Hey guys, my third chapter already! Omigosh, and they are so long too, at least four to six pages. Don't ask me why, I just love to write a lot. And in this chapter... Jill will finally meet Skye! And, there will be some more revealed about her father and mother! Oooooh, what's gonna happen now. You will see for yourself. Hahahaha!
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ch.3 New people, new live
I was running. Just running. I didn't where I was or where I was going. But it felt nice. I was in a open field with grass. And when I looked above I saw a cloudless blue sky, where the sun was shining happily. It was still morning 'cause there was still dew on the blades of grass. When I looked at my feet I saw that I was barefooted. I loved it. it was like I was in unison with the nature. Then, I saw a woman. A beautiful woman, with the perfect skin*. She was pale with long green hair. They were tied into two buns. But one bun had also a long braid. Her eyes had the same color as her hair. It was a special green, like the sea but much lighter. Also she had a little blue top, made of strange material, like water. And she had a blue long skirt, also made of the same liquid material. And she was barefooted. I looked at her face again. She was really pretty. Her face looked really young. Like my age. But her eyes, her eyes were full of wisdom. Things which only could be known by a god (or a goddess). And the most epic thing was that she was fleeting a centimeter or five above the ground. Then it hit me. I had heard stories about her. Stories about an amazing goddess. A special goddess for farmers. She would protect them against the evil things, like too much rain, storms and the witch princess.
"hi." wow, I was talking to a goddess and the only thing I said was a poor 'hi'. Way to go Jill.
"Hi, Jill, it's nice to finally meet you, even if it's in a dream." she smiled, and I felt a peace deep inside me. Like I had meditated for hours.
"why do you want to meet me?" I barely made my farm ready, so you can't call me a farmer. I thought she only came to super special super good farmers. The Chosen Farmers, or something like that.
"Jill, you are special. You had a lot sadness in your life. And only a little love. And the only one who loved you died too early. But, here you are and you can still smile. Even after your mother disowned you. I respect you for that. That's why I am here. To tell you what awaits you, because I know you will need a lot of strenghts to over come that." a single tear escapes from my eye and trickled down my cheek. It was a very long time someone talked to me like that. Fine, why did she know all that has happened ever in my life? I never told anyone. O,yeah, she was a goddes, of course. But then her face became serious.
"Jill,you will get a lot more sadness in your life, but you will also find something even more important. Something that will help you overcome all the sadness. Something that will make you shine so brilliantly, you would even make the stars pale. A whole new life awaits you, and you will need a lot of time to adjust yourself to your new life." o, oke, more sadness, more tears. If I collected all the tears I had already cried, I am sure that at least seven 10-liter buckets would be filled. Wait, I would find something important. I already lost the most important person in my life a few years ago, and I am no material girl. So what could be that important that would make me shine?
"what is the something that will make me so happy?" I was curious now. I don't think something still could make me happy. The Harvest Goddes smiled mysteriously and I already knew she wouldn't give me the answer. I hate it when people smile mysteriously.
* really, only Jill could notice something like her skin, when she's meeting a goddes XD
"you will see for yourself, Jill Farmer. Finally, I still have something to give to you. And I know it will make you a little happy. You deserve it after all." huh, what, she had something for me? The harvest gooddes then reaches out her hand and as I reach out my hand too she lets it fall in my handpalm. It was something gold and shiny. My breath stops for a few seconds as I regonized what the Harvest Goddes gave me. I felt warm and cold at the same time. It was a locket. Something wich was very dear to me and wich I thought it had been destroyed by my mother. A little locket. But this locket meant more for me then the whole farmhouse and field together. Meant more for me then my own mother. My hands were shaking as I tried to open the locket. I knew what was in. And indeed. A
photo. A picture of me and my dad, both smiling the same smile. We had the same rare coloured eyes. Like amethyst. We had the same hair and the colour was the same too. He was hugging me and I, I was in the middle of his hug. I still remember how it felt. As if you are in heaven. A warm hug, wich showed how much he loved me. Big arms embracing you, letting you know that you would be safe.
And I loved him. I still love him. Dad. Then a tear drops on te picture.I also feel that my cheeks are all wet from the tears. Tears of happiness and tears of sadness. I felt so much emotions at the same time. I looked at The Harvest Goddes and she smiled warm and happily at me. This was the only thing I had now that reminded me of my dad and his love. After my dad died, mom had burned about everything that she had and that reminded her of him.
"well then, Jill, it's about time you wake up. Go and take this as something to help you in the difficult times."and before I can thank her she dissapeared into nothing as if she never was there before.
A little sunshine peeks through the curtains. When I wake up I see that my pillow is all wet from the tears. I was also all sweaty and totally curled up in my blankets. What a cruel dream. I still felt the emotions of when I got the locket. Still shivering I came out of the big bed and because I was still strangled in the blankets I fell down with a smack. But during my fall I saw something shiney fall with me on the ground. When I quickly untangled myself and looked at the shiney thing, my heart surely skipped a few beats. Locket. It was the locket. So the dream wasn't a maybe it was, maybe it was a vision or something. So the harvest goddes really excisted. Omigosh. A goddes appeared before me, told me a little bit of my future and gave me the locket, wich was one of the most important things in my life. But she said something even more important would appear before me... before I could think about it further I heard someone shouting from the outside.
"...ILL! Jill! Wake up, lazy girl, you're worse then Rock!" I immediatly knew it was Nammie. When I went to the door -I still couldn't believe that I had a door- and opened it, I saw Nammie, just as I expected.
"Jeez! You're still in you PJ's! I can't show you the town if you're still in your Payamas! Come on! Let's go and change!" She wandered inside, pulling me with her. When we were back in my bedroom and she looked at the messy room and blankets, there was a look on her face that said she had really perverted thoughts.
"NO, Nammie, there was no one else in my room, only me. I just had a...weird dream. Just who do you think I am?" Nammie smiled a little ashamed and went to look in my wardrobe.
"Pfft, come on, everything you have is the same. It only has different colours. They are all t-shirts and the same pants with a apron. I can't believe it. You amaze me everytime. Well, then pull this on and let's go. It's already seven o'clock. I thought farmers were always up on six in the morning."
She watched me as I was slowly changing my clothes. Nammie was actually pretty fun to be around with. She had a harsh manner of treating things, but she really cared about the things around her. I guess we would be pretty good friends. When I changed my clothes, I found out that when you put bread and cheese in the magnetron it would automatically change into a cheesetoast. I already said it, magnetrons are my specialty. When I stuffed the toast in my mouth I put on my boots and we went outside. Today we would check up the town. That's what Nammie told me. First, we went to the doctor. He was a little freaky and robot-isch and short, but he was really nice and smiling a lot, so I felt comfortable around him. After that Nammie dragged me to the next house. A timid man with parted black hair and huge glasses opened the door. He seemed to be a little scared of Nammie. And a second later a girl, with sand coloured braids, popped next to him and looked at us with a curious look. Nammie introduced me and she let me also know that the man was named Grant and his daughter Kate. She smiled happily and asked if she could come to my farm? Of course, she could, I would love to have kids play at the farm.
Then we went to the next house. It was a house that looked the same as the last house looked . There a lived a little family consisting of a man, his wife and their son. The man, named Wally, was a sportinstructor with short brown hair and black eyes, the wife was a teacher in all different kinds of languages like arabic and japanese, even though she was just english. She had blond hair and blue eyes with modern glasses. And then you had their son. What a little crap-ass. I loved him when I first took a look at him. He had blond hair just like his mom and blue eyes and there was a little plaster on his cheek. He looked like a little fighter. I asked him if he wanted to play at the farm sometimes and he nearly yelled yes.
When Nammie dragged me off again we went to a BIG mansion. It had even a fontain. I was all like omigosh and awed by the amazingness of it all. Here were rich people living, I stated for myself in a status of brainfreeze. Nammie,however, just went inside like it was nothing.
"Here lives Lumina, the girl with the short brown hair I told you yesterday about." O yeah, the one who paid for all the expansive stuff, and now I could see why she could pay it all.
"I...is she rich?" I ask stupidly. Nammie looked at me funny.
"No, she's dead poor." said Nammie with a sarcastic voice. Jeez, what an understatement I made. We saw an old man outside working with the plants.
"That's Sebastian, the family butler." Sebastian nodded at us politly. We went inside the mansion. You know, this could be a vacation house for the queen of England. It was big, and antique and big and gold-ish and did I mention big? I mean, come on, it had even a big stairs, you know, where the beautiful princess walks down when she's late for the party or something, with a -believe it or not- red carpet.
"LUMINA, WHERE ARE YOU?"Nammie shouted. I chuckled. Really, Nammie is always the same, no matter if she is in front of my farmhouse or inside a big mansion.
"Oh my, I knew it was Nammie, no one else shouts like that." An old lady with a big nose and wite curly hair came to us. She had golden earrings and necklace, and a cashmere poncho over her high quality woolen inner and a long skirt. A rich lady.
"Oh my, who is this charming young lady? She must be new." The rich old lady looked at me with a face full of curiosity.
"oh, hello, my name is Jill, I am the new farmer. Nice to make your aquintance." aquintance didn't that sound fancey.
"Same here dear, my name is miss Hitchcock. But you can call me Romana. Nammie if you're looking for Lumina she is in her room." Nammies face went to pouting mode.
"Do we really have to go up on those stairs? I don't want to! why don't you just have an elevator build in this mansion. It sure is big enough and you have the money". This time I saw Romana's face go to pouting mode. Omijeez, this is going to take forever, and this time I dragged Nammie out of the room.
"Thank you, Miss Hitchcock!" I said when we went outside.
"Romana, dear!" I heard when I closed the door behind me. We chuckled as we went to the stairs. They sure were a sight to behold, but also very tiring. When we finally climbed the stairs we saw Lumina just coming out of her room.
"Oh my, I was just on my way to downstairs". Then she smirked at me and Nammie. "Got a surprise yesterday? Welcome at forget-me-not valley, Jill! I hope you like your house now."
"I knew it was you! Let me guess, it was Muffy huh, who came up with the idea!" Namie stared suspiciously at Lumina. When she nodded, Nammie sighed.
"You guys didn't have to do so much for me, it must have been expansive.." Nammie and Lumina looked at each other and than laughed out loud. What? Did I say something wrong?
"O, don't you worry Jill, Lumina is one of the richest person in this whole region, probably the whole country."and Lumina nodded, pinking the tears in her eyes away.
"Let's go look for Muffy oke? I guess even she must be up by now." And the three of us left the mansion, going to Muffy.
A moment later we stood for the entrance of a bar. As we went inside we were greeted by a man named Griffin. He looked like he was in his forties, with his long hair tied back in a tail and his stubbly beard. He had also a few wrinkels around his eye.
"Ah, Nammie and Lumina, you must be looking for Muffy, she's upstairs in her room". When he saw me he looked at Lumina with questioning eyes.
"Oh, this is Jill. She is the new farmer." she said. I went forward and shook his hand
"Nice to meet you, mister." He smiled at the word mister.
"Please call me Griffen, so does everyone around here." We went through a door to the next room and we went up the stairs to Muffies room. Nammie bounced a few times on her door when Muffy finally answered our calls.
"yes, yes, I was just doing my make-up." she said with a irritated voice. Then she looked at me and she smiled a sly smile. "Well, well, Jill, how do you like your new house?" omigosh she was a lil bit scaring me.
"It was alright, I guess..." I didn't know what to say. Muffy sighed.
"Alright huh, jeez, you must have been Nammie-fied then. When you ask Nammie something it's always an 'alright, I guess'."
"Hey, that aint true, y'er hear me, not true!" Nammie turned at me and shook her head.
"oh yes, it is, my dear Nammie, it is."said Lumina while she exchanged a look with Muffy. She laughed and the continued to tease Nammie, it was amusing to see, and I chuckled softly. Ofcourse Muffy heard that and she turned to me.
"How about we all go to the goddes pond, to ask if the goddes wants to bless your farm. Because if your farm is thriving, it is good news for everyone." Goddes huh, I remembered my dream and touched the locket for a second.
While we were on the way, the girls let me know about everything. We also had yet to meet some miners and some other farmers. As soon as we reached the pond, we threw in an offering and asked the goddes if she wanted to bless my farm. Then we went together to the other farm. We met Celia and soon I met her I knew I would be very good friends with her. And with the other girls too. We also met Marlin (what a gloomy man, he resembled Elvis) and Vesta. She had a big smile and gave me a lot of tips. She also gave me two seedbags of turnip seeds as a welcomingsgift. I also bought two seedbags of potatoes. And we went back, the four of us.
Later the day I went back to my farm, planted the seeds and watered them. A few new weeds started to look above the ground and quicly I got my sickle to cut them. Ha! Don't they dare to ever show their head again.
When I was ready, I went back to the inn, looking for Nammie. I just found a Rock, who, as soon as I showed up, went to me and trying to flirt with me. Yea, yea blabla, pretty, pretty, blabla. I heard pretty much the same from the other players in the city where I lived.
"Rock, do you know where Nammie is?" Rocks face abrubtly went sad, he sighed.
"She's in her room." was the only thing he said and went outside. I went upstairs and went to her room. I knocked and heard a 'come in'.
"Hey Nammie" I greeted, she nodded. "I was wondering... do you maybe know how I should name my farm?" She certainly looked surpised at the question.
"What?" I asked. She shrugged her shoulders.
"Didn't expect that question. Don't know how to name your farm. Just name it Farm or something." I had a '…'-face at that moment and again she shrugged her shoulders.
"You don't have to ask me that question, I am no good at naming things, okay? Go to Muffy, she likes to do those things." Muffy huh, okay. I waved goodbye and went to the bar for the second time that day. Muffy was busy washing the glasses.
"Hi, Muffy!" boy, that sounded happy. She looked at me and smiled cheerfully.
"Hi, Jill, what can I do for you?" she asked.
"Well, actually, I wondered if you knew a good name for the farm." she, too, looked surprised.
"Hmmm, how about...Farmers & co." When she saw my face she laughed. "Okay, okay, just kidding, why don't you just call is Jills Farm? Very easy for people and for youself." Jills Farm huh, okay that sounded good.
"Thanks muffy, you're the best!" I smiled a big smile and she answered my smile with a bright one too.
"no thanks, hun! And I expect a sleeping over soon. You don't have that big bed for nothing" she winked and happy I went back to the farm.
A few weeks later at the late evening I harvested my crops again, put them in the shipping bin and went inside my house. When I looked at the table I saw I still had a CD from Lumina wich I promised to bring back today. I looked at the clock and saw it was already 21:30. It was ten at time I arrived at the mansion. Suddenly I heard a scream and I saw a man running out of the house. I was shocked, who was he? When he went past the fountain he saw me looking at him. And I saw him looking at me. It was a young man, I guess the same age as me, or maybe two or three years older. He was soo handsome and atractive. He had silver hair, wich was beautifully glinstering in the shining of the moon. And his eyes. They were the prettiest colour I ever saw. They were a mix of light green and blue, turquoise, I guess. But I loved the colour. And then his clothing. A leopartprinted shirt with a black t-shirt under it. and black jeans, with black shoes. He had also a necklace with a small, tag. So casually chic. Then he opened his mouth to talk, a perfect mouth.
"What does my eye see, now? A fair maiden in the night!" huh, fair maiden? What fair maiden! Just Jill.
"Hi, my name is Jill, what's yours?" He seemed to be surprised by the question. I wondered why,I just wanted to know his name.
"Phantom Skye, the prince of the stars and quite the ladiesman", then he took my hand and kissed them. I felt my cheeks turning red. He smiled a perfect smile
"Nice to meet you, my dear Jill. This must be the night of our fate. I saw it in the stars." he said with a soft voice. He talked funny. What's with him. Sigh, not another player... I smirked. This is going to be fun. A send him a challenging look. Let's see for how long he could keep up with me. I looked to his hands a saw a beautiful necklace in his hand. I had seen that necklace earlier. Around Romana's neck that was. He was a thief, huh. Ths was really gonna be fun.
"So, Skye, you're a thief huh." He smiled a smile wich made my heart flutter.
"Quick catching, beautiful. Not you're only pretty, you're smart too. Why do you ask?" still with his attractive smile. Hmm, why did I ask? Stupid question.
"I want to know, duh! I hope it's not just looks, that you have there, pretty boy." I rolled with my eyes and he was shocked to hear my change of heart. If he was just one of the players, I would surely scare him away. I guess this is why I never had a boyfriend before.
"I assure it is not just my perfect outside, I have a perfect inside too. See, I am just perfect." he smirked. Hmm, he's good. And really full of himself. I like that. Did I just say that I liked that?
"Aren't we a little bit too full of ourselves, if it was me okay, but you? You even have gray hair." Okay, that last thing was not true,it was not gray, it was beautiful silver. He laughed, and laughed. Finally he stopped.
"You know what? You're the first girl that has ever said something like that to me." He walked closer to me and whispers in my ear "you're very interesting, beautiful". I felt his breath and my face slowly turned red. Then we heard an angry shout.
"Hey you, aren't you that thief that sends always a note before he comes to steal something? Get here! HEY, GET HERE! You smug of the earth!" We both looked to where the sound came from and we saw Lumina very angry standing in the opening of the door.
"Oh, come on, beautiful, don't let such a raw anger steal away your beauty!" and he walked away. "Wwell then Jill, I am about to jet, I will see you around! It's written in the stars." and with that he touched my cheek and went away.
"Oh my, Phantom Skye, what a smooth talker,and he's soo cute!". She paused for a minute and looked at me. "Oh my, Jill you're here too? What are you doing here at such a late hour?" she questionned, but her mind was obviously still thinking about Skye. Well, mine too.
"Huh? Oh, uh... Oh yeah! I still had this CD from you, and I had to give it back today so, here it is." I took the CD and gave it back to her.
"Thank you, Jill, but you didn't have to come all this way, tommorrow was okay too."
"It's no problem, Lumina, and I got to see some eye candy, if you know who I mean..." she gave me a conspirating smile.
"He was cute, wasn't he. Well let's talk tommorrow further, have sweet dreams, maybe about you-know-who" she smiled again and went back into the mansion.
sweet dreams? No problem!
A/N: Well yeah, I would sleep well too, when I got to meet Skye. A real cutey! Please excuse me for my grammar, alright?
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