"I'm home..." Claire said, closing the door behind her. She sighed. I live by myself, so of course there is no repl-

"HI!!!!!"

"What are you doing here, Jill?"

"You gave me the keys to your house- remember?"

Claire sighed. Day after day she went to work, so it was hard to remember things like that. Same old thing day in and day out (not including how her brunette friend scaring her today). Might as well just read the paper and go to be- CRASH! The blonde stared at Jill for a moment. "Did you let anyone else in?" Claire asked.

"Just a few." Jill replied calmly. "Only Jack, Jay, and Julie." What is with her friends and the letter J, Claire thought.She opened up the newspaper on her desk. Well, what's going on in the world... ? Huh? what's this?

Would you like to enjoy a peaceful and refreshing farm life?
For more info, contact: YUOUOUFG

... Farm... "You want to get a farm?" a familiar voice asked. It was Julie- Jill's little sister. She was a teenager but never outgrew short pigtails. "We learned a lot about it in school and Dad used to be a farmer! I can help! Farms cost a lot of money! Ooooh, we can get a pet doggie and a cow and a horse and lots of little PIGGIES! And we can get a-"

"SHUT UP, JULIE!" Jay shouted from the other room. He was around Julie's age but unlike her, he was more intelligent and more mature. Like his big brother Jack, Jay wore a blue cap(backwards), overalls, and a red necktie. He walked out into the room and asked Jill, "How much sugar have you been giving her?"

"Jay, stop yelling at Julie."

"Okay."

"I think Jack likes you." Julie said out of the blue to her older sister.

"What?!"

While her four friends were bickering, Claire was thinking about the farm. Brushing cows... riding horses... puppies...open fields... PUPPIES! "This is it! Something exciting!" Claire thought out loud. "Let's call..."


"Hello, is this MT Realtor? I'm calling about the farm..." Claire said over the phone while Jill, Jack, Jay and Julie were eavesdropping about 2 feet away. "... it costs that much? Um... hang on a sec." Claire put the phone on the table. "Okay... does anyone here have 20,000 G?"

The room was silent. "Maybe we can pool the money!" Jay suggested. "I have 200 G."
"500." Julie said.
"I have 1,000." said Claire.
"2,000 G."
"1,500."
"14,800 G!"

Everyone stared at Julie. "What? I have 14,800 G." she said. "Its amazing how often people drop spare change without noticing."

And so Claire was able to buy the farm on one condition- They have to share it. All five. I wonder how that's gonna work out...


A few days later...

The five friends stared in shock at what they wasted money on. It was a farm rwith weeds, stones, even bigger stones, stumps and twigs. "At least there's a puppy!" Julie said optimistically. For some strange reason there was one survivor and there was already a perfectly clean doghouse.

A really fat and weird looking man came up and asked, "Hello. Are you tourists?" They all shook their heads at the same time. "MT Realtor said that you could live a refreshing life on the farm?" They all nodded.
"You five are the new farmers?" he asked. Jask, Jill, Jay, Julie and Claire all nodded again. The fat guy burst into laughter.

"You've been tricked!" he said (actually it was more like "HAHA you HA you've been triHAHAHA tricked!") "It used to be a gorgeous farm but not anymore since the owner passed away. As you can see, noone's been taking care of it. Not many people want to work on the farm now, so they decided to make the advertisement sound more attractive. Every now and then, people who have seen the ad come here. (Claire muttered, "So we're not the only ones who were ripped off") Just as yourselves. But as soon as they see the farm, they get disappointed and leave- just like that! It's been a while since the last one came, though. I see. You believed that cheesy advertisement!" He burst out laughing again.

Now Claire was getting really angry. She pulled out a hammer she took from her shed earlier and began to bonk the man on the noggin (serves him right). "Owowow... ouch. Okay, okay, sorry. Please stop hitting me!"

"Okay, I feel a lot better now." Claire said, smiling. But then it turned out that there were two hammers and Jack decided to take the other one. After the man gained conciousness again, everyone smothered him with apologies and Claire explained the situation.

"I see." he said. "You quit your job and moved out of your apartment. That's too bad... Hey, why don't you try and run the farm?"

"YAY!!!!!! Thank you mister!" Julie exclaimed. The man(Thomas who just happened to be the mayor) left them with 100 G each and nothing else other than the dog and, well, the entire deserted farm. Their work began the next day.


Author's Note: The beginning is based on More Friends of Mineral Town. I haven't played the game yet but my friend has. This doesn't take place in any particular game. It's a mix between A Wonderful Life, More Friends of Mineral Town, and Magical Melody. Tell me if I should quit or keep going. In case you can't tell, Julie and Jay(the preteens) are based on the midgets from Magical Melody, Claire is from More Friends of Mineral Town, Jack is from Friends of Mineral Town and Jill is from Another Wonderful Life. Man. This is a long author's note. Also, I couldn't type the SHAPES so I replaced them with letters.