By the time she got to her farm all she wanted to do was sleep. She didn't know why May said what she said, but it really stuck to her mind and stayed for a while before she finally got to sleep. "Do I like Gray, I mean I don't really know him yet, but he is a nice guy." She pondered before she fell asleep and woke up the next morning at exactly 6am once again.

The first thing she did was water her turnips which did not take too long and went to talk to her horse before heading into town to see what she could do to pass the time. She walked by the Blacksmith shop, thinking about what May had said and blushed a bit before walking faster to get away from it. As she was walking as fast as she could away from the shop she ended up bumping right into the one guy she did not want to see at the moment.

"I am so sorry!" She apologized and bowed, not knowing what else to say to the boy.

"Oh, it's okay." He laughed nervously, blushing slightly from the embarrassment. "I was just wondering if you'd like to hang out today." He scratched the back of his head, looking at the ground instead of Claire's face. Her blush increased and looked straight at the ground too.

"Don't you have work?" She asked, thinking of excuses to get out of it, but her mind was completely blank.

"I normally don't work on Thursdays, but I took yesterday to work and asked for today off thinking it would be a good way to hang out with you." He answered shyly. "But if you don't want to thats fine too."

"No, no, no I would love to hang out with you." She replied, thinking 'What am I thinking?' "I did't have anything planned for today anyways." She looked up towards his bowed head and shyly smiled

"Great!" He smiled and looked up at her which just made both of them blush deeply.

He had said he wanted to show her the countryside, the only place she had yet to journey to which made things a lot more interesting. He showed her the hot springs and the mine right next to it along with the lake next to it. She commented saying it was really pretty and Gray shyly just said that they should move on if they wanted to see more of the countryside also commenting that they can possibly spend sometime next to the lake some other time.

"This town just keeps getting better and better." Claire commented, smiling at all the wonderful things around her, forgetting about May and her silly little comment. Whether she liked Gray or not, all she could think about was how amazing her surroundings were.

"While I love the city, this place is quite relaxing." Gray responded with a shy chuckle and they continued on to the rest of the area. He had a destination he was determined to get to before the end of the day.

There were flowers everywhere, Gray picked one out and handed it to Claire saying it was a small gift. She smiled at his attempt to be sweet and put it in her hair to show she loved it. They took a break on a stump close to another lake, talking for a bit and getting to know each other. They talked about why she left the city and did not want to go back, while he explained why he wanted to go back, but also enjoyed Mineral Town just as much as Claire did. He looked down at his watch and realized that it was getting later and hurried on to the next spot before he ran out of time.

Claire kept thinking about what he was going to show her, she noticed all the times where he would look at his watch and make a comment on the time and how it was getting late. She did not know what he wanted to show her, but she could tell it was important to him and she allowed him to lead her to all the different spots in the amazing countryside of Mineral Town. It just made her love the town more and more. The people were surprisingly nice, the scenery was wonderful and everyday just felt like a whole new adventure.

Gray hurried on to the next spot, which happened to be a wide area covered in flowers, he made a comment about a small boy whom loved to go here with girls from the town when they were young, but he did not stick to that topic for too long and instead just admired the flowers and allowed Claire to look around and love the surroundings.

"This is the best place ever!" She yelled at the top of her voice, and spun around until she was dizzy and landed in the soft grass. Gray just chuckled with a huge blush on his cheeks and once again checked his watch and got the same hurried expression he has been expressing all day. This time Claire checked the time and noticed it was getting close to six already. She didn't expect the day to go by as fast as it did, but she had to admit that she had an extremely fun day either way.

He stopped chuckling and helped Claire up so they could continue on, saying there was one last place to see before the end of their great adventure. She followed him up a hillside which seemed like a long walk, but since they were talking to the whole way up it did not feel like such a long time, but by the time they almost reached the top of the hill, called Mother Hill, it was already pitch black and Gray had to hold her hand just to keep them together and not fall down.

Right when she got on top of the hillside she could tell this is what he was hurrying her for, and after seeing it she could tell it was worth it. It was a perfect view of the stars and the moon, no clouds in the sky, no smoke hiding the wonderus night. It was just her and Gray staring at the beautiful night sky.

"Oh Gray, this is amazing..." She whispered, almost losing her voice to the night sky.

"I just thought it was a good chance to show you all the beauties of this town." He replied, leading her to the edge of the hill and seating her down before sitting down himself. "I kept on telling you that I loved this town as well, and this is one of the reasons."

"I can see the whole town from here, and look over there that's my farm." Claire pointed excitingly at the small version of her farm, her slightly wondering where her little Speed was. "It's beautiful Gray." She concluded looking at the stars in the sky.

"Yup, extremely beautiful." He sighed happily as he glanced at Claire, then back at the sky. Making sure she did not see what he had just meant. "I could stay up here all night."

"Me too." Claire responded without a second thought, laying down on the ground to get a better view of the sky.

"I have a question for you." Gray whispered almost so Claire could not hear her.

"What is it?" She asked, sitting back up to focus all her attention on the boy next to her.

"Will you go with me to the Goddess Festival?" He choked on his words slightly, but not enough for her to not understand him.

"What's the Goddess Festival?" Claire asked, completely clueless.

Gray almost lose his confidence, but swallowed hard and attempted to explain the festival. "Mineral Town has a lot of festivals throughout the year, this one is where the girls dance and usually take a date with them. Don't ask me why, but my Grandpa wants me to go and I don't want to go alone. I asked around to see if one of the boys would just go with me so I wouldn't go alone, but they were all going with another girl from the town. I thought about it and remembered that you were new and most likely didn't have anyone to go with."

'Whoa, that was the most I have ever heard him say.' Claire thought to herself, but nodded her head. "Of course I'll go with you, Gray." She smiled sweetly, "I'd be honored."