Hullo again! It's me, Snowfall, checking in to confirm that I am indeed not dead, thankfully.

I'm so sorry for not updating for this long! I meant to update several weeks ago and even wrote out most of Chapter 12, but I haven't had time to finish. This is due to multiple reasons, namely homework. As I am taking four AP classes this year, I expected the workload to increase dramatically. Yes, it can be tough at times, but honestly, I should have time to do stuff like write! Sadly, my time is being sucked slowly, surely away.

*is proud that, despite exhaustion, she managed to end a paragraph dramatically*

But yeah, so why is so much of my time being taken up if not completely by homework? Well, that would be because I do most of my writing on weekends, but last weekend was taken up with college touring, then lying on the couch, exhausted, for a day. This weekend I have a field trip for Environmental Science (we're going to a beach somewhere to do some environment testing I think). Next weekend I have an SAT. The weekend after is Homecoming. I should have time to write after the SAT and around Homecoming, so that shouldn't mess up my schedule much, but this weekend will be figurative death for me.

Going back to that bit about lying on the couch exhausted, which really didn't make much sense at all, I've been struggling with some sort of thing that makes me extremely tired. For instance, yesterday I crashed on the couch at about 8:15, stayed up because of the possibility of getting some more homework done. Then, after I finally got up to go to bed and realized it was 9 and therefore I was going to get to bed around 10 (I shower at night and for some reason getting showered and ready takes me 45 minutes), I started sobbing because I knew I wasn't getting to bed early, I was getting to bed at a relatively normal time if I was feeling relatively normal, which I wasn't. I'd be super tired in the morning (I actually was, this morning I could barely get out of bed). I've been crying pretty regularly every day this week out of tiredness, even when I don't actually feel that tired. I have no clue what's going on.

So my doctor either thinks I should stop taking my birth control pills (took them because my periods lasted 3 weeks, not for any other reason) or I have sleep apnea or something, even though it's actually more likely my brother has sleep apnea as he groans and possibly stops breathing at times during the night. But another possibility is that I have a form of reverse diabetes called hypoglycemia. You could probably look it up, but to save you the trouble, it basically means I have to make sure my blood sugar doesn't get too low, so I have to eat pretty constantly throughout the day. If I don't eat enough or if I eat too many carbs or too much sugar (and I love carbs so ehh) I crash on the couch with a headache and am too tired to move for at least half an hour.

So I'm sorry for the block-paragraph rant, but I figured you'd want an explanation for why I haven't been posting chapters lately. Hopefully I'll be able to add on the last 500 or so words on Chapter 12 and I can post it. But, yeah, my schedule is kind of freaking me out a little and I keep getting more and more tired and everything. Sorry if you thought this was a chapter, I promise I'll get it out soon! xD

This series is not dead, and it is not on hold. It is neither because if I declare it as such I'll stop working on it. However, it is unlikely I'll update again in the next week, week and a half or so. Sorry about that, but as people are generally understanding I'm sure you won't mind. :) (right?)

And sorry if the style of writing in this chapter bugs you. This is more of a brain splat than a chapter and this is how I talk. So, yeah, hope it doesn't bug you too much.