Dear dedicated and totally amazing readers,

Hi. So, I bet you're all ready to behead me for not updating in like, a really long time. But I assure you, it's only partly my fault.

So, here's where I complain about my stupid life and go all teen angst on you guys.

School has completely taken over my life. Midterms, tests, projects (did anyone else have to do the National History Day project? Ughh, that was the worst), etc. Plus, the small complication of my social life has also interfered with me writing.

But alas, I had in fact been writing the much waited for Chapter 13 of Being 15 is Tougher. Actually, I had almost finished it. I just had to edit the chapter, and then it would be up for your reading pleasures.

Here's where the part explaining why said chapter isn't up yet.

So, yesterday my mom's friend from like Pennsylvania or something came over with her two obnoxious sons. They're 7 and 9. If anyone has younger brothers those ages, you feel my pain. They scream, wrestle, and are miniature tornadoes of destruction – constantly leaving a mess in their path. So after my mom couldn't handle any more shouting, she made me hand over my laptop to the little brats so they could play with it.

Apparently "playing with it" means throwing it down a flight of stairs.

When we heard the crash, we went to see what had happened and found my laptop, destroyed, on the floor. My tech-savvy uncle tried his best to fix it, but unfortunately it was useless.

My computer, along with everything I have written in the past 2 years, is gone.

Joyous.

As much as you might be upset about the extended delay, I'm a little more upset about the fact that all my original work, along with fanfiction, has disappeared forever.

So I'm stuck writing on my mom's dinosaur era computer. It's horribly slow, and turns off every half hour or so on its own. Yay.

Okay, that's quite enough self-pity.

Now, I promise that I will do everything I can to get chapter 13 uploaded soon. I know you all hate author's notes, but I felt obliged to give you all an explanation for my late-ness. And I really didn't feel like being bombarded with PM's and reviews asking when I was gonna be updating. It's quite annoying, and makes me feel guilty.

Ciao for now!

-BrightBlueConverse