Ok! I'm back! XD Yay! My sister and I both agreed that I needed to write more about this story, so here I go! Hope you like it and it doesn't lose its appeal! I'm thinking about making it a love triangle...oooo...:3 But I don't know yet. XD And I have two different endings I can write about. XD I'm just going to play around and see how the story progresses from here. Hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Harvest Moon Animal Parade or the Wizard...or Hikari. lol

The Wizard sat patiently as the small analog clock in his house ticked, slowly making his body tense with suspense. It was almost noon. She would be here shortly.

Hikari was a girl the Wizard was accustomed to by now. She came to his house almost every day with coffee beans, coffee, or sometimes herbal tea. She would bring in these gifts sometimes to please him, or to bribe him into telling her her fortune with other men. Something the Wizard hated doing. And she made him do it a lot.

Though he usually hated doing this for her, he hated it when she learned of bad news he had to give to her. He always found it odd when men seemed to jump from her to another girl very quickly. Was it her work? Was she always too busy? Nonsense. To him, he had a hard time imagining her as the problem.

So that's why today was different. Why he was so especially tense today. He was going to confess his love for her. He loved her and she needed to know that. He had...kind of told her how he felt the day before, but he had a feeling his words didn't register to her at the time. Today would be different.

The Wizard's analog clock rang like an alarm clock at the start of every hour, and at noon at that precise time, Hikari opened the door. She was wearing a different outfit today, this time a yellow shirt, red camisole, and some red shorts with a pair of yellowish boots.

Huh...different.

"Hi!" Hikari said, and closed the door behind her. She made her way across the room and gleefully handed the Wizard some coffee beans. "How are you today?" she asked as she sat down in the chair across the crystal ball.

"I'm...fine..." The Wizard said, slightly confused by her chipper countenance. It wasn't every day she acted this way, so something must have happened. He felt an iron lump form in his stomach.

Hikari waited patiently as the Wizard quietly made them two cups of coffee, as he did every day when she came. After a few minutes, he placed the scalding hot coffee on the table next to the crystal ball. He made it especially hot today...to give him time to think. He silently watched her try to drink he coffee, but not even her cheerful countenance could keep her from frowning at the scalding hot coffee.

At a loss for how to confess, the Wizard thought it would be easier to just start like any regular conversation. "So... what are you doing here today?" he asked calmly.

"Another love reading as usual," Hikari smiled. "I just met someone the other day, and I think we really hit it off." Her face turned beet red as she said this, and she turned in her seat to try and hide it from the Wizard. That didn't work. The lump in the Wizard's stomach was even larger now, making him want to puke. He sighed silently and reached for his coffee, still hot, but not scalding.

"Who...is it this time...?" The Wizard said into his mug. His voice became louder, but it echoed, making it difficult to hear his question.

"What?" Hikari asked politely, then giggled. "I told you, you need to stop talking into your mug like that! How many times is this now? Twelve?"

The Wizard took a small sip of his coffee and smiled softly. "...Fifteen." Hikari seemed kind of surprised he had been counting. "...A-ah...uh...my question...was..." he took a deep breath, " who...is it...this...time?"

HIkari beamed. She was dying for him to ask this question. She shrugged though, milking the suspense for him. "If I told you, you wouldn't believe me."

The Wizard frowned at this remark, and took another sip of his coffee. "Oh?" He knew she was doing this to make him wait longer, so he thought he'd give her own medicine right back.

"Yeah." Hikari said, waiting for him to ask her again. No response. The Wizard knew what was going on, so he just sipped some more of his coffee. After a few sips, he gazed at Hikari's mug noticing it hadn't been touched.

"Your...coffee's getting...cold."

"You still haven't read me my fortune."

The Wizard shrugged, and went back to drinking his coffee. Neither of them saying a word. Hikari then sighed and rolled her eyes, the waiting getting to her. The Wizard smiled. He had won.

"Ok, ok." Hikari finally said, reaching for her now lukewarm coffee mug. "Could you guess first?"

"...Do I...have to...?" he asked.

Hikari thought for a moment. "Nevermind, it would take to long." The Wizard put his coffee mug down and waited for the news. "A god. The man I have fallen in love with is a god."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

"...What?" No words would come to him. What, a god?

"So that's why I'm here!" Hikari said putting down her mug again. "Can you read my relationship with him?"

...No.

"...No." The Wizard said, bluntly. "It's...it's a...god. How am I supposed to read him?"

Hikari shrugged. "I don't know, I thought you were a genius Wizard."

"Kind...of..." he said meekly. "I...I just don't...know..." he thought for a moment. What would buy him time?

"Know what?" she asked.

"His...name..." The Wizard said finally. "I'll need...to know...his name."

"Do gods have names?"

"I don't...know...You're...the one...in love with...him."

"Well, yeah, but..." Hikari thought for a moment. "How can I ask him that when we just met?"

The Wizard shrugged. "You'll...find...out."

Hikari sighed and got up from her seat. "Thanks, Wizard. I'll try to get his name before I come back and ask my fortune." With that, she was halfway out the door.

"...Hikari!" The Wizard stood and asked bluntly, his heart pounding.

"What?" she asked looking back at him through the door crack.

"...N...nevermind."

"Ok! See you later!" Now she was gone.

The Wizard groaned and fell back into his seat. He stared at her full coffee mug. He felt like the coffee. Cold and abandoned.

Ok! Hopefully the second chapter was just as good as the first! xD I wasn't sleep deprived when I wrote the second chapter. lol Read and review and I hope you enjoy it! XD Oh, and as a little side note. The character I'm using is Hikari. Animal Parade's female protagonist. I just had her dress in green in the first chapter because that was the outfit my sister's character was wearing. (I chose Akari in my Animal Parade game lol) Anyway, I wanted to apologize for any confusion. XD