Something was wrong with Leena.

Seedos had come into her garden to inspect her plants, but he couldn't help noticing that she had been patting the soil around that same poppy for about ten minutes now.

Seedos took a deep breath and approached Leena, his hands clasped behind his back.

"Leena…" he spoke softly, but Leena seemed startled to hear his voice anyway. "Is something bothering you?"

"No, no, Seedos, nothing's bothering me!" Leena's voice adopted a forced-sounding cheeriness. "I just…have a lot on my mind! Yeah, that's it!" She wouldn't make eye contact with Seedos, instead staring into the face of the poppy she was hovering over.

"Leena, keeping whatever's bugging you bottled up won't do you any good," Seedos crouched next to her and tilted his oversized head to the side.

Leena slouched in defeat and gave Seedos an aside glance. "Okay…fine…"

Seedos smiled victoriously and settled down onto the grass.

"There's…there's someone new in town…" Leena scooted around a bit so she was facing Seedos, but she looked off into the distance, a faraway look in her eyes and a rosiness on her cheeks.

"Someone new? Really?" Seedos blinked his buggy eyes. He didn't get out much so he hadn't seen nor heard of this new person.

"Yes!" Leena nodded and began fiddling with a lock of her frizzy hair. "He's a really famous actor and he decided to move to a quiet town to get away from it all! I-I haven't…um…met him yet, but I'm a big fan of him and a lot of the other girls are talking about how nice he is, but I'm still kind of nervous about meeting him…"

"An…actor, huh?" Something about the look in Leena's eyes was making Seedos feel kind of weird, but he thought nothing of it. "What was he in?" Seedos asked even if he was pretty sure he wouldn't have heard of any of the movies. He wasn't exactly well-versed in media.

Leena's eyes glazed over like big blue donuts. "He was in Barefaced Confessions, Edward Stickhands, and he was the villain in James Pond: Goldflipper, just to name a few! Fannie showed me some of his romance movies one day and I was hooked! I just recently finished watching them all!" Leena sighed. "I wonder if he's as charming in person as he is in his films…"

Now Seedos was feeling REALLY weird. "I bet you're too intimidated to approach him though, right? I mean, he's famous…" Seedos dug his fingers into the dirt in an attempt to distract himself from the strange pain in his chest.

"O-oh no, I'm actually really excited…" Leena's cheeks turned pink. "The other girls said he's nice, so he won't be…um…mean or anything. I don't think he is…if he was, how would he get so much acting work?"

"Oh…" was all Seedos could say. Seedos had seen that look on Leena's face before. It was the look she wore whenever he went onstage at the P-Factor, whenever he complimented her on her plants, whenever he was within her line of sight…

Seedos went quiet and gnawed on his thumbnail. Leena wasn't his to lose, but she had liked him ever since shortly after she arrived on Piñata Island! Even if Seedos had no idea how to act upon Leena's feelings, he really didn't like the idea of being replaced…

"Oh!" Seedos said suddenly as he raised his head to look up at the sun. "Look at the time! I should…eat or something, I'm going to the Village, bye!" Seedos hitched up his backpack and rose to his feet.

"Wait, can I go with-" Leena called after him, but he was already gone.