Author's Note: Okay, y'all, first off, don't take any of the following "bitchiness" to heart; I'm freakin' PMS-ing, and people snap-judging my OC isn't helping matters any. First off, I'm the author, and I have decided to take a different angle on this story, compared to my works in the past. Instead of simply writing Shep and Evie's developing relationship(which would take, like, forever), I wanted to start the story with an established "good friends" relationship between them. Then, the patient readers would get to see how their relationship evolved through flashbacks. This is a very different angle than normal, but I'm enjoying it. If you stick it out, you hopefully won't be disappointed. And, dudes, it's not gonna be that long, I promise you. I don't do novels. ;) So before you leave me a review about "this is a stupid Mary-Sue fic" or "what the heck? he already has a crush on her!111111" please consider the fact that I'm not done yet. You can hate on my story all you want at the end. If you don't make it that far, well, so sad for you.

Again, sorry if that seemed kinda harsh. Don't mess with an author when she's PMS-ing.

And if there were any guys reading this(doubtful), I'm sorry about mentioning the PMS thing. Whoops. There I go again. Anyways, special thanks to rogue1503, Commodore Norrington, Corvaisis, and my Tigger for not givin' up on me. Y'all rock and you know it. Hey, Hannah, when I post the next chapter(hopefully in just a day or two), you can see what happens to "My Poor Baby!" :giggles: ;);)