Sorry I kept you guys waiting for 17,567 years.
This is going to sound weird, but I, the author with no life, have been busy every weekend since I uploaded the last chapter.
I've also been busy during the week, but then again, when am I not?
But yeah, I haven't had time for Fanfiction at all. And because of that, I have quite a bit of PMs I need to answer soon...
Anywho..
I'm still kinda busy (I have a major research paper due next week. Kill. Me. Now.) so if I don't upload next weekend or the next...I probably died.
So yeah, this unintentional month-long wait wasn't my fault this time! :D Well, it kinda was...
But I'm still alive and, hopefully, I'll be able to continue the routine weekend by weekend uploading.
Review Replies:
Aphroditegirl700 - Well if that isn't just permanently scarring, then I have absolutely no idea what is. You must really love your coffee if that worked. xD Wow, a seven-year old? That's...absolutely pointless, why would she even try? Yes, I love snowmen pajamas! I pair of oversized purple pajama pants covered in snowmen...it's awesome! I have it on now! :D Haha, that'd be a nice little question to ask him, I'd love to see his face! There's a good chance I won't be leaving or abandoning the story. I'm enjoying it too much. :) Anywho, I'm really glad you liked the chapter. Thanks for reading. :)
Luna Baudelaire - Haha same here, but with my grandmother...Oh goodness, that's awful. Snicket really should've given his readers a warning about a sudden fear of your house catching on fire. Oh my gosh I'm proud of her! The part where Dewy died was so depressing and totally just like WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED HERE? you know? Really, you did? :D That's so awesomely amazing like oh my gosh I'm ever so grateful. :D Tell her she doesn't have to understand Kladora. It's Kladora. That's just the way it is. :) Don't tell she ships Klaus and Fiona! Haha, that's alright, I like long reviews. I think they're awesome. Thanks for reviewing! :)
Dancingchocolatesmudge - Yeah, I understand that. It was almost a year after I published the story and I realized how young Isadora was...and she was doing all this...what the heck have I created? Aww, I can't stand science. It's my weakest subject. :p I'm taking art, too! :D I worked on a project for ten and a half hours and it still didn't get put in the art show. Sorry, that was just bothering me. Anywho, I'm happy you liked the chapter! And thanks for sticking around with the story. :)
IzzyQuagmire0907 - So, I take that you liked it? :D
nuttierthansquirelpoop - ARE YOU SERIOUSLY SERIOUS? HOW DID YOU FIND OUT? When I read that, my day was officially made, because I love Liam Aiken! We ship the same people-we have so much in common. :DD Haha...yeah...Anywho, I'm so so happy you like my story! Thanks for reading! :)
CaffeinatedKitty - Why did iTunes do that? :( Yeah, I don't like the rap version of Alligator Sky. It's okay, but I prefer the version without the rap. It's way more 'Adam'. :) I used to get in trouble for reading during class, too! But now no one pays attention to me, but I literally sit in the very front of the classroom and do pretty much whatever I want. Except in chemistry. The teacher in there would probably eat me if he saw me work on anything outside of science. Anywho, well, you sound like those people in my class I admire because they're just so darn creative! :D Seriously, I'm jealous of them. All of them. -_- Haha, okay, if I ever become an anime fan, I'll make to go into that direction first. :) That's alright, 'i obviously can't go an entire chapter without including some Kladora. Curse you cute couple. Anywho, I'm really, really glad the chapter was to your liking! Thanks for sticking around for so long! :)
book lover - OH MY GODS HAPPY LATE BIRTHDAY! Sorry I missed it. :( Don't hate it, embrace! Make your friends jealous by declaring the fact that you were born on Valentine's Day makes it official that you're going to find true love! :D It's an Aphrodite blessing, I bet. :) But then, I guess your friends would complain some more. I agree, you don't need a guy to be happy. Especially if all the guys in your life aren't even you're type but your parents keep insisting you like them when you don't and it's so frustrating, I mean HE'S NOT MY TYPE. Sorry...my problems exploded onto the internet. But yeah, I'm really glad you liked it! Duncan's a nice choice, haha! And I'm sincerely excited with the ideas you gave me and I hope you like how your ideas turn out later. :) Thanks for reading! :)
Nutella - Aww I want some tacos. :( But then again, Duncan might ban me from writing stories with him in it. I'll take a burrito. ;) xD Thank you very much! And I plan to keep breathing...:) Thank you so much for reading and I'm so happy you like it! :)
S'moreo1235 - *facepalm* See, my problem is that you can review every chapter while you're logged in but if you're not logged in for one chapter, totally forget you have an account. I haven't been thinking straight lately...I'll get to PMing you! I just haven't stepped into my inbox since I last uploaded...I still have yet to answer the six messages that await my reply...Aww I want a shirt like that, that's really cool! :)
AshArmani - Join the club. :)
Pottergirl1 - OH MY GOSH WE MUST HAVE THE SAME GRANDMA because that's what my grandma does...I love her, but...you understand. :/ Aw, good luck. :p There might be some Kladora in the near future...like very near because I seriously can't write a chapter without some Kladora. :)
CrazyGirl75690 - Woah, did you just get it recently? :D Bench ball sounds fun, I want to play! :D Woah, what's Newearth? Oh my gosh, an owl fairy! That's totally owlsome! I love both owls and fairies! :DD Cool, aren't pierced ears fun? Well, when you're not cleaning them...I didn't have to do that, I was a baby when I got mine so I guess my mum had to. As for your friends, maybe they were babies too and they just thought they remembered...you never know...Thank you thank you thank you so much! :)
KlausBaudelaireTheBookworm - If it makes you feel any better, I'm behind on this story by like, what? A month? I'm a failure! Dx We can try to cure our procrastination together! :D Later...woah, I'm curious as to what that fear...should I look that up..? I'm kind of tempted..Anywho, thank you for your very nice review! :)
Zoe Snow - Haha, yeah, Klaus needs to cowboy it up! In he most Hades way...? I don't know. What you said. :) Thank you soo much! :)
FreezingSapphire - Yeah, it sounds a bit weird, doesn't it? Oh, well, it's not like this is going to affect him immensely, I hope at least...Thank you! I'm happy you liked the chapter! :)
FeminerdyPotato - Aw, thank you, you kind person! :)
Dude with the Tattoo - Hey your back! Aw, I hate being busy. I've been busy for the past month. :/ But you're back, so it's all good now! I'll try to make more chapters like that in the near future, I'm glad you liked it. Thanks for the advice. :)
LeprichanicDolphin - Wow, thanks! :)
Okami Kitsune 0606 - Thanks! Did she seriously? That's awesome! Please give her a hug for me! :)
Gilderoy-Hater - I completely forgot about that. O.O *sigh* Oh well, we learn from our mistakes. Thanks for bringing that up. :) And thanks for reading! )
Oh my gods there done. I should start the chapter now.
So while you read, I'll be practicing my English accent :D I seriously think it's getting better. All those Harry Potter movies and Danisnotonfire videos (if you don't know who he is-look him up. NOW) are really paying off...I'm even thinking in an English accent. O.o
The Isadora Diaries:
New:
Sunday, March 25th
Well.
Bea came over to my house today and I had to duct tape her arms and legs together so she would have no choice but to stay and keep me company. I didn't mention to her that Aunt Josie and her kids were staying at my house, so when she found out...it wasn't pretty.
See, Bea has had bad experiences with all three of them.
Last year, Bea rode in a golf cart with Aunt Josie and, apparently, she can't drive better than Marie especially if what she's driving is a golf cart. They drove straight through a shallow pond, up a hill tall enough to give them enough speed to literally fly over one of the hole's for golf ball's flag, drop a few feet past it, and skid to a stop right in front of Bea's dog, Skittles.
If that's not scary, then I don't know what is.
The same day, Marie screamed at Bea, "I'm going to kill your dog and feed it to the lions at the zoo!" while she chased her around the house because Skittles peed on her phone and ruined it.
But she didn't have to, because Noah got revenge for her. He soaked Skittles with the garden hose and threw her in the mud while no one was watching.
So you can understand why Bea wasn't exactly happy that they had returned.
They're terrible experiences, aren't they? For both Bea and her dog.
I made sure Bea didn't run into any one of them and just stayed in my room. I needed someone to keep me company! It's not like anyone else in the house could. My parents went shopping for groceries, Aunt Josie was flirting with her boyfriend on the phone (I know this because Aunt Josie is too scared to hold the phone too close to her ear because some electric shock could go through the phone and burn her ear off, so she had it on speaker), Duncan was wandering around contemplating his life, Aunt Josie was getting Quigley to bathe her goldfish again, Noah was destroying Duncan's room again, and Marie was Facebooking.
That pretty much left me alone.
After ten minutes of complete and utter boredom, I decided to go and try to have a real conversation with Marie. I figured that if I approached her nicely, then we wouldn't have a smart mouth battle with each other. All the other times I started talking to her, I never really had a friendly attitude. Maybe she was mean to me because I never allowed myself to be nice to her; I saw her as a prep and judged her by it.
Isn't it amazing what you can discover in just ten minutes of boredom?
I knocked on the door of Marie's guest room after pacing up and down the hall for about fifteen minutes wondering whether I should bother trying to be nice.
"Come in," came a monotonous voice from Marie.
I slowly opened the door until there was enough space for me to stick my head through. "Um, hey, Marie," I said ever so awkwardly.
This was difficult.
"Do you need something?" Marie asked monotonously.
"Um, I, uh, I-actually, I-I came to ask i-if you needed anything."
This was going to be harder than I thought.
Being mean to her had become such a habit that an awful attitude was just scratching at the back of throat, and it was dying to be released from the inside of me.
As I answered her question, Marie had out her iPad down on her lap and began stretching her arms. After I finished speaking, she froze and cocked her head to the side. She narrowed her eyes at me as if she thought I was faking my friendliness.
"No...thanks..." her voice trailed off, and I could tell she almost didn't believe I was actually being nice.
"Mmk, well, uh, I guess I'll just go then, so, uh, yeah, bye."
I couldn't handle the stare she was giving me. Not to mention the air around me was thick of awkwardness.
So I awkwardly left.
I knew I had to try harder than that, but I was never good at starting conversations with people; I'm surprised I have friends at all!
fortunately, I knew someone who was incredibly social, thanks to her un-proven ADHD, and it was most likely she could help me.
I called Bea.
After I finally had Bea trapped in my bedroom, I explained to Bea that I was trying to make nice with Marie but it was so difficult that I was going to need her (Bea's) help to actually have a real conversation with this chick.
"No!" she refused. "I won't have anything to do with her! She threatened to kill my little Skittles! I will not talk to her!"
I shushed her loudly and whispered, "Would you keep your voice down? My Aunt Josie's out there! Do you want her to think we're still alive and come find us and nag us to death?"
Bea's eyes went wide. "She thinks we're dead?"
Before I could respond, we heard Duncan yell, "Again?! Seriously, Noah?! I'm going to get you a nice burrito and shove it into your eyeballs if you don't stop this!" Then we heard quick and heavy footsteps. Suddenly, my bedroom door was thrown open and Noah ran inside, slamming and locking the door behind him.
I did a mental face palm for forgetting to lock the door so no one would come inside to bother us.
Duncan began pounding on my door, yelling, "Get back here, Noah, I'm not finished with you!" But Noah ignored him.
"Hey!" Noah exclaimed. "I remember you! You're Beatrice, the girl that Duncan's in love with!"
"What?" Duncan yelled from the other side of the door. "Bea are you in there?" He didn't know Bea was with me so...that must've been a nice surprise. "Yeah, she is," I confirmed." "Don't listen to him, Bea, he's a kid, he doesn't know whats he's talking about! Isadora, open the door so I can clobber this kid!" Duncan yelled desperately from the other side of the door.
As I was unlocking the door, Noah yelled, "Hey, I'm not a kid! I'm ten years old! Don't let him in Isadora; he's mean to me!"
Before I opened the door, I turned to Noah and said, "Well, maybe if you stopped trashing his room he'd be a lot nicer to you." Then I opened the door and stopped Duncan from pushing past me with my hand and stepped out into the hallway with him, closing the door behind me. "I don't allow fighting in my room."
"But I'm not going to fight him. I'm only going to punch him a few times!" Duncan yelled, trying to push past me to get to Noah.
"No! Go downstairs and wait for me," I ordered as I blocked the doorway by putting my hands on either side of the door frame.
"Why? Just let me finish my business with the kid and-"
"No!" I yelled. "Go and wait for me," I whispered,"or I'll tell Bea what Noah said is true."
"I'm not in love with her!" Duncan whined.
"But you do like her," I pushed.
Duncan's eyes went wide, then he tried to act nonchalant and said, "Pfft, pfft...pfft...pfft!"
"Duncan, stop spitting on me and go wait for me downstairs!"I yelled angrily.
"Fine!" he raised his arms in defense and went downstairs.
I went back in my room and closed the door behind me. Then I crossed my arms and glared at Noah. "Noah..."
There's a reason Noah bothers Duncan and not me.
He's afraid of me. He must've been really desperate to get away from Duncan if he was going to run in my room.
Noah's eyes grew wide like a doe. "Don't do anything to me! I'll-I'll-I'll-I'll tell my Mom on you! I will!"
By the fearful look on his face, I could tell that he probably wouldn't and was scared to death at what I was planning. Now, I wasn't going to do anything bad to him, I just let him believe it so he would coöperate with me. It was going to be a little harder today, but possible nonetheless.
I looked at Bea. "Do you have my duct tape?" Bea, who had been sitting in the corner trying to keep her distance from Noah while all this was going on, nodded and tossed me my checkerboard duct tape.
The three of us were a sight as we walked out of my room and down to the TV room.
Bea refused to be anywhere else in the house besides my room because she didn't want to run into Aunt Josie or Marie. It was bad enough for her that she was within fifty feet of Noah, so I wrapped duct tape around her arms and wrapped the tape from that same string around my waist. Then I did the same thing with Noah, but I also stuck some tape on his mouth for good measure.
When we met Duncan in the TV room, I had to threaten Duncan with my duct tape to not come near us unless I told him to.
He agreed reluctantly.
I took the duct tape from Noah's face and gave him a very stern look. "Apologize, Noah. Now."
"For what?" He argued. "I didn't do any-"
"Noah!" I interrupted.
"I'm sorry," he mumbled.
"So we can hear you," I said through gritted teeth. "And like you mean it."
Noah sighed. "I'm sorry. Okay? I'm sorry! I am! I really am! Just please don't let Isadora eat me alive!"
The fact that I convinced him I could do that might be why he's so afraid of me...
I'm awful, I know.
Duncan sighed and crossed his arms and continued glaring at Noah.
"What do you say, Duncan?" I asked Duncan with a tone that implied he had to accept Noah's apology.
Duncan sighed once more and averted his eyes to the side, but his expression softened a bit. No matter how much Noah annoyed him, I knew Duncan couldn't hold a grudge over him. Duncan was too nice of a person, and he had a soft spot for little kids. Especially if those kids were little boys, because Duncan has always wanted a little brother. I guess he maybe just wanted to be a role model for someone.
"Make him say he forgives me, Beatrice! He loves you, so he'll listen to you!" Noah cried as he tugged at Bea's sleeve while she inched away from him and looked at me for help.
I pulled Noah off of Bea and gave Duncan a look that said, "Hurry up and say you forgive him; I've got stuff to do!"
Duncan cringed at Noah's mentioning of his alleged love for Bea, but he saw the look I was giving him and, through gritted teeth, said, "Fine."
"Now hug," I ordered, crossing my arms.
Noah and Duncan began to object, but I glared at the both of them and ordered more sternly, "Hug."
Duncan sighed, but he walked over to Noah and put his arm around; Noah returned the hug. Duncan smiled and looked down Noah. "Yeah, you're not so bad kid-oh!" Duncan released Noah and clutched the spot on his stomach that Noah had punched with the hand he had slipped out from underneath the duct tape.
"Noah!" I glared at him. "Are you serious?!"
"Hey, you guys aren't using the TV, are you?"
We all turned to see Marie standing behind us. She walked past us and plopped herself down on the couch. Grabbing the remote, she turned the TV on and said, "Good, because I need it." She turned it on Disney Channel and, surprisingly, turned on my favorite TV show, Adam&Ada. It was the premiere of the new episode! I had completely forgotten about it! I had been waiting for that episode for three weeks!
It's a good show. Don't judge me.
I squealed and practically flew over to the seat next to Marie, bringing Beatrice, Noah, and Duncan (Beatrice and Noah ran into him, pushing him in the direction I was dragging them) with me. "I love this show!"
Marie looked at me with confusion clearly visible on her face.
However, I ignored it and continued fangirling. "Did you see the last episode?"
"The one where Adam got jealous of Liam?" Marie asked.
"Yes!" I exclaimed. "I love the scene where Adam finds out he has feelings for Ada!"
"That's my favorite part!" Marie smiled. "It was so sweet!"
"I loved it when he said, " I began to quote Adam, " 'I like it when we play piano and our hands accidentally touch.' "
" 'And I get this awesome feeling'," Marie began quoting along with me, " 'that no one has ever made me feel.' "
"Great," Duncan said dully. "You two found something in common. Now could you please disconnect these two so that they can get off of me?"
The episode began and Marie and I squealed.
"I guess no-" Marie and I interrupted Duncan by telling him to be quiet.
"Please?" Duncan begged, but Bea put a hand over his mouth. "Shh! I'm trying to watch!"
Duncan gave her a confused look.
"What?" Bea asked. "This show is addicting."
Yup. I could definitely tell that this was the start of a new friendship.
Yes! It's done! Oh my gosh my eyes hurt...
Hope it was good enough...? Yes? No?
Anyways, uh...so I was kind of hoping that maybe you guys could, um, give me some constructive criticism on my writing, and um, how to get better, because I really want to be a great writer some day, and, uh, I want to know how to get better, so, uh, if you want to, could you give me some criticism or maybe, uh, get someone you know that's a critic to, uh, read a couple of my latest chapters?
Or is that what Beta Readers are for, you know, I've never really had one. I thought they just checked your story for grammatical mistakes and whatnot, but do they give you constructive criticism too?
Just want to know...
Oh and Adam&Ada is based off of the show Austin&Ally (my favorite show :D). Just thought you should know incase you don't watch Disney Channel...
"She said, 'I love this song; I've heard it before, and it stole my heart; I know every word.' She's gonna dance all night-night till it hurts, singing the Best Song Ever, Best Song Ever...Give Me Your Hand!"
~ Give Me Your Hand (Best Song Ever) by The Ready Set
Go listen to it if you haven't! Go! :D
;)