Author's Note: And this is how it starts. You have only one thing left in your queue and then you're struggling to get a chapter out a day. Le sigh.

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters you see in here. Just the plot. Based on HarvestMoonAddict/Regardless1604's 100 Theme Challenge.


She couldn't sleep.

He had plagued her thoughts and dreams too much. Every time she closed her eyes she saw him and it just came to be too much. It had been seasons since he last was seen in the valley. Seasons since she saw him at his wedding. A wedding to a girl that wasn't her. It broke her heart.

Her mother use to tell her that no man was worth crying or losing sleep over and Lyla believed she was right.

Still, she did lose sleep and cry over him. And she feared she would never sleep again.