This will be it for awhile. I'm going to go back into my binder and make up some more twists and mysteries like the man at Dunhill's house that day and the stranger at the pond (clues to who they are?) I promise this won't be another month of nothing. Also my friend told me about this site that PAYS you to write these things so.. I'm going to go check that out.

Disclaimer- I do not own Harvest Moon A New Beginning just the OC, (reason why I am even doing a fanfic after all...)

"How long has it been?"

"Hmm, one hour."

"Oh! she should be awake soon."

"She'll be lucky if she awakes in the next two hours."

"It's all my fault."

"Toni, you didn't know that the turtle would do that."

I heard these voices bouncing all over the place. One was nice and soft next to me while the other would be sharp and far away from me. I wanted to open my eyes but they felt like they were glue forever down. My mouth was incredibly dry and my limbs were stiff from the coldness I felt.

"Maybe we should contact Doctor Ayame. I heard that she was visiting in Bluebell a few miles out."

"Our next project was the clinic too.." A thud of a hammer sounded from somewhere.

"If she's going to be in this state for a while longer. Someone should stay here to make sure she is alright once she does wake." A chair scraped across the floor and a door was opened. "I better go contact Ayame in the mean time. Hello Allen." By the voice that just left, my guess was that it was Dunhill.

"So what happened to doll face here." I could feel a hand being placed on my head, taking a piece of hair with it as it slid down the left side of my face. "This is a mess." With a 'tsk' my hair was released. "Looks like someone doesn't know how to take care of herself."

"Leave her alone," a low and stern voice came. "Jennie just about had her hand ripped off from a turtle. So I wouldn't be concerned about how her hair is looking right now Allen."

"Hair is what I know." His voice raised a little,"And just because you were the one that Toni got to save her, doesn't mean that you can say what I can and can not say about her." A hand was on my bangs, brushing them away from my face.

Wait, what did he just say?

"Allen I swe-"

"Okay," pipped in a light voice."How about before you start with that Neil. We get Toni out of here. I'm sure that he needs to eat dinner. Rebecca, mind taking him home?"

"Come on Toni. Say goodbye to Jennie."

The sound of foot steps were coming towards me. The bed creaked and sank a little when the weight of Toni leaning on it came. He wrapped his little hand around the one of mine that wasn't injured and whispered into my ear." Sorry about your hand Jennie. I hope you forgive me for making you do that." He gave me a squeeze," Once you are okay, I'll make it up to you. Bye." Then Rebecca and Toni left. Leaving who I think was Iroha, Hana, Neil, and Allen behind.

Another chair scrapped across the floor, the sound of popping joints joined it." Well, you young birds. I best be going too, I need my rest." A light laugh filled the air.' Once you are older, you'll understand." Another person left, I think Hana.

Okay, so there was three people with me. Two who I think don't like each other very much. And here I am, motionless and unable to speak on this bed. Wonder why they haven't left yet from boredom.

After a few more minutes of silence, a girl's voice started."Allen, don't you have your Salon to set up?" She sounded suspicious.

"Of course I do but,"again he was touching my hair. What is with him and hair? "Who would stay here to make sure she is alright once she opens those amethysts." There was a hint of humor in his voice. If I could only move my hand a little to hit him...

A grunt broke my thoughts." I will stay to watch. You need to get started on the clinic's structure and you need to go play with hair."

"I don't know if that's a good idea here," finally he left my hair alone and moved somewhere else."You would only cause her to pass out once she sees your face."

Damn..

"Allen.."

"See that face!" He chuckled to himself.

"Alright you two." popped in Iroha for the second time."Allen you're coming with me. Neil, stay here if you wish. Dunhill shouldn't be long with the Doctor." The door closed behind her.

A whistle came, "Hot-headed blacksmith. I can get used to that." said Allen as he left as well.

"About time," huffed out Neil. I heard him bring a chair close to the bed and sat down in it. "Just for Toni you did that. You haven't even been here for a season and you do this."

Was he saying this is a good way or bad way? Since I couldn't see his face it was hard to tell. Possibly it was in a bad way coming from him but, his tone was something else. I never heard it out of him since the first day I was here. I want to get his attention so I could ask him about it.

I tried to speak but only muffled words came out.

That seemed to get his attention enough.

There was silence after that, Neil didn't speak again and I didn't try again. That is until my stomach wanted to speak for itself. You could hear it outside that it was so loud in that small quiet room. I groaned while keeping myself still and my mouth shut.

"Jennie, can you hear me?" Whispered Neil. It surprised me when he started to talk again. I barely moved my head in a response, Neil seemed to have gotten his answer from that.

"Alright, so you can hear me. Can you at least move something, an arm or leg." I was thinking about bringing up my hand but Neil got me,"If you try moving that hand of yours. You'll probably injure it more since the Doctor hasn't seen it yet." Damn.

"Why can't," my head was starting to clear up a bit but, it was still hard for me to move around and talk much.

"Hana found some pain killers in that store of hers. She gave you some so your hand wouldn't kill you as much." I heard Neil stand and placed the chair where it once was. "That's why you can't exactly move around a lot and why you can't speak more than a few words. Give it a half hour."

So that was all that was said for the next half an hour. About ten minutes in I could feel my eyes becoming lighter, so I could see that Neil was leaning on the door frame leading out of my room. It was dark and my eyes weren't fully open but, I could tell that he wasn't looking at me at least.

For the following twenty minutes, I tried to focus my eyes on various things and willed my legs or my one arm to move. I managed to move my legs around and push off the blanket, which Neil grabbed off of the floor and placed it back on me. My arm barely did anything at all. So I gave up on my little attempts of these actions and decided to just stare off in the darkness.

"Try moving again." Neil wasn't looking at me still but, I did what he said. It had been over a half an hour anyways. I fully opened my eyes to my dark little room and swung my legs off the bed. I forgot about my left hand when I started to stand up. The pain shot up through my arm and made my knees buckle, I landed back on the bed with a thud. "Watch it!"

He was standing a few feet in front of me, almost as if he thought I would fall forward onto the floor. "Don't use that hand. Didn't I tell you that before? Lay back down and wait for the doctor if you can't stand." He growled as he left the room.

I was still sitting on the edge of the bed, staring at where he was leaning on the door frame. Maybe if he just stayed quiet and didn't tell me to move, then my hand wouldn't be aching so much. I didn't hear any doors open or close so my guess is that he is still in my house.

I tried to stand again, without the help of my left hand. I managed to finally stand and started towards the door, passing the wall mirror as I went by. Allen's words popped back into my head about my hair, so I dared a look at myself.

He wasn't wrong when he said that it was a mess, the highlights were still in but that only made it look worse. The layered part of my hair was sticking out in all sort of directions as if a weed walker was brought to it. The longer pieces of my hair were all tangled with each other. What Allen said about me waking up and seeing Neil was backwards. More like if Neil saw me he'd pass out.

My thoughts traveled down from my hair and onto my hand. It was throbbing badly to where it could tell my heartbeat without even thinking about it. I looked down to see how bad it was. Turns out someone had bandaged it up so I couldn't look at the cracked and opened skin. I wanted to look at the bandage closely though, so I brought up my hand but, only brought it back down after rising it a few inches. I could really use some more of those pills that Hana had brought me earlier right about now. Maybe Neil knows where they are.

"Neil," I called from the doorway of my room. There was no answer so I walked out into the hallway, looking left and right before heading towards the living room, grabbing my jacket on the way out. I was still cold from the water I was in over an hour ago. He wasn't there either but, you could tell that the entire town was here because the chairs were pushed around the place and the pillows placed oddly around due to someone sitting by them. The front door was opened a crack, no wonder I didn't hear it close.

With my hand sticking to my side, trying not to move it. I walked over to my front door and peaked outside. I could see my pasture out of the corner of my eye, Bonnie was grazing on a patch of grass by the edge of the fencing. I don't remember ever letting her out knowing that I might be gone for the entire day. I edged the door open a little more, now I was able to see one side of my barn. The left side door was opened a little ways but, the door swings in. Only way for Bonnie to open it is with a little help from someone. And I'm pretty sure who that someone is right now.

So he ignores me and goes to look after Bonnie, not that I'm mad about it or anything. The way he left me however, does make me mad.

I left the house and headed towards the barn, trying to keep my arm straight while going through the grass. Bonnie noticed me and moo-ed before going back to her grass. I opened the left side door all the way and peeked inside. There was Neil, headphones on, tending to Bonnie's stall. I stood there watching him work and bob his head to his music, he never did turn his head towards the door. I was planning on watching him work more until I leaned on the right door, causing it to open with a creak.

His headphones were loud but, somehow he heard the creak. Turning his head in my direction now, scowling with a blush on his face.

"What are you doing out of bed?" His hand went into his pocket and clicked something off before he removed his headphones. Then resting the pitchfork by the stall's side and walked towards me.

I straightened and answered him before he could reach me."I was bored and you left. So I thought that I would come out here and see Bonnie." I looked over my shoulder towards Bonnie and continued. "However, looks like someone beaten me to her."

He sighed and grabbed my good wrist and pulled me out of the barn, dragging me back to the house. "You must have hit your head too then." He mumbled.

"Hey!" I dug my heels into the grass in an attempt to stop him. "My head is fine and I don't need to lay down anymore. It's just when I move my hand is when it hurts." I yanked my wrist out of his grip and held it to my chest. Bad mistake there, I forgot about my bandaged hand that was now holding my right wrist. The pain was plastered on my face.

"This is why you should be laying down," Neil stood in front of me looking at my injured hand. "If you keep moving it like you are now. It will never heal as fast as it should. Better get used to working with one hand."

Working with one hand.

Neil must have realized that he said something wrong because he continued in a softer tone. "Everyone is worried about you Jennie. When Toni found me on the mountain path he was as pale as a ghost. I felt the same once I saw all the blood from your hand on the rock and in the water."

"Why would everyone worry. It's nothing, I'm fine now." I managed to speak in an even tone with the memory playing back in my head.

"A passed out girl in the lake isn't nothing." Neil whispered as he looked down at me. I looked up but found nothing in his eyes that said he was joking. He was dead serious.

"Fine, I'll go back inside." I didn't realized that I was worrying everyone in the village. It was just my hand and they don't really know me all at. My head hanged low as I walked past him and into my house. I closed the door behind me and went to the bathroom and looked at myself in the mirror.

All of this fuss over the turtle.

All of it over my hand.

All over me.

Over nothing.

In the back of my head I could hear laughing twisted with anger as I looked back down at my hand.

Okay so, chap 11... tell me what you think so far. Also, I decided who Jennie will fall for but, do you? Hmm I wonder.. heheh,

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