Some thoughts
Sam thought about the day. It had unfold in a totally different way than she'd first planned, but it might had been a successful day nonetheless.
She hadn't been honest with Elliott entirely. She knew how he felt. What he was going through right now from first hand experience, so her most embarrassing, the most painful memory she had, she kept neatly tucked away for nobody to know except her. It was a little white lie or was it even? Holding back a few things while telling the truth otherwise didn't count as lying, did it?
Sam never had it easy to make friends. Her way of talking had often thrown people off. She was painfully aware of that. It had gotten even worse since… She dreaded to think about that day.
When she had left her home for university it had made things easier. New faces, nobody to judge her on her mistakes from the youth. People who were on a similar wavelength as her. And then, shadows from her past had appeared and with them the stories, the exaggerations, the rumors. People she'd deemed as friends had turned and left her.
She'd tried to explain all the wrong accusations away, but the hard truth was, she'd been part of that stupid dare. That, she couldn't explain away. Stardew Valley was sort of a new beginning. No one except her parents knew where she went and for the valley being on the opposite side of the country, chances were slim for her old “friends” to show up.
So keeping that story to herself for a bit wouldn't hurt, would it? Get to know people, establish some trust and choose the timing carefully on her own accord. That had to be the way. And till then, nobody should be involved in her stupidity. She had to postpone the mines, but she would go down there and the only one she'd endanger would be herself.
The trip to Aurora Vineyard on Friday seemed (was?) innocent enough to keep some company around. What possibly could go wrong?
