It was a beautiful night on the Uncharted Isle. King Roland's royal Wandolier, Pauly D the Mummy, and his two best friends, Buddy and Lyndsay, had spent the entire day playing with Gonk and Sylvia and were now walking to the pier, waiting for their friends to pick them up.
"Uh, guys, I gotta take a leak," Buddy said, suddenly shifting back and forth quickly.
"Really, Buddy?" Lyndsay said incredulously.
"The others will be here any moment," Pauly said.
"Can't you hold it in?" Lyndsay asked.
"Well, okay…" Buddy said. After a slight pause, he added, "It's just that we're all going to be on the boat together and-"
"Go pee," Pauly and Lyndsay said simultaneously, cutting him off.
"Be right back!" Buddy said quickly, turning around and running off.
Pauly and Lyndsay shook their heads, chuckling before taking a seat under a nearby tree. Lyndsay took the opportunity to look up at the stars. Pauly D's attention, however, was elsewhere.
He hadn't noticed this before, but Lyndsay's emerald eyes seemed to glisten underneath the moonlight. On top of that, he was fixated by the way her blonde hair moved in the light breeze that blew by, even while it was tied under her red bandana. Pauly began to feel something he'd never felt before, but he didn't know how to explain it.
"Oh, Pauly…don't the stars look amazing tonight?" Lyndsay asked, unaware that her friend was gazing not with her, but at her.
"Beautiful…" Pauly said, leaning his head against the tree as he stared at her adoringly.
Thankfully for Pauly (or perhaps not so), the sound of Buddy tripping nearby as he returned to them brought him out of his daze.
"I'm back, pals!" Buddy said as he approached his friends.
"And just in time," Lyndsay said, pointing at something else approaching them from the water. "Look!"
"What's up, dudes?!" their friend Chaz McFreely called out, steering their upgraded sailboat towards the pier. In the boat with him were their other friends: Summer Holiday, Travis Scott, Goth Boy, and Mel the Mummy.
Pauly, Buddy, and Lyndsay waved to their friends as they brought the boat to the pier.
"You guys have fun?" Summer asked, reaching her hand out to help the three into the large boat.
"Oh yeah," Lyndsay asked, giggling as she, Pauly, and Buddy entered the boat. "It's always fun times with Gonk and Sylvia."
"So what's on the agenda for tomorrow, pals?" Buddy asked.
"Trevor actually wrote to us," Mel answered. "He wants us all to come to his island to take part in this big play he's got planned."
"That sounds like fun!" Lyndsay said, clapping eagerly. "What do you think, Pauly?"
"Fine by me," Pauly answered, though his mind was not fully on the subject at hand.
Lyndsay smiled. "Boys, set a course for Trevor Island!"
"Aye aye, captain!" the boys said, setting the sail back up as Chaz steered the boat away from the pier, Lyndsay and Summer giggling in response.
As the group began their journey to Trevor Island, some of them falling asleep while the others made conversation, Pauly D sat by himself on the back of the boat. Only one thought crossed his mind.
So this is what falling in love feels like…