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Valentine's Day - HM Short Story

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Harvest Moon: Animal Parade
short Valentine's Day fanfic
Wizard/Gale x Contessa

The Wizard looked up in surprise from the book he was reading at his desk at the sound of a hesitant knock on his door. Few came to see him these days, and most of the townsfolk had seemed to have forgotten he was a part of the town anymore. Wizard slowly got up from his desk without a sound and crossed the room to the door. He opened the door just enough to see standing in the bright afternoon sunlight one of the few people who knew he was still around, the new rancher Contessa. Surprised to see the young redheaded woman at his door the Wizard slowly opened his door wider, trying to maintain a neutral expression.

"Why are you here, Contessa?" Wizard asked softly startling her.

"I-I......." Contessa's face became almost as red as her hair as she averted her eyes from Wizard's face. She brushed a stray hair back behind her ear with one hand, the other hidden behind her back.

"Did the Witch turn herself into a frog again?" Wizard asked trying not to betray any emotion as he tried to discreetly look around her to see what she was hiding.

Contessa instantly looked up at him eyes wide with surprise and mouth slightly agape, "W-what? No, s-she's not turned herself into anything lately that she normally isn't."

Contessa blushed again and looked away toward the lighthouse in the distance, "Besides, s-she has nothing to do with why I'm h-here."

Wizard looked at Contessa with increasing interest, from their past conversations he knew she didn't stutter the way she was, and she usually wasn't this shy to say whatever was on her mind. He moved from the door then beckoned Contessa to enter his home and motioned her to take the chair in front of the table where the crystal ball Contessa had helped him recover set on it's pedestal. Wizard tried to squelch the unreasonable jealousy that rose up at the thought that Contessa was probably going to ask him to read what Jin's feelings were for her, after all he knew she had gone on a couple dates with the doctor, and tried not to let his thoughts show. Contessa slowly entered his house, still managing to keep whatever she was hiding hidden from his view, but didn't move to the place he had indicated for her to sit. Contessa stood awkwardly at the edge of the blue rug with the star and moon pattern, while Wizard stood in front of her by the table with the crystal ball, looking at the rug's pattern trying to gather her courage.

Contessa bit her lower lip nervously and took a deep breath before she spoke again.

"W-where I c-came from t-today is a h-holiday called v-Valentine's Day," Contessa pushed another stray hair from her face and took another deep breath. "On Valentine's Day i-it's a tradition for girls to g-give the boy she l-likes h-homemade chocolates."

Contessa blushed more deeply than Wizard had ever seen before as she slowly stepped closer to him and pulled a box wrapped in red string from behind her back. Contessa hesitantly met his shocked gaze as she offered the box to him.

"H-happy Valentine's Day........."

Wizard's heart skipped a beat and he felt numb at her words as his eyes widened even more in surprise. His mind went totally blank for the first time in years and he was rendered speechless for a few moments. When it completely sank in what Contessa had just told him, Wizard's heart began to race and he felt his own face redden as he took the box from her with shaking hands. Before he could drop the box Wizard set it on the table beside him and locked his gaze with Contessa's.

"Y-you..... like..... me.......?" Wizard asked in disbelief trying hard to regain control of himself.

"Uh-huh," Contessa nodded.

"W-what about..... Jin?" Wizard asked then bit his lip and mentally cursed himself for not just being happy with the knowledge that Contessa cared about him at least.

Contessa looked away from Wizard for a moment then returned her gaze to his with sincere emotion in her eyes, "I-I like him more....as a friend..... I prefer the stars over flowers."

The Wizard blinked at the reference to the two festivals Contessa had gone to since she had arrived in Harmonica that hadn't been contest oriented, she had gone with Jin to the Flower Festival and to the Starry Night Festival with him, and his heart clinched at her words. A smile slowly spread across his face as pure joy ran through him along with the satisfaction that Contessa would choose him over the town doctor. Acting on impulse Wizard cupped Contessa's face in his hand and quickly kissed her on the lips catching her by surprise.

"I like you too, Contessa," he murmured as he pulled back from the kiss surprised by the feelings and sensations she made him feel, "and I want you to know my name.........."

"Tell me!" Contessa whispered with a dazed expression bringing another smile to his face.

"Only after I'm sure you're not going to abuse the power it would give you. It's believed among those like me that knowing someone's name gives you control over them." The sudden serious look on his face was belied by the sparkling light in his green and gold eyes and a smile returned in almost no time. It was impossible for him not to smile, and he wanted to act rather childishly by running and jumping around everywhere shouting 'She likes me! She likes me!' at the top of his lungs for everyone to hear. Before Contessa could say one word of protest and try to convince him to tell her his name, he caught her lips in another kiss and she nearly melted against him. It was definitely going to be fun learning what other traditions Contessa had been raised with in the future if they were as great as Valentine's Day.


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First Harvest Moon: Animal Parade story I've ever written so please be nice. Contessa is my oc/fc [link] based on Hikari, so if you like Wizard/Gale x Hikari or Wizard/Gale x Akari you can just change the name in your head ;) I know it's a little late for Valentine's Day by a day but I started writing yesterday so it still counts. I wanted to do something cute and sweet with these two for Valentine's Day so I thought changing the feelings confession event from the game would be nice :)

I did my best to stay out of Contessa's head and not overload on dialog. Hope I was successful.

I've been listening to these two songs on loop for the past 5 hours none stop [link] [link] :icondizzyplz: I can't help it the songs are great and Gale is my favorite of the HM:AP bachelors (actually he's my husband in the only file I'm married, and Jin was second choice ^^).

Contessa (c) me
Harvest Moon and Wizard/Gale (c) Natsume and Marvelous Entertainment
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Shana-Nyan's avatar
awwwwe that was so sweet... i like melting in a river of chocolate