First and foremost I would like to apologize for the sudden disappearance after my eighth grade year in middle school. You all have a right to know what the hell I was doing not writing the stories you've all come to love, so here's your explanation (as short as I could make it):

You see, my best friend (unbeknownst to me at the time that she would become my best friend/sister whom I love with all my heart) moved to my home town. I was introduced to her through another one of our friends (who has unfortunately changed from the friend we once knew, and is now barely or not at all active in our lives; it is probably for the best, as we had many conflicts between her as well as another good friend of ours who we are still lucky to have), and we were stuck together like glue from that moment henceforth.

She was actually my inspiration to start drawing my ideas rather than explain them through words; I was ecstatic to see that I could show what I was imagining when I couldn't describe it, and though I was still an enthusiastic writer, I let my visual artistic abilities outshine my grammatical and poetic ones. I gave myself a break from writing for a few weeks to try out this new way of being creative and found myself even more infatuated with it than I had been when I wrote. However, I still had stories I wanted to publish for you all, and I decided to stick with it….

Until I graduated middle school and entered high school.

There I took mostly art classes and shied away from my writing skills, the talent I had once come to love and actually believed to be my true calling in life. I saw nothing but art, groaned at the prospect of writing papers for my English classes, and wanted to pick up a pencil only when it involved drawing. I began to despise and become bored of the thing that had originally started me on the path to creativity, and so when I finally returned after my small break, I saw how utterly embarrassing my writing was that I actually turned red in the face. I was extremely undereducated in the writing department; I was excellent at describing certain things, events, or places, but atrocious at anything involving how long a sentence should be or where certain punctuation was supposed to go (I still have those problems…but then again I'm not majoring in Writing so why should it matter, as long as I've improved substantially in my writing?). And don't even get me started on my word variety or dead verb usage. All-in-all, I was embarrassed, and wanted nothing more to do with my writing, let alone the fanfiction account I had once been so proud of. So I quit. Left my account to sit and hopefully be deleted one day…until just a week ago.

Up until about a week ago I'd been set on my career as an artist…I still am, but coming back to the one place where I knew there were a few hundred if not thousand people with the same strange pairings as me and being able to read unprejudiced or without sending a letter of recommendation to the creator themselves comforted me. I then came to the realization that missed this website; I missed writing for my followers; I missed writing for myself, and so now here I am, writing this lengthy author's note giving you an explanation as to why I've pretty much been "dead."

I hope you can forgive me for those of you still following or awaiting the end of certain stories, because I plan to do the best that I can in finding time to give you what you've all waited for. Whether it was the ending to unfinished stories or for me to start new ones, I'll do what I can.

Thank you for taking the time to read this through. Please keep in mind that though I am back I may not get around to the older stories right away as it will take me some time to sort through the ones I never finished. I need to try and recall either how I plan on ending it or re-writing it, and that may take some time as I have quite a few W.I.P. stories.

Thank you so very much,

Neko223

P.S. The reason this is in the beginning of my new fanfiction pairing Draco and Hermione together from Harry Potter is so that everyone who had been waiting for my return (if I had ever returned) can see I will be active now when allowed. Once again a great big thank you and an even bigger apology!