The nineteenth of Spring!
Those carpenters were quick. The "Perch Inn" and "Moonlight Café" sprung up almost instantly. Yes, things were getting exciting in Flowerbud. Or so it seemed. I had calmed down, I supposed, since yesterday. I had sorta… meditated … near the ocean. I just watched it and let the wind strike my face.
"Daaaaddy, it hwurts my eeeeeyeees!"
"Now Kachi, you'll hurt her feelings!"
"Hwort hwer… feelings?"
The dark-haired, dark-eyed seaman grinned at me, the slight presence of wrinkles deepening with his smile. "The wind is giving you kisses, dear heart." He looked out across the expanse of the beach with caring chocolate hues. His eyes then drifted to the sea… "And she, the sea, will always be there for you."
I couldn't help but hum softly- it was an old sea shanty my dad used to sing. Perhaps I should just honestly think about things for awhile- no use getting so worked up over everything like some stupid character in some stupid soap opera! Looking at my feelings, there was peace from being by the sea. I was also feeling sad about hurting Jamie, or maybe even guilty that there seemed to be nothing to do that would comfort him. Then, there were the Kurt-related butterflies. That sort of thing would diminish soon enough. After all, simple attraction easily fades, though friendship is something stronger. (I win the cheesiness award for the day!) Since I felt myself enjoying Kurt's company, I just had to get to know him better! Then, whenever I felt kinda down, Ray always seemed to cheer me up. Thinking of him, I haven't gone fishing with him lately.
Jamie can't face me anymore, can he? Can I face him now?
Wait a sec, where'd that come from? Grrrr. Ah well. I might as well go tend to my plants. They should be done some time around the twenty-second, so they were starting to look quite lovely. As I watered and cared for the precious creations, I heard a warm sort of voice from behind.
"Hello, Kachi!" Said Ray with a nod as I turned towards him.
"Oh, hi!" I said in reply. As I dusted off my hands, I asked with a tilt of my head, "Are you going fishing now?"
"Yeah," He said, "I was just going to get my fishing pole from my tent."
"Oh, that's where you live, then? I was a bit curious, actually." I had kinda wondered where Ray must live, because I never saw his home!
"Mhm. Would you like to join me?" Asked my friend.
"'Kay, just give me a second to finish with these last few plants."
"VICTORY!" I shouted gleefully as I held the blowfish aloft.
Laughing a bit, Ray held his nosed and waved the fish away from himself, "Yeah, but don't stick that in my face. I've never been one for blowfish."
Shrugging, I placed the creature into the pale of water beside me. It swam about quite entergetically as I tried to remember if these things were even edible. Hn. Maybe?
"Hey, Kachi…" Ray said as I casted the bobber into the water so it floated alongside his. "You've been a bit… odd… lately."
"Hm? Have I?" I asked curiously.
"Yeah, like today when we were walking, you had this… really blank expression. And then sometimes when you are waiting for the fish, you get that same blank expression on yourself when usually, you're so talkative." Maybe Ray was more perceptive than I first thought? I guess that being alone a lot of the time, one would get quite a bit of time to think…
"Hm, maybe," I answered pensively. "I guess I have been thinking a lot lately." Turning to him, I asked, "But that's not a bad thing, is it?"
He shrugged, "It kinda depends on what you're thinking about."
"Maybe so," I answered cryptically as I turned back to the ocean before us. I thought he might say something, but then I caught the quick movement of his wrist and the following motion of reeling and pulling whatever he caught to the shore.
"It's a sea bass!" He said as the fish flopped mid-air.
"Now all we need is an amp!" I cried gleefully.
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Wrong game? Maybe.
AI: (Kudos for anyone who gets the reference! :D)
I picked a large bouqet of the sweet-smelling moondrop flowers, my heart feeling warm as I pictured Nina's reaction. It was her birthday tomorrow, and even though I didn't have a lot of money, I thought I could still give her a lovely gift!
"Stop!" I heard Blue cry out as I heard another (unfamiliar) voice reply ever-so-innocently, "I told you I didn't do it!" The figure who spoke these devilish words dashed up the trail with Blue on his tail, his red bandana barely restraining thick black locks as he ran. My grip on the flowers tightened as the rogueish newcomer passed me and left me to deal with a cloud of dust.
Coughing a bit, I heard Blue come up beside me and ask worriedly, "Kachi, are you okay?"
As I wiped the dust out of my eyes, I nodded, "Oh, yeah! I'm fine. But what about- Well, what's happening?" As I looked up, I saw Blue's eyebrows knit together as he voiced with a faint scowl, "That one who is running off swiped some of Ellen's cakes. She had made them for the flower festival!"
Raising a brow, I stood up straight and asked, "Really? Why would he do that? I mean, did you see him?"
Blue shook his head, "No, I only saw him wiping the frosting off of his mouth by the window where the cakes were cooling."
"Then how do you know he did it?" I asked worriedly.
"I guess I can't be sure, but this isn't the first time that he has caused trouble. He was harassing Ann and Ellen before, too." He said with a more pronounced scowl as he folded his arms.
"Even if he's a flirt, you can't be sure he would steal!" I replied heatedly.
Blue shrugged, "You didn't see him with Ann and Ellen. I just don't like that guy." He said as he stalked moodily back home.
I hmphed, and almost right afterwards, I heard an identical "hmph" behind me.
"He seems a bit close-minded," Kurt noted as he came up beside me.
"Maybe he's just having a bad day?" I suggested with an optimistic smile.
Grinning a bit, Kurt shrugged, "Hn, I don't know." We paused a moment as both our eyes drifted into nothingness.
Nina chirped, "You both are so similar, you're so philisophical and stare off into space and everything!"
Broken out of our silent contemplation, we turned to Nina (whose grass-green eyes glinted mischievously.) "Yeah, that's it!" She exclaimed as she took my hands. Rocking back and forth on her heels, she began to speak with quite an intense air. "That's it! Kurt would be your only friend, the only person who you could talk about your feelings with. And as the burden grows more heavily on your heart, he shall be your friend in your time of both need and triumph! But then-!!!" Nina bounced over to Kurt and grabbed his hands as well. "But then, But then an emotional twister occurs! Kurt gazes broken-heartedly as you skip off through the sunset with the very person he helped you be together with! Because-!!!" She skipped over to me now, and I shoved my hands in my pockets. Unhindered, she continued on, "Because over the time of your close, intimate relationship, he had grown feelings for you that you did not reciprocate!" Turning away from the both of us, she adressed the sky, "Oh, such sacrifice! Such drama! Such passion!"
Two words: sweat drop
"Well," I said with slightly wide eyes, "…I think I should…. Start heading home now… yeah. I also have to put some flowers in the collection box for the festival."
"Yeah," Kurt chorused with equally wide hues.
Apparently both shaken and a bit scared, Kurt and I began our walk home as Nina called after us with a wave, "Yeah, you MAKE that friendship lovey relationship happen!" We walked home in silence untill we reached te place where our paths must part.
"Uh, bye!" I said. Apparently, Nina's exuberency had scared us both and made many a sweat drop-worthy moment, but the spell had worn off and we were somewhat normal once more.
With a heart-melting smile, Kurt replied, "Yeah, later, Kachi." Before turning and raising his arm in a final act of parting just above his shoulder. With a cheerful wave, I, too, would walk home smiling. Or I would, had not Ellen run up to me.
"Kachi, have you seen Blue?" She asked, gripping my arms.
"No, why?" I replied, reading the worry in her features.
Ellen looked away distractedly, her gaze searching the horizon. "He's going to skin that man!" Ellen gushed worriedly.
"What, who?" Remembering the events that had transpired earlier, I continued, "Oh, the one who stole your cakes?"
Ellen literally slapped her palm across her forehead, "You heard that, too?" She shook her head, placing her hands on her hips, though she soon lost that confident pose when she remembered something, blushed, and looked down at her shoes. "I-I g-g-gave him them!" The poor girl was swooning on her feet, absolutely lovestruck! Another one bites the dust.
I nodded, trying to be compassionate while biting back my hidden smile, "Okay, I'll tell him if I see him."
"Thanks, Kachi!" She replied with a small smile before dismissing herself and puttering off into the sunset. She idly wound her apron strings around her finger, her cheeks still a deep red.
I whistled, impressed. This place was turning into a war zone.
