ANNNNND HERE'S CHAPTER FOUR! GEEZ, TWO IN ONE NIGHT. *WIN* LOL I KNOW, I'M AMAZING. HEHE. HOPE YOU ENJOY THE CHAPTER. i ALSO MIGHT BE UPLOADING ANOTHER ONE-SHOT SOON, SO KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR IT! IT'S OWEN X MOLLY BTW:)
Chapter 4- A New Experience
(Coryn's POV)
Today was Saturday. It had been almost four weeks since I'd come here to Castanet, and I was really enjoying myself despite all the hard work I had to do.
I braided my long auburn hair so it wouldn't be in my face and headed outside. I did farm chores for the usual three hours. I had been finished for a couple hours and was lying in a lawn chair soaking up the sun when I heard someone walking towards me. I slowly turned around in the chair.
Standing there with a goofy smile plastered onto his face was Luke. He waved hello when he saw me turn around and ran up to me.
"Hey Coryn! Mornin'!" he said.
"Hey Luke!" I responded. Luke had been coming to visit a lot lately, and we were becoming close friends. I was always happy to see him, as I was pretty lonely at my small house.
"So I was thinking, since you looked so bored just now, do you wanna go to the Inn and get a bite to eat real quick?" he asked, smiling. I smiled back, happy to have an excuse to go somewhere.
"Sure! I'll come!" I said. "Just let me get all this dirt off me first. I don't wanna look like a slob. I'll be out in about ten minutes."
"Kay, I'll wait here!" Luke responded, plopping down onto the lawn chair after I stood up. I laughed, then quickly went into my house and showered, then put on some not-as-dirty jean shorts and a cute brown tank top. I walked out of my house to find Luke still sitting in the lawn chair. I walked up to him, finding his eyes closed and his face actually peaceful for once. He was actually really cute.
"Come on, Luke! Let's get a move on!" I said before I could do something stupid, like kiss him. That would be horrible. Luke opened his big golden cat-like eyes and got up with his ever-present smile on his face.
Luke talked and talked about everything on our way to the Inn. He went from talking about his future job as the boss of the carpenter's shop, to adventures in woods, the first and second and fourth time he was chased by a bear, etc, etc, etc. It was a teensy bit annoying, but it was a little better than having there be an awkward silence. We decided to go to a couple other places before we went to the Inn, because we both weren't hungry yet. We went to Simon's photo shop to take some hilarious pictures together, and we also went to the Wizard's house to learn our fortunes. Mine was that I would be married to a wonderful man in the spring (who also lived here), and I will have two children and own a dog; very interesting. Well, at least I knew my dad wouldn't make me leave next year.
Luke kept bugging me to tell him what my fortune was, and I had to refuse him about a million times. What if our fortunes matched perfectly? That would be so awkward and embarrassing. I think I'd die. I mean, he was one of my top marriage candidates, right? But I just can't imagine that conversion. 'So, it looks like we're gonna get married and have two kids together.' Heck no. Not gonna happen.
When we finished walking around all the stores, it was already about five thirty. My stomach growled a bit, and Luke's growled really soon after mine. We laughed our heads off.
"Seems like we're a bit hungry now!" I said.
"Let's go to the bar now. The Inn's more of a lunch kind of place." Luke suggested. I nodded and followed him to the Brass Bar. I had just walked inside when I realized something. Crap. I forgot that 'he' worked here. Chase-my other marriage candidate. It was too late the leave now, though. Kathy was already leading us to our seats. Luke and I sat on chairs across from each other.
"What would you guys like?" Kathy asked, with a kind of weird expression on her face. She seemed pissed off.
"I'll have a big steak with spinach on the side!" Luke asked, oblivious.
I gulped silently. "Um, do you have any suggestions?" I asked Kathy tentatively.
"Well Chase is like, the best cook ever if you haven't already noticed, so he'll cook anything you could possibly want and it'll turn out well." She said a bit sassily.
"I'll have a Caesar salad then, with some orange slices on the side." I said nervously.
"Kay. Coming right up." Kathy said, walking over to the counter. My eyes followed her until they met Chase's purple ones. He was looking at me intently, maybe a little angrily, but only a little. When he noticed I was watching him also, he quickly turned away like last time. Again, I could see his cheeks got a little red. Was he embarrassed? 'Maybe he likes me…..' I thought. Then I stopped myself. Probably not. He didn't seem at all friendly to me so far, so why the heck would he like me? Even so...he did blush.
Luke and I finished our meal and Luke paid Kathy. I'm pretty sure I felt Chase staring at me at least ten times throughout our meal. It may have come off as disturbing to some people, but I really didn't mind at all. Anyway, Luke and I started towards my house after that with him STILL running his mouth (Did he ever stop?). Once we got to my farm, it was late evening, and the sun was setting.
"Be careful on your way back." I said.
"Puh-lease! I'll be fine. I AM the amazing Luke after all!" He smiled. "Well, I'll see you later Coryn! Thanks for letting me drag you around all over the place! I had tons of fun!" he said.
"Me too, and thanks for everything!" I said.
"Well, Coryn, it seems you are officially one of my new best friends. Congratulations." Luke said happily.
"Why thank you. What an honor." I said jokingly. Luke smiled.
"BYEEEEEEEEE!" Luke yelled as he started running towards the mining district.
You know, I suddenly got this feeling that Luke didn't like me at all in a romantic sense. He just wanted to be friends, I could tell. Oh well. For some reason, I didn't feel heartbroken or down about it. Maybe I didn't like him as more than a friend either. He was way too energetic for my taste, anyway.
I looked over at my summer crops that were growing, and saw that the oranges on my tree would be ripe tomorrow. 'I wonder if Chase likes oranges...' I thought.
WELL, LOOKS LIKE CORYN'S CHOSEN WHO SHE WANTS! HAHA. BUT YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN... MWAHAHA. GUESS YOU'LL HAVE TO KEEP READING ON! NEXT CHAPTERS WILL BE COMING UP SOON! ~ShermanTheWorm~
