This is a shoujo-ai story between Jill, the farmer, and Karen, meaning that it is about love between girls, basically.

Don't read it if you don't like that kind of stuff. I have no idea how long I want it to be but I do appreciate the support from readers. A warning ahead of time: I like to spasmodically change the POV from 1st to 3rd every so often. It will stay 1st for the first few chapters, and I will warn again when the time comes for 3rd person.

Taken place in the FoMT game for girls, or BTN; same thing, practically. I don't own Harvest Moon, Nintendo, you know all that jazz.. Enjoy. :)

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Her smile. Her laughter. How brightly her hair shone in that mid-afternoon sunlight.. and how could I forget those emerald green eyes? Everything about Karen attracted her to me. We got along together so well, and we shared everything - well, mostly everything. We did almost everything together.

On this particular day, I decided to enjoy her beauty in the form of spending the afternoon fishing out on the pier at Mineral Beach. And on this particular day, she had looked more beautiful than ever as we laughed together in the heat of the summer sun.

There was nothing I would change about her.. except for one minor, tiny detail.

Rick, her clingy, obnoxious, bright orange-haired poor excuse for a boyfriend.

Don't get me wrong. He's a great person. Funny, loves his family, active. But I don't like him - no, that's an understatement. I despise him. Obviously because I had deep feelings for his girlfriend, Karen. Everyday I felt myself fall more and more in love with her. But.. she didn't know. He didn't know. No one knew. No one even knew that men didn't attract me. But I wasn't always like this, you see.

When I met Karen, we clicked immediately. I started to talk to her more and more and we started to do everything together. We became best friends almost instantly. I always had Rick's competition though. Rick was already her best friend to begin with, and he never liked me because he always thought I would take away Karen's time from him. I thought it was awfully childish, but I brushed it off and I never gave a second thought to it.

I didn't.. until one day, Karen announced that her and Rick were official. Judging from how jealous I felt when she said that, I realized that my feelings for Karen were developing into something more than just friendship.

And that's when Rick's presence started to really bother me. But what was I to do? Karen obviously never thought about me romantically. She was head over heels her crazy, obsessive boyfriend. Secretly, I hated it, yet quietly, I supported her whenever she decided to gush to me about him. I hated hearing about him, hearing about how he talked about marrying her, hearing about much he loved her. The only time I enjoyed hearing about him was when they fought and Karen thought about dumping him. As bad it sounded, I secretly wanted them to break up.

But I knew, somewhere in my heart, that that was never going to happen. Another sad, cliched tale of unrequited love, you ask? My heart wrenched at the mere thought of it..

I tried to enjoy my time with her, nonetheless. There was still time to sway her somehow. He hadn't proposed to her yet. So I still had a chance.. a chance to make her fall in love with me..

Somewhere between my angry thoughts of Rick and my hopeful dreams of having Karen fall in love with me, a fish suddenly came flying towards my face, causing me to react by falling over sideways into the water.

"Jill!" I heard Karen shout from atop the pier. "I'm so sorry! I couldn't control the fish..."

"It's okay," I said, coughing up some water. I looked at her and we both started laughing.

I would change nothing.. nothing at all..

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