The Matchmaker

Chapter one: surprised

I breathed in the smell of the sea's scent, which pleasantly filled my nostrils.

"Have you ever been on a ship before Miss?" The captain asked me.

"No. My parents never let me." I shifted uncomfortably.

"That's a shame. There's nothing better than the sweet sea. I'm glad you finally have the chance to. Oh, by the way, my name's Pascal." He stated.

I stuck my hand out. "Molly."

"See that little green speck?" Pascal asked. " That is Waffle Island, one of the most pleasant islands in the world. Kasey, our farmer put it back to it's former glory. Except..." At that moment he just had to stop.

"Except what?" I asked eagerly.

"It's an...interesting problem we have in Waffle Island. You'll see." Pascal turned away from me, not willing to talk anymore. I wondered what the problem was. Fleas and Ticks? Rats? There were plenty of problems like that in the city.

"We're almost there." Pascal commented. I looked up from the deck, and there was a beautiful island. It looked lush and bountiful. It's beauty shone out everything else in my brain. Wait a second, when did I start talking like that? My mom needs to stop watching those corny romance movies when I am around.

While I was in the middle of that very important thought, Pascal startled me by talking. "Today is the fireworks, so the Mayor won't be able to greet you immediately. They're are right there on cream beach." Pascal pointed to the beach right next to the boat. I rolled my eyes. They were SO far away. I walked down to the beach to be greeted by everybody. And I mean everybody. Names were swimming in my brain. And apparently everyone already knew my name, which was really creepy. Then two people came up to me. There was a girl with blond hair and emerald green eyes. She wore cowgirl boots, and a short skirt with her long hair put in a ponytail. Then there was a boy with blue hair and golden eyes. He wore a flame red bandana and a red jacket with the sleeves cut off.

"See Kathy? Molly looks AWESOME!"exclaimed the blue-haired boy.

"So much for surprises. I'm Kathy, your roommate, and the spaz right there is Luke. Want to join us?" Kathy asked. I nodded, and we sat down in the sand.

"I'm glad boys and girls can just be friends like this," I commented. "In the city people acted like it was such a big deal."

"About that..."Luke said, "Here people are really sensitive about that. Most of us have relationship problems. Even as nineteen-year-olds like most of us are horrible at these things. We have arguments and just can't really get along."

Looking around me, I realized what he said was true. Toby was napping on the ground with Renee screaming at him because of his laziness, and Julius was chasing the crying Candace. Luna was trying to pull a squealing Gill into the water when she knew he couldn't swim, and Chase and Maya were having their infamous screaming cooking arguments. Owen and Selena were just sulking around trying not to be noticed. And nobody was a couple, except for one. That was the farmer Kasey with his wife Ellie, but they were in their late twenties. And of course, the parents and older people.

I put my hands in my head. "NO!" Earning me weird looks from people everyone. I didn't mind though.

When the fireworks started, I stared at them in awe. They were in all different colors, big and looming over me and my friends. The only fireworks that were equivalent to this was...Mineral Town. No Molly. You promised to never look back after what happened, I told myself. Luckily, Kathy and Luke were too busy to notice my change of emotion in my face that was most likely there. People back home always told me my face was like an open book.

Before any of the townsfolk and I knew it, the fireworks had ended. Apparently the rest of the fireworks had mysteriously disappeared. Everyone was disappointed, except Luke and Kathy. Kathy pulled me along with Luke running in front of us. "Let's go see our house," with much more enthusiasm than needed. When we were there, Kathy had me take one look at our house, and then pushed me to a beach. Not Cream Beach, but the one in Caramel District. Luke was already there, setting something up.

"What's going on?" I asked. Kathy smirked but didn't answer. Luke just stepped away from what he was setting up. They were fireworks. The missing fireworks. I face-palmed myself. Luke seemed like just the person who would do that. But, I wasn't complaining when we set them off, and they blew up in the sky. Looking at my two new best friends, I silently agreed with them that this would be a long-time tradition of ours.

(A/N) Like it? Please review! I had Kathy and Molly be roommates cuz it will be important later on. New chapter will be up tomorrow! I'll try!