Disclaimer- Okay, adding onto what I said before- this fic isn't directly related to Harvest Moon, just the farm. I made up all of my characters, although I did take the name Mineral Town. But still, this story basically just follows the lives of the teenagers in the town.

By the way, this is rated for swearing, alcohol/ drug abuse (alcohol a lot more then drugs though) and sexual references.

This chapter introduces a few more characters, and in the next chapters after this I'll bebringing insome more.

--- Alex ---

Spring 1

Robbie grabbed me and tried to push me over. I struggle to get free.

"Get off me!" I yell, half joking. "If you're that scared of losing, just forfeit!"

I pull myself free and sprint after the ball. It's another spring morning and we're playing football on the beach like we always do. My team is winning, yet again. Robbie shows up next to me and slide tackles, and then I go down like a log. I try to get up but he pins me down. Robbie's muscles are a force to be reckoned with.

My friend Jess appears in front (I can only see her feet, but I know it's her) and scores a goal.

"And that's a game!" yells Steve from the sideline. Robbie rolls away, and we're both laughing to the point of tears. He's crazy gorgeous, but can be pretty much an asshole if you're not on his good side. He stops laughing for long enough to give me and hand up, but we erupt into the same giggles again.

"Hey, Alex, we gotta go, that new guy is going around by himself, and he's cute. I'm gonna introduce myself." Says one of my best friends, Sara, flicking her hair back. Then she takes one look from me to Robbie and shakes her head. She knocks Robbie over into the sand, links arms with me, and we leave.

Oh god, she's looking again. That little whore is looking again. Lyn, she's staring at me.

My grip tightens on Sara's arm. She squeals in pain and lets go.

Yup, Lyn's still staring. I think she's in a trance, because even though I'm looking back, she seems to not have taken any notice. If she doesn't stop staring, I might go over and punch her pretty little face in.

Oh, yeah, that's the other thing about Robbie. He's going out with Lyn. I'm not a big fan of Lyn, ever since she stole my boyfriend at the time, Travis. Sure, we were only nine, and it wasn't exactly serious. (again, we were nine.) But I can sure hold a grudge, and lately it's been a lot worse.

And sure, it's partly my fault. The moment Lyn and Robbie started going out, I threw myself at him. I don't have any feelings for him, but anything to annoy Lyn.

I hate her, I really do.

It's fun though. I get the feeling Robbie doesn't like Lyn the way she likes him. They weren't even friends before they went out. He was actually pretty mean to her, but I guess that's a guy thing. She asked him out and he said yes, and I jumped at the opportunity to piss her off.

Best of all, Robbie flirts back. But she wants him so much that she doesn't care that he treats her like dirt from the bottom of his shoe.

"Hey, Al, you okay?" my other best friends, Jess, asks, seeing that I'm reminiscing again.

Sara joins in: "It's Lyn again, isn't it?"

"Yeah."

Jess and Sara both hug me, and I start laughing again. Robbie has just walked over to Lyn and put his arm around her, and she sticks on a big fake smile.

I know it's killing her inside.

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"There he is!" Sara squeals when we walk into the supermarket.

I pull her out from the aisle. "Hi, Jack?"

He turns around. "Hey, Alex!". He remembers me from yesterday. "And hi to…"

"Jess and Sara." I say, pointing to each girl respectively. Jack nods at each of them and starts taking something down from the shelves. It slips and a load of cans are about to hit the ground. The three of us dive onto the floor and manage to catch every can between us.

Jack bursts out laughing. "So, what are you three, Charlie's Angels?"

We get to work putting everything back.

"By the way, we're having a football match at 4, everyone is gonna be there. We always play on a Monday. And, well, every other day of the week." Sara says hopefully.

"Well, I'm kinda busy, but I'll take a rainch-"

"We'll help you out!"

All four of us go deadly silent after Sara's offer.

"Okay, thanks." Jack replies, sounding suspicious but he was also obviously pleased that he was getting his own work force. "See ya."

He waves and walks away. When he is out of earshot, I grab Sara b the shirt and pull her in close. "What did you just get us into?" I hiss.

"What, he's probably lonely!"

"Well, we know you're a bit of a sucker for guys, so you can't help it." Jess says, always seeing the funny side.

"Nah, he's not really my type. Really, I think he's lonely." Sara says.

"Wait, you only said, like, three words to the guy. Already not your type?"

Sara shrugs. She was right, he probably was a bit lonely right now, but that was no reason to spend hours sweating and getting covered in cow crap…

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I sigh from the sidelines of the game, pretty upset that I can't be in the game. While helping Jack out, Jess accidentally tripped me up, I fell over, and a cow stepped on my foot. I moved quickly enough for it not to break However, there was a massive bruise spread across it and I certainly couldn't play. Instead, I sat at a table outside the Beach Lodge with Jess's boyfriend, Danny. The Beach Lodge is owned by Danny's dad and Danny was supposed to be working right now, but there weren't any customers. And that was because we were the only people not playing, except Sara, who was reffing this match.

"Okay… let's play a game." Danny says randomly, seeing my extreme boredom.

"Sure, what game?"

"Let's play, 'What do you think you're playing at with Robbie when he's going out with Lyn'".

"Funny. I've never heard of that one."

"Yeah, it's new."

We stare at each other for a moment. I've never known Danny to be angry, and we're actually pretty good friends. I was taken aback by his sudden outburst.

"I dunno what you're talking about."

"Well, this morning, for example. You were flirting with him the whole time during that game." He stops for a moment. "You want something to eat?"

This is the Danny I know. "Yeah, get me a cone with two scoops of low fat vanilla."

"Low fat? Are you kidding? You're getting the full thing, twiggy."

I laugh and watch as he climbs over the counter and gets us both some food.

"And what you were saying before… I just don't like Lyn very much. She gives me a bad vibe."

"Still hung up about the Travis thing? Fuckin' hell, you should've been over that a looooong time ago. You were nine, twiggy, NINE."

"It's not just that though, that's just where it started. Ever since then she's just rubbed me the wrong way, y'know, and any time we talk we fight about something."

Danny hands me the ice cream and sits down with a plate of fries for himself. "Of course, I can see what you're saying. Pretty much everyone gets that vibe. She's not a nice girl. I don't like her either. She really likes Robbie though, and if you ask me, she's become easier to deal with since then."

"Not to me, she hasn't."

"Okay, but two wrongs don't make a right, remember that."

"I'm not trying to make a right, I'm trying to get back at her for all the shit she's given me over the years."

"Well, twiggy, I don't-" Then he stops suddenly.

"You don't what?"

"Speak of the devil."

I turn around. Lyn is heading towards us. I was too wrapped up in talking to Danny to hear Sara call half time.

"Dan, hunny, can I get a coke?" she says in that awful high pitched voice, putting some money on the table.

"Of course, Lyn, coming right up." Danny replies and goes over the counter again. She turns around to talk to Robbie.

"Give me that." I say once Danny has filled the cup. I spit into it and hand it back.

Danny shakes his head. "Oh, what are we gonna do with you, huh twiggy?". Then he grins and also spits into it. I look at him walk down and give it to Lyn, who smiles and takes a big gulp.

Of course it's mean, but it's just too much fun.