Hey- Oh my gosh, guys, it's the dreaded abandonment message! Unless you wanted this story to be abandoned... Uh, anyway - I am so sorry for my very long absence. I'm not going to throw you all of the details of my personal life, but Life woke me up one day and stuck stress, work, and craziness in my face. I don't know if I will abandon this story. To be honest with you, I don't even have that much interest in Fairy Tail anymore - I've moved onto other fandoms. Also, my writing, in my opinion, is completely different. I cringe while reading over my old writing because it's really bad, to me at least. I've never finished a fanfic before. Only one-shots, and there was a two-shot I was writing, but I never got up to write the second chapter. Bad Astral. You deserve to be punished. But because I know that people hate it when fanfics get abandoned (and I feel so SO SO bad for this), I might be able to churn up another chapter. If anyone is reading this and still interested, of course. I just don't know if I have the drive to continue writing this. I usually can't write without really wanting to, and...well, I'll do my best. I doubt that anyone would be reading this, though, it's like, a whole 'nother year. Yeah, I'm so sorry. I really am. I promise you that I will try my best to update and just stuff in at least another chapter, and if I can't, I will just post what was going to happen. Once again, I'm so sorry, and I will definitely try my best to write something else. It's still break and I have some things to do, but once I am finished I will get to writing PRONTO. Thank you all for your feedback - each notification I got made me warm and fuzzy inside, and I would have quit writing a long time ago without you guys' feedback. Love for you all 3 Thank you! -astral