(Author's Note)

As promised I posted it in August. Yipee! As you read in the summary we have some important news regarding this program. Well I knew that this would be quite difficult but I didn't want to discontinue this idea because I really loved it. So pretty much all you need to do is pay attention to details that in this chapter that will involve you readers. I have to admit that I put myself in a serious personality XD. Well anyway I hope you enjoy.

Written by: Sabrina06 (Bree), 14AmyChan (Amy), and Kale Bishop (Me).

Cover Photo by: 14AmyChan. LOVE IT!

Pressing News

"*Sigh*. And just when things were getting interesting." said Kale.

Kale was sitting at the large mahogany table in the middle of the room when Sabrina walked in carrying a large tray of cupcakes.

"I hope everyone likes chocolate." She said as the tray was slid into the middle of the table.

It wasn't long before Amy and Isabella walked in.

"I didn't know this was a pot-luck meeting." Isabella commented.

Sabrina shook her head.

"Kale and I've got some sad news, but we should wait for everyone else to arrive first."

Amy walked over to one of the many empty seats at the table and took her place, then grabbed a cupcake.

"What's so sad that you had to bring chocolate cupcakes? Are they to make everyone feel better after the sad news?"

Sabrina couldn't make eye contact with her friend. She nodded.

"We should wait until everyone's here. We're still waiting on Singer, the guys and..." The door opened up and a group of people walked in.

Phineas entered with a smile while Ferb walked in with a clipboard behind him.

"Hey, aren't we supposed to be working on the next interview right about now?" he asked, the smile never leaving his face.

For once, his charismatic and upbeat personality failed to raise the spirits of everyone in the room. Sabrina and Kale still bore the sad expressions they had beforehand. A few moments of silence went about the room before Isabella coughed nervously.

"So... We're just waiting on Cutie now, right?" Amy asked, hoping to release the sad tension in the room, but ultimately failing.

"Oh, look cupcakes! Hey, Ferb! Cupcakes!" Phineas called out as he approached the table.

Sabrina took a seat beside Kale and with elbows on the table laced her fingers together in front of her face. "Please. Everyone, take a seat." She said. Once all were seated she began. "There's no easy way to say this." Sabrina took a deep breath then continued. "Cute as a button22, or Cutie as her friends know her, is unable to join us for the foreseeable future." Everyone looked on in shock.

"Is she alright? Please tell me she's alright." Phineas said and Isabella threw him a look.

Sabrina nodded. "Best to our knowledge, she's fine. She's just not available at the moment. We're not sure when she'll be able to return. She did promise that she'll come back as soon as she can she just doesn't have any idea when that will be."

"So, she's absent until further notice?" Amy asked, shaking her head. "And she won't be back for a while... that makes me have a sadface..."

"I understand." Sabrina said as she glanced in Kale's direction. "If you'll excuse me, I think I need to step outside for a moment." She finished, got up and left the room.

Kale sighed.

"What happened?" asked Phineas.

"Well… she left this…"

Kale tosses a note across the table to Phineas and he passes it to everyone else.

This is great! (Mostly because I'm in it XD) Would you please tell everyone on the forum that I won't be on FF for months, maybe even years? :( I can't explain, but it was hard enough for me to make it to this page and review. Please, I just don't want people to be in the dark about why I disappeared :(((.

"It was just… sudden…" said Kale.

"I hope she's alright." said Phineas.

The door to the conference room opened and Sabrina came back in. She glanced around at everyone and took her seat. "Sorry about that. I just needed a moment."

"So... what do we do now?" Amy asked, looking around the room for suggestions. Everyone was still saddened by the news, but knew that something had to be done.

"I think when Cutie comes back; she'll want to see new chapters of the interviewing, right?" Isabella asked.

Everyone turned to her in shock, except Phineas who just paid attention. The interview with Cutie seemed to have left a bad impression with Isabella, but the girl seemed to be disregarding that for now. "I know if I had to leave my troop for a while, I'd want them to keep earning patches while I was away."

"Right. So keep doing the interviews?" Phineas asked, a smile starting to form on his face. "Might as well seize the day, right?"

Ferb nodded in agreement.

Sabrina flipped through a folder as she spoke, not looking at anyone.

"We've currently got a short list of fanfiction authors who are interested in our wee project."

Ferb raised his eyebrow at that statement and Phineas voiced the thought he shared with his brother.

"There are others who are interested? That's great!"

Sabrina glanced up at the host of the show and smiled slightly.

"Just trying to keep a sense of normalcy. 'The show must go on' as they say."

Isabella reached for a glass of water from the middle of the table.

"Bree, how is it you've got this information but the rest of us don't?"

Kale and Sabrina glanced at each other. "I'd rather not discuss that right now." Sabrina said.

"Awkward." said Kale.

"Okay, so moving on... People are interested. So how do we get them involved?" Amy asked, now effectively in the mood to eat her chocolate cupcake. She ate one bite before continuing. "Do we want our audience to ask the questions now? Cause there's only so many four or five people can come up with before starting to sound a little ridiculous..."

"Are you talking about that dare with the peanut butter?" Phineas asked innocently. Amy seemed shocked for a moment.

"How did you know about that?" she asked with an amused expression. The tapping of folders from the head of the table was enough to halt that conversation in its tracks.

"True, in our own right, we're each able to come up with lists of questions. Though, to be inclusive to our audience, we should set up a place for them to leave their questions." Sabrina pointed out.

Ferb looked around the table.

"Why not notify the audience who the next author will be and let them comment their questions." He said.

Sabrina and Kale looked at their shared notes as she tapped a point and made a notation.

"Yeah, but they should also be able to put in general questions, too. Just to see who gets what question,"

Isabella mused. She then smiled. "It would be funny if random questions were asked to random authors. Just to keep everyone on their toes."

Phineas looked in Kale's direction. "So, the plan is to collect lists of questions and ask them of willing authors. Won't we run out of questions and start to regurgitate them onto everyone else?"

Isabella scrunched her nose. "Eww, Phineas."

He turned in his seat and looked at her quizzically. "All I said was that we'd start to repeat the same questions to every author." Everyone but Isabella and Phineas bit their lip and tried not to laugh.

"So," Amy asked, attempting not to giggle. "Where are we going to collect the questions? Reviews?"

Ferb rolled his eyes. "In the suggestion box of course." He stated as though that were the most obvious answer.

"Calm down Ferb." Sabrina said as she waived her hand in his general direction, then continued. "As we all know transcripts will be available on-line for people to read at their leisure. A comment box appears at the end of the transcript and if someone wishes to leave a comment or a question they can."

"Right, sorry," Amy smiled, shaking her head at her own forgetfulness. "So we should put the link up... where? In the summary to the story?"

*Breaks from trance*

"I'm sorry. How long was I out?" asked Kale

"About 30 minutes." Said Phineas.

"My apologies. I have been listening though. Anyway, ignoring the fact that I don't understand what Amy is saying, we pretty much need an author before we get to the questions. I can't include the ones out there first. I'm not ready. So it's best if we just vote the ones here. Who do we get among the 3 of you?"

Sabrina looks at the notes in her folder. "We could interview Amy this time, she's right here and... then start on our list of authors. Who knows, we might even get other authors volunteer to be interviewed."

The two brothers looked at each other.

"Ferb's right you know." Phineas began. Everyone turned to look at him before he continued. "Everyone deserves to have the opportunity to accept or decline an invitation to be interviewed."

"That works. So we're not imposing on anyone," Amy agreed. She began to eat the rest of her cupcake and watch from the background as her fellow authors and the interviewers hashed out some more aspects.

"It's not that simple. If authors were just to flood in my area of creativity then might as well start death match to see who will survive. Anyway, my point is it's pretty much gonna create conflict. Besides, I can't just choose an author without hearing their inferences. So I suggest we start an election. Since you 3 are the only ones available then might as well put an election between you 3." Said Kale.

"Okay, then. I vote for Singer. I really liked the Dear Fanfiction Authors thing she had going," Amy offered her vote immediately.

"I vote for Amy. Dear me, that's going to prove interesting. Do you want us to write you up as well? "

"Don't you think it would be a little too weird if I were to put myself in the ballot, whereas I'm going to be the interviewer? Might as well talk to myself in front of a mirror. Anyway, what about you 3? Who do you vote for?"

"I think Amy's good. She's a lot of fun to talk to anyway." said Phineas.

"Agreed." Said Isabella.

Ferb nodded.

Sabrina took a moment to look around the table at everyone. "It's decided then?" She inquired. To the untrained ear it sounded like a statement and not a question. "Amy will be the next to be interviewed?" Some people around the table nod in agreement.

"Give me some of those cupcakes." Said Kale.

*Isabella passes the cupcakes.*

"Just one question. *Munches* what am I going to ask?"

-End-

(VERY IMPORTANT AUTHOR'S NOTE)

That's right! So 14AmyChan is up next and You get to ask the questions. Make it as random as possible or you can also ask questions regarding her works.

I might have not been clear earlier but I'm quite desperate door questions to ask A,y. As much as I would want my brain to work like a 20Q machine, I'm quite busy. So if you want this to be updated soon then it would be great if you would ask Amy something. Don't worry, I'm not leaving this to your shoulders. Of course I have a couple of questions. I hope you make it as random as possible.

In the next chapters You can nominate!

I'll post the instructions in the next chapter and I'll also update my profile for the rules regarding how to Nominate and vote.