As I sat there, on the bus, I knew that summer was coming to an end. College was in two weeks, and I could feel all my anxiety creeping up on me. I sit in the chair, listening to K.K Slider on the radio. Hopefully the villagers will be nice to me, because I don't tank I'm ready for a dorm yet. I shake my leg to the song, and watch the family right beside me. Not in a creepy way, but because I thought it was cute. There was an elderly woman and two other adults with a kid, singing and playing. So cute, so innocent. Oh well. There's some cat that just walked out of the bathroom, and we locked eyes. He smiled and waved, so I waved back. He was walking back to his seat, but someone else was sitting there. Aw, I kinda feel bad. I offer him the seat next to me, and he smiles, coming to sit down.
"Thanks a lot! This bus can be crazy sometimes!" The blue cat says. "Oh yeah, no problem! I don't mind" I say, cheerfully. "Where are you going?" The cat asks again. "I'm moving to a new town, planning to ride the train to college every day." "You're not gonna get a dorm?" "No. I'm a very extroverted and talkative person, but I still do like being by myself. Plus, I have a feeling my dorm roommate would be really annoying." "Yeah. I had this one roommate that would always play video games with the tv turned up really loud. It sucked the most when he would play sonic heroes or some other loud game." "Ooh, that seems bad." I reply. "If you don't mind me asking, what's your name?" "Oh, it's Vincent. "Nice to meet you, I'm Rover." The cat says. "Hi rover!" We both continue riding the train, talking back and forth during moments of the train ride. Well. If the town is like Rover, I'm gonna enjoy living here!
i could feel the train slowly coming to a halt, and the music abruptly stops as a voice comes over the intercom. "Station 7, now getting off. Station 7, now getting off." The voice says. "Well, I guess this is my stop." I say to Rover, with a sigh. "Alright, thanks for talking to me! I'm also on the train a lot, so maybe we'll run into each other again. Goodbye!" Rover says. Walking away and about to come off the bus, I don't feel myself. I'm always social and do crazy stuff that makes me laugh, not really caring of what others think of me. If others like me, great! If not, oh well. But I guess the past day or two I've been kinda down. Rover is happy, and I think I'm just nervous. Oh well, I'm sure I'll get over it. About to walk off, I put some headphones in and listen to some music.
Quick note: I'm gonna keep changing from first and third person throughout this story, so I'm gonna have this symbol (/) whenever I'm changing perspectives
Getting off the bus, Vincent reaches into his bag, trying to find the map he crammed in there earlier. "Ugh, come on! I gotta remember not to cram stuff in here!" He said to himself, chuckling "Ah, here it is! Ok, where exactly do I go?" Vincent said, checking the map. "The town hall is supposedly..." Vincent checked the map, and counted the houses. "I'm sure I'll funded it when I cross the bridge." He said to himself again, walking away from the train stop.
Writer's note: I know in the games the train station is fairly close to the town hall, but screw it, I'm telling a story.
Vincent walks around the town, looking VERY lost. "Ok, this house is right here, and the cafe I can see from here, so... I think the main hall is near the café." Vincent said again, walking to the café. Vincent checked his map, looked up, and then FINALLY found the main hall!
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Walking in, I see a cute little shi tzu behind a counter. "Hey! Do you need anything?" The yellow dog asks me. "Yeah, I'm uh, moving into the town." "Oh, you're early!" She said, excitedly. "Hang on sweetie, I'm gonna go get your papers, if you can just give me a second." She says. The dog turns around and skips to her filing cabinet, opening it up. She pulls out my paperwork, and prances back to the desk. "This is the right paperwork, yes?" She asks, handing me the papers. I examine the paper closely. "Brett Vincent McMansin" it reads, it has my legal documents, and the house. "Yes mam, this is it." I say, giving the papers back to the woman. "Great! Do you want me to call you Brett" "I go by Vincent." "Alright, nice to have you in our community Vincent! My name is Isabelle, and thanks for coming to Kuzika, I look forward to seeing you around!" Isabelle says, with a smile. "If you can sit down for a minute, I need to make a call to Tom Nook, he's gonna Set things up so things are ready!" Isabelle is super happy, she seems like an awesome person.
"Hey Tom, it's Isabelle! We have the new guy. Yeah, he is early, maybe he's dedicated? Heh. Anyways, just got the paperwork to him, and we're about to go through the BORING stuff, so enjoy being gone!" Isabelle giggles. "Ok, see you around" she replies, and the hangs up. "Ok, we're about to do all the legal stuff and go through the paperwork and ID, so sorry. I HATE the boring part, but it can't be so bad." Isabelle says to me. She then pushes her Rollie-Chair torwards me, and spins around. "Sorry, I just love doing that." Isabelle giggles. "Alright well I need to see some ID please." I pull out my ID and she examines it
Writers note: Do you need ID to buy a house? I don't know, probably not. I'm just gonna use the "Animal Crossing is an alternate universe" excuse.
We go through all the paper work, and then work things out, and I have to go to Tom Nook's now. Believe me, it was nothing interesting at all, which is probably why the writer didn't talk about it.
Isabelle walks me to Nook's Homes, and a raccoon is sitting there, listening to the radio.
"Just living proof that the camera's lying, lying. And O-o-o-pen wide" the raccoon sings, not realizing we're there. Isabelle has to hold in her giggles, and I smiled. "Mr Tom Nook sir." Isabelle said, and Tom jolted, looking like he was both shocked and embarrassed. "Ah, hello! Welcome to the town uh..." "Vincent." "Vincent! It's a pleasure having you!" Tom nook says. "I gotta get back to work, I'll see you guys around!" Isabelle interrupts, walking out. "Anyways, what brings you to the town?" "Well, my college is an hour away, and I don't think I want a dorm room. I also heard this town was good, and the people wee friendly. Of course, this a a review from a couple years ago, but I'm optimistic." I reply. "Yes yes! Well, you're actually VERY lucky! I used to have people work at my shop for a good while to pay off my loans, but now you can do whatever to pay it off! Not only that, but we spend about a day to prepare your house, so you would usually have to sleep in a tent for a night, but we have another house for you! We were gonna build a building for a business that was coming, but they couldn't actually obtain it." Tom nook says, reaching for his laptop, and typing something in. He keeps typing something in, nad then turns his laptop torwards me. "Do you wanna go check it out?" I look into the screen. It didn't seem bad! It was nice, and near the beach! I'm interested. "Yeah sure!" I reply. "Excellent!" Tom Nook shuts his laptop and walks to the door.
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Walking to the house, Tom Nook sees Bones, frolicking around and chasing butterflies. "Bones! How are you!" Tom shouts to Bones. "Hey! In doing petty good! Who's your little friend there, yip yip?" "This is Vincent. He's moving here." Vnicent smiles and waves at Bones. "Hey Vincent! Hope to see you around!" Bones says, eager and happy. While walking to the house, Vincent thinks to himself.
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Everyone seems nice so far! This seems good, I just hope I'll be as nice as them. Studies suck, and school's gonna be way too stressful. Ugh, I'll try my best!
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Vincent sees the house, and actually likes it! "Hmm, I like this!" He says. "Excellent!" Tom Nook says, reaching for the door. "It's got plenty of room for whatever you need, too!"'Vincent walks in, and observes the inside of the empty house. Vincent starts skipping around, just seeing how big it is. Obviously it's average house size. Vincent stops after a couple seconds, and thinks. "Ok, I'm sold!" Vincent says . "Excellent! It will take a while to get items from you here, but for now we can put your bed in here!" "Alright!"
Vincent and Tom Nook spend the rest of the day putting Vincent's bed in the house, and then discussing the fees for everything at the end of the day. Vincent heads on home and goes straight to bed
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Today's been tiring. Can't wait until everything settles in. From what I can tell, everyone's super nice! College starts in a week, so I better get to everything I can! Well, night!
So this was my first chapter for my new story! I'm in the middle of writing a fanfic for plastic memories, and this is just a side project. This chapter is kinda weak, I'll admit. But it sets up the character so far. I'm sorry, I know it's annoying when you read a story that's not finished. I will post more chapters for this, but I dunno how quickly. I'm working on the plastic memories one, I gotta work on the epilogue for my other animal crossing story, and I have way too much going on in my life. My life is really annoying and infuriating at the moment, which is why the character is pretty weak right now, but the story will get more lighthearted. It's kinda boring at times, but it's gonna be fun soon, I promise.