Misunderstandings

Grand-pa? ~

Ann ran straight then made a left at the next crossroad passing a winery and a blacksmith until they reached a farm. Then Ann sadly replied

"look." Jacklin looked on the field and saw nothing and that was the problem. She ran towards the barn, opened the door and there weren't any animals. She ran to the house, Ann and Cliff both had melancholic expressions standing at the entrance, she walked into the house but heard someone yelling at her. She turned around to see a man in red; she wasn't in the greatest mood due to her not finding what she was looking for and gave the man a death glare.

As if pleading for his life the man spoke "I'm sorry sir, but you can't be here."

"Why not?" she asked now scowling.

"Um…. The owner w-who lived here died 4 days ago and we don't know who he left the farm to." he paused trying to avoid eye contact, but that was all she needed to hear. At an instant she broke out crying, the mayor looked at the man who had him cowering just a second ago falling apart

"um sir are you alright?"

"Grandpa!" she shrieked through sobs 'grandpa?' the mayor thought confused, at an instant Ann and Cliff came through the door and looked at Jacklin then yelled in unison at the mayor

"What did you do to her!?" 'Her' the mayor was confused.

It took an hour to get Jacklin to stop crying and to tell the mayor who she was, and why she was here. The mayor looked up and chuckled,

"Jacklin, I remember when you were this big" making a hand gesture that was shorter than the mayor himself; everyone couldn't help but laugh. She was about 6'1 and he was only 4 foot; the very thought could make a dead man laugh. Then the mayor had a thought

"Jacklin this farm belongs to you." He said flatly.

"What!?"She asked louder than she wanted to,

"we can't find a will and you're the only family who has any farming experience so why not?" Ann spoke up this time

"jack you should do it. It can be like old times, please, please, please."

I sighed "Okay Ann, but I have change the house, it'd be depressing to live with all the reminders of grandpa here"

"well when he passed away we sold his animals and crops" while saying so he removed a pouch/sack from his pocket. "There's about 259,000[G] in that bag, you can use that to upgrade or change the house as you please." she gasped at the amount as did cliff and Ann.

"Off to Gotz we go!" cheered Ann pumping her fist in the air. Ann ran ahead of jack and cliff, twirling and bouncing down the trail.

"Hey cliff"

"yeah" cliff looked at jack wide eyed

" why were you scowling at me earlier?"I asked bluntly, Cliff shuffled his feet in embarrassment ,face red

"I get it" jack cooed

"You thought I was a guy hitting on Ann and you were jealous; am I right?" jack said with a maniacal look. Ever since high school she could read cliff almost like a book, but there was always something she missed and gestured him to finish.

"Well the main reason I came over was because I thought I heard a familiar voice" he answered sheepishly. "Aww cliffs got a crush on Ann." nudging him playfully.

"Jack stop, Ann's gonna hear you!" cliff hushed

"Fine, but we need to hurry and get to Gotz shop before Ann scolds us for being late" they began running but jack got sidetracked and walked up a hill with cliff kept running towards the shop 'whoops'.

Jacklin remembered the little waterfall from when she was little and smiled, it was where she had first meet Ann. she walked passed the waterfall and into a cave. She had a flashlight in her bag and turned it on, she gasped at the pretty ore and precious metal melted in the wall, walking around aimlessly she fell through a pitfall and landed on something, or rather someone.

A loud grunting noise came from underneath her and she got up quickly extending a hand to help whoever it was underneath her helping them up.

"You need to watch were your going" he said with an icy tone in his voice. 'jack don't get angry, don't get angry, don't get angry, you get violent when you're angry' all of a sudden she felt a poke her in her chest

"what are you doing in the mines, it's dangerous" 'okay I'll give him the benefit of the doubt, its dark, he can't see, an-'another poke came to her chest

"Okay that's it!" a man with a silver beard turned on a flashlight, the boy poking my chest had a baseball cap red hair and some sort of tan jumpsuit the guy poked me again, my eye twitched the old guy yelled

"Gray what are you doing!?" ,but before he responded, she punched him, knocking him out cold than began beating him senseless.

The old man chuckled and jack began to gain her self control back and gasped at the damage she did, she broke the guys nose, gave him a black eye and now whoever it is will hate her.

"Don't worry, he deserved it." I had to laugh at that

"Do you know how to get out of here?" she asked embarrassed. I threw the guy I knocked out over my shoulder as he showed me the way out.

"Your pretty strong for a girl, don't'cha think?" jack smiled

"that's what 4 years of hockey does to ya" we walked past the waterfall still chatting when she spotted Ann

"Ann~" she called waving her free hand. Ann ran as fast as she could about to scold her about wandering off when she noticed who she was with and more importantly, who was over her shoulder.