Second paaaart. This chapter is DEFINETLY a T rating, because of an incident towards the end. I apologise in advance if it makes some people feel uncomfortable, I was really debating whether or not to put it in or not. But, I toned it down as much as possible, so it shouldn't be too bad. Anyways, enjoy, I think? xD

Disclaimer: Don't own Harvest Moon. -.-

"Okay Chase, calm down, calm down."

Leaning up against the door which he just realised he had slammed rather rudely in the girl's faces (Plus Luke), the extremely flustered male tried to get a hold of himself.

That however, was easier said than done.

He had only caught a glimpse, but what Chase actually saw of Molly instantly sent him into the undeniable 'perv' mode which all male's seem to have, however hard they try to deny it.
Several inappropriate thoughts flooded through his mind as he attempted to turn his face back to it's proper colour, which was difficult considering whenever he made any progress, the thoughts just turned it straight back to the beet red colour from before.

"How am I going to survive the night like this?" he thought as he finally started to gain some control of his mind again, "Every time I see her I'll just want to..."

The small piece of gained control lost already, the Chef finally gave in and just opened the door, figuring that he wasn't going to be able to shake the thoughts of his head however hard he tried.

"Bit rude just slamming the door in our faces, don't you think? Even for you, that was a bit too much."

"Yeah, sorry, Kathy." Doing his best to avoid looking at Molly again, Chase locked his door before turning back to Kathy, who was staring at him stupidly.

"What have you got that look on your face for?"

"You said sorry."

"Oh..."

The next part of her plan successfully working, Kathy was about to bully the poor guy into showing more of his feelings, before Luke abruptly cut her off, exclaiming that they'd be late for work if they didn't hurry up.

"Besides, Molly's getting really cold."

She shot a glare at Luke for cutting of her meddling, before quickly agreeing that yes, they should in fact get moving.

"Better opportunities at the bar, anyways." She thought to herself as she grabbed Molly's hand and dragged her along with her as she ran to the destination.

Sighing as they trailed behind, Luke gave a sympathetic look to the bemused man walking beside him.

"I'm sorry about this man, Kathy always likes to meddle in things."

"I-It's okay..."he nervously began, finding the ground beneath his feet extremely interesting all of a sudden. "I just wish she wouldn't, is all...it's so awkward and embarrassing, I can tell Molly feels uncomfortable about the whole thing as well."

Laughing slightly, Luke gave the man a friendly slap on the back.

"You don't know how right you are! She actually tricked Molly into wearing that, she would have never have chose too. But, I guess in a way it's a good thing. After all, Kathy is helping Molly to build up some self confidence about herself."

"I think there's better ways of building up some self confidence rather than just making her look sexy. To be honest, it's probably making her feel more self conscious, rather than self confident.

"Did you just call my best friend sexy?"

"Huh? Oh...Umm...I-I..." inwardly cursing himself for letting slip that sentence, Chase carefully thought about how to explain what he had just said to Luke.

Thankfully for him, he didn't need to since Luke just smiled at him and waved it off.

"You two are so oblivious, it makes me look intelligent...well we managed to make it here on time without running, so I don't know why Kathy dragged Molly off so quickly." Taking the attention away from his previous remark by announcing their arrival to the bar, Luke held open the door for Chase, who was now seriously thinking over what Luke had just said to him.

He didn't have much time to think before Hayden interrupted him however.

"CHASE YOU WERE NEARLY LATE, NOW COME HERE AND GET COOKING BOY."

"Do you have to yell all of the time Dad?"

"Of course I do dear; it's the only way you can get people to listen to you."

Tutting at her father's illogical thinking, Kathy set down a drink at a table before walking over to where Molly was sitting, who had now been joined by Luke.

"See, we weren't the only ones who dressed up!" she happily exclaimed whilst she looked around the room.

"Maybe so, but everyone else isn't dressed like hookers."

"Aw come of it Mol! We don't look like hookers! I see everyone thinks that you're pretty good looking though, remember all of the whistling when we walked in? And even now some of the guys are still staring at you!"

Deliberately finishing her last sentence rather loudly, Kathy looked over to Chase, who seemed to be cutting some ingredients a bit more violently than usual.

"And again, my plan is working..." Smiling as she walked off, she winked to a few of the men who were now staring at her as she walked past.

"I don't want guys to look at me though..." sighing sadly she laid her head on the table, Molly looked out of the corner of her eye, only to see Kathy harassing Chase once again.

Gently placing a hand on her shoulder, Luke gave a sympathetic smile to the girl.

"You know she only means well...but if you want, I'll ask her to stop."

"No its okay...I don't want to make her mad, she is trying after all."

"Hmm...Well, just say if she starts going too far."

Slighting moving her head in a nodding motion, Molly just continued to stare at Chase, who was now waving a knife at Kathy in order to get her to leave him alone.

This sequence of events continued for the majority of the night, with Chase and Kathy breaking out into at least 5 arguments, before Hayden threatened to take away the alcohol from his daughter if she kept harassing his chef.

Molly wandered why she hadn't used that threat when being made to put her costume on. She was already becoming sick of the evening - she had already had several half-drunk men walk over to where she was sitting and tried to flirt with her, some making rude sexual remarks before Luke drove them away.

"Mol...? " Looking up from the apparent day dream which she was in, she noticed Luke looking at her rather worriedly.

"Are you okay? You've been really spaced out ever since we got here."

"Well...I'm not exactly interested in this night, and apparently Kathy's 'plan' or whatever she called it had backfired, since Chase is ignoring me completely now..."

Biting his lip to stop himself from blurting out the obvious reason as to why Chase happened to be ignoring her, all Luke could do was stay silent as he desperately tried to think of something to say.

"E...Excuse me pretty...*hic* lady..."

Yet another drunken man from another town approached Molly, causing Luke to look back up at the girl, who just shook her head at him, signalling that it's nothing to worry about.

"What is it?" Molly impatiently turned to face the man who questioned her; a short, stout man with an unshaven face, messy hair, and reeking of alcohol-the type of man which makes you shudder and feel uncomfortable.

"I was...just wanderin' whether you...would like to get out of here with me tonight...I'm surprised you've not gone with some other man yet."

"I haven't gone with any other man, because I'm not interested in drunkards like you. Does that answer your questions?"

"Aww but baby...I could give you a better time...than any of the men in here..." as he was talking to Molly, the man started to get too close to her, causing Luke toget his axe at the ready. Even though they had been dealing with men like this all night, none had ever gotten this close to their target.

"Get away from me, please, I hate the smell of alcohol on a man." Being polite with the man to begin with, Molly pleaded with him to get away, scared for both her own safety, and his.

"Playing hard to get huh? That just makes me want you even more..."

Now genuinely scared, Molly tried to get up out of her seat to move away from the man, but instead it just gave him an opportunity to grab her by the waist and pull him towards her.

"GET OF ME!" She shrieked whilst trying to break free of his grasp, only making him hold on tighter.

Reacting instantly, Luke rose out of his seat and pointed his axe at the man, only to find that he had been beaten to the 'rescue.'

"Let her go, you asshole. Men like you make me sick." Looking over to the voice, Luke noticed a serious looking Chase and Hayden standing in front of the man, with Kathy trying to direct the other customer's attention away from the scene.

"Oh...sorry, I didn't realise...she had a man! I wandered why she had been staring at you all night! Fff guys like you...are so lucky...you always get the babes."

"Just let her go, or else we'll force you to let go."

"Hah, what, a scrawny man like you? You'll need to threaten me better than that to make me let go of this girl."

"He may be scrawny, but I'm sure not." Stepping forward, Hayden decided that it was going to be better to end the conflict now, rather than risk something bad happening to Molly.

"Shit dude...what do you do...to get muscles like that? All you do...is work in a bar all night."

"I knock some sense into idiots like you, so unless you want to give me a workout, I suggest you let the girl go and leave." Cracking his knuckles, Hayden made his offer final.

"Well...ugh, whatever, no one ever lets a guy...have any fun any more..." Pushing Molly away from him forcefully and causing her to trip, the man stormed out of the bar.

"Molly!" Stepping a couple of paces to stop her from falling over, Chase caught her and helped to re-establish her balance.

"Are you okay, Molly, he didn't hurt you did he? Because if he did, I swear that he'll pay for it."

"No...No...I'm...okay...I..." not being able to finish her sentence, Molly just fell into floods of tears, the relief that nothing had happened to her, but also the thought of what could have happened, being overwhelming.

"Mol..." pulling her towards him, Chase just held onto to Molly as she cried, completely ignoring how close their bodies were too each other.
As he held her, the young chef began to feel angry at the man who had made Molly so upset, who had put her in a situation such as that one. He was also angry at himself for not being able to protect her on his own, and having to rely upon Hayden to come to the rescue.

"I'm sorry...I'm getting you really wet."

Feeling Molly shakily laugh out a sentence made the man feel slightly better. She was okay, right? That's all that mattered right now.

"Don't be sorry, silly, I don't mind." Speaking softly to her, he raised his hand and stroked her hair for comfort (And because he just couldn't resist much longer) causing Molly's cries to die down to a few sobs, and her face heat up in the process.

For a few minutes the two just stayed in the same position until finally Hayden spoke up, saying that maybe it would be a good idea for Molly to head home now.

"Yeah...I think this is enough for tonight." Kathy added on, before turning to Molly.

"Molly...I'm so sorry, if it wasn't for me, this would have never happened to you...I never expected this to happen, I just...I..."

Looking back at the girl, Molly smiled warmly at her. "It's okay, Kathy...I know you only meant well, and it wasn't you fault that idiots like him exist."

"Oh, Molly, you're far too nice...come on, I'll walk you home. Do you want me to stay with you tonight...? It might be a good idea if Luke did too, just to have some man security there in case that guy reappears. Is that okay with you, Luke?"

"Of course, I was going to suggest the same thing if neither of you did."

"Great...I'll just go get some things, it's near closing time anyways."

Finally breaking away from Chase, Molly said that she would help Kathy, to speed up the process.

Before she left however, she tightly hugged Chase once more and thanked him for looking out for her, and the comfort which he gave.

Merely nodding in response, he watched Molly walk up the bar's stairs to Kathy's room, before turning to Luke.

"Luke...can I tell you something?"

"Hm? Sure, what is it?"

"I understand why you made that comment earlier now."

"Oh...you mean, you realised?"

Nodding as he looked away, Chase found himself telling the person he's least expect himself to want to know this:

"I really like Molly."

Dun dun duuuun. Man, that was actually heavier than I expected...I hope I approached the issue well enough...

I'm sorry if I offended anyone with the descriptions, by the way, there not supposed to be offensive, at least.

I think I got some gender mix ups in there as well...guess I'm just like the game in that sense then, huh? xD

Reviews are loved like usual etc etc, and thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed the chapter!