A/N: Don't worry, I'm not planning on writing something for each day. There's just so much to write about the first few days.

Disclamer: The characters are fictious. Anyone you know who greatly resembles any of these charcters, living or dead, is probably better off dead.

Chapter 3: The second day

Jack woke up, and went outside. He reached down to pet the dog his grandfather left him, and headed to the crossroads.

"Which way to go, the mountains, vinyard, ranch, town?" Jack said to himself, looking at all the possibilties. He decided to go counter- clockwise, starting with the vinyard, but saving the mountains for another day. He walked up the pathway, walked up to the gate(if that's what you call it, it didn't have doors), almost to be knocked down by a girl running out as he was coming in.

"Why won't you let me do what I want? What a terrible father!" yelled the teenager, at a bearded man who was apparently her father.

"What? Don't be so stubborn Karen! What an undutiful daughter!" he yelled back, but she probably didn't hear him. She already ran out the gate and out of the piece of land. "Hmmph!" He slammed the house's door behind him. It seemed everything settled down, so he walked through the gate to be greeted by a person who didn't look like he was a part of the family.

"The woman who walked out of here is Miss Karen. She's the master's daughter." Jack shook his hand.

"I'm Jack. I'm taking over the Funny Farm. I'm the grandson of the man who used to run it. He passed away, you know. What's your name?"

"I'm Kai. I'm a servant here. Welcome to the the village." He was a Hispanic, and looked quite strong. He seemed happy to be here, maybe he was a slave once?

"I have to go now, I'm checking out all the places here." Jack said, with Green Ranch next.

Jack walked into Green Ranch, and past the fence into the grass field. He waved to a brown horse in front of him(A/N: Does anybody know why he and Gray do that? Is it a Japanese thing?), and a very cute, orange-haired young teenage girl walked up to him.

"That's Cliffguard. Do you like horses?" Jack just nodded his head. He wasn't crazy about any animals, but he can tolerate almost all of them.

"Wait here!" she said, running off. She came back with a teenage boy, a few years older. He had orange hair also, but it was mostly covered by a cap with "UMA" on the front. The girl pointed to Jack. "What do you think? Fast reflexes, good balance..." He stopped her right there with one word.

"...No." Then he walked back to the barn, where he came from.

"What? Brother!" She ran off after him. "What do you mean, no?"

"Look at him. You can tell he's from the city by looking at his hat, and he's got no muscle! And you're ready to give away a perfectly good colt because he's got "fast reflexes?"

"And what's your reason for stopping me? Because he wears his hat different than you? He doesn't look very strong, but I stopped by his farm last night and he cleared a lot of land out! Remember his grandfather? The potion shop dealer thought the same thing as you, and he stayed here till he died!"

"We'll see what dad says."

Jack was waiting patiently outside when they finally came out. The girl called for her father, and a man with equally orange hair as his children and a moustache came out of a building. He talked with his children, and Jack could see the girl smiling when they finished.

"Are you going to enter the horse race if we give Cliffguard's brother to you?" the man asked Jack. Jack nodded his head again, a little nervous to talk. "Then he's yours. Take good care of him." The man and his son then walked away.

The girl started talking to Jack again. "Sorry about my brother, Gray. He's a social disaster. Anyway, my name's Ann. What's yours?"

"My name's Jack."

"Well Jack, what are you going to name the horse?" Jack hadn't thought about it, he thought it would already have a name.

"I'll name him...Torch." Jack said, which sounded pretty good for coming up with it in a few seconds.

"Alright then, Torch it is." Jack left the ranch, and took Torch back to his farm.

The next stop was the city, and he started with the west side. He walked past the Potion Shop Dealer's and the Midwife's, he wasn't sick or pregnant. He decided to go into the library. "H-h-hello..." he was greeted with, when he came in. It was the receptionist, another teenage girl, who had dark brown hair, and wore glasses and a blue schoolgirl's dress.

"Hello. I'm Jack. Nice to meet you..."

"...Maria. I work at this library. W-w-would you like to take a book out?" Jack was only planning to take a look at the inside, but he liked reading and wanted to make her happy.

"Yes, I'll take out this." he said, putting The Complete Works of Shakespeare on the desk.

"You read Shakespeare?" she asked, with a "I thought I was alone" tone in her voice.

"Yes, especially the tragedies." he said. He walked out of the library, moving to the east side of the town. He walked into the tool shop, and saw Rick, the owner. They introduced themselves, like Jack did with everyone he met today.(A/N: I decided I'm going to skip the rest of the greetings, it's all "I'm _____, what's your name? I'm Jack!". And I'm sure you don't mind missing it.)

Jack, looking around the shop, started the conversation. "Well, I was wondering what kind of things you sell here I could use."

"I don't have anything right now, I'm afraid. But when I do get something, you'll need more than 300G.(A/N: I'm not sure how he knew how much money Jack had either, so don't ask me. I think Rick's psychic or something.) I'd suggest buying seeds, crops are definately be your best bet for making money right now."

Jack nodded, and headed for the door. "Thanks" he said. Maybe this guy would make a good friend, he thought.

He headed for the bakery next. He and Elli started talking. "How did you get this place?"

"My father owned it. He died some years ago, and left it to Jeff, the Bakery Master. He owns it, not me."

"Oh. How much are the cakes?"

"They cost 300 G, but I'll give you the first one free." Jack took it, and walked out. Elli was a nice girl, he thought.

"Hello!" Popuri said as Jack walked near.

"Hi, Popuri. I wanted to buy some seeds." Jack walked into the store, greeted by Lillia. He got some potato seeds, and walked out. He saw Popuri again, and started talking.

"Hey, Popuri. How are you doing?

"I'm doing great. I'm gonna go home and work on the farm."

"Do you know how to plant those?"

"Who doesn't know how to plant seeds and water them?" He wondered if she thought city people didn't know what dirt was either.

"Who doesn't know what color their hair is?" That hurt, Jack thought.

"You knew...?"

"I'm not stupid, Jack. I was being sarcastic."

"Sorry. I shouldn't have said it yesterday, but it just blurted out. I've never seen someone with naturally pink hair."

"It's okay. You better get going now." She was right. If he wanted to plant those seeds and get to bed at a reasonable time, he's better go home now.

"Thanks. Bye, Popuri!" Jack went home, reminding himself not to undersestimate someone by the first look.

When he got home, he found he had enough seeds for a 3 X 3 in. square. He planted and watered them. With a little time on his hands, he smashed some rocks with his hammer. Still hard, but at least he hadn't done any other work today besides the seeds. After getting rid of a reasonable amount of rocks, he walked over to his house and went to bed. He got rid of more rocks than he had planned, so he was pretty tired, and didn't want to take his clothes off tonight either, just to put them back on anyway. He did take off his shoes though, he probably wouldn't be able to sleep with them on.

A/N: This must be my worst and most uninspired chapter so far._ And I made all(4) of you readers wait so long, too. I've been doing a lot of stuff besides the fic, I've started playing Goldeneye and Jet Force Gemini again, and playing Harvest Moon 64 for a third time, with Popuri in mind. Also, I go to my Even Stevens and Harvest message boards, and school of course. So it's not like this fanfic is my life. In fact, I'm not really liking it much now that I look at it...I'll have to come up with good ideas for it, and start with the "romance" the description promised. I'm planning on finishing it, even if I don't get a lot of good reviews. But PLEASE, review anyway. When I do finish this one, maybe I'll start a Harvest Moon/Even Stevens Crossover. I have the idea for what it's gonna be about, too. It'll be a humor fic, since I do better at that than Romance/Drama.