OMG!!! Chapter 4 is here. I can't believe how fast I'm writing this. I still really don't know where I going with the story so please forgive me when I start to take longer to write chapters. Most of this chapter originally was written to be in chapter 3 but I realized the cliffhanger ending was perfect. I'm sorry for all of you who didn't like that. I hope this chapter makes up for it. Please enjoy this chapter and remember to tell me what you thought of it. Lol. That's what keeps me writing it, it gives this story a purpose. Enjoy!
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Disclaimer- I do not own Harvest Moon or any of it's characters
Chapter 4!!!
Claire's POV
"Close your eyes." he said stopping.
"Why?"
"I want it to be a surprise. Please!" he said with that innocent look.
"I so need to find a way to get immune from that." I thought.
"Ok." I said closing my eyes. "Where do I go now?" I thought taking a few steps.
"Just keep walking forward." Gray said. "Oh, crap. Stop!" he yelled a few seconds later.
I was a step too late. I fell a good drop, landing on my ankle hard. I opened my eyes.
"What the hell Gray?!" I yelled looking around for him.
"I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry, Claire." he said coming up to me, a look of pure panic was on his face.
"What happened?" I asked.
"I-um … I forgot their were a couple of steps that lead down to the beach." he said looking at the ground.
"Goddess he looks like a four year old who knows he's in trouble." I thought after looking at his guilty face. "Wait a sec did he say beach? Aw that would have been a great surprise." I thought.
"There's a beach?" I asked. "I love the ocean." I said.
"Yup." Gray answered moving out of the way so I could see the water.
"How pretty." I mumbled quietly. If Gray heard me I don't know. He just kept watching me like I was going to fall apart at any second.
"Are you going to help me up?"
"Ummmm…..yeah." he said nervously. Gray put his hand out to help me.
I put my hand in his and tried to get up. I was hit with a sharp horrible pain in my left ankle. "Oww!" I nearly yelled at the same second.
"What's wrong?" he said now looking even more panicked.
"I can't move my ankle!" I said now panicked myself.
"Are you sure?"
"I wouldn't still be sitting here on the ground if I could get up!" I snapped too harshly back.
"Wonderful Gray, you stupid idiot." I heard him faintly mumble.
Then all of a sudden the ground was no longer underneath me.
"What are you doing?" I asked putting my arms around his neck so I wouldn't fall. "Why did he just pick me up?" I thought.
"You need to see Elli and the doctor, I think you broke your ankle." He said in a serious tone.
"Doesn't this hurt you? Ann told me how banged up you got from falling the other day. You shouldn't be carrying me." I said looking him right in the eyes. "He can't hide behind his hat now." I thought. That's when I looked down he was walking up the steps I fell down. "You must be kidding me! I fell a 3foot drop? What the hell is wrong with me?" I thought.
"Thank you for thinking of me, but this won't make me put you down until the Doctor takes a look at your ankle. And yes this hurts like hell but I wasn't going to leave you all alone." he said not looking at me.
I felt my heart start to race. I must have been blushing, I could feel my face getting slightly red. "Thank goddess he isn't looking down at me." I thought. "Crap! He's looking at me now." I thought freaking out now.
Gray just gave me such an innocent look, it was like he was saying drop the subject. "How can anyone say no to that look?" I thought. "I need to find something that will make me immune to that look. Maybe I'll ask Ann." I thought as we entered the square,
"What happened?" Elli nearly yelled while running over and dragging the Doctor with her.
"Gray what the hell did you do?" Ann yelled running over to Gray as he put me down on one of the benches in the square.
"Gray can you carry her to the clinic?" the Doctor asked standing next to Gray now.
"Yeah." Gray mumbled.
"He looks very uncomfortable with everyone gathering around." I thought after looking up at his face which was at this point covered up by his hat. "Why does he always hide behind that silly thing?" I wondered as he picked me up again. "I am so starting to get annoyed with this." I thought wishing I could walk on my own.
Gray walked to the clinic with the Doctor and Elli following close behind. Gray stopped at the door to let the Doctor unlock it.
"Thank you." I said quietly as he put me down.
Gray gave me a quick smile and said, "I really am sorry." looking guilty again.
"I know." I whispered not knowing if he heard me.
Gray walked over and leaned against the wall opposite of the wall the bed he put me on. He never took his eyes off of me, looking at me still with a worried expression.
After almost an hour later the Doctor said what was wrong with me.
"Your ankle is broken." he declared as he was leaving the room.
"Like I hadn't already figured that out." I thought rolling my eyes. I looked over at Gray, he looked like he was thinking the same thing.
The Doctor came back in the room with a cast in his hand.
"Not another one!" I thought panicking now.
"You'll have to wear this until the second week of summer." the Doctor said in a serious tone. He softened up a bit and said, "Well at least you get that off the same day we take the cast on your arm off."
"How am I suppose to run my farm?"
"Well you can't. You will have to stay in this wheel chair." the Doctor said pointing to the wheel chair Ellie brought into the room.
"But she has crops to grow and water, and a whole farm to fix up." Gray said walking over to stand next to me.
"Well, she is going to need some help." The Doctor said sourly realizing Gray was still there.
"From who?" Gray said sternly to the Doctor.
"Why do they look like they are going to kill each other?" I thought.
"From you." I said cutting in.
"Why me?" Gray said looking softly at me.
"You caused this." I said pointing to the cast that was now on my ankle.
"But I have work."
"Not for another two weeks."
"What are you going to do after that?"
"I'll figure it out when I get there." I said to Gray. Then turning to face the Doctor I said, "Can I go home now?"
"Of course." said the Doctor smiling and bringing the wheel chair over.
I sat myself down in the chair and started to wheel myself out the door.
"Thanks!" I yelled kicking the door open. I was just past the mayor's house when I heard a deep voice calling me. "I don't want to deal with anything else today." I thought as I kept going.
Gray's POV (at the clinic)
"But she has crops to grow and water, and a whole farm to fix up." I said walking over to Claire.
"Well, she is going to need some help." said the idiot Doctor glaring at me.
"What the hell is wrong with him?" I thought. "Why does he look like he is going to kill me?" I thought.
"From who?" I said sternly to the Doctor.
"From you." Claire said cutting in.
"Why me?" I said softly pretending the Doctor wasn't there.
"You caused this." Claire said pointing to the cast that was now on her ankle.
"But I have work."
"Not for another two weeks."
"What are you going to do after that?"
"I'll figure it out when I get there." Claire said to me. Then she turned to face the Doctor and said, "Can I go home now?"
"Please say yes. I don't want to be around this Doctor any more. I think he is seriously going to kill me if I stay here any longer." I thought. "Stop glaring at me!" I yelled in my head.
"Of course." said the Doctor smiling at Claire and he brought the wheel chair over to her.
"What the hell is wrong with this guy? He must be crazy or something. First he looks like he's gonna kill me, then he is all nice and sweet to Claire." I thought.
Claire got in her wheel chair and rolled out of the room. "I should go with her." I thought looking at the doorway. Elli left the room behind Claire.
"I better not see Claire in here for another injury." said the Doctor glaring at me.
"What the hell did I do?" I snapped back at him.
"Well every time she's around you she gets hurt. Therefore stay the hell away from her." he said calmly.
"What the hell?" I thought.
"I would never hurt her. I tried to save her from falling down the stairs, hell I did save her. How was suppose to know that she would try to save me from falling? Today she fell only 3feet. Yes that was from my stupidity, but I tried to save her but she kept walking. So don't tell me all of her injuries are all because of me. I would die before I would hurt her." I snapped back.
The Doctor looked at me stunned by my words. I walked out of the room and was heading out the door when someone called my name.
"Gray! Wait a second please." yelled Elli.
"Thank goddess it's just Elli." I thought.
"Can you promise me something." she asked looking me in the eyes.
"Of course."
"Watch over Claire until she adjust to being in the wheel chair. She is going to need help with things. So can you keep an eye on her?"
"Like I wasn't already planning on doing that." I thought.
"I will." I said looking down at Elli. "Bye." I said leaving the clinic.
"Crap, where's Claire?" I thought looking around. "She probably went the short way home." I thought as I took off running. "There she is." I thought when I saw her rolling past the mayor's house.
Claire's POV
"Wait!" yelled the deep voice.
Just then the chair stopped cause someone was keeping me there.
"What Gray!" I yelled looking up at him.
"Can I at least help you get settled at your house?"
"Why?"
"I don't want you to get hurt again. Because I have the feeling that I'll be stuck fixing up your farm until fall if you get hurt again." Gray said pushing the wheel chair towards my farm.
"Yeah, I guess your right." I said looking up at him.
"Are you doing this on purpose so I have to do all your work?" he asked looking down at me in a teasing voice.
"Oh yeah of course. When I knew you survived being hit with a door, I knew you would be strong enough to do farm work. So I planned on getting hurt. How did you figure out my plan?" I said teasing him back.
"I had a feeling." he said laughing.
The rest of the walk to my house was walked in silence. I leaned up and unlocked the door.
"Thanks for everything." I said looking up at Gray.
He looked surprised and said, "Wait, are you trying to get rid of me now? I promised Elli I would help you, and I will." He said like it was an awesome speech.
"Fine." I said annoyed as he pushed me inside. "I don't like having help. I like to do things myself." I thought as he pushed me up to the couch. I pulled my self on.
"What do you want to eat for dinner?" Gray asked.
"It was time for dinner already?" I thought. I looked over at the clock. "Damn it, it was 5pm. Where did the day go?" I thought.
"Claire?" he asked looking at me now with curious eyes.
"Yes."
"What do you want for dinner?"
"Anything would be fine."
"Ok." he said turning around. "That sure helps." I thought I heard him mumble.
"What did you say." I said looking at the TV smiling.
"Uhhhhhhhhhh………..nothing.!" He said dropping something.
"What was that?"
"Nothing!" Gray said quickly.
I picked up the TV remote and started flipping through the channels.
"This looks neat." I thought stopping on a horror movie.
"What's this?" Gray asked sitting next to me and handing me a plate with a turkey sandwich on it. He had one also.
"Is this all you can make?" I asked curious.
"No. I can make cereal and toast too." Gray said pouting like a child.
"Oh, well that is a whole lot better." I said teasing him.
"Shut up and eat." He said looking at me.
I took a bite. "Yum this is good." I thought.
"Ris is good." I said still chewing.
"Didn't anyone tell you not to talk with your mouth full?"
"Yes." I said after I swallowed.
Gray just looked at me and laughed. After a moment he pointed to the TV and said, "So, what's this."
"Some horror movie. It looks good don't you think?" I asked. "I love horror movies." I thought.
Gray looked unsure but said, "Ok, I guess."
After a while I was just watching Gray instead of the movie. Every time someone got killed or attacked Gray just jumped or looked terrified.
"Do you want me to change the channel?" I asked him. "I never would have put this on if it was going to bother him." I thought.
"N-no w-why?"
"Two reasons. One your stuttering, two your jumping every four seconds."
"No I'm not." He snapped back.
"Whatever. Hey can you bring my wheel chair over?"
"Why?"
"I want to change into my Pjs, because I'm sleepy. It's late." I said yawning.
He looked at the clock, he looked surprised.
"It's only 10pm." I said.
"I have to go in a bit." he mumbled as he brought my wheel chair over.
"Thank you." I said as he helped me into the wheel chair.
Gray pushed me over to my bed.
I reached under the covers and pulled out my Pjs. Which were a blue silk t-shirt and blue silk shorts.
I looked up at Gray. His face was turning red, and he was still staring at my Pjs.
"Gray?"
He shook his head. "Yeah."
"Can you either let go of my wheel chair or push me towards the bathroom?"
"Yeah." he said pulling his hat down to cover his red face, while pushing me towards the bathroom.
"Thank you." I said closing the door in his face.
It took me a very long time to get changed. But when I was done I opened the door and threw my clothes in the laundry basket by my bed. That's when I noticed how quiet it was.
"Gray?" I said rolling over towards the couch. There he was on the couch, out cold asleep.
I figured I would let him sleep. It had been a long day. I decided to pull my self onto the couch so I could finish watching the movie before I went to bed. Before I knew it I drifted off to sleep.
Gray's POV
I started to wake up feeling too warm and the room being too bright. I opened my eyes.
"Where am I?" I thought. After a minute the room began looking familiar and I realized I was still at Claire's house. I looked around the room and I sat up. I saw the TV and the lamp on the table next to me still on.
"What the hell was that?" I thought when I felt something touching my arm.
I looked down to see Claire sleeping next to me. "Oh, yeah we were watching a movie." I thought.
I yawned as I turned the TV and the lamp off. I fell asleep within minutes.
Claire POV
I started drifting out of sleep. I was quite comfortable. I wanted to sleep longer, but my eyes betrayed me and opened. The light from the window shinned brightly. I looked over at the clock. "Crap! It was 10am! I got my crops to water and a field to start clearing." I thought as my mind raced. I went to sit up, but I realized I couldn't move, something was holding me down. I looked down to see an arm locking around my middle. I tilted my head up so I could see Gray's face. He was still in a nice peaceful sleep. "Why is he here? And holding on to me?" I thought sleepily. "I don't have time to deal with this." I thought. I only then started to remember the night before. I looked back at Gray's face. "He looks so happy and cute." I thought feeling a smile appearing on my face. "Cute?! Why am I thinking Gray's cute? It's Gray." I thought trying to get my head clear. I looked back at him. "But he does look cute when he's sleeping." I thought feeling calm again.
Just then my stomach growled. "I'm so hungry!" I thought. "I need to get up!" I thought some more.
"Gray wake up." I said poking him in the face.
"Noooo. Five more minutes." he mumbled pulling me closer.
"Great he probably thinks I 'm a talking pillow." I thought.
"Gray. Wake up!" I said poking him harder in the face.
He opened his eyes and whined, "Whhhaaaaaaaattttttttt?"
"Gray I'm hungry. And I need to get up it's 10am!"
He gave me a very confused look. His face became very red when he realized his arms were around me.
"I-um……errr………yup." He said letting go of me and got up to grab the wheel chair. He helped me into it.
"Thank you." I said looking up at his extremely red face. "The look on his face right now should be in the dictionary under embarrassment!" I thought smiling.
"What do you want for breakfast?" Gray asked.
I looked around for him. "When did he go into the kitchen?" I thought.
"Cereal." I said realizing he was still watching me.
"It's ready." he said a few minutes later.
We sat at the table looking at our bowls doing nothing but eating. Neither one of us dared to look up at the other. After a few minutes I took a quick glance at Gray. His eyes met mine and as he looked away his face went red.
"I can't take this anymore. One of us has to start talking." I thought looking down at my breakfast.
"I can't take this silence anymore." I just blurted out.
Gray snapped his head up and looked at me.
"We are both clearly embarrassed right now. I get it, you get it. But who cares, no one knows about it. Anyways nothing happened so there's nothing to be embarrassed about." I blurted out.
Gray nodded still looking embarrassed.
"Good." I said rolling myself away from the table.
"Where are you going?" He asked putting the bowls in the sink.
"I can't be in my Pjs all day." I said bluntly.
His face went red as his eyes scanned down to look at my Pjs then back up to my face quickly. Gray just nodded nervously.
"Stupid boy." I thought as I rolled over to my bureau. I pulled out a pink, black, and orange plaid shirt and blue jeans. I rolled my wheel chair into the bathroom, I shut the door and got changed as quickly as I could, which was a very, very long time. When I was done I came out I threw my Pjs on my bed and looked around my house.
"Where's Gray?" I thought.
I rolled over to the couch. That's where I found Gray, out cold asleep.
"Wow. He is definitely not a morning person." I thought as I rolled closer. As I got closer I realized I ran something over. "It's his hat." I thought picking it up. "I still like this hat." I thought.
I looked down at Gray. "He looks so peaceful." I thought. "When he sleeps its like you can see the real Gray. The non-shy, the non-grumpy Gray." I concluded in my thoughts.
I didn't really want to wake him up. "He looks too happy." I thought. So I decided to leave him be.
I quietly opened the door and dug out my severely dented watering can. "I really got to get this fixed. The dent makes it harder to fill it with water." I thought.
When I was done it was 12:30pm. Which I think was good for someone with a broken arm and ankle, and is in a wheel chair.
I rolled inside my house putting my watering can away. I found Gray still asleep.
"How much sleep does he need?" I thought.
I rolled up to the couch and poked his face while saying, "Gray wake up!"
He didn't move.
"Gray! Gray wake up!" I said louder.
He put a pillow over his face in a sleep like state still.
That's when I had a great idea. I rolled my wheel chair away from the couch and said loudly, "Gray your 5hours late for work!"
In seconds he was sitting up, wide eyed staring at me.
"Calm down. You don't have work today." I said calmly.
"Goddess Claire! You nearly gave me a heart attack." he said scowling. "Anyways, how long was I out?"
"It's 12:40pm." I said pointing to the clock.
He looked at the clock wide eyed like he couldn't believe it.
"I guess I was sleepy." he mumbled scratching the back of his head.
"Wait, where's my hat?" he asked realizing his hat wasn't on his head.
"On the table." I said. "I put it on the table after I ran it over, but I'm not telling him that." I thought smiling.
Gray picked up his beloved hat and put it on his head.
"I should go back to the Inn and get changed." he said getting up.
"Ok, I finished watering my plants so I got time to kill." I said smiling.
"Wait, you watered your crops?"
"Yeah, I've been up for hours."
"What the hell were you thinking?" Gray yelled.
"What's up with the sudden mood swing?" I wondered.
"You could have gotten hurt or stuck somewhere in your field, while I would have been asleep till goddess knows when!" he yelled.
I looked at him wide eyed. I backed my wheel chair up. He was kind of scaring me.
"What's wrong?" he said softer after realizing I most likely looked a bit scared.
"You're kind of scaring me." I said still wide eyed.
"I'm scaring you?" he said slowly not understanding.
I nodded.
After a moment Gray said looking at the floor, "I'm sorry. I just don't want you to get hurt.". After a moment he looked at me. The look on his face gave away how unhappy he was with himself.
"Come on! Cheer up, lets go!" I yelled as I went out the door.
Gray came running out and slamming the door behind him.
"Are you ready?" I asked looking up at him.
"Yeah, yeah. Lets go." Gray said chuckling a bit and started pushing ,my wheel chair.
"Wait a sec I need to see your grandpa for a minute." I said.
"Why?" he said looking down at me.
"I need to get my watering can fixed." I said not meeting his eyes.
"What did you do?"
"Nothing." I said quietly.
"Tell me."
I knew he was giving me that innocent you can't resist look.
"Damn it Gray! I refuse to look." I thought.
He opened the door to the blacksmiths and said whining, "Tell meeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
"No." I said simply.
"Gray is that you whining?" said Saibara coming out of the side room. "Boy, you're 26years old! Stop whining when you don't get your way." he said frowning.
"So this is where Gray gets it from." I thought.
"Oh, hello Claire. How are you doing?" he said nicely.
"I knew Gray had to be scowling right now." I thought. "Good." I said. "I had a few accidents but I'm fine. You?"
"Good." Saibara said. "So why are you here?"
"I was hoping you could fix my watering can." I said pulling it out of my bag. I handed it to Saibara.
"This is quite a dent. What did you do to make this. It had to have hit something…"
"Or someone." I thought.
"….pretty hard to cause this." Saibara said examining it still.
I felt myself smiling. "I kind of …um threw it at someone." I said looking up at Gray.
"You got to be kidding me." Gray said looking at me.
Saibara must have been looking at us when he said, "So you threw a watering can at my grandson."
Neither Gray nor I said anything. But that gave Saibara his answer.
"Gray, how hard is your damn head?! Look at this dent!"
Gray just scowled and left the blacksmiths, slamming the door behind him.
"How did you know it hit him in the head?" I asked.
"Because there is nothing harder in this world than his head." Saibara said looking at the watering can still.
I bit my lip. I so wanted to laugh. "Can you fix the watering can?" I asked.
"Of course. It will be good as new in three days." he said.
"I'll see you then. Thank you." I said opening the door. I rolled out onto the street wondering where Gray went. Gray was a good 30ft down the street. He was just standing there watching me.
"Are you mad at me?" I said looking at the ground when I was next to him. "I don't like this guilty feeling." I thought. "Come on its just Gray! Stop feeling guilty. You did nothing wrong." I thought some more but it never took the guilty feeling away.
Gray didn't say anything. He started pushing the wheel chair, still scowling I guessed.
"He must be really mad at me." I thought. "I don't like it when people are mad at me." I thought. "It just makes me sad. Oh, goddess no, don't start crying." I thought.
"I'm really, really sorry." I said sincerely. "I didn't know he would ask how it got dented. Please don't be mad at me."
Gray still didn't say anything.
I looked up at him. "Gray." I said still looking at him.
He looked down at me.
"I'm really sorry. Don't be mad at me. Please." I said knowing by eyes were betraying me by filling up with tears.
His expression seemed to soften up a bit.
"Please don't give me the silent treatment. Say something please." I said looking at him with big teary eyes. "There is no way he can resist this look." I thought.
"Something." he said smiling a bit and looked back at the street.
"Is he trying to piss me off?!" I thought feeling mad now.
"That is not what I meant." I said leaning up and hitting him in the arm.
"Why are you attacking me?" he said looking down at me.
"What is wrong with him. Now he looks like he's in a good mood. This boy has some mood swing problems." I thought after looking at his happier expression. "Because you are making me feel stupid." I snapped at him.
"And what did I exactly do?" he asked looking curious.
"All I wanted was to know if you were mad at me. And now I'm a little mad and still upset." I rambled.
Gray stopped pushing the wheel chair and came around to face me.
"Claire calm down. I'm not mad, ok. I'm fine. I was a little ticked off. So, please don't cry, ok?" he said sincerely.
"Looks like I found someone's weakness." I thought.
I nodded and wiped my eyes with my arm.
Gray started pushing my wheel chair. We were almost at the Inn when Gray poked the top of my head.
"What?" I said looking up at him.
"Are you happy again?"
"I won't be if someone keeps poking me.
"I'll remember that." Gray said chuckling.
Ann's POV
I was wiping down the tables that were dirty from the morning crowd when I heard the door open.
I looked over to see my missing brother in the same clothes as yesterday; pushing Claire who was in a wheel chair.
"Claire!" I yelled. Both Claire and Gray looked over. Gray said something to Claire as I came running over. Gray started walking towards the stairs leaving Claire in the same spot I was running to. I stopped in front of her and said, "Are you ok? Why are you in a wheel chair?"
"Calm down Ann. I'm ok. I just broke my ankle." Claire said calmly.
"A broken ankle! How are you suppose to take care of your farm?"
"Well, both of these cast come off the second week of summer. Right now I'm making Gray do all of my farm work." Claire said smiling.
I just laughed. "To be honest if I was her I would do the same thing." I thought. "That was smart thinking." I said smiling.
"So what can I get for my horribly injured friend."
Claire just rolled her eyes and said, "I don't have any money on me."
"I'll pay for it." I said smiling. "No, Gray is soooooooo paying for this." I thought. "It's the least I can do for my brother's stupidity that caused you to get injured."
Claire laughed a little at that. Then looking unsure she said, "I'll have anything then."
"Come sit at this table then." I said pointing to the only table I got cleaned. "I'll be back in a flash then." I said as I went into the kitchen.
After a bit I came back with a toasted turkey, lettuce, tomato, and cheese sandwich and a small salad.
Claire looked at me wide eyed. "I'm so paying you back for this." she said.
"It's ok, I'm paying. Now eat and enjoy."
"Thank you." Claire said sincerely.
"Now Claire tell me why my brother didn't come home last night?"
Claire started choking on her food. After a moment her face just went red.
"We were watching a movie and we crashed at one point." Claire said looking at her food.
"She's hiding something." I thought. "Did anything else happen?"
Claire's face went redder as she shook her head no. At the same second Gray said while coming down the stairs, "Goddess Ann shut up! Nothing happened.". He came over ant sat at the same table as me and Claire.
"There's something they are not telling." I thought looking at both of their red faces. "But I doubt I'll get anything now." I thought while changing the subject.
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OMG. This took so long to write! 12pages, that was a lot to type. Its hard I hand write most of these chapters at school then I spend hours typing them. By the time I'm done with this story I will be fast at typing. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. I'm sorry it was really Claire heavy. I know it was hard for me, I like writing Gray's POV better. The next chapter will most likely be Gray heavy. So how many of you are wondering what the Doctor's problem is? I'm sorry for all of you Doctor fans I've never liked him that much but he will play an interesting role in the next few chapters. The next chapter will be really good, I promise. All I can say is that some of our characters will be playing truth or dare (what do you think will happen? Who will be playing? And what will we find out?). I hope you all enjoyed this chapter.
I'll see you all in chapter 5!!!!
-Icefire149