I was really bored these days, so I decided to make another chapter on this story. I hope you guys are enjoying this so far. ^o^ Also, I'm sorry if I make a lot of mistakes in my writing, I'm not a very good writer, so I'm happy to those who actually like this… :P Well on to the story!

Disclaimer: I own nothing but this story. All Harvest Moon characters belong to their rightful owners in Natsume Productions or whatever.

Enjoy~

Chapter 19- Jealousy

Chelsea's pov-

I woke up and jumped off of my bed, and stretched my legs and everywhere else for a while. A few days passed since my bandanna came back to me. Finally I was out of the cast for my cracked tibia, and felt as good as new. I walked over to Akari's calendar to check what day it was.

Spring the 13th

After reading today's date, I noticed a circle over the next day. I looked closely to read Akari's tiny handwriting.

~Flower Festival~

The date was written with small hearts coming from it… I guess Akari really likes this day. I looked over to my nightstand and took out a brochure from the drawer. I opened the brochure and moved to the festivals section. I searched through the listed names of festivals, and finally found the Flower Festival.

Flower Festival:

Held on the 14th of spring

A time for people to enjoy the cherry blossoms that bloom only in this time of the year. Enjoy the flowers with a friend or a compatible pair-

My interest was lost after friend, and thought that this festival might be fun to, you know; enjoy the little things in life. I loved cherry blossoms, as Mark usually take me out to the woods to see them near Gotz workshop. We only went there on the times when Gotz isn't working though, as he hates me as well…

My eyes started to lower, but came back to my senses when I heard the ruffling of sheets. I looked over to the source of the sound, and saw my cousin, Akari starting to sit up in her bed. Akari rubbed her eyes and gave out a yawn. With eyes still closed, Akari started to get up and out of bed, her hair matching her tired face no less. I gave out a small giggle, and walked over to the sleep walking Akari.

"Hey Akari, you coming out of your trance yet? If I'd known better, I could've mistaken you for the walking dead!" I laughed out, and rolled the brochure in my hand, and lightly smacked the back of her head with it. Akari fell over onto her own bed from that hit, and with her eyes still closed, looked up at me, another yawn coming from her mouth.

"Ugh. I feel like Toby after an afternoon nap…" Akari then turned her head over, and spoke in a muffled voice. "Heay. Cheuls. Caun yoof tauke caref off mfy faurm forff meeyf?" I hardly heard what Akari was saying until my ear was right by her. I gave a giggle, and walked into my closet to change.

I put on my usual clothes, and tightened my bandanna onto my head. I gave a wave at my lazy cousin, and left the house with a light slam. I walked out to the poultry barn, and entered with all of these animals surrounding me for food. I scanned over the animals and noticed that there were five chickens and four ducks.

I knew there were more animals as Akari was quite the breeder. I looked over the squabbling birds and noticed four boxes connected together, and each of them having a hole inside.

I carefully made my way over the birds, and the once I started walking to the boxes, the birds followed me in a line. I took a step and heard a few scratching sounds of tiny feet coming closer to me. I turned around, and all of the birds looked up at me intently. I stared back at them for a few seconds until it seems like they won't budge unless I give them food.

I walked up to the feed dispenser and took out some bird feed. As soon as I took out the feed, the bird gave squawks and tried to fly up to the food in my arms. I skillfully dodged the frantic attempts to get me to drop the feed. I finally made my way to the feed bins and placed feed for every bird I noticed. While the birds were busy with their food, I finally walked over to the boxes. I looked inside and noticed these worm-like squirmy things moving inside of the box. My eyes went round and I jumped back and fell to the ground with a 'thump'.

"HOLY CRAP! WHAT ARE THOSE THINGS?" I yelled in surprise and disgust. Then a laugh was heard from the entrance, I looked over and noticed Akari standing there, trying to hold in her laughs. Akari's cheeks puffed up in trying her very best not to laugh, because you could see my popped veins as clear as day on my forehead.

After a few seconds of holding her laughs, she blew up with loud roars of uncontrollable laughter. More popped veins came up and I grabbed her shirt, pulling her down to my level, a fist ready to give her a world of pain.

"AHAHAHHA! S-sorry Chels! Phhpt! The l-look on y-your face was a-absolutely rich!" Akari kept on laughing, and after a few minutes and slaps from me, she finally stopped laughing.

"O-ok I'm good. Haaa~ that was too much…" Akari huffed. She cleared her voice and regained her usual look.

"These 'things' you call them, are silkworms. Silkworms create silk ever once in a while, hence the name. They also eat bird feed, oddly enough, but also you can pet their heads, they seem to like that." Akari explained.

Akari started taking care of her silkworms or whatever you call them. I turned my attention away from Akari and the worms to a small chirping sound coming from a small box with one hole on the side of it. I walked over to the small box, and looked into the hole on the side. Inside was a small Blue jay, one of its wings bandaged up. The Blue jay pitifully stared up at me and gave a small chirp. I noticed that this one wasn't fed yet, probably because it can't leave the box with an injured wing.

I rose up from my position and took some feed out of the dispenser. I returned to the Blue jay and put a little feed on my hands. I placed my handful of seed in front of the little bird, and the bird timidly started pecking at it. I gave a small smile, and carefully petted the bird as it started eating more and more of the feed. Akari came over and looked over my shoulder at the small bird.

"Hey, Chels, this is the first time I saw Indigo getting comfortable around others." Akari gave a small smile as well. "You see, Indigo was hurt by a person, probably a hunter who trapped the poor thing. It took me a month to get Indigo comfortable around me, but it only took you five minutes." I looked up to her, my smile now gone.

"Maybe we have some relation to each other, like our past or we stood out too much." I blankly stated. Now realizing that we were wasting our time here, while there was still a barn to go to, I snapped out of my blank trance and ran out to the barn.

Once I entered the barn, many animals were there, but only three types. There were four horses, three sheep, and… is that an ostrich? My eyes went wide in confusion as to why an exotic animal inside of a barn on a small island were the lands are mostly woods and lake. I looked at Akari who just caught up to me, and was laughing nervously at me.

"Ah. Haha. Well, this is an ostrich as you can see, but they are really useful here, and oddly enough, Horn ranch have these in stock, so I thought, what the heck, I'll take one." Akari answered.

I gave out a sigh at my weird cousin, and walked up to the horses. All the horses had different coats, ever single one with a beautiful shine on them. I took out the brush Akari lent me and started brushing the horses. The white, grey, and brown ones were very calm, a neighed in happiness at me once I finished brushing. I then neared the black horse, and my eyes went round at the resemblance of this horse and Knight, my horse back home. The only difference between the horses was that my horse had a white diamond shape on his forehead. I started to near the horse and it backed away angrily. I paused in confusion, as all I was going to do was brush it. Akari walked by my side again, her side of the jobs now done.

"Sorry Chels. His name is Dark Path. He is a very cold horse; every person that nears him will either get bucked or ignored." I gave into cold sweat, imagining what would've happened if Dark Path chose the first one. I stared at Dark Path eye to eye and an evil twinkle appeared in his eyes, I started to back away and hide behind Akari.

"Don't misunderstand Chels, he's really nice once you get to know him… in a really twisted way though… I have an idea! How about we go out for a ride around the island? I'll ride Snow Fall, and you can ride Dark Path, the others are just recovering from being sick."

Akari walked over to the white horse, now addressed as Snow Fall, and rose on top of the saddle. I looked over to Dark Path, and apparently he didn't have a saddle on top of him. Although I'm used to riding horses bare-backed, because I didn't own any saddles, and my horse, Knight, found it uncomfortable, I was truly terrified to ride Dark Path. I cautiously neared him, and lightly petted his muzzle. Oddly, Dark Path stayed calm enough for me to get on top of him.

I quickly hopped on top him, having a few boxes under me due to height difference, and he stayed still until I was safely mounted on him. Akari gave the thumbs up and opened the barn door for both of us to leave. Once Akari left the barn, and me coming out right after, that's when Dark Path went out on full charge. Dark Path dashed right out to the town once we exited. I blurted out commands for him to stop running, but he didn't slow down on bit. I screamed for help to Akari, saying that her horse is trying to murder me.

"AKARI! HELP! I DON'T WANT TO DIE YET!" I yelled at Akari, who's dashing on Snow Fall after me. I held onto Dark Path's neck, terrified that if I let go, I'll crash down on the ground and break my neck or something. The corners of my eyes started watering at this scary situation, and the wind splitting between my face.

Just then, I saw Vaughn leave the Inn, in his regular attire no less, and rope was hanging on the side of his belt. We pasted right by him, and Vaughn jumped back in complete surprise. I shouted another favor of help, and by then, Chase came out also. The two ran towards me and the runaway horse, and soon Akari caught up to me. Akari blocked the horse's way, and slowed Dark Path down.

Vaughn and Chase finally caught up and Vaughn lassoed Dark Path so that he won't go anywhere. I was still stuck on Dark Path, mostly because that height difference thing I mentioned earlier. While Akari was mounting off of Snow Fall, and Vaughn was busy with Dark Path, Chase came up and extended his arms to me. He extended them under my arms and picked me right off of the horse. Chase then placed me down to the ground, and patted my head.

"You alright?" Chase asked. I only gave a nod, still petrified from the near death experience. Chase gave only a soft chuckle, and pulled me by hand to the Inn, as the other two saviors still busy with the black terror.

Chase seated me down to a table and left to get me water. Chase quickly returned and I gulped down the water as fast as I could, and finally gave a sigh after a few seconds of non-stop drinking.

"Thanks Chase. I thought I would be a goner by then." I sighed. Chase gave another chuckle and patted my head again.

"Not a problem, but you really should thank Vaughn and your cousin for saving you." Chase replied. I shook my head.

"I'll only thank Vaughn and you, because Akari made me ride that thing." I stated. Chase gave a sigh.

"Well I can't argue with that then." Chase took the chair beside me. I looked over and gave a thankful smile. Chase's face turned slightly pink, and gave a lopsided smile in return.

"Hey, I've been thinking, since tomorrow is the Flower Festival, uhh…" Chase scratched the back of his head, his face turning a bit more of a red color. Hmm. Maybe he's just tired from running to the horse, I mean; I'd have a hard time running in sandals too.

"Would you like to go to the festival with me? It would be fun." Chase stuttered his sentence, but I gave a smile in return.

"Sure." I answered. I gave a wide smile, and Chase's face became a brighter red. Heh. He must be really tired or something. I soon left the Inn, passing by Vaughn who just stopped by here, I gave a 'thank you' to him, but his expression was unreadable. I gave a shrug of my shoulders and left the Inn.

Vaughn's pov-

Once I lassoed the horse who was trying to take Chelsea's life, I quickly calmed him down. Akari jumped off of her white horse and came to examine the black one.

"Dark Path! What were you thinking? You should've been more gentle with Chelsea!" Akari scolded. I left them to their problems and walked back to the Inn, as my work was done. Once I entered, I heard Chase's invitation to the Flower Festival. My eyes widened once I heard Chelsea's answer of acceptance of the invitation.

I was still frozen on the spot from what I just witnessed. Chelsea met me once she got to the entrance, and spoke a word of thanks for saving her. My expression became blank to make it impossible to read. Once she left, I quickly made my way up the stairs to my room. I plopped down on my bed and rubbed my temples.

My eyes narrowed in thinking that Chelsea accepted to go on a date with him tomorrow on that stupid festival. Who makes a festival for just seeing some flowers anyways? Why am I getting so angry? It's not like I care what Chelsea is doing for her life!

…

Do I?

I Hope you like it so far! I wonder what's going to happen in the Festival? Stay tuned to find out! ^w^