My first Harvest Moon MFOMT fanfic! Hurray! In addition, my first fanfic lol I likes riding the horsey on the game hee hee.
"Gladys Gourmet! Get up here! Dinner's waiting!" I sighed as I heard my father's booming voice.
"Coming daddy!" I hollered back as I ran from the horse stable to my house.
"Honestly Gladys! Late for dinner again!" my father scolded, "And look at you, filthy! Absolutely filthy!" I just rolled my eyes. Please, excuse my rudeness; my name is Gladys Bethany Gourmet. However, you can call me Gladys. I am fourteen years of age and my life's about to change.
You see I have my regular friends, Lois Herbs, Lilly Beach, Francis Poultry, and Norton Wilder. However, there are six children in the Ore family, or what was ONCE the Ore family, you see my friends and I have both of our parents while the Ore children only have their mother. You see from what I heard their father left them before the sixth one was born because he couldn't take the pressure.
There are three girls and three boys in this family, the eldest, Grayson, is around our age, followed by his brother, Keith, and their sister, Ruby, and a brother, Hubert, a sister, Kylie, or as she preferred, Kyle, and finally the youngest sister, Meredith. Unfortunately, they are all very ill behaved; they curse and steal! They even tear up property! Like the time they blew the chicken coop of the poultry farm up! Their mother works all the time to support them, so she is never around! I know their mother personally, she is a sweetheart and her children are, I am sorry to say, the devil's servants! My mother even said so herself!
"They take after Gray!" she always says, "I wish there was at least one who took after Mary!"
It rather breaks my heart, but honestly, I knew that one day, they'd find out something…something magical…
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"Gladys, honestly, quit your daydreaming and eat your dinner!" my mother scolded as I sighed, "Yes mom." I said as I quietly ate the grilled fish.
"Honeysuckle!" My father began, "The flavoring of this fish is scrumptious! What did you use?" my mother blushed and giggled, "I used wine and soy sauce, Theodore." My father gave out one of his deep belly laughs, "I hint something else in there too. Perhaps a tint of love?" my mother blushed and giggled as I gagged.
"Honestly, you two are making me sick to my stomach!" I complained as my mother giggled.
"Gladys, you know your father and I love each other!"
"Yeah but do have to love each other while I'm eating?" I asked as my mother sighed, "We can tone it down until later I suppose." I gagged again, finishing my fish.
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"Be back by nine!" my father called as I ran towards the brook. I wanted to go into town but at this hour, it was dangerous! The Ores would probably skin me alive if they saw me walking down the streets alone! The other children and I were like fresh meat to the Ores! No one was allowed to walk on the streets at night, so I stayed in the safety of my farm, or what I thought was safe.
"Well, well, well." I heard someone say as I turned around to the eyes of Keith.
"He-hello, Keith." I said in a very shaky voice as he took a step closer and I took a step back only to find myself at the edge of the bridge.
"What are you doing here?" this time it was Ruby, I took a deep breath in.
"I live here." I reminded the threesome as they laughed.
"Well WE own the place." Grayson said as I gave a mean look.
"You do NOT! My mother does!" but that triggered it and the next thing I knew I was in the creek, soaking wet as the three Ore children ran off, laughing. I sighed walking out of the brook, shaking from the cold; I made it inside as my mother gasped.
"Gladys! What happened?" I took my blond pigtails, wringing the water from them.
"I'll tell you ONE word! Ores!" My mother sighed.
"Damn devil children" I heard my father curse as he ran to the bathroom to hand me a towel.
"Get out of those cold wet things. I'll talk to Mary. Why she'll get a rude RUDE I say letter!" my father said as I pulled my pigtails out drying my hair.
"Well at least they don't go to church." I said as my parents nodded in agreement, but I should have knocked on wood.
Well that's the first chapter. Like it? Hate it? Tell me what you think!