BSS: I'm so sorry for no updates and revisions! Besides, if you guys even care cause my writing still sucks as ever, I want you guys to stay till the end! PLEASE!

Chelsea: Whining is not going to help anyone you know.

BSS: Says you! Do we remember what the last chapter was like? Or should I explain it in front of everyone, including Sabrina, Julia, and Vaughn?

Chelsea: *sweat* As if I care! … I think…

BSS: Oh! Look, we ran out of time, to the story! I own nothing, and do hope you enjoy! ... But I do own this story though!

Chapter 10- Help: part one-

Chelsea's POV-

I woke up to the sound of music coming from my ipod. I must've forgotten to turn it off when I fell asleep… I removed the earphones from my pained head. That was the first in a long time since I ever cried out of fear. Then I saw Wolf Fang on my side fast asleep. He must've been restless, with his usually strong and good willed owner all of the sudden waking up and crying in the middle of the night.

I left him to sleep, and carefully got out of bed, but once I got off, my head got really dizzy, but I shook it off. A shiver traveled through me, and I closed the window, where it really was open all last night… Oh well…

The final day of winter… I really got to cheer up! I slapped on my cheeks with my hands, and plastered on a smile. It's the New Years Eve festival today! And everybody will be worried when their only hope of payments is depressed!

I quickly changed into my same work T-shirt, and red boots. I put on light sweats, and a light winter coat, remembering that Taro's trick knee tells him that it'll be clear with the sun out ready to melt the snow today.

Heh, funny. It's odd that Taro can tell the weather so accurately with hunches coming from his body parts, and occasionally the breeze. I looked at the clock.

9:07am

AHH! WAIT! I woke up this late? Geez... must've been a long night. I guess that dream was that bad, but it's funny that you somehow forget what the dream feels like once you wake up, and yet the winter air and the cold hands are too familiar. That cold feeling just surrounds me.

Well I still have lots of time before the festival starts at 6'o clock. I just need to finish my daily animal chores, and I'll be on my way.

I ran out of my house and closed the door carefully so that I don't wake up Wolf Fang. I quickly ran to my stable, and once I entered, I was greeted by an excited horse. Knight, my horse, has been with me for a while, before I even got a chicken! Back at home, Mark had two horses. I raised one myself, while Mark raised the other. Now my horse, Knight, is with me on the island when I heard that this place has a free stable. He's the only connection I have of home now.

That's kinda weird though. I love Knight, but Wolf Fang was the one who always comfort me… And I just met him at the beginning of this winter. Wolf Fang reminds me of a lot of my brother, a gentle guardian. They both can be fierce and protective, but also kind and collected. I lightly smiled at the comparison. I finally came back in the real world when Knight gave a soft huff. I laughed lightly and finished my work there. Now I made my way to my barn.

Once I entered the barn, loud "moos" and "bah" welcomed me. My two cows and three sheep came up to me eagerly for their daily treatment. My first and prized cow, Soft Echo, calmly came up to welcome me. I got her a few months ago, and she has a very calm personality, and won the cow festival in her first try!

My second cow, who had just matured, gave a light bump to my shoulder in affection. Her name is Bright Path. She has a great amount of energy, and when I'm down, she is always the first to notice, and I found her as a strong animal of hope.

Now all of my sheep came up, well, one sheep and two lambs. The grown sheep gave a light "bah" while the two lambs followed their mother, Light Cloud. Having two kids must be tiresome of her; well it was mostly my fault that, that happened anyway. I accidentally gave her sheep miracle potion, mistaking it as medicine; thank goddess that it was solved with no problems. And then the second time was when Light Cloud rummaged through my rucksack and found another one of those when it was meant as a gift for Mark. Boy, was that troublesome…

Now for the two lambs. One of them, the one that was a little taller, came half-a-year ago. She had bright sky blue eyes and every now and then looks out the window and look at the sky, in which came to her name, Seeker. She is nearing to an adult and then I'll have to work harder if she was going to win in any contests.

Then there is the shorter one, she was just born about a week ago. Her name is melody, because every time I sing her a song, she would either "bah" softly along, or listen intently, in awe. After a little while I soon finished and bid farewell to my dear animals.

Soon I came by my chicken coop. Then in a rampage came out three chickens trying to topple me over to get some food. Jackie, Tom, and Fred, that's their names and all of them, are girls too! Sabrina was the one who named them, and yet those names seem fitting. They were all brought in on the same day, and from the same batch of eggs. So being triplets, Sabrina thought that they should all have guy names… Different huh?

As soon as I finished, I checked my small wristwatch to tell the time.

5:42 pm.

I held a blank face for about ten seconds, and then blew out in full fledged panic. I'm going to be late! I need to hurry up and go! Why am I still standing here? ARGG!

I was in a full run, thankful for the fact that I took track in high school. I dashed my way to the meadow. I quickly dodged through the obstacles in my way, and made it to the entrance of the meadow. Another dizzy spell came to my head, must've gotten to me since I was running around in the cold, but I soon shook it off again. I quickly checked my watch if I made it in time.

5:58

I gave a small prayer of thanks to the goddess for letting me get here on time. I wasn't ready for Sabrina asking me why I'm late. There is no way that I'm going to tell her that I overslept because of a bad dream of the past. She doesn't even know about my past. Only Wolf Fang knows when I needed someone to tell it to, you know, to get it off your chest and stuff. And Wolf Fang couldn't tell anyone, even if he wanted to.

"Hey Chels~! You almost didn't make it! Well it doesn't matter now since you're here, because I need to tell you something important!" I jumped when Sabrina suddenly called my name. Recalling to her last sentence, I became curious and a little nervous when Sabrina held a mischievous smile.

I had a feeling that this is going to involve Vaughn. I'm starting to feel bad for that guy. This happened to me on a regular basis, but Vaughn got trapped in a closet on his first day here! He hardly knows me or Sabrina; I don't see how Sabrina is going to get him interested in me when we hardly know anything about each other. We said nothing when we were stuck in the closet, heck all we know about each other is that we have a short fuse and our names! Nevertheless I decided to listen to what Sabrina needed to say.

"Guess what!" Sabrina rhetorically asked.

"What?" I asked with absolutely no interest.

"You know your birthday right?"

"Yeah?" I replied.

"Well… to tell you the truth. When we locked you inside of that closet, I was going to give an emerald to Julia, but Julia said that she doesn't need it anymore when she found out that Vaughn has to make a trip to another island." Sabrina explained.

"And what about it?" I asked, having absolutely no idea on where this was going.

"Well, you see… The island is called Waffle Island." 'Waffle Island' now where does that sound familiar? "That's when I heard that a cousin of yours live there." Sabrina continued.

That's when it clicked in my head.

"Cousin? Then that means that she is there!" I blurted out.

"Yes! Well Julia blackmailed Vaughn to take all three of us there with him, and Julia called your cousin to make plans when we get there." Sabrina announced excitedly.

Wait. Blackmail?

"Hey Sabrina! What do you mean by 'Blackmail'? What did you guys do?" I demanded.

"Well… I wouldn't exactly say blackmail… More like threaten."

"WHAT? Threaten? What did you guys do?" I shouted in amazement that Sabrina and Julia would go so far.

"Okay, okay now. We only told him that we'll lock him somewhere again, and this time, in your house~." Sabrina explained with a proud look.

"What? Why make me suffer too?" I asked Sabrina.

"Hey! Forget about it now! Vaughn already agreed to the demands!"

"What is the reason for Julia to go on that island?" I asked in pure curiosity.

"Julia needed new clothes and made an appointment with Luna and her older sister Candace so that they can make custom clothes. We have to be there on a certain time too. We gotta be at the dock on the day after Vaughn's birthday, 9 am sharp." Sabrina also seemed confused on why Julia needed to go so far away to just order clothes.

Wait. Did I hear "The day after Vaughn's birthday"? When's that? Oh well, I'll figure it out tomorrow, our conversation is taking place at a festival after all.

"Alright then, I suppose that I don't have much of a choice in this anyways" I sighed.

Once we finished our conversation, Chen gave the announcement and the festival started once people started lining up to the table for their buckwheat noodles. I must say, for just a shop owner, his cooking is really tasty.

After getting my fill, I noticed something out of the corner of my eye. A dark shady character appeared, leaning beside a tree. I eyes widened when the similarities of the past and now came by my eyes.

I suddenly felt a slight chill against my spine, and felt it spreading through my arms. I gave in to a cold sweat, and my heart started drumming with a heavy thump. My face soon felt warm despite the winter air. I started to tear up in fear again. My vision also started to haze up from the warmth coming straight to my head. I then started clawing my nails into my upper left arm, trying to get rid of the cold chill stuck in there. I slowly closed my eyes and gave a deep breath, counting to ten.

'He's not here anymore. He will never bother you again' my hater side tried to calm me. 'That's right. Take another deep breath and recollect yourself. Think logically and remember that you're still in a festival, and other people are around too. They'll get worried, so take it easy.' My fluff side tried to encourage me.

That's right. Calm down. Calm down. Calm down!

It wasn't good enough. I let my hand go furious on my left arm, making the pain of it relieve me. After relieving the tension through my nails, I realized that I clawed my nails in deeper than I thought. I looked over to my left shoulder, and found small traces of blood starting to bleed trough my jacket. I looked over my right hand and noticed traces of blood and scratched off skin under my nails.

I gained a look of fear when I had noticed what I've done. My sapphire eyes rose to a light sky blue, cold with complete fear, but not for my condition, but for the questions of what the islanders will ask once they notice. The wound was too noticeable now, when a large spot of scarlet had replaced the few dots of red. I covered that spot with my right hand, but to cover the figure of a girl clutching her arm in pain, I slowly raised my left hand to my other arm, to make a look like I was cold, cursing at my easy-tear white jacket in the process.

My left arm screamed in burning pain, protesting on the forced movement of it. I came into another dizzy spell, feeling like I going to fall over and faint. I slowly approached Sabrina, hoping that I'm not giving anything away to my pain. I gave a small prayer to the Goddess that my face doesn't look pained, and my movements aren't too obvious.

"Hey Sabrina. I'm getting kinda cold, and the festival is almost over. I need to get back home; I still got a rambunctious dog to take care of." I said with a large smile. Sabrina gave a small nod, busy playing with Charlie and Eliza. I gave out a large breath of relief once I got out of there.

I started making my way to my house, but before I even close, another dizzy spell took me again. I looked up and noticed the animal shop nearby; I slowly walked up there, and leaned against the wall. My head now feeling hot, even with the late winter air, started getting warmer, if that was possible. I pressed my forehead against the wooden wall, relieved of a cool resource for my headache, but soon got warmed up again. I fell down to my knees, feeling pain all over my body. My legs feel weak, and my arms went limp, the injured one bleeding excessively. Not being able to take much more, I soon toppled over, my breathing got heavy, fighting for air, and panting from the earlier run.

Soon I noticed a shape of a person nearby, but my vision was blurred, so I couldn't identify the person. My hearing was also blocked, when I heard shouts at me, but I couldn't make out what it was saying at all. That's when my world became black.

BSS: hmm… Do I seem cold to you guys? And Again! I'm alone in our little show… Just to let you guys know, NO, Chelsea is not emo, just releases her anger with pain… like a stress reliever… okay? Besides, she didn't notice when the wounds got too deep… I hope this cleared up some confusion… And I hope to see you in the next revision!