StrawberryMuse: So this is a story I've been meaning to write for a while now, I hope you enjoy it. Also a review would be nice this is the first story I have ever published so I'd like to know if I should continue this or not and criticism is wanted so please do not be shy. : )

Disclaimer: I do not own harvest moon

Summary: Hikari is tired of being alone in her apartment, so one day by accident she found a brochure promising a happy and new life this is just what she was looking for, but on this island she will get more than what she is looking for. Read and Find out what happens to our lovely Hikari on her journey to Castanet Island.

Hikari' POV

"This is where you will be staying Hikari". I looked in the direction the mayor was pointing and there it was my new home, well more like more first home. Yes, I had lived in a house before, but this is different.

In my old home, I was an only child with only my father to raise me. My mother had abandoned my father and me when I was just six years old. To this day I still remember her leaving. I was just there, sitting on the last step of the old staircase, watching as she walked through the open door. She was wearing her hair in a perfect bun, her usual black sundress, and her favourite red high heels; I still remember the clicking noise they made a she walked out on us. She did not look back once, not even when I was calling her name, asking where she was going, she just kept on walking.

It's the only memory I have of my mother, so I don't remember what her face looked like. I have a good idea of what she looked like though. I didn't have any pictures of her, but my father would always mistakenly call me by her name, Lily, that was her name and apparently I look a lot like her.

Now my father wasn't a bad man, but he wasn't exactly the most affectionate. He worked long hours to help support us but because of that he never had any time for me or to do any cooking or cleaning. Even when he was home he would stay in his room, he would just sit in front of his computer, and he would be so zoned out that sometimes he wouldn't even hear me open the door. So from a young age I had to learn how to cook, clean and basically take care of myself and because of this I never had time like the other kids to go outside and play in the sand. Same goes for when I was in high school; I never had time to go to the mall. My high school life was taking care of the house and studying, so I didn't have any friends either.

Eventually though, my dad had met another woman. They fell in love and were extremely happy. I actually saw my dad smile for the first time in years when he was with her, but there was just one problem and that problem was me. I was around sixteen years old when he met her. She was a very high class woman with a lot of money and no kids, and I think that's how she wanted to keep it. She didn't like me at all. In her eyes, I was just an obstacle in the way of her ad my father's perfect life.

Anyways, to get her way and seem like a nice woman at the same time, she offered to get me my own apartment. I knew this was just to get rid of me but I accepted anyways. I wanted my father too to be truly happy for once. He had dealt with a lot in his life and I was old enough to take care of myself so I decided to for once make it easy on him. I wasn't that close to him, but I still loved him for the fact he stayed and took care of me and for that I was thankful.

They continued to support me financially for years, but that didn't get rid of that empty feeling I always got when I walked through that plain grey door. I had lived in that depressing apartment for five years until one day I finally lost it. I just ran out of my apartment crying, silently but the tears didn't stop falling once. I just ran and ran until I came across a brochure. It was vibrant green and blue with a rainbow on the front, usually I would have just ignored it, but I had this gut feeling that was telling me to pick it up and read it. So I did.

In bold letters I read "COME TO THE LAND OF CASTANET FOR A HAPPY NEW LIFE."

That one line was all it took. As soon as I read it I ran back home. I didn't back much, only a couple of things; I had nothing of sentimental value so I packed only clothes and basic stuff that I'll need. I left a message on my dad's phone, and then called the mayor.

"So do you like it?" I snapped out of my daze, not realizing I must have been silent for more than five minutes. I just looked down to meet his eyes, and the only thing I could think to say was,

"I love it."

StrawberryMuse: So that's the first chapter. Hope you liked it ^-^.