Chapter 1:

My name is Isabella. I have long, curly, light brown hair and dark brown eyes. I am not exactly skinny but Im not fat either..you can call me curvy. I am 18 years old and I just moved to Mineral Town to raise a farm. Well my mom thought it would be a good experience before I went to college.

When I get there its about 9 am. I meet Thomas, the mayor, and he introduces himself.

"Hello there! You must be Isabella correct?" He asks putting out his hand to shake mine.

"Yup thats me!" I say shaking his hand.

"Alright! Let me show you to your new home!"

"Thanks!"

We make small talk as we pass through the town square and past many little stores.

When we get to the ranch I say "Ummm..is this it?"

It was a small little house. It had a small bed, a table and an old TV. It didn't even have a kitchen.

"Yup! Home sweet home! Anything you need can need ordered from the TV shopping network. Bye now!" He says very quickly while rushing out the door. "Wait! But ummm..ohhhh ok..that was sort of rude."

I look around my small house and then all the sudden a cute, tiny brown puppy comes out from behind the table!

"Awww aren't you cuuute? Well at least Thomas gave me something good...i'll call you Wally!"

The puppy barked and then licked my face. "Alright down boy!" I laughed. "Well what should we do now? Its only 9:30 in the morning and I have absolutely nothing to do.."

I was bored and lonely so I decided to take Wally out for a walk and meet some new people around town. The first place I saw was a blacksmiths shop so I decided to investigate.

"GRAAAY GET DOWN HERE NOW." An old man screamed.

"What grandpa?" A cute young boy asked. He was wearing an UMA hat that was covering most of his face.

"Why cant you do anything right?" The man sighed.

"I try my best.." The young boy whispered then he noticed me.

"Ohh hi...are you new here?" He said obviously embarrassed by what I just saw.

"Yeah my name is Isabella I-I just took over the old ranch." I said trying to

sound casual.

"Ohh..Im Gray I work here.." Gray said looking down.

"Cool!" I said smiling hoping to see a smile come from his face.

"Hello there Isabella! Im Saibara! I own this blacksmiths shop." He says reaching his hand out to shake mine.

"Nice to meet you..well ill let you guys get back to work! I hope to see you around Gray." I say giving him a wink.

I leave and continue on with walking Wally.

'I swear just before I left I saw him smile. He is pretty cute.' I think in my head then I smile to myself.

Then suddenly I hear two people talking, it sounds like three girls.

"OH MY GOSH! Its the first day of summer tomorrow and guess what that means!" A girl with pink hair practically squeals.

"Kai is coming! Ekkk!" The other two girls shouted in their high pitch voices.

'Who is Kai?' I thought.

I walked passed them and the girl with the pink hair said "Hello! Are you the new ranch owner?"

"Oh hi! Yup thats me! My name is Isabella." I said smiling.

"Nice to meet you! My name is Popuri. This is Mary." Popuri, the pink haired girl, said pointing to a short girl with black glasses and short black hair and she was wearing a blue school dress.

"And this is Karen!" Popuri said pointing to a girl with straight long brown hair with two blonde streaks right in the front and green eyes.

"Hi!" Karen said cheerfully.

"Hello! Nice to meet you!" I said shaking her hand.

"Hello.." Mary said shyly.

"Hi! Nice to meet you!" She seemed shy so I didn't shake her hand. I didn't want to make her uncomfortable.

There was sort of an awkward pause for a few moments.

"So I don't want to sound weird or like a stalker or something but I overheard your guys conversation before.." I said sorta embarrassed but curious.

"Ohhh no problem! About Kai right?" Popuri asked giggling.

"Yeah I was just curious about who he was? You guys seemed very..excited about him coming to town." I said trying to get as much information as I could out of them.

"Kai comes to Mineral Town every summer! He runs the Snack Shack on the beach and he is soo cute! He can make girls just melt!" Karen said with a dreamy look on her face.

"Ooooh! Well Im excited to meet him tomorrow!" I laughed.

"You shouldn't even bother! He doesn't even look twice at any of us!" Mary said sighing.

"Mary, don't be so pessimistic! He has known us since we were 12! Thats why! Maybe he will fall for our new little farmer!" Popuri giggled and elbowed Isabella's stomach playfully.

Karen and Mary looked me up and down.

"Thanks but I don't think so." I blushed. "Well I better get going! See you girls soon!"

I waved and walked away.

"Bye Izzie!" Popuri shouted after me.

'Popuri seems nice, I guess I already have a nickname. Im not sure about those other two. But Im very excited to meet this Kai guy.' I smiled to myself.

I wondered all around town meeting a lot of new people who seemed really nice. All greeting me and making me feel welcome. But the whole time all I could think about was Kai.

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