Just How I Like You...
Chelsea's POV
I cracked open one eye lazily to see Julia beaming down at me; she shook my shoulder again in an attempt to wake me up. I sighed then hesitantly forced myself out of my cosy pit.
"Morning!" Julia chirped.
"What time do you call this?" I snapped groggily.
"Exactly..." Natalie called then sighed, she was perched on top of Luke's sleeping form and her clothes were slightly crumpled as if she had hurriedly dressed.
Scurrying over to my closet, I selected the days outfit. Some high wasted, acid wash shorts and an emerald crop top that I had shared with Elli but she let me take it. It still smelt of her... A tinge of sadness crossed my face before I replaced it with a small forced smile.
We locked Luke in the house still asleep just in case, he has his own set of keys so he shouldn't worry too much. But Luke could sleep through anything; the easiest way to wake him up was to tip a bucket of water over his head.
We strolled towards the town square before Julia dragged me in one direction, Natalie slowly traipsing behind.
First on the list was Taro's house.
"Morning!" Julia sang out to the three people that were gathered around a table. "This is Chelsea! And Chelsea, this is my boyfriend Elliott and his and Nat's ma Felicia," She pointed her graceful finger towards me then towards the rest. I smiled sheepishly at them all.
Elliott was pretty dorky looking with a mess of startlingly crimson hair, - the same shade as Natalie's and his mom- and round, black glasses that he kept shyly adjusting when they slipped down his nose.
I often wonder how he had scored Julia, the typical blonde babe and a nerd seemed unlikely but they were so cute together. Julia jumped on his lap and kissed him right in front of his mom and grampa. But they seemed perfectly fine with it. My parents would flip if I did that in front of them, (if I even manage to pull...) but it just showed how close they were and considered Julia family. A slightly disturbing family where they snogged each other but you know.
Felicia was really kind; she offered me a seat and a cup of chamomile tea even though I loved chamomile tea I had to refuse as we had a lot of other places to visit. This town was really weird, everybody we passed they smiled, in the city you always got a frown or a neutral look.
We sauntered back out into the town, Julia and Nat debating (arguing) on where we should head next.
"Could we visit Ganon? I need to ask about my barn and coop." The girls nodded and linked arms with me, Natalie on one side, Julia on the other. I'm such a problem resolver!
Ganon was quite peculiar, he seemed gruff and scary but he turned out to be pretty nice. He had a goofy smile and squinted at me as we strolled into the shop. I still felt a little on edge when I spoke to him even though he kept on shooting me his goofy grin. I didn't want to make him angry, who knows what he could do?
Various tools and wood shavings were scattered everywhere around the shop, Elli would hate this mess. Everytime I left just a hair grip on the floor she would freak out and I'd have to stop everything I was doing to pick it up.
"What can I do for you, Chelsea?" Ganon beamed at me after the introductions were pushed out of the way.
I ordered then paid in advance for the work, Ganon promised to start the work tomorrow so I would have to be up early to greet him. Great... Maybe I could force Luke to get up? Maybe not...
...
After meeting everyone in the town, I was quite impressed with where I had moved. There seemed to be some really nice people, chatty girls and fit lads. Hehe... Apart from Will he was creepy, he kept on saying weird things like 'beautiful' or 'my lady'-disturbing and he was engaged-shocking, I know- so I don't think he was flirting but you never know.
I hadn't met everyone though, as Nat informed me there was still Julia's 'dickishly handsome' cousin and the 'posh daddy's girl' Sabrina.
Although, all the girls are nice I can tell Julia and Nat are going to be my best friends on these strange islands. Lily is too wrapped up in Will to really have a lot of friends and Lanna's so vain and obnoxious.
"Uh, you probably don't wanna meet Sabrina she's such a baby always with her nose in a book. And Vaughn, Vaughn is just beaut but he could help himself by not dressing like a cowboy and not being a dick all the time." Natalie babbled, as we sat on the beach located near the Love God's (Denny) shack. Julia picked the place- surprise, surprise...
His boat was not docked yet, so we figured he would still be out fishing much to Julia's disappointment. She was desperate to set me up with him but I wasn't too sure, he was a little too popular. I couldn't really deal with the boys that very girl wanted it was way too stressful.
"So Chels, have you spotted any lads?" Natalie smirked at me.
So they want to talk about boys, I crossed my legs together then laced my fingers.
"Well," I began, my mind running through things to say.
I haven't really seen anyone special yet so I'm looking forward for this 'dickishly handsome' cousin of Julia's.
"It's basically hunk city here, so I'm not sure who I like yet. I think you've got your eye on Pierre, I saw the way you were looking at him earlier in his house." I smirked knowingly.
I could tell Nat had a thing for the small purple hatted man. He didn't even look our age yet he was 22. I couldn't actually believe it; to be honest it's still processing in my mind. Everytime we passed him or he looked up she would look away her cheeks glowing crimson and her eyes sparkling with admiration.
Nat blushed turning her head away, "Is it really that glaringly obvious?" She's so cute!
"Well, basically, yeah, I think you should tell him he seems to like you too his eyes never left you in his house. That was pretty rude to be honest. And anyways there doesn't need to be any secrets here," Julia hummed, trailing her fingers along in the sand.
I nodded. Copying Julia; I began to draw shapes in the sand until a small run-down boat docked at the makeshift platform. Denny jumped off his boat, carrying his cooler-presumably filled with fish and ice- his muscles bulging.
"Hi Denny!" Julia waved madly, grinning and jumping up and down as if he wouldn't notice her.
"Julia! Stop jumping you're gonna have someone's eye out!" I giggled.
She crossed her arms over her chest defensively, spinning back around when Denny approached us.
"Hey girls!" Denny smiled, could he please stop being so damn perfect? I don't have time to fall for him. "What you doing today, then?"
"Just showing Chels around the town, we were just waiting for you." Julia gave a wide grin.
"I'm Denny," Denny stuck out his tanned hand for me to shake.
I seemed to freeze, perfect... I forced myself to reach for his hand being able to move again then limply shook it. The feel of his big hand closed around my small one was weird. I thought it would feel amazing but something told me to be wary of everyone, his hand felt too tight around mine. Obviously, I was just worried, over thinking things as per.
"I know; I've heard a lot about you," I giggled.
"All good I hope," Denny rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly.
I nodded but inside I wasn't sure whether to trust him, I wasn't entirely sure whether I could trust anyone. They all seemed too nice; I couldn't help but question their motives, like Mirabelle had given me a free milker, shears and brush for when I got animals, why would she do that? As usual I was going too far but I came to the conclusion that they did it because they were genuinely kind and concerned for me, just trying to help me get started.
While I had been lost in thought, Julia was making small talk with Denny about the weather whilst Natalie browsed social websites on her phone. Speaking of the weather, dark clouds had covered the two islands, not very promising...
"Are we going you two, I don't really fancy walking through the rain?" Natalie snapped, pulling herself up. "I'm not waiting for you to flirt with him and break my brother's heart..." Natalie muttered.
"I'm not flirting, Nat it's called being polite something you obviously don't understand!" Julia hissed. "We're gonna go now Denny, see you later!" Julia gave a small wave, I smiled and Nat stormed away.
I sighed and Julia and I caught up with her. "Hey guys don't fight. You're driving me away!" I giggled.
We threaded our arms through each other's again as we gradually made our way back to our houses.
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Authors Note:
Another chapter done! This chapter was lacking a little in length compared to the last one but for my previous stories I set myself a target of 1,000 words per chapter but for this story I would prefer to write as much as I like and as little as I like. Then it won't seem forced and boring. So I'm sorry for any short chapters!
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