Summery: After some serious drama in her life Hikari returns back home to be with her family. She thinks she left her heart with her young doctor, Trent, but after being home she starts to wonder about the word love.e

This story is also published DA. Please R&R. Disclaimer: This is FANfiction... so of course, I don't own Harvest Moon.

Chapter 1: All Better

I couldn't help but feel sorry for myself. This place was like a jail, a jail for mental people that is. At least they let me keep a journal. As I flip through my journal I remember it like it was only yesterday. I sat on the boat silently crying to myself, if I had only listened I wouldn't be here.

There was a knock on the door and a man with black hair came in.

"Are you ready to talk today?" He asked me, I just stared at the ceiling. It seemed like forever before he finally sighed and left. That was Doctor Trent; he's from this place called Mineral Town, silly name for a town huh? Well I can't really talk, because where I come from it's called 'Harmonica Town.' I miss it, I miss my family the most, and the silly thing is going home to be with them is as simple as talking to them.

"Them" being the doctors who have my "case." There's Dr Alex from Sugar Town, Dr Trent, and Dr Jin who ironically is from Harmonica Town, he's just been away for several years studying medicine, and has no idea who I am. Dr Trent has taken my case personal, I don't know why, but he's put so much heart into our one sided conversations. I write about his conversations in my journal, he told me all about his home in Mineral Town, and every Wednesday he travels to 'Forget-Me-Not Valley'. I wonder what the people are like there. My eyes filled with tears, I rolled to face the wall and hugged my journal,

"Daddy I miss you." I sniffed.

"I knew that your heart was filled with sadness, but I didn't think you'd talk about it." I jumped, I didn't hear the door open and there was Dr. Trent standing there.

"See I knew you could. Now tell me." He pulled up a chair and started to take notes on his clip board.

"Promise not to write everything I say down?" I asked. He smiled,

"I'll tell you what. I won't write anything down, if you tell me everything. Deal?"

"Yes."

I sighed, "I will start in the middle."

"Why not the beginning?" He interrupted.

"You'll see."

He nodded, "Sorry go on."

"My name is Hikari. I'm from a place called Harmonica Town, you may have heard of it from Dr. Jin, I believe he's the grandson of Irene, but we've never met. I'm the youngest of 4. I'm 15 now, my brother Yuuki is next to me in age he'd be 18 now. Next is my sister Akari, she's 20, and lastly my brother Takeru, who's 21." I paused to think about their smiling faces, I missed them, I had been away too long.

"What about your mom and dad?" Dr Trent asked me.

"Well it's because of my mom I'm in this mess. I was 5 when she became ill. My father, Dallas, couldn't take care of us all the time. Someone had to bring in money to pay for the bills. He sold most of our belongings and our house and we moved to a small 2 bedroom apartment next door to my aunt. She helped look after us. Months went by and my mother just got worse, half the time she couldn't even remember her own name. One day my dad had to pick up my brothers and sister from school, and my aunt wasn't home yet. He told me if I stayed put that he'd get me 1 really great gift and a really cute book bag for school that next year. I was almost 6 and I wanted my daddy to be proud of me, so I went into my room and took out my coloring book and I stayed there. I guess about 15 minutes or so had passed when I heard my mom screaming in the other room. I got up and walked there. She was up and getting dressed, I hadn't seen her out of bed for a real long time. She looked at me and screamed, 'Akari get your shoes on, we have to pick up Takeru from baseball.' I knew she wasn't feeling well for calling me Akari and Takeru didn't even play baseball. I shook my head and started backing away. Suddenly she grabbed me by the arm and ran out the door. I don't remember what really happened next." I closed my eyes tightly. I didn't want to remember, tears filled my eyes.

I sniffed, "The doctors said I'd never be the same after that. We had the funeral for my mother that following weekend. They said I never cried, never showed any emotion towards it, in a way I was blaming myself. That night my dad packed our stuff and we were shoved into a car and drove and drove all through the rest of the night and into the morning, and we got on a boat. So began my life in Harmonica Town."

"Do you want to continue? You're making great progress." Dr Trent asked me.

"Yes, I might as well. I'll never forget my last day there, I was eleven. It was Akari's turn to watch me, she protested with my dad but my brothers had already taken the opportunity to run off. I was really nothing but a burden to my family, and my dad had to take care of the farm. She was meeting some friends at the Ocarina Inn, Renee, and Kathy. Maya would probably join them because she works there, even though I'm not sure they really liked her all that much. I was glad we were heading there, I was hungry. They picked a booth to shove into. Kathy and Renee were on one side, Akari and me on the other. I picked up a menu and decided on waffles, they sounded really delicious. Maya came over to take our order and my sister and her friends being a bunch of 16 year olds only wanted to talk about one thing, boys. I guess I just got so frustrated with Maya that I ducked under the table and made a run for it."

"Then what happened?" Dr Trent asked me.

"I... I… don't remember…" I stuttered. "I'm drawing a blank, I thought I did remember and now I can't."

"Well you told me a lot, I'm going to talk to Dr. Jin, maybe see about getting you back home, you've been here long enough." Dr Trent got up, picked up his clip board and left the room, leaving me in silence once again.

I picked up my journal and wrote
'Gosh back home, I wonder what's happened since I left 4 years ago. Yuuki will probably be not married yet but is in love I'm sure. Akari has to be recently married by now, but to whom? Gill use to pick on her, tease her, maybe that became something? And Takeru, I'm sure he's married to Anissa and they have a baby together, I think he was in love with her from day one. I wonder if anyone will remember me.'
I closed my journal and fell asleep thinking of all the people back home.