Hey everyone… I know you were all expecting a new story when you first clicked on this, but to be truthful, I haven't even started writing it yet. I will soon, though. Once I'm done all of my summer work (AP Chemistry packet and college essays), I'll start writing this story. I just wanted to leave this author's note because of the sad news- there's only 15 episodes left of Victorious. In less than a year, our show that we have grown to love is going to end.

I'm still in shock from the whole thing. I can't believe that Nickelodeon would have the stupidity of cancelling one of the most popular shows on Nick along with iCarly. Victorious won the KCA's and got nominated for 3 Emmy awards… yet it was cancelled. Whereas pointless shows such as Fred and How To Rock are allowed to still exist. I know it was because of the 60 episode limit rule, but still… it doesn't make sense to me!

I feel so bad for the cast and Dan as well- they didn't know that Victorious was going to be cancelled. They didn't get to say a proper goodbye to the show and each other, and I doubt that the show is going to get a proper finale because the cancellation wasn't even expected to happen. It breaks my heart to think that the cast won't be together and having a good time and filming Victorious again. Nevertheless, I hope they have great careers in the future and move on to big things.

I never thought that I would say this, but I'm really messed up about this. I was listening to my iPod in the car today and some songs came up that reminded me of Victorious and I just started bawling. August has just been a really bad month for me so far. I've been feeling bad about myself lately. First off, my one boss screwed up my hours at my one job and told me I wouldn't be able to work again until September. Then, my boss at my other job then told me I was learning things too slowly and I might have to move to a different job (and even a girl that is my school's "slut" can do the job better than I can!). After that, my guidance counselor emailed me and now I can't take one of the classes I wanted to take- and I have three AP classes in my first semester alone. Now, Victorious is ending. Great. Just the icing on my depressing cake.

Victorious made me feel like a kid again. It gave me something to obsess about when I was feeling down and needed a distraction. I write about Victorious to escape my overprotective parents and distract myself from my self-deprecating thoughts. And now that it's done… I don't know what to do with my overactive mind. I will be getting my driver's license soon. I will be applying to colleges soon. And I will have 4 AP classes and two jobs on my hands- which means that I will have little to no time to write or watch TV anyway.

I feel like I'm growing up too fast. I'm eventually going to have to give up my fanfiction (or at least take a long, long break from it) and my Wikia account (for the Victorious wiki) because I see no point in having those things anymore. Victorious taught me that you can love something really strongly if you can relate to it and use it to escape your own life. It taught me that I don't have to be ashamed to like a kid's show even though I'm almost a senior in high school. It taught me that people can love you despite all your flaws and all your little quirks that make you you. It taught me that some forms of life are pure and not filled with drugs, sex, and violence.

Once Victorious ends, I'm giving up Nickelodeon and Disney for good. I'm going to leave my made-up, pure world where the mature things don't exist and enter our messed-up, perverted society- and that makes me tear whenever I think about it. I don't want to grow up just yet; but it looks like I'm going to be forced to anyway. All of these things combined are making me really depressed, and I'm sorry that this author's note is so sad. I didn't mean for it to be- I just to get my feelings out before they make my head explode because no one else but you guys understand.

I just wanted to say thanks to Dan for making me believe in the good, young-spirited things in life. I want to thank the cast of Victorious for their acting and commitment to the show and my wikia friends for treating me so nicely- it's like they're my second family. And I want to say thanks for reading my stories. They are a labor of love and hard work, truthfully. I spend an incredibly long time writing these stories in order to make sure everything's perfect. Thank you for being my loyal followers and your reviews make me smile every time I receive a new one. I promise you I will have about 1-2 more stories up here before Victorious ends and my "real life" begins.

Well, I'll conclude this depressing A/N on a bright note: I have a new poll up for this story. The choice that won the first poll was that "Following the Stars" will be focused on one couple's plot with other subplots revolving around two other potential "couples." Now, I'm letting you all vote on which couples I will make happen in the story.

Here's the warning about this, though: You guys know which ships I obviously ship now. If you vote for those couples, I guarantee that you'll get a well-written story. However, there may be a chance that you may not get a very interesting story because I've written about these couples many times before.

On the flip side of things, if you vote for couples that I don't necessarily ship or write about on a daily basis, I guarantee you a UNIQUE story, probably something you've never seen or heard of before. Then again, since I don't ship these couples, it may not be well-written. So pick your poison- a well-written but potentially boring story, or a unique but potentially train wreck story. It's up to you at this point.

So we're almost at the shore, so I gotta go now. Hopefully I'll have the first chapter of this story up by the end of August.

Peace out and enjoy the last episodes of Victorious while they last.