AUTHOR UPDATE
Let me start off by saying that I am so deeply sorry to those of you that have been waiting on the next installment of the story! I have just been knee deep in school work and my bursts of creativity have been unfortunately sparse.
But summer starts tomorrow, and I have managed to type up a small chunk of the next chapter. I do still have writers' block and that means the chapter may be less than fantastic, but I'll just put it up to get it up there and go back and rewrite it later, based on reviews, if need be.
So I'm going to be working on that diligently, and should have it up within the next week or two. Once again, I'm so sorry, but never fear: the story will be up and running again as soon as possible.
With that said I'd like to say that I will be going back to every previous chapter and tweaking grammatical errors and such so if you get the alerts for the story and notice that I've put up the same chapter ten times, just disregard that.
Thank you all for being so great.