Early the next morning, Jovi received a loud knock on her door. She stepped onto the cool wooden floor, then the bubbly sensation arose inside her again, and a tiny, colorful note materialized in her hand.

"When you have no money, you fully understand its importance. A note for reevaluating the value of money," the note twinkled.

"Well," Jovi sighed. "If that isn't inspirational, I don't know what is." It was disheartening to Jovi that she would receive such a note first thing in the morning.

She answered the door, still in her baggy nightshirt, to find a young man with straw colored hair and a little black vest.

"Hi!" He was bright for it being so early in the day. "My name is Carl, and my dream is to open and run a café that sells cute little cakes and delicious tea!"

Jovi decided immediately that she liked this Carl. He was upbeat and positive and set big goals for the future.

"That sounds exciting! I hope your dream comes true, because if it did, I would visit your café all the time," she told him, and his face lit up.

"Aha! That's so nice of you," he smiled and blushed a little. "Hey, did you hear about the Egg Festival tomorrow?"

"Oh yeah, I did. How do you have an Egg Festival? Egg-shaped floats?"

Carl chuckled. "It's a festival dedicated to egg products, like cakes and omelets and deviled eggs. Last year we didn't have enough eggs to have the festival, but this year, I donated a lot of them, so we should be able to have it."

"Oh, that's too bad." Jovi was suddenly aware of just how small Flower Bud was, a farming community not having enough eggs. "I wish I could donate, but I don't have any chickens yet. I just moved here two days ago on the Exciting Ranch Plan."

"Jovi? I heard about you from Nina! She said you were really nice and really pretty, but now that I see you, you're much prettier than I imagined." Carl smirked.

Jovi looked at her bare toes and smiled, too.

"Thanks," she murmured, embarrassed that someone would find her attractive.

"It was nice meeting you, Jovi. I'll see you at the Egg Festival!" Carl skipped away merrily.

"Nice kid," said Jovi to herself. Then, she remembered her turnip plants. Not bothering to change out of her pajamas, the girl ran around her house to her backyard, were she had planted the seeds. In the morning sun, tiny two-leaved sprouts danced and glistened.

"Yes!!! I did it!!! I'm an official farmer!!!" Jovi leapt for joy, her nightshirt flying above her knees.

"You're making a racket," said a curt voice from road, followed by a humph! Jovi turned to face Jamie. He looked at her over shirt with her long legs protruding from under it and her messy yellow hair then snapped his gaze over to the new sprouts poking out of the soil.

"They'll die before the day is over," Jamie said hurtfully. Then, he continued down the road, going wherever it was he was going with his chin held high in arrogance. Jovi looked at her baby turnip plants.

"I'll show him." She smiled, despite feeling put-down by the purple-haired farmer. With a new sense of purpose, Jovi rushed inside, threw on her overalls and boots, tied her hair in low pigtails, grabbed her watering can and Finn, and returned to the misty outdoors. Finn again sniffed along the house, pawing at slow snails and bounding crickets, while Jovi filled her watering can and wet the turnip sprouts gently, being careful not to pour too fast and kill the plants. When she was finished, she patted Finn on the head and walked up the road, around Blue Sky Ranch, towards the mountains. She saw Jamie's ranch, the one that was painted purple to match his hair. Rows upon rows of crops displayed plump fruits and vegetables. She wondered when her garden would look like that.

Continuing up the path on the slopes, Jovi spied a spiky yellow orb resting in the grass. She went over to it and picked it up. A heavy, syrupy scent wafted from it, making her mouth water.

"Just one bite can't hurt," Jovi reassured herself, fearing that the thing might be poisonous or rotten. She tentatively nibbled a bit off.

It was delicious and it made her feel energetic. She gulped down the rest and wiped her chin.

"Mighty tasty. I bet if I gathered a bunch of these, I could sell them!" Jovi reasoned. She jogged up the incline, collecting every yellow fruit in sight. When she could not carry any more, she began to head down the hill, back towards her house. The little night bugs were already swarming around every light source in the dark when she got back. Tired, she dropped the fruits in the shipping box.

Jovi's fingertips tingled and a shining and flurrying in her hands told her that she had received another note.

"Received with your first shipping box shipment," chimed the note, its glow lighting up Jovi's face. "Lots of deliveries from the first. Happiness of the very first delivery note."

"I think that makes three!" Jovi beamed. "I'm getting the hang of this!"

The girl entered her ranch home and closed the door tightly behind her. From behind a tree a little ways away, a boy in a poncho and a cowboy hat watched her.

"No good. She's already collected a bunch." Jamie shook his head. "She's a lot more dedicated than I thought she was."

"We knew she would help us, yeah!" said Carlos in an I-told-you-so matter. Jamie shot the nymph a heated glare which sent him into a fit of trembling.

"We'll just see how long she holds out." The purple-haired lad traipsed away, three fairies springing after him.

In her warm house now, Jovi hopped into bed. She had been surprised that Finn was already inside, but she assumed that the door had been left a hair open and he had decided that he had had enough of the great outdoors.

Setting her diary in her lap, Jovi wrote:

Dear Diary,

My turnip plants have sprouted and I am an official rancher, now! I feel so domestic! That kid, Jamie, showed up and put down all my hard work. He's a nub. I think he knows that, too.

I met a really nice boy today. His name is Carl and he's an aspiring café owner. I hope he gets his dream. He's really bubbly and he's really cute- he has big chocolate eyes. I'm sure he'll make it.

I got two notes today, one, good, and the other, not so good. I got the bad one first as soon as I woke up. It was the "Poor Note". I got it for having almost no money. Step back a moment and take a good look at the situation… New town, new house, second day, no money. Pitiful. But later, I got another note for my first shipment. I shipped these strange-looking fruits that smell and taste like candy. I wonder how much money I will get in the morning for those.

Well, off to bed now. Nighty night.

~Jovi

Jovi's lids were heavy on her eyeballs. She forgot to set her diary on her side table and fell asleep with it in her arms and Finn at her feet, curled into a C shape.