Author Notes

Hello everyone, I am Number13teen and this will be my very first fanfiction. The purpose of this fanfiction is detail snippets of the lives of the many bachelorettes and bachelors of Mineral Town. In Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town and More Friends of Mineral Town if the player saw all 4 of a rival couple's events they would marry each other. This feature was mostly harmless considering at the pace characters get married you could probably get all the normal love candidates to red hearts before you see all the rival events. Anyway, I wanted to expand on their lives after their marriage featuring different scenarios.

First. The Bachelorettes, second the Bachelors, I will be including the 4 special love candidates. I am contemplating writing an entirely different fanfiction dedicated to life with the male and female protagonists post-marriage with each lover, but I don't want to bite off more than I can handle. Anyway, please enjoy the first chapter.

Chapter 1: Elli

"Okay, we are fully stocked on Bodigizer, Turbojolt and Power Juice," I said to no one in particular as I made sure to note our stock numbers into the clinic's notepad.

I stopped for a moment and looked towards the Doctor's, my husband, Trent's office. I sighed as I brushed my brown hair out of my face and went back to the front desk to read a new edition of a medical journal I'd been interested in. It detailed the recent medical discoveries that Trent was helping his former mentor with his clinical trial upon his request. I turned page after page, absorbing every word making sure that this trial was worth keeping my husband away from me for so long. In the end I gave up reading, I was glad it was going well and the results intrigued me, but it also saddened me that he was far from finished. I would explain what he's researching, but too much medical speech loses a normal person's attention, especially country folk.

Alas, I must give a proper introduction. My name is Elli, a nurse at the Mineral Town Clinic. A year ago I married our local physician, Dr. Trent. Apparently, the local farmer, Pete, gave him some lady advice as to how to convince a woman to fall for him, but it was mostly unnecessary. Trent and I spend almost all our time together, we even lived in the clinic; we've even had crushes on each other for the longest time. When we announced our engagement there was joy and celebration of course, but many town members reactions were a bit more eccentric.

"So ya two weren't sleeping together all along?" Was Duke's assumption.

"It's about damn time, you spend every waking moment with each other!" Saibara just had to say.

"I am blessed that I was able to live long enough to see you engaged after all this time, if only your parents could witness this!" Grandma was near tears when she told me that.

Yes indeed, everyone had their own opinion to share, but we finally tied the knot on Spring 20th, about one year after Pete's arrival to Mineral Town. It was the happiest day of my life. While I was pleased we were officially married Trent and I both felt not much had changed. Of course we were more intimate than ever before, we finally got to live out the many doctor and nurse romances I've read about, but we already lived, worked and chatted together all the time. So, after our honeymoon to Fenith Island and spending a few days at home, my initial joy became a relatively low hum, but according to Trent I smiled much more often.

Honestly, I was content with this life. We treated our patients better than ever, we got to spend more time outside the clinic on dates and we were just the happiest we'd ever been. That is until Trent started to feel ambitious.

I was as usual restocking the medicine cabinet with various types of Bodigizers and Turbojolts when Trent burst out of his office with a huge grin on his face.

"Elli!" He cried as he ran towards me lifting me up in the air and spinning me around.

I was beyond shocked for he had never done such a thing, but it was rather thrilling so I made no resistance till he set me down.

"Trent, love, what in the name of medicine has got you so excited?"

"Elli, my old medical mentor just called me asking if I wanted to aid him on his clinical trial!"

From there he explained the more intricate and complex parts of the trial which I feel is unneeded to get for my little spiel so I'll skip that. A clinical trial is essentially a research study using willing human participants to formulate a proper cure or medicine for whatever ailments are inflicted upon them. For example, an alzheimer's clinical trial would have alzheimer patients experimented on to find better medicines for others with the disease. That's just one example, I won't go into placebos and the like, but you can tell your friends you learned something from my little spiel.

"He wants me to come to the city and help him with the process! It's a momentous trial that could very well change the face of medicine. It's in a field I've always been interested in and I just can't believe he'd want me, a boondocks doctor, to come assist him!"

Trent was beaming from ear to ear. He was never one to smile much or show much of any emotion, but right now he was completely ecstatic. I've only seen him so happy a few times in my life, so being the considerate and madly in love wife I am, I let my guard down.

"Oh that's simply delightful Trent!" I exclaimed with equal joy because at the moment his happiness was my only concern. "Are you going to accept his offer?"

Trent calmed down slightly to give me a more a calm response. His face grew more tense and looked down as he began to say the next dreadful words.

"I would love to, but it would require me to live in the city for 2 straight months. Even if I bought a car, the drive is too unreasonable to commute so I'll be staying over there." He moved his face back up and looked me in the eyes. "It is not my desire to leave you alone for so long, which is why I''ll stay with you if you want me to."

Oh poor, malleable me. Falling so easily for this eyes of ambition and fervor.

"Well, it is not ideal, but if this is what you truly want." I took a hesitant pause, already sensing future despair. "Then I say enjoy the trial and change the face of medicine."

I gave him a reassuring smile to convinve him I was sincerely happy, which I was, but mostly to hide the fear of loneliness that would enter for when he left.

His face once again brightened and he embraced me tightly. I held on as if my life depended on how tightly I held my husband. We stayed like that for a few seconds till we separated. Trent coughed into his hand and began to speak in his usual formal, stoic voice.

"Okay, so he wants me as soon as possible, I'm going to start packing now so I can leave tomorrow. The Mayor should know I'll be gone for awhile, but you can handle the clinic while I'm gone," He said as he walked up the stairs to prepare his suitcases. "Trust me Elli, I won't let you down."

I merely smiled back at him and slowly followed him back up the stairs.

Trent left for the city Fall 15th, barely 2 months since we had gotten married.

Now it is once again Spring 20th, our anniversary. Fall and Winter had passed since he had left, but he still has not returned. Occasionally, we talk on the telephone, but he's constantly busy with work that he can't spare much time. I'm not sure whether I completely regret my decision, but it was difficult to be alone for so long. Occasionally, my friends come by and spend the day, but other than Farmer Pete overworking himself, helping Karen with hangovers, the usual check-ups with my grandmother and Lillia's illness there wasn't much work to do either. Life just wasn't the same without Trent, I've almost completely stopped laughing or smiling. It's become too depressing.

I looked over the bus schedule to see which route will take me to the city the quickest.

"It's one thing to leave me alone for so long, but to not even call on our anniversary is where I draw the line." I had honestly reached the limit of my patience. Yes, he's a very busy man, but we are married. It may be my country upbringing, but when two people marry and love each other, this lack of communication is simply despicable. I would not stand for it. I shall go to the city, find Trent and slap him directly across his stoic face. Obviously not too hard, just to get the point across.

I grabbed my purse and the bus route schedule and proceeded to run out the door. I began rehearsing what I would actually say to him when I got there and how to actually navigate the city, it's been awhile. That is until I bumped into a larger figure as soon as I opened the door.

"Ouch, um, I'm sorry for bumping you sir, are you alright?" As a nurse it'd be embarrasing and disgraceful to cause even more pain to a patient due to my negligence.

"Urgh, I should be the one asking you that Elli," said the man.

I looked up and standing before me was none other, but my husband, Trent. He looked like he'd lost some weight (probably overworking himself) and he'd become even paler than before. His jet black hair had grown somewhat since I'd last saw him and he had what I assumed was a stubble beginning to form under his fair chin. Obviously, he was in desperate need of his wife's proper love, attention and care.

Trent held out his hand for me to take which I gratefully accepted. As he pulled me up he brought me to his arms and hugged me tightly.

"I'm sorry Elli, I didn't call you today, but I've been on a bus since 6:00am." He looked me in the eyes with endless love and longing. "The work was wonderful and we got to help so many people, but that life isn't for me and any life without you is not worth living."

At the sound of his words tears began to well in my eyes. My greatest dream was coming true. Trent had come home and he would never leave me again.

I gave him a long kiss and pulled away to stuff my face in his chest.

"If you ever try to leave again, I'll follow you to the ends of the earth. Also, you're an absolute mess, I thought city folk were self conscious about their appearances!"

"Uh, well, being a city doc doesn't actually give me a lot of free time, but that's over now!"

Excuses, excuses with this man.

"I don't care how they operate in the city, here in the country, in Mineral Town, we uphold a certain standard of hygiene and care. Come on, Trent you're the respected city doctor, show some pride!" It has been a while I had scolded him. I don't know how men like him function without someone to care about them.

"Yes, yes Elli, I'm sorry. Honestly, I have been looking forward to your care for a long time," Trent gently kissed the top of my head. "Happy Anniversary Elli."

"Hehe, Happy Anniversary, Trent."