Chapter 1: Prologue.

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I woke up this morning to see two green orbs look into my own cerulean ones.

"Meoooowf!"

"Well good morning to you too!"

I look over to my clock, it was 6:30 A.M. My cat is like an alarm clock, because every morning she would put her fury face in mine and wake me up, telling me it's time for me to feed her. I take my eyes off the clock to look back at my cat.

My cat Pusheen just stares back at me... blinks..."Meow"

"Ok, ok, let's go get some food." I'm still a bit groggy as I get out of bed and walk to the kitchen, to get the cat some food out of the coverts "Here kitty kitty!" I say as she comes over to her bowl. Then I put the kettle on the stove to boil for oatmeal, then make a beeline back to my room to get dressed, I put on a pair of light faded jeans, rolling the bottom sleeves up to my calves, and sporting a deep turquoise shirt with sleeves that come to the elbows, and I also brushed my hair up in a high ponytail that comes a little below my shoulders, with my red lucky bandana around my kneck.

I'm Chelsea Kenneth, twenty-one and currently living alone on a farm with just my animals and I. It's been a year and a half since my boat crashed and I washed up on the shores of Sunshine Islands. Taro and his daughter Felicia and his grandkids Elliot and Natalie nursed me back to health, gave me a farm and a house. They were really kind to me, considering they didn't know me. At times Taro can be a bit annoying, and his daughter Felicia very is kind, and her son was just like her, but a bit shy and clumsy. Natalie on the other hand can be sarcastic at times and kinda mean to people... Mostly, her brother. But when you get to know her better, she's pretty nice. They all had pink hair, except for Taro, he's bald.

As I got just got done getting dressed, I hear the kettle go off, signaling that the hot water is ready for my oatmeal. So I went ahead to the kitchen, and was pouring me some hot water in my oatmeal when I heard a knock at the door.

"coming!" I walk over to the door and open it to reveal my blond hair and blue eyed friend, jumping on me with a loud "Squeee!"

"Oof! Hey Julia! How are you?" Julia has bright blond hair and big blue vivid eyes, she's wearing dark skinny jeans that show off her curves nicely, with a white and blue plaid button up blouse.

"Guess what?" She says with her perfect mascara covered blue eyes big and sparkling with a large grin on her face.

"What?"

"Oh come on, GUESS!"

"Um, ok, uhhh, unicorns are real?"

She looks at me with an annoyed expression at my lame joke, but it leaves as soon it appears, instead replaced with a pouty expression."Aww don't tell me you forgot it's my birthday in two days!" She says with a slight country accent, and a bit disappointed.

"He he! Just, kidding!" I said with a big grin. Julia was one of my best friends in the whole world, of course, at times she can be a bit pushy and annoying, but I love her like a sister, and most people don't forget a sibling's birthday.

"Well anyways, I'm going to have a water party at my house this Friday for my birthday! Are you gonna be able to come?" She asks " Pretty pleeeeease, there's gonna be water gun fights!" she said.

"Hmmmm, I am a fan of water guns and fights" I say.

She gives a big grin. "Ok! It's gonna be at one O'clock on Saturday cya!~"

And she skips out the door her hair curls bouncing behind her, before I can even say good-bye.

So, I go back to my oatmeal.

Before I head off to work on my farm I pet my cat once more, and head off to the chicken coup. My chicken is small with faded yellow paint over it and the roof a caramel brown. While I was cleaning out the chicken coup, I would sing a song, and the birds would keep silent, as if they were listening.

My Father would always say that my sisters and I sounded so pretty when we sing, that everything would keep silent and listen... Man do I miss my family. Sometimes they would come over to help me out on the farm during harvest, and visit. I would always end up missing them so much when they left.

I have six brothers and sisters. There are three boys, and four girls in my family, not including my parents. My father is a hardworking man, he's a team manager for a big computer company, and he would always work hard to make sure we had enough food and a roof over our heads... He is a great man, he and my mother. My mother is also hard working, staying at home raising seven kids. It's ALLOT of work! Seriously!

My oldest sibling is thirty-one and her name is Karin, and is already married with five kids! She has three boys and twin girls.

My second oldest sibling is twenty-seven, his name is Jacob and is single, but were expecting he'll be won't single for long, but that's a story for later. He has a job at my dad's work. What type? eeerrr I forgot, heh heh.

My third oldest sibling is twenty-four, her name is Amelia and she loves designing clothes, she even has her own fashion line! Amelia and I were very close growing up, and we still are. We took martial arts together, were on the same team on almost everything, and did all kinds of things together. We were an awesome duo!

My fourth and fifth siblings are twenty-two, and twins! Hmmm, I'm beginning to think twins run in the same family... Anyways back to my brothers. My twin brothers names are Allen and Eric, they both work at a pet hotel, and are training to become a dog trainer.

And then there's me, the sixth child, I'm twenty-one, and works as a farmer.

My youngest sibling is nineteen and still lives at home, her name is Bethany and wants to be an robot maker or a animator... sigh~... Yeah we are a big family, and can get angry at each other and a little out of hand, but we love each other no matter what our differences are, and I would never trade them for anyone or anything else in the world. Yeah, sorry for the long and sappy introduction of my family and I.

After I took care of my chickens, I went take the eggs I got from my chickens, and put them in the shipping bin. After that, I headed over to my small barn. I give my horse Lightning some fresh hay and oats, then start to brush his coat. His coat is a beautiful bright white, and he's quicker than a hiccup, thus, I gave him the name Lightning.

After I was done brushing Lightning, I went to go take care of my strawberries. It was a hot and humid summer day, but my strawberries looked happy, and were producing more than usual, so it's ok.

I begin picking ripe strawberries, and putting them in a basket, while leaving the unripe alone. I put three fourths of my strawberries in the shipping bin, and put the rest in my rucksack.

I still don't get how my rucksack can hold so much, and somehow keeps my food refrigerated! It's a mystery to me even to this day.

After I get done with work I usually go for a walk in the town. So here I'm walking through town just enjoying my surroundings, and a day's work done... Soon I'll be expanding my farm, which means more work and managing, so I'll probably am going to hire someone to help me on the farm, later on.

Man how much has changed since when I first came here, there used to be just dirt roads, shabby houses and shops, and only small patches of grass. Now, there are brick roads, a beautiful town square with a fountain in the middle, nicer houses and buildings and there's more trees and beautiful grass with more flowers.

I have a small smile as I walk down the road, to see Charlie walk up to me. "Hay! Miss Chelsea! wanna play Tag with me and Eliza?" He says, and they both look at me with pleading eyes. 'Hmmm must be learning that from Julia... Smart kid.' He's wearing his favorite Pikachu shirt, and shorts and sneakers. Eliza's wearing a cute little pink jumper dress with leggings underneath.

"Ok, for a little bit," I say after a while, giving into their eyes. 'Man I'm a sucker for kids.' Then, a devious l grin spreads across my face, their faces start to show confusion, then recognition as if they just figured out what I was thinking, but before they could do anything about it I tag Charlie.

"Tag! you're it!" I shout, running away from Charlie, laughing wildly. Eliza catches on and starts running too.

"Hey! That's not far!" he shouts, complaining, before chasing after me. He catches up to me and tags me on the back. Running off laughing like a mad man... Like, I did a while ago. ' Darn, why are kids so fast?' I think to myself.

I start to run around them, rounding them up like a sheep dog would herd sheep. When I got close enough to get them both, I scoop them up in both of my arms lifting them into the air, with their legs wiggling. We're all laughing our heads off until when I start getting off balance, and start falling over. 'Uh-oh this can't be good!'

I brace myself for the fall making sure the kids are on top of me, so they don't get hurt. I wait for the pain of my butt hitting the ground hard, but, instead landing on something... Soft 'Hmmm, that's strange.'

"Ow."

I look up startled, to see the owner of the voice, to find, my one and only, anti-social cowboy friend, Vaughn. He was wearing black boot cut jeans, with black and brown boots, wearing a brown vest over a button up black shirt; he also had a very cool black cowboy hat on, which you would rarely see him without.

"Could you get off me now?" he said while giving me what seemed like half of an annoying glare, and the other half pain.

"Oh! Sorry Vaughn!" I say, quickly getting off of him, with a small shade of pink on my cheeks, while not seeing his.

"What are you doin out here runnin around screaming like hillbillies for?" He says it with a slight country accent, like his cousin Julia.

"Playing tag," I say with a sheepish grin "Wanna play with us?" and the kids start staring at him with a hopeful glint in their eyes.

"PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!" The Charlie and Eliza say, annoyingly.

"No."

"PLEASE!" Now I start to asking too.

"Nope."

"PLEASE!"

"Nay."

"PLEEEEEEASE!"

He sighs. "Ok. Just one game" He says, grumbling in defeat, and a bit annoyed.

"YAY!" We all shout in unison.

"Ok, who's it?"

We all look at each other and smirk, then poking him at the same time, saying. "YOU ARE!"

Then run off laughing.

"O-oi!" he says angrily, starting to run after us.

A year ago, the Vaughn today, would have never existed. Usually he would be mean, and ignore me and everyone else, also he would be very sarcastic, and be an total anti-social cowboy. But I kept on trying to talk to him, even though a lot of the talking we had were arguments. But after a while he started not to mind, me talking to him, and we sorta, kinda, became, friends. Even let me introduce him to some of the other islanders.

We all are now running around like bees, trying to keep Vaughn from tagging us. Charlie hides behind the shop getting out of Vaughn's range, and Eliza is... Somewhere. So that leaves me as the only person left that Vaughn is chasing. Great. I'm swiveling around trying to lose him, but to no avail, so I just keep running, hoping to tire him out.

I'm running around in patch of flowers, when I happen to trip over a tree root, and fly into the air landing face first, on a bed of flowers, and Vaughn not being able to stop himself in time, lands on me.

"OOOFFF!"

Vaughn realizing he landed on me quickly gets off. "S-sorry!"

I sit up feeling pain, and dirt on my face, but missing the slight shade of pink on Vaughn's cheeks.

"It's ok, I'm alive," I say. "Guess that makes us even." Then start laughing, he started snickering, then turning into little laugh. We both are laughing for a long minute and it eventually dyeing down, then I start to stare at him for no apparent reason. He catches me staring at him, and then he starts to stare too. Then I see a slight shade of pink cover cheeks. 'I-is Vaughn blushing? Nah, that doesn't seem like him, I must be seeing things.' He tries to reaching up to pull the brim of his hat over his face to find it's not there anymore, then tries looking for it, with a worried expression on his face.

"Here it is." I say, picking up his hat, somehow knowing that's what he was looking for.

He gives a curt nod, his way of saying 'Thanks' and puts it on his head.

Even though he still can be grumpy at times, he can be a nice, and sometimes a soft guy, deep down inside once you get to know him... Don't tell him I said that...

Chapter 1 end

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