My heart bleeded, girl

When I first started this story, I kept saying omg, what if I run out of gas at around chapter 17? What if by then I don't care anymore? What if I can't dooooo iiiiiiiiiit???

So, it's a relief for me to post this one.

Also, I'm going to need to change the order of some of the remaining prompts. It's been great fun to see how I could use them to tell the story, in the order they appear in the table, but with only *nine* left \o/ including this one, \o/ *throws confetti* \o/ I needed to move a few things around. I was all angsty about that, until I decided the story matters more than me being able to keep them in order. Some of them, for example, "Challenge," are very NSYNC specific words, and I got over it.

Happy Birthday, lesasoja. Thank you.

Chapter 17