Author's note: After this, the rest of the story will be cut up into Seasons, they will naturally be MUCH longer than the prologue, but hopefully not as long as this. :P I haven't played HMFG but I REALLY want to ;-; so some things may not be accurate. Also, when I start writing this, I hadn't gotten HM BTN (it was being shipped) so I kind of improvised. :P While I waiting for it to be shipped to me I decided to start a fanfic. :D Everything before the Popuri/Rick scene was written before I got the game. The scene itself and everything afterwards was after I got the game. Anyways, chances are I forgot to change some things, so don't yell at me. :P

Part 1 – Smiling Faces, Beautiful Places.

Jenn turned to the man that woke her up.

"What's your name?" she asked.

"Me? I'm Zack, and that over there, he is the Mayor of this town, Mayor Thomas," Zack explained, "She'll need a place to stay until she can get back on her feet."

The man that called himself Zack was an extremely tall, extremely built, extremely tan man with a little mustache. His voice was deep and scratchy, as opposed to the Mayor's sot of comedic, owl like voice.

"Yes, I suppose so. Let's see if there is a vacancy at the inn," said the Mayor.

"But I don't have any money…" Jenn interjected.

"That's quite alright, I'm sure Doug will let you pay once you get back to your house," the Mayor said cheerily.

"But…" Jenn started, "Where do I live? Who Do I live with? I can't remember…I can't remember anything…except the boat…and I didn't thank him either…"

"It looks like our new friend has amnesia…" said Zack.

"Indeed…" replied the mayor in a stupor as to what to do, "Well young lady, could you at least tell us your name?"

"It's Jenn."

A feeling of unhappiness overcame Jenn. Who was she? Where did she come from? Why was she on that boat? The boat…it was the only thing she could remember. She had a feeling she wasn't happy on that boat. But then she remembered meeting that mysterious guy…the one that saved her. She never found out who he was. But she did remember that he had business to attend to in Mineral Village! Maybe she could find him! She tried to go further and remember her own life, and felt sad again, though she couldn't say why.

"Well we could always let her stay at Old Man Murphy's Ranch," Zack suggested.

"But that ranch is in shambles, and we have to build something over it to make revenues for the town!" objected the Mayor, "Besides as soon as Jenn gets her memories back she will probably want to go home."

"I'll stay here," Jenn cut in. Something about staying in a hidden village and working on a farm excited her.

Both of the men gave her a puzzling look.

"I promise. I know you probably don't believe me, but…living on a ranch sounds exciting. I know it will be a lot of work, but I'm up to it, and I like challenges. Even if I do get my memories, I swear I won't leave. Just give me a chance," Jenn pleaded.

"Well, we don't have much time. If we don't start making money fast this town will dry up! But there is a certain spark in your eye that says you're the kind of person that can pull anything off. Ok. I'll let you. But you have 3 years to make a successful farm, otherwise I'm afraid we will have to tear it down," said the mayor.

"Thanks!" she said excitedly, all the while sporting a huge grin on her face.

The mayor and Zack simply chuckled. After a bit more of talk and a fair well from Zack, the Mayor showed Jenn to the ranch. He told her to rest up while she could, and that he would be at her house around 6 in the morning to show her a tour of the town. Jenn nodded and said goodbye as she walked into the house. Inside the house was bare, and falling apart. This plus clearing the field would take up most of her time tomorrow. It looks like she had A LOT of work to do. She looked around a bit and found 1,000 gold. That should come in handy later on.

"6 am, huh? In that case I better get some rest…" Jenn said to herself as she made he way to bed for some sleep.

*****

Jenn got up bright and early in the morning. She might actually get used to this farm life faster than she expected. She looked over on the counter and there was a pair of overalls and a red and white checkered shirt with a collar. Beside it was a few essential things she would need, like a brush, tooth paste, tooth brush, etc. She figured someone must have put them there while she was asleep. Immediately she got to work with preparing herself for the day. Once she was done cleaning up herself she donned the flannel shirt and overalls then opened the door, only to find the Mayor standing there, ready to knock.

"Good morning Miss Jenn," he greeted, "I'm glad to see that you're already up and ready by this hour. It's very nice to see you again."

"Likewise sir," Jenn said respectfully.

"Well now I shall take you on a tour of the town."

The first thing the mayor pointed out was the Chicken Hut as it was the closest to Jenn's new house. There, Jenn would be able to buy chickens and talk to experts about them. Beside it was the Yodel Ranch, where barn animals were kept for sale. There was a path between the Chicken store and the Yodel ranch that led to the mountains, which led back to the other side of Jenn's farm. Next was Rose Square, which had 3 other paths leading up to it. The Mayor explained that most Festivals would be held here. To the right was the beach, which was where Mayor Thomas and Zack had found her. To the left was the Inn, and straight ahead was the Church. Both of those paths eventually came together at the clinic. Past the Clinic was the Supermarket. Jenn made a mental note of that place, as she would need to come back later in the day for supplies. Past the market was a bunch of the local resident's house. They turned around the corner to see a small library that looked like no one had visited it. Finally along the last bit of the tour, was the Winery and Blacksmith.

"…And that concludes the tour my dear," the Mayor finished. "Now should you need anything else, please don't hesitate to ask any of the locals for help. They are mighty friendly. Now if you continue along this same path, you will see that it leads right back to your farm, to the very same place spot we started the tour at!" With that the mayor walked off into the direction of his own house.

"Wow what an old fashioned place…. A blacksmith? Who uses those things anymore? … I guess me, sooner or later. Well, now that I'm here, I might as well try to meet people."

Jenn started to make her way along to the Chicken Farm when she noticed some of the locals staring at her, and even gossiping with their hand over their mouth, as if she couldn't tell they were saying something about her.

"I guess word got around about a shipwrecked girl taking over the ranch," she commented and continued on her way.

Jenn stopped and thought for a minute. Her ranch was still messy and had a lot of work to do. It would be best for her to go back and clear it up a bit first. She went back to her farm and began clearing weeds. There were so many of them. Next came the hard part, breaking all the rocks and stumps. Jenn pulled out her hammer, which in turn was more like a mallet, and with great effort hit a small rock. It broke. Great, now she had the entire field of stones to break. Once she had finished she use the Ax to chop some branches. When clearing of the smaller things where done she took a minute break and observed what she had accomplished so far. The ranch was kind of big once you got all the mess out of the way. But now was not the time to laze about day dreaming. Jenn got back to work and walked up to a nearby tree stump. She raised the ax and swiftly chopped downwards.

WHACK!

Jenn's entire body was now shaking and was the ax's handle from the impact. The stump was still there. She decided to try again, but found that the ax's head was embedded in the stump and she couldn't pull it out.

"Aww damnit, now it's stuck!" she cried. She glared at the stump for a bit, as if the sheer force of her stare would actually accomplish something. No such luck. A bead of sweat trickled down her forehead, and Jenn wiped it away with her arm. Think, think, think. What could be done? After a few moments, a light bulb went off.

"Well I can't pull it out so maybe I can find someone who can. Maybe the blacksmith can help. I mean if he is a blacksmith, I figure he's gotta be strong, right?"

After a few more unsuccessful tries to remove the ax, Jenn went along with her previous plan and decided to pay a visit to the Blacksmith's shop. Jenn exited the farm via the mountain trail and after some walking, found herself between the chicken ranch and the livestock farm. Pressing forward, Jenn took a completely wrong turn and ended up in Rose Square, where she noticed two young people chit chatting. A guy with a baseball cap white a light tan outfit was talking with a black-haired girl in glasses who had on a blue skirt and matching vest. She stood there a while until they finished their conversation, a minute later when they left. Apparently the two had been oblivious to the fact that she stood there and watched them. Oh to be invisible in a strange, new town. She shrugged and upon realizing that she had o idea where she was, made her way to the bulletin board, hoping to find directions. She confirmed her location and that of the Blacksmith's before setting off into the unknown once again. Finally, after circling around town a couple of times, she reached the Blacksmith's area. When she finally got there she saw the same boy pacing back and forth nervously outside the Blacksmith's place. He was only a few years older than herself she noted.

"Excuse me," she said, "But is this the Blacksmith's shop?"

The boy spun around, surprised by Jenn's sudden presence in the area.

"Uh, yeah." Pause, fidget, eye shift. Was this guy nervous? "I'm Grey." Another pause. Ok, so he was nervous, but why? "And this is Saibara's Shop" Grey said with a slightly uneasy and nervous tone. "So you must be that new girl, Jenn that everyone was talking about. It's nice to meet you, but I gotta go inside and keep working, else gramps will get angry at me…..again. See ya!"

Grey quickly rushed inside. He gave a heavy sigh and started talking to himself, unaware that Jenn was still outside and could hear him. This might or might not have something to do with the fact that a window was open.

"Man…I was only supposed to take a few minutes to deliver that package to the Mayor but I ended up getting side tracked. Then I met that pretty girl…"

"Grey, what the devil took you so long? I asked you to do one little thing and you end up dilly-dallying around when you know we have a lot of work to do!" he chastised.

"Hey look gramps I got it done didn't I? And anyways I was just being polite to a girl and talk for a bit instead of being rude and just ignoring her! Besides it's not like you say my work is good anyways. Ever time I try something you say it's crap and make me start over!" Grey retorted.

"Grey you know you don't have time to constantly hang around girls, and you don't know how easy you have it! In my day it was a lot harder to become a Blacksmith so count your blessings young man or…" Saibara started to threaten but was then cut off by an angry Grey.

"Or what?!? You going to send me out of this village and into the forest?!? Is that is?!? Man whatever, I'm tired of this crap. I can't live with this anymore. From now on I'm going to stay at the Inn. At least company there is somewhat decent and doesn't complain about every little thing I do imperfect. Later."

The door opened and slammed shut. Jenn just stood there, silently and motionless. She didn't know what to do. Grey looked up and noticed that she was still there. This made the situation a bit more uneasy than it already was.

"Uh…" he started, wrapping his hand behind his neck, "I guess you heard what happened."

"Yeah…"

"Well…I gotta go," Grey said as he walked off sulking.

Jenn felt bad for what had happened. It was her fault that Grey had to leave his grandpa's place and live at the Inn now. Still there was nothing she could do. She went into the Blacksmith's and looked around. It wasn't very large, and it was very cluttered.

"So you came back so soon eh Grey? Well………Oh, hello miss. How can I help you?"

"Um, well I'm the new girl in town, Jenn," said Jenn, trying to politely introduce herself.

"Well it's a pleasure to meet you Jenn. My name is Saibara. I'm the local Blacksmith. If your tools ever need to be upgraded then bring them to me. But I can't upgrade them until they reach the right level, and you have to have the right type of mineral for me to upgrade it. Also if you bring me some ores I might be able to make something interesting for you."

"Something interesting…?" Jenn reiterated, "Oh thank you for all that information but I need some help. You see, after I had cleared my ranch of weeds, twigs and small stones, I was trying to chop up a stump but my ax got stuck in it and I can't pull it out. I was wondering if someone…"

"Could pull it out for you?" he finished, "Certainly. I've got my hands full at the moment, but go to the Inn and ask the numbskull of a grandson of mine to get it out for you."

"Ah…" Jenn hesitated, "But what about what happened just now? You know, I guess talking to him outside made him a bit late and you both seems a bit unhappy. Besides, I don't want to impose or anything…"

"Don't worry about," Saibara said, "If it wasn't this it would have been something later. I always knew this would happen one day. We always get into quarrels, but its nothing serious."

"Still…" Jenn said looking down, somewhat apprehensive.

"Bah, you're just nervous around him aren't ya? Not that I can blame you."

Saibara took out a sheet of paper, scribbled something on it and folded it up. He handed it to Jenn and told her to give it to Grey. That should solve her equipment problems. Jenn thanked him and was about to leave when she asked one last question.

"I didn't see any restaurants or anything around here, where would I get some food?" she asked.

"Besides the Supermarket the only other place you can find a meal at is at the Inn. I'm assuming that you have next to nothing for money so you may also find some things while foraging in the forest, or you can fish in the nearby waters."

"Thanks again!" Jenn said as she exited out the door and made her way to the Inn.

Saibara smiled and went back to work.

"Nice girl," he said to himself, "No wonder Grey stopped and talked to her. Heh, I would of done the same thing if I were 40 years younger."

As Jenn made her way to the Inn, she stopped by and stared at the church. It reminded her of those churches you would see in an old time movie. It was small and the steeple rose high above most other houses. She decided to go in and look around. Jenn knew she would have to make friends with the villagers, and thought that the first thing she should do befriend the local Pastor.

"Hello?" Jenn said as she walked in. There was no reply.

"Guess no one is here."

She saw a sign and read it: 'Out. Be back in 5 min. – Pastor Carter' Jenn sighed and looked around the church more. She saw a confessional booth on the other side of the church and decided to check it out. Inside it was small and cramped, but at least the seat was cushioned. She looked around some more when she heard someone else get in the other booth.

"Hey Pastor Carter! It's Kai, look I need to confess something to you," he said. "You see…"

"Huh? Hey, hey, hey! I'm not the Pastor," Jenn explained in a fluster. "Actually, I'm the new girl in town and I was just looking inside the confessional. Sorry to confuse you."

"The new girl?" Kai started," Aw, well that's even better! I've been meaning to meet you. Let's go outside the confessional so I can see you."

Why not? This person seemed to friendly, albeit a little too friendly, but it was better than most of the stares and rumors most people did instead. They both exited the booths, and turned to each other.

"Ah, so your Jenn! It's a honor to meet such a lady. So what the rumors say are true. You are cute!"

Oh boy. Was this guy real? Jenn could see right through his false flattery. But she didn't know what to say considering that she almost sat in on his confessional.

"Um…Thank you, I guess," Jenn said apprehensively.

"Oh a shy girl, eh? Well, I'll always keep you in my thoughts for being so honest. See, I live in a resort town far to the north of here, and only come by in Summer to run a Summer Lodge…"

Jenn had a flashback from the cruise ship.

"A resort area north of here?" Jenn asked quietly, "North Sea Beach City…"

"Yeah, that's is you ever been there?" Kai asked.

"No…"

"Well you probably just only heard of it. Maybe this summer, when I get to know you better, I'll take you there on a date. Look forward to it ok?" Kai said, all the while showing off his pearly whites. "I should really be going now. So until this summer then?"

With that Kai turned around and began to walk out leaving Jenn there, dumb founded. As he was getting ready to exit the church he met up with who Jenn assumed to be Pastor Carter. They greeted each other, naturally the Pastor asked Kai what brought him into the house of God and Kai told Pastor Carter what had happened. The Pastor looked over at Jenn and smiled then back to Kai. They said goodbye and parted. The Pastor walked up to Jenn and greeted her. His creamy hair was clean cut and short. It was accented by his black, priestly robes.

"Hi…" Jenn said.

"What brings you here my child?" he asked.

"Well," Jenn explained, "I just wanted to meet you. I figured that I should make friends with the villagers and I thought that the local priest would be the first person to start with."

Pastor Carter was touched with Jenn's words and effort. This girl was shipwrecked, with amnesia, and she instead of trying to find out who she is, she helps a village in distress. She had a chance to listen into other people's life problems and exploit them, but doesn't. Now she is making and honest attempt to get along and live here. Does this stranger truly care that much for people she doesn't even know? Truly, she had been sent by angels, or God himself to save the village. Pastor Carter smiled greatly.

"Then consider myself a friend of yours. If you ever need any spiritual guidance or healing, then please stop by the church anytime," he said, "Oh and you mentioned you were trying to meet people. Well it just so happens, I was having a chat with a nice young man by the name of Cliff. He comes from the city. It's getting late so he went to the Inn. You should meet him."

"I was going to the Inn anyway, so I suppose that is good," Jenn said, "uh…is this Cliff person like the last guy."

"Not at all," the pastor half said, half laugh, "Cliff is a friendly soul, but not overly friendly if you know what I mean. And really, Kai isn't that bad. He may have his cheesy pick up lines, but he is a good boy. I'm sure that once he finds the right one that there is no changing his mind."

"Ok then," said Jenn as she walked out of the church, "I'll be sure to keep those things in mind. Thanks for your advice!"

It was getting the late. The sky was already changing colors. Jenn continued on to the Inn. On the way there she noticed that there was a cut on her arm that was bleeding. All the excitement from today must have drew her attention away from it. Jenn decided to visit the clinic to get it bandaged. She might as well, it's not like she could just leave the cut there to scab up, and anyway the clinic was along the way of the Inn.

"Hello?" Jenn greeted as she walked into the clinic.

The clinic, like everything else in this town, was also small, but very clean and sterile looking. Everything was organized and neatly arranged in its proper place.

"Hello," someone said back.

Jenn looked forwards and saw a young girl in a frilly, old fashioned nurse dress. Her hair was dark brown, and cut shot like a boy. She was only a couple of years older than Jenn it seemed.

"My name is Elli," she said, "You must be the new girl in town…Jenn right?"

Jenn nodded. No need for introductions when gossip spreads faster than STDs.

"How can I help you today Jenn?" Elli asked sweetly.

"Uh…well see my arm…" Jenn started.

"Oh my goodness, that looks like a nasty cut." Elli interrupted.

She rushed over and immediately examined it. After doing a little of this and a little of that, she then went into another room and was talking with someone else about a patient (Jenn) with a bad arm injury. A few moments later she walked out with a doctor. He was a tall man, and much older than Jenn. The guy looked like your stereotypical doctor down the last detail. He had a poker face but Jenn could tell that he was really kind. He also examined her wound, then asked if it hurt.

"Just a bit," she replied, "I suppose I should be more careful with those tools though."

There was a bit of a pause.

"I'm glad that you're taking care of yourself," the Doctor said while putting anti-septic medicine on the cut.

He then wiped it clean and bandaged it. Jenn thanked both Elli and Doctor for their help, and the Doctor said it was their job. Hopefully now Jenn could get to the Inn without anymore distractions. Jenn exited, and rounded the curb and headed for the Inn. She could already hear the music playing and smell the food cooking. She headed inside only to find out that several unfamiliar faces were now staring at her.

"Welcome to Mineral Town's Inn!" exclaimed a chipper, young, red-headed girl sporting a tight braid and a pair of overalls similar to Jenn's. "My name is Ann and I run the Inn. My father, Doug, is the owner. Please relax and take a seat."

"Thank you."

"You must be that new girl who washed up on shore, Jenn?" Ann questioned.

"That's right," Jenn answered and nodded.

"Well, like I said before, please make yourself comfortable. Take a seat, and if you want, I'll take your order for something!"

Jenn looked around some more. In the corner of the Inn she saw a red haired man gesturing for her to come over to where he was. He was sitting with a younger man in his early twenties, dressed in hunting attire. The younger man had long brown hair tied back in a messy ponytail. What was it with this town and brunettes? Jenn strolled over to where they were and waited for them to say something.

"Ah, Miss Jenn," said the red-haired man, "It is a pleasure to finally meet you,"

"The feeling is mutual," she replied. Who was this guy again? Mid forties, bright red bush of hair on his scalp with matching mustache.

"So I've heard that you're taking over the ranch, and permanently no less. If there is something that we can help with, then please ask. Oh, how rude of me, I haven't introduced myself. I'm Doug, the owner of this fine establishment. You've already met my daughter Ann, and this person here is Cliff."

"Hi," Cliff said enthusiastically with a slight nod.

"Oh, so your Cliff?" Jenn inquired, "Pastor Carter told me about you and said I should try and be your friend."

"Ah, so the pastor already put in a good word for you," Doug joked while nudging Cliff in a suggestive manner, "You lucky dog, you already have a head start compared to all the other guys."

"He knock it off," Cliff said, "Well Jenn I'm flattered that the priest said we should get to know each other a be friends. Maybe later we could hang out sometime?"

"Sounds great!" Jenn answered happily.

Doug took this opportunity to ask Jenn a question.

"So Jenn, now that you know this great guy the pastor told you about, what do you think of him?"

Jenn hadn't much time to think so she had to answer fast. The first thing that popped in her head was that she really didn't know him and needed more time to get to know him, but instead she ended up blurting something else out.

"Well, he's cute."

"Well now!" Doug said, "Did you hear that folks?"

Doug continued to tease Cliff, while Cliff turned shades of red. Jenn however, turned to see Grey walking down the stairs of the Inn. His presence caught her attention and she remember the note Saibara asked her to give to him, and the original reason she had come into town in the first place.

"Uh, hey Grey!" she called out as she lept up from the table and ran towards him.

"Well dang," commented Doug, "Didn't that just ruin this special moment…"

Cliff glared at him. Grey glanced and froze when he saw Jenn.

"Uh…hi Jenn…" he replied.

"Sorry about earlier. I guess it is kind of my fault that you and your grandfather got into an argument. I feel kind of bad about it…" Jenn explained.

"Well don't. So what did you come here for? To apologize?" he questioned.

"After you left I went in and talked with him for a while, and when I left he asked that I give this note," Jenn said while handing him the slip of paper.

Grey unfolded it and read the contents to himself:

Grey –

This nice young lady came to the shop after our argument seeking help. It seems that she tried to chop a stump with her ax only to end up getting it stuck. Be a good boy and help her. Besides, I know your not one to leave a pretty girl in trouble.

Saibara

PS – I suppose it is natural for boys your age to be looking, and considering that this girl seems so nice, I don't mind now. Just don't make a normal habit of this.

PPS – Even though you have decided to take up residence elsewhere I fully expect you to come to work as normal.

Grey sighed heavily. It was typical of his grandfather to pull something like this. He was still angry but what else could he do? He folded up the note and put in back in his pocket. He took his cap off briefly and wiped his forehead. Afterward he placed the cap back on his head.

"Alright Jenn," he said, "I'll help you get that ax unstuck."

"Thanks a lot!" she chirped with a big smile on face.

As they exited together a few drunkards made a few snide comments about Grey and his 'companion'. He made sure to remember everyone of them to give them holy hell later. Jenn had also heard the comments. These people had no class what so ever, but then again, could you expect class from these type of people? As she and Grey walked "sort of" together towards the farm she could see more gossip running around town.

"Don't these people have other things to do than gossip?" she asked herself a bit remorsefully.

"Not exactly…" Grey answered, "But then again what else are they going to do? They don't have near as many modern comforts as city dwellers."

"I suppose so, I guess it will just take time for me to get used to this."

"It'll probably become your main source of news…"

Jenn pondered about this for a while. This town WAS really small if it relied on the old fashioned gossip system to get news around. The two got to Jenn's ranch and she pointed out where her ax was. Grey gripped the handle and with one mighty heave, pulled the ax out.

"This tool isn't meant for cutting up stumps like this," Grey explained. "It was made just to chop up branches. I see you have cleared most of your field except for the large stuff. If you want to get rid of everything else you'll need to upgrade your tools. Your ax and hammer are at the right level so as soon as you get some money and the right ores you can go to Gramps' shop and have him fix them up for you. Besides, by the way the ax was stuck in the stump. It looks like you were swinging it wrong."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

Grey demonstrated by taking a giant and swift swing right to the middle of the stump. CRACK! The stump was spilt into several small pieces of wood now. Jenn's facial expression was that of awe: O.O

"Woah…."

"Um…"he started a bit nervously, "I suggest you shouldn't try that, otherwise your tool will get stuck again."

Jenn nodded. She was still amazed. This guy had already made it clear that her ax had to be upgraded first before she could chop tree stumps. But just a few seconds ago he just blasted the thing away with one hit. She made a mental note to always stay on this guy's good side.

"Thank you again for your help!"

"Yeah, whatever…" he replied nonchalantly.

Both of their stomachs growl. They were both embarrassed and had their face turn red. Jenn hadn't eaten anything all day and worked really hard so she was starving.

"Hey, buy you dinner?" Jenn offered. "For the help you gave me. I'll buy us both a nice meal at the Inn. Come on!"

Before Grey had anytime to accept or reject Jenn's offer, he found his hand in hers, and was being pulled along whether he wanted to or not. He gave a bit of resistance at first but gave up after a while and just went along. 'This girl is trouble where ever she goes,' he thought to himself. When they got just to the outskirts of the Inn she dropped his hand and ran straight up to the Inn's door. Grey sighed and meandered over there slowly as she waited for him. They went in together and Grey sat down at a nearby table. Jenn went over to Ann and told her that she would be paying for two dinners. Afterwards she went to the same table as Grey at sat down. She could hear more snide comments flying around. It was pissing her off.

"Ugh would you people please stop it!" she yelled. "Honestly how ruder can get? I actually thought this town had some tact, but clearly I was mistaken! And if you have something to say, then please say it in my face instead of behind my back."

If that didn't add fuel to the proverbial fire, nothing did. Luckily, a familiar voice came to her aid.

"Yeah guys, back off," Cliff said defensively. "She is new and we should treat her nicely.

Jenn smiled. The pastor was right about Cliff.

"Cliff why don't you join us?"

Cliff shrugged and strolled over to their table and took a seat. Ann brought out Grey's and Jenn's meals, and Cliff's drink he had ordered before hand. Jenn asked Ann to sit down and talk with them after she was done working or whenever she got a break. Ann agreed and a few moments later, she joined them. The group chatted (as much as Grey can chat :P) and after a hearty meal, Jenn exited the Inn and headed for her ranch, while the other 3 went upstairs to their rooms. Jenn was glad that she made new friends. Despite Grey's gruff and grunt outward appearance, he wasn't so bad. Cliff was as nice as Pastor Carter had said. Ann was so cheerful it hard to not get along with her, and she cooked great! Jenn had a feeling that she could settle down well in this town.

When she got back to her ranch she saw a puppy wandering outside her house. She picked it up and it was very friendly towards her. It looked like it was lost or abandoned. Jenn decided to take the little guy in and raise it for herself. A dog could be very useful on the farm after all. She brought the puppy inside and played with it. Jenn decided to name him Blue. It was a bit unoriginal, but hey she liked it. When Jenn was done playing with her puppy she noticed that the house was completely fixed up. Inside was a lot different too. Everything was pink. EVERYTHING. They even gave her a mirror. There was a note on top of her pink toolbox.

'Dear Jenn,

I bet your wondering how all this stuff got here? Well we thought it was mighty nice of a stranger to come and put this town back on its feet, so we wanted to do something nice back. While you were gone I had my daughter and son fix up your house a tad bit and even furnished it! Now there is no need to thank us, in fact we should thank you! Try your hardest and never give up!

Best of Luck,

Lillia, Caretaker of the Chicken Farm.'

"Well that was certainly nice of them, Don't you think Blue?"

The puppy just stared blankly at her.

"I'll have to thank them tomorrow," Jenn said as she was preparing herself for bed.

*****

Jenn was up and ready by 6 am the next morning. Farm life really wasn't as bad as most people think. She adjusted the straps to her overalls and then brushed her blond hair. Her blue eyes twinkled in her reflection in the mirror. Jenn just knew something exciting was going to happen today, but what? Everything was so new to her, and even if it was simple, it was an adventure! Something you would only read about in books or play in a video game, and she was the main character. Best of all, she was alone. She could do what she wanted without fear of hurting someone else's feelings or living up to a set standard.

"Today is going to be a great day!" Jenn exclaimed to herself.

She stretched a bit to loosen her muscles, then picked up Blue and set him outside, near her house. Jenn put up her ax and hammer and brought her hoe outside. She hoed several 6 x 2 rows in front of her house. Even if she wasn't going to plant anything in them yet, it was nice to have tilled ground prepared. Afterwards Jenn headed for the mountains to collect things for shipping. Money would probably be tight for the rest of this month because she was just starting to farm. Jenn saw some Bamboo Shoots, Blue Grass and Moon Drop flowers, however she couldn't fit all of them in her rucksack. She picked up one Blue Grass and one Bamboo shoot and shipped them. Jenn decided to go back and get one more of each so she could get some money. Once Jenn had put them in her rucksack, she decided to go explore town again before going back to ship them.

Jenn made her way to Chicken Lil's farm, and notices a young man and girl arguing. The guy seemed normal, orange hair, glasses, blue eyes, and attire fit for running a chicken farm, but the girl…there was something new. Jenn got the feeling that it was definitely her that decorated her little hut. The girl was shot, with extremely long, flowing, pink hair. Her eyes were red. Literally. Not red as in you're tired, or red as in there is something in you're eye, or red as in you're high, but RED. The little colored part around her pupil that is normally blue, brown or green was red. Suddenly the girl screamed "I hate you!" and ran off into the mountains, past Jenn. Jenn was briefly befuddled by the events and strolled into the Chicken farm, looking at the guy who now had a sad and worried expression on his face.

"I must have really bad timing…" Jenn whispered to herself.

The guy looked up at Jenn, and began to speak.

"Oh hello, you must be Jenn if I'm not mistaken. My name is Rick, and I was just talking with my sister, Popuri, who just ran off. If I go after her, we will end up arguing again, so could you please get her and bring her back?"

Jenn nodded. "Sure, I'll bring her back to you."

Yet another group of people who knew her and her story before she could talk to them. It'll just be something she would have to get used to. Jenn exited the Chicken farm and went into the mountains taking the nearby path Popuri did. Once she got to the 4 way fork Jenn could see Popuri quietly sobbing by the waterfall. Jenn slowly strolled to where she was and tried to comfort her.

"Popuri?" she asked.

"Oh hello. You must be that new girl. I'm Popuri. I'm sorry you saw us fight like that. Sometimes Rick just makes me so angry. One of our chickens died. It's name was Pon. It was my favorite hen. Rick said it was my fault because I forgot to put it back in the pen."

"It's alright Popuri. I know your upset about the chicken, but Rick is very concerned about you. Listen why don't we go back to your house? Rick really is very worried about you. That's why he sent me here to get you. I promise I'm not lying ether, ok?

After a few more sobs and sniffles, Popuri managed to mutter 'Ok'. Jenn led her back to the Chicken Farm, and they went inside Popuri's house. Both her mother and Rick turned around as she walked in and breathed a sigh of relief that she was ok. Popuri thanked Jenn for talking with her then ran up into her room.

"Thank you for brining my daughter back to us, and I'm sorry we put you through all that trouble. My name is Lillia and I own this place," said another pink haired lady. Pin hai must run in the family Jenn supposed.

"It was no trouble at all," replied Jenn "actually, I came here to thank you for fixing up my house. It would have taken me a long time to fix it up the way it is now, especially with all the work I have to do. I know the note said I didn't have to thank you, but I wanted to."

Jenn, Lillia, And Rick talked for some time about a lot of different. Eventually Popuri came downstairs and joined the discussion. Jenn really liked this family a lot and was glad she decided to help Mineral Village. All the people here were so great. It felt refreshing to be in the country, surround by a small, tight-knit community. It wasn't long though before Jenn had to leave. There were other things she still needed to do.

She left Chicken Lil's farm and made her way to the Supermarket. As she stepped inside she could see the Doctor saying he needed something and he would pay for it later. He turned and as he left gave a nod to Jenn who in turn nodded back. A woman with dirty blond hair and a stern look came out from an adjacent door and began chastising him.

"Jeff if you keep selling things on credit we will go bankrupt! You can't keep doing this. You're such a pushover," the lady yelled.

"I'm sorry Sasha," Jeff replied sadly. Jeff looked absolutely pathetic. He looked like he barely weighed 100 pounds and that he would have sporadic asthma attacks.

Sasha turned and left the supermarket to chase after Doctor. Jenn took another step into the building when a person from behind walked around her and came in.

"Hey Jeff!"

"Oh…hi Duke," Jeff said reluctantly.

Duke, and man that seemed to be in his late forties had streaks of white embedded in black, walked up to one of the shelves. He picked up something and turned to Jeff.

"I need on of these, I'll pay you later, ok?"

"uh…ok…"

As Duke left to go back to his winery, he was stopped by Jenn.

"What's the matter?" he asked slightly confused.

"You should pay," Jenn replied.

Duke gave a hearty laugh. "Didn't you hear? Jeff said it was ok."

"You should pay when you buy things Duke," commented a girl who had came out of the same room Sasha had a few minutes ago.

"Uh oh…I can't get away from you, can I Karen?" replied Duke as he reluctantly forked over the money for what he was going buy.

Duke left and Karen gave Jenn a warm smile. She introduced herself and welcomed Jenn to Mineral Village. Karen was about the same age as Jenn and hair long dity blond hair like Sasha. Her purple vest showed Jenn that this girl like to keep up with trendy fashions. After introductions, Karen went back into the room from which she came. Jenn walked up to the center table and examined the seeds their. After checking prices and seeing how much money she had left Jenn decided to buy a couple of Turnip seeds and a couple of Potato seeds. She gave her money directly to Jeff and left the market. Outside she could see Sasha still talking with the Doctor. When Sasha finally left him alone Jenn approached him.

"Hi Doctor!" Jenn greeted cheerily.

"Oh, hello Jenn. How is that arm of yours doing?" he asked in a monotone voice.

"It's a lot better now thanks to you," she replied, "so what are you doing anyways?"

"I'm collecting things I need to make Bodigizer and other medicine. But I still need some Blue Grass from the mountains. I won't be able to get any until Wednesday though."

"Blue Grass…" Jenn said reaching into her rucksack, "that's this stuff right?" Jenn pulled out some blue-ish herb she had picked earlier and handed it to the Doctor. "You can have it if you want, I don't really need it…"

"Thank you very much Jenn. This helps a lot," he said smiling, while going back into clinic.

Jenn still had some time to kill and thought about going to Library. She could read up on how to do things she may have to do on her ranch, like building a fence or something else, so it would be a good idea to go there and study for a bit. When she entered the Library she saw the girl that Grey was talking to before talk to herself. The girl whirled around and was a bit surprised to her.

"Hello, my name is Mary," she greeted.

"I'm Jenn. I came to read some books."

Mary gave her a big smile. "Well there are plenty of books on the shelves, so help yourself. You can't checkout any books though."

Jenn thanked her and started panning the massive shelves for books about farming and anything else that might be just a little bit helpful later. She read the books and studied them for quite some time. After a while she went to the upstairs floor to find more books. As she descended form the stairs she saw Grey walking in and greet Mary. Grey looked up and greeted her as well.

"Hello Grey. I was just reading a bit on how to run my farm. Thanks again for helping me yesterday."

"Don't mention it," Grey answered as he went over to one of the bottom bookshelves.

"Mary, I have to go and work now, but there are still some books I want to read so I'll probably come back tomorrow ok? Thanks for letting me read these books, they were very useful."

"You're very welcome Jenn, I'm just glad that somebody else appreciates these books as much as I do."

"Oh here," Jenn said as she opened her rucksack," I don't know if you like these or not…but you can have this Bamboo Shoot if you want." She offered a Bamboo Shoot to May, who accepted it with a slight blush creeping on he cheeks.

"Oh thank you. But Can't I really keep it?" Mary questioned while blushing a bit.

" 'Course you can," Jenn replied.

She exited the Library and went straight back to her ranch. Jenn planted the seeds she had bought then filled her watering canister with water and watered them. A few weeds have grown back and Jenn pulled those out before whistling for her puppy and going inside. She set Blue down near the table and cleaned herself up, preparing for nighttime. After watching the local weather forecast, Jenn headed for bed. She could sleep a lot easier now know all those people she met in town would be her friends in the future and there to support through hard times.