I had nothing to really do, so I made another chapter. Well… Here you go.

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Chapter 20- Mistake

Chelsea's pov-

I walked out of the barn, finally finishing the farm duties with Akari… and managing to survive the day without Dark Path trying to hunt me down. I patted my short jeans, getting the dust out of the folds. I then took a look at my watch.

6:30 pm

My eyes widened from the time. I hurriedly ran back to Akari's house to get ready for the Flower Festival.

Just yesterday, Chase asked me if we could go to the Flower Festival together, I said yes. Chase is a pretty cool friend, and I'm sure that the Flower Festival will be fun. Chase was the first friend I made on this island, and it won't be a problem that I go with him as a friend, right?

I opened the door and walked inside, but only to see Akari, Julia, and Sabrina waiting for me with devilish smiles on their faces. I quickly turned on my heels and reached for the exit of the nut-job house, but I felt a hand on my shoulder pull me inside against my will.

"Where do you think you're going messy missy?" I heard an evil voice behind me. I gave out a cold sweat and timidly turned around to whoever was behind me. I met faces with Sabrina with a devilish gleam in her eye. I started to shrink back, absolutely terrified on what the three devils were going to do.

"Hey~ Chelsea~ you're filthy~ The Festival is going to start soon~ we better get you changed into something more suitable~" Julia singed with a frightening charm. I held up my hands defensively and started backing away bit-by-bit to the door behind me. Just then, Akari was behind me with that same evil face and pushed me forward to the guest room.

"You better hurry and take a shower. You don't want to look like that at a wonderful and socializing festival like this." Akari persuaded. Now knowing this conversation is going, a small popped vein was visible on my forehead. I gave out an exasperated sigh and closed my eyes in irritation.

"Tch. Fine. I guess that I don't have much of a choice now, do I?" I sighed.

I turned around to my dresser and pulled out a few simple articles of clothes. I got out my knee-length black jeans, a white T-shirt, a half-torso long sleeved jacket, and the girl *ahem* essentials. I brought the outfit inside of the bathroom, and made my way to the faucet. I quickly turned on my faucet and heard the loud gushing of the water switch to a soft sprinkle of the shower. I undressed myself and placed my trusty bandanna on the outfit, planning to wear it again.

I slowly walked in the bathtub and immediately felt the welcoming warmth of the water. The air quickly changed into a steamy mist, filling my face with its infatuating heat. The dirt on my body started to stream down to the bathtub floor. The soap and shampoo on my hair cleaned it of any unsanitary particles.

Soon the soap rinsed off and my body felt clean. I turn off the faucet, the water immediately ceased from coming out, now filling the air with complete silence except the small drips of water falling from my hair. I reached for the towel and started drying myself off as I walked out of the tub. I looked over to my outfit, but noticed that it was gone… MY OUTFIT WAS GONE!

I looked everywhere and finally noticed a clean pair of clothes with the same 'essentials' I had with them. I gave out a sigh in relief, but as I took a closer look at the outfit, they weren't the clothes that I picked! I started to fume in anger as my mind was picturing the devils picking them out and replacing them with my outfit. Although, I wasn't stupid enough to walk out with only a towel as my cover, so I started to change into these odd articles of clothing. After a few minutes of trying to put on these clothes, as these weren't the type of clothes that I'd usually wear, I took a look of myself in the mirror.

On my torso, I wore a black spaghetti strap blouse hugging me tightly, clearly showing the shapes of my body. Over the blouse was a red and black, half torso, short-sleeved light jacket, and a pair of red gloves with a black, belt-like, 'X' pattern over them to match. For my lower portion, I wore a glossy overtop red and black miniskirt, sadly enough. Most of the skirt was black, only the rim of it was red. I admit, the outfit wasn't too bad looking, but the blouse that tightly hugs me, and the short skirt showing a little more than I really wanted pissed me off a bit. I dashed out of the bathroom to see the giggling pair of evil-doers.

"Hey Chelsea! You look pretty good in that! Matches your personality I know that." Akari giggled. My head was filled with popped veins, hoping that I get a chance to beat them up to heaven.

"Hey don't forget the finishing touches!" exclaimed Julia. I sent a glare at her, but was unfazed by it. In Julia's hands was a pair of black boots with laces, red earrings, and a red necklace.

"Hey Chelsea, we just want you to look your best at the festival. Besides, you look pretty good in those clothes." Sabrina persuaded. I gave out a defeated sigh, when it comes to these kinds of things with Sabrina; I can't compel myself to say "no" to her.

I gave a small smile and turned to Julia. I took the boots from her and started to unknot the laces tied trough the boot's holes. After most of the laces were free, I started slipping in my foot inside the boot. Once the boot was all the way on, I started tying the boot's laces up. Then I repeated the steps for my other foot. I then stood up, and realized that these boots were high heels. Knee-length, high heeled, boots. My face turned slightly blue at thinking that I have to walk in these things for a few hours, though, I thought they looked nice, the boots were just under my kneecaps and many inches below my skirt... I'm still confused as to why the skirt is practically right above my thighs...

Julia and Akari walked over to me to get the jewelry on. The earrings were very nice; they had a ruby stone in the middle of the silver outline. Akari helped me put them on as Julia hooked up the beautiful necklace around my neck. The necklace was a long, silver chain with a ruby down in the middle, it was magnificent.

The devils gave smiles and the thumbs up to me once the outfit was complete. I then took a good look at them. They wore different clothes as well. Their clothes were the latest style that came out, or so I heard from Akari. Julia was wearing the new Chic outfit, Akari was wearing the Pop outfit, and lastly, Sabrina had on the Black Victorian. My eyes narrowed as to why their clothes seem to be comfortable, but mine was very tight. I then felt a small tug on my hands. I looked up to see Akari pulling me out the door, Julia and Sabrina a little ahead of us.

"Come on! If we don't hurry, we'll be late!" exclaimed Akari. I gave out a sigh and started running with my cousin, but was having a very herd time doing so with the heeled boots.

As we ran down the around the large island to the Celesta Church Grounds, at the entrance was a large white billboard that says "Flower Festival". Once we descended to the festival entrance, Akari let go of my hand and ran ahead of me with Julia and Sabrina, leaving me behind.

"What, dress me up in this poor excuse of an outfit and leave me here after ten seconds?" I mumbled with a few veins appearing on my head. While I was busy talking to myself, someone patted me on my shoulder. I was caught by surprise and quickly whipped around to see who it was. The character jumped back in surprise and landed on his back side, the town light's shining on him.

"Chase?" I questioned. The violet eyed man looked up and gave a nervous chuckle.

"Ah hah…" said Chase. I walked over to him and offered a hand. He took it and raised himself upwards until he was standing again.

"You okay? You caught me by surprise so…" I started rambling while Chase dusted off his jeans. I examined Chase as he was dressed up for the festival as well. Chase was wearing the formal jacket look. He had on a plain red T-shirt with a brown jacket over it. Chase then finished dusting his moss green jeans, and as I look over to his feet, instead of his usual sandals, chase was wearing a pair of leather brown dress shoes. Now that I finished examining over him, I started questioning myself as to why my outfit seems to be over-the-top. In fact, I was the only one who really stood out in the festival mostly because that I was wearing Goth-like clothes.

"Y-Yeah, sorry for s-scaring you…" Chase started stuttering his sentence, now that I think about it; even though he can be mean at times, he's much more welcoming than Vaughn. I gave out a small smile, grabbed his hand, and started pulling him to one of the Cherry blossom trees. Once we got to one of the trees, Chase's face became really red, but I was too busy looking at the blossoms to even think about it.

The festival was really fun, and after a little while, Chase started to really get into this festival as well. Chase would start pointing towards some blossoms that are really large, and pick up a bunch of blossoms that were on the ground and toss them in the air. I never felt such delight in my life; Chase was like a bright sun, just like Mark. It made me happy that I could enjoy the blossoms with a man so much like my brother, yeah; Chase was just like another brother who somehow cheers me up when I'm down.

In my painful heels, I started running towards the farthest tree, but all of the sudden, I felt a small *clack* and I fell towards my side. I landed on the ground with a *thud* and felt tense pain in my right foot. I took a look at my right foot and saw that the heel for the boot was gone. I looked around for the heel and found it a few inches away from me. I reached for the heel and my face went blank at it. I then became slightly pissed at the situation. Before I gave a fit at the devils for making me wear heels, Chase quickly came by to see if I was doing alright.

"Hey, Chelsea! You alright, did you hurt yourself or anything?" Chase asked with detectable concern in his voice. My frustrated face quickly became an embarrassed one once I understood the situation.

"Y-Yeah just broke a heel, that's all." I answered. Chase gave out a hand for me and I took it with a small smile of thanks plastered on my face.

Chase helped me hop to the closest bench we could find, which was a quite a ways off and kinda isolated from the main area of the festival. I sat down with a limp since I felt a little off balanced without the other heel, and finally relaxed on the oddly comfortable bench. I looked up at the star-filled sky and closed my eyes for just a second. I gave out a content sigh as I felt the cool breeze over me and a light rustling sound coming from the trees. I opened my eyes again to see a cherry blossom tree over me, the pedals flowing off and falling on my face. My attention was then turned onto Chase when he started speaking.

"You know, this was really fun. I'm not the kind of person who really enjoys these kinds of festivals, but with you, they seem to be very pleasant." Chase admitted. I looked over to him and he held a flustered smile with a light blush. I gave a larger smile, usually rare to see.

"Yeah. I had a fun time too. With someone like you, I feel really at home." I gave out a really bright smile, wide, and full of happiness. Chase's face darkened, and it felt like heat was emitting off his face. It was true though, ever since I lost my parents and moved to the island, I never gave a large smile to anyone, in fact, I usually never smile at all. Only to my friends, they are the only people who see my smiles, usually small tough. Now, this person before was the first in a long time who made me smile with pure happiness.

My train of thought ceased once I felt a light touch on my chin. My smile completely disappeared and a look of confusion filled my face. Chase's fingers were on my chin, now tilting my face slightly upwards. My head was pulled forward a bit and felt an arm around my neck. I felt another face nearing mine, and again it was Chase. I felt something on my lips, firm, awkward, but warm. My eyes started to widen from this situation. Chase was kissing me! My eyes gone wider at his sudden movement, but Chase's eyes were closed and was currently unable to see my reaction. I was then overtaken by something. Fear? Anger? Instinct?

I didn't mind what it was; all I wanted was this to stop. I placed my hands on Chase's chest and quickly pushed him backwards. Chase gave out a surprised gasp and fell backward towards the ground, and then he looked up at me in confusion. My eyes were so wide that my pupils were smaller than my whites, just thinking at the size of them were terrifying.

My right hand immediately popped up to my lips, a tingling sensation still on them. The leathery gloves brushed over my lips, and I suddenly jumped off of the bench. My right hand completely covered my lips and more, soon my other hand went up copying the movement of my right one. I stared at Chase with terror in my eyes, it was too familiar, and it was too much. I took a step back. Then a voice was heard from the man on the ground, looking at me with a mix of confusion and surprise.

"Chelsea… D-Did I do something wrong?" whispered chase, scared that if he spoke any louder that he'll scare me off. I took another step back, and repeated the last movement.

Chase finally got off the ground and reached with his right hand trying to reach me, but knows that he can't.

"H-Hey, if it's something I did, I-I'm sorry…" assured Chase, but I ignored his every word, the same look still on my face.

I then took a few more steps away, moving with an up and down like motion due to the loss of my heel. I felt a slight sting in my eyes and something warm fell from the corner of my right eye, now making a stream of water fall from my face to the ground. Chase started to take a few slow steps toward me, his right arm still extended to reach me, but with a start I turned and ran off to anywhere but there.

I ran trough the woods, dodging the trees that came in my way and ended up in the falls where I almost drowned in. I made my way to the ledge to relax, but then I felt a familiar crack at my boots and feel forwards with another *thud*. I looked over at my boots and saw that another heel broke off yet again, making the heeled boots into flats.

I clenched my teeth in complete frustration at myself, the way I treated Chase, who was nothing like him, but became scared of him when I came right down to it. Just thinking back at this, I started to gag in disgust and ripped off my tight gloves and started wiping my mouth in desperation. My face felt really hot, and my eyes felt bloated with heavy amounts of water. From complete fear, large orbs of water fell from my eyes and fell to the grassy land; I then collapsed and gave small hiccups, trying to hide my sounds of weakness as a person.

While I was busy trying to keep my sounds down to minimum, some rustling of footsteps were coming up behind me. I looked up with large tears still falling from my eyes, and saw Vaughn. I thought my vision was just being blurry and rubbed the tears off, but as I took another look, I was sure of it, the person in front of me was definitely Vaughn.

Sorry that I have to leave it like this, but I hope you enjoyed the chapter! Wonder what's going to happen since Vaughn saw Chelsea? Stay tuned to find out! ^w^ And I'm very sorry to those people who finds any of the characters OOC. I fail for that...