[Authors Note]: A Harvest Moon Tragedy/Romance/Drama fan fiction involving Wizard(Gale) and Hikari. I'm sort of writing this as I go along, but I do have a basic plot in mind. Please enjoy.
Always and Forever
I've grown used to it over the years. The gazes that look right through me, words spoken, but never in my direction. I've been nearly invisible, people pay me no mind. They sit and chatter with their friends, don't even watch as I walk by. I am forgotten in this world. What good is eternal life when you are transparent. I'm like the grass and trees, the water and air. People occasionally think of me, but then I'm gone from their minds. A fleeting thought brushed aside by the important things in their everyday lives. I'm like the shadow that follows you as the day becomes cloudy, vanishing slowly- to remain unseen until someone decides to take notice in it's disappearance. Always in the background, never once have I been center stage.
I sat and contemplated my existence a while longer as I shined my crystal ball. I got up and slowly made my way over to my telescope. Sliding onto the stool I had perched beneath it I stared into the night sky. The stars always made me feel even more inferior than I already felt. My vision slowly misted over as hot wet tears began to well up. They soon spilled over, as they often did when I thought of how utterly alone in the world I was. I had no friends, the ones that I had long ago had since passed. I've outlived them by many a decade. The same went for my family. I watched everyone around me age, what seemed rather quickly. I had lost count of how long I'd been on this earth, a thousand years perhaps, give or take a few hundred. I swiveled the telescope a bit and focused it on the moon. It was big and almost gold in color, a harvest moon no doubt. I bet the new farm girl appreciated this moon. More light to help harvest crops by. Although, with that boyfriend of hers I'm sure all of the work was done before evening. What was I thinking, I shouldn't even think of others private lives, after all, I only know about the villagers because of my fortune telling, even then only a handful of them pay me a visit. The farm girl on the other hand was one that had taken to visiting quite often.
Knock. Knock. Knock. Click.
I turned to face my door as a brown haired girl stepped over the threshold into my home. She made herself comfortable in one my wooden chairs surrounding my fortunetelling table.
"Wizard," Hikari called, her voice smooth as wet silk.
"Ah," I gathered my composure, rubbing the sleeve of my tunic over my face to mask the dried up streams of tears. "...Coming." I stood up and hurried over to the table that Hikari was sitting at.
"What would you like today?" I asked, my voice monotone. I stared at Hikari, hoping her golden brown eyes might hold the secret to unbinding me from my eternal suffering, they did not.
"Could you, um," She paused and played with the fabric of her shirt. "Tell me my love fortune?" She gave me a shy smile. I sighed, placed my hand on the crystal ball ahead of me, and let my thoughts go. They drifted for quite some time until they came to rest upon a scene with the farm girl in them. She was sitting in the midst of a field weeping in a white bridal gown. rapping herself over a low-set gravestone she cried out, her small body writhing with grief. My eyes snapped open. A wide goofy smile was plastered on her face.
"So, is it any good?" Her smile widened, expressing her desire for the fortune of a life time. I couldn't tell her the truth of what I saw. How could I break the heart of someone so innocent, someone who knew I existed.
"I see great happiness for you and the man that you love." Her face beamed with joy as told her the news. "Marriage doesn't seem too far off for you."
"Oh! I.., really?!" She seemed simply ecstatic. How could I tell her that soon after great disaster would befall the two of them. How could I tell her that Chase would die soon after their wedding? She got up, hugged me tightly and then quickly ran out of my home before I could find a way to tell her the rest of the fortune.