"I'm not late. I'm not late." I kept telling myself as I ran into town after finishing my yard work. Okay..so it just might be 11...and hour after Neil told me to meet him. But to be fair it's more his fault! He sold me so many animals! He can't expect me to be able to finish before ten! That's nuts!

Especially with my alpaca. Geez, she's insane. I had to chase her around the farm today because she got out of the fence. Normally it's not so bad when an animal gets out of the fence to go graze around other parts of my farm, but apparently Snowy (my alpaca) very much enjoys eating my friggen turnips. The good ones too! So I ended up chasing Snowy to get her back into the pen (who knew alpaca's were so fast?). Did you know that Snowy enjoys running uphill? I sure didn't! But I do now! He also seems to enjoy it when I face plant on the ground while running after him. It hurt like hell too.. I didn't even have time to clean up my cut because I had to go rush over teo Neil's place. Where I am now.

"You're late." He stated as I finally made it to him, I bent over and panted heavily. He didn't sound mad exactly, just annoyed. "How the hell are you going to win the Olympics if you can't even get here on time?" he scoffed. I glared at him for a second as I continued to breath heavily. Man all this running is not good for me.

"What happened to your cheek?" Neil asked, eyeing the cut on my cheek, as I finally stood up straight. I shrugged and crossed my arms, a bit uncomfortable by the way he was looking at me. Not that he hasn't looked at me before, it's just..he wasn't looking at me angrily. No, he's looked at me not angrily before too, geez I'm not good with words today. He was just looking at me out of worry I suppose. But what for, it's just a small cut.

"Alpacas are demon creatures." I said and shrugged again, not exactly caring. I mean, it hurt a little bit, but so does having a cow step on your face. In other words, you get used to it.

"Come on, we're cleaning it up." Neil said as he grabbed my wrist and pulled me into his house. Som-Most people would've thought this as a danger at the moment, but it's just how Neil is. He's not very patient, and he's obviously faster than me so he kind of drags me around. He's not one for walking side by side. "Sit." Neil commanded and pushed me onto the couch, once again he's just impatient.

I watched as he went over to his kitchen and opened up a drawer. He pulled out a large bandage, some rubbing alcohol, a tissue. Why his medicine cabinet was in his kitchen? I have no idea. Maybe some people do that? I know I don't, mine's in my bathroom. Not that it's really important at the moment, I just felt like it needed to be said.

"Hold still." He ordered and poured some of the rubbing alcohol onto the tissue paper. He leaned in close to me and started to dab the cut on my cheek. I felt a blush creep up on my cheek as his face got a bit closer to my own, close enough that I could feel his breath on my face. I noticed that there was a small blush climbing up his own neck, but his eyes stay fixated on my cheek.

It wasn't until after he placed the bandage on my cheek that I felt the stinging pain of the rubbing alcohol and my cut burst into my cheek.

"OW!" I exclaimed and grabbed my cheek in pain. Neil rolled his eyes at me then grabbed my other wrist and dragged me out of his house. "Next time don't be clumsy." Neil scoffed at me, which was his way of saying 'Don't hurt yourself', normal people wouldn't have known that, but I just happen to be fluent in Neil.

"Is he going to hurt her?" I heard one of the tourists that happened to be dropping by ask as she eyed Neil and I, Neil's hand was still firm around my wrist as he dragged me to the mountain. I don't know if Neil heard what she said, but he let go of me and walked side by side. I didn't hear the tourist say anything again, but I could see Neil twitching at the pace we were going so I tried to speed up a bit a little bit.

"You alright Neil? You seem more tense than normal." I questioned, noticing that the angry look in his eyes haven't let up a bit, even though it normally does when we're alone. I know that he doesn't do it on purpose, and I don't think he realizes that he does it, I just think he's more comfortable around me than others. Well, Rod and I at least.

"I'm happy that the town is getting some publicity," Neil sighed and stopped in his tracks "But there are just so many people here today, and really they just need to mind their own business." I looked at him curiously and he grabbed my wrist again, but he wasn't pulling me, he just started to walk and I walked along too. Yesterday, there were a bunch of tourists, and today there are even more. "Some of them are real asses too, there was one person yesterday, who got so pissed at me for not asking him how he was doing, that he threw some of the animal medicine at my counter at me."

"City folks probably." I nodded in agreement. City folks are a real pain. For the rest of the walk, Neil and I walked in silence, like we normally would. When we got into the forest, away from people's view, Neil started walking faster again and dragged me along. Eventually we made it to the top, and were sitting in front of the Goddess pond.

"So, why are we here exactly?" I questioned, noticing that we were just sitting.

"Do 50 push ups."

"WHAT?"

"You were late, that's your punishment." Neil pointed his finger at me "Now do the push ups."

"No way."

"Then I'll have no choice but to punish you." he warned, and stood up. My butt stayed planted on the ground though. 50 push ups? That's like..uh..asking a dog not to chase a bone! That was a terrible metaphor. Like really bad, an 'I just scarred myself enough to never do a metaphor again' bad. Which is obviously very bad.

But well..you get the point! Rio don't do push ups!

"Punish me?" I raised an eyebrow at him "How so Mister?"

"I know your weakness."

"I am the almighty Rio, I have no-AH! STOP IT!" I screeched at the humongous urge to laugh as his hands touched me..no more like his fingers. He started to move his fingers around my stomach, as if he was playing the piano. Curses my ticklish skin. Today was the one day I decided to wear normal pants instead of my overalls today too. AND this is a light, white shirt. Sure I look pretty good *winky face* but the overalls would've made the tickling a lot less painful!

"I told you, I know your weakness." Neil said, his fingers still attacking my poor stomach, looking hard like he was trying not to smile.

"I'll do the push ups! I'll do the push ups!" I yelled and tried slapping his hands away, which obviously didn't work.

"Too late." he stated, not stopping his devious assault.

"THAT'S NOT FAIR!" I screamed in between laughs. Only after a good five minutes did he finally stop, and by then, I was out of breath. "You bastard." I swore at him and sent him the dirtiest of glares. They didn't faze him in the least either. "When someone surrenders, you accept their surrenders."

"Not when they're late." Neil said smugly, letting a small grin pierce his cheeks. Of course, being the good friend I am, I didn't mention it or anything. Apparently, he saw the weird look I had in my eyes and let the grin die down. Oh well, I was able to make the 'I hate everyone' person in town smile. If only for a little bit.

"Jerk.." I mumbled and punched him in the arm. He only rolled his eyes and stood up again, obviously pretending that my punc

"Now, let's get on to the actual training." Neil stated, not offering me a hand up at all, not that I expected him too. Not that I would've accepted, it's just what most people WOULD do. But..Neil's Neil. I can't complain about that.

"I know I shouldn't be complaining about this..but I'm curious..what happened to the push ups?" I asked, knowing that I would regret every word. Damn my evil curiosity, trying to get the best of me. And normally does too.

"It's obvious that you're out of breath and can't do them." Neil said, rolling his eyes once again, before grabbing my wrist and dragging me down to the river. "Now for the real training." he said with a slight gleam in his eyes and pointed to a log that was acting as a bridge to the river, here to the other side "We're testing your balance."

So, in the game I started dating Allen to try his heart events out...when one day he gives me vegetable cake. At first I was pretty mad because...come on, who likes vegetable cake? But I left it alone. Then, he gives me yoghurt ice cream, and yoghurt rice.

Hahahaha our break up is being planned.

Trying to call me fat, eh Allen?