A/N: Hello everyone! I went on vacation so here is my excuse for not updating: My dad has an old laptop that some guy from his work gave him. Since he has a cool laptop from work, he let me have/ write on the oldie. It has lotus word pro. It's deficient. So, I take a disk. I write, like, a page, and the computer loses power. Oh joy. So I rewrite it almost ward for word adding a little here and a little there. Then, I save it on the disk that I brought because I don't trust the hard drive. So then, there I am on the way home with my disk. I stick it in the drive and it says that there is an error. And it breaks the disk. Be grateful that I even wrote this a third time. Later... I WROTE A TON! FOR THE FOURTH TIME! AND IT ALL GOT ERASED!!! I WAS JUST ABOUT TO UPDATE MY LONGEST CHAPTER YET AND IT ALL GOT ERASED! NOOOOOOOOO! So it might be a while before I cool down enough to update again! HELP ME!

Erin

To make it so I'm not violating any rules for having a chapter of authors notes, here's the beginning:

::RECAP:: I kneel by sink with My friends, boyfriend, and teacher by my side while a fellow student ran to go get another staff member to help. Professor McGonagoll walks in and helps me to my feet and we quickly tread up all the many steps of stairs to the hospital wing by which time I had nothing else to bring up. Collapsing on the bed, I faint. ::RECAP::

I open my tired eyes to the very clean Hospital wing. My stomach aches, but all in all feel much more rested and better. I sigh remembering how I got here. I missed my first day of classes. How nice. I shouldn't be to worried though because the material taught shouldn't be too heavy considering we just got back form the summer holidays. I look around. No one is here, not even Madam Pompfrey, leaving me extremely bored. I notice a card sitting on my bed side table. I reach out my heavy arms and gently picked it up. On the front is a beautiful rose with the back drop of a magically glowing sun. I open up the paper present and sweet music floats out, obviously charmed. In curly, sparkling script, the inside reads: 'You are not here and I am blue, please get well soon for I am missing you.' It is signed Amos. I smile slightly of the cuteness of it all and the cheesiness of the poem. He is so adorable. I lay back staring at the white ceiling after gingerly closing the card and placing it back where I found.
"So I see you have finally decided to join the concious world, Miss Evans," Madam Pompfrey says walking in startling me. I nod slowly not sure of what to say as my caretaker pours a vile-looking potion into a goblet. She hands it to me as I reach for it with shaking fingers. "Flu with a bad case of food poisoning," she tells me her diagnoses. I tip the cup to my lips and drink the potion. She takes out another liquid that I recognize as the Niwonth Potion, an anti-nausea potion that we have made in class a while ago. I gag at the putrid taste but manage to get it down along with a bit of water. "You should be able to go to lessons tomorrow," my nurse assures walking to the other side of the room.

More will come, I promise. I should update soon. REVIEW!!!