Chapter 3
"That went well." says Finn as I run down toward the dock.
"Yeah, I guess." I say. "But, Wizard..." I raise my hand to my hand. "It was so warm." I whisper to myself.
Finn stops flying. "Wait...do you like Wizard? " he shouts.
I freeze. "N-no...he's only pretending to like me for the Harvest Goddess." I grab Finn by the shirt, or whatever it is that Harvest Sprites wear. "You can't tell her about Wizard! She can't know that he is faking!"
"OK. Don't worry, the sooner this quest ends, the better." Finn says. "Now, go! You have to meet fish-boy!"
"Huh?" I say. "Who's that?" I turn around to look at Finn but he's disappeared.
"Hi!" shouts a voice in front of me. I turn back around to see a silver haired boy fishing on the dock. "Come fish with me!"
I walk over to him. "Sorry, but I don't have a fishing pole."
He stands up. "That's OK, we can share mine!" He smiles. "My name is Toby."
"I'm Hikari." I say. Remember, charm the fish boy! I think urgently.
"So, can we fish together now?" Toby says. I nod, and he pats the plank of wood beside him. "Sit here!"
I sit down. "OK, put your hands on the fishing pole like this!" he says. Toby puts one arm around my shoulder and puts his hand over mine.
"And now," Toby says happily. "We wait!"
A good four minutes pass, then suddenly the fishing pole starts to jerk. "I'll take it from here, Hikari!" Toby shouts as he quickly takes him arm off me and grasps the fishing pole. I let go and stand up too. Charm him! I think.
Suddenly, I have an idea. "Whoa!" I shout as I fall off the dock and into the ocean below. The chilling waves envelop me, and I sink towards the bottom, flailing my arms and legs. Boy, this was stupid, I think. Then, I see, through my blurry vision, Toby. He swims down to me, his silver hair floating around his face.
I reach out my hand to him, and he grabs it.
Toby swims down further and picks me up, and begins to swim toward surface. Out of the corner of my eye, I notice Toby's fishing pole on the ocean floor, with
a huge fish swimming away from it.
We burst out of the water, and I cough up some water. "Thanks!" I say. Toby swims back to the dock and carries me up onto it.
"Be more careful next time, 'k?" Toby says lightheartedly.
"O-o-ok." I stammer with fake infatuation. Toby dives back into the water, and quickly returns with his fishing pole.
"Here," he says once he comes back onto the dock. "you can have it." He holds the worn pole out to me, smiling.
"Really?" I say as I take it from him. "Thank you."
"No prob! I've got tons of them." Toby takes of his shirt and begins to wring it out.
"You should probably go home and change into some dry clothes. If you don't you could catch a cold." Toby says.
"Alright." I say as I stand up. "Could I, um, see you I again?" I say, batting my eyelashes.
Toby looks surprised. "Sure!"
I nod a quick good-bye and run off.
Finn flits around in front of me. "Nice going. Falling off the dock was a nice touch."
I roll my eyes. "I told you, I have no idea how to flirt with guys."
"Well they like you, trust me." Finn yawns.
I narrow my eyes. "How do you know that?"
"Well, the Harvest Goddess wanted me to help out a little with your quest, so I can tell how a bachelor feels about you and what he's doing."
I stop and stare at him. "No way."
Finn glares at me, insulted by the fact I would assume he was lying. "I can! Right know, Gill is writing about you in his diary."
I stifle a laugh. "He has a diary?"
"Yeah. And it's quite funny. But he said in it that you're weird. And you smell like soap."
I sniff my arm cautiously. "Soap?"
"Yup." Finn surges forward. "Now let's meet some more guys!"
