The Diaries of Jack: Volume 1 Segment: Ann
He walked into the greenhouse and uprooted a tomato, of all the various crops. Walking toward the carpenter's house, he wondered if this was the right decision. This was his fifth fall on his grandfather's farm. And he still didn't have a girlfriend. Yep. This was definitely the right decision.
Jack paused once more and looked down the small path in the woods. Closing his eyes and sighing, he steps upon the sacred ground. After he had followed the path for awhile, he finally came to the Goddess' pond. At the stroke of nine AM, he tossed the tomato off of the bridge.
The Goddess, wringing her skirt out as she rose up out of the water, said...the usual.
"Why can't I just sit in a thrown, like that stupid Zeus?!?! No, I have to rise up out of some stupid pond, and I get split ends because of these stupid fish!" Suddenly the Goddess looked up and saw the farmer. "Oh...uhh....that was...well, that DIDN'T HAPPEN, okay?! Now Love, Weather, or Strength?"
Jack shook the puzzled/amazed/wierded-out look away from his tan face.
" Uhhh, Love please."
"Well, since you brought me a tomato, I guess, I can muster up something extra special for you, Jack..."
"How do you know my name?!?"
"I have my ways...
~*~
Ann straightened her braid, and tied a pretty silk green ribbon on the end. She also put on a touch of blush, and a few strokes of mascara. Today was a special day. Today she really wanted to impress Cliff. She had even killed a mouse to give to Cain.
She liked mice. But she liked Cliff more.
Ann walked out of her room, back into the store. She tried to keep her face turned away from her father. He didn't approve of dating, let alone dating Cliff.
But, clumsy as she was, the unavoidable happened...
She tripped over a Milker, and her father rushed to help her up.
"Ann are you alright?" As she rose to meet his eyes, a look of anger passed over his eyes. "What are you wearing?! I told you, no makeup!!!"
"But Daddy, I'm-"
" Your going out with that Cliff again aren't you! I told you not to! He doesn't have a job, or house, or goal in life, and he'll end up living off of you."
Ann stared straight at her father's eyes. As outgoing and tom-boyish as she was, this was no piece of cake. She had never disobeyed her father before.
"Dad, listen to me! I'm 18! I'm old enough to date, and to go out with the guy I like!
I don't care if you like him or not. I do, and that's enough for me."
She rushed out of the store, and ran to she and Cliff's meeting place behind the fishermans tent.
~*~
Jack walked slowly down the path from the Goddess' pond. He thought about what he had just done. Would the magic work for him?Or was he just a failure in the girl department? I mean, he was good at everything else. He had all of the extensions, even the baby bed. He had 6 cows, a sheep, 4 chickens, a gold trophy for the horse race and the dog race, and a BIG grass field. He also had 2,529,380 Gold Pieces. Why wouldn't girls like him?
As he walked along by the river, hinking about his successes and failures, Jack thought he heard laughter. Girlish laughter. Almost a giggle. Suddenly Jack had an instinct to head toward the small pond, instead of down the path to his farm. Picking up an herb and a veryberry along the path, he caught glimpse of an orange braid.
" Orange?" He thought to himself. "Giggling? What does that mean?"
He looked at the sky. "..and a bird..." he added as an afterthought.
Ann! She must be here!
Jack peeked around the trunk of a tree that he had used as a hiding place, and then he saw Cliff. That guy has all the luck, was the thought that crossed his mind.
~*~
Ann giggled madly at the joke Cliff had told. IT wasn't a funny joke.
Suddenly she turned. She stared right at the tree where Jack was standing.
"Umm...hi Ann."
Jack blushed as she walked over toward him. She placed a delicate hand on his rough shoulder. She raised her lips to his cheek, and gently touched the skin.
" Maybe we should get together sometime..." she said under her breath.
"Ummm, Ann? I thought that we were here on a date..." Cliff said in a rather dejected way.
"So did I." the girl muttered.
She kissed Jack again, this time on the lips, and ran, but didn't really run, back to the ranch.
When she reached the store, her father was suprised to see her acting so airy and happy.
"What happened? Did that no good Cliff give you a blue feather?"
"No," she replied."I'm through with Cliff. It's Jack I'm after."
