First of all, A special thank you to those four people (, , ) for helping me make that amazing song for Taylor's performance to Darko. They each wrote me as much as they could, and I compiled it, taking what lyrics I liked, and formed the song that you ALL know and (hopefully) love. Without the four of your's help, this book will never have been complete. Taylor would never have told Darko how he really felt without you four. I sincerely thank you four for being amazing and to continue being amazing.

A thank you for - your paragraphs at the end of nearly every chapter kept me motivated to write. Seeing your username pop up in my notifications never failed to make me smile like a goofball for the entire day. Without you, and many others, I would never have found the motivation to finish this. xx

A big big BIG thank you to for showing me what my strengths and weaknesses were in this novel, how to guide my future novels, and for being a freakin amazing reader. May your future novels and future critiques bring smiles to your readers, as you have done with me. xo 

Thank you for always making me laugh at your reactions when you read my novel. I think I've picked up on a few spanish phrases because of you! hahah :D

. Hopefully, you know what I'm about to say. I'm worried at the amount of times i'm going to say thank you within this paragraph. Oh well - here goes! Thank you so much for writing me those lyrics that you ever so willingly donated to me. Your act of kindness... I couldn't let it go unnoticed. Thank you for those. Also, thank you for believing that my book can make it to the bookstore, as a hard copy, and for believing that It has the potential to change lives and inspire others. Your kind words mean so much to me. Thank you.

Thanks for that unprompted shoutout on that forum a while back, and for saying how awesome my cover was. Also, thanks for showing such a huge interest in this. You gave me motivation when I needed it most, and trust me, I needed it a lot. You provided, and I am eternally grateful.

Well, , you know what i'm about to say. Thank you so much - for everything. For being there for me when I needed to rant about boys, for being there to send our randomly long paragraphs of messages, for being there when I was low and needed a great story to hear. But, most importantly, thank you so much for believing in this novel, for being my favourite reader, and a person I can genuinely call my friend.

. Dude. I don't know what happened to you (you seem to not have been on here for months. I miss you and your presence). You are funny, sweet, very creative and the best person to talk to about American Horror Story! Enough gushing about that, though. Thank you for your initial unwavering support. I hope you see this.

Same (kind of) goes for you, . I miss you too. I have no idea where you went - yes, I get it, people have lives outside of Wattpad. I just miss your presence here. Our conversations were golden and your comments were even better than gold. Thank you for being so supporting and encouraging. <3 I hope you see this in the foreseeable future

. My book buddy. My ex-highschool classmate. Thank you for giving me that kick I needed to start this entire novel. Without you encouraging me and showing me the wonders of writing, this novel would not exist. Thank you, and I hope you're having a lovely time on your holiday. Hope you see this soon. xx

Thank you for liking my novel way back this year, before it was barely over 1k reads. I had lost faith at that time that my novel was going nowhere, but your username kept appearing in my notifications, and your votes and comments kept me smiling. Thank you for believing in me from nearly the very start. It means so much to me.

. . . . . . . . . . . You all are fucking amazing. No doubt at all. You eleven, with your almost instant reading, commenting and voting as soon as I post a chapter, have actually made me happier than I was before I even joined Wattpad. Thank you for putting a near damn permanent smile on my face. Every time I see any of you pop up in my notifications, whether it's a message or a tag or a dedication or you're commenting, I cannot stop laughing or smiling. I just... I'm trying to think of other words for awesome... but I'm drawing at short straws here. Just, you guys are awesome. Thank you for making me laugh, smile, giggle and feel all warm inside every week for the past year. Never change. I love all of you so much, you have no idea. 

. Need I say more? Of course I do!! hahah. Thank you for sharing with me and the world about how much you adore my book. Seeing you, a talented, famous author love my work almost more than I do, kept me so motivated to finish it. Every time I felt close to giving up and deleting it all, I thought of you (and others) and that disappointment you'd all sting me with. Just... thank you for keeping me motivated, both intentionally and unintentionally.

. Thank you. For your support, your help (especially with the tense changes! haha), your guidance, and your seemingly endless supply of kindness. You (like many others mentioned in this chapter) are one of the reasons I remained motivated to finish this. Without you, I don't think Keeping A Straight Face would still exist. Thank you

. I know, strange to tag a contest page, right? NO, not at all!! Seriously, whoever ran this contest, I want to say a huge thank you. This was the very first contest I entered, when my book only had about 500 reads. When I won (thanks to the lovely ) I couldn't describe the joy I felt. I thought, huh, people actually like this. You changed my way of thinking. I never believed that my book would reach anything, until I won your contest. You filled me with hope and determination, and I am eternally grateful. Thank you

And last, but certainly not least, I want to say thank you to my silent readers, or those readers that have voted/commented but slipped my mind. I can't properly comprehend how I feel about you all, except that I have a huge unwavering respect and admiration for you. I love every single one of you, even though I don't know you personally. Without any of you, I wouldn't have known to keep updating. Without any of you, I wouldn't know whether my book was good enough. But, surely enough, almost three hundred of you guys stuck around just to see whether my two dorks would finally realise how gay they are for each other. Just thank you, and, in the wise word of Charlie Puth:

- Much love, Tyler xx