Prologue

You think that you can just walk away from all of this unscathed?! I don't think so, girlie!

I never wished for this...

A curse? Is that what you want me to do? Very well. In exchange for your mother's life, I'll put a curse upon you.

I wasn't a bad person...

Hmmm... You humans... To you, love is most important, correct?

But I was treated like one...

Then it's settled! From the time you leave here... You'll never love anyone ever again! Hahahaha!

What I did...it wasn't that bad...was it?

Chapter 1

"H-hey!!! Give that back!!!"

"Hehe... You'll have to catch me first!"

"No fair!"

I was an ordinary farm girl. I had friends, a job, and a nice house. Overall a pretty decent life, wouldn't you say?

Ha ha. You keep on thinking that.

This Phantom Thief could keep flirting with me and stealing my things, but I could never, ever love that person.

He had confessed to me, those three words, "I love you." And I...I couldn't say a word. I had stood there, unmoving...All because of what had happened three years ago...

-x-

I sat on my bed, mindlessly playing with my long brown hair. It was unkempt from not being brushed all day and had been crammed with various pins and clips to get it to lie somewhat flat. My baggy T-shirt was wrinkled all over and had a big smiley face on it. Long story short, today was Saturday. In other words, free day. Every Saturday, I hired the Harvest Sprites to do my farm work for me while I sat around doing nothing all day.

Well...almost nothing.

"Jill? Are you there? C'mon, it's a great day! Let's go to the beach!" called my best friend Lumina. I groaned and rolled off of my bed and onto the floor.

"Can you carry me there?" I mumbled, sprawled on my carpet.

My door opened and Lumina walked in, half smiling. "Come on, Jill!" she said and hoisted me up into a standing position. She looked me over and sighed and shook her head. "You know, even on break days you should still try to look nice."

"I did try. I failed." I said into my arm, which I was using to lean against the wall.

Lumina laughed and pretty soon, I had changed into my bathing suit and was sitting at my kitchen table drinking my much needed cup of coffee.

"Y'know what you need?" asked Lumina after we had arrived at the beach, which was packed.

"What do I need?" I asked, knowing exactly what the answer was going to be.

"A boyfriend." I knew it.

I looked at her with one eyebrow raised and replied, "And why do you want me to have a boyfriend? I'm perfectly fine the way I am."

"Okay. If someone else had seen how you looked this morning, they'd agree with me." she said.

I stepped into the warm ocean water and promptly sat on the sandy bottom. Lumina plopped down next to me and continued to give me the look.

"If I want to be a slob on Saturday, then darn it, I will!" I picked up a handful of muck to prove it.

Suddenly, I was splashed with a bucket full of water right over my head.

Looking up at my attacker, I yelled in shock when I recognized my friend Nami. I leapt to my feet and Lumina and I smothered her with hugs.

"When did you get back?" Lumina demanded, finally releasing Nami.

"Yesterday." she replied, giving us one of her rare smiles. Nami had been traveling all over... She'd even been to the United States!

"Well, missy, you better have brought us some souveniers or you're toast!" I joked.

She held up a hand. "Don't worry, I brought you guys stuff! But for now..." She walked to her beach towel and came back equipped with her arms full of water balloons. "...I think we should throw a few of these." said Nami, a sly grin on her face.

"I agree." said Lumina and I in unison, and we each took a handful of balloons.

-x-

I returned to my little farmhouse shortly after our amazing water balloon fight, which included Rock leaving the beach scowling after being pelted with almost every single balloon we had.

My hair was still damp and was pulled up into a sad attempt at a ponytail and my baggy clothes were replaced by even baggier pajamas. Such is the beauty of a Saturday night.

Errr....maybe not...

Yet another knock resounded throughout my house. I stumbled over to the door and peeked outside, but no one was there.

"Window." came a voice from, guess where, my window.

I groaned for the second time that day and looked outside. Standing there in all of his phantom-ness, was Skye.

"Hey, there, beautiful." he said, smiling.

"Goodbye." I muttered and closed the window.

He didn't look too fazed by my hostility, and gave another tap on the glass. I ignored him and closed the curtains.

I didn't quite have time for his attempts to make me fall in love with him. No matter what he did, he could never make me call him anyhting more than friend. Or acquaintence, more like it.

The whole thing was pointless. I'm a cursed human. Nothing breaks a curse. Nothing.