p style="line-height: 115%;"span style="font-size: 11pt;"Authors Note: Hello Everyone! I hope you enjoy this story. Just to let you know in this story there is no Harvest Goddess, or Harvest Spirits. Also Doc does exist but his machine that makes buildings appear does not exist. I promise though, there is still a great story line to this though! It may not be revealed in the first chapter but it will be revealed as time goes on. I have the outline for this story all done. And please if you don't have anything nice to say, I would appreciate it if you didn't say it. I do not own Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley or any of the characters. I do own Heather's personality, and her parents Luke and Quinn. (This story also includes the parents as well.)./span/p
p style="line-height: 200%;"A young sweet 16 year old girl, named Heather rode in the back of the wagon as her parents drove her to their new home. They were heading to the town of The Lost Valley. Her parents had purchased a big land of property just outside of the town. Heather had long brown hair pinned half up, half down, and brown eyes. She wore a long red dress with no sleeves and a white long sleeve shirt underneath and brown flats./p
p style="line-height: 200%;"Heather looked up at her beautiful mother who was small and petite. She wore a royal blue dress and a cream colored under shirt. Heather often admired her long light brown hair, and bright green eyes only wishing that she had been lucky to be born with those looks. Whenever her mother helped Heather get ready for the day she could hear her mother say, "Oh Heather, you are so unlucky to have the looks you have." All Heather ever wanted was to be lucky. All she ever wanted was to feel beautiful./p
p style="line-height: 200%;"The young girl then looked over at her strong tall father, holding onto the rains like a man with power, looking forward but never backwards. He had slick black greasy hair, and brown eyes just like Heather. The shoulders of this man where wide and firm. He wore brown pants, a mustard yellow plaid button up shirt, and a dark green vest. His face had a constant 5 o'clock shadow that gave him a dark, tough look./p
p style="line-height: 200%;"Once this family arrived at their home, they quickly moved everything off the wagon and into the house. The house had no bedrooms, and only outdoor plumbing. The kitchen was small, and Heather looked at it knowing that this kitchen would be lonely, just like Heather felt. They set up the beds in the house. Her parents had their bed on one end of the couch, the furthest away from the kitchen; whereas Heather's bed was right next to the kitchen counter since she is the only one in this family who knows how to cook./p
p style="line-height: 200%;"Heather looked at her bed and the hand stitched quilt that laid neatly on top of it, along with a fluffy pillow. Her delicate hand brushing along the bedframe as she made her way to the window looking out over the land that they now owned. She knew that this meant they had a lot of work ahead of them./p
p style="line-height: 200%;""Heather!" Luke, her father shouted from outside. Heather jumped at his voice and ran out the door to the direction of her upset father. Once she arrived, he saw that she had a smile on his face. "I need you to go into town buy us some farming tools, as well as a cow." Heather nodded, taking the pouch of coins that her father had given her. Her mother kissed her on the cheek before she left./p
p style="line-height: 200%;"When she arrived into town she first stopped at Sam's shop and bought some seeds. Tom gave her half off since her family had just moved in, as well as a bag of flower, and a bag of sugar. Heather placed all of these things neatly into her backpack. Once she was finished at Sam's shop, Heather made her way to the Blacksmith's shop where a boy about her age named Tony was sitting in front of a desk drawing out his next plans for a new tool./p
p style="line-height: 200%;""Excuse me." Heather's soft, fragile voice squeaked./p
p style="line-height: 200%;""Oh, I'm sorry!" The boy stood up, shoving his work to the side. "How can I help you?"/p
p style="line-height: 200%;""Um I need some farming tools." Tony the boy watched as her delicate soft looking hands danced over the wooden desk. "My family just moved into town, and we had to leave everything behind except the necessities."/p
p style="line-height: 200%;""Of course." Tony walked to the back wall grabbing the usual tools that farmers buy from his store. He brings them back up to the front and tells her the total. She hands over the money, and he said he will deliver it to her house later today. Heather couldn't help but notice that he is blushing, and looking down. She nodded her head, giving him directions to her home, and thanking him./p
p style="line-height: 200%;"Once she left Tony's store she found a shady spot below a tree, leaning up against it and resting. It had been a long day and she had one more place to stop and she knew that this last stop would take the longest and would be the hardest one to take home. Another boy, who was also close to her age, with blonde hair, and wearing a green tunic walked by playing his guitar with animals falling close behind. He looked over in her direction and winked. Heather felt her face turn beat red./p
p style="line-height: 200%;"She decided it was time to move on. She found her way to a barn in town, which she had asked Sam earlier where to buy an animal. She knocked gently on the doors, hoping not to disturb the animals or the person inside. When she was in Sam's shop several people had stated that the man who works in the barn prefers animals over people, and he is very testy and everyone in the town is afraid of him./p
p style="line-height: 200%;"strongHope you all enjoyed the slow start. Things will start speeding up soon. This story follows the same time line that the actual game follows./strong/p