SORRY ya'll, I know I haven't updated in a while but HERE'S WHY:

1. I was in my school's big musical; the practices ran long and were three times a week for about four weeks plus two weeks of shows on Thursday, Friday, and two shows on Saturday.

2. The day I got back my teachers gave me about two boat loads of homework and has been that way every night (with all the shows and practices for the musical, the load felt about three times larger)

3. Due to #'s one & two, I haven't been able to get the amount of sleep I need, which effects my ability to think of anything but what I need to know for school (sometimes les than that)

4. I caught the stupid flu for almost an entire week (seriously why do we get the flu shots again? The doctors seriously need to get a better system in predicting the right flu strain)

5. DUE to # four, I had to make up all that work I miss, (at my school, unless your very contagious, you DON'T want to miss school or you will be sooo far behind). Why? Because at my school we have block schedule: A day (periods- 1,3,5,7) and B day (periods- 2,4,6,8) and each class is about an hour and a half long and there's always a lot of material that's being covered in each class every day and I'm in Pre-AP/AP classes that speed through everything, we learn one thing one day and the next time we may quickly go over it but go right into another thing (some classes, like chemistry, it builds, so in order to fully understand the thing your learning that day you need to understand the stuff from the last class). BUT I'm all caught up now (FINALLY)

6. Almost every minute of my weekends, that wasn't spent doing homework, sleeping and doing stuff for musical, was spent studying for the SAT, now it's on to studying for the ACT (DON'T worry I will still have time to update)

7. My computer has been acting very strange, like suddenly shutting down, my dad and I still haven't been able to figure out what's going on but good thing everything is saved on my hard drive.

8. FINALLY I had major writer's block (due to the fact that almost every night I was either writing an essay or writing a rewrite of an essay for my language arts (English) class, and it literally drained my brain)

BUT don't worry, every free moment I have at school or during a boring lecture (and not spent on doing homework that I might have accidentally forgot to do the night before) is spent on writing this chapter, I promise it's going to be longer and HOPEFULLY an very awesome chapter.

I MIGHT be able to post it next week!!!! Since next week I have TAKS (Texas' state test for elementary through high school students) and my teachers aren't supposed to give us homework (though they still do, it's called "class work that's not due until the next time we see them after TAKS" surprisingly it's actually true, meaning it's not due until the Monday after so I have plenty of time to write!!) I WILL POST THE CHAPTER BEFORE FRIDAY!!!!!

ANOTHER THING

To the readers who review THANK YOU!!! I enjoy knowing that people love my story. Also to those who gave me suggestions, like telling me that the chapters need to be longer etc, I also THANK YOU, because I know what ya'll want and I'm making an effort to do all suggestions.

BUT, due to the fact that I only have 18 reviews, all of ya'll that DON'T REVIEW. PLEASE DO I'M BEGGING YOU; (ya'll know that I know how many people at least visit/click on my story, and it's definitely more than 18) because I really would like to know what ya'll think, I'll take ALL kinds of reviews -commits, suggestions, and even criticism. I really would like to know how I'm doing because this is my FIRST FAN FIC after all; I want to know if I'm doing it right.

AND if I get lots of reviews for the chapter I'll put up next week maybe I will have enough momentum to be able to start to post chapters faster. SO PLEASE REVIEW

Let's have a goal- for next week's chapter how about 50 REVEIWS.

But here are some rules:

NOBODY can post more than one review (unless you want to add something BUT no more than one add on)

MUST BE more than five words

PLEASE BE HONEST, I won't be offended, I rather have some criticism than no reviews at all, again I want to know if I have to work on anything or if ya'll think it's fine the way it is

Thanks for understanding, and I'm looking forward to all your reviews next week for the next chapter… "SO CLOSE YET SO FAR"

Lovetwilight21 =)