If you're not interested in reading the extended apology and explanation (which is the same for all of my stories that aren't completed), then skip on down to the end where I tell you about the updates on this specific story.

I owe everyone on here an apology, whether you like or hate my stories, whether you have read them a million times or not at all, if you've been waiting for the update or didn't care when I got back to it. But mostly, this apology is for the people who love my stories, and wanted me to get back to writing. Because I feel bad for leaving you hanging for almost an entire year. I feel terrible for making you all think I had abandoned my stories and was never coming back. And I feel even worse because I can't promise that this won't happen again.

It started during the summer. I went on vacation, and didn't have an internet connection for the month I was there. Obviously, I couldn't update then.

It continued when I got back and started my sophomore year of college. I needed good grades this semester. So I ignored my stories, and studied instead.

I won't even bother trying to hide that I've been having trouble with writing since I've gotten a boyfriend. He wants to be a writer, and somehow I feel like I'm stealing his career from him. I don't want to be a writer; I want to be a mathematician.

Then came winter break. I was grounded for all of winter break, and didn't have a computer. When I got it back, I wanted to start writing again. I really did.

Only I didn't realize I would be using that time to learn how to drive, and go to driving school to get both my behind-the-wheel hours and classroom hours. So once again, this was postponed.

Halfway through the course, I came down with strep. I'll admit that I'm almost never sick, and this was only the second time in my life that I've ever been on antibiotics.

On the eighth day of my antibiotics, I discovered that I was extremely allergic to them, and spent several hours in the emergency room for the next three days until I could manage the reaction on my own. It still took two weeks to fade.

Only now that all my issues cleared up, my parents went on antibiotics, and I was required to help them with everything because they were too sick to do it themselves.

And even now as I'm writing this up, my dad is in the hospital with some as yet unknown disease. I don't know when he's coming home, I don't know if he even will come home, and it's tearing me apart because my dad is practically my best friend.

So I apologize that I'm being so slow with the updates. I'll admit that from summer to the winter break I could have been updating, but I was too lazy to do it. If I had known all this would happen, I would have updated. But I didn't know, and now I'm trying to make up for lost time.

Thanks for listening and hopefully understanding. Continue on for the story update.

An Unlikely Circumstance: Oh, yes. How could I forget about this? This has always been and always will be a fun story to write. I even watched the episode "Marjorine" today, so I'm perfectly content to write it. Small problem: I can't remember where the story was supposed to go after the last chapter! I don't have too many readers on this story, so I don't feel as guilty deserting this one for a bit. But I do like it, and I do want to continue it.