Why Don't They Love Me? Rune Factory 2 2nd Generation?

I'm playing as a girl in rf2 for the second generation and I'm trying to get the pages for books and I need to befriend people to get the pages~ But it seems no matter how hard I try to get them(Ray, Herman, Douglas, Mana, Natalie, Alicia, etc.) to like me they don't. I talk to them all the time (Mostly festivals) and I give them gifts but nothing happens. HELP!