An explanation is in order, methinks. (Uh oh, that word is never a good sign!)
You may have been wondering where this story has been for the last while and a half. Well, I can now reveal it to you – I took it down. Yes, I know it was popular, and it got me a lot of reviews, but to tell the truth I simply wasn't happy with some of it. Mum pointed out to me while I was writing it that there was quite a lot of slang creeping into it, and looking back I found I had to agree with her. Among other crimes too heinous to mention, I seemed to have adopted the fad of having either myself or somebody else saying 'okay' in every other sentence, which became at first simply irritating, then annoying, and finally agonising, until it got to the point where I wanted to bash my brain out with the keyboard. (Heaven knows what it was like for you poor readers. My heart goes out to you.) Also, there was the matter of 'what ever', the dreaded 'sucks', and the even more dreaded 'like'. GAAAH!
So, in short, I decided to take it off, give it a bit of a revamp (root out the slang, rewrite the parts that I didn't feel worked as well as they could the first time around, that sort of thing) and then repost it. For all those fans of the first What 'they' didn't want you to see, don't fret; there won't be major deletations, only the bits that I really felt weren't that funny, or which I felt needing altering a tad. For all the new readers (hope springs eternal) don't worry that you'll have missed anything by not reading the first edition. All the inside jokes I will endeavour to explain – not that there was time for many of those to be formed.
So, everybody, enjoy the reworking. I look forward to seeing what it will bring. (Probably lots of reviews screaming 'Why did you take the original off in the first place! I was enjoying it!' Like I said, hope springs eternal.)
So it begins.(1)
(1) Oh, dammit! Inside joke, and we haven't even begun. Let us just say, that catchphrase haunted me throughout the writing of this. Haunted me, I tell you!