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What a boring routine, I thought.

Why am I farming, you ask? The story itself was rather long, but for sure I still needed to eat to live, so do the math.

My brother was also a farmer, a very well-known farmer from Forget-Me-Not Valley. I myself arrived in Mineral Town about a year ago.

Although I have lived in Mineral Town for a year, none of the residents in this town knew that my brother was the famous farmer in Forget-Me-Not Valley. Forget-Me-Not Valley was not far from Mineral Town. Maybe if they knew, they would be startled. The only one who knew about this was Karen. I just did not want to be compared to my own brother.

It's strange to live in a small town for a year when no one really knew about you except Karen. Actually, if Karen did not force me to tell her, I probably had not told her about this.

After finished watering my crops, I immediately went to Yodel Farm. On my way, I bumped into Rick. I immediately remembered the incident last night.

"Oh, hi Karen. Hi Claire," Rick said with a smile.

"Hi Rick," I replied to his greeting.

"H-hi R-rick .." Karen replied haltingly.

Actually it was somewhat funny to see Karen like this, she usually calm and controlled, but i guess not now. When will i get to see Karen being shy like this? I just chuckled seeing Karen's behavior.

Karen had told me about her relationship with Rick. Rick was a childhood friend of Karen. At first, they were close. It all started when they were kids. As a child, Karen was a beautiful little girl who often got mocked because of other kids' jealousy. Seeing this, Rick began to defend Karen. Karen was confused at Rick's action because she remembered that she, at that time, had no friends. After then, Rick protected Karen from anything, although according to Karen his actions were very stupid. But because of Rick's stupidity, Karen began developing feelings for the glasses boy.

But as time went by, they grew up. Their relationship was not as close as it used to be. Since Rick's father left, Rick became very concerned with his mother and his sister. Rick started to forget about other things. What he thought was his family and how to maintain their business. Rick's father never came back, as they never heard of Rick's father anymore. Not even a single letter. Rick was sad, mad, and angry at his dad.

After all of that, he had to remain strong and become the foundation of the family. Frankly, I admired him for that.

However, it was clear from that time that Karen and Rick were not close anymore. Karen told me how puzzled she was to her own feelings. She couldn't even tell if she was still into him.

"Drinking to relieve stress?" Rick asked, smiling, interrupting my musings.

"Uh, yes ... so is Karen," I stammered, confused on why i brought Karen up. I could see from the corner of my eye that Karen was giving me her death stare. Have I told you that I'm an awkward person?

"Oh Karen, by the way i have not seen you here lately. Where have you been?" Rick asked kindly.

"I-I usually spend the night on the beach. I'd rather drink there, it's beautiful there," explained Karen, calming herself.

I could see clearly that Karen's face flushed, not due to drinking of course.

I chuckled once again at Karen's action. Seeing Karen being nervous because of a man, i started to think to myself, when will i experience the same thing?

"Good morning Claire. What are you staring at?" Rick asked, waving his hand in front of my face, once again interrupting my musings.

"Ah, good morning, Rick. It's nothing, i spaced out," I replied awkwardly.

"I see. Where are you going this early?" Rick asked kindly.

"Yodel Farm. I have to buy food for my cows," I said.

"Oh, good luck on your farm then," Rick said as he waved.

I walked away from Rick to the Yodel Farm. After getting my business done at Yodel Farm, I immediately went back to my farm and completed my job for the day. After that I went to the supermarket to meet Karen.

"Hey Karen, what are you doing?" I asked Karen who was sitting and reading a magazine.

"Do you not know what day tomorrow is?" Karen asked, ignoring my question.

"Umm ... Tuesday? Your day off? Another treat from you at the bar?" I asked, confused.

"No silly, and i'm not treating you again. Tomorrow is the day where we celebrate the Goddess Festival," explained Karen, trying to restore my memory.

"Oh, right," I replied curtly.

"Can you be more excited than this?" Karen asked.

"OH MY GOD LIKE KAREN LIKE TOMORROW IS THE DAY! LIKE THE GODDESS FESTIVAL! THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE! NO WAY! Slap me now! Wake me up!" I shouted sarcastically.

Karen's father, Jeff, chuckled seeing us.

"Look at these. A bunch of letters from some guys, asking me to go to the Goddess festival with them," said Karen showed me a stack of letters.

I looked at the stack of letters. All of them were from guys outside the town. Well, what can i say, Karen's pretty popular.

"Wow, did you say yes to one of them?" I asked.

Karen stayed silent.

"Hey? Karen? Did you?" I asked curiously.

"Did anyone invite you to the Goddess festival?" Karen asked.

"Eh? No. I think not. I have not checked my mailbox yet though," I said.

Karen was silent again.

"Hey Karen, is something wrong?" I asked, interrupting her reverie.

Karen did not answer my question. She brought all of the letters she received and threw everything into the trash can at once.

"H-Hey! What are you doing?" I asked, surprised.

"You did not go to the Goddess festival last year, right?" Karen asked, smiling.

"Yeah. If you mean Gotz gave me his daughter's dress to me the day after the festival, I think you're right," I said sarcastically.

"Have you learned the dance?" Karen asked me, still laughing at my last comment.

"Who said i'll be going?" I asked.

"What else are you waiting for? You still have the dress with you right?" Karen asked.

"Uhh.. yes"

"Well then?"

"Right. But i can't dance," I said.

"And i was about to teach you how to dance before you interrupted me with your nonsense," Karen said, rolling her eyes.

"Nonsense," i told her.

"Right"

"I was not supporting you, Karen"

We kept on arguing about our nonsense, while throwing funny insult at each other. Yeah, we're always like this. Have i mentioned that we're the best duo ever? Now we're the best idiotic duo ever.

Karen decided that she was going to teach me about the goddess dance. I mean, oh my goddess, i cannot dance. But i can rhyme, which i just did (?) But Karen did not listen to me. I would definitely blame her if this dance thing went wrong.

After the supermarket's closed, which was around 4PM, Me and Karen went to my house. Karen promised me that i would master the dance in just an hour. Let's see if she got the last thing right.

We trained for almost an hour. I had to admit that i underestimated her, i mean based on my dancing skill, but she was a good teacher! I mean, she could make me, a person who epicly fail at dancing, feeling confident about dancing!

"Hahh... that was exhausting," I said gasping for breath.

"Come on Claire! One other round and we're done!" Karen said, excited as ever.

"W-What? I... I can't," I said gasping for another breath.

"Okay fine," Karen said somewhat disappointed.

I sat down to calm myself. I took a deep breath as i set my breath slowly. Karen sat down beside me, smiling.

"Thank you Karen! You do not know how good you are as a teacher!" I smiled back.

"No, Claire. It was because the dance was not difficult. And you are not as horrible as you think in dancing!" she said, patting my shoulder.

Not difficult? I could hardly breathe because of this! I was willing to say that farming is much easier than this, I thought.

"Not difficult, eh? Hahaha..." I laughed awkwardly.

"Of course not!" Karen said, patting my shoulder harder.

Me and Karen just laughed at this situation. Although my shoulder almost fell off because she patted my shoulder hard.

But then again, to have a best friend who could overcome your weaknesses...

I'm fine with the pain in my shoulder.

A/N: how was it? did i improve? xD

i DON'T think that i'm going to pair Karen with Rick... but i thought that i would give the two a little history.

i haven't decided who should be Claire's partner. Who do you think should be her partner? ;

CliffAnnFC: Alisa-san! thank you so much for the review! i thought ive told you that i haven't spoken Jap for awhile xD カイ とカレンは、することができるのだと思います！

dannt: aww thank you so much! i hope you dont mind all the grammar errors i had ^^