Fire and Ice

by Unwritten Whispers

5th year was supposed to be perfect for Aster Black and her best friends, Fred, George, and Lee - they finally became Animagis and she was Prefect. But then her uncle had to go & escape from Azkaban. Plus she has to deal with the Ministry sending Dementors to Hogwarts for her, & to make things worse the new werewolf professor has a personal vendetta against her. FULL SUMMARY INSIDE

10. I'll be in Wyoming with no laptop

I am so so so so sorry! Before I went up to Colorado in March, we lost our internet. I was the one paying for internet as a part of my Mobi phone plan. Then my uncle got another internet plan and told me to cancel mine so we can just use his one. THREE DAYS after I cancelled my plan, my uncle decided to cancel his plan as well. We had no internet, and I couldn't restart my plan because I needed my money for my trip. So I would use the internet when at my cousin's house, but I couldn't really update my stories.

Then I decided to stay up in Colorado a bit longer than I had originally planned to, seriously debating on whether I should just stay there or come back home. Eventually I came back home, and I find that my nieces did something to my laptop – which is now broken! I don't have the money to see what's wrong with it or to get it fixed or anything, and for some reason I didn't save my stories to my flashkey for a while.

I basically lost my entire 'Fire And Ice' and 'A Glitch In The Timeline' stories. I also lost the next two chapters I had written out for 'A Brothers War'! I have my old laptop which is just really slow and keeps freezing on me after every so often, and it's difficult to try to rewrite everything – which is why I had to get the new laptop in the first place. So I didn't bother on getting a new internet plan if I won't even be able to use it.

And last night my best friend, the one whose kids I watch, called me up out of the blue while I was getting my newest tattoos done. And she says, "Hey, so I just booked us plane tickets. Save up whatever you can; we're leaving in 4 days. And pack the same clothes you took to Colorado 'cause it's like a blizzard over in Jackson Hole!" – so I'm going to Wyoming with my best friend and her two kids to go see how she likes it there, and to find out if it's worth moving there with her fiancé or stay back on Oahu and just wait for 9 months until he comes back home here. We're going to be up there for a month!

Honestly, I'm looking forward to getting away from this island again. So much has happened, as all of my loves from 'A Brothers War' knows from my woes on the previous chapters, so it's nice to just up and leave.

I just wanted to let you all know why I haven't updated in too long, and to let you know that I haven't abandoned you guys and I will finish it, I just don't know when. I don't even know when I'll be back on the island. I'm at my cousin's house right now, using his laptop just to upload this note for all of you. I have internet on my phone so I'll be able to get on here through that, but I can't actually update with it.

-Evelynn Leilani