amy smiles as she lays down on the sofa again. For a moment, she forgets everything and only focuses on the message. Those words of appreciation really make it feel all worth it. Even if it's chaos in her real life. Nonetheless, she decided to self-indulge a little. She forgets she is an actress and now is a writer.

ARoseWithoutTorns#0923: Thank you so much for reading, I am so glad you like it! To be honest, I was not expecting the story to get so popular so fast ... I am really surprised.

TheFanfictioner#0619: I am telling you, Shadow and Amy have great chemistry and your writing just proved their potential! I can't wait to see what else you have in mind for their story.

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Shirts, IPeach phone cases, ballons, tennis shoes ... Food.

ShadAmy.

It has become popular among the Mobians of Hedgehog Village to ship a particularly pink and black hedgehog. As much as Amy is surprised, she also understood that all of this was partially her fault. After all her story has become a little bit popular over the past weeks. Maybe she is thinking about it too much, and her story was not the problem but the past news about her and Shadow 'dating.'

"I can't wait for the next Chapter of First Impressions!" Knuckles exclaims as he shows his phones to his friends, there is a fanart of Amy and Shadow next to each. "I just know Shadow and Amy will make such a good couple!"

"Eww dude, we are eating!" Sonic says as he rolls his eyes and puts his chili dog away. "What is the hype anyway? It's was just a stupid rumour and its's a stupid story."

Hearing Sonic like this made Amy have mixed feelings. In one hand she is not too content that Sonic thinks of her fanfiction as stupid. In the other he kinda sounds-

"Oh, someone is jealous!" Tails teased, his voice purring at the end as he moves his two tails in a playful manner.

"I am not!" the blue bur has an evident blush on his muzzle and he hates the feeling. "I just don't understand what is the hype? I mean Amy can be paired with better hedgehogs."

"Aw, don't worry Sonic," Sticks takes a bite of her Meh Burger and giggles. "I am sure Amy likes you."

Now is Amy's time to blush. Her friends were just looking at them, waiting to see if any of the two would dare to say something. But what is there to say? It's just plain embarrassment and this hurts her all the more because that's all Sonic feels. Embarrassment.

Meanwhile, she has to deal with her actual feelings for him. Feelings that he thinks were long forgotten.

"I can't wait to read the next chapter!"

"I know! The writer is so good! I read all of their stories, I know this one is going to be amazing!"

Amy heard two girls talk while they walk next to their table. She remembers the nice comments she has gotten these days and somehow that makes her all the more confident.

"Sorry guys, I need to go," Amy smiles at them as she stands from her seat. Sonic thought that Amy would be as red as he is but she is acting normal ... as if she did not care. At least that's what he got the feeling of.

"Where are you going?" Tails ask, a bit worried that he might have pushed things too far.

Nonetheless, Amy seems unbothered and that made him feel relieved. At least he could keep teasing Sonic after she leaves.

"Going shopping. See yall later tho! Bye!"

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Shopping is probably Amy's favorite thing to do even when Hedgehog Village's main mall is small compared to islands. There is Star Island on which most popular actors live and apparently, it has the best and biggest shopping malls. She wished she could one day go visit those stores even if she could not buy anything.

She closes the magazine and the cover shows the popular actress Rouge the Bat, being as beautiful as ever. Wishing she could meet her one day, she sighs and takes a sip of her coffee. She got a few blouses and skirts and after shopping, she decided to take a small break in the mall's cafeteria.

Unintentionally she sees a couple sitting in front of her. A red cat and a green fox share a chocolate milkshake. They were giggling and smiling at each other and overall just enjoying their time together.

The pink hedgehog looks at them longingly, a part of her wanting to experience that. Nonetheless, her mind quickly went back to her fanfic.

"Would Shadow and Amy do something like that?" Amy thought and quickly thinks of her fanfic. After all, she needs to start writing her new chapter for her fanfic.

"No they wouldn't, Shadow would probably think it lame or too cheesy ... And Amy would not share her milkshake with Shadow of all hedgehogs."

She started to get frustrated, it has been days and she has no idea how to continue her fanfic. Amy thought that it could be a one-shot story but since the story got millions of views now, she thought that it was only fair for her to deliver more chapters.

"At this rate, I am going to have to Shadow again-"

Her thoughts were interrupted as a loud boom came from the left side of the cafeteria.

To her surprise ... Well, not really, it was Eggman on his way to make his month attack. Eggman and Team Sonic had a strange relationship. He would never attack them whenever they would record for the show and this made Amy believe that he is secretly a fan of Sonic Boom. Of course, everything would go back to schedule once they finished recording and they had their one-month vacation in between recordings of the show.

"Hey Eggman can we reschedule for next week? I am kinda busy right now!"

Mobians began to run, screaming as they exit the cafeteria. Amy makes her hammer appear as she takes a look at her shopping bags. They were untouched she is glad they didn't get dirty due to the explosion.

There were no injured Mobians and everyone is leaving. For now its only Eggman and her

"Oh really? What about Wednesday afternoon?" the mad doctor shakes his head at his own stupidity. "Wait no! I am evil and I'll attack ... Now!"

He presses one button from his flying Eggmobile, releasing a big small missile that went toward Amys. She smiles as she picks up her hammer almost like a baseball bat, ready to hit a home run. Amy knows this will be a clean and quick fight in which she will be praised for her heroism-

Before she could hit the missile, a black spin dash beats her to it. The spin dash returns the missile to Eggman who dodges it effortlessly. The projectile landed a few meters away from him, harming no one.

Click Clak

The sound of the metal of hoover shoes resonates in Amy's ear, which she recognized. There is smoke and dust of debris around the whole cafeteria but out of that appears Shadow the goddam Hedgehog.

"You are not as strong as you seem to be, pink one," the ebony hedgehog pats away some dust that landed on his black jacket. "Where are your friends?"

Amy looks back at her shopping bag, which used to be an untouched clean bag, but is now full of dust due to Shadow's previous actions. Her day was going alright, but now it's completely ruined. She just hopes she can take off the dirt from her clothes or be able to return them.

"It's Amy, and I am capable of handling this myself!" She does not look at Shadow and instead puts a fighting stance as she sees that Eggman is ready to throw something else at them.

"Well, it doesn't seem like you are doing a good job."

"Look if you are not going to help, just leave."

"Hey, love birds!" Eggman interrupts them as more small flying robots surround him. "Are we going to fight or are you going to let me destroy everything?"

"I'll take care of the small robots out, you take care of Eggman," Shadow says and Amy is a bit surprised that the famous actor is ready to get his hands dirty. She respects that.

"You are on."

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"They saved us!"

"Our heroes!"

"The best couple!"

After the small battle, the Mobians who stayed to record their battle started to praise them. At this point, Amy did not know if she should feel happy because of all the compliments or preoccupied because people were saying 'ShadAmy' as if they were starting to ship them.

She looks at Shadow who is not enjoying all the attention but did also not want to be rude to the fans. Amy raises her hand, signaling to Shadow that she wanted to do a high five. Instead, he just rolls his eyes. He knows that if she does it will only spark more shipping discourse between the two and the tweet he made about them not dating will be a failure.

Seeing this, Amy awkwardly puts her hands away and decides to wave at the fans instead. But at that Shadow grabs her by her chin, making her turn her head to look at him. She turns red as she feels Shadow's hand on her forehead.

"You are bleeding," he says as he frowned his eyebrows. Tilting his head in a curious and worried manner. "You need to be more careful-"

"Hey, hands off her!"

Amy feels a hand grab her by her arm and pull her away from the black hedgehog. She looks up and it's Sonic who now is holding her, he does not have a friendly face. Amy's heart skips a beat, she has never seen Sonic being this aggressive towards anyone without a reason.

"And if I don't what are you going to do?"

Amy takes a look around her. Her friends were behind her, watching with excitement what is unfolding in front of them. Then she looks around and sees others on their phones, recording the scene as if they expected a fight. She needs to act fast.

"Shadow just help me beat Eggman!" Amy pulls away from Sonic's grasp and stands in front of Shadow. "That's all!"

Sonic just looks at Amy's green eyes, she is tired and uneasy about the whole situation. He did not want to put her in any more turmoil so for now, he will Shadow have this one.

"You are hurt," Sonic says as he looks at the small cut on Amy's forehead. "Come on, let's go take care of that wound."

"Tsk," Shadow rolls his eyes as he starts to take a leave. His job is done and just wants to back to his apartment. The blue one ruined everything. But before he leaves, he turns his head and looks at Amy. He did not like how that wound looks, she is still bleeding and Sonic seems too dumb to take care of her properly. Nonetheless, he knew that Amy could take care of herself just fine.

Amy wants to say goodbye but she gets shy all of a sudden. She doesn't know if it's because Sonic is next to her ... or because Shadow smiled at her before leaving the place.

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Finally, she's home and ready to go to sleep. Today was a long day and tragically her clothes were beyond salvation and she knew it would be impossible to return them.

She wears another pajama today. A black shirt from one of her favorite shows, Game of Royal Seats, and matching shorts.

Amy is on her phone, laying on the bed and reading the comments she is been receiving for her ShadAmy fanfiction. Most of them are encouraging, others were just 'Please update' comments. She didn't mind, a comment is a comment after all.

However, as much as she wants to update, she has writer's block. Writing is hard and even harder is writing a story about a hedgehog she does not understand.

TheFanfictioner#0619: Hey! How are you? Writing your masterpiece?"

Amy smiles as she sees that The Fanfictioner texted her on Xiscord.

She clicks on the app and opens the message, ready to type.

ARoseWithoutTorns#0923: I am fine! What about you? I am having trouble writing ... I don't understand Shadow's character at all, it's hard to write him.

TheFanfictioner#0619: I am alright, kinda annoyed at someone but it doesn't matter ... I have a few ideas for the fanfic, if you want to hear that is?

Amy sighs in relief, The Fanfictioner always had good ideas and she's thankful for the help.

ARoseWithoutTorns#0923: Yes, I would love to hear. That would help a lot ... Thanks!

TheFanfictioner#0619: In the next chapter, why don't Amy and Shadow go on an adventure?

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A/n: I apologize for this chapter will have a bunch of grammar and spelling mistakes but I just wanted to update the story and I don't have much time to proof read the story. It's been a while uh? I'll try to update monthly or whenever I get inspiration. I'll get back to publishing more regularly once I am done writing my AOT fanfic which I should be done soon. I want to thank @liepantuflas and @chizumme for such a beautiful fanart that inspire me to continue writing this fic. There's not much to say, just that I am excited to continue writing this and for you guys to see what I have in stock for you all. Thank you so much for the support all of this time even if I haven't updated. As for my other stories, I don't know if I'll update them mostly because I enjoy writing The Fanfictioner more than my other stories. For now, you will have to be happy with this. This is not my favorite chapter but I like to take things slowly. The next one should be more entertaining.

Thank you and I promise I'll update more often.

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