My Official Disclaimer: I don't own Harvest Moon, Natsume does. Cool.

A/N: (From now on, I'll be starting and ending my chapters with authors notes) Things start to get interesting here. Well, hopefully it's interesting. I think it is, but I might be tooting my own horn here. (I love that expression, I had to put it in)

Please review!

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

---Kevin---

Spring 4

"Kevin?" I hear Nina at the door, accompanied with loud knocking. I don't speak. Sure, I'm acting like a younger brother rather then an big one, but she's given me a reason to.

She knocks again, harder.

"Kev?" she yells. After a few times I give in.

"What?" I spit out.

"Can I come in."

"Whatever."

I turn off the TV. I wasn't really paying attention anyway. I've just been sat here, thinking about Nina and what happened at the beach today. I'm really pissed off, but not because of shock- definitely not shock. Every time she sticks up for herself like this, I get upset. Of course, then I should leave her alone, then I won't be upset. That's what everyone says. But I can't help it.

You see, I love her. I've loved her since the day I found out I was adopted, when I was seven. No one else knows I'm adopted, and definitely no one else knows how crazy in love I am with my 'sister'.

Of anyone in the village, or even the world, I had to fall in love with Nina. Anyone else would have caused me less heartache. Then everyday wouldn't be a living hell, carrying around my secret. But I did.

Every second of every minute of every day, I wish more then anything I could tell her. I'm jealous of everyone. I wish I could have been someone else. But I'm me.

Everytime Steve says anything about my sister and how in love with her he says he is, I feel like dying. He can tell anyone he chooses, because they're not related. But I can't.

As she sits down on the bed next to me, I watch her long blonde waves fall down her back, and stare into her big ocean blue eyes. One long arm reaches over and she holds my hand. I take a deep breath.

"Kevin, I am sorry, I really am. But sometimes… I feel like I've just had enough. And even though, yeah, you're my brother, you can't always tell me what to do. Especially now that I'm getting older." She says.

I nod. "I know."

"We've had the same conversation so many times and everytime you say you know, I believe you. But you always do the same thing."

I nod again. "I know."

"Please, please tell me it's different this time."

I look away for a second. "It is different."

"Good. And I am sorry."

"I'm sorry too."

She smiles and walks towards the door.

"Nina? One more thing."

She turns around. "What?"

"Call Martin and tell him you don't like him. You gave him the wrong idea."

Nina laughs, and it proves to be infectious. She runs back and throws her arms around my neck in a big hug.

"I love you, Kev."

"I love you, Nina."

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

No one has ever even mentioned to me that me and Nina may not be related, except of course my foster parents. We look a lot alike- the same blonde hair, blue eyes, good figures. I'm three years older, but we're still pretty much the same.

We have the same hobbies too, but so does everyone else in Mineral Town- a love for sport. However, there's only a small amount who like to surf, and me and Nina are two of them. I'm known as the best surfer here, and Nina not so much. Not for lack of trying. I've done my best to teach her, but she's gradually getting less and less determined.

Part of the reason I suspect she's giving up is also her friend, Lucy. Lucy doesn't like the water so much- worried she'll ruin her hair/make-up/manicure. She's very high maintenance and it gets pretty annoying. It's part of the reason people don't like her.

I do, though. I think me and Nina see a different side to Lucy from everyone else. She does have fun, she's just very good at hiding it. She lets it out around us two.

Lucy's gorgeous in a different way from Nina. Her perfectly straight brown hair reaches just past her shoulders, and she has matching brown eyes. She's a couple of inches shorter and has a much darker tan, making her look almost Latino. It's general consensus that Nina is the sexy one, and Nina is the classic beauty.

I know that Lucy doesn't actually have the hots for me, and it's all just a game. But I play along. Lucy is yet another thing that me and Nina have in common, and I'd do anything to keep her close to me.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Spring 7

Today there are loads of us on the beach, taking in the sun and just being lazy. We've all broken off into little groups- a couple groups of girl and a few gangs of guys. I'm with Danny, Robbie, Martin and Steve. We're grilling Danny and Steve on their respective relationships with Jess and Lyn.

"So, how's it with Jess this time? Not breaking up soon, I hope?" I tease Danny. Him and Jess have been on-off so many times I can't even count. Everyone knows full well they're meant for each other. When they break up, we all join together to make them see sense. It's never failed, and things are always better when you've got someone to suffer with, as they've proved.

"Well, we've made it for a year now, and it seems okay to me," He says. "No problems as far as I can tell."

"Unlike Robbie, who's totally screwing his girl over…" Steve says, and starts laughing.

"How do you mean?" Robbie looks away nervously.

"She stands there and watches you with Alex… can you imagine? She's looks like she's gonna die everytime you speak with Alex… do you even care about Lyn?" Martin asks.

"I guess. I just think Alex is fun."

"More fun then Lyn?"

Steve starts laughing again. "No question!" he answers for Robbie. Everyone but Robbie starts laughing now.

"My girlfriend is not boring!"

We all look at each other and make a bad attempt at holding in our laughter.

"She isn't!"

We're howling now.

"She isn't!" Robbie pauses. "Oh, fuck off." He gets up and goes to talk to his (boring) girlfriend.

Nina and some of the other girls come over to join us. She sits down between me and Steve. "What's so funny?"

"Oh, Martin was just telling us about how obviously you dig him…" Steve jokes. Martin gives him a dead leg.

"No, we weren't." Martin snaps back. "I heard what you said, Nina, just because you kiss someone doesn't mean you like them."

At this point Robbie has sat back down, seeing that Lyn was busy talking to someone else.

"Yeah…" Everyone's eyes go to Alex. She said it pretty loudly, and people not in our little circle are looking too. "Like this."

She crawls over to an unsuspecting Robbie and kisses him. After a moment we all start cheering, and soon everyone joins in. The thing is, Robbie isn't even trying to back out, just sitting there and letting Alex kiss him.

I'm the first person to look over at Lyn. She's breathing in deeply. I'm starting to see that maybe, this isn't so funny. I stop cheering, tap Nina on the shoulder, and point to Lyn.

"Guys!" she whispers. "Stop cheering!" and then we point together. Alex finally sits back down and sees Lyn walking away in a huff.

"Twiggy? Aren't you gonna go say something?" Danny asks.

Alex raises an eyebrow. "Nah."

Robbie freezes for a second, but then is out like a bolt, running after her.

"What the hell was that?" Martin says to her.

Alex shrugs. "I was proving your point. You know, about-"

"Yeah, we know what point. It was a pretty horrible thing to do though." Steve interrupts.

"No, it would've been horrible if I'd forced him. Like tied his arms behind his back so he couldn't get free." Alex pauses and looks around. "Besides, why are you all sticking up for her? You know what she did to me."

Everyone joins in a chorus of 'YOU WERE NINE!".

"Yeah, but still. She's a bitch."

"She's not too bad. If you gave her a chance, you'd see she's alright." Steve reasons with her.

"Shut up, you're supposed to worship her, remember?" Alex replies, pointing at Nina. Nina giggles. She thinks it's a game, that Steve only pretends to like her.

Thank god she doesn't know it's real. Because god forbid she liked him too. That would crush me.

------------------------------------------------------------------

A/N: mmmm...

now, don't make me do subliminal messages here... review, pleeease...