Hi there! Sorry the chapter took so long. I've been a little busy lately.

Adventures in Animal Crossing

Chapter 2: For every goodbye there's a thousand hellos.

James looked at the creature who stood in front of him. Tom Nook was a raccoon. A rather tall raccoon, but a raccoon nonetheless. Nook's head was in proportion to the rest of his body, as opposed to being freakishly huge like Rover's. James' head was a little largish, but he ignored that fact for the time being.

"So," asked Nook, "you need a house, correct?"

"Yes, but I-"

"Good, good," he interrupted, "Come along now, there are four brand-new houses not far from here for you to look at. There quite nice." Under his breath, he added, "A little, cozy, though."

They walked a short distance and arrived at a group of four houses.

"Take your pick, James; they're all lovely houses."

"That one," said James, "The red one on the right."

"That was fast."

"I like the color red," said James, "Besides, I'm sure they're all the same inside." He looked inside the red-roofed house.

"Hey! It's a home entertainment system!"

"Um, that's a tape deck," said Nook.

"That's entertainment to me!"

"Very well," said Nook, "Now, to my mo- I mean, least favourite part: the bill."

"Uh oh," said James.

"Hmm? Are you a little… short?"

"Well, um, that depends on how much I need to not be short."

"20,000 Bells."

"WHAT? I can't afford that much!"

"Well," replied Nook, "To be honest, that was just the rounded off estimate. The actual cost is… 19,800 Bells."

At that point in the conversation, there was a long, awkward pause.

James broke it by saying: "Wow, that put it all in perspective for me. Anyway, all I have is 1000 Bells, so I guess we're both out of luck. See ya!"

"Not so fast, young fella," said Nook, "I think we might be able to work something out."

"Such as…?" asked James, with a clearly nervous tone in his voice.

"Well, you could work part-time at my shop."

"Noooooooooooooo!!!!!! Spare me the agony!"

"Oh, cheer up. It's not so bad. You get to wear this neat uniform."

Nook handed him the clothes.

"So," asked James, rather reluctantly, "when do I start?"

"Well, I suppose, since you just moved here, you should go meet some of the townspeople first. Come see me in Acre A-5 in half an hour, and don't forget your uniform!"

James left, and started to wander around rather aimlessly, seeing as he didn't know where anything was. However, before long he ran into another cat, again with the rather large head, although this one was slightly purple-ish in color.

"Hi there," said the cat, "My name's Bob. Do you have any food?"

"No, I just moved in. But there's a cherry tree right next to you."

"Oh yeah, that's right. I keep forgetting. I'm kind of a space case. So, what's your name?"

"My name's James. I'm new in town. It's great to meet someone nice."

"Yeah," said Bob, "Friends are cool"

"I'll say."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Flashback~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Class, we have a new student today. Her name's…"

Wow, she's pretty. But she'd never go out with me. Oops, I missed her name. Oh well.

"Now, if you would turn in your textbooks to page 179, we can pick up on…"

Later, at lunchtime…

"You're the new girl, right"

"Yeah. Actually, I'm kinda having trouble finding my way. This school is like a labyrinth."

"I know what you mean. Here, I'll show you around."

"Thanks."

"No problem. Say, what was your name again?"

"My name? It's…"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~End Flashback~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Well, it was nice meeting you, Bob. I've got a few things I need to do. I'll stop by some other time."

"See you later!"

Well, I hope you liked that chapter. I know it's a bit long, so I'll try to make the next one shorter(and sooner).