Animal Crossing: "New Leaf" to "New Horizons"
Chapter 1: "What happened?"
-March 18, 2020-
"WHY DON'T YOU DO ANYTHING?"
"…I…"
"ALL YOU DO IS WALK AROUND OUTSIDE AND COLLECT BUGS AND FISH!"
"…."
"SAM, DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW TO BE M-"
"….."
"…I am sorry, I didn't mean i-"
"...I'll...b-be headed home now Isabelle."
"Sam I didn't mean it, please"
"Good night Isabelle"
"…No…Sam please don't leave…"
"SAM!"
"don't leave…"
.
.
.
"don't leave me…."
-March 19, 2020 (Isabelle)-
Isabelle woke up on her desk, her head on her table "Ugh…" She stood up and immediately felt a painful headache and sore back "AGhrr…." She saw next to her were two bottles of "vacation juice"
"…oh right… that happened" She thought
She went to the bathroom and washed herself, she looked like a mess, after that she sat on her desk and thought about last night, she couldn't forgive herself, he looked so hurt when she said all that, he was on the verge of crying, and now she was too.
She didn't know what came over her, but she just… snapped at him, she was going through a lot of stress and needed to let it out, saying that she didn't mind that the mayor wasn't always there would be a lie, all he did was told her which public projects to build and that's it, he didn't do anything else…but she never told him to work… or even…" What was I thinking, of course he didn't work…? I never told him to…I'm an idiot"
She needed to apologize to him.
Isabelle went outside and walked towards his home
She arrived at his home and knocked on the door a few times... no response.
"M-Mayor? it's me Isabelle...i want to talk!"
Still no response.
She glanced through his window and realized that all his furniture is gone.
"That's...weir-" Isabelle suddenly realized what that meant, she sprinted as fast as she could to Nook's Homes and opened the door, she glanced around to find him, but she just found Tom Nook standing behind a desk.
"Hello Isabelle!" He greeted "You seem a bit worried, what's going on?"
"Nook, have you seen Sam?"
"Why yes! He was just here a moment ago, he was talking about moving out."
"o-oh"
"Did he not tell you this?"
"W-Well yes" She lied
"Well why are you here then? Hm?"
"N-Nothing, thanks Mr. Nook."
She walked out the store and headed to the Town Hall, once inside, she just sat there for several minutes.
"What have I done..."
She didn't know what to do, should she get a new mayor? or… be the mayor herself?
She thought long and hard about it and realized that if she did all the work for him then it wouldn't be any different from how it was before, she'll just have to organize the public projects from now on.
She turned on her computer and set Sam's documents and profile as "fired", and set herself as the new mayor and began work as usual.
She found it hard to concentrate, she was felling awful about herself for saying all those things, and for drinking too much last night, but she remembered she had a job, a job that she would hate for the rest of her life.
And then she cried.
-March 19 2020 (Sam)-
Sam was on his way to Nook's Homes in order to move out and sell his old house.
While on his way there Sam reflected on how Isabelle just snapped at him the other night, it was very out of nowhere and she really didn't feel like herself … but Isabelle was right, he did nothing but collect bugs and fossils, nothing a good mayor would do, he didn't even do any paperwork, like at all, they deserved someone better.
Sam arrived at Nook's Homes and told Tom Nook he wanted to move out, "Huh? But…aren't you the mayor?" Nook told him, surprised by his decision.
"I'm not anymore" Sam simply stated "I just realized that I'm not suited for mayor and quit"
"I see…" Tom Nook replied "Well… we'll take care of your house, don't worry about a thing, yes yes?"
"Thanks Tom" Sam said.
"Speaking of which..." Tom Nook added "Where shall you be moving to, Hm?"
"I don't know Tom, I just want to get away from here, somewhere new and peaceful..."
After hearing this, Nook had an idea "Say… ever wanted to go somewhere peaceful and calm, where you don't have to worry about a thing"
Sam looked up to Nook "Yeah…. that sounds nice, but, where are you getting at Tom?" he said with his arms crossed.
Tom Nook replied "My company have been experimenting with something new called "The Nook Inc. Deserted Island Getaway Package" DIG-P for short!"
"What is it about?"
"Interested, yes?" Tom continued "This Gateway is about living on an island with 2 more people and just enjoying nature, catching bugs, fishing, digging, customizing your island to make it one of a kind and just have fun, we provide you with a Nook Inc. Phone made for all your needs too!"
"A Nook Phone? You mean a Nookia?"
"No."
"Oh, but THAT sounds interesting!" Sam quickly thought of all the things Nook listed, it was like this island was MADE for him!
Then he realized that it would probably cost, a LOT "So umm, how much is it?"
"Let's see…" Nook took a second to think of the price "It would be 2,563,182 bells!"
"WHAT? I don't have that much money!" Sam quickly turned sad again knowing his dream getaway will probably never happen…
"While it is a lot of bells… this is counting the fact that your moving to the island, if you sell your house you'll reduce 1,224,564 bells from the final price"
"That's still a lot…"
"Well, you know…." Tom Nook then quickly darted his eyes to his briefcase full of leafs for a split second as to say something to him.
"My suitcase? what about it?"
"When you arrive to the island you'll basically have nothing, meaning you can't bring stuff with you, am I clear?"
"So I can't bring anything?!"
"Pretty much."
"Frick."
"You kiss your mother with that mouth?" Nook then stated "What I would recommend you to do is to sell all of that, pretty sure it'll be enough, I'll give you time to think about it"
"Thanks Tom" Sam got out of the store and did exactly that, the island getaway sounded perfect! but would he be willing to lose all of his possessions for it?
Yes, yes he would, after all, he did the same when he moved to New Leaf so what's the worst that could happen? The DIG-P sounded perfect!
He went to Retail and sold his possessions, thankfully they didn't seem to mind the absurd amount of stuff has selling and was surprised that it all accumulated into….
"1,338,618 bells!?" Sam shouted, that was like…EXACTLY how much he needed but… "It's almost like Tom knew..." but he quickly decided to shrug it off and head to Nook's.
Nook was in the computer already applying Sam into the Island when he saw him walk in with a mountain of bags, all filled with bells "So I take it you've made the choice to go to the island, hm?"
"Yep"
"Excellent!" Nook then took the bells from Sam "You'll be departing today at 10 PM, does that sound good?"
"Wait… today?"
"Yup!"
Sam Nodded, Nook offered him a room where he could wait until then, in it he could see all of New Leaf through a window, he looked at Agent S talking to Bam and Biskit hunting for bugs, Ankha was just standing there… menacingly.
He really was going to miss this town, but he needed to go, he always did think that he wasn't the best mayor, he left all the work to Isabelle and felt really bad about it, he feels stupid for not even trying to do anything now, he hopes that she finds someone more suitable and responsible for the job.
He needed to go, he didn't know why but he just needed to, this town didn't need him anymore.
Sam then turned around to see the Plaza's tree, fully grown "…Goodbye New Leaf"
He closed the window and turned off the lights to get some sleep, he didn't want to sleep on the plane.
Little did he know that the Plaza's tree was slowly losing more and more leafs.
To be continued…