Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Animal Crossing or any related games and/or companies

Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Animal Crossing or any related games and/or companies. These belong to Nintendo.

Story is made up from my super complex mind. Just kidding. Enjoy!

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The Village

Chapter 1: The Lily

She waited. It was summer in Phaffey and raining, which made it difficult for the 34 year old amphibian Lily to leave her house and visit her friends. She lived on the edge of the ocean, hands down the best view in all of Phaffey. Since moving to the town in December of 2005 (she was one of the first three original villagers, now only two remain) she has seen countless faces come and go. Now, in this rainy and humid July weather, she was thinking about her place in the village. She was never very outspoken, and at the annual town meetings she hardly voiced her opinion. Despite this, she was loved all throughout Phaffey for her wit, knowledge and ability to resolve conflicts. She was, as you might say, the town psychologist, and at any given time you could find any "Phaffian" setting on her couch, spilling their secrets and finding solutions from "Dr. Lily". But this day, she had some problems of her own.

"Looks like Oskar is back." remarked the frog. Oskar was the founding human in the village who was recently away for 5 months on an "expedition" of some sorts. His return was front page news in "The Phaffey Weekly", a local news paper which printed local stories, events and happenings of the sort. Oskar's return was huge news for reasons personal to Lily and the village. While he was away, the village's economy had tanked, with housing values falling and Tom Nook raising prices in his shop. Personally, though, it touched Lily deep in her heart. It was known around town that she had a crush on Oskar, a crush that was never returned from him. It started out as a business affair, with the both of them working to improve Phaffey in its earliest stages. But it turned in to something more….. And out of all the animals and people who have moved and left Phaffey since its founding, Lily liked Oskar the most. Well he was back, and, thought Lily; maybe the village would improve it's imagine. As she was thinking this, the rain ceased.

"Good thing the rain is over. I think I will go say hi to the new guy in town, Bones, I believe?" Bones has just moved in, it was announced in the newspaper, and Lily wanted to be the first to introduce herself and to him and the town. She put on her mud boots, a coat, walked outside and locked her door.

Phaffey was great. It was a huge town, with the River Phaffey cutting into two, making a sort of island. Dubbed "Isla Phaffey", the homes there were the most expensive in the city and home to two of her residents, Puddles the Frog and Camofrog the Frog. Peaces were the naïve fruit, but apples, cherries, oranges and even coconuts grew in the town. Phaffey has tons of trees, and was once even mentioned as the most tree friendly city in all of Animal Crossing. Lily took out her map and discovered that Bones lived next to Oskar. She started walking and in no time came upon the town's gossiper and local "bitch", in the words of Camofrog, Whitney the Wolf. Tall, thin and bossy, she was a site to behold. At 42, she was the second oldest Phaffian, next to Camofrog, who clocked in at 49.

"Oh hi, Lily!" shouted Whitney. She was wearing a designer Gracie outfit, which probably cost about the same as Lily's mortgage payment.

"Hi, Whitney, how are you?"

"Good. My, what weather we are having. Rain one minute, sun the next. Can't they make up their mind! Say, isn't that a new dress?" said the grey furred wolf. The dress Lily had on was, of course, not up to standard with Whitney. It was bought from the Able Sisters, local design.

"Yes. It isn't much. I'm going over to Bones' house; he is the new person in town. Have you been?" asked Lily.

"No, but I got a glance at him, and he is a mega hottie. Talk about a tall glass of water on a hot day! It is about time we got some new, fresh meat around here. Getting kinda sick of seeing Bill without a shirt on when I first get up in the morning. Now what I mean, baby Lily?"

The conversation, if you could call it that, was now getting uncomfortable for Lily, so she said good bye to the wolf and continued walking. In no time she arrived at the house of Bones. The outside was nice, with a few flowers planted around on the outside. The top of the house had been painted recently, and there was an apple tree growing in a little garden by the side of his home. Good, a fellow gardener, thought Lily. She approached the house, and being shy, knocked on the door. She could hear the faint sound of music playing, could it be a K.K. classic?

"Just a minute!" yelled Bones. Lily took in the fresh air brought from the rain through her gills. She tried to fix any wrinkles in her dress that hung tightly around her 5 foot 3 inch body. She had brought new wall paper as a gift, a sort of "house warming" present. Someone stumbled to the door, and opened it.

"Hello. You must be Bones. My name is Lily. Welcome to Phaffey." Lily extended her paw, shaking hands with the dog. He was almost six feet tall, and had a patch around his eye. His clothes were messy, with dirt and other grime stuck to his plain white tee, no doubt a result from the move

"Oh, hello! Nice to meet you."

"I brought a "welcome to Phaffey" gift for you. Here, hope you enjoy." Lily gave the wrapped gift to Bones, who put it under his arm.

"Wow; thank you much! That's very, very nice. Say, would you like to come in? It's messy, but we can find you a chair."

"I would very much like that." Lily was first struck by the mountains of boxes. The living room was large, with a fire place, very uncommon in Phaffey. There was a small kitchen behind the living room, with a bathroom attached to the kitchen. Bones' bedroom was behind that. Lily found the house to be wonderful; in fact, one of the nicer homes she had seen, though smaller then her own.

"Would you like something to drink? Apple juice? Maybe a cherry tonic?" asked Bones. He had brought her a simple, red chair. It was dark in the house, as a result from the lack of light. Tom Nook had a nasty reputation about turning on new villager's electricity and other utilities.

"Water would be fine. So, how do you like Phaffey thus far?

"It's actually nice. Nice trees, OK people. Say, who's the bitchy white wolf who wears too much makeup?"

Lily giggled. "Oh, that's Whitney. You will get to know her soon enough. So, if you don't mind me asking, why Phaffey?" inquired Lily.

Bones, yelling from the kitchen: "To tell you the truth, the price of my house. Rock bottom cheap here if you haven't noticed. Totally stole it for 189,000 bells. Easy mortgage payments, no hassle. So, what is there to do in this town?"

He brought her drink, taking a few sips: "I know what you mean. I am a founding citizen. Still paying on my house though. I have an ocean view (this impressed Bones) so I will be making the payments for a while. To answer your question, not a lot. You can fish, catch insects, get a drink of coffee, strong apple cider or get a bite to eat at The Roost, or if you are ever locked into a state of permanent boredom, you can come to our monthly town meetings. Those are great. Everybody is yelling, somebody always ends up crying, it's really fun. Not the crying part, but the experience. So, how old are you? What do you do for work?"

"I'm 25. Work? Ha. If I could find a job. I used to work full time for the old museum back home, but I quit. Hated the work. Hate working, to be honest. The idea of a perfect job is to set home and do nothing. Watching TV and eating a big bag of chips. So, Lily, its Lily, right? Lily, tell me about the people who live here. Who to avoid, who I should hang out with? Give me the dirty details." said Bones.

"People here are generally nice. Let me see….. There is Oskar, the human and founder. He's nice, really great company. Then there is Bill, a funny duck who loves to work out. Next to him is another new villager, Jitters. I've only talked to him a few times. Pudge lives next to him. Pudge is dynamite; he is also a founding citizen. He will bend over backwards for you. Though he tried that one time, it wasn't too good. Whitney, the wolf, very wealthy, she is….interesting. Then there is me. Not too much to say about me. Camofrog and Puddles live on the island. They are both great. To tell you the truth, we are all unique. I love it here." Besides being lazy and a little dirty, Lily thought Bones was alright. She hoped he would like it here. She took another drink of her cherry tonic, and shifted in her chair. The house was a little cold.

"Cool, sounds like I picked a good place to live. Sorry there is not much to do. Wait until I am done packing." said Bones.

"You know, now that you mention it, I will get out of your fur. Give you some more time to unpack, rest and get use to it here. Thank you so much for the drink Bones. It was a pleasure meeting you. If you every need anything, come visit me. I am also listed in the Phaffey phone book, as are everybody else. Give me a call. Thank you so much and I hope you enjoy your first night in Phaffey. You will fit right in, I know it." Lily got up to leave, putting her glass on the chair

"Thanks a bunch Lily. It means a lot to me that you came over and introduced yourself. I will keep the call thing in mind." Bones walked the petit frog to the door.

"Have a good night, Bones."

"You too, my new and favorite neighbor."

She heard the door "click" behind her. It was staring to drizzle again. She pushed her coat over her eyes and ran home. The rain was coming down harder and harder now, and turned back into a full storm by the time she got home. Lily took off her coat, hung it up on her coat rack and checked the time. 5:46 PM. Time for dinner, commonly held as the best time of day in Lily's house.

Lily's home was quite nice, at least by Phaffey standards. She had her main room, called the living room, and a full sized kitchen, the biggest in town. She was a cook by profession, going to Animal University to receive her training and certificate. She then had a bathroom, quite big, which was connected to her bedroom, with two large closets. Another rarity she had was a computer. Only Oskar had one as did the museum. They were expensive, and she won one by being named 2006 "Phaffey Citizen of the Year." She had a guest bedroom, which was becoming more and more common in modern houses. All in all, her house was about 4,000 square feet, the third largest home in Phaffey (Whitney and Oskar's being the biggest.)

The phone rang while she was in the kitchen. She ran to get it, almost tripping over a vase Pudge gave her last year for her birthday.

"Lily speaking."

"Hi, Lily. This is Bones again. Hey, let me throw a question at you, is that cool?" Bones asked.

"Sure, go ahead."

"I know this is kind of inappropriate, me being new and all, and I know you probably have a million other people asking you this, but……" Bones was nervous, and what Lily couldn't see was that he was holding on to a chair, his body shaking so much.

"Go ahead. Don't worry, I won't laugh."

"What I'm trying to say is that….Well…..Um……What I would like to ask you, if you have time and want to…….What I mean is that would you like to go out for a cup of coffee with me tomorrow at The Roost? Nook said it was the best around, and I thought it would be fun. It's OK if you can't come, though, I will understand…" said the very, very nervous Bones.

"Well gosh. Sure, I would love to go with you! It will be fun. Should I bring anything?" asked Lily.

"Just you BURNING desire for some coffee! Get it, burning, because coffee is hot and burns if you drink it too fast? Ha ha ha. I should do comedy for a living." Bones could hardly contain himself.

"That is quite funny! OK, I'll meet you there at 7 PM tomorrow; is that good for you?"

"That's looks pretty good to me. Cool, this will be so much fun! Hey, maybe if you like it, we can go to the K.K. concert this weekend?"

"We will see. Ok, see you tomorrow Mr. Bones."

"You too. Thanks again Lily. I feel really lucky to be in a village with someone so nice and caring. Good night, and see you later." Bones said. Never before had he asked someone out like this. Wait, he mentally asked himself, is this a date? Better not ask; might ruin and spoil the moment.

"Thank you, and you sleep well too." She hung up the phone. Smiling, Lily walked back into her kitchen.

Suddenly, Phaffey just become a much, much better place.

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Authors note: So, what did you think? I know it was kinda boring, but I was trying to lay out the characters and plot. Review me, and I will update often. There will be more chapters and stories about the residents of Phaffey. Stay tuned!