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I was about to leave when I saw someone walking down the hill toward Vesta's Farm, and toward For-Get-Me-Not Valley- I mean, that IS the only way you could get here. But, that wasn't what bothered me. It was who the person was.

Julia.

And, she didn't look like the middle class girl I expected her to be. She...she...she...

She looked like a star.

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Muffy's POV

She was laughing at something her other star partner said, when she noticed Celia and Marlin looking at her. She smiled brightly- like she had just one the lottery. Which, by the looks of her clothes, was a good possibility. I strained my ear to hear what she said.

"...Is my friend, Nicole Rae. And, I'm so glad to see you again, Celia! Marlin! I just wanted to see the kids and clear up a few things before I leave again, I kinda left Skye biting the dust, y'unno." I heard her say happily.

"Oh, don't worry, Julia! He deserved to be left that way!" Celia answered stoutly.

"Tch. He deserved to be left a couple more ways, too." Marlin grunted. I heard Celia slap him, and Julia giggle.

Then, she did something I feared she would do. She looked my way. And I was prepared for the worst.

But, she just smiled and waved as she ran toward me.

There was no ice cold shoulder, and no ugly scene. She just smiled and didn't say the things I knew she had the right to. "Hey Muffy! This is my new friend I met a couple years ago, Nicole Rae." She introduced. I just stood there, until the woman stuck her hand out. Slowly, I shook it and then pulled my hand back. I didn't know what felt worse.

That she wasn't mad at me,

or she didn't love me. (As a friend!)

"Muffy, do you know how to get to the farm? I want to get some things settled out." She explained. I nodded meekly and started walking toward the farm, and she and her friend followed.

Julia's POV

I smiled internally. I was bigger than being mean to Muffy, I knew that. She did what she did, and she looked like she got what she deserved. I wasn't going to hold grudges against anyone. She looked sad when I saw her at first, when she didn't know I was looking at her. But, when she and I looked at each other, she had the look in her eyes I learned to channel out.

Fear.

Nicole looked like she wanted to see Muffy squirm, but I didn't. I was tired of being mean, sad, scared. I wanted to be friends again. But, it's not like I didn't know where the farm was. I just wanted to talk to Muffy some more; to get some things out of her. I knew Skye would just try to sweet talk me back into him. I mentally laughed bitterly. I had fallen for that too many times already. Not this time.

"Muffy? Doy you know how Skye and the kids have been doing? And you? I don't mean to be mean or anything, but you look like you just came out of Murrey's little hole." She looked at me, and, in spite of wanting to stay afraid of me, she laughed. I was sure she hadn't done that in awhile, considering how it choked out of her throat like it had been stuck in there for ages.

"Actually, we've been doing pretty bad. Skye's been trying to get food on the table as hard as he could, and, to tell you the truth, I was kicked out of Griffin's after the...incident. I've been living like Murrey ever since. And, Lake Farm is in shambles now." She added. I gasped. I knew it would take a big hit on him, but not this big! If my animals were sick or something, there would be hell to pay!

"What about the kids?" I asked, concerned.

"Oh. You mean Amy, Hayden, Hunter, and Alice? They're doing fine. And, they're also the only ones who never stopped believing you were coming back." She admitted, and Nicole burst into anime tears.

"SO KAWAII!!" She yelled. Muffy and I sweatdropped.

"Well...we're here now...I'm gonna go to the Goddess Pond...Julia."Muffy said, unsure of herself, and left.

"Julia?" Nicole asked. She had stopped by now.

"Hm?" I answered. I was too caught up in seeing how much it would take to bring up a completely broken farm to notice what she was doing. If it was alot, I was so going to kill Skye. I had sorta turned into a shopaholic after I left the valley, and spending money on anything except the essentials and designer clothes and shoes made me depressed. Literally. I wouldn't have any money to go shopping if I spent it trying to bring a hopeless farm off of the ground!

"Ya know how you said you were too big to hate Muffy anymore?" She asked. I nodded.

"Are you too big to make Skye's life a living hell?" She asked curiously, then added, "I have a hell of a lot of ideas." I sighed.

"I swear, sometimes I think I have a masochist as a friend."

"A cute masochist." Nicole added. I glared at her. She flipped me off.

"We gonna go in now, Julia?" Nicole asked. I looked at her. I wasn't just going to leave! That would be stupid. Come out into the middle of nowhere just to talk to a woman that looked like a hobo with a broken heel. I shuddered at the thought of a broken heel.

"Of course! Besides, I wanna see my horses." I answered. She snorted.

"That is cold, Julia, cold. Wanting to see your horses and not kids!"

"Well, I want to see them, too! And, lets go!" I said hotly, and started walking up the hill toward my old farm. Nicole just gave me a amused look and followed.

I stopped as soon as I got one step into the farm.

Holy.

Shit.

Nicole whistled as she grinned. "And here I thought they were kidding when they said it looked like crap!" I crinkled my nose in disgust.

"Ugh. It smells like it, too." I commented. Right when I said that, I heard a familiar voice yell from inside the house,"Alice! Aren't you potty trained yet?" I heard a cute little girl voice answer after that one.

"Yes daddy, I am! Maybe it was you!" Nicole snorted and I doubled over laughing. Rebelious. They have taught themselves well. After we had stopped laughing, I looked at Nicole. Time to make my grand entrance.

I walked to the door the the house and opened it. I saw a familiar head of silver hair turn toward me, along with four little kids' heads. Ha. Granny hair. I whistled and grinned. "Hey Skye, the farm smells horrible. Do you have a bathroom? If I remember correctly, we did. I suggest using it."

burn.

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Author's Note- I know I got this out a little later than I planned, (although I didn't tell anyone I was planning on getting it out), Anyway, I wanted to get it out last Monday, but we left on vacation too early for me to be able to do anything. And, guess what? They made me leave my laptop. Just because you would have payed to have to get internet up there...I even offered to pay for it myself. They ignored me.