Life in Phaffey
Just wanted to tell you, Ozzie moved from the town! Sorry for the long update…. Same DISCLAIMER as last time. Here we go!
Chapter 2: Double Take: Murphy's Story
The sun was just peeking over the horizon. Tired the night before, Murphy slowly crawled out of bed. He was no shape or form a morning person. Dressed in his night clothes, he walked over to his fridge and took out an orange.
"Darn mornings, I always feel like a big bag of garbage! Let's see what's on the news. Oh……..A strike? Serves him right! Finally, someone is taking a stand against Redd and his rip off prices!"
Murphy threw on some clothes and went outside. Only to get soaked upon leaving his house. It was raining again, which made 3 straight days of nothing but the wet stuff.
"Great…..Now I have to pull out my umbrella and……..
"MURPHY! WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? HUH? WHERE'S MY BOOK YOU FORGOT TO RETURN TO ME? WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT THAT?" Alli was shouting at the top of her lungs, waking up Murphy's neighbor, Rex.
"DON'T YELL! I mean…..Alli, my dear; I told you I leant the book to Apollo! Isn't he your neighbor? I mean, you DO live by Sue E., the gossip queen of the Crossing.
"Oh yes, I remember! Sorry, pumpkin! See you later!" With a quick turn and dash, Alli ran off in the direction of Apollo's house.
"Poor fool, I would hate to think what Alli will do to him when she finds him…..But on to more important matters, like finding some rare fish and making a bundle a Nook's!"
With that, Murphy took out his fishing pole and headed toward the river, looking to make some "easy" bells. An hour into his fishing trip, he wasn't catching anything. Angry faced he turned around and marched up to Nook's.
"Welcome to my store! You came all the way over here in the rain? WOW! You must have something really rare to sell! Well, what is it?"
"Ok….WELL……I just came back from fishing and I do have a couple things to sell…." Murphy decided not to sell his goldfish he caught because he heard the Olive really wanted a pet and that the human, Hope, didn't get her one. So, after a couple of minutes shifting through Nook's "half-off" clearance rack, Murphy went back outside. However, when he was by Sven's house, he heard a couple of animals talking in low whispers.
"So……when he's sleeping, we attack!"
"What if he sees us? Also, what do we do if one of his neighbor's calls Copper?"
"Don't worry! This a full-proof plan! Tonight, we he's sleeping, we attack!"
"OK, if you say so…..Murphy won't know what hit him!"
By the time the animals had finished this; Murphy ran to his house and locked the doors and windows.
"Who would do this? What do they mean by 'we attack?' Is someone trying to kill me? If so, why? I've done nothing wrong to make anyone mad, however, the Phaffey elections are coming up and I've been supporting Liz? Maybe someone doesn't like that? Then who was talking behind that tree? It sounded like two animals, probably men. I better alert Copper!" So, without even locking his door (there was no need to in the village of Phaffey!) Murphy ran as quickly as he could to the police station. On the way, he passed by Robin's house. Nobody really talked to Robin, mainly because she treats everybody like crap. Finally, with what seemed like hours, Murphy reached the police station.
"They…..hurt….kill me……help……" panted Murphy
"What? Slow down! Who wants to kill who?"
"I was walking home from Tom Nook's when I heard two villagers saying that there going to come to my house tonight and attack me! I was so scared that I ran home and locked the door. I don't know who said that, but when I get my hands on them I will……"
"OK, that could be quite the problem. What I would do is go back to your house and wait until "they" come and figure something out. Now, if you don't mind, I have to figure out who stole Alli's prized book! Good day, Mr. Murphy!"
Murphy couldn't believe it. The officer of his own village said just to wait! What if he died? Murphy looked at his watch: 2:48 p.m. "I guess I could go the beach….." thought Murphy. Walking to the cool, sort sand of the beach was always a favorite spot for Murphy, because he could always think in peace.
"Hello, Murphy! What are you doing hear?" asked Apollo.
"Oh, Apollo. Nothing, just thinking….."
"Well, I heard that all the oranges are sweeter down hear by the beach. There's nothing like a nice, cool glass of orange juice on a hot summer day! Well, see you later, Alligator! Oh, wait, that would be Liz or Alli! HAHAHAHA!"
"Bye, then……" After Apollo left, Murphy fell asleep on the beach until…………
"HI, MURPHY! WHATS SHAKIN'?"
"WHAT? Oh, sorry……..Sven? What are you doing in my house?"
"Dude, we're at the beach. Its 5:30 p.m. Don't you have something you could be doing right now?"
"Oh! Sorry, Sven, see you later; I have to go to my house!" Without Sven even saying anything, Murphy ran back to his humble abode not forgetting what was to happen tonight. When he reached the house, he forgot the he didn't lock the door, so locked it instead and then he had to unlock the locked door. The house was cold and eerie. "OK, now that I got passed that I'm living in a TOMB; I have to go see if Tom has any axes…just in case." Reaching into his wallet, he had 926 belles to spend. So, this time making sure he un-locked his door, he set off to Tom's.
"Funny, I don't see anyone out…..Where could they be?" Murphy was now almost to the shop, confused why nobody was out. Sure, some animals liked to stay in their houses all day long, but there would be at least one animal out…..
"Second time in a day, Murphy? Wow, you REALLY must want to buy something from my wonderful merchandise!"
"Yea…whatever…..anyways, do you have any axes for sale?"
"Got a tree cutting bug? Sorry, I don't. Rex came today and bought the last one. I can put in an order for one, you will get it tomorrow?"
"No, that's ok. Well, bye then!" The walk home wasn't very eventful…until he reached his house. Up until now, Murphy was excited and scared the whole day because he thought he was going to be attacked, but when he slowly turned that brass handle on his door, and walked into the pitch black house, and turned on the light did he really know what the villagers were talking about.
"SURPRISE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MURPHY!"
"WHAT? You threw me a birthday party? That's right! Today is my birthday!"
"Happy birthday, Murphy. I hope you didn't get scared when you heard us talking about us attacking you. We knew you would be going pass that area the go to Nook's so we figured we get your sacred. You can thank Axel and me." Louie said.
After the shock, the entire village, including Murphy, moved to the wishing well to celebrate his birthday. The whole village danced all night long.