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Chelsea tossed and turned in her bed, she wasn't able to get a wink of sleep. Why had she been so stupid? Chelsea stared at her wooden ceiling trying to find patterns in the engravings of the wood to entertain herself. Usually when she couldn't sleep she would call up Annalise, but there was no way she could do that anymore. Not after what happened between them. Chelsea shook her head in an effort to forget the bitter memory. This was her new life, she needn't worry about the past anymore. Chelsea lolled her head to the right in a lazy effort to glance at the small table on the side of her bed. The digital clock read four-thirty a.m., she might as well get a start on her day if sleep wasn't an option.

Chelsea's feet hit the floor, and Persia looked up from her perch on the end of Chelsea's bed. This morning's breakfast would be the leftover cookies Julia and Chelsea had made together the night before. Julia really was a terrible cook, but Chelsea managed to teach her a few things. For example, how to crack an egg so the shell didn't get mixed into whatever you were making. Julia was a surprisingly fast learner, and Chelsea had some fun for once. Persia mewed, wondering where her breakfast was.

"Aw, don't worry little kitty, I didn't forget about you," Chelsea said while snuggling her pretty kitty. She got breakfast for Persia ready and placed it in the same spot as her would be kitchen. Chelsea sighed. Would be. She was already regretting making that bet, because now she had to save up $100,000 G instead of putting money towards her kitchen, and in this tiny house, she needed some upgrades if she was going to live comfortably. Actually, scratch that. Forget comfortability, Chelsea didn't even have a bathroom in her house. She'd been using Julia's and Mark's for the past two days. That needed to be fixed as soon as possible.

Tired of sitting around in her suffocatingly tiny house, Chelsea pulled on her jacket and left after bidding a short farewell to her cat. Did she really want to do farm work at this hour? No. Not at all. Rubbing the sleep from her eyes, Chelsea crossed the bridge from Ranch Island to Verdure. It was really beautiful in the early morning, the scenery was something that Chelsea hadn't quite taken the time to admire.

Being early morning, no one else was yet awake from what Chelsea could see. She walked past Nick's Diner, and remembered the slightly awkward encounter between her, Denny and Lanna the night before. The neon sign above the door flashed "Closed", so Chelsea supposed it would still be a few hours until it opened. Before Chelsea knew it, she was walking the perimeter of the beach. There were dozens of colored wild herbs growing up ahead, green, blue, violet, Chelsea figured they'd be good for some nourishment when she was strapped for cash, like now. While stifling a quick yawn, Chelsea strode from behind the wall of rocks that separated her from the right side of the island. Suddenly, something caught her attention.

"Well, thanks for seeing me off," Was that Vaughn? Chelsea decided to get a closer look.

"Uh, no... problem," there, being hid from Chelsea's view was an adorable looking girl clad in purple. She couldn't have been much younger than Chelsea, and her ebony locks flowed in the gentle sea breeze.

"Those two make a really cute couple," Chelsea thought aloud, but not loudly enough for the two to hear her. The ebony haired girl began fiddling around for something, and when she found it she handed it to Vaughn. Chelsea couldn't see that well, but he seemed a little flustered.

"Thanks," muttered an embarrassed Vaughn, and he bade the young girl a farewell, his boots clogging up the pier.

"Wait!" yelled Chelsea suddenly with her arm outstretched. Ebony girl flinched, and Vaughn stared at Chelsea with a look of surprise, then amusement.

"Uh..." Chelsea stuttered, walking closer to the two, "Bye Vaughn," Goddess, her face was red with embarrassment, she just knew.

"See ya," he waved. He seemed to be in a better mood.

"But don't forget! I'm gonna win," Chelsea added quickly, a look of determination on her face.

"We'll see," Vaughn shouted back while boarding the boat. He'd be back next Monday, so by then Chelsea should have made some progress. She did some quick calculations in her head. If she had to make $100,000 in 120 days, then that was $833G per day. There were seven days in a week, so she had to make $5,833G per week. Goddess, that was a lot. Chelsea was lost in thought, and completely oblivious to an angry looking ebony haired girl.

'Wha...What was that?' thought Sabrina. Where had this brunette girl come from? She just appeared out of nowhere after Sabrina gave Vaughn his goodbye gift. And that outburst... Sabrina was indefinitely puzzled as to what Vaughn and that girl had been talking about. Win? Were they in some sort of competition together? Sabrina paled at the thought of Vaughn entering a competition with another girl. She thought that she and Vaughn had something together. Could it have been her imagination all this time?

"Excuse me," Sabrina said, in a fake cheerful voice, "What's your name?" Chelsea jumped and snapped back into reality.

"It's Chelsea," she smiled, "How 'bout yourself?"

"Sabrina," Sabrina smiled, maybe this new girl wasn't so bad after all. She seemed friendly enough.

Chelsea remembered hearing about a girl called Sabrina from Julia. Apparently she was painfully shy, but from what Julia did know about her, she was quite intelligent, pretty, and loved to read. And from the opinions that Chelsea was forming for herself, Sabrina seemed quite nice.

"So, what was that you and Vaughn exchanged words about?" Sabrina said, "Winning, or something?"

"Oh, yeah," Chelsea responded, she'd have to let someone else know about how stupid she'd been. In as little detail as possible, Chelsea explained her and Vaughns' ...business venture... all the while Sabrina became more and more perplexed.

"You really talked to him like that?" Sabrina interrupted, "Goddess, He was trying to do you a favor,"

"You agree with him?" Chelsea questioned, "He insulted my gender, you should be upset about that too, right? You're a girl,"

"I think he was more implying that you were inexperienced and don't exactly have the muscle mass to work efficiently on something as hard labored as a ranch,"

Chelsea thought that over, and maybe Sabrina was right. But that Vaughn didn't have to be so rude about it! She could handle it!

"He didn't have to be rude about it," Chelsea said blatantly.

"Maybe he was rude because you were being defensive," Sabrina huffed, her tone surprised even herself. She was never this ...blatant about her feelings. She needed to regain her composure.

"Goddess! I'm not being defensive," Chelsea retorted, therefore proving she was being defensive.

"You're contradicting yourself," Sabrina added with a wave of her hand, "Anyways, shouldn't you be working? In your situation you're probably extremely desperate for money,"

Sabrina was right, Chelsea was desperate for gold.

"Do you have any suggestions for making money quick?" Chelsea asked. Sabrina's eyes flashed.

...

"Have you ever been to Volcano Island?"

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Julia helped herself to a nice morning breakfast of sugary-cholesterol, she finished off the last of the cookies she and Chelsea had made the previous night. Chelsea had taken some home too, and they were actually pretty good. Julia peered around the house, trying to figure out if Vaughn had left yet. She decided to check his room, it was a little out of character for Vaughn to leave without saying goodbye. He wouldn't have, right? Surely enough after walking through the upstairs corridor and entering his room, Vaughn wasn't there.

"He didn't even say goodbye," Julia huffed, until something strange caught her eye. She walked closer to Vaughn's nightstand to get a better idea of what she was looking at.

"Oh Goddess!" she said after several moments, realizing what it was. Chelsea would love to see this.

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After her nice chat with Sabrina, Chelsea learned of several new ways to make money, other than farming. Apparently, there were a lot more islands for her to explore. Mainly, Volcano Island. According to Sabrina, there was a mine that her father owned and if Chelsea could travel deep enough, there were lots of rare ores and gems that she could excavate and sell. She planned on making a trip there after she finished watering her crops, which she was almost done with right now.

"Chelsea!" came a yell from the distance, earning Chelsea's attention very quickly. She turned her head towards the direction of the entrance to her farm, and there was Julia running as fast as she could carrying something delicate in her hand.

"L-look what I found in Vaughn's room," Julia panted after arriving close enough to hand Chelsea the offending item.

"I-is that-" Chelsea began to ask, when Julia cut her off.

"Yes. Yes it is,"

"Oh Goddess! He actually has that kind of stuff?"

"I guess all guys do,"

"Where did you find it?"

"On his nightstand," Julia answered.

"Hmm," Chelsea thought, "I have that kind of stuff too, but I put it where not just anyone can find it,"

"So does my mom," Julia replied.

"He just left it out in the open like that?" Chelsea questioned, "You'd think he'd be more careful hiding that kind of stuff, especially with his reputation,"

"Do you think there's more?" Julia questioned slyly.

"We can't just go digging through her personal stuff looking for... that," Chelsea said uncomfortably.

"But do you understand what kind of dirt we'd have on him if we found more?" Julia said excitedly.

"Well the animal trader likes it dirty, just look at this thing!"

"Don't you think he'd be embarrassed if he knew we knew?"

"Maybe..." Julia trailed off, "But it's just so funny to think he actually has feelings! And this is such a cute picture of Sabrina,"

Julia motioned to the lovely picture in Chelsea's hand of the smiling intellectual standing under a cherry blossom tree.

"Let's just put it back," said Chelsea while giggling.

"Yeah, you're right," Julia agreed, and the two girls laughed about it for the next hour-and-a-half.

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"Achoo!" Vaughn sneezed as he got a sudden irritating feeling that someone, somewhere, was laughing at his expense.

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After Chelsea bade Julia goodbye so she could return to her work, she decided it was time to mine. She had never been mining before, so to just be safe she stocked up on wild herbs to give her a boost of energy if she needed it. The way Sabrina explained mining and excavating, it didn't seem all too hard. She just needed a watering can, hammer, and hoe to clear the lava and rocks, the hoe was to till for gold in the dirt.

As she reached the pier, she asked Kirk, the sailor, to take her up to Volcano Island; he obliged getting her there in half of the time Chelsea expected it to take. Stepping out of the boat Chelsea couldn't believe her eyes. They were right to call it Volcano Island. The whole land mass was a giant craggy monolith with molten lava pooling off its sides. The two people on the island seemed like unfamiliar faces, one very scary looking, and the other... not so scary. Both of them were well aware of Chelsea's presence, and the fact that she was just standing there staring at the volcano, mouth agape.

"What business do you have here, young lady?" asked the very scary man. Chelsea immediately froze.

"I...I'd like to do some excavating," Chelsea replied shakily. The scary man gave Chelsea a weird look.

"Little girl, do you even know the meaning of the word "excavate,"" he asked.

"Uncle," the not so scary one said, "Let her try it, she may have a knack for it,"

"Fine," he replied, waving Chelsea off, "But I refuse to take responsibility of her if she becomes injured. That'll be your problem Will," the scary man said. Will nodded, and offered Chelsea his hand. Chelsea took it, still in shock from the impressive appearance of the island.

"My name is William Terry Louis Andrew Carrick Jonathan Dredge Hams Reading Roger Southwark Alwick Plymouth Junior Regison III. But you may call me Will. What is your name, my lady?" Will inquired, still holding her hand.

"I'm Chelsea Reynolds, but you can call me Chelsea," she replied. This guy really did have a long name.

"That man," Will gestured towards the scary-looking guy, "Is my uncle Regis, he has a daughter named Sabrina, maybe you've met her?"

Chelsea was in double-shock now, that scary, vampire-esque man was Sabrina's father? There was no way, Sabrina was too cute and sweet. Before Chelsea realized it, Will was repeating himself.

"Eh-hem," Will cleared his throat, "I said, perhaps you've met her?"

"Oh! Oh yes, I have met her," Chelsea replied, "It was just quite a shock to learn that Regis is her father, they really look nothing alike,"

"Yes," Will agreed, "Now shall I debrief you about how mining works?"

"Nah, that'll be fine," Chelsea said after considering it, "I already know what I have to do," and with that, Chelsea took one great step inside the volcano.

"You know," Chelsea said to Will while stepping forward, "I think I'm gonna be really good at mine-"

Suddenly, a loud cracking sound came from the floor underneath Chelsea. Instantly it collapsed and she fell through a dark hole leading to deeper and deeper floors.

"Oh dear," was all Will had to say before gathering up a team of excavators.

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