Hello all! It’s been a long time, how are you? This story was last updated slightly over two years ago, but I still see all of you subscribed to it! Thank you for waiting patiently for me to come back. Today, I am back with a note—not an update, sorry—for all of you. I hope that you will take the time to read it because it is important.

 

Firstly, I would like to thank each and every one of you. Thank you for staying with this story for its first four chapters, and thank you for waiting over two years (I was caught up with real life, my apologies) for another update. This story was created on a whim—I had a sudden idea that it would be cool to write about Jongin wooing Sehun with pick-up lines and whatnot, and immediately rolled out the first chapter. Thankfully, all of you took interest in it. You subscribed, and even commented, which heartened me greatly. You all gave me the confidence to carry on with this story when I had doubts about continuing it properly. Thank you.

 

Secondly, and regretfully, I am hereby announcing that this story will be discontinued. I had felt that there was something utterly wrong with the story ever since the first chapter was published, but I just could not exactly put my finger on it. But now, three years later, I am very clear what the problems are. This story is ethically wrong on many levels.

 

Here is a list of problems with the story:

ual harassment—In the first chapter, Not So Typical, Jongin attempts to “woo” Sehun with his ­crude and unwanted­ pick-up lines. The fact that he (okay, me, because I am the author) thought that it was okay to do so to someone he finds attractive but barely knew was creepy, disgusting and unacceptable. This is blatant ual harassment, and a total disrespect to Sehun (in terms of the story). Objectification—The context of the pick-up lines, especially those in the first chapter, showed how Jongin objectified Sehun to nothing but a mere “good ”. While in the story I had written that it was also Sehun’s kind-hearted nature that made Jongin fall in love with him, the reason was mainly because of Sehun’s looks. Also in the third chapter, Game On, Jongin suggests flipping a coin to determine whether ­he could become Sehun’s boyfriend. It had not occurred in his mind (my mind) once that Sehun is an actu