Authors note

This author's note is ridiculously long but I think we all know from those chapters I wrote while drunk that I like to overshare.

Holy shit I truly thought I would never finish this story. I figured it would become another one of my half-baked ideas that I published way too soon and never got anywhere with. Oh, and when I went on my few month-long hiatuses I was scared this story wasn't getting finished. Here we are 9 months later and there's just like this full complete story. I was gonna make a pregnancy joke but it's 3 am (😏) and I can't figure out how to word it.

Anyway, let's chat.

I have a special place in my heart for the original version of this story. I get so nostalgic for the Girls Meets World/Rowbrina era it's insane. For anyone who wasn't on that bubble of the internet back then first off consider yourself lucky and second, it's Rowan Blanchard and Sabrina Carpenter's ship name.

During the time when I started writing that story I didn't even know I was a lesbian. I knew I wasn't straight, I never liked a boy and truly thought I was just messed up and ended up coming out as aromantic/asexual. Anyway, through out writing that trilogy I had my first crush/lesbian awakening, first kiss, first time falling in love, and first heartbreak in a full year between two different girls. Yeah, severe emotional whiplash. I have fully recovered since then.

So that first story, the plot was based off of a dream I had. In the dream, My mom, my best friend at the time and her dad were in Florida together renting a house for the summer or something. My mom and her dad were dating and me and my best friend end up kissing. So I took that dream and ran with it creating the first story.

I started writing this story out of pure nostalgia. I saw a rowbrina edit on TikTok and was like oh my god I miss those days. I was down bad y'all. I went back, watched old video edits, a few episodes of girl meets worlds, some old interviews with the two of them and a read some old fanfics and ended up reading my own.

As I was re reading I was thinking about how I could make it better but would never ever change it. So I go back and finished the last 4 chapters of this trilogy that have been lingering in the back of my mind for 6 years and then I was going to "retire" from wattpad. Then a week later here I am bringing chapters in from google docs and revising them. I hadn't written a romance in so long that I really had no faith in myself. I just wanted to get my feet wet in the genre again, at that point I had been writing a lot of horror. After a while I start changing up the plot, character names (it felt weird using their names) and here we are with a completely new version of that story.

I have such a soft spot for Harper and Jessie. There is so much of myself in both of them it's crazy. They feel like my children. I feel like they just grew up in front of my eyes. Writing them back in December vs now feels so different. I somewhat feel bad for putting them through hell and back but like I needed the drama.

My favorite part of writing this story was making every single man the literal devil except for Harper's father. He's my favorite character.

I've been writing in Jessie's point of view lately and it is so easy but also so hard at the same time. I'm so much like her but she is a woman of fews words and it is awful to say the least. Anyway, more on this in a second.

Let's talk about the future. As for this story, I have a whole lot of editing ahead of me. Nothing major. Some loose ends, and maybe grammar here and there. I may add in some more details and maybe just maybe fix that ellipsis I used as a placeholder for an outfit description for Casey and forgot to add. I'm gonna do a full re-read of this story so I will see you all in the comments. I'm about 3 months late in responding to comments.

As for Jessie and Harper's future, I have so much in store.

I have a Jessie and Harper Halloween special out now. It is going to be short. A quick 12 chapters. After everything they've been through they deserve 12 chapters of nonstop love and Halloween dates. Updates are going to be every Tuesday and Thursday except for Halloween week. I'll be posting Monday through Thursday. I wanted the final chapter of this story to be published by mid September but I also wanted those final chapters to be absolutely perfect before uploading so this story has now dipped into October so the mini sequel came a lot sooner after the final chapter (5 whole minutes to be exact).

I've been talking about an actual sequel for months, and I can officially say it's happening. I'm writing it as a stand alone. It's taking place two years later. It is set in fall so I would ideally like to get it out asap. The entire story is mapped out from beginning to end. I'm gonna be upfront about this; I'm not loving how the sequel is starting out so it's going to take me a while to publish

Currently, I'm trying to perfect the playlist, read other stories with similar themes, and write the beginning chapters. I also blatantly fucked up their ages so I'm trying to work through that. I would like a good 15-20 chapters written before I even publish the story but I'm going to post a sneak peek of the first chapter here in a few weeks so stay tuned. I cannot guarantee the sneak peak I'm posting is going to be 100% accurate to the one that is actually in the sequel but it'll be close.

Consider this the ad part of the authors note.

Do YOU want a chance to be apart of the sequel?!? Well congratulations it is your lucky day. Follow me on instagram @longliverowbrina where I will be posting polls to help me with decisions because I don't know how to make a decision to save my life.

Disclaimer: the account looks inactive because surprise it is but I post on instagram stories occasionally.

And last but not least, thank you all for the reads, comments, and votes and just supporting this story. I appreciate it more than I can put into words. It's crazy to me how many reads this story has gotten. I was not expecting 1k but making it to over 250k before I even finished publishing the book is insane and it goes up by thousands by the day. The comments here have never failed at making me laugh. I loved hating on the male characters with all of you.

See you in the sequel,

Xoxo Longliverowbrina