Summer came quickly that year, or at least it felt that way to Chelsea. This meant that she had a lot less rainy days to do extra work that she couldn't do because she was tending to her feilds. In spring these days had been so plenty that she found herself some free time, these days where she had no work she would usually sit and talk with Will, or stop by Mirabelle's shop to help Vaugn with his work. He was still grumpy about it but he wouldn't make her leave as long as she was making herself useful. Chelsea smiled thinking about these good times with her friends as she finished up her work for the day.
Even though she wanted to go to sleep as soon as she finished her work, she had other things to do. Chelsea slipped into the shower washing the day's dirt off of herself before getting dressed in her simple orange with yellow flowers sundress. After she was satisfied with how she looked she went over to Natalie's house. The young women of the island started a "Dinner club". Every tuesday, thursday, and saturday they would go to a member's house and have a pleasant dinner. Chelsea enjoyed these events because usually she ate via the diner or just plain veggies-of course she cooked when her friends came over but not usually for herself.
When the bubbly farm-girl arrived there was hugs and squeals of delight all around. While Chelsea would never admit it, she was often the life of these parties even if when she was the host everyone cringed at her cooking. Chelsea smiled brightly hiding her exauhstion, she knew that her friends would worry about her and therefore help her. From a very young age she had never enjoyed recieving help-only giving it. Part way through their meal Julia asked about Chelsea's recent order for two chickens.
"Yeah, things have been going great recently-I figured if it rains tomorow like Nat's grandfather said I'll be able to gather the cash for them." Chelsea explained between mouthfuls of Felicia's delicious cooking. The brunette didn't mention the other things on her list because she didn't want her friends to offer help. Turns out this attempt was futile.
"If you need cash that badly I could ask my father to loan you some, I don't want you to hurt yourself while working" Sabrina suggested in a soft voice. Chelsea smiled but shook her head.
"Nah, it's ok-Taro is never wrong about the weather"
"If we're going by what gramps says, you shouldn't work in the rain" Natalie replied always one to be quick witted.
"It's bad for your skin too" Lanna chirped.
"It'll be fine really, I never catch colds and I don't really care about my skin"
"You could try the mines" Lily suggested "You won't be exposed to the rain there and the ores bring in plenty of money. Chelsea nodded wanting the conversation to end, she couldn't work in the mines because she had other things to do on her farm. Luckily for her, the convorsation quickly shifted.
"So, Julia. What's up with you hitting on my brother?" Natalie started smiling mischeviously "You'll give him a heart attack with your body." She joked pushing some of her pink hair behind her ear. Julia laughed along always being good natured when it came to joking around. The night continued in that manner until the group said their goodbye's.
On Chelsea's way home, she gathered as many sellable items as she could and dropped them into the shipping bin before going inside. Like many other nights, Chelsea only bothered kicking off her shoes and discarding her headband before flopping onto her bed and drifting to sleep.
Vaughn drank his coffee to force the sleep away as he rode the 6 a.m boat to the islands. He sighed running his fingers through his silver hair holding his black cowboy hat in the other hand. There was dark rain clouds hanging over head, threatening to pour down at any moment. This was not a day that the anti-social animal trader wanted to deal with a certain hyper active farm-girl. Replacing his hat on his head Vaughn stepped onto the islands just as the rain started to fall.
Despite the rain that usually signaled one of Chelsea's "visits" Vaugn saw neither hind nor tail of the brightly dressed girl. Maybe she's bothering someone else today Vaugn thought, slightly surprised at the hint of jealousy starting in his gut. Probably that spoiled rich kid, Vaughn scoweled as he worked, now picking up and putting down the bags of feed with more force than nessacary. When he actually broke one Mirabelle put him to work delivering Chelsea's chickens. Vaughn grudgingly took the birds and headed to Sunny ranch to deliver them.
Upon arriving Vaughn found Chelsea laying in the mud out cold clutching her axe. He scowled putting the birds away and picking her up. The broody silver haired man brushed some of her wet hair out of her face to take her temperature. He hissed frowning in concern at how hot her forehead was.
"Fuck, she's burning up" Vaugn hurridly took her inside and layed her down quickly panicing. He had plenty of experience with livestock but Chelsea was a human, one can only guess that's what motivated him to ran as quickly as he could to the shop where he worked. Unfortunately no one was there, Vaughn cursed under his breath as his mind frantically tried to figure out someone else-anyone else that could.
"What are you doing Vaughn" The cowboy heard an all too familiar voice from behind him. Vaughn turned around to face none other than Will, he absolutely hated that guy. But with Chelsea in mind he hastily told Will what was going on. The blonde's face twisted in worry as he followed Vaughn back to the house where Chelsea was still laying unconcious.
Sorry that this is so short AGAIN I just wanted to be able to post something before the weekend to show this isn't someone starting a story then posting one chapter and calling it quits. I'm sticking by this mothers, so my chapters may be long or short but they will definately be frequent 3