Author's Note (July 2005):

This story was actually written, or published in 2003. But, I realized recently that it was silly to have split it up into two stories, and so, I fixed it. I went back, and re-did it. Not the story itself! I left most of the content the same; and I added no phrases or extra words. Nothing like that! All I really ended up doing was combining the two different stories into two different chapters, and doing a little spell check. And, oh yea! I re-did some spellings in the names, and things like that. But, I didn't want to change the story itself, because it was probably one of my (slightly) better short stories from way back in the day, and I'd like to see how I grew over the years, and I'd like you to see that as well. So, please enjoy this!

Always,

Michi