HELLO WORLD! this is my first story ever, I've been wanting to post this for a while. English is not my first language so im sorry if I make any mistakes and please tell me so I can improve :) Review your opinion! I really want to know what you thnik will happen next!i I can't tell you what exactly to expect about this story but i can promise you one thing, you will have a good time reading it.

Mariana

DISCLAIMER I do not own Harvest Moon or any of its Characters

Prologue

We all have that one person we trust with our life, but trusting someone with our thoughts, dreams and secrets... means giving someone the power to destroy us, and to know they won't. We all want to trust and be trusted. How can we know who to trust?

It´s Christmas eve. Its snowing , the streets are full of people who are going to visit their loved ones, you could tell everyone is happy just by the look in their faces. Kids are waiting for Santa to come, to wake up and find out if Santa left some presents for them. Christmas could translate to any language, it means joy, happiness, hope and most importantly love. This is the time of the year, you show people how much you care about them. As much as i love this idea the reality in mi home is totally different. We used to be like that, until the Christmas of 2008. Since that day nothing has been the same in my family.

After walking from the Christmas party at Lumina's I finally got home. I searched through my purse to find the keys, I had to take almost everything out, literally, the keys were the last thing I found in my purse. I opened the door, making as less noise as possible. The only sound was the one of big clock at the end of the hall, it was 2 am. In the other side you could see big Christmas tree in the end of the dinning room. Underneath the tree there were some presets, next to them my little brother Lucas, he was fast asleep, waiting for Santa to come. I picked him up and put him in his bed. My mom was on the kitchen, cleaning some dinner dishes.

-"Hi mom" I said picking up some dishes.

-"Happy Christmas Chelsea" she said with a smile in a really cheerful tone. She had her chestnut hair in a bun, she was wearing this red dress with black tights. " Well, how was the party?"

-I couldn't help to show a little smile "Good, as usual"

- My mom could help to give me this look " Good huh? Chelsea i wasn't born yesterday, that smile isn't just because you had something to drink, who is he?" she said in a very happy and curios tone. I really liked to talk with my mom, since I didn't have Emily here i love to talk with her.

-"Well Cliff came back from his work trips, we went for a walk under the snow. He told me he got a job in the city, he doesn't need to come and go now, he told me he wants to do try things with me. I have like him for a while, just as a crush but now i really want to give it a shot and see what happens" as i told her this i could feel more and more excited about the idea. Mom didn't like the idea of me being 18 and Cliff 23 but i didn't care. Anyway i was't sure this was going to work out. I didn't want to get really excited about the idea. People change. People are different once you really get to know them.

- I could tell my mom was happy for me but still not very happy with idea " Honey that's great, just don't forget your head in the middle of all the romance. Anyhow Did you get the medicine?"

–"Yes, but I didn't want to wake Lucas up",

-" Umm I´ll wake him he needs to take it" she said that and started to walk to Lucas room, then she stopped and turned around, and said with a smile "Oh I almost forgot, I got you a present, Its on top of the fridge, I think you should open it now…" she hugged me and said in a very soft voice "I know it doesn't change anything but still..." and continued her way.

I walked into the kitchen, and looked for the present; meanwhile I was wondering why she said that. I pulled a chair, so I could see on top of the fridge. There it was, a pink box with a golden ribbon. I took the box and start to open it. I was so shocked when I saw what was inside, it was a frame, with a picture of me with my older sister. I haven´t seen her green eyes and blonde hair for so long. There aren't pictures of her in the house, my mom put them away, it caused her depression. That moment, when i saw her face again, I felt like someone had pushed me down the stairs. It´s been 4 years, since the last time I saw her, since that day, that Christmas, was the last I ever heard from her.

"Did you like it?" said my mom with a sad tone, when I turned around to see her, she was looking at the floor. I knew she was as sad as I was.

My sister left my family on Christmas; she said she was done with this family, and she never wanted to know anything about us and leaved.

"I LOVED IT!" i said after that I hugged her. "Happy Christmas mom" I went to my room, so I could put the frame in somewhere nice, my inspiration disappear when heard a sound, it was the stupid sound of the iPhone's alarm, I hate that sound, because is the first thing I hear when I wake up.

I grabbed my iPhone, so I could turn the alarm off, but my iPhone wasn't making the sound, it was coming from somewhere else!; I turned my head so I could see where the sound was coming from, when I saw a yellow gift, I jumped into my bed, and put the gift near my ear, yeah the sound was coming from the inside of box. I opened the gift so quickly, I looked like a little kid opening birthday presents; when I looked inside the box I saw a white iPhone, on the screen said "Incoming call" so I answered it

"Hello…?" I said with soft voice.

"I Know everything you did, this can be our secret, but only if you leave" It was a woman´s voice, but not on the phone, it was near it so I could hear it; that voice was familiar, could it be?...

"Hello? Emily?"

"HAHA Pretty green eyes, the only way you won't speak, is if you don´t speak anymore" it was someone else, that was near the phone.

"Darling, I'm not the only one who knows, if you do anything to me you will only make it worse" -It's got be Emily, i can´t believe it! I thought

"I already took care of them, goodbye sunshine" when suddenly I heard 2 gunshots

"¡EMILY!" I shouted on the phone but no one answered, I heard footsteps coming near, someone took the phone.

"I don´t know who you are, or what you know, but stay away if you know what´s good for you" and hang up.

I was in shock, Emily, Emily, ¡EMILY! what the hell was that? Is got to be her, that voice called her pretty green eyes, and the voice was the same, but ¿Could this be just a joke? Where the phone came from?"

I looked around; trying to find anything, then I looked at the window "damn it" it was open, so typical. I looked inside the box, the necklace I gave to her for Christmas was attached to the ribbon. Someone wanted me to get this, but who would do that? Who would want to hurt my sister?

I can´t tell my parents about this. Lucas needs them more than ever, they can't leave him now. I'll look for her myself, but how am I gonna find her! I have no idea where she has been for the last 4 years, how am I supposed to find her. I started to look up for things in the IPhone, no pictures, no music, no contacts NOTHING! I let my self fall on top of the bed. I sighed. "This is mission impossible" I stared at the frame my mom just game me. Suddenly it hit me.

I ran to basement. My mom put Emily's stuff in there after she moved out. But the box i wanted to find is not one of those. There was an old piano that hasn't been played for years, inside the piano Emily had this secret place where she hid her diary and everything that matter to her. When I opened the piano there was this old pink box. I was so nervous my hope was in this box. When I looked inside the only thing it had was picture of us and Lucas. Disappointing... Passed from being Vilma to Shaggy from Scooby- Doo. I looked in the back of the picture, there was a drawing of a sun colored in red.

I ran to my room and grabbed my laptop to do some searching. Time passed, but nothing connected to Emily came up. I searched everything related to red suns, the only thing that came up were, pictures of the sun, the name of a song and the flag of Japan. "Emily unless you are the lost princesses of Tangled I'm out of options" I sigh, Suddenly it hit me! I started to feel like Vilma again. What if the sun is just like the one in Tangled, its a symbol. I founded that there were some rare stones called Sun stones. The picture of the stone matched exactly the drawing my sis did. The only place that they could be found was... Sunshine Islands