Complicated

Part 1- Problems

-Disclaimer- I do not own the songs Elsie sings, or the characters from Mineral Town

Elsie's life story begins awkwardly. She's on a ship going to this place her parents continue calling 'Her new home.'She meets this man and he continues talking endlessly to her.

Elsie's listening so much to him that she doesn't know what's going on around her. Before she knows it she's being tossed around. Elsie hits her head and get shipwrecked onto this place called Mineral Town. Someone saves her and brings her to this guy Zack's house.

Whenever Elsie's lonely she asks herself: Who saved me and why don't they tell me?

Elsie has long, blonde hair and wears a t-shirt and skirt most the time. Elsie's sixteen. She found a red flower and now puts it in her hair above her right ear. Sometimes she thinks that's why the girls don't like her. They probably think the guy they like gave to her. Especially Popuri, once she threw a fit trying to find out if Kai gave it to her. Karen just got angry and didn't talk to Elsie for two days. Ann, and Mary, well, she doesn't know if they mind or just don't want to say anything. Ann would probably speak up so Elsie guesses she doesn't care. As long as they don't take her precious flower, she doesn't mind anything they say.

Elsie now fits in. Well, kind-a. She can't fit in with the girls so she hangs with the boys. Oddly enough Rick and Kai don't fight as much when Elsie's around. She noticed that when one day, she went to the poultry farm where Rick lives and works. Elsie guessed Kai wanted to talk to Popuri, or maybe it was the other way around. Rick was saying something to Kai and suddenly stopped, pointed to her and said nice things. Elsie also likes Cliff and Gray. She likes all the boys, because they don't get angry with her flower. Well, at least she hopes they don't.

Cliff is cool because he has a bird and always shows it to her. He never shows it to anyone else, not even Ann. Gray is so mysterious, he never really speaks, except to Mary and Elsie.

One day Elsie was playing with Cliff's bird, he said it was a hawk or eagle, and Kai came up to her. Cliff called his bird to him and walked to a quieter place.

"Why are you hanging with him?" questioned Kai, jealousy reining over his voice.

"Because I like his bird,"

"You don't seriously like him do you?" She didn't like his tone. She started backing away.

"Why do you care?" Elsie ran home and didn't come out until she knew Kai wasn't going to bother her again. So much for Kai's way with girls.

In between the conflicts with boys, there were conflicts with the girls who also liked the boy she happened to be with at a time.

"Hi, Gray!" Elsie greeted the cold guy.

"Hi, Elsie," replied Gray. He looked at the ground and kicked some rocks.

"How are you?" she asked him. Mary walked over, quickly. She looked like her shyness was gone.

"What are you doing with Gray?"

"Talking to him," Elsie stated. Mary's face showed she didn't have a comeback, she never does. Elsie walked away to feed her dog.

Elsie bumped into Karen the next day.

"Sorry, Elsie," she said.

"It's ok,"

"You look stressed Elsie, what's wrong?" What was she supposed to answer? I don't feel like you accept me?

"Well…"

"What?"

"I…I…You…well…I don't feel welcome with you girls," Elsie stuttered. She stared at her for a while, then replied laughingly,

"Of course we do! It's just that you stay with the boys for so long we didn't think you liked us!"

"Okay then,"

"Bye Elsie!" waved Karen, walking away.

Elsie didn't it know, but Karen was meeting with the other girls, while she slept at her house.

"She doesn't feel welcome?" asked Mary.

"Well, what if she left?" suggested Karen, she had had wine and was thinking of only herself.

"Then…we would get the boys!" realised Popuri.

"I don't know," stood up Mary.

"Think about it: you would get Gray," tempted Karen. Karen whispered something to all the girls and then they all went home.

Elsie was watering some seeds she had planted when Cliff, Rick, Kai and Gray walked over to her. She stopped watering the plants to watch them move closer. She saw a blue feather in Kai's hand. Elsie had heard Popuri talk about them but she hadn't heard much. Popuri had said, "It's almost the end of the year so there's bound to be blue feathers." That's all she heard and it had puzzled her, but not anymore. Elsie used to think blue feathers were flowers, now she doesn't. They are actual feathers.

They came upon her with faces so indescribable it scared her. They looked hurt, annoyed and angry at the same time. She had never known anyone could look like that, to tell you the truth she had found out many things living in Mineral Town. Life on the farm was different than her other life. Elsie's other life was sheltered, easy and simple. There were no blue feathers, girls didn't go berserk over one red flower and boys didn't, well, accept girls.

They stood there and Rick demanded, "Do you like me, Kai, Cliff or Gary?"

"Well, I…"

"So you don't like me?"

"Can't we be friends?" she suggests. "Gray?"

"What?" grumbled Gray.

"I…I don't know what to say to you or Cliff or Kai…"

"Well, ya better hurry! So I can make plans to leave!" growled Cliff. She had never heard Cliff talk to her like that, he only growled at her once. That was when Elsie first got to know him. What's wrong with him? She looked down, tears brimming in her eyes. Maybe I'm what is wrong… Maybe I don't belong here…

"Ever since I came here everything has become complicated! I just wish-I just wish for once that you wouldn't argue and that the girls weren't so… cold to me!" She ran to her house and into her room. She buried her face in the pillow, and then slowly reached for her diary. It was under the pillow.

'Dear diary,' Elsie wrote. 'Sometimes I wish I could leave. I like Cliff and Gray a bit. I like Cliff a lot. I can't explain in words how much. What about the rest? I just want to be friends. Why is it complicated here?

-Fall 1st'