Unprecedented Wedding

Chapter 1: Two Problems with one solution

Disclaimer: I do not own Harvest Moon characters, and I will never be able to (sniff).

Ca-li-for-nia girls are unforgettable ~

The song rang out to the street but no one could care less that a very petite girl with sun gold hair picked up her cell phone and without even looking at the ID caller and instantly regretted it very much as the voice came to her ear and almost blasting her eardrums out as the shrill scream thankfully wasn't heard by everyone else except the one's closest to her. With a quick utter of apology she snapped her nice black cell phone off without another expression on her face, just one of deep remorse.

Next to her a very gorgeous brunette turned to look at the petite blond, the brunette had gorgeous long legs and a curvaceous body along with her very matured yet beautiful features. She had sea green eyes and her lips were beautiful and luscious, the brunette almost resembled a seductress if it wasn't for her prim and proper clothes. The brunette asked in her cool and calm voice

"What is your mother screaming about?"

The petite blond with beautiful sea blue eyes looked up from the ground, in fact every detail about her rings and screams out petite and dainty. She was even shorter than her gorgeous brunette friend. Cute button nose, small pouty lips and her curvy and slim body, the blond girl was definitely the embodiment of petite. She muttered darkly.

"She was screaming because I skipped out on a Blind date."

The brunette beside her rolled her eyes and continued to sip her drink, but the cute pink headed girl on the other side of the petite blond had a short stature, but her cherub cheeks and beautiful pink eyes were her selling points and so was that cheeky grin and cute nose, she chirped happily as she asked

"So it was an arranged date! Why didn't you want to go Claire?"

Claire's eyes travelled to the brunette as if testing the waters before she muttered rather darkly.

"…I saw his picture, he was fat and pudgy, and he didn't look like Tom cruise."

The brunette didn't even blink and eyelash on it as she turned towards Claire in a very stern way which sent Claire stumbling backwards several steps as she said

"You mean, he has 1.5 kg fatter than Tom Cruise and that he had lesser muscles than Tom Cruise?"

Claire only had a small 'eep' as her pink haired friend turned to her with the look on her eyes with a small shake of her head and a sigh and the brunette said sharply.

"You should be more responsible! You were the one who asked to get married, you best start attending these Blind dates, and I don't care how unlike Tom Cruise they really are…"

Claire's bottom lip trembled slightly but she remained strong willed like her father had always told her to be but regardless she hung her head in shame as she murmured

"Sorry Karen, but… but he REALLY is fat and pudgy!"

Karen rolled her eyes but she nodded to show that she will agree with her friend for now, but the girl on Claire's other side was quick to be curious and bit on the bate.

"Just how fat and pudgy was he Claire?"

Claire turned to look at her friend as her grin widened and replied

"VERY FAT and VERY PUDGY! He had to be 50 at least."

"Kilograms?"

Claire shook her head and said

"Tut, tut, I thought you were faster to catch on than that Popuri! He looks 50 years old!"

Popuri gasped, her hands to her mouth as her eyes widened and then she turned on Karen and said in a very huffy yet supposedly angry tone.

"Claire doesn't deserve that!"

Karen gave one critical eye at Claire before she shrugged only to throw her drink into the bin before she said

"Well, we better get our hair and nails done. Ann is going to have a fanfare with this news, if only she wasn't busy trying to finish her gourmet cooking."

Popuri clapped her hands in delight before she slipped she hooked her arms around her two friends and jumped up and down.

"Oh yes, let's!"

On the other side of the phone, a beautiful brown haired woman with electric blue eyes shut her phone with a distinct snap before she dropped herself down to the armchair with a loud sigh. The man beside her had sun gold blond hair and his green eyes peered over the newspapers as he watched the lady drain the tension out of her body.

"…I can't believe Claire! How could she bail on this one? I made so many arrangements! I am so embarrassed, I can never look at Lucy in the eye ever again."

The man continued to watch the woman before he distinctly flipped the page on his newspaper before he replied in a slightly calm and non-reactive manner.

"…You should start hiding the photos you get from Lucy."

The woman turned to the innocent bystander who was having his eyes glued onto the newspaper as if feeling her glare through his newspapers he said nothing afterwards, she slipped her phone into her handbag before she said

"I will have to face the music soon."

The man with a sigh, closed his newspapers and folded them neatly and laid them on the table before he moved to her side of the armchair and gave her a small peck on the cheek before he said

"Good luck darling,"

The woman hummed in agreement, her heart and muscles began to relax slightly as she leaned into the man's shoulder. After that short moment, she stood up and swung her handbag over her shoulder and threw the man in the room a very pleased smile as she blew a kiss to the man and said

"Thank you honey,"

The man chuckled slightly as he made his way out the door, preparing to drive the car up to the hotel just so she could be spared the time from walking all the way down to the basement.

"Again I apologize."

The woman bowed at the other woman as she lead her chubby fat man out of the cafe in the hotel with a huff she said rudely

"You better teach your daughter something about manners! I will let you know, our family is quite well renowned and I will have to say, my son will have a better and more obedient wife!"

Without another word and a turn of the nose, she walked out the door like a parading peacock, but in the woman's opinion Claire was right not to come. The family is as rotten as rotten fish! Massaging her temples because of the oncoming headache she was about to make her way out when she ran into Lucy. Lucy looked like she was in a bad mood and the woman didn't want to be in the wrath of Lucy.

"…Caroline! How did your daughter's Blind date go?"

Caroline froze, but she knew there was no way out of this is she turned around and threw Lucy a radiant smile as she replied in the same kind of conversational tone.

"It was going well, until my daughter decided he wasn't her type."

That moment, Lucy realized exactly what Caroline meant and her face turned darker and Caroline almost ran her way out the hotel but what Lucy said next made her put a halt to her plans.

"Ugh, it makes the two of you!"

"Two of us?"

Caroline looked up with an arched eyebrow as she looked at the person Lucy was glaring at. Caroline could not believe her eyes when her eyes caught sight of that man… she realized perhaps this was it! This was definitely going to the one.

"Yes. That man over there just scared the girl and she ran for the hills and this is his 15th Blind date. I have no idea who else I could put him with."

Caroline watched as the man made his way out the hotel without a shred of regret and she smiled with a very conspicuous look in her eyes before she turned towards the very moody Lucy. As she said with the same conversational tone when she replied to the woman's sorrow with an answer only Lucy would really enjoy.

"I would love to let my daughter have a go at this man. Let me know his details ok? Oh…and… don't send me a picture. Toodles!"

Lucy was now clearly smiling ear to ear as she screamed back at the retreating figure of Caroline and said

"SHE BETTER BE THERE!"

Caroline waved amiably before she walked out the door of the hotel to find her loving man in the BMW car and he saw the look on her face as she got into the car and kissed the man on the cheek. The man knew her long enough to know she was hatching a sinister plan but if it included Claire… he wanted in as he asked in a very curious tone.

"Is this another Blind date?"

Caroline turned towards the man with another Cheshire grin, she merely nodded and said

"This time, she is never going to know what hits her."

The man frowned slightly as he made no attempt to drive off and stared at the woman, she giggled at the expression on the man's face as she ran her hand down his face and replied to his silent question.

"I won't hurt her Gerald, and you know how much she means to me. You aren't the only parent."

Gerald smiled at his wife as he started the car and the two of them headed home. The one they built together based on solid foundations of love and 20 years of marriage.