Author's Notes: Chapter 7 is here! I hope you'll like it! =D
All of a Sudden
Making Friends
It's been a few weeks now since I've came to these islands. Most of the time I stay at my ranch watering crops, collecting lumber and finding sunstones. Yes sunstones. Long story so I won't explain everything. Basically sunstones are just red stones shaped like the sun, when you hold it warmth spreads through you. I need to collect them and give them to the fairy-elf-thing, sprite, that live on Meadow Island. So far I've only found 8. One from Natalie, Elliot, Taro, Felicia, Denny, Mark, Lily and I found one near the windmill in my ranch. I'm planning on raising Mystic Island first but I need 12 sunstones. Mark has already raised Volcano and Animal Island. Only me and Mark can see these sprites so we're the only ones who can raise the sunken islands. Speaking of Mark, you remember the promise I made about telling him who I liked right away after I figured it out? Well I still haven't done that yet. I feel ashamed of myself but I can't bring myself to do it since I'm still not a hundred percent sure if I like that shy, clumsy and nerdy Elliot whom I have known all my life.
I was walking to Sprout Island when Natalie saw me "Chelsea!"
"Hi Natalie, where's Elliot" I asked
"Helping grandpa with work." She answered
"Why aren't you helping?" I asked again
"I already finished, Elliot dropped the boxes he was carrying so everything came rolling out."
I rolled my eyes but inside I was laughing but in a kind way. Elliot is still so clumsy! But that's what makes him so cute! Wait! What am I thinking?
"So where are you going?" She brought me back down to Earth.
"Fishing." I answered
"You like to fish don't you?" She asked
"Duh!" I said, I've recently bought a fishing rod at Gannon's so I've been fishing a lot
"Wanna go visit Lily instead?" Natalie asked, she became pretty good friends with her
"Sure but I'm still carrying my rod!"
"Whatever." She simply said and dragged me over to the hotel.
*knock knock*
The black haired treasure hunter opened the door "Hello Natalie and Chelsea!"
"Good afternoon Lily." I said
"Hello" Natalie said
"Come in!" Lily opened the door wider and we stepped in
"I love your toy panda!" I said cuddling it after placing my fishing rod on the floor.
"Thank you, my parents gave it to me when I left in search of treasure and I've been taking it everywhere." She said
"I wish my mom would be that nice and get me something that's cute." Natalie said
"I wish my mom would actually care about me." I muttered
"Your mother does not love you?" Lily asked
"It's not that she doesn't love me, she simply doesn't have time for me." I replied
"Why is that?" Lily asked again
"She's too busy going to parties with her friends." An image of my mother came into mind. Dressed all so fancy and laughing with her rich friends.
"She is rich?" Lily is becoming a bit nosy
"Yeah, my mom's pretty rich but of course not as rich as Regis." I answered shaking the image out of my head. I've been annoyed at my Mom for a long time now. Right after I graduated from college she kicked me out, not actually kick but you get the point, of the house and I had to rent a small apartment to live in by myself. She doesn't want me in her house messing up her perfect life any longer. She gave me some money but not much compared to what she spends everyday. She hasn't called once to ask how I was or where I was. I didn't tell her I moved. She probably didn't care about it anyways.
"How about your father?" Lily was getting very, very annoying
"Uh…He passed away when I was young…"
"I'm sorry." Lily finally shut up but leaving an awkward silence.
Natalie broke it by changing the subject "Lily you have your eyes on any of the island boys yet?"
Lily was surprised "N-no!"
Natalie chuckled "Well me and Chelsea do!"
I blushed "Oh Natalie why'd you say that?"
"Who is it?" Lily begun again.
Natalie blushed "I like Pierre…"
"The cook?" Lily likes questions.
"Yes." Natalie answered,
"That's wonderful!" Lily commented.
"t-thanks…" Natalie blushed harder.
I tried to stiffen the laugh with a cough but Natalie has known me for half my life so she knew I was laughing "Hey Chelsea I'm not the one who likes a nerd."
Lily gasped "Nerd? You like the pink head nerd?" She doesn't like questions, she loves them.
"hem-hem" Natalie did a fake cough. She was offended by the 'pink hair' part.
"Sorry Natalie I did not mean to offend you!"
Natalie laughed "I understand, but it's true! Chelsea likes my brother!"
I felt myself blush "N-Natalie!" I turned to Lily "Don't tell anyone!"
She smirked "Of course I won't tell anyone."
Natalie saved the day again by changing the topic "Lily are you sure you don't like anyone?"
"Of course! I already told you!" Lily said
"C'mon Lily! You're not fooling us!" I said giving her a playful push.
"I've only been on these islands for a few weeks! How can I possibly adore someone already?" Lily asked
"Well Chelsea's also been on these islands for a few weeks, And she already adore someone." Natalie teased
"But she has known Elliot for half her life!" Lily defended
Natalie didn't know what to say so I said something for her instead "Then you must tell us once you like someone?"
"Of course, you are my best friends." Lily agreed.
Natalie glanced at the clock "About time we left huh?"
I stood up from the bed "Yep, see you later Lily."
"Good bye."
"Bye!" Me and Natalie said. I think I'm missing something...I can't remember...
"Let's go already!" Natalie said
"Oh...Okay..."
After we left we went to the Café to have a little snack.
"Say, how've you been doing with raising the islands?" She asked
"Not very good, I've only got 8 sunstones." I replied sounding depressed
"Well maybe if you make more friends it'll be easier." She suggested
"Maybe. I'm not all that good at making friends." I said
"I can help you, who do you wanna make friends with first?" She asked
"Well I'm already pretty good friends with Mark and Denny, great friends with you, Elliot and Lily. I guess I get a long with Eliza okay and Will's been alright too." I said thinking about the rest of the villagers.
"How bout Lanna?"
"Lanna? I haven't been talking to her for a while." I was playing with my hair, twirling it around my finger.
"Well you did promise her you'll go listen to her talk about her career." Natalie mimicked me but having trouble twirling her short pink hair around her finger.
"I guess it wont be that bad as long as we don't go anywhere near her career." I muttered.
"Then let's get going!" She pulled at my arm playfully.
"Okay." I got up and left the money on the table.
Once we got there we found Lanna walking around her house.
"Hey Lanna!" Natalie called
"Oh hello Natalie and…Chelsea…" She said my name with a weird tone.
"What's the matter?" Natalie asked
"Oh it's nothing…" Her voice sad.
"Let's go inside and talk." I suggested patting Lanna's shoulder
After we went inside we sat on the couch and started talking about Lanna's problem.
"What's the matter lanna?" I asked
"Nothing. I said nothing already!" She said
"Just tell us!" Natalie argued
"It's just…oh never mind." Lanna said looking at her shoes as if they were the most interesting thing in the world.
"Lanna we won't tell anyone." I promised.
"Fine. It's just that I think Denny…likes you…" Lanna said quietly.
"W-what? Haha that's not true! We're only friends!" I did not believe Denny liked me since we only fish together and it was true, we were only friends.
"Really?" Lanna lightened up a bit and looked up.
"I promise you he doesn't like me. But why do you care about that?" I asked suspiciously.
She blushed "Well…Never mind that! Why did you guys come over?"
I rolled my eyes at her attempt to change the topic but soon started laughing when I understood why. I was always slow to understand stuff and especially things about guys.
"Hem-hem" I totally forgot Natalie was there, it was only after she gave her annoying fake laugh that I noticed.
"Oh! Um hi Natalie!" I said stupidly
She rolled her eyes "Whatever. Next time just dont forget about me!"
I smiled sheepishly "Sorry..."
"Forget about it." The pink head said smiling
"Hey let's talk about something...Hey I know let's talk abou-" She was cut off by Natalie
"ummm Hey Lanna, can you lend us some of your clothes?"
"Sure! But why?"
"Yeah, why do we need her to lend us clothes?" I asked
She gave a small smile "For fun. No other reason. I thought you might have some nice clothes...hehe..."
"Oh! I understand! You wanna get a makeover!" Lanna returned to her usual bubbly self.
"W-what? No!" Natalie said. She was never into makeup and fashion.
I leaned towards her and whispered "If it wasn't that then why did you need her clothes?"
"If I didn't do that then she'd start talking about her career!" She hissed
"How did you know? She was talking about Denny." I said
"I know when she'll start talking about her career. I've known her for a while know." She said matter-of-factly.
"Oh." Was all I said
"Oh I got an idea!" Lanna was jumping with excitement now "How 'bout you guys come over for a sleepover tomorrow night?"
"I guess a friendly sleepover won't hurt." I agreed
Natalie slapped her forehead with her palm and muttered so quietly I wasn't sure if I was supposed to hear it "Great, I'm just so smart and now I have to go through all this."
"We'll see you tomorrow then?" I asked smiling
"Sure! Oh oh I know! I'll invite Julia too!" Lanna said
I felt as though my heart was dropped into a deep pit. "Okay…" was all I could manage. I didn't know why I felt like that. It wasn't as if I actually cared about Elliot that much. Did I? I probably didn't. I could live without him right? Duh. I didn't actually want to spend the rest of my life with him! Then why did I care so much? It couldn't hurt having a sleepover with Julia anyways! I do want to make friends with her! But hearing her name makes me so dissapointed and sad... I didn't notice that we had already left Lanna's house and was on the way back to my ranch.
"Hey are you alright Chelsea?" Natalie asked
"I'm fine." I said half heartedly not looking at her.
"You're thinking about my bro and Julia?" She somehow read my mind.
"How'd you know?" I asked turning to face her.
"I've known you for so long Chelsea." Natalie sighed.
I also gave a sigh "I don't know why I feel this way…I don't care about Elliot that much anyways."
She bit her lip "I really don't know what to do with you Chelsea. If you like my bro then just admit it."
"I'm trying to! But I don't know how!" I said as we reached my house.
"I'll talk to you tomorrow alright?" She was shaking her head and sighing at the same time
"Sure." I said and went inside closing the door behind me.
I skipped dinner that night and went straight to bed. My head was crammed with questions but I pushed it aside with counting sheep. Which didn't really work.
451...452...453...454...455... I finally fell asleep.
There's not a lot of Elliot in these chapters D= But it's only the start, other chapters will have more Elliot in it! (Though not next chapter)