anime26angel: All things must come to an end or else I'd bore u guys to death if I kept adding more chapters! But don't worry, I've got another story in the making, I just can't come up with a title.darn...and so...**ahem** I don't own harvest moon! So there! Chapter 13!

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Chapter 13

The sun was steadily rising in the sky, filled the world with light, pushing away the darkness. Jack and Elli were walking, hand in hand, towards the little house with a picture of an emerald green beetle taped crookedly on the window.

"Stu's latest work?" Jack questioned.

"Yeah. If sticking bugs in my bed wasn't enough, he has to paste drawings of them all over the house." Elli shivered, imaging bugs skittering up and down the walls.

Jack chuckled as he placed his arm around her shoulder, rubbing it consolingly. "He's a kid. He'll grow out of it."

"Yeah, but how long?"

"Maybe when we get married. Hey!" He laughed as Elli nudged him in ribs. "Hey." Jack whispered, his arms encircling Elli's waist.

"Hi." She murmured, closing her eyes as Jack lightly brushed his lips against hers.

"Eww..I think I'm gonna be sick." Elli's eyes popped open, turning her head to see her little brother leaning against the door.

"Wait till you and May start dating. Then it won't be so weird." Jack teased the 11 year old.

"No way! That'll never happen." He declared, crossing his arms across his chest.

Elli smirked. "Yeah, I can see ten years from now. You and May falling in love, getting married, having kids, kissing all the time.."

"No! Never!" He cried running to Grandma. "Grandma! Make Elli and Jack stop teasing me!"

"About what?"

"About me and May gettin' married!"

"Why that's a lovely thought. I can see it now, the two of you walking down the aisle, hand in hand, husband and wife. Of course the two of you will have to get married in the Spring..."

"NO! Now my own grandmother is against me!" He yelled while running into his room.

Ellen chuckled to herself. "Come in, come in." She motioned the couple to come inside. She wheeled her way to the kitchen. "I'll make some tea. Popuri gave birth already?"

Jack swept Elli into his arms, and carried her inside, despite her objections. "Jack! Put me down!" She struggled in his arms. Surrendering, Elli replied, "Yes, to a baby boy. She named him David."

"That's lovely dearie. Sugar or cream?" Ellen continued making the tea, unaware that her granddaughter was 4 feet off the ground.

"Umm..sugar!" She answered as she was being twirled around the room.

"How about you Jack?" Ellen asked, grabbing cups out of the lower cupboard, her back still facing the couple.

"Sugar!" Jack replied, tossing Elli in the air, causing her to give out a scream, finally making Ellen wheel around.

"What's with all the noise?" she questioned, but most actions speak for themselves, when she saw Jack placing her granddaughter on the ground, wrapping his arms around her. Elli encircled one arm around Jack's waist, and stroked his cheek with the other. Smiling brightly, her face was filled with such love and joy that Ellen hadn't seen before. Jack kissed the palm of Elli's hand, gazing at her softly. His face filled with such peacefulness, it was like a lost soul who had finally found their way home. Except Jack had found his way into her granddaughter's heart, where he belonged. "Took them long enough." Ellen muttered to herself. She could picture a wedding for those two also. She heard the whistle of the kettle and resumed making the tea.

It's cold outside. The wind is weaving through the trees, carrying fallen leaves and clumps of snow. But what did it matter to Jack and Elli? Right now, all that mattered was being in each other's arms, watching the sun, rise into the sky, tendrils of light filling the room, bringing in the new day.

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