Unlike Cam's Tale I decided to add the season, the day and the week day that events will be happening from now on. That's mostly because I want this to be easier on you guys. By the way, I have no idea up to when I will keep this fanfic, but expect it to be a large one! Also, I reuploaded the first chapter with the texts fixed. Enjoy your reading.

Fall 01, Saturday

Philip woke up with light knocks on the door.
"Coming!" He replied, rubbing his eyes and stretching his back while walking up to the door and turning the knob.
"Morning!" Lil said with her bright smile. "It's the first day of the season, so I thought I'd give you some help," she said, entering the house. "First of all, you must be hungry, I brought you some ingredients so you may cook with them."
Everything she had were mostly crops from the last season, like tomatoes and corn, but Philip didn't get bothered by it. Instead he walked up to the kitchen and started to prepare breakfast.
"You still like your eggs with a soft yolk, right?"
"Yup!" She agreed.
After fixing breakfast for the two of them Philip dozed off, Lilian's voice echoing on the back of his head. She had to poke him twice while she was speaking for him to pay attention to her, though it wasn't working as well as she hoped.
"You're hopeless," she said, shrugging. "Did you even listen to what I was saying?" She asked with a pout.
"Of course I was," Philip replied instantly.
"So, what was it about?"
"Seeds," he said. He didn't put his heart on what she was saying but he picked enough from it to understand the situation. "Gombe's shop will be open only after 10 am and you want me to go there and buy some seeds, am I right?"
Lilian was a bit angry but as he spoke, her face softened to a pout.
"You're helpless, you know. I am worried that you won't know what to do if I'm not around," she said, uneasy.
"Don't worry," he patted her head. "I'm not such an useless brother that I wouldn't know how to work on a farm."

That's what he said, so when Lilian took her way back to Bluebell saying she'd buy some flower seeds for his fields he waved his goodbye and went back home to get changed into his working clothes. That done, he started to walk around, wondering if it would be worth it to pay a visit to the other people that he didn't get to meet on the day before.
"Probably I'll have a lot of time to do that later on," he thought. "For now, it is better to go buy the seeds."
With that in mind he walked up to the seeds shop field and saw the young girl working there.
"Good morning," he greeted her. "Is Gombe working today?" He asked.
"Good morning Philip," she greeted back. "Yes, he must be awake at this hour, please go inside if you'd like to buy some seeds."
"And what are you planting this season?" He asked her, curious, while he jumped the fence.
"Yams for now. They're pretty handy," she replied with a smile.
Yams did sound like a pretty good fall crop, but when he went inside the shop Gombe only had two kinds of seeds available to him, those being carrots and eggplants. Philip wasn't so fond of either but Lilian did like carrots, so he bought a bit more of them, making sure to leave some space to plant the flowers Lilian was supposed to bring.
"Thanks Gombe. I'll be on my way now."

Back to the farm he started working on planting the seeds he had bought while waiting for Lilian. And to his surprise, she didn't come back alone.
"This is Eileen," Lilian said, catching her breath. "She's going to expand the farm so you can plant more crops. Isn't that great?"
Philip thanked the stranger, though he didn't have any idea of how she'd be able to expand the fields. She looked like she was a frail girl, not a carpenter or anything of the like.
"Let's plant the flowers now?" Lilian asked with a smile.
And before they knew it, the flowers had been planted.
"I'm done with my part too," Eileen said. "I hope they're fit to your liking," she smiled. "Now, if you excuse me, I'll be heading back to Bluebell."
"Sure thing, thank you again Eileen!" Lilian waved as the girl left. "Should we plant something on the new fields already?" She asked, excited.
"It is up to you, really," he said, not really sure about it himself.
In the end they planted more seeds on the new fields and started working on preparing something to eat.
"Do you have anything that you want in mind?" Philip asked.
"Tom yum goong!"
"I thought you didn't like soups," Philip asked, raising a brow.
"Well, I don't really like them that much yet, but I'm trying to change that," she said, playing with her hands. "Do you think you could make some?"

After dining Lilian put some of the soup in a bento box and wrapped it up nicely, then handed Philip a package. He was about to open it when she scolded him.
"That's not for you!"
"Then why did you give it to me?" He asked, puzzled.
"Today is the birthday of a friend of mine," she said, without looking in his eyes. "I was invited, so I thought I'd take the chance to bring you along, so you'll get to know some of the people at Bluebell."
Philip didn't really like the idea of going to a birthday party of someone he didn't know. To a party that he wasn't invited. But Lilian insisted a lot, so he gave up and followed her instructions. Traveling to the other dity took a little bit of time, and he started to worry that Lilian had been doing that too much because of him. Things wouldn't be as bad if, as soon as they got to the place where the party was being held, he saw him.
"That's the guy from back at the docks," he reminded himself.
Lilian gave him the wrapped bento box from earlier and it started to ring a bell. Was Lilian... in love with that guy?
"I don't like it," he thought to himself before feeling Lilian's poke. It was his turn to give a gift.
"I thought that I should give you something too, since it is your birthday and I am here. It is nothing big. And don't get used to it," he said coldly.
"Don't worry, I won't," the other replied. Clearly he remembered him too. The silence was shortly broken by a big man with an apron.
"So, let's eat everybody!"
"That's Howard," Lilian whispered by his ear. "He's the cafe' owner. And a very gentle hearted person. I think you'll like him."

It didn't take long for Philip to get to know the people present at the party. The girls were lively and talkative, he noticed, which was a nice change from the two other girls back at Konohana. The other man that was in there was way more normal than the Howard person that Lilian had told him, but even though both men were very nice it didn't take him long to notice how Lilian was attached to Howard.
"Mother replacement?" He thought. "Or maybe both parents. That's for the better."
But in the midst of them he found a face that he recognized.
"I know you," he told the pink haired woman.
"Then you got the upperhand, because I don't know you," she replied with a curious expression.
"Ah, sorry. I'm Philip. I'm Lilian's brother," he said, jerking his finger towards his sister.
"I don't really know the people from here. I'm Cam's instructor. I came just for his birthday."
Cam. So that was the guy's name. And the woman had come just for his birthday.
"He seems to be pretty loved," Philip said without thinking much.
"He is a hard working guy. He's just a little bit lost right now, but I'm sure he will turn into some fine man in the future."
"I hope so too," he caught himself thinking if Lilian liked him or what. That's when another young man approached him.
"Hey, hi!" He cheered. "I'm Ash, nice to meet you. I've heard you're Lilian's brother?"
Philip smirked. So there were other men? Maybe it wasn't too late to make Lilian have a change of heart.
"Yes, I am. Name's Philip. Nice to meet you."