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CH:2 Kaseys life begins

A few days have gone by since Kasey moved to Waffel Island. His new house has been built and he has begun to farm. He has grown some crops with the help of some gifts the people of Waffel Town have given him.

The house he lives in is small but it will do. It has a small table in the middle, a straw bed in the corner, a tool box next to it and a booksehlf next to the tool box. Kasey is outside watering his crops. "Phew, this is hard work. I know I was only out here for a few hours but man this is hard."
After watering the last crop and now with nothing else to do, Kasey decides to go travel around the town.

He takes the path from the Caramel River District to the Maple Tree District to the Ganache Mine District. He walks to the Souffle Farm, but it is closed for the day. "Awww man, I wanted to get some more seeds, Oh well," Kasey looks to his left past the house to see a boulder blocking the road up ahead. "Hmm, I wonder whats beyond that boulder," he says to himself. He walks up to the boulder and examines it. It looks like he could break the boulder. He runs home to grab his hammer, given to him by Owen, the apprentice miner at the Ganache Mine. Kasey takes the hammer to the boulder, he lifts the hammer high above his head and brings it down has hard as he can.
The hammer bounces off the boulder and shakes Kasey. He drops the hammer in pain. "Son of a bitch that hurt." Kasey shakes his hands to help dull the pain. He then hears a cracking sound, he looks at the boulder and sees that a crack was made in it. Soon the boulder falls apart and the way has been opened. Kasey smiles and walks in the direction of what he sees as another farm.

Kasey looks around and sees that the place is not a farm but a ranch. He walks over to the house just to the right of the path. He reads the sign outside "Brownie Ranch" he smiles at the thought that if he needed livestock he would come visit the ranch. Kasey opens the door and heads inside. Once inside he is greeted by a tall somewhat muscular man. "Well good morning to ya' sir, welcome to Brownie Ranch, my name is Cain, and the beautiful woman next to me is my wife Hanna."

"Hello" Hanna waves at Kasey. He returns the wave with a slight bow. "Whats your name?"
"My names Kasey, nice to meet you two." They all axchange smiles. The door opens and a young girl with brown hair and yellowish-brown eyes. She is wearing a long yellow dress withred trim around the seams of her dress. She is also wearing some stylish boots, but he can already guess that they are for ranching, not fasion. Kaseys eyes light up as she walks in. "Dad,im all done with my chores today, may I please be excused?" Her voice is like a gentle waterfall with angels singing in the background. Calm and Serenity. The girl looks at Kasey, his face begins to redden. "Well hello there, you must be the new farmer my dad was talking about." Kasey shakes his head to snap him out of his shock. "Yes, i'm the new farmer, the names Kasey." he holds out his hand for a shake. Her eyes widden up, "Kasey? I knew a kasey when I was younger, but he disappeared when a huge hurrican came to the island." Her voice was soft, so soft that Kasey could barely understand a word she was saying. She snaps out of her daydream and looks up to see Kasey staring at her. Her face reddens like a tomatoe. "I'm sorry, i got lost in thought,
my names Renee." She reaches out and grasps Kaseys hand.

The shake took longer than what normal hand shakes take, they look at each other and let go.
their faces redden and they look away from each other, embarressed to try for the others face is red. "Well it was nice meeting you Kasey, maybe we can hang out some day" She waves to Kasey goodbye and leaves. "Well well well, it looks like you have a crush on my daughter"
Cain and Hanna laugh. Kaseys face turns even redder than what it was before. "Ha Ha Ha, i'm only playing around Kasey, but if you do like her, please take good care of my little Renee,"
Cain winks at Kasey. Kasey is schocked to think that Cain is trying to make it seem that he wanted to be with his daughter. He has had enough of the embarrassment and left the ranch.

Kasey walks home, looking down as he walks lost in his mind, "That girl, Renee, she looks so beautiful. Maybe Cain is right, maybe i do like his daughter, but i barley know her. And it looks like that she might like me too, i'm not so s-" Kasey bumps into some one and is knocked to the ground. "Owwwwwwwww" it was a girl voice. Kasey shakes his head to clear his vision.
He looks in fron of him to see who he walked into, and by surprise, it was Renee. Kasey quickly helps her to her feet. "I'm so sorry, i didn't see where i was going." they said at the same time.

They both giggle, "I'm sorry" again at the same time. They smile, Kasey says nothing hoping that she will say something instead, and she does. "W-w-would...y-you like to, you know...
go for a uh walk?" her face reddens as she studders. "Sure, a walk sounds nice." Kasey says with a grin. Renee looks at his face and her face reddens like a tomatoe. Her eyes could not look into his own. Renee looks at the ground, shuffeling her feet. Kasey takes her hand. Renee feels her heart jump a few beats. "Come on, lets go by the water fall."

After there walk to the water fall it was getting late so Kasey took her home and said goodbye and that he would stop by again real soon. Kasey gets back to his house a little bit after dark. He gets into his house and lays down in his straw bed, but his thoughts kept him awake.
"Wow, Just these past few hours I knew Renee More than I know anyone else, and also its probably because I don't socilize much." He shrugs. Kasey hears a knock at the door. He quickly sits up. "I wonder who that could be, and at this time too." Kasey gets out of bed, walks over to the door and opens it. To his surprise it's Cain. Can was out of breath, he ran to Kaseys house "Kasey, I need your help, it's Renee, she...she." He couldn't finish his sentence because he was out breath.

"It's ok Cain, tell me, where is she right now?" Kasey takes Cain and sits him down at the table.
He offers him some tea and Cain happily takes it. Cain gulps it down, regardless that it is hot.
He clears his throat, "Kasey, Renee is missing, she never returned home." His eyes begin to tear up, "Please I need your help on finding her," he pleaded to Kasey. Kasey, with a spark in his eyes tells Cain not to worry, and that he should go home and wait, he will bring Renee home to him. All Cain could do is shake his head in agreement. The two leave Kaseys house and part ways. Kasey doesn't understand how she went missing, "I was with her when i dropped her off at her house. Maybe i should start there." He heads towards Brownie Ranch only to be stopped by a ear shattering scream. "That's Renees voice!" Kasey heads in the direction of the scream to find Renee surrounded by wolves. There growls are frightning, they leave Renee stunned with fear. One wolf jumps at Renee but Kasey takes his axe, the one he got from Luke (he will be in the story later on), and throws it at the wolf. The axe makes contact with the wolf, splitting its skull and killing it. Then Kasey takes out his hammer and brings it down on another wolf, crushing its rib cage, killing it. The other wolves see that they are no match for Kasey and run off into the near woods. Renee collapses from all the emotion she is feeling. Kasey runs to her side, "Renee!
Are you okay?" He feels that she is breathing fun, with no cuts or bite marks on her person, or at least non visible. He lifts her off the ground and takes her home. After a few hours she awakens to find that she is unharmed and in her bed. Kasey was next to her asleep in a chair.

She remembers hearing the animals freak out after Kasey left, after that it was all just a blur.
Her dad walks in the room with a bowl of soup and a cup of tea. "Well look who is finally awake,"
he said whispering, not to wake Kasey. "Kasey told me what happened, but i want to know is why you were still out there?" Renee tells her father what happened, he is shocked but happy to see that she cares about the animals. "What else happened, dad?" she asks taking a mouth full of soup.
Her father tells her that Kasey saved her from being killed by wolves. Her face freezes with shock.
Renee looks to Kasey, who was still asleep. Her face relaxes as she sees his face, all calm in his sleep. She finds herself smiling. Her dad notices and chuckels. "You must be lucky to have found someone who cares about you." Renees face turns red, she turns to look at her dad, her face red but slightly tinged with frustration at her own father teasing her. Cain jumps out the door still giggeling like a school girl. Renee takes another look at Kasey, but jumps back to see that he was right in her face. Her face grows reder than a cherry. "Th-thank you for saving me." she says looking in the opposite direction.

Kasey leans in and kisses her cheek, "It was nothing." he turns around and leaves her room.
Renees eyes widden when Kasey kisses her cheek. Her face grows redder (if even possible) and when he leaves she puts her hand on her cheek, feeling the impression on where Kasey has kissed her.
She is still shocked that a person she just met saved her life. Her heart begins to race when she sees him enter her room again, this time he brought something. Kasey gives her a jar of a pink substance, "It's strawberry milk, your dad said that you love this stuff, so while you were resting I went home and made you some, but you were still asleep when i got back so I put it away till you got up. Again Renees face went red, she opens the top and takes a sip. The milk tasts wonderful,
and her face showed it. Kasey giggles at the sight of Renees face. She smiles, and thanks him for the drink he made himself. Kasey leaves Renees room again, but this time he is stopped by Renee who jumps out of bed and graps ahold of Kasey, spins him around and hugs him tightly. Kasey is shocked at what happened. His face turns red as he feels Renees grasp hold him. He hears her whimper, so he takes his arms, rap them around her and holds her. She stops whimpering and calms down. She listens to Kaseys heart beat. She closes her eyes and drifts off back to sleep. Kasey takes her and lays her back down. "So long for now, i'll be back, i promise." He leans in and kisses her forhead. Renee smiles in her sleep. Kasey then takes his leave and heads home.

There you go, chapter two. It turned out longer than i expected.
I hope everyone likes it. Let me know how well i did and if i need to improve.