For those of you unfamiliar with these characters, please read this story first: <a href="https://achast.deviantart.com/gallery/25943197#/d2t6q0a">[link]</a><br />Part 1: <a href="https://achast.deviantart.com/#/d347a0x">[link]</a><br />Part 2: <a href="https://achast.deviantart.com/#/d34cn3y">[link]</a><br />Part 3: <a href="https://achast.deviantart.com/#/d34k0yl">[link]</a><br />Part 4: <a href="https://achast.deviantart.com/art/Nicole-and-Rachel-4-4-189803200">[link]</a><br />Part 5: <a href="https://achast.deviantart.com/#/d35jbuq">[link]</a><br />Part 6: <a href="https://achast.deviantart.com/#/d366cq8">[link]</a><br />Part 7: <a href="https://achast.deviantart.com/#/d36k0tt">[link]</a><br />Part 8: <a href="https://achast.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d36xyh8">[link]</a><br /><br />...I think that that's the longest continous story I've ever written. Hard to think that I started writing it back in September. At the final tally, the story is something like 37 pages long, and over 18,000 words. <img src="https://e.deviantart.net/emoticons/f/faint.gif" width="18" height="17" alt=":faint:" title="I think I've fainted."/><br />So, anyway, I'm sorry if the ending is a bit of a letdown after so much buildup. I had some idea of where I was going, when i started writing, but while I was writing, I'd get an idea or something and decide to throw it in and before I knew it, the story was much longer then I'd expected and I had no idea where it was heading anymore. <br />I had a lot of trouble just getting this part and the last one written becuase I was completely burned out on this story and I wanted to end it. <br />Still, I had a lot of fun and I think I learned a lot about the writing process doing this. I've already got an idea for the next story with NIcole and Rachel, but in the meantime, I want to take a break from them and write about some other characters for a little while.