Disclaimer- I don't own harvest moon though I wish I did.

I only own Jacklin

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This is my first fan-fic so I'm not sure a lot of things like how I'm writing this but practice makes perfect =3

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Misunderstandings

~The truth

Cliff looked down at his friend, then at the door where he left gray to mull over confusion then back at her. He walked down the hallway slowly, making sure he didn't wake her in the process then knocked on the door. No answer.

"Ann I'm coming in" he called loud enough so she could hear, but not loud enough to wake Jacklin. Still no answer. Sighing he opened the door to reveal an empty room; then placed her on a bed with the dog following close behind. After tucking her in he couldn't help but smile at how peaceful she looked and sat down beside her with max following the suit.

"If only you knew" he whispered under his breath while brushing the stray hairs from her face and tucking it behind her ear. He bent over and gently kissed her forehead then slowly got up and reached for the door "if only you knew" he repeated to no one in mind and quickly slipped out of the room.

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"Jacklin wake up!" Ann called shaking the girl; " Romeo........stole my..." "Jacklin! if you don't get up I'll take all your clothes away and you'll be trapped in that dress" Trapped in a dress Jacklin thought afraid Ann's not that evil she wouldn't do that, or would she? At an instant her body jerked up and her eyes flashed open signaling that she was awake.

"Ann what time is it?" jack questioned rubbing her eyes. "5:30 I thought it'd be great to get up early and check out the house" Ann must've been a morning person; she's jumping and bouncing off the walls it's ridiculous. Not even the dog wants to get up. Yawning then stretching, Jacklin got up and changed when her stomach let out a growl.

"Ann what's for breakfast?" she asked tiredly and slightly annoyed that she didn't eat anything before going to bed. "Um, let's see.... Toast, omelet rice, apple juice, -" "Ann let's just go I'm hungry" I interrupted holding my hand against my button down shirt as it let out another cry and Ann laughed.

As we sat down at the table I removed my hat and put it in my bag next to my suitcase downstairs then pulled out Max's dog food and watched him attack the bowl full of kibble. He gave me big puppy dog eyes trying to get me to put more food in the bowl, but I knew this trick too well and it doesn't work anymore and I smirked both mentally and physically. "You have to wait till lunch"

Max let out low growl or a sigh and scowled at me. The dog scowled at me, okay it's on! Jack thought staring at the dog making sure he doesn't think he won just yet. During their stare down Ann had set the table, brought out the food; and even cliff had come down and was seated at the table when they asked in unison "what are you doing?"

"Damn it I lost!" I said after whipping my head around to face them, they looked confused and out of the loop, like a 'what just happened" moment "what?" Ann asked clearly confused. "He's trying to get double portions for breakfast." I retorted glaring back at the dog who had an 'accomplished look on his face; he was smiling. I wanted an all out brawl just to make him stop. It's just a dog. I told myself, then the 'rational' voice in my head said No it's the seed of Chucky!

"Here little guy" Ann called tossing him a piece of her omelet rice, which the dog gobbled up before I could say anything. "Ann, you're spoiling him; and now he's gonna have gas" I whined seating myself at the table and started eating my food. "Come on Jacklin it's just a little, how bad could it be?" Ann asked, and then glanced at cliff who sat there looking very scared. Ann's face tensed up then asked "it can't be that bad. Right Jack?" I just sat there smiling maniacally Max is just gonna spend some quality time with Auntie Ann today.

Gray had come down for breakfast and sat across the table from me and I could feel his eyes boring holes into me. I kept looking down at my plate, I still feeling guilty about the gash and the bruising on his face and want to apologize, but whenever I look at him I think about what happened in the clinic and my brain shuts off! Agh! All of a sudden I felt a poke to my side and there's Cliff with a worried expression on his face. All my frustration just vanished; I sighed then smiled to let him know I was okay. There was a slight twitch from gray across the table which I thought was weird but okay.

We finished breakfast and I offered/begged Ann if I could help in the kitchen, only so I wouldn't feel those eyes boring holes into me. After we entered the kitchen I looked back in the lobby to see that Cliff and gray were chatting, which helped relive the tension in the room, but I couldn't help but feel as if it was my fault; which it was.

"So what happened last night?" Ann questioned making me all flustered "W-what do you mean?" I don't sound guilty at all I told myself in a sarcastic voice

"You know I'm gonna get it out of you some way so you might as well tell me now" she hummed while drying a dish.

"Okay" I started, drying a dish Ann handed me. "Let's start at the clinic" I already knew I wasn't going to like how this ended.

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Grays P.O.V

'I had another strange dream last night, that girl and Ann were there too, but we were at the goddess festival; well I was waiting for them. Ann came into the square in a pink floral dress mom made for her with flowers and frills everywhere and ribbons in her hair. The other girl had a dress that was pale purple with flowers on it with a strange stripe coming down the center, going to her back. her hair much like Ann's, but cut and not dragging on the floor like before, maybe shoulder length; But what really attracted my attention was the anklet with red hearts on it.'

'I've seen it before, but were? I hadn't noticed that she offered a hand to dance with me and flustered I took it looking over at Ann who was dancing with dad and giggling when she saw me with the brunette. As we were dancing I asked her who she was and she answered "I'm ------- silly, gray you forget things too easily" her name I couldn't hear it, so I asked again and as she spoke her name she was whisked away by a man with short brown hair who glared at me with icy blue eyes and I woke up.'

"Strange dream" I mumbled to no one in general and looked around the room; cliff wasn't there. He usually doesn't work till ten, where could he be? Shrugging it off I got dressed and went down for breakfast. That girl from yesterday was there at the table with her dog, Cliff and Ann. She had an evil smirk on her face, Ann looked 'piss her pants' scared and Cliff just looked terrified looking down at the dog. Then they began talking again,

I sat down at the empty seat which happened to be across from the girl and began eating; but then they stopped talking.

I looked up at her, her face was red and she was staring at her plate; everything felt tense. As I "looked" at her I was reminded of my dream. She only looked up from the plate to look at Cliff, and then she smiled and stopped staring at the plate and began eating again. I twitched, was she the girl in his dream? And if so was cliff the guy glaring at me? Nah, cliff could never glare at someone like that.

When I had stopped pondering the girl had all the dishes in her hands following Ann to the kitchen; and for a second I could have sworn I saw an anklet like the girl in my dream had on her left leg.

I sighed I'm probably just woozy from what happened from yesterday and at the clinic. Realization hit gray, he began shaking his head screaming no at himself; forgetting he was at the table.

"Gray are you okay?" Cliff asked with concern in his voice. With a sigh I told him I was fine, and then asked "Who's the girl?" I thought he would have been embarrassed at the question, but he had a smile on his face and a strange look on his face, completely alien. "She's an old friend of Ann and mine" his face was making me feel uneasy; he looked like a love sick puppy.

"Ann knows her?" I questioned, when and where?

"Weird I know" he half sighed half spoke as if he were thinking. What's with that sappy look on his face? I don't feel comfortable anymore. Oh goddess he's looking at me; Gray whatever you do don't ask! If you stick your nose in it your gonna get hurt. I tried looking away, but he kept staring at the door behind me making me uncomfortable. It's like I'm glass in front of his eyes.

Through his day dream he hadn't noticed that gray had gotten up and left.

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Jacklin's P.O.V

"And that's what happened Ann" she finished putting her dish down on the rack and shyly looking over to see how Ann was processing the data.

"Ann? Did I break you?" she poked Ann on her side, but the girl didn't budge "good, I didn't break you" Jacklin smiled and Ann scowled at her; the expression went from angry to evil in mere seconds as Ann began pushing Jacklin through the doorframe.

She wanted to play matchmaker. Ann blinked then let go of jack's shoulders, then began searching ignoring love sick cliff and Max walking circles around her legs causing her to almost trip 5 times. Jacklin sighed and put her sweater on.

Ann huffed. "Where's gray?" she asked annoyance in her tone. Cliff came out of his daze and mumbled something about work and tilted his head to stare at the ceiling, smiling as if he had seen clouds there.

"Cliff did you get into the magic chocolates again?" she asked smirking knowing it would set him off "No I didn't!"He snapped looking down at the ground, and then Jacklin decided to laugh only making it worse. "It's not funny! Don't forget you ate some too and you went all loopy!" he said waving his arms in the air to help make his point, Ann was looking back and forth between the two confused.

"Well at least they didn't put me in a dress for a school play!" Jacklin retorted and watched as cliffs face went red. He was utterly embarrassed and looked pretty pissed even though it was just a game.

He looked away from her and mumbled "I'm not the one with anger issues" knowing he had lost the battle they both broke out in laughter still leaving Ann out of the loop.

After the laughter subsided with both of them wiping tears from their eyes Ann got fed up and dragged Jacklin out the door with the suitcase and rugsack in the other hand; while max trailed behind.

"Ann I can walk you know" Jacklin stated as Ann pulled her past the winery. She probably would have pulled me all the way there if it weren't for someone tripping over her in a mad dash for who the hell knows what.

"Ow!" the man called rubbing his face and propping himself up with the other hand "My glasses!" he screeched looking at the missing lenses. "Look what you did!" he screeched again, but he was scowling at me this time. I observed him for a second, why is he wearing a turtleneck in the spring? I questioned myself tilting my head

Then I looked at the glasses and smiled cheerfully "don't worry I can fix that" he was squinting at her with disbelief, but he handed her the glasses anyway. "Ann could you hand me my bag" and Ann tossed her the bag and stared at her. After searching through her bottomless bag Jacklin pulled out a little kit.

"Are they lose or tight on your face?" she asked while unscrewing the frames "there a little loose" he responded placing his finger on his chin and looking up.

I placed the lenses in and screwed the frames back together then tightened the screw in the joints and placed them back on his face. He blinked wildly at me, then shook his head and smiled "Their perfect !" he exclaimed grabbing my hands; I could feel a slight blush rising in my cheeks and quickly snatched them back and looked down.

He shrugged it off and got up extending his hand to help me up and I gladly took it. "I'm Rick" he stated holding his hand out again "You can call me Jack" I replied shaking his hand. Wow I'm really tall I noted, I could almost see his whole head and compared to Ann I must be a giant! I looked at him again and couldn't help but think carrot top.

"I work at the poultry farm with my mom and my sister Popuri" he replied trying to make amends. "Well I guess I'll be your customer in the near future. I'm taking over my grandpa's farm down the way" I pointed towards the farm and he looked at me blankly

"I don't remember Mr. Wilson having a grandson" he responded putting his finger back underneath his chin.

Jacklin brushed it off; ever since sophomore year she's been mistaken for a guy and frankly doesn't care anymore. In fact that's the reason why Cliff was in a dress, she had to be Romeo because she didn't look girly anymore and cliff had long hair and had to be Juliet witch made a lot of money for the school and a fond memory to her.

"Well see you around Rick!" Jacklin called as they met the crossway separating the farm from the town. The girls walked onto the farm and gasped at the sight before them.

"Wow!" Ann stared in amazement then ran to the door, opening it to reveal a very exhausted Gotz

"Are you okay?!" I asked looking at him with worry. He looked at me and smiled to reassure he was okay then replied "If you smile I'll be alright" jokingly. I couldn't help but scoff then playfully punched his arm. I must've punched him harder than he expected because he flinched and rubbed his arm.

"I hope every things to your liking" he replied sheepishly still rubbing his arm. "I don't think I could love it anymore!" I replied hugging the carpenter much like how Ann hugged Saibrara, then realized I was hugging someone I barley know and let go.

"I'm so sorry" I apologized holding my hands up to show how sorry I was. "That's okay" he replied grinning and rubbing his hand playfully in my hair. "You remind me of my daughter. I hope to get orders from you soon" he finished walking down the path to the forest area.

Ann was already in the house running around with the dog giving approving looks towards the kitchen and whatever was upstairs, then Ann started choking and coughing on something.

"See Ann I told you! Now you suffer the consequences" I called smirking then giving a thumbs up to the dog who seemed to be laughing at Ann. Seed of Chucky!! My mind screeched, but I couldn't help but laugh at Ann's discomfort.

"What the hell?!" she called looking down at the dog "I told 'ya so" I replied as Ann covered her nose. "Next time I'll listen to ya" she answered in defeat trying to keep herself from smelling anything as vile as that dogs colon.

From what I could tell there was a bathroom, a kitchen, a fireplace, an attic or something upstairs, a bedroom, and everything that was in there before like the toolboxes, and shelves but the bed was different; guess Gotz switched them out.

Ann handed me a catalog "You can find just about anything you'd need in that book, and if you want to buy something give the money and the order sheet to Zack and he'll bring it here in 2 days." she explained grinning waiting for something.

"What's upstairs Ann?" I asked curious. "Go look" she replied pointing towards the stairs. I quickly hopped up the steps to find another bedroom with a huge window. Wait? That's not a window Jacklin quickly opened the door to step onto a balcony that she could view her whole farm from and smiled.

"I've got a lot of work ahead of me" I half sighed with excitement.

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God this chapter is so long!!!

I hate it when I can't think of endings for chapters all they do is make you prolong it, oh well