Hey, everybody!

I know it's been ages, but I had a little predicament that severely stopped the flow of this story. The SIMPLE VERSION: I'm back and I'm rewriting the chapters as of right now. I'll take this author's note out once I get the second chapter beta-ed, which will happily be in the next week. However, the first chapter was also rewritten, so I'd just like to ask everyone to go back and read that before continuing on when I add the second chapter. I swear to you that this story will be exponentially better than what I had uploaded before, and that it's going to be uploaded all in very short succession - I'm too excited not to!

Now, because I can't upload any chapter that's under 500 words, I'll just explain myself below so that this can go up for a short period of time - just so my readers know what's going on :).

THE LONG VERSION: I had the great idea to rewrite both my novel-length stories and have all the chapters beta-ed. Because of how bad the beginnings of the stories were, how flat they were with no character added, I wanted to take them down so people didn't have to read the really crappy writing and think to themselves that they weren't going to try the rest of the story out, because I know my writing improved at the very least as my stories went on. But with my luck, of course, my computer had a major meltdown and crashed on me in randomness only a week later. It wasn't very pretty. I had saved all my chapters onto my hardrive and was slowly going through revisions, and all the chapters had been taken down from every site I ever uploaded to, so I had nothing roaming around the internet that I could quickly take from. This was back in February, of course. I had thought that I was going to take my laptop in to get it fixed, but life intervened and other commitments were fulfilled - so I hadn't thought of taking it in until the summer, when I needed access to a NOT slow computer the most. But. My computer guy was on vacation, so I once again put it on hold. Not until the middle of November did I think to let another person look at it - the bad news? My laptop can never be restored. The good news? We can simply grab all the data from it and put it onto my other laptop. Including ALL my stories :). They explained how to do that for me, but I had no luck, so I'll be needing to take it back again in a couple weeks when they don't have a backlog of shitty computers.

So then. I was on my computer, and I had the idea to go back into my OLD ASS e-mail to see if I could dig up any stories. AND WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT. I uncovered the first 12 chapters of this story, but by the time I get to posting all those up, I'll have gotten the data from the other computer and there'll be no more wait. I'll also get the The Unexpected back, and be able to complete Fulfilling a Wish with much better diction and a more well-rounded plot. Past that, I'm also going over ALL my other stories, too. It's quite a bit of work, but I'm looking forward to it :).

TL;DR: I'm posting again, but read the first chapter because it's different than when I first had it up!