Stop Me Going Home (REVAMPED)

Authors Note

The trigger warnings are farther down so please read those if you skip everything else on this note because I'm not warning you twice.

Anyways.

Hi.

It's been a while, I know.

I'm going to introduce myself now.

I'm Apollo, and I am the author of this madness.

I began this story in early March 2020, just as something fun to do as quarantine started. I don't think any of us anticipated any of what was yet to come in the following months, and part of these world issues, and of course, my own issues, I ended up abandoning this story.

My very last update was chapter 19, and at the end of the chapter, I stated that I most likely would be leaving this story. There are multiple things that led me to make that decision, and though that decision has been redacted, and I do plan on finally finishing this story, I will still explain the reasons as to why I left.

I'll start off with my most important reason, that being my mental health. Back in the early months of 2020 when I began this story, I was living in a toxic environment, and writing this became my coping method. A lot of what happens in this story is my own narrative being told through other people, and this is the biggest reason as to why I stopped writing it. I hit my breaking point at the end of July, and after I uploaded chapter 19, I knew I wasn't coming back here for a while.

I was sad to know that I was letting this story go, because I had so many plans for it, but I knew I needed to work things out in the real world before I finished this fictional one.

Things have since changed though, and I am no longer in any immediate danger.

The other reason is that I am a student, and I have loads of work to do because my teachers are dumb so they give us homework and shit.

So here I am, almost a year later. I'm sorry it took so long, but I'm feeling better now. Thanks for your patience.

Read this please, it's actually relevant to the story

I will not be putting warnings at the top of every chapter like I had done previously. All my warnings will be included in this text right here. I am doing this partly because I'm an asshole who likes the element of surprise, but also because I want to let you know right off the bat on whether or not this story is going to be a comfortable read for you.

The warnings I am going to include are as follows: child abuse, graphic abuse, mental illness, self harm, eating disorders, sexism, homophobia, suicidal ideation & suicide attempt.

tl;dr: Basically, I'm mentally unstable and I love to write so I'm going to finish this.

I hope you enjoy my story.

-Apollo

Added list of trigger warnings due to revisions in later chapters:
Sexual assault, rape (implied), post traumatic stress disorder

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