Hello hombres, I am happy to tell you I have conquered both procrastination and level 9 Link in Super Smash Bros. And no, that isn't what I was doing the whole time between this and last update. I was playing a really awesome Star Wars game on my pc.

The people of Forget-me-Not Valley soon discovered that Celia and Elli had very different ways of dealing with grief. Celia, who felt that she would lose all dignity if some one knew she cried at night, tried to move on with her life as if nothing had ever happened, as if she and her fiancée had never met. She did her chores and went into town with a smile to each neighbor, but eyes that shined with the tears she was trying so hard to keep back.

Elli, on the other hand, didn't care one bit about what the neighbors thought. She locked herself in her room and refused to come out, not even to eat. She sat alone letting her grief wash over her and pull her down deeper. She said nothing, only stared at her wall and let tears silently trickle down her cheek as she wondered why fate was so cruel.

Celia had had enough.

"Elli? Elli, are you coming out?" She knocked on the door with her knuckles as she called out to her cousin once again.

"Celia, I am not coming out."

"Well then I am coming in." Celia opened the door to Elli's room and saw her sitting on her bed looking dismal. "Well?"

Elli looked up at Celia. "Well what?"

"Well, what is it going to take to get you to start eating again? You are not only sick, but disgustingly thin as well."

For a while she said nothing. Then as she stared at the wall she replied, "I just can't believe he's not coming back." Her voice choked at the last word.

"Well, sometimes you just have to move on." Celia's voice had unusual edge to it that surprised Elli for a minute. "I lost Doctor but I am not lounging around all day worrying everyone in town. I moved on. My life is fine."

"Fine! You go around trying to fool everyone and make them think that, but I know you are miserable inside."

"At least I'm trying to be happy!" she protested her voice rising. "Sometimes it's not about you, Elli. Sometimes, being a whiny bitch doesn't get you what you want."

"At least I care!" Elli shouted back. Celia silenced and her rage disappeared into a hurt look. She seemed like she was about to say something but she didn't. Elli bit her lip as she felt a rush of guilt about what she had said. She sat on the bed avoiding her eyes. Celia turned and walked out the door clearly upset.

She grabbed the door knob but before she left she turned to Elli and said in a shaking voice, "I loved him." Without waiting for a response from her cousin she left the room.

Elli flopped over onto her side and clutched a pillow in her fist, a frown across her face. She bit her lip again, then let out a regretful sigh. She stared at the wall sunk in everything that went wrong. She wanted to go apologize to Celia, but she didn't want to at the same time. She didn't know what she would say so she just remained lying there on her bed feeling very ill and seriously wishing that she had some French-fries to eat.

Celia decided to walk out her problems and enjoy the last bit of day before the sun went down. She put on a light jacket and stepped outside into the calm afternoon sun. She walked down the dirt road past several houses and stands closing up for the day. She followed the trail past the bar and the inn enjoying the peaceful serenity and almost forgetting about her troubles. Almost.

"Celia!" someone shouted disturbing the quiet peace. Celia turned around and saw Nami running towards her calling out her name. Whatever she had to say, it must be important; Nami was never excited about anything.

When Nami reached Celia she was almost out of breath. "Oh my god," she panted. "You are never going to believe this." Celia looked at Nami expectantly waiting for her to catch her breath before she could continue. "Doctor and that one guy are here."

Celia screamed. She screamed at the top of her lungs as birds flew out of trees and Nami put her hands over her ears. "Jesus, Celia. Calm down just a…"

Celia left before Nami finished what she had to say.

Celia could scarcely believe what she had heard, but sure enough a familiar sail boat was docked on the sandy beach with several boxes next to it. Then she heard the voice of her Doctor, a sound so sweet she could hardly bear it. "Roy, make sure you put the box of glass-ware down carefully," he called out. Celia could see Roy on the bow of the deck holding a heavy box.

"Don't worry, it's already down there," Roy answered. "Let me just toss this box of pennies down here and I'll come help with-" Roy was interrupted as the box he had just dropped landed on what Celia could tell had at one time been the glass ware. He looked over the edge and said quietly "oops."

The minute Celia saw Doctor get off the boat she ran to him and gave him a bone crushing hug. Doctor a smiled, though his face showed he was having a bit of trouble breathing. Celia let go, there eyes met, and in a second their mouths met too. Roy stood awkwardly trying to look away. When they didn't stop after a minute, Roy said quietly "I think I might just go find Elli," and he slinked away quietly.

Roy ran. Roy ran and ran and ran until he thought his lungs might burst like on a National Geographic he once saw. Just to see her smile, just to hear her voice, he thought to himself as his body grew more exhausted. Eventually he slowed down and then stopped to catch his breath. Only for a moment, he promised himself. Then he would run just a little more and he would be at Celia's house. He started up again, this time at a slower pace. I am not stopping again, he told himself, I am not stopping again.

"Hey Hottie, I forgive you," an extremely feminine voice said.

Roy stopped, only for a moment, and then remembered his promise to himself. "Sorry Muffy I can't stop. I have to get to Elli."

Muffy frowned. It wasn't fair. What was so special about some boring old nurse who seriously needed more eyeliner? There were no cute guys in the valley, and she wasn't about to let this one get away with out a fight.

"You can't talk to Elli." This made Roy stop again. "She is quarantine."

"But I have the medicine she needs," he replied.

Muffy's face became extremely serious as she said "I need to give it to her to make up for what I did. Besides, I know she would rather have me catch her illness than you." She smiled sweetly.

Surprised at Muffy's sudden display of kindness and regard for other people's feelings, Roy took a moment before answering "Gee, Muffy. That's really thoughtful of you, but I would really like to see her."

Muffy took his hand and said in the most pleading voice "Please Roy? I really need to do this." When she stuck her lower lip out slightly, Roy had to give in. And he thought he had a persuasive stare.

After he handed her the medicine, she smiled in a sort of devious way and skipped away. As she left she called out to him "Hey, why don't you tell Nami about your trip. I know she really wanted to hear about it." She continued skipping and Roy saw that Nami was coming just up the road. He shrugged and called Nami over.

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For the first time in 5 days, Elli stepped out of her room. She looked around Celia's living room, but it was deserted. Elli frowned- when she had finally found the courage to apologize, Celia was gone.

Celia was no marathon winner, and Elli figured she could catch up to her if she ran. She knew it 'wasn't good for her' but for god's sake she had starved herself for almost a week; since when did she care? She opened the door to leave, but someone she had never hoped to meet again stood in her way.

"YOU!" she shrieked.

"Hi!" Muffy said with a wave, ignoring the rage in Elli's eyes (when will she learn?). "I was in the neighborhood and I thought that I- "

Muffy was interrupted as Elli seized her neck in a tight grip and began shaking her violently while shouting "It's all your fault!" repeatedly. Muffy tried to pry the nurse's fingers of her neck, but Elli was strong; a lot stronger than a girl whose only exercise was walking to the mall and wiping down tables. Though she could breath, her face was becoming red and her eyes were full of panic.

Elli was about to start banging the bar-tender's head against a near-by desk, but Muffy gasped out "he's alive!" and Elli let go. Muffy held her neck and her face's natural color flushed back. Elli was bewildered and at a lost for words. Once Muffy had recovered, she began the next stage in her operation. "And I am totally over him. You can have him," She said coolly considering she was being strangled a few seconds ago, and then added "If you want him back."

"What?" Elli asked bewildered.

"Well," she began, "I could never be with someone like that," using more emphasis than was probably necessary.

"What do you mean?"

"He is such a player. Just now on my way here he was flirting with Nami." Muffy eyes looked at her dramatically as she waited Elli's reaction.

Elli frowned and let Muffy's words process in her brain. Then she looked up with a skeptical look and crossed her arms. "Nice try, sister. Like I am really going to fall for that. Why the hell should I believe you?"

"Don't believe me? Go look at your honey now." Muffy opened the door and fitting perfectly with her plan, Roy and Nami were talking happily as they walked up the road. Elli's jaw dropped and she stood for about half a minute as her face turned into one of complete rage. She marched out of the house towards Roy.

Roy immediately ended his conversation with Nami. Elli stopped in front of him and he smiled. Like Muffy, he wasn't very good on emotional cues, at least when he was overwhelmed with joy as he was at that moment. "I have missed you so much" he began.

This was her chance, Elli thought. She would tell him exactly how she felt, how angry she was. A sudden crowd of people had noticed them and was watching with interest. They waited for what she would say, and she suddenly found that any words in her mind had left her. She opened her mouth, was about to start yelling at Roy even though she didn't really know what to say when…

He kissed her. He held her tight and kissed her. He hadn't kissed her in a long time. She had forgotten how good it felt. But good enough to forgive him? Not today, farmer.

Roy winced as he felt the hard pain that came with Elli's slap. Along with that cold hard feeling came to other things. First was humiliation as the crowd around them whispered and stared at his public scorning. But worse was the realization that Elli was not glad to see him. He had been dreaming of this moment when they held each other after so long and everything would be all right and they could get married. But Elli's slap had brought him back down to Earth, which he suddenly realized was a very ugly place.

He touched his cheek gently, hurt in his eyes. "Elli," he began, "just listen."

"No, you listen, Roy." Her voice was hard but had slight tremulous sound. "I loved you, and I was almost convinced I still did. You told me you were dead, and I died too that day. But here it was just a big load, and you still toy with flirting with other women again. You do this to me and expect me to welcome you with open arms?" Now her voice was very unsteady, but she kept going. "I've put up with you for far too long." She turned to leave.

"Wait…" Roy whispered with his hand reaching out to grab her skirt. She ignored him and left him alone to the mortifying eyes of the crowd. Roy could her Rock behind him whisper to someone, "I bet she's going to come out and beat him up."

The person whispered back, "She'll win."

"Yeah, he better be praying," Rock said.

Roy suddenly felt very frustrated and the people watching him weren't helping. "What the hell do want!" he shouted to the crowd. "Just because you're bored of your pathetic lives doesn't mean you have to pry into someone else's!"

Rock folded his arms. "Yeah it does," he said. The rest of the crowd started to leave saying to each other how rude today's youth was and how back in their day, they had to walk two and a half miles to school in three feet of snow, somehow thinking that applied to the situation.

Only one person seemed to realize that Roy was just having a very hard week and didn't really mean what he had said, though he did raise a fairly good point. Jack hand on Roy's shoulder and gave him an encouraging smile. Roy tried to smile back weakly, but it was obvious that he was still upset.

They started to walk down the path to Jacks house. Jack's hand and smile had silently invited Roy to his house and Roy accepted. They walked in silence for a while; Jack understood that Roy didn't have much to say about what happened. Infact, he still seemed sort of irritated. Then when they had reached Jack's house and he was opening the door, he stopped and turning to Roy said, "You should relax, take a vacation."

"I'm on vacation!"

"Maybe you could eat yourself happy. I have some Organic Panda-"

He sighed and said bluntly "Just open the door."

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When Celia had found out what had happened with Roy, which was rather late as she and Doctor were, um…planning wedding operations, she immediately forgave Elli and went back to her caring and concerned self and worried that Elli would go back to starving herself. But Celia didn't have to worry. The next day Elli made three hamburgers and poured three glasses of Coke, which Doctor found out disappointedly she had no intention of sharing.

Despite her very large brunch, she was still feeling depressed, and not because she didn't have French-fries with her burger. She sat on the couch becoming even sadder as she painfully listened to Doctor whispering sweet nothings into Celia's ear. After sometime, she couldn't stand it anymore and she shut the door that led into the kitchen where the couple was sitting.

Though she was an emotional wreck once again, her illness seemed to be better. Dr. Hardy had given her some special medicine and it's effects were working even after only a day. The thought of the medicine reminded Elli of Roy's message. Another thing he lied about, she thought. What kind of idiot did he think she was? Dr. Hardy had gotten the medicine for her and then Roy tried to take the credit. It made her sick.

Her deep thoughts were interrupted as she heard the door open. She heard her name and at first thought it was Roy, but the voice it came from was from someone she had never expected to meet again.

Oh, who could it be? For me to know and for you to find out! Also, please review.