Hey guys I'm back with another chapter ^^ I know it's been awhile but this was really difficult to write since I was so busy with school and studying for Mid-Terms :P Anyway I'll shut up so you guys can continue on with the story.

Disclaimer: I don't own Harvest Moon but Natsume does

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I spent the night there, letting Howard's words sink into my brain. I woke up that morning hearing the rain pound against the window; I looked around the room I was in. There was a bouquet of flowers set on the nightstand, and there were many books about flowers spread out onto nightstand. Of course, I ended up in Cam's old room; this only made me think about him even more. I walked out of the room only to hear voices chatting away, all too familiar voices. Howard was flipping the breakfast, and smiled at me as I walked out of the room. I forced a smile to appear on my face, and then I heard the two voices chatting away again. I turned my head to be facing two people: Laney and Cam.

Cam noticed my presence and got up to face me. He was in his normal lavender colored outfit that barely fit him anymore looking bigger on him. His face still looked exhausted and his eyes…. faded away; no longer that eye popping green; but more of a faded, lifeless dead grass color. He looked me over for a moment and brought me into a hug. I stiffened up, not really knowing what to do. I couldn't bring up the strength to hug him. He let go of me, and stared at me. I stared at the ground watching the little pieces of dust float around the floor. After about a minute of awkward silence, he finally spoke.

"I missed you last night… I woke up this morning and you weren't there. I thought you had wandered off to the mountains or something crazy like that." He said scratching the back of his head. "Then I got a message from Howard over the phone that you had spent the night here… Why did you wander off like that?" his voice didn't rise or fall, it didn't even sound like any emotion was coming out of his voice. I stared at the ground and kicked my boot softly against the floor, I really didn't want to tell him what happened last night, how I cried, and cried last night about him about how worried I was about him. I didn't answer, just stared at the floor.

He lifted my chin up from its position upon facing the ground. He stared at me once again, a sincere look on his face. "Lillian, what happened last night?" he said. I didn't want to answer him; I didn't want him to know how worried I was. I stayed quiet, really not wanting to talk to him about it. I felt tears dot my eyes, but I blinked them away trying not to start bursting out sobbing. I felt Laney staring at me from behind Cam; honestly I didn't want to explain. "Cam…. I…" I started but didn't finish, I felt myself choke up. Not even finding a word to say. He looked at me, he wasn't angry not even a hint of anger played on his face. He smiled I don't know why, he spoke up,

"It's all-right. You don't have to explain." I tried my hardest to look into his eyes… but every time I did, I looked away.

He wrapped an arm around me and nodded to Laney and Howard as we left. We walked outside; the rain was coming down in buckets. He was silent and so was I. I didn't really want to talk nor did I really know what to say I guess he didn't either he had no clue what to say to me I guess. The town itself was quiet; of course it was raining everybody was probably reclining in this morning. In the midst of the silence Cam spoke.

"Dr. Amane called by the way, she was looking for you. I guess it was something about an appointment, I don't know for whom, just thought you'd like to know." He said adjusting his hat.

Still I stayed silent. I don't what kept keeping me from answering, my throat felt choked back and I felt like I just couldn't say anything. The rain was sprinkled around us in a passing mist; Cam hated rain, more or less walking in it. The flowers got overwatered and died because of the showers, this was another reason Cam hated the fall season in general, too much rain not much flowers. I was surprised Cam was silent, I expected him to be asking me questions and acting like a police officer but that wasn't the case. I guess he didn't really want to talk about it probably fearing I would feel awkward talking about it.

As if this silence couldn't go on for much longer we reached home.

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Cecilia came running to me and grabbed my leg looking at me with those big-brown eyes of hers; you could tell she missed me last night and wondering where I went last night... I looked at Ryu who was sitting in his highchair reaching his chubby little hands towards me as if expecting a hug. "Where did you go last night?" Cecilia asked me as she removed herself from my leg. Before I could even get my mouth moving Cam answered for me, "Your mom was just visiting Uncle Howard last night, that's all Cecilia." He said with a reassuring smile to the small 7 years old. The young girl stared up at me as if looking for an answer from me, I gathered up my voice, "Yeah… I was just visiting Howard last night that's all honey nothing to worry about." I said smiling down at my daughter the best I could. She smiled and ran off to go feed the cows; I was relieved she didn't hear me yelling at Ash and Cam last night.

"Such an energetic girl she is…" Cam said with a weak smile. "Reminds me of you." He said kissing me on the forehead. He probably noticed the look on my face, that look of worry I was actually trying to hide. "Is something wrong Lillian?" he asked concerned, putting a hand on my shoulder, his hands were cold I could even feel them through my shirt they were so cold. I shook my head, "I'm fine." Cam didn't look convinced but he shrugged it off and didn't ask me. "If something is really bothering you Lillian please tell me, you don't have to tell me now but if something is bothering I want you to say something all right?" he said with a sincere smile, he walked towards the door he was heading off to work. The door shut behind him, as I heard his footsteps leave the farm area and the door shut I almost broke down in tears.

He… he wasn't Cam… He really wasn't. That's not the Cam I became friends with, that's not the Cam I fell in love with, that's not the Cam I shared my first kiss with, that isn't the Cam who I married and shared almost 2 years with. That isn't Cam… It isn't him at all.

Hot salty tears rolled down my cheeks, even as I wiped them away, more just came and kept coming. I looked at Ryu through water smudged eyes, I noticed his face. Scared, worried you could see water dot his eyes like small water droplets. "Oh my god…" I whispered, I was making him cry. Seeing his own mother cry like that and look so helpless, must have made him worried, I must be making him upset because I'm upset. The little boy didn't wail or scream like an ear-piercing siren, in the place of those were thin, watery warm tears rolled down his chubby baby soft cheeks. I whispered to him in a worried tone, trying to keep myself collected, "It's ok Ryu… Please don't cry, mommy's okay…" I said trying to sound somewhat comforting and hiding the worried tone in my voice. I wiped away his tears with my thumb whispering, "Shh, it's ok Ryu. I'm ok, please don't cry." I said again trying to comfort him. The little boy looked up at me with his big green eyes, now filled up with salty water. I petted his fuzzy little head barely holding any hair yet, hopefully calming him down. I kissed him on the forehead he became all giggly and the same stereotypical baby. I wiped my eyes on the back of my sleeves like a small child and sat down at the table staring once again at the pictures on the wall. "Only if I could go back to then… Those days were much better…"

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Flash-Back
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"Come on Cam! Stop being a lazy bones and hurry up!" I yelled from the grassy hills of the mountain. It was a warm summer day and just the perfect weather for some climbing, the weather wasn't beating down on you like a jack hammer and there wasn't a feeling up sticky mugginess in the air just a simple breezy summer day. "I'm coming Lillian hold on," Cam yelled from about 3 feet behind me, Cam wasn't the most athletic person so it took him a while to get up the mountain.

I started running up the mountain just to tease him of his non-athletic body, Cam maybe thin but certainly not athletic at all. Ash's little sister, Cheryl, could beat him up, trust me that little girl is stronger than you think! Cam got a bloody nose and some bumps and bruises from her, that proved to me Cam wasn't very strong.

"Catch me if you can!" I yelled at the top of my lungs.
"Hey that's unfair! You're faster than me!" He yelled breathing hard
I laughed even harder as I continued running, "You should be faster than me, I can't believe you're about to be run out by a girl who weighs about 10 pounds more than you!" I raced up higher and higher up the mountain. The wind was wiping through my ears and my legs were flying the sun felt so good against my skin.
"Hey don't insult me Lillian!" He yelled breathlessly behind me.
I stuck out my tongue and pulled down my bottom eyelid just to tease him. I ran up higher and higher into the mountain. I could see his chest heaving up and down at a quick rate as he tried to push his body harder.
"Come on Cam! Be a man, run faster!" I yelled puffing my chest out to make myself to look a muscled body builder. I laughed even harder at my own joke and ran up the mountain quicker.

Eventually, Cam stopped for a break to rest he was leaning on his knees and his back was hunched over. I walked down the mountain smiling and shaking my head, "You're so weak Cam! You can't even run out me!" I said jokingly. He pushed me to the ground as hard as he could only to make me laugh harder. "Shut up!" he huffed trying his best to look mad but his face looked too hilarious to be taken seriously.

I held my stomach as I laughed even harder at his face, "What's so funny?!" he asked making that same angry face. He looked an angry English bulldog puppy, he looked so adorable. I laughed even harder until my stomach hurt; I wiped the tears dotting my eyes, "Okay… Okay… I'll stop." I said only to find myself on the ground laughing again. What are you laughing about?!" he said, that same face was made, only to make me laugh harder.
"You're… face!' I said as I burst back into laughing. "That faces you just made! You look so hilarious! I can't take you seriously Cam; you look so funny trying to be angry!" I said my voice rising again in laughter I pounded my fist against the grass.
"Stop it!" he said his face got red in embarrassment, "My face isn't that funny!"
I finally got myself together and smiled hiccupping wildly. "Come on Cam, I was just joking. You're adorable when you do that face." I smiled I admit at the time I had the hugest crush on him, his face turned beat red at my compliment,
"You get so embarrassed easily; you don't have to be so uptight." I said "Just have some fun." I said with a weird but cute smile. We were both silent for a moment, the wind blew for a moment and time itself seemed to stop. I smiled and turned around and ran as fast as possible, "Come on we still have to get to the top!" I yelled, Cam stood for a moment awestruck but he started running.

"Come on slow poke hurry up!" I said as I continued running up hill. I decided to fool with him and take another route up the mountain, "Try to catch me now!" I yelled as I stuck out my tongue. I turned onto one of the bridges and started running upwards toward the mountainous parts of this area. This place was full of trees and very blinding with leaves. I kept running besides that obstacle I could hear Cam following behind me running as fast as possible. "Lillian, I don't think we should go this way." I heard him say through huffing breaths. "Oh come on stop being Lazy this is fun!" I yelled back continuing to wend through the mess of trees in the area. I could feel the wind and leaves run through my hair and the sun glisten in the afternoon sky it felt so nice on my skin. Due to so many trees blocking my path I could barely watch my feet nor could I relatively see where I was going, I was doing my very best to avoid the many roots sticking out of the ground I didn't want to hurt myself, especially when I had to take care of about 5 animals and water my crops I couldn't afford to get hurt or sick. I was flying I couldn't feel my legs touch the ground I was going so fast, I felt like I was walking on air but suddenly something interrupted my walking-on-air feeling.

I felt my boot get caught in one of the tight roots on the ground, now even as athletic as I was I didn't have the best balance. In attempt the stay on my feet I tried to slip out of the root, but suddenly I felt something.

I felt my foot twist around suddenly a pain shot straight up my left leg. This pain was agonizing. It could feel something in my ankle tear apart and rip like a sheet of paper; I collapsed to the ground as I felt the pain as strong as one hundred daggers sinking into my ankle. I honestly felt like someone was ripping my ankle bit by bit out of its socket, my eyes became watery with the sheer pain. I cried out.

I heard Cam shout from a few feet behind me, "Lillian!?" he yelled into the distance. His voice was full of worry and anxiety; my scream must have alerted him.
"Cam! I'm right here!" I yelled holding my ankle almost in tears.

A few seconds later Cam appeared through the bushes, his face invaded with worry. He ran over to me and knelt to my level. He put a hand on my shoulder, "Are you ok, Lillian? I heard a scream and I didn't know what happened." He looked at me with anxiety filled eyes, his face covered with worry.

"I'm fine, I just tripped I think."
Cam looked at me sceptical about my answer. "You're sure?" he asked. He put his hand to my ankle and squeezed my ankle.
"GAAH!" I cried. "Don't do that it hurts."
"Well, if it hurts then something must have happened." He said mocking me, making me feel stupid.

We sat there for a while. Honestly we didn't know what to do, I of course didn't know where we were and how to get back to the normal mountain path and due to my ankle there wasn't much we could do. I thought Cam was going to leave me but he stayed, honestly I didn't think that was his personality. I remember Ash fell and broke his nose on the mountain and Cam just kept walking while I helped Ash back home.

"What are we going to do now?" I finally asked.
"You tell me, stupid you got us stuck up here." He said again making me feel bad.
"Hey it's not my fault! I couldn't see where I was going, stupid tree got in the way." I mumbled.
"Okay now you're blaming the tree for possibly breaking you're foot. That's nice, blame an inanimate object when you tripped over your own feet." He said mockingly.
"Okay, now you're calling me stupid that's real-" I was stopped midway in my sentence.

He was kissing me, on the lips, in a middle of a mountain area. I stared at him his face was fire red and he was blushing like a beat. His lips were soft, and tasted sweet I decided to go on with it. I could feel my own cheeks burning as I kissed back making him blush even harder. I admit it was the longest 5 seconds of my life. When we broke Cam didn't speak, neither did I his face was beat red and I could feel my own cheeks burning like hot charcoal. After about 2 minutes of a silence he croaked out,

"I'm sorry… I wasn't thinking straight…"
"It's fine really." I said he looked at me for a moment
When he asked me this his face went even redder than before, "Do you want to do it again?" he asked innocently like a 5 year old who broke a vase.
I don't know why but I nodded.

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Unbeknownst to me or Cam, Ash was actually hidden in the bush and had taken a picture of when we kissed. We didn't figure it out until Ash fell out of the bush trying to get a better shot. Ash got pushed down a hill for that one, it turns out that I did have a broken ankle and Ash had to do my farm work until I could walk again. After that me and Cam went out with each other, I admit we fought but things worked out, I remember we had the stupidest fights and he would call me a half-hour later apologizing. "It was a good memory…" I said staring at the picture. Suddenly the phone rang, it wailed and jumped me out of my daze of thoughts. I got up and answered, but honestly I wish I hadn't.

"Hello?"
"Lillian?! Is that you?" It was Ash, his voice was panicky and shaky.
"Yeah, Ash what's wrong?" I asked. I started to get a worried feeling in the pit of my stomach.
"Lillian! You have to get to Amane's…" He said almost sounding like a child pleading.
"Ash, what's wrong? What happened?!" I yelled to the nervous boy on the other line.
"It's Cam, something happened." Ash said sounding even more worried.
My head started to panic, Cam… Oh God…
"Ash what happened?" I asked grabbing onto the phone cord with my sweaty palms.
"I can't really explain right now, just please come now." Ash pleaded.

I hung up the phone, the worst feeling in my stomach hit I almost felt sick like I was going to puke up my lunch. I didn't even think for a millisecond I didn't grab my coat and didn't care about the rain, I just ran my mind racing. I ran faster than my legs could carry me, I was getting splashed by the puddles I was so worried. No, I was more than worried… I was petrified.

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God, that took longer than expected ^^''' Really sorry it took so long my power was out for 4 days, things and people got in the way and I became busy in general

This was a very hard chapter to write I kept reediting over and over until I was finally satisfied. Honestly, this story will get better if you think it's suckish.

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