What Will Never Be The Same Again: A Harvest Moon Fanfiction.
Type: One-Shot
Summary: Gray thinks on his relationship with Claire... and regrets it. Told in Gray's POV
Disclaimer: I don't own Harvest Moon.
It had been three years since I married Mary... the girl I THOUGHT I loved. Three years since I moved to Forget-Me-Not Valley with Mary, so that... maybe I could... forget about her. Who was she? She was Claire. The girl who was like poison. Changing me gradually. It's been three years... since I broke Claire's fragile little heart.
But, my stupidity got the best of me. I never loved Mary; and I think I never will. OK, maybe as her friend, I did. But other than that? I don't think so. So then, I was half-hearted in our marriage, always so distant from her, and I didn't have that carefree feeling I had with Claire. And for her own reasons, Mary filed a divorce. That was when I felt like there was a thorn removed from my heart. I was free. Free again to actually love someone; and there was only one girl who came into my mind. Claire.
Upon my return to Mineral Town, Ann, one of Claire's friends immediately greeted me, as I came back to the Inn where I used to stay. And after all the, 'I'm sorry about your divorce' talk with Ann, I finally got the courage to talk about Claire. And then, Ann's smile widened. "Gray," She started. "A lot of things happened when you and Mary moved to Forget-Me-Not Valley. A lot of... really nice things." A pause. "When Claire hadn't moved on from her heartbreak yet, she would see the Doctor, Trent, regularly to make sure she wouldn't go insane. And that was when it started. Gray, she fell in love with Trent. And he felt the same for her. They started going out, and yes, they did get married."
After what Ann had told me, I thought my whole world was crumbling. Claire couldn't wait for me then. Summoning up all my courage to speak to her, that was when I decided to go to the farm and have small talk with her. And there. Just outside the Farm House, at exactly 8:30AM, I saw both Claire and Trent exiting from the Farm House, when Trent planted a kiss on her forehead. The both of them were touching the same thing... and I noticed it to be... Her womb. She was pregnant, for what I have learned to be their second child. That's when I decided to not talk to her. My cowardice took over me, and I fled for the Inn.
And now, all I could do for her is just to watch her at the sidelines. I can never again tell her that I loved her. I now regret everything. Deciding to marry Mary, leaving Mineral Town because I thought that I could forget about her, and... the last thing I regret? Was pretty obvious. Breaking the heart of the girl I loved the most. And yes, the first should always be the last... and that was the case with me. Claire was the first woman I loved... and she's going to be the last one too. And things will never be the same again.
FIN.
A/N: I'm sorry if it's ugly. I kinda wrote it in a hurry because I didn't want my idea to leave me. XD.
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