Greetings readers! Yes, I AM still alive, amazingly enough. I sincerely apologize for my long absence. Shortly upon returning from Taiwan, college classes started for me, and I also got a job. Though I'm sad to admit it, this story slipped through my mind without my realizing. The moment I thought of this story again, though, I'd realized that I don't have enough time to regularly post chapters, and I had considered dropping this story.
Midterms for my classes are coming up, and due to that I've taken a few days off from my job, so I have a little free time. I've finished studying (Yay me!), and decided that I should take responsibility for this story and its readers and at least let you all know what's going on.
I am still planning on continuing this story. There's no doubt about that. The only problem is, as I attempted to at least offer another chapter during my free time, I read over the previous chapters and found that my method of writing has changed compared to how it was in the beginning of the story. That and many things were happening at the same time, making the story seem rather disorganized. I also realized I had a tendency of changing tenses and also, showing the plotline through flashbacks and the majority through dialogue, which is also rather confusing. I was planning on continuing on with the story the way it is, and slowly correcting my writing style and various other transition issues as I posted new chapters, but I don't seem to be able to do that, as there seriously has been too long of a pause in between the last chapter and now. Currently, I'm extremely displeased with the first few chapters, and I hope to change that before I continue on with the story. So I will either be re-uploading the edited chapters from 1-4 then continuing on with chapter 5 and onward, or I'll be deleting this story and just starting anew. The plot will remain the same, though I'm currently proofreading my notes to make sure everything makes sense now that I haven't looked at it in over half a year.
Again, I apologize for this decision. The only thing I can do to make it up to the readers is to offer this story, again, edited, cleaned up, and of course, this time, eventually finished. And, I'm extremely sorry that this update wasn't a chapter. I promise that the next update will contain a new chapter!