harvest moon; a wonderful life

chapter 2- new day, new people

Chapter 2- new day, new people

its normal to not sleep in a new place, but at the time I swear, it was one second after I closed my eyes I opened them right back up to see takakura looking at me, “hi takakura. Is there something I can help you with?” I asked takakura  five seconds after I opened my eyes. 

“yep you need to plant those crops, feed your cow and your dog, and milk your cow.” takakura answered.

“I’ll do that in the morning” I said as I turned over, facing away from takakura. 

It wasn’t 5 minutes later when he ripped off my blanket and poured cold water all over me, “now get up and put your matrices out in the sun…or when the sun rises” takakura said in the same straight look he had on yesterday. When he left, I got my jeans and a tee shirt, and my boots on. And rush outside to see takakura taking a watering can out of the shed.

I looked at my watch ,“4:30 in the morning? Why takakura? Why do I have to wake up at 4:30 in the morning?” I said as we walked to the barn. 

“because, I pick up the milk, eggs, and crops at 6:00am, so if you want money, to buy more crops I suggest you stop whining to me and get to work!” for once, I saw takakura’s eyes… and they were not happy, I knew takakura wasn’t the kind to lose a battle so I stopped arguing and went to work. 

At 5:00am I had milked my cow, fed her, and fed my dog and now I just needed to sell my milk, 

when this girl with brown hair, a white and orange shirt, and jeans, came up to me, while I was in the pasture, she was the youngest person on the island I have meet so far. “hi you must be Emily, the new farm owner, I am Lumina, I am the youngest best piano player, and wealthiest 18 year old on the island” Lumina said, 

its funny I would have believed she was only 10, not 18. “oh you’re the one who lives in the biggest house up on the hill, wow your a rich 18 year old, and have a whole house, that’s bigger then this whole lot, and all to your self, too!” I couldn’t have believed my eyes, she must have won the Olympics like 11 times! Cause she was so skinny it looked like she could have. 

“oh no, I don’t live by myself, I live with my grandma, Romana and our butler, Sebastian… he’s more like a grandpa then a butler.” Lumina said quietly “my grandma told me to introduce myself to you, and show you around the island”. 

After I put the milk in the shipping room, Lumina showed me the rest of the town I keep forgetting, if the buildings are so easy to forget why do they call this place forget me not valley? I learned a few more buildings like the inner inn, Romana’s villa, Gustafa’s yurt, and Cody’s house. As we passed Cody’s house Lumina whispered to me “Cody barley comes out of his house, when he dose he locks his door, no one has ever been in his house, people make up rumors about him, all the time, stuff like he is a spy, he got stuck on this island, but he’s always there when a new boat comes, like he is thinking about leaving! Maybe he is a spy!” 

Then I heard a small scream, like a girl scream, “did you hear that?” I asked Lumina.

I nodded, “anyone who knows about him being a spy, he takes them into his house, and wipes there memoirs, we hear those screams from his house all the time, he also leaves this town every week with an full sack, when he comes back, the sack is empty.”

it took me seconds to remember the strange man staring at my boat as it went way… “I-is Cody dark skinned?” I asked, 

Lumina nodded, 

“h-has so many tattoos it looks like it suppose to be his skin with no end?” I asked another question, 

Lumina nodded again, then all of a sudden she got a scared look on her face, 

“I-is he behind me, isn’t he?” Lumina nodded slowly. I turned around to see someone even taller then my chicken coop, 

“what are you two doing on my property?” Cody said in a deep, deep voice. 

“u-umm” both me and Lumina said at the same time. “Lumina! Hey Lumina, did you get my ball from over there?” a little boy said as he walked over, now he was the youngest person I met yet! 

“Hugh what are yo-… oh right the ball, you said you heard there was a new girl in town, so I remembered grandma told my to say hi… and when I ran off, you yelled grab the ball on your way back up” 

Hugh nodded. I ran and grabbed the ball, 

Cody gave me a wired stare, like he was…thinking. “hope you will enjoy the island, Emily” Cody called as I walked up the hill away from his house. 

“how did he-” I asked Lumina, 

but before I could finished, Hugh, said to me “he knows all, he see’s all!” 

Lumina could tell I was a little crept out, that Cody knew what my name was and how Hugh knew all this, cause she said, “oh stop it Hugh, your scaring Emily, 8 year olds are suppose to dream about space man and race cars, not what Cody is or what Cody isn’t!” Lumina screamed. 

Nice place isn’t it?, “I am sure he’s not that bad” I said as Hugh, Lumina, and I started to play catch and chase, by the beach. 

“will its normal for Hugh to make up rumors about people, its not normal that I agree with him” Lumina said when she caught the ball. 

“what are some of the rumors?” I asked when Hugh got the ball. 

“oh, like that marlin has dated every girl on the island at least once, will beside you Lumina and you” Hugh giggled. “oh its getting pretty late, I should get going, my mom and dad said to get home before 7:30pm”

“my grandma told me to be back before 7:30pm too” Lumina said as she walked off to her home.

“well, it looks like I’m off to my farm” I said to myself, when those two were gone. I turned around to walk into my farm, when the tall figure was back in front of me, meaning Cody. 

“gulp” I said in a slow quite voice.

“you seem scared of me. Emily.” Cody said in his deep voice. “and tell me what you heard coming from my house. Because, you weren’t there to get the ball. You have no reason to be in my corner of the island.” Cody’s house, was right by the hills of the island, that were too steep to climb, and there’s really no reason to be over there, besides to be near Cody’s house. Which obviously upset him.

“what? I didn’t hear anyone, I mean anything, coming from your house, I swear” I yelled with my eyes closed, I felt like I was going to cry.

“Cody, I told her to go pick some flowers from my mom,” rock said as he ran up to me and Cody, he blocked me so Cody couldn’t see me crying “she’s been needing new flowers for weeks, and I wouldn’t look very manley, if I went and picked flowers.”

“hmm, I don’t want to see nether of you on my property, ever again, unless you have a better reason then, beside picking daises, got it?” Cody yelled.

Rock nodded.

Cody walked off to his house, with a sack filled with who knows what.

Rock turned around to me, “are you ok?” rock asked me as he pulled my hands away from my face to make sure I was ok.

“yeah, I’m fine, just a little scared” I said as I wiped away a few tears.

“here take this, tissues” rock said as he took out a tissue

What I didn’t relive, is that rock was one of the nicest and sweatiest guy I meet, so far. “thanks rock, but I’m ok, really” I told rock as I gave the tissue back.

“well… keep this, just in case Cody scares you again” rock said like he was worried about me, and I knew he was. “its getting late, you should get home. I’ll walk you home” he said again sounding worried. I whipped the last of my tears away with the tissue rock gave me.