STORY OF A GIRL
Nayru: Wow, this hasn't been touched in a long time. Not all summer, geez, I better get to this!
Xiao: Next chapter, voting for Rae's future spouse will be decided, so vote fast as this is your /last/ //chance//! Will it be the farmhand Cliff? Is it the close friend Kai? Or the man behind the hedge, Gray?
Ran-Ran: I'm all for Kai.
Xiao: Go Cliff go!
Nayru: I'm impartial to Cliff myself.
Ran-Ran: KAI!
Nayru/ Xiao: CLIFF!
Disclaimer: No, it still ain't mine.
Gray Gives Up! No Need for. Sheep?
Rae dashed into the next yard, followed closely by Cliff and Kai. Saibara was scolding Gray.
"You let the sheep loose! How could you be so careless?" Gray hung his head in shame.
"The girl Ann. she distracted me." Gray mumbled.
"Can't you be a normal man and look to a girl with money, such as Rae?" Saibara snorted.
"She's taken. I'm not strong enough for a girl like her." Gray shook his head. "I'm in love with Ann." He then noticed the trio standing near the trees.
"Ah, Raye, Cliff, Kai! So good to see you three!" Saibara called to them. "We need to ask your help. Our sheep have escaped. Can we ask you to catch them? I'm too elderly to chase sheep around, and Gray has to repair the fence." Saibara tossed an angry glare at his son. "Please?"
"No problem, Mr. Saibara!" Rae chirped. She and one of the other boys dashed off, but Saibara grabbed one.
"Just a minute there." Saibara murmured, as Gray began work on the fence. "I want to talk to you, boy." The young man swallowed hard and nodded. "Don't think I can't see you love that girl. I'm a sharp man. Do you love that girl beyond your own life?" The man nodded. "Then I demand you not do the work tonight, go to the mine, and find a piece of silver ore. You are to bring it back here once you have it. I refuse to let that nice girl be pulled around like a tug-of-war rope anymore. You are to marry that girl." The young man's jaw dropped. He nodded, and ran off.
"YEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAA!" Rae shouted as she grabbed her eighth sheep. The other young man watched in laughter. The young man from before finally came up.
"So what have I missed?"
"AREN'T YOU TWO GONNA HELP ME CATCH A SHEEP!" Cliff and Kai looked at each other, and both nodded.
"So where were you?" The second one asked.
"Out." The first replied. Rae, in a focused state, led every single sheep back into the pen.
"Don't you guys want to help?" Cliff leashed a sheep and led it back, followed by Kai.
Gray stared at Rae. "What I have is merely a feeling. Love is so much deeper than feeling. Love is soul. Love is body, love is mind. Certainly, she seems shallow. But if one can delve past her strong surface, and her determination to pride her grandfather, only those close to her can see that beyond a work-hardened adult, there is a four-year-old girl who just wants to play with her grandfather. Perhaps she's just looking for her grandfather inside one of these young boys." He looked between Kai and Cliff. "She's been betrayed, of course." Gray bent down to pet a sheep. It looked up at him and bleated. "Come hell or high water, Rae has found her grandfather. Like the Oedipus complex, she is in love with him. And I know that come hell or high water, she's going to marry him." Gray smiled to himself for the first time in years. "I've done the right thing."
Saibara awaited the young man. "Good job. I've made it." Saibara showed him a small box. "Find somewhere private, you know what to do."
"But.!" He protested.
"Shut it. Listen to me." Saibara put his hands on his hips. "Her mother's name was Ellen. I know this for one reason. I'm her twin brother. We were 25 when we last saw each other." The man gasped. "I promised that when her daughter or son someday returned to this town, he or she'd be happy. As her uncle, I can see that you two are entwined like two wild grape vines. You've saved her life. So has your rival. You've helped her with her work. So has he, I admit. But there's one thing you've done that he has not. And that is."
TO BE CONTINUED
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Nayru: So I'm rushing it a bit. But wow, I did a good job of concealing who the mystery young man is!
Xiao: Kai.
Ran-Ran: Cliff.
Nayru: It's up to our readers!
Cliff: 4
Kai: 3
Ran-Ran: VOTE CLIFF!
Xiao: VOTE KAI!
Nayru: Actually, just VOTE!
Nayru: Wow, this hasn't been touched in a long time. Not all summer, geez, I better get to this!
Xiao: Next chapter, voting for Rae's future spouse will be decided, so vote fast as this is your /last/ //chance//! Will it be the farmhand Cliff? Is it the close friend Kai? Or the man behind the hedge, Gray?
Ran-Ran: I'm all for Kai.
Xiao: Go Cliff go!
Nayru: I'm impartial to Cliff myself.
Ran-Ran: KAI!
Nayru/ Xiao: CLIFF!
Disclaimer: No, it still ain't mine.
Gray Gives Up! No Need for. Sheep?
Rae dashed into the next yard, followed closely by Cliff and Kai. Saibara was scolding Gray.
"You let the sheep loose! How could you be so careless?" Gray hung his head in shame.
"The girl Ann. she distracted me." Gray mumbled.
"Can't you be a normal man and look to a girl with money, such as Rae?" Saibara snorted.
"She's taken. I'm not strong enough for a girl like her." Gray shook his head. "I'm in love with Ann." He then noticed the trio standing near the trees.
"Ah, Raye, Cliff, Kai! So good to see you three!" Saibara called to them. "We need to ask your help. Our sheep have escaped. Can we ask you to catch them? I'm too elderly to chase sheep around, and Gray has to repair the fence." Saibara tossed an angry glare at his son. "Please?"
"No problem, Mr. Saibara!" Rae chirped. She and one of the other boys dashed off, but Saibara grabbed one.
"Just a minute there." Saibara murmured, as Gray began work on the fence. "I want to talk to you, boy." The young man swallowed hard and nodded. "Don't think I can't see you love that girl. I'm a sharp man. Do you love that girl beyond your own life?" The man nodded. "Then I demand you not do the work tonight, go to the mine, and find a piece of silver ore. You are to bring it back here once you have it. I refuse to let that nice girl be pulled around like a tug-of-war rope anymore. You are to marry that girl." The young man's jaw dropped. He nodded, and ran off.
"YEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAA!" Rae shouted as she grabbed her eighth sheep. The other young man watched in laughter. The young man from before finally came up.
"So what have I missed?"
"AREN'T YOU TWO GONNA HELP ME CATCH A SHEEP!" Cliff and Kai looked at each other, and both nodded.
"So where were you?" The second one asked.
"Out." The first replied. Rae, in a focused state, led every single sheep back into the pen.
"Don't you guys want to help?" Cliff leashed a sheep and led it back, followed by Kai.
Gray stared at Rae. "What I have is merely a feeling. Love is so much deeper than feeling. Love is soul. Love is body, love is mind. Certainly, she seems shallow. But if one can delve past her strong surface, and her determination to pride her grandfather, only those close to her can see that beyond a work-hardened adult, there is a four-year-old girl who just wants to play with her grandfather. Perhaps she's just looking for her grandfather inside one of these young boys." He looked between Kai and Cliff. "She's been betrayed, of course." Gray bent down to pet a sheep. It looked up at him and bleated. "Come hell or high water, Rae has found her grandfather. Like the Oedipus complex, she is in love with him. And I know that come hell or high water, she's going to marry him." Gray smiled to himself for the first time in years. "I've done the right thing."
Saibara awaited the young man. "Good job. I've made it." Saibara showed him a small box. "Find somewhere private, you know what to do."
"But.!" He protested.
"Shut it. Listen to me." Saibara put his hands on his hips. "Her mother's name was Ellen. I know this for one reason. I'm her twin brother. We were 25 when we last saw each other." The man gasped. "I promised that when her daughter or son someday returned to this town, he or she'd be happy. As her uncle, I can see that you two are entwined like two wild grape vines. You've saved her life. So has your rival. You've helped her with her work. So has he, I admit. But there's one thing you've done that he has not. And that is."
TO BE CONTINUED
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Nayru: So I'm rushing it a bit. But wow, I did a good job of concealing who the mystery young man is!
Xiao: Kai.
Ran-Ran: Cliff.
Nayru: It's up to our readers!
Cliff: 4
Kai: 3
Ran-Ran: VOTE CLIFF!
Xiao: VOTE KAI!
Nayru: Actually, just VOTE!