This chapter is going to contain some Harvest Moon 64 couples! so, if you love to ship harvest moon 64 couples like me, you're going to love it XD

anyway, yay for another update! I was in the mood to write so... here it is! RnR :3

Claire's POV

"Please, the great Ann."

"No, no, no! It's not like that! You have to say what you want to me!" Ann commanded.

"Please teach us how to bake cookies or chocolate for that matters, the oh-so-great Ann," Me and Karen said at the same time.

"Now Karen, no mumbling! Say it! Loud!" Ann was getting rather annoying this time.

I tilted my head to see Karen. It was clear that she was getting rather bored and annoyed with this. Well, you know Karen.

"ANN PLEASE TEACH ME HOW TO BAKE! BECAUSE I SUCK! I SUCK AT IT! I SUCK LIKE A VACUUM IN A PUDDLE!" Karen shouted, shocking both Ann and me.

Everyone in the Inn turned around to see us. Some laughed, some gave us a what-on-earth-do-you-think-you're-doing or you-interrupt-my-break-time look. Me and Ann burst into laughter. Oh, Karen.

"What on earth are you laughing about? I did what you asked and now you're laughing at me!" A blushed Karen pointed her finger at Ann.

"Forgive me, this is just too funny. Why didn't you just do it like Claire did? I didn't ask you to shout, I asked you not to mumble!" Ann defended herself.

I held back my laughter, not wanting Karen to yell at me either. Karen is actually a nice girl, friendly when you get to know her. But do not ever think of making her mad. If you think a mad Ann is scary, then i bet you shitted yourself when faced against a mad Karen. I mean it. She once chased Duke all over the city for not paying in the supermarket. She finally trapped Duke in the Inn and beated the crap out of him using a chair until Doug and Gray intervened. Cliff almost passed out because he couldn't stand people fighting while Ann enjoyed every single second of it. My brother, Jack, was in the city at that time and he, just like Ann, enjoyed every second of Karen making a bruise in Duke's face. My brother even shouted things like "Take it off! Take it off! Woohoo!" which absolutely wasn't at the right place. He might shout things like that if it was a girl fight. But at that time, did he want to see a naked Duke? I didn't think so.

"Okay then, i shall teach the both of you how to cook. But first, please take out your notebook," Ann commanded.

"What? What notebook? I didn't bring anything," I said.

"Ah, I didn't mean the last part. I just wanted to rhyme. And I did, didn't I?" Ann grinned widely.

"Right..." I gave Ann a strange stare.

I tilted my head to see Karen, again. She seemed to calm down now. Thank goddess.

"Oh wait, but first!" Ann gave us an aha-i-just-got-something look, now what kind of idea was this girl thinking of?

I tilted my head to see Karen, giving her an i-hope-it's-not-a-bad-idea-she-thought-of look.

Karen looked at me and gave me an i've-had-enough-madness-today look.

I gave her a you-know-how-Ann-is-right? look and a you-just-have-to-deal-with-it look.

Karen replied by giving me a you'd-better-be-at-my-side-when-things-go-wrong look.

Ann turned both me and Karen to face her and gave us a you-guys-know-that-i-can-read-you-guys-right? look.

"Geez, why are the both of you so mean to me. I'm going to be the one who help you guys getting hooked by cooking!" Ann put her hands on her hip.

"Sorry," Me and Karen said at the same time.

"I wanted to ask who will you guys give these chocolates to!" Ann giggled. "Karen?"

"Rick. and Kai," Karen nodded.

"KAI?" Both me and Ann were quite, no, very shocked!

"Back in summer, me and Kai had a drinking contest. If I won, I wanted him to put his head inside a refrigerator for 3 hours. If he won, he wanted me to cook, like baking chocolate cookies and send them to him. And, too much for his fortune, I lost. So, do the math," Karen turned her face away.

"Wow, i guess Rick is going to hate Kai even more," I said, elbowing a rather blushing Karen.

"No, not really. I've heard Popuri has a crush on your brother, Jack!" Goddess, Ann seemed to know anything in this city, didn't she?

"Really? Wow, that's new. Well Popuri once told me that she likes cool guys and she thinks my brother's cool," I pretended to throw up.

"What about you Claire?" Ann turned to me, giving me, once again, an ANNoying look.

"What about what? What I think of Popuri? Well, if my brother likes her back then I'm okay with it. She's caring and pretty, I'm sure she'll make a great wi-"

"Not that! What i mean is, who will you give your chocolates to!" Ann giggled.

"Ah, that..." I could feel my face heated. Way to go changing the subject, Ann.

"Gray," Karen gave me a sly smile. "He gave you one back in spring right?" I glared at Karen.

"Ah, yeah! And I didn't force him like I usually did! He must like you! Though I still don't get what he meant by that card, I mean, shutting me up? What the hell?

"Trust me Ann, you indirectly forced him," I mumbled.

"What?" Ann turned to me.

"Nothing," I replied fast. "What about you Ann? Who will you give it to?" I asked.

"Cliff," Ann smiled confidently. How I wish I had her guts.

"Well then, I think we should get started now! Come on girls, to the kitchen!" Ann pointed at the kitchen's door. Me and Karen only nodded.

5 Hours Later...

"I'm hopeless! You guys are hopeless! I give up!" Ann put her hand in the air.

The Inn's Kitchen looked like it just hit Titanic in the face. It was a big mess. If I thought that my life was a mess, then this was a lot more messy.

There were smokes everywhere. Karen almost burned down the entire Inn, but I, with my genius brain, took one of Ann's clothes, soaked it in water and threw it at the fire direction. In my defense, Ann could always buy new clothes, on the other side, our lives couldn't be bought. I was hit with a spatula when I said this.

"My chocolate tastes like shit!" I exclaimed.

"You think your chocolate tastes like shit? You're lucky because I can't even call my chocolate A chocolate!" Karen snapped.

"Who cares about your chocolates?" Ann shouted.

"Well, you! You're supposed to be the teacher Ann!" I shouted back.

"Yes, and you're supposed to be a student! A good one!" She yelled back at me.

"You two, stop it! We're all hopeless. Ann, you can be a great cook like you always be. Claire, after all of these you're still a bad cook. And me, you can't even call me a cook. Are we done here?" Karen intervened.

"Right," me and Ann said at the same time. Had I mentioned how scary a mad Karen would be?

"You know what, let's just clean up this mess," I said.

"Yeah," Ann agreed with me.

"Thank goddess I don't have asthma, or else I'd be dead because of these smokes!" Karen exclaimed.

"She was the one who caused these smokes.." Both me and Ann mumbled.

"What?" Karen turned to us.

"Nothing!" both me and Ann were scared to death.

The three of us cleaned up all the mess we made in the kitchen. The truth was, it took longer time to clean it up than creating the mess itself.

"So..." Ann looked at the plate. There were Ann's successful chocolate cookies, my bitter chocolate, and... Karen's something. What was it actually? Dish? Not even close. Ashes? Anyway, she said it herself that it couldn't be called 'chocolate'. "What are you guys going to do?" Ann had a worry look on her face. After all of these, she was still worrying about us. Sweet Ann.

"I'm not giving these to Rick but I'm still giving these to Kai," Karen had a sudden evil look on her face.

"What? Why?"

"Well, Rick always meant every chocolate he has given to me. Though I never eat it because I don't like sweets. But I simply can't give him such a... poisonous thing like this. But Kai, hah he better enjoy his prize for our previous match!" Karen smiled evilly. "He could have come up with something better for his own prize, it was his own fault actually. He knows that I am a bad cook, and he thought it would be funny to see me cooking. We'll see who will be laughing after he received this... thing. The messer become the messies!" Karen exclaimed proudly. I nodded.

"What about you Claire?" Ann asked.

Honestly, I still wanted to give this chocolate for him. I didn't really care about the taste because of the fact that Gray threw every chocolates he got away after he received them. Besides, he gave me an expired chocolate back in Spring. I just wanted to give him this because... well, it's sort of a reciprocation. He gave me one, and I wanted to give him one too. That's all.

Or was it?

I myself was honestly confused with my own feelings towards him. I... I was never good in relationship. I couldn't even tell if I liked him or not. All I knew that there were moments that my heart went fast when he was around. I wasn't sure.

"Helloooo? Claire?" Ann waved her hands in front of my face.

I snapped back to reality "Yeah I think it's good for you Karen. Good for you," I responded without thinking.

Both Ann and Karen burst into laughter. They knew that I didn't make any sense at all, that I was daydreaming.

"Good goddess, just tell him you like him!" Karen elbowed me.

"W-What?" I blushed furiously.

"Yeah, tell him!" Ann was taking Karen's side. That betrayer.

Geez, these two girls, they didn't even know what they're laughing about.

Or did they know about it more than I did?

The Next Day...

I decided that I would give this chocolate secretly. I didn't have the guts, honestly. I didn't have the guts like Ann's.

I stepped up to the upper floors in the Inn. I snuck in without Ann knowing it, I didn't want her to be overreacting about this, like she always did. My heart was pounding fast as i touched the door knob. I opened it with a rather deep breath. My eyes were wide-open to see Mary, holding some kind of chocolate wrapped in a box.

"Ah, C-Claire?" Mary stuttered.

"Hey Mary! Sorry, wrong room i guess," I lied. My heart was breaking into pieces.

"C-Claire! Wait up!" She caught up to me.

I turned around. She caught me by my arm.

"This doesn't mean anything! Don't worry," Mary smiled to me.

"W-what? I-I-"

"That was just a thank-you-you-read-my-books chocolate," Mary giggled a bit.

"Mary, no worries about that," I smiled back at her.

"I just thought I should clear it up," Mary blushed a bit.

"What? What's that in your pocket?" I teased Mary a bit.

"E-Eh, t-that's!" The chocolate fell out of her pocket.

There was a card, tied into the box. The letters were too small, I couldn't read it clearly but I could read one or two words from it.

"Harris?" I was shocked.

"E-eh... I-I," Mary couldn't finish her sentence, she only nodded.

"Good luck then," I took the chocolate box from the floor and handed it to her, smiling.

"T-Thanks Claire," Mary smiled at me warmly. Sweet, sweet Mary. She began walking past me, "You too Claire."

I didn't realize what she meant at first.

When I realized it, I turned around to see Mary was already gone. What did she mean? Was it the same like what Karen and Ann's?

I headed downstairs, I decided that I would give this chocolate in person. After all, he did the same.

When I got in Inn's lobby, I saw Gray, surrounded by three girls that I did not know, all giving chocolates to him.

When I saw this, suddenly all of my confident that I had in the past 30 seconds were all gone.

He was going to throw it all away right? So why put yourself in such situation, Claire?

I exited the Inn without thinking. Useless. This was all useless, I thought. I just realized this when I saw those girls. That I was the same with those girls, giving chocolates that would probably be thrown away after they were given. Didn't I state that I hated thanksgiving? What had gotten into me then?

I went to the rose square. I sat on the bench, I reached my pocket, took the chocolate box and threw it away to the trash can near the bench.

I closed my eyes to feel the breezing coldness of the wind. Well, it was winter. But I didn't care. I was tired. Tired of simply everything.

I think I feel asleep, or so I thought. Because, when I opened my eyes, the sky was darker than before.

"Hey," a voice said to me.

I opened my eyes wider. I saw Gray, sitting right next to me on the bench. What was more surprising, he was holding my chocolate. My chocolate that was supposedly given to him.

"I was about to throw away all the chocolates I got when I saw this," he turned to his hand.

"I-I-"

"Care to explain?" he asked.

"Even if I give it to you, it's going to end up there, in the trash can too, right?"

"There it goes, you know the answer well. Then why bother making this?"

"Because you gave me one back in spring."

"You know I hate sweets."

Aha! That's it! I just remembered that he hated sweets, why didn't I think of that?

"Well, fortunately, i put the wrong ingredients. It turned out wrong. It isn't sweet at all, it's bitter. But it was way better than Karen, whose chocolate looks like ashes."

"So, this isn't sweet at all?" he pointed his finger at my chocolate. I shook my head.

"Sorry, I just remembered that you hate sweets."

"But, this is sweets that isn't sweet at all, right?" he asked once again.

"Why don't you taste it yourself? It tastes like shit to me though," I joked.

Gray opened the box and took one to his mouth, I was surprised. "Wa-Wait! What are you doing, you're not supposed to eat it!"

"Why?" he asked.

"Because, it's not supposed to be eaten!"

"But I like it. It doesn't taste sweet. And, it was supposed to be given to me," he had an annoying satisfied look.

"Just don't blame me if you get sick," I could feel my face flushed.

He offered the chocolates. I shook my head.

"I don't like it," I said.

"You don't like it and you think it tastes like shit but you still wrap it anyway, meaning you don't mind if i taste these."

"I thought you're just going to throw it away."

"Well, I'm not, am I?"

He offered me once again. "If i'm going to be sick because of these then you should too."

"No."

"Just one."

"...Fine." I gave up.

I took one to my mouth, as I pulled myself together so that I wouldn't throw up. Good goddess, please don't make me cook again.

We were eating chocolates, failed chocolate i supposed, together, side by side, on a bench, in rose square. My face heated once again.

"Isn't this sweet?" he had an evil smile on his face.

Is this guy crazy or what? This wasn't sweet at all that I wanted to throw up! What was his definition of the taste 'sweet' anyway?

"If you mean sweet shit, then yes it is. But for a chocolate, no it isn't," I answered.

"I wasn't talking about those."

A/N: so, did you like it? :3

yay for harvest moon 64 couples! harvest moon 64 was the first HM i've ever played. How i wish marvelous/natsume never changed the pair Harris/Mary and Kai/Karen :(

Harris and Mary were adorable! The mailman and the mayor's daughter. When i played the game, i never bother wooing Mary seeing how she was perfectly matched with Harris. The same goes with Kai and Karen, which was perfectly matched. Not once i've ever interrupted the relationship between the two purple clothed people. At the end of the game, i always end up marrying Popuri. Sorry Gray, gotta steal yo girl and get hitched! XD

Any of you a fan of HM64? :3

dannt: here's the update haha xD

CliffAnnFC: ah lol glad you like my cliff ;)

supermarina8: T-H-A-N-K-S XD

MsLumpy: glad you enjoy it! :D