I have been bored lately so I put another chapter up. I hope this satitates your interest in my story. Oh by the way, all the islands will already be up. Chelsea will not have to raise them or anything, oh and I prefer to put months instead of seasons, just makes it earier for the animals and crops to grow and stuff. Hugs and kisses to those of you who review and favourite.

DISCLAIMER: Oh why yes after just one day I magically own Harvest Moon! Oh wait, no, no I don't.

Chapter Four: New Family, New Friends

On The Boat/6:30am/April 1st/Wednesday

"LAND HO!" Tony shouted, causing me to have a mini spazz attack and fall off the bed.

"You could've just told me to get up!" I yelled back.

I heard him laugh heartily "Seriously though kid, land ho!"

I grasped the meaning of his words and scrambled out of the room onto the boat's deck. I put a hand to my face to block out the morning sun and focused my eyes on the islands

There it is Chels, your new home!

I studied the islands, I could see some big main ones and some smaller ones, scattering around the larger ones. They all seemed to be green with trees sprouting out of them. So different from the town.

It looks so cool and peaceful! Dad'll never think to look here for me!

I breathed in the salty sea air and sighed "Thanks so much for taking me here Tony!"

"Like I keep saying kid, no problem. Just make sure ya' don't go and get yerself caught. I don't my work to have been fer nuthin!" He chuckled.

"Will do!" And I gave him my best thumbs up.

I felt the cool breeze blow past me, lifting my hair slightly and making me shiver. Even though it was spring and sunny, there was a chill in the air.

As we neared the main island I was hopping from one foot to the other, out of sheer excitement. Soon we got close enough to see some people at the small dock.

There was a short man, with loads of wrinkles and a white mustache. He looked really old. Maybe around seventy-five? Then was a woman with long pink hair and kind brown eyes, she looked quite young but she had a few wrinkles so I estimated she was around fourty.

The engine spluttered once again as Tony turned it off. We were right beside the dock. I grabbed the railing and jumped off the boat, my feet slamming into the wood of the dock, making a loud noise.

Tony's exit was no more graceful than mine as he stood beside me, I eyed up the man and the woman. The woman had a nice smile one her face and the old man had a grumpy look.

"This the girl ya' was talkin' 'bout then Tony?" He said, his voice deeper than expected.

"Sure is, and from what I seen of her she'll make a fine young farmer." He patted my head and I grinned.

The man hmphed "She looks a little weak, sure she's up to it?"

"Father!" The woman scolded.

"Who you callin' weak gramps!" I yelled shaking my fist.

He seemed slightly taken aback at my response "Who ya' callin' gramps!" He yelled back.

"Father calm down, I am she meant no harm." The woman said, turning to face me "My name is Felicia and this is my father, Taro." She motioned to him.

I stuck out my hand "Nice to meet you Miss Felicia, I'm Chelsea!"

She shook it gently whilst beaming at me "No need to call me Miss."

I looked at the old man again. He gave me a glare.

Looks like I found myself someone who's just as stubborn as me. Sounds like fun.

I could feel my mischieveous smile tugging at the corners of my lips. I resisted the urge to laugh though.

"Well kid, I have to get goin'. It was good ta' meet ya'." Tony squeezed my shoulder before climbing back onto his boat "I hope we meet again kiddo!" He help his hand up to me in a waving gesture.

I waved back until he was out of sight. Then I turned on my heels to face the old man again "So where's this farm of mine then?"

He huffed, but walked down the dirt path and I followed obidiently. Felicia was beside him, whispering something that I couldn't quite make out. I heard Tony's boat engine come back to life and I heard him speed off.

"I must get back to my house." Felicia told us "Come visit me later to meet my son and daughter." She smiled once again and trotted off to the side.

We eventually crossed a bridge and came to a big field. It had a mini forest outlining it, a house and a small pond. At the back were two other buildings.

"Well this is yer' new farm." Old man Taro stated.

My eyes went wide with shock "Wha- What! This whole island! Woah!"

"If ya' think yer' up to up. I gotta' say ya' don't show much promise girl." He grumbled.

I narrowed my eyes "Well I'm gonna prove you wrong!" I stated "I bet by the end of this month I'll be running a pretty damn good farm!"

He raised an eyebrow at me and smirked "Ya' got guts girl, I'll giva ya' that. Since yer' so sure of yerself, I needn't show ya' what to do huh?"

I blinked "Well uh, I don't, ummm, well I don't really know what to do I guess..." I muttered.

He smirked again and pointed at a small shed "That there, has all yer tools. You'll find a hoe, a watering can, a sickle, an axe and a hammer." He moved his finger to point at the small house "That is yer new home. it ain't much but since yer alone ya' don't need much, do ya?"

I shook my head "Nah it seems just fine for me, gramps."

"Good. Now up the top of the field, you'll find yerself a barn and coop. Ya' can buy chickens, cows and sheep from Mirabelle's shop back on Vendure island. The place ya' docked." He explained.

I nodded and continued to listen as he explained about everything I needed to know. I became rather fond of the old man really, wasn't as bad as he seemed. Certainly didn't let bein' so old get to him.

After he gave me some turnip seeds and made me plant them as he instructed me, he told me that I should meet everyone on the islands, make myself some friends. After I watered them, he left me to go take care of something.

I brushed the dirt from my hands, figuring I was going to be shaking hands with people, I headed inside my new house and to the bathroom to wash them.

The house wasn't much like the old man had said, it had wooden walls and floors with a cow hide rug in the middle of the room. It had a small kitchen with a stove and a fridge. I had a bed with a calender hanging above it, a dress at the end of it and an alarm clock on a table beside it. The bathroom had blue tiling, a toilet, a sink with a toothbrush, a tube of toothpaste and a bar of soap on it and a shower with a towel hanging over it.

I scrubbed the dirt from my hands with the soap, drying my hands on the white towel. I dropped my backpack on my new bed, because it was getting kinda heavy having to lug it around.

I pretty much skipped into the town, I was elated with my new home and farm. I had always wanted to work with animals but on the rare occasions I was allowed to help at the stables, the horses were always gone.

I found the shop pretty easily, the place was small after all. I opened the door and heard a high-pitched tinkle of the bell above me. There was a middle-aged looking woman with blonde hair at the counter.

"Welcome!" She said, her eyes sparkling with mirth "You must be the new farmer everyone's talkin' about!"

I nodded and smiled "I sure am! Name's Chelsea! You must be Mirabelle, the owner of this shop, right?"

"That's what they tell me!" She laughed "You should meet my daughter, wait right here."

She slipped into the door opposite where I was standing. I heard some muffled talking, then footsteps.

Mirabelle opened the door, a very pretty girl who was around my age followed her.

And by pretty, I mean breathtakingly beautfiul.

She had long blonde hair tied up in a ponytail, light blue eyes like her mom's. She wore cowboy boots, shorts a small white top that revealed a portion of her stomach and blue jacket.

I couldn't help thinking that perhaps she should've been a princess and not me, with my mousy brown hair and freckles.

"Hi." Her voice was sweet sounding and slightly country "I'm Julia nice to meet you."

I held out my hand "My name's Chelsea and it's great to meet you!"

She took it and gave me a smile, showing off perfect white teeth "Chelsea, that's a pretty name."

I shrugged "Whatever floats ya' boat."

She giggled "I can tell we're gonna be great friends, Chelsea."

I beamed "I really hope so!"

"Say, why don't you show Chelsea around the islands, help her meet everyone and get to know the place." Mirabelle suggested.

She turned to me "Well Chelsea, do you wanna do that?"

I nodded eagerly "I think that's a great idea!"

We left the shop together and Julia walked me to the house I had seen Felicia enter earlier.

"This is where my best friend Natalie lives with her mom, her grandpa and her brother." She told me "I think you and Natalie could be really good friends, you seem to have the same mischieveous glint in your eyes."

I laughed "Got me sussed out already eh? Well looks like my secret's out."

She giggled again "C'mon I'm sure they won't mind us bargin' in."

She pulled me by the arm inside the house.

I was met with the sight of Felicia telling off a bored looking girl, whilst a boy stood in the corner, sulking.

"What have I told you about being nice to your brother!" She sighed, shaking her head. It was then that she noticed Julia and me "Oh I'm sorry you two I didn't mean for you to see that!"

"S'okay." I waved my hands "I used to get told off all the time."

Felicia smiled again, it seemed almost natural, like the smile was always there "Well I suppose now is the time to introduce you to my children. Elliot come here."

The boy came over, he had pink hair and brown eyes like his sister and mom and glasses that were settled on the edge of his nose.

"Nice to meet ya' Elliot!" I grinned, waving like an idiot.

He returned my smile "Y-you too." He said shyly before looking at Julia and blushing slightly "Hi J-julia."

I arched an eyebrow and smirked.

Well, well Chels. Looks like we got ourselves a case of the shy-boy crush.

"Hi Elliot!" She said brightly, making the boy blush some more. I fought the urge to giggle.

"What about me!" The girl whined before zipping up to me "Names Natalie, you seem to be friends with Jules so that makes you friends with me!" She declared.

"I'm Chelsea! And I do wanna be friends, incase ya' were wonderin'."

She made a pfft sound "I don't care if you like it or not, we are now friends!"

Julia tugged at my sleeve "Chelsea, we have a lot more of places to see, so we'd better get goin'."

"Hey I'm coming along!" Natalie proclaimed.

"Oh no!" Felicia said "No you are not, you'll just bother them!"

"Nah it's perfectly fine Miss Felicia!" I jumped to her defense "The more the merrier right?"

I gave my best puppy dog eyes, the least I could do for my new friend was to get her out of trouble.

Felicia sighed in defeat "Fine, go on have fun!" She ushered us out of the door.

"Thanks for that." Natalie slung an arm around shoulder "You are an expert at persuasion."

I swung my arm around her and Julia "It's fine, what're friends for?"

Julia recorpirated the act and we strolled off. She pointed out the diner on Vendure Island, we met Chen and his son Charlie, who both worked at the general store. Pierre who was taking a stroll. At first I had thought he was about thirteen, I soon found out he was actually the same age as me and well, that had come as quite a shock. He sure didn't look it.

We got to Sprout Island and I was shown the other diner. They told me the big house belonged to Regis, a very rich guy with a daughter named Sabrina. He ran some kinda mining company or something.

I met Lanna, the former pop star. She was a very girly-girl but seemed nice enough. She too, was really pretty. Compared to all the girls on these islands, I felt like a frumpy outsider. looks had never been that important to me though. They showed me Gannon's shop and were shocked when I didn't seem to care about his rough, gorilla type appearence. Like I said, looks weren't anything to me. He had a young daughter, same age as Charlie. I told her she was cute and she seemed to instantly love me just for that compliment. Boy these people were nice.

They told me I could've met Denny, the resident fisherman, but he didn't seem to be around. Jules checked her watch.

"Right guys it's 8:52am so I need to go take care of the store for a while. Nat I am entrusting Chelsea to you, okay?"

"We'll be fine Jules! After all what could possibly go wrong? I'm only gonna show her the Meadow and Goddess Island." Natalie reassured her.

"Yeah don't worry about us! We'll just be the dynamic duo instead of the terrific trio for a while! Go run the store Jules!" I had taken to calling them the nicknames they fondly used for each other.

She nodded "Don't do anything too stupid okay?"

Natalie huffed in annoyance "C'mon Jules, just go!"

Julia giggled, hugged us both and ran back to the store.

Natalie turned to me with a devilish grin on her face "Good, now we can really have some fun!"

I was puzzled for a second before returning the grin "What kinda fun?"

"Oh just the kind where Jules won't be here to provide a consience."

"Sounds good."

Her grin got wider at my statement "Excellent. Now, we are going to booby trap Denny's front door."

I scratched my head "Hmmm, may I ask why?"

"He called me annoying. He simply doesn't understand pure awesomeness when he sees it!"

"No one calls my friends annoying! What'll we do?"

"Here's the plan..."

Twenty-six minutes later...

Nat and I were hiding behind the large rock on the beach, waiting for Denny to come home. We had planted a bucket full of wet sand on top of Denny's door, when he walked in, it was rigged to drop on his head. He really needed to lock his door.

We were staring at the door, keeping our eyes on it like a hawk would a rabbit. I didn't even know what this guy looked like, so I was relying on Nat to keep watch really.

"Hey Chels, that's an awesome tattoo ya' got there." She whispered to me.

"Thanks, I just got it a day ago. I think it's pretty neat." I grinned.

"You're so lucky that you were allowed to get one. Even if my mom and grandpa did approve, there'd be no way to get one anyway." She sighed.

"Yeah, still maybe one day you'll get to go to a city. Though I actually really hated it there, I guess I prefer being in a small community."

"Hey Natalie!" A boy's voice called her name.

We both looked over and saw Elliot rushing towards us.

"What do you want?" She asked in an irritated tone.

"Grandpa needs your help. I wouldn't ignore him unless you want to get grounded again." He panted.

She growled "Fine." She faced me with a apologetic smile "Sorry I can't stay and watch the show Chelsea, tell me what happens later 'kay?"

I nodded and she hurried after her brother, I turned my gaze back onto the shacks door.

A couple of minutes later a dark-skinned boy with a purple bandana tied around his curly haired head walked up to the door and pushed it gently. I supressed my urge to laugh and waited.

He pushed it fully open and I watched as the bucket fell down and he got covered in gloopy, soggy sand. It was such a hilarious sight that i couldn't stop my shrieking laughter from giving away my position.

I fell on my back, covering my mouth with my hands and trying not to laugh any more. I felt a shadow pass over me and met the brown eyes of a very unamused looking fisherman.

I laughed nervously and scratched the side of my head "Heh, well I guess I owe you an explanation."

He raised an eyebrow "Ya' think?"

I stood up and shook the sand off my clothes and gave him a guilty grin "Well it was Nat's idea. She said we needed to get you back for callin' her annoying. I agreed because, well I like to prank people." I held my hand out "I'm Chelsea, the new farmer."

He cracked a smile and shook my hand "I knew saying that to her would come back to bite me in the butt. Well I guess she told you, but my name's Denny."

"Yep, just to warn ya', I wouldn't annoy me. I have serious anger issues. But other than that I think you and me'll get along just fine."

"Thanks for the warning." He chuckled "Did ya' already get a tour of the islands?"

I shook my head "Not really, Nat and Jules had to rush off to do work so I only got to see the two main islands."

"Well if you like, I can show you Meadow and Goddess Island. They're pretty cool."

I nodded enthusistically "That's be awesome!" I blushed slightly as my stomach growled "Haha, guess my belly wants me to eat something. Come to think of it I haven't eaten since lunchtime yesterday."

"Well if you like fish stew, I've got some left over that you can eat." He offered.

"Yes please!" I licked my lips.

Ten minutes of Chelsea gulping down soup like she hadn't eaten in weeks and Denny shaking sand off his hair and clothes later...

"Thanks Denny, that was delicious!" I wiped my mouth with the back of my hand and put the bowl down.

"No problem, now let's go see begin your tour." He stood up and helped me to my feet.

We walked up to a large bridge on the first island heading towards an island of green. As we strolled across it I couldn't help but feel slightly out of place amongst the beauty of the rural place. I had never seen somewhere so peaceful.

"This is Meadow Island. We hold all our compitions here, when you get your farm up and running, you should enter some." He told me.

"I might, what kinda compitions are there?" I asked.

"Mostly ones that compare different farm animals, like chickens and cows. We also have ones for crops and pets. The winner gets a ribbon and some gold." He explained.

"Sounds pretty cool, I'll have to enter a couple of those. Even if I don't win, it'll be fun!"

"Great attitude Chels! Let's go see the church next!"

Chels... I like it! I mean sure I call myself that name but no one has ever said it before. But I reckon it sounds awesome!

"Chels?" Denny snapped me out of my thoughts "Hurry up!"

"Coming!" I yelled and caught up with him.

We ran back across to Vendure Island and crossed another big bridge, boy those things were long.

"Woah..." My breath caught in my throat, this place had a big forest surrounding the clearing where a building and clear watered pond were.

"And this is the Goddess Island, the church is on here with a sacred pond in front of it. They say if you toss an offering into the pond and the Goddess likes it, she'll appear before you." He said.

"For real? Does anyone live in the church?"

"Yep, a priest and a girl. They don't tend to associate with anyone else but they're actually nice people. Wanna go meet 'em?" He asked.

"Course I do! C'mon!" I dragged him behind me, a habit of mine was doing that to people.

I halted at the door and opened it slowly.

"Hello?" I said as we crept inside, my voice echoing around the old building.

A middle-aged man looked up at me and Denny "Ah, hello there. Have you come to offer your prayers to the Goddess?"

"Uh, sure. But I also came to introduce myself. I'm the new farmer, Chelsea!" I smiled and waved to him.

He gave back a gentle smile, wrinkles creasing around his mouth "I am Nathan, the priest of this church. It is good to meet you, Chelsea."

"Hey Nathan, where's Alisa?" Denny asked, rubbing his head.

At that moment the door we had just used creaked and a woman stepped inside. She gave us suprised looks.

"Hi Alisa." Denny grinned "Nice to see ya'."

"Oh so this is Alisa." I stepped forward and held out my hand "Name's Chelsea, I'm the new farmer."

She gave me a shy smile and shook my hand "A pleasure to meet you Chelsea."

Hmm... So she's the timid type huh? Well guess I'd better go easy on her.

Denny tugged at my jacket "Are we gonna pray?"

I nodded and we sat on one of the benches, Denny clasped his hands together and I copied the action.

"Dear Goddess, please make it so I make a great catch this month. I could sure use it. And make sure Chels doesn't get into any trouble with Natalie." Denny said.

I giggled softly and closed my eyes "Dear Goddess, ignore what Denny said, I love mischief. But it'd be pretty cool if you could help my new plants grow and maybe let me get enough money to buy some chickens. Oh and whatever you do, don't let him find me." I whispered the last part, making sure no one would be able to hear it.

After our little spiritual session, Denny walked me back to my farm and we said goodbye. I went inside my new house and unpacked my clothes and put them into the dresser. I fell back onto my bed and smiled to myself.

Well Chels, looks like you got yourself a new home, new farm, new family and new friends.

Pfft crappy endings FTW! Still I hope this was a fairly nice chapter, if you noticed I got rid of the boat people, have a cookie. I just think they were unessecary really. This coming from the girl who can't be bothered to learn how to spell unessecary. I bid you adieu my dear readers.