Disclaimer: I do not own Harvest Moon nor it's characters. Samantha and her family are mine though!
"Samantha."
A sable haired, light blue eyed young woman blinked slowly as she rolled on the bed onto her back to get a view of the door way. She pressed her ice blue Nintendo DS to her chest, giving her mother her undivided attention. "Wha? I was in the middle of trying to break my score…"
"I wanted to talk to you, Sam." Samantha's mother walked deeper into the room, taking a seat at the foot of her bed. She brushed long midnight strands off of her shoulder as she cleared her throat. Samantha knew that couldn't mean anything good. "Your father and I were talking… You know, you're 21 already, and the only one in the family who hasn't found a job they enjoy."
"Oh brother…" Samantha rolled back over on her stomach, her short hair messily covering most of her face, acting like blinders. Now it was pretty much just her and the DS. She started focusing on playing, completely disinterested in whatever her mother had to say. She heard the same old dull conversation once her birthday hit, and she didn't quite care for it anymore.
"This is serious!" Her mother barked. "We can't have you just idling, wasting your life away on that stupid game! Your father and I have made an important decision."
Samantha lazily raised an eye brow, pretending to be amused. "And what would that be, Oh Dear Hag?"
"We have some farm land that your father owns. It hasn't been used in 10 years, and it's over at Echo Village, but we're sending you to make use of it." She attempted to block out Samantha's DS screen with a hand, the girl swiftly rolling onto her back once more to keep her from messing up her up.
"You're nuts." The young woman simply responded. "There is no way I'm going to Hicksville when I lived in the City my whole life. Anyway, c'mon! You're gonna mess me up! Me and "Osu!" don't get along very well! I'm finally doing okay, and you're totally blowing it!"
Samantha's mother simply laughed, a little darkly if anything. "You think you have a choice? Oh, how cute! You'll be moving there, starting today, the first of Spring!"
Samantha sighed, annoyed at her mother's attempts. "Ma, please. You know I'm not…" The girl's eyes went wide as she finally took in her surroundings, her DS slipping from her hands and onto the bed. Her cabinets were gone, her closet was open, though barren on the inside, and all her smaller belongings were no longer where they had been. "M-my stuff! When the heck did you guys move everything?! How come I haven't noticed?!"
"Please. When you play your DS, you're practically in another world." Samantha's mother smirked, crossing her arms over her chest victoriously. "While you're there, I expect you to pick up farming, enjoy it, spread the family name and last but not least… Get married, for the love of everything holy!"
Samantha cringed just at the mention of the word marriage. "You expect me to magically fall in love with some country hick?! It ain't happening!" Saying she was indignant was putting it softly.
"Well, you better hope he works his charms, because you're going packing right now! No more mooching, young woman!" Samantha's mother snapped, and with that two men entered the room, picking up Samantha's bed by the legs, taking the girl with it.
"Dad?! Bro?! You agree with mom?!" Samantha asked, looking between the men, both of them remaining silent. "I see how it is… Well, when I'm doing a million times better than you jerks, you'll see!"
The girl kicked and screamed, but her complaints fell on deaf ears as they loaded the girl up with her belongs in the back of a moving van and took off, heading towards Echo Village.
Needless to say, she never managed to get very far in her game.
End.
