Chapter 11

Out of Business

Nook went on the train, all red eyed after Lobo figured out what had happened and banded from him with a lot of yelling and all of his stash money. He dried his eyes and sat where Rover the cat couldn't see him. He was so busy trying to hide from Rover that he hadn't realized he had sat next to a white cat, after looking at her he ran away to sit by Rover.

"Bad morning" Rover muttered.

"Look, yes? I'm sorry about how jerky I was, I need your help, Rover!" Nook sounded convincing, he was trying to fool Rover into giving him money. "I need to upgrade my store for the holidays, and the Nook Stinks club has almost gotten me out of business."

Rover though about for a moment. "So the Nook Stinks club is finally winning, huh?"

"Yes, I hate them so much, and you too-I mean just them." Nook was trying to get Rover liking him again.

"I'm sorry, I spent a lot of my money increasing the Everglade town fund for a new store."

Nook was shocked. "What! What about our town? You know, Emerald?! Why can't we get a better store there?! Or just focus on me..." He trailed off.

"Sorry, you blew it, you blew it BIG, you blew it bigger than an angrily hacked fur ball!" Rover was trying to get Nook to realize his store was doomed.

"I'm going to throw a huge holiday sale, do you think that will help?"

"Whatever, you might just wanna move into Everglade, houses there are cheaper than ever, now that you sold all yours!"

"HEY! Why you little!"

"Isn't it your stop? Byah bye... forever!"

Nook shot a nasty glance back at Rover as he left the train. "I'll show him, I'll show them all! I'm throwing the biggest holiday sale ever!"

Nook unloaded his pocketful of furniture leaves and set them all up in his store on the second floor, and drew up custom (and crappy) paper designs for the packs.

He put a sale notice up on the notice board in Acre B-3 and went back to his store.

Jeremy had gotten up from bed. He had slept in late because it took him a little while to get to sleep in the last chapter. He decided to pull a little trick on Nook.

Jeremy went over to Nookingtons and switched the 'We're Open!' Sign around so it said 'We're Closed!'. He snickered as he left the acre.

Jeremy went over to the club hideout to collect the bells from his gift shop. Abby was the store clerk for that day. "Oh hello Abby, I came to collect the bells."

"There's ten-thousand and forty-two bells, here you go!" Abby said handing him a relevantly heavy bag.

"Thanks," he responded.

The post office was holding a fund raiser because Nook's shop was obviously going to go out of business soon. He deposited 8000 of his bells. "There you go, pick a nice new store owner!" He said dropping it in the collection box.

"Thanks muchly!" Pelly responded.

I think I've finally done it! I'm getting a better store! Jeremy smiled as he left. Come to think of it... I could have ended this faster If I just made my own store...

He bumped into Rover who was "bugging" by the river. "Hey Jeremy! Did you know that if you freeze bugs, they stay good longer! I bet you can't do that with food, heehehe!" Rover laughed at his discovery.

Jeremy sighed. "Rover, what do you think refrigerators are for?"

"Eskimos!" Rover said confidently.

"Forget I even said anything..." Jeremy got back on track. He knew by now Nook noticed that he 'accidentally' kept his store closed and opened it again by flipping the sign.

Jeremy entered Nookingtons. "Greeting customer! Oh wait, it's you, what do you want?"

"Hi Nook! I just decided to inform you that it's all over, they will be knocking down your store tomorrow!"

"NO THEY'RE NOT! IF THEY HAVE TO KNOCK DOWN MY STORE, THEN THEY'LL HAVE TO KNOCK ME DOWN WITH IT, YES?!"Nook yelled at the top of his lungs.

Jeremy responded with a Smart-Alec reply as always. "Then I'll take the pleasure of knocking you down, right now!" Jeremy shoved Nook slightly.

"OK fiiiine..." Nook said annoyed.

"Your best bet is to leave now, before they knock it over, if they get enough money, they'll knock it over today! And I've saved up plenty of bells recently."

Nook fell over and started hugging his foot. "NO! NO! I'll do anything! I'll lower my prices! I'll give you reasonable amounts of money for everything you sell! Just give me one more day!"

"Oh come on Nook! It's too late now, I payed a chunk off it off, they'll knock it down after closing times."

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Nook was literally crying.

Jeremy sighed, "I don't think I have the power to change the mayor's mind."

"THE MAYOR?! I WAS GOING TO BECOME MAYOR! YOU JERK! I HATE YOU ALL!"

He looked up to see Jeremy had already left.

Life would get much better when Nook's store would be knocked down, then everyone could finally get their Christmas shopping done as the new store would open the next day.

Jeremy was also having thoughts of moving closer to the city in a few months.

The day continued on for normal until the moment was finally there! Nook had closed early, and it was time for his store to get knocked down!

A crowd of the town's animals and the 3 humans gathered nearby as Copper the police dog drove the huge wreaking ball over.

BANG! SMASH! CRUMBLE!

Nookingtons was now nothing more than a pile of white rubble. Everyone cheered.

Jeremy went over to the notice board to announce the end of the Nook Stinks Club as well as the closing of the gift shop.

He went over to the mine to clean up all his items. He gathered up all the items, at the gift shop he had a big sale, and practically everything was sold. He gathered up the few items that were left and threw every last item of his that had 'Nook Stinks' on it into the sea.

Jeremy retired to his bed for the rest of the day.

The next day Nook found himself buying a house from the new Blue Star Items shop that was in Everglade town. They were the cheapest houses for miles, and he could no longer afford a mansion. He was no longer a store owner, just a regular resident in the town of Everglade.

This is the final chapter in the story, I really didn't even have to include the epilogue, the only reason I made it was to gear up for the sequel to the story. Also, when I started the sequel, the exact text from the epilogue ended up being the first half of the prologue to the sequel.