Okay so I got home from getting a yellow fever shot a little while ago (as I'm typing this my arm hurts so much orz) and saw that I had 100 new subscribers. My face looked something like this at first: ༼≖ɷ≖༽

And then the realization slowly hit me that that was my story and those statistics were real. Comments started flowing in saying "congrats" and I thought another anonymous reader advertised my story for me. But, that wasn't it, so I stopped thinking for a second. I told myself it couldn't be. No way this was happening right now. I was in complete denial because, well, the story has barely even started to unravel itself. But, seeing no other possibilities, I looked at the front page anyways...

THANK YOU.

TERIMA KASIH.

DĚKUJU.

GRACIAS.

ありがとう.

شكرا.

Just, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

DMaF was FEATURED and there are only thirteen chapters. All of the love and support I've received for this helluva mess story is absolutely crazy. When I first saw the yellow star next to the title, I literally ran upstairs and screamed to my brother, "My story got featured!!" He looked up at me from his phone and said, "Is this some kpop thing?" I was still smiling like an idiot when I nodded. He told me I had no life and told me to get out of his room...but I didn't really care because, dear lord, I was FEATURED.

Putting all overly-dramatic enthusiasm aside, I am a bit nervous that it's gotten this amount of love so early on in the plot. I've convinced myself that the clichéd point that it's at right now will turn away readers, since the main characters' backgrounds are still not fully revealed and, well, it's very hard to understand any of them at this point. It just goes to say that none of them are even remotely likable (which, at this point, they aren't supposed to be) and, to some readers, I'm worried will make the plot seem rather typical and boring.

In any case, I don't want to sound ungrateful for the feature because that is certainly not it! I'm just simply astounded that so many people are actually reading and upvoting it so early on.

Now, I want to explain what has been keeping me from updating. And, just a warning; it kind of evolves into a rant. Sorry about that...

My mother has lately become very overprotective: she doesn't let me bring my laptop upstairs anymore and today, while I was trying to write my new chapter, this is what happened-

I had a new chapter ready to be posted, but it wasn't good. Whether it was too boring, too short, or just bad overall - I don't know. So, I deleted the whole thing and began to type again. My mother walked into the room right at that moment and asked me, "What are you typing?" I told her once before that I wrote stories on the internet and, after hearing that, she got mad at me - mad enough to scream. She screamed that I don't help do anything around the house, that I'm wasting my time, that I should go do something educational, etc.

So I didn't reply. I kind of just sat there, not having enough energy to lie, but still not enough courage to tell the truth.

"Get off the computer. If you can't tell me what you're doing, then you're not doing what is okay." (Sorry if that translation is a bit awkward, she speaks to me in French nowadays)

So I got off the computer and walked away. She called after me and said, "Christine, get back here and tell me exactly what you were doing! You were communicating with someone, weren't you?!"

I nodded because I really couldn't think of anything to say. She kind of went on a screaming rant after that, saying how all of my friends were terrible and that I'm too secretive, etc. In a way, I can see that she's right. I'm much too quiet and reserved for my own good, and I never really explain myself to anyone. (Except all you guys on AFF, of course.) I think she's just worried about me and, though I can understand why, I'm sorry that it has to affect all of my readers as well.

Long story short, I'm typing this on my phone and my computer is off-limits for the time being. *sigh*

But, on a much lighter note:

I want to thank you all again for getting DMaF featured! I will try very hard to finish the update today on my phone :)