Okay, so inspiration came for this when I was playing Harvest Moon Sunshine Island, and met Vaughn, I was like whoa(To put it lightly).

I didn't have a beta, so all mistakes are my own, and they will always be my own, so point out my flaws.

So I decided to do a story from the very day that Chelsea came to the island, so without further ado, I give you:

Chapter One

"Name, dear?"

Chelsea looked up at the inn clerk and gave a warm smile to the middle-aged woman.

"Chelsea Lumbus."

The clerk nodded and jotted it down at the form in front of her before looking back up and smiling at the obviously nervous young woman.

"How large of a room do you need?"

Chelsea had to think for a second before remembering that it was just her, she was so used to it being her entire family. She silently laughed at herself before looking up at the clerk, who was patiently waiting.

"One, with one bed, please. I'll be staying a few weeks."

The clerk smile again and jotted the information down.

"That will cost you one thousand gold up front, and two thousand at the end of your stay, for security."

Chelsea sighed sadly to herself before reaching into her purse and pulling out her wallet, she counted out the money and handed it over to the clerk, she had found it harder to let money leave her possession than before. The clerk slid a key over to her along with a small envelope, Chelsea picked them both up and clutched them lightly in her hand.

"Yours is the one straight to your left, have a good stay."

Chelsea thanked the woman profusely before hitching her knapsack higher up on her back and striding over to her room. She took the key and unlocked the door with little frustration on her part, she usually couldn't open a locked door worth anything. She went in and closed the door before looking around curiously. The bed adorned with white sheets and a blue blanket sat in the upper left corner. Right in front of her was a table with a bell on it, she guessed that it was for room service. A few potted plants were dotted randomly in the room, which was a decent size, clean, and had a fresh smell to it.

She set her knapsack down on the bed and quickly checked that nothing had been stolen on the short boat ride, it wasn't that she was accusing anyone, but a few of the people on that boat had looked suspicious. Happy that everything was in place, she took her bandanna off and took her brush out of her knapsack, she ran it through her hair for something to do before frowning and tossing the brush almost angrily down on the bed. She was here for something important, might as well get it done as soon as possible before delaying the inevitable. Frustrated, she tied her bandanna around her face and tucked a few wisps of her light brown hair into it. She looked at a picture hanging on the wall and used the glass as a mirror. Satisfied that she looked presentable, she opened the door, not forgetting the key, and locked it behind her, not that she thought that she needed to, but she had some valuables with her, and she didn't want to lose them. With a nod and a lighthearted smile to the clerk she left the inn and stepped into the sunlight. She looked for a second around before setting off towards the bridge to her right, it seemed like a good place to start.

The sound of her red rubber boots thonking on the wooden planks beat in time with her anxious thoughts, what if Taro didn't think that she was qualified? She instantly quelled that thought with the knowledge that she had good experience, her parents were both ranchers and she had grown up raising crops and animals. What if she didn't have enough gold? No, she shook that thought from her mind with a pat to her purse, which held her wallet, which held several hundred thousand gold which she was going to use to buy the island ranch. She hoped that the islanders would like her, she was a naturally friendly person, though she could appear uncaring sometimes when she was tired. From what she had heard from one of the ranch hands, the people were friendly, easy to get along with, and needed a rancher. No one wanted to go because of the storms that pounded the island during summer and winter, apparently one such storm had ruined the islands and destroyed all the building. She was hoping against hope that the ranch had a house, that was why she had said that she was going to stay a few weeks to the clerk, if the ranch didn't have a house then she could ask the island carpenter to build one.

Realizing that she had stopped walking in all of her thinking, she turned to the nearest sign and read it once, then read it again. 'Taro's House' it read and she had ti stare at it for a few seconds before comprehending that she had arrived at her destination without even remembering how she had gotten there. Not one to mess with Lady Luck, she shrugged and stepped up to the forbidding looking, to her, door. It was yellow, which seemed like a sign as one of her favorite colors was yellow. The roof of the house was yellow, she noticed a shed off to the left of the house and wondered briefly what it was for before bringing herself to the fact that her hand was in a fist, raised, and she wasn't knocking. She frowned at herself, and with some worry for what they were going to say, knocked once forcefully. When the door opened she stated in a quiet voice.

"My name is Chelsea Lumbus, and I'm here to buy the ranch."

Dun, dun, dun, dun! How was it? I tried to make it as long as I could, but it's late, I'm tired, and I really wanted to write this down. I've made a deal with myself that a chapter will be no less than 1,000 words long, so if not *Slides finger across neck.* Chelsea's last name is pronounced like Columbus, only without the Co. It is a real last name, you can even look it up.

I hope that you liked it, because I slaved away over a hot computer to write this.

R&R Please!