Kai was excited to be back in Mineral Town. The local women were pretty good looking, the food at Doug's Inn was great, the town's people were pretty friendly, and he made a good amount of money too even with the small amount of people living there. However there was one part he didn't like about the town…Popuri. She was a piece of work and not the good kind either. She was a bit of an idiot, had a strong childish air around her, and practically stalked him. She was a cute girl, but she was always following him around. The only times she didn't bother him were when she was at home on Mondays-Saturday during certain times. Sundays and Tuesdays he wasn't so lucky.

If only he could find a wife so Popuri would fuck off. There weren't too many women in town to woo. Elli was okay, but she was dedicated to her work and probably wouldn't want to leave the village only to come back every summer to see her brother and grandmother. Next up was Ann and Karen. Ann was alright, but he found her a bit bland. Plus she obviously didn't want to leave her dad behind to care for the inn alone. Karen was pretty cute and so was Mary. Maybe one of them would become his wife or girlfriend. Karen was fun to be around and he had a nice sense of humor. She was also pretty hot and a great dancer. Mary was smart, cute, and caring. She'd love traveling and have all sorts of things to write about.

Kai then decided to head off to Mary's library. Locked, crap! He looked at his watch. Mary's family was in the mountains so he'd have to wait until she came home. He suddenly heard a couple of voices. It sounded like May and Popuri! He looked around quickly and then leaped into a bush nearby. Just then May and Popuri walked by. Popuri looked around. "Man, where is he?"

"I saw him going this way." May informed the older female.

"Kai! Kai!" Popuri yelled. "Oh where is he?"

'DON'T FIND ME! DON'T FIND ME!' Kai thought to himself. Luckily Popuri walked on by and kept going. He sighed with relief as she left the area. He climbed out of the bushes only for something to knock him back into the bushes, knocking him out for quite some time. When he woke up, he found a couple of faces looking down at him.

"Kai, are you okay?" asked Elli looking concerned. "You were out for quite some time."

"Yeah. I'm fine, but something hit me in the head really hard." He rubbed his sore head.

"Sorry about that." A blonde young woman said blushing slightly as Elli went off. He had never seen her before. She was wearing overalls, had large blue eyes, and long blonde hair. She was kind of pretty too. She must be the farmer that was taking over that old farm that Mary told him about. He didn't know her name though. Popuri interrupted them before Mary could give a name.

"Don't worry about it. It my fault for being in the bushes."

"What were you doing in the bushes?"

"I was hiding from Popuri."

"Why would you hid from Popuri?" the woman looked confused.

"She's always stalking me and she won't leave me alone." he confessed. "I mean she's alright, but she keeps bothering me and Rick won't leave me alone about her."

"Ooh so you're Kai!" said the blonde woman.

"Rick mentioned me before, huh?" Kai frowned. "'He's told you how big a jerk I am, huh?"

"That's all he talks about…same with Popuri."

"You mean talking about me all the time?"

"Do you two have something going on?" she raised a brow.

"Why do you ask?" Kai too raised a brow at her.

"Uh no reason." She said blushing. "It's just that she's always talking about you."

"Heh, well I'm on the market if you're interested." He said smirking and even winked at the blonde woman.

"Who said I was interested?"

"Well sorry if I'm mistaken, but the blush on your face says otherwise."

"And if I'm mistaken, the look on my face agrees with Rick that you're a cocky womanizer."

"Hey don't be like that." Kai said pretending to pout. "I'm a nice guy once you get to know me."

"We'll see."

Before Kai could ask her name, Elli came back into the room with a Turbojolt potion. "Here you are, Kai. The doctor says you need it."

"Thanks, Elli."

"Oh by the way, Popuri stopped by."

"Oh. What did she want?"

"She was just looking for you not too long ago. Of course you weren't here at the time though. She said if you happened to stop by to come see her. She has something for you."

"Okay, thanks." Kai sighed. "I'd better get going. People are going to start showing up at the restaurant soon."

"Take care, Kai."

As Kai was leaving, he remembered to ask the woman for her name and maybe even her number, but found her to be gone. Where'd she go? He just shrugged and started off towards the beach. Once he was there, he saw Barley, May, and Stu at the beach. He waved at them as he passed them by. If he was lucky, he'd have some children someday. Hopefully not with Popuri.

Just as he was making snow cones for the kids on the beach, he heard Popuri's annoying voice. "KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAI! OVER HERE! IT'S POPURI!"

"Yeah, in a min…" Just as Stu and May had gotten their cones, Popuri jumped on Kai out of nowhere causing him to fall over and knock the snow cone machine over. Kai groaned when he heard it break. The snow cone machine was a gift he had gotten from a pretty, young girl in Forget-Me-Not Valley. The machine had made him tons of money, especially in the summer time. Now he'd have to buy a new one which could take weeks if not days for a new one to come in. He felt like strangling the pink haired woman, but refrained from doing so. He'd hate to hear Rick's mouth.

"I gotcha, Kai!" she giggled.

"Yeah and you got my snow cone machine." He snapped, not in the mood to entertain the woman's playful attitude.

"Oops! Sorry, Kai, but I couldn't help it! I'm just so glad to see you!" she blushed.

"Well could you take that gladness somewhere else? I've gotta clean this mess up." He said glaring at her. Was it necessary for her to jump over the counter and tackle him? She could have just easily went around the counter and hugged him.

"I'll help!" Popuri said eagerly.

"No thanks. You've helped enough."

"Huh? I just got here." Popuri looked confused.

"POPURI!" Kai frowned. Great. Just what he needed, RICK. "So this is where you've been! I needed your help today, but you were gone all day wasting your time with him!"

"Calm down, Rick." Karen rolled her eyes at her friend. "Let her hang out with who she wants."

"Not with him. He's no good."

"I'm not in the mood for your shit, Rick." Kai snapped. "Take her with you and get the hell out if you came to start something."

"WHAT?!" Rick shook his fist at the man. "I OUGHT TO…"

"Rick, we only came here to get something to eat." Karen said coming between him and Kai. "I knew it was a bad idea to bring you along here."

"Did you not hear what he just said?"

"I heard him, but you brought it on yourself. Keep egging him on and he'll whoop your ass. I don't blame Kai for acting that way." The brunette sighed. "You're always harassing him about Popuri. Let her hang out with him if she wants to."

"I don't trust this son of a gun!"

"Listen, if you aren't going to buy something, then please leave. I'm having a bad day."

"Oh what's wrong Kai?" Popuri said grabbing her crush's arm.

"Well you broke my snow cone machine." He glared at her. This bitch was a dense one.

"Did I do that? I'm sorry, Kai!" Popuri's face then lit up. "OH! How I help out around here?"

"I just told you no." he snapped. "We've already discussed this!"

"Oh right, but I can still help out! I can get you a new snow cone machine on the double." Popuri ran out.

Rick ran after his sister, loudly asking her how she planned to do so. Karen rolled her eyes. "Rick is such a handful sometimes. Sorry about that, Kai. I don't know why he dislikes you so much."

"He thinks I like Popuri or something."

"Do you?"

"She's nice and everything, but she's not my type and troublesome. Just a few minutes ago, she jumped across the counter and knocked over my snow cone machine and that's one of my most popular items!"

"She jumped across?" she looked surprised.

"Yes. Not only that, but she keeps stalking me and gets mad whenever I talk to another girl." the young man sighed. "When I spoke to Mary the other day, she got all jealous and asked if I liked her. When I said I did, she got all mad and got this weird look on her face. She looked like she wanted to attack me for saying Mary looked better."

"You like Mary?"

"She's alright. I wouldn't mind being with her if that's what you're asking." Kai shrugged as he dumped the last of the machine into the trash. "I'd rather marry just about anybody in this village if it means not marrying Popuri."

"I see. Have you ever told her to leave you alone or that you're not interested?"

"I've tried, but all she does is just get mad and ask who I'm seeing and insult every girl I talk to." He sighed as he cleaned off the counter. "I can't even get a meal with her harassing Ann with that evil look in her eyes."

Karen shook her head. "What some girls will do to make sure their crush doesn't get taken away from them…well you know what you have to do, right?"

"Yeah. Getting a girlfriend so she'll back off. I'm working on it."

"If you want, I could set you up with Mary or Ann if you'd like."

"It couldn't hurt."

"Great. I'll let you know where to meet." Karen smiled and gave Kai a thumbs up. She then looked at the clock. "Oh crap! It's time to get back to work. I'd better go before dad throws a fit. I'll just have something to go."

Kai gave her something on the house and Karen went off on her way. It wasn't even five minutes after Karen left was when he realized he hadn't asked about that mysterious young woman's name was. Oh well.