Gilligan walked into a small clearing, looked around then he walked over to the center where a big but low rock with a flat top was and right next to it was a small handmade table then sat down and put his head in his hand then a deep frown came on his face and he said to nobody but himself:

"Just what I want to be ALONE! A-l-o-n !"

He started to sit down when he heard a bird singing a beautiful tweet in the air then he said,

"All right, I forgot ! Another n!"

He sat down and mumbled to himself then he stood up and went and looked over the cliff side down at where the huts are and he sees his friends walking around then he turned around and sat down again then he said,

"Sometimes you have to be alone..."

Just then Gilligan noticed a pretty little dragonfly flying around and finally the first little smile came on his face but it was very quick because in the next fly by minute, he was frowning again and he said to the dragonfly,

"I know I'm a bungler, I walk into things...I drop things in fact, I break things but boy !"

He just pulls his little white sailor hat over his eyes and he sulks and the little dragonfly looks at him confused.

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Skipper pushed open the door with a sad face on and he holds a piece of paper then he said,

"Everybody, I know where Gilligan went."

He walked over to the community table, sat down at the head of the table then Mary Ann asked,

"Where Skipper?"

Skipper sighed then said, "Well, I shouldn't have said "Where", I just know why...he left this note, he said that he left and he wants to be alone and he means it, look..."

Mary Ann took the letter, looked at it then said, "He signed it I "

Ginger took it then said, "He wrote another I"

Professor took it then said, "Another I"

Mister Howell took it then said, "And another"

Mrs. Howell took it and said "I"

Skipper said the last "I" then Mary Ann looked over the letter again then said, "And he spelled alone, a-l-o-n-n"

Skipper sighed then said, "He never could spell that, no matter how many times I told him. He would listen to the birds before he learned it !"

Just then they heard a shrill sound of a bird tweeting. Ginger then asked the Professor,

"Why did he sign so many I's Professor?"

Professor puts his thumb and forefinger on his cheek then he said,

"I believe he was stressing that he really wants to be left alone...sometimes, you just have to be so I think we should just let him but..."

Mary Ann interrupts him by asking, "Why? Why would he want to be alone that bad?"

Skipper then said, "I know why "

Everybody looked at him and then he told them, "Yesterday, at the lagoon Gilligan was extra bungly...bungler...clumsy ! He was just dropping this, running into that...so finally I just...lowered the boom."

He spreads his arms then he said,

"Extra hard on him"

Nobody makes a sound after that, they just all sat down around the table then Professor asked,

"Skipper, was Gilligan quiet yesterday? Didn't talk much?"

Skipper said, "Come to think of it, he was ! In fact he really didn't even say much when I was hollering at him."

Professor nodded his head then said,

"Something was bothering our young friend and I would say that's the reason he is gone."

Mrs. Howell sniffs then said, "Oh, I just can't stand to think of Gilligan out there by himself !"

Some tears run down Mary Ann's face then she said,

"Oh, I'm going to go wash some dishes !"

She runs off behind the huts.

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Gilligan is laid out flat on the ground with the hat still covering his eyes then he said out loud,

"They just don't understand !"

He removed his hat from off his eyes and looked around and saw the dragonfly flying around and he asked it,

"You're still here?"

The dragonfly flew around his head and Gilligan smiled a little bit again then he got up and went to the side of the cliff, looked down and he could barely make out his friends sitting around the table then he yelled out again,

"They just don't understand !"

Then he sighed and turned around then said in a flat voice,

"But I didn't tell them ...I guess I should ...shouldn't I?"

The dragonfly flies into a 'D' formation and Gilligan giggled then said,

"That's what I think I'll call you, 'D'"

It seemed to Gilligan that the dragonfly smiled, his eyes popped out then he rubbed them and shook his head then he shrugged his shoulders and said,

"Maybe if I told you, I could kind of know how I would tell them?"

D excitedly flies around Gilligan's head then Gilligan takes a deep breath then says,

"Well, here goes..."

Gilligan starts telling his little buddy.

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Mary Ann runs back out from behind the hut and she goes beside the Professor then said:

"I think I know why Gilligan left!"

Ginger looked up from the old magazine she was reading and she asked,

"Why Mary Ann?"

"I was thinking about what to make for supper and I started to get things together to make a banana cream pie when I remembered banana cream pie is Gilligan's favorite..."

Ginger asked,

"Why would a banana cream pie make Gilligan leave?"

Mary Ann made a face then said,

"It's not the banana cream pie, it's why it's his favorite !"

Skipper's face lights up then he said,

"It's his mother's !"

Mary Ann's face lights up because he got it then she continued,

"Yes, he told me that he loves when I make the pie because it reminds him of his mother..."

She turned to the Professor and asked,

"Professor, what day is today?"

He didn't even have to think about it, he said,

"Well, according to the radio, today's the fourth...in fact Gilligan was with me; and he was with me yesterday at the same time !"

Mister Howell snapped his fingers then said,

"Egads! The poor boy realized that yesterday his dear mother's birthday was coming up leading to the depression and his anger at not being able to be with her today."

Mrs. Thurston smiled then she said,

"Oh, Thurston ! You figured it out ! You would make such a marvelous detective !"

He kissed her on the cheek then said,

"Thank you my dear"

Professor then says,

"Listen, I don't think we should mention to Gilligan that we figured out what had caused his emotional crisis"

At the same time, Skipper, Mary Ann & Ginger all looked at each other and silently wished the Professor was more plain spoken so Skipper just said, "Right Professor."

Mary Ann looked around then asked,

"Should I still make the banana cream pie?"

Professor thought about it then he said,

"Yes, make it extra special Mary Ann ! I got an idea !"

Ginger and Mary Ann's faces light up and Skipper asked,

"Well, what is it?" "Yes, what is it Professor?" Mary Ann asked,

"Let's make it a party...a coming home party for Gilligan and he can make it into a birthday party for his mother !"

Mary Ann claps her hand like a school girl then said, "I'm going to go get started on the pie !"

Ginger then said, "I wish we had some presents to give to him."

Skipper then said, "Yeah, that would make it extra-special for him."

Professor crossed his arms then said, "Well, I know of one thing that you could give him Skipper."

Skipper looked at him with a surprised look then asked, "ME? What?"

Very calmly, he just said, "You could apologize to him"

Skipper looked around and saw everybody ( but Mary Ann ) eyes on him then he said,

"Yeah, I guess I do owe it to my little buddy, if I hadn't blown up like that; he may not have gone off to who knows where !"

Professor thought about something for a minute then he announced,

"Gilligan has always shown an peculiar observation in the folaige in this area and there is certain properties that I can use to make what he has always wanted..."

Everybody looks at him with wondering and he simply says one quick word,

"Gum"

Thurston thought about it then he said,

"I think I shall go make the best party gift that money can buy !"

Mrs. Howell asked, "Buy what? You can't buy a thing on this silly island."

Thurston laughed then said, "Well, not buy but I can go make the boy a party hat out of my thousand dollar bills laying around !"

She smiled then she said with glee in her voice, "And I can make him a paper whistle out of those dreary one hundred dollar bills ! I learned how in the girl scouts !"

Thurston throws out his leg then said, "I learned how to do mine in the boy scouts, it's marvelous what those little tyke 's can teach you ! Come along Lovely,let's go have some fun making fun !"

The Howells go off then Ginger looked at Skipper than said, "I could do Gilligan a dance from one of my movies but I don't think he would like that."

Skipper shook his head then said, "No, that would be a gift for me ! But my little buddy? I don't think so Ginger."

Ginger sat down at the table with her right hand on her cheek then she said, "I know ! I'll see you later Skipper !"

She runs off and the Skipper weakly waves goodby to her then he said to himself,

"I'd like to give him something more than an apology ! But what?"

He thought about it for a minute then he said, "I'll do it !"

Skipper got up and went into the hut he shared with Gilligan.

A/N-Well, this is part one of just a cute little story I wanted to share. I was going to make it a one shot but I was putting so much that I thought a two part would be better ! How do you like it so far?

I'm starting to get hungry for banana cream pie !

Sand n' Sable