Isabelle Moves In Another fan fic

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"All right, then! I'll fill out the paperwork by tomorrow!" Isabelle told the mayor as he walked out. She waited until he was a decent distance away before letting out an excited squeal. "And with that, I am officially done for the day! Which means..." Isabelle reached under the desk and pulled out a party hat. It was December 20th - her birthday. Quickly, she packed her things, threw on her coat, and hurried out of the stuffy office.

"Happy birthday, Miss Secretary!"

"Hey, happy birthday, Isabelle!"

"HI! HAPPY BIRTHDAAAAY!"

As she skipped towards Main Street to pick up her brother, several villagers wished her a happy birthday. She smiled and thanked them, getting all the more excited each time someone reminded her what day it was. Finally, she arrived at Main Street. Her brother was also getting ready to head home.

"Hey, sis!" he greeted his twin. "You look happy. What happened?"

"W-What?! Don't tell me you forgot..." Isabelle said, a look of shock on her face. 'How could he forget? It's his birthday, too...' she thought.

"What? Oh, that's right!" Digby looked like he remembered something; Isabelle grew hopeful. "Today's Saturday! Happy Saturday!"

Isabelle was dumbfounded - her own twin brother forgot their birthday?

"I'm just kidding, I know what day it is!" he said, patting his sister on the head. "Happy birthday, sis."

The yellow dog wagged her fluffy white tail and drew her brother in for a big hug. "Happy birthday, bro!"

"Too..tight..." he coughed.

"Deal with it. That's what you get for playing such a dirty trick on me!" Isabelle said, squeezing him tighter. It didn't seem like she was planning on letting go anytime soon... Digby could feel his spine about to give.

"W-We should get going...I'll...I'll...!" Digby wracked his brain, thinking up something Isabelle would want more than breaking his back. An idea popped into his head. "Don't you want your present?" he asked.

He gave her a custom-made shirt every year for her birthday, and she always looked forward to it. Since he keeps the presents at home, she would have to let go of him so they could get there.

It worked - Isabelle instantly let go and skipped ahead, towards their house. "Well, what are we waiting for?!" she squealed. "Let's go, bro!"

Digby gasped for air. "Whew...close one."

Isabelle and Digby lived up on the bluff with the other animals that had actual jobs. It was still a part of the town, but disconnected from the non-working villagers. The new mayor was supposed to live there, as well, but he said that he'd prefer living among the townsfolk. Plus, the job of mayor doesn't pay much at all - in fact, he didn't get paid at all! So he needed to live somewhere with a good ecology of sellable fish and bugs. The bluff had neither, being much more developed and modern than the village area.

Upon reaching their house, Isabelle opened the door, and...

"HAPPY BIRTHDAAAAY!" cried the group that awaited inside. Isabelle jumped back in shock. Even though her brother set this up every year, it never failed to surprise her. A smile broke out on her face, and she ran to hug each of her guests. All of her neighbors were there - Tom Nook and his twin sons, Pelly and her sister Phyllis, Pete, Blathers and his sister Celeste, Brewster, Kicks, Katrina, the Able sisters, Dr. Shrunk, and Gracie! They all closed up early to celebrate their birthday.

"Yo, is this the birthday girl?" a smooth, melodic voice asked. Isabelle felt shivers up her spine.

"Digby, you didn't!" Isabelle said, her voice high-pitched from excitement. She turned around, and sure enough, there was K.K. Slider! Digby smiled.

"I've got a song that'll make your heart twirl. So take a seat, and I'll drop a beat, that'll fly you to the moon, June." K.K. got up on the stage prepared for him, strummed his guitar a few times, then started his special song that he saved for birthdays: K.K. Birthday.

Isabelle was always too busy with work to be able to enjoy K.K.'s performances at Club LOL. But this time...her brother brought the show to them! She suddenly felt like the luckiest little puppy in the world, having such an awesome brother in Digby. She felt bad that the best she could do for him on their birthday was make him a special lunch.

As K.K. played his music, some of the guests tried being romantic with each other. Tom Nook approached Sable, a gleaming look in his eyes. Sable nodded, and joined him for a quick dance between friends. Pete approached the two mail clerk sisters, flower in hand - Pelly looked hopeful while Phyllis looked disgusted. He offered his flower to Phyllis. As usual, he gets rejected, then walks off, depressed, before Pelly can work up the nerve to ask him out. Even Kicks solicited a dance from Mabel.

Craving romance herself, Isabelle scanned the room for a certain someone, intending to ask for a dance. To her disappointment, the mayor hadn't shown up... Not that that surprised her - her house was a thirty minute uphill walk away from the village. For that reason, very few of the villagers ever visited her.

As the song ended, K.K. walked up to Isabelle and handed her a music box containing the song he had just played.

"I don't usually do this, but people tell me you're one hot sis," he explained. "Always workin' your tail off for the town. Turn that frown upside down, because today's your day, so say hey!"

With that, he left. The other guests left soon after, wishing her a happy birthday again as they walked out the door. Soon, the twins were alone.

"So, you ready for your present?" Digby asked.

Isabelle excitedly hopped up and down. "You bet! Gimme gimme gimme!" she squealed, tail wagging in anticipation.

"Okay, but promise me you won't make a mess with the wrapping paper..."

"I promise, I promise!"

"Okay, here you go!" He revealed the gift he was hiding behind his back. Isabelle ignored his request and shredded the wrappings, prompting a sigh from her brother. Inside the box was...

An amazingly cute winter coat! Isabelle cried out in excitement and delight.

"I love it! Can I put it on right now?!" she asked, hugging it tightly.

"You know the rules - I have to wash it first, remember?" Digby always says to wash clothes before using them. 'What if someone dirty tried it on at the store?' he would reason.

"Well, can you wash it tonight so I can wear it tomorrow?"

"Sorry, sis, but I'm a little tired from all the party planning I had to do today. I'll wash it tomorrow, okay?" Digby went to his room and closed the door.

"Aww, but I wanted to wear it to the Town Hall Renovation completion ceremony tomorrow..." Isabelle said to herself. That had been the mayor's birthday present to her - he caught her doodling what she wished the Town Hall looked like, so he took it upon himself to pay for the necessary services and materials to make it happen. "Looks like I'll just have to wear something else. Unless..."

Digby peeked out of his room, as if reading her sister's mind. "By the way, don't try to wash it yourself. You remember what happened last time you tried to do housework, right?"

"Don't worry, bro, I won't!" Isabelle said, retreating to her room. Digby, satisfied with her response, went to sleep for the night.

Isabelle waited twenty minutes to ensure her brother was asleep, then tiptoed over to the basement, where the laundry machines were, carrying her new outfit.

Silly Digby...I'm a big girl - I can handle doing laundry! she thought to herself. Unfortunately, when she actually saw the washing machine, she had no idea what to do. Uhmmm... she struggled to figure out how to start it.

"Oh!" a light bulb went on in her head. "First I need to put my outfit in...then I add some of that soap thingy..." Isabelle put her clothes in the washer, grabbed the bottle of detergent, but then ran into another problem. "...How much do I pour in?" She's seen Digby do this a few times before - he would just tilt the bottle 90 degrees for a few seconds. Isabelle did just that. Unfortunately, this was a full bottle, so tilting it 90 degrees for a few seconds practically emptied the whole thing! Isabelle, not realizing that she put too much, turned the washing machine on. "And now I wait!" she said, putting on headphones and listening to music on her phone.

Digby had only been asleep for about a half hour before being woken up by screams coming from the laundry room. He groaned, already knowing what had happened. Yawning, he got up to see how big a mess his sister had made this time.

"Sis, didn't I tell you not to-OH MY GOODNESS!" Digby said. As he entered the laundry room, he was greeted by a massively overflowing washing machine and a panicked Isabelle. The basement was filling up with bubbly water fast - soon, it reached his knees; then, his waist. The washer broke down, obviously from having way too much detergent put in, causing water to flow freely out of it. There were a lot of active electronics in the room, too. Digby was no electrician, but he knew not to take chances with water and electricity.

"D-Digby!" Isabelle said fearfully.

"C'mon, sis, we gotta get outta here!" he yelled, grabbing Isabelle's hand and running out of the house.

They ran out to the sidewalk, just outside their plot. Looking back, they saw the water bursting through every window of their one story building. Digby gave his sister a stern look.

"Isabelle, didn't I tell you not to try to do the laundry yourself?" he asked.

"Yes...?" she responded meekly.

"And what did you just do?"

"Try to do the laundry myself..."

"Do you have anything to say for yourself?"

"..." Tears formed at the corners of the yellow dog's eyes. "I...I'm sorry!" she said, letting the tears pour out.

"Aww..." Digby groaned. Her puppy dog tears worked every time. He hugged the poor girl and patted her on the back. "It's okay, sis. I could never stay mad at you..."

"How touching." A third voice joined the conversation - Tom Nook! "Laundry accident, hmm? A classic!" he laughed.

"Nook!" Digby said, surprised. He got straight to business - "How much will the repairs cost?"

"Ho ho! Just a little water damage shouldn't cost much at all. Probably just about a thousand bells or so."

Digby sighed a sigh of relief. Isabelle's last screw up cost fifty thousand bells. She was learning how to make chocolates for the mayor, intending to give them to him as a Valentine's Day gift, but ended up setting the whole house on fire. As he chuckled a bit at the memory, the house suddenly burst into flames.

"What the-?!" he shouted. "How?!"

"Ehehe...I forgot, I was hungry, so I started cooking something aaaaand..." Isabelle said sheepishly.

"That's gonna raise the price up to about 51,000 bells," Nook said.

"Well, still manageable..." Digby sighed.

But then...

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM!

The house exploded, leaving the two twins in utter shock. Nook kept up his usual poker face.

"Gas heaters, I presume?" Nook said, nodding in understanding.

Digby slapped his forehead. He had one installed this winter because he had heard it was cheaper and more energy efficient than other heaters. The fire must have ignited the natural gas being used as fuel, causing an explosion.

"So...how much is this gonna cost us now?" Digby asked, dread sweeping over him in anticipation of the obscene number he was about to hear. The whole house was blown to pieces.

"Well, let's see...this house had four fully upgraded rooms, a fully upgraded basement, and then there's the cost of cleaning up the mess..." Nook said, crunching the numbers in his head. "It's too complicated right now, but I'd estimate the cost to be around twenty million bells."

Digby's heart sank. "T-T-T-Twenty million bells?!" he stammered. He and Isabelle only had about a hundred thousand between them in savings!

"Not only that, but it will take quite some time to clean up, yes?" Nook continued. "Probably about a two or three months to clear out the debris, restore the lawn, fix the plumbing, etc."

"But...where will we stay?"

"Hmm..." Tom Nook scratched his chin. "Ah! Why not move into the village for a while? I can have a house up by tomorrow for you two!"

"The village...?"

"Yes! And there are lots of bugs and fish to catch and sell there. Much faster money than awaiting paychecks from the Happy Home Showcase, hm?"

"Well, I suppose-wait, how much extra will this cost us?"

"Not much at all! And, since it's your birthday, and because you two have worked so hard for our fair town for many years, I'll cut you a special deal - one million bells, no interest, no down payment, for a fully upgraded main room and two bedrooms."

Digby was about to accept his kind offer, but Isabelle stopped him.

"Wait," Isabelle chimed in. "Why don't we just move to the village permanently? Wouldn't that save us a lot of money?"

"I suppose that would work, though you'd still have to pay for the clean up." Nook crunched more numbers in his head. "Since you're planning on moving permanently, I'd assume you'll want to upgrade your two side rooms, and add a basement, hm? In that case, I'd estimate the price to be around twelve million bells - seven million for the cleanup, and five million for the house."

That shaved eight million off the initial price. "We accept." Digby shook Tom Nook's hand, sealing the deal.

"Excellent! Your house will be ready by tomorrow. As for where you'll rest your heads for tonight..."

"Here you go - one tent, all set up for you two to sleep in." A construction beaver set up their tent right next to the mayor's house, as per Isabelle's suggestion.

Digby thanked the man. "By the way, when will our house be done?" he asked.

"We'll come around at about 6:00 A.M. to build it. Mr. Nook said that you two usually go to work at around that time, eh? Your three rooms'll be done by the time you get back."

"Three rooms? What about the basement?"

"Sorry, boss, but rules are rules - you have to pay off your debts before upgrading your house," he explained. "Nook's cutting you a special deal, giving you three rooms at first, but you'll have to earn the side room upgrades, as well as the basement."

The beaver left after saying that. Digby let out a huge sigh that had been building up.

"Aww, cheer up, bro! It's like we're on a camping trip!" Isabelle said enthusiastically, already snuggled up in her sleeping bag. "Just like we used to go on as kids!"

"Yeah...I guess that's something..." he said, snuggling up in his own sleeping bag.

"That's the spirit! G'nite, bro!"

"Good night, sis." He turned out the lights.


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