Me: Well guess what? That's right the third chapter of Stubborn love and Gray is the one Amy will be meeting today. Wow she'll be busy with meeting everyone huh? No worries she'll be meeting everyone eventually not just the guys! Thanks for all the wonderful reviews! I love you all!

Gray: Just get to the story all ready no one likes hearing you talk

Me: you act all tough and mean but we all know you're a big softy!

Gray: H-hey!

Me: I don't own Harvest Moon!

Amy stared at the fields of vegetables that awaited her to water and weed. She groaned, dear Goddess she hated working so much. Her stamina had barely grown sense a few weeks ago when she started working so much.

'I wonder if I'll ever be able to relax with all this stuff going on.'

Amy thought shaking her head slightly; she could thank her mother and father for keeping the barn in good health and thank Carter and Flora for allowing her to excavate the mine with them which got her a lot of good priced goods. Speaking of which after she got done with what seemed like hours of work she'll get right onto going over there!

-Few Hours Later-

Amy looked at her wrist watch and saw that it was almost 11 o'clock. Dear Goddess it took her almost five hours to get done with all the work in the farm! Amy started walking towards the ruins stopping on the way to chat with some people before finally able to see the excavation site.

Amy stood in front of the entrance for a few moments before walking inside, looking around for the familiar faces of Carter and Flora. Frowning she saw someone with a hat over by where Carter usually is by now.

"Umm…Hello there."

Amy said curiously she must have surprised him because he turned around quite quickly his blue eyes wide.

"h, hi Amy, I'm Gray."

'how the hell does he know my name?' Amy thought in surprise before realizing that everyone here knows her name, it seems the used to be lazy farmer girl is popular now. It annoyed her a bit that a lot of times when she talked to people they always told her to go work and stop goofing off. Amy feeling like screaming at them saying 'what the hell do you think I'm doing when I'm going all the way to Vesta's house damnit!' But Amy always smiled and said to them that she's just going to by seeds laughing evilly on the inside when she sees them stutter with what to say next. (1)

"Nice to meet you Gray!" Amy said then looked around curiously again "Where's-"

"If you want Carter, he said they're working back in the cave."

Amy sweatdropped when he interrupted her speaking but said nothing about it (2)

"Oh I understand thanks very much!"

Amy fidgeted a bit as they stared at each other for a few minutes without saying anything, a very tense air around them 'Wow this is getting awkward' Amy thought and was sure he seemed to think that too because he tried to spike up a conversation between them.

"Oh, um… You seemed to be doing well with the ranch Amy. And doing it all by yourself I'm really impressed."

Gray said his voice was kind but kind of cold in a way, as if he wasn't used to talking to people much. Now that she thought of it he didn't seem to type to be very social, kinda like Marlin means well but doesn't know how to put it into words very well. Cold on the outside shy on the inside. At his words Amy felt herself get a bit flustered.

"Oh no! It wasn't just me please don't think that. I have a lot of help from everyone on this island. You do a lot of work yourself so I'm the one who should be impressed, you build your own tools and fix things for other people right? That's really amazing not my farming!"

Amy said shaking her head a bit her hands in front of her shaking in that sort of 'no way' manor that some people use. And when she spoke of his work Gray seemed pleased and smiled softly at her.

"No really! I'm still in training myself though. Grandpa really heaps on the old work and so it really wears me out! Just curious do you ever think ranching is hard?"

Gray asked his head down so his hat covered his eyes a bit, Amy thought about it for only a second. Yeah ranching was very, very hard.

"Oh yeah it's really hard for me, I sometimes wish I could relax a bit. But it's my job and I can't slack off."

Amy said happily, 'What I wouldn't give for a nice vacation!' Amy thought bitterly, 'Yeah I don't think that'll ever happen.' Amy was so into her thoughts she barely heard Gray's next words.

"I must've thought that a hundred times about my job. But I can't quit or Grandpa will have my hide! I just do all I can to keep at it. So you do think it's a hard life from time to time. They'll be tough times for us but let's keep at it ok?"

Gray said all this and it kinda surprised her, he didn't seem the type to talk this much, Amy mentally slapped herself for thinking such things about someone she barely knew. So she smiled softly at him nodding her head slightly.

"Yeah let's keep at it."

Just as she said that Carter and Flora appeared from the hole in the wall, she and Gray looked over with a slight smile it was a good thing they appeared Amy and gray were running out of things to talk about!

"Oh Carter and Flora just came out."

Gray's voice became a bit monotone and his face looked almost disappointed Amy smiled,

"We'll talk later!"

Gray seemed pleased with this, Carter mumbled to Flora about not finding much of value, Flora comforted him about finding more next time which made Carter pleased with this and finally both Amy and Gray were noticed by them. 'Finally you old man.' Amy thought almost with a glare towards Carter but she held back. Carter let out a loud laugh when greeting her,

"Salutations, Amy. I didn't realize you came by. Are you here for a dig?"

Amy laughed slightly nodding, "Yep!"

"Well then make yourself at home!"

Of course the mine seemed like Amy's second home sense she spent so much time digging so it was quite easy to do just that. Gray looked over at her, feeling awkward.

"I'm glad we could talk, Amy."

"Me too,"

He pulled his hat down lower, "So you came here to dig too?"

Amy nods slightly, "Yep I come here almost every day!"

Her voice is happy, and it's obvious Gray is pleased as well because he lifts up his hat and grins widely at her,

"I hope you find something cool!"

Amy laughs and waves bye to everyone pleased with how her day has went, as she walked out she blinked as she realized what time it was, it was 7! She bit her lip hoping she got everything she needed because she only had an hour before most shops closed. She went home, checked on her animals and crops. She sighed happy to have some time to herself even if it was late in the day.

"I'm going to get some drinks."

She mumbled to herself stuffing her hand in her pocket pulling out her ipod shuffling through her songs humming to herself as she greeted some people with a wave, a smile, or even a hug if she knew them good enough. Walking into the bar almost dancing until she caught herself, she was expecting a large crowd but there was only Muffy and Griffin there.

"Umm-"

Again before she was asked she was, of course, cut off by Muffy speaking.

"Oh hi Amy, you came at a good time, we were just talking about how earlier this morning we got a letter from the mysterious Phantom Skye!"

Amy held back a sigh, the way Muffy said it was like there should have been some evil background music playing but hearing that Phantom Skye was involved peaked her interest so instead of just walking out like she normally would have done if Muffy started speaking like that she listened as Griffin spoke.

"It says this; 'I am going to bless your bar with my presence at midnight for a drink-Phantom Skye' He sure does love himself doesn't he?

Amy felt herself laugh a bit, sure does sound like Skye! She didn't really listen to Muffy's stupid dramatic words but when asked to help out Amy quickly nodded her head,

"Come here between ten and midnight tonight."

Amy let out a laugh as she walked out, this day sure is getting interesting isn't it? Putting her hands in her pockets she turned her ipod back on, trying to make the time to pass.

Me: yeah it's been forever I hope this makes up for it though! It's pretty long too XD I'm using the heart-scenes for her meeting up with them but I promise it won't follow the heart-scenes EXACTLY next time I just got a bit lazy!

1.) I hate it when your character is walking and stops to talk to someone they put it somehow about how lazy your character was it's so annoying especially when I'm going to go mine or get seeds.

2.)It just seems that all the time when your character might be about to speak someone cuts her off with another sentence at least to me it does ^^

Well next time I promise it won't take so long to get this up!