MY PLACE s03:e03 - Hide and Seek Still Sucks

I found Stinky hiding behind that mysterious stone tablet near the edge of town.

“Drat… I’ve been meaning to put a caution sign around here,” I said. “If somebody falls off that cliff, it’ll be my responsibility.”

“Sorry Mayor,” Stinky apologised. “I just thought that it would be a good place to hide. I-I’m not in trouble, am I?”

“Not unless you help me find the others!” I told him with only a slight hint of madness in my eyes.

“Umm…” Stinky blinked. “You haven’t found them yet?”

“No!” I snapped. “I told you all I hate seeking!”

“But it’s been fifteen minutes. How haven’t you…”

“Never mind how long it’s been! More smack-talk from you, my feline folly, and I’ll tell Alice about your little secret crush!”

“Okay! Okay!!” he whimpered. “I’ll help!” Without much further instruction, he began to comb the area. I felt bad for prying on his insecurities like that… but damn it he’s my prodigy and I’m not losing hide and seek!

Frustratingly, however, Stinky was able to find somebody in just a few seconds. It helps that I had already checked… everywhere… so he didn’t have much more ground to cover. Then again, it was hard to miss Charlise squatting behind Whitney’s house. So hard, in fact, that even Whitney had noticed.

Before Stinky and I could even ‘catch’ the big green bear, Whitney gave away her location by demanding to know why she was loitering on her property.

“Aw, come on, dude!” spat Charlise, having noticed me and Stinky off in the distance. “You just gave me away!”

“I’ll ask you again,” said Whitney, her voice as calm and as smooth as ever despite getting increasingly annoyed. “Why are you perched against my window? I have it in my right mind to report you.”

“I’m playing hide and seek, duh!” Charlise explained, which prompted a short chuckle from Whitney. Charlise growled at that. “Oh, whatever. You think you’re better than me or something? At least I have friends here to play games with! You spend all your time in doors and telling people to get lost!”

“I wonder why that is?” asked Whitney, sarcastically. “I have such wonderful neighbours, after all.”

“Forget you,” grunted Charlise. “Congrats, Mayor,” she said, stomping past Stinky and I. “You found me. I’ll see ya later.”

Whitney meanwhile simply turned her nose up and went back inside of her house. To tell you the truth, she hasn’t exactly ‘fit’ with the rest of Place, even after a month of living with us. She was blackmailed into living here because Vladimir noticed how I…

Well, never mind about the specifics, point is, she never really wanted to be here anyway and it shows. I really don’t want my villagers to not like each other, but I suppose not everybody can be best friends now, can they?

I dunno. So long as things don’t get violent, we’ll be good.

I just hope that Whitney can find herself more comfortable in our town.

But more importantly, ONLY TWO HIDERS LEFT!
Now where could they be…

~Author's Notes~

Whitney was one of those villagers that never seemed to talk to any of the others or even talk about them in my copy of New Leaf. That, plus her representation in the Animal Crossing movie has sort of cemented this kind of personality for her in my eyes.