Skipper

Well, it's been a few hours since Mary Ann went missing. It's morning, and I motivate myself to get out of bed. Last nights dinner was fish and a messy form of fruit salad. Boy, I'll be glad when Mary Ann comes back. She's the only good cook here!

"Ah, good morning Skipper. Still no sign of Mary Ann?" I was so busy thinking about Mary Ann's cooked lobster that I didn't hear the Professor enter.

"Oh, hello Professor. No, no sign of her." He looked puzzled.

"I would have thought that she would have come back during the night. This is very bemusing. Bemusing indeed." I need a dictionary, but I'm sure he said confusing.

"I thought that to Professor. We need her here, after all, she is the only decent cook!" We laughed, but I noticed Gilligan standing next to the Professor. He was quiet, we never heard him enter the hut!

"Is that all you see Mary Ann as Skipper? As a way to fill you stomach!" Oh, he shouldn't have yelled at me.

"Gilligan, you don't yell at your Commanding Officer!" I boomed at him, but he stood his ground.

"I am a grown man Skipper, not that skinny young adult who joined your crew, AND who saved your live in the Navy!" For once, I'm scared of my First Mate. For once, I noticed the muscle he's build up from all the hard work I've ordered him to do.

"Now Gilligan, your just the First Mate. Don't yell at the Skipper, and let's just talk it out." The Professor tried to reason.

"I'll talk to him, but if I hear him dissing Mary Ann again, I'm not scared to fight him anymore." He then walked off. Oh boy, I should really watch what I say around Gilligan now. Maybe I've kept my eyes closed all these years. He really has grown up from that little adult I've met in the Navy.

"Maybe its time I do some of the work around here Professor, give Gilligan some time off." I said. He turned to me.

"I agree Skipper. I shall do the same, but we still have to find Mary Ann."

"I'll get a search party together after I lay lobster traps." And that's what I did.

Gilligan

I can't believe that I made Mary Ann run away. Why do I'm so stupid! I mess everything up, now I just lost my first real friend, and my first crush! I don't know what do to. I'm not smart like the Professor, or a good leader like the Skipper. I'm just plain old Gilligan, who has no skills in the real world. I decided to go walk to my favorite tree to think. I climbed up the tree, had a few coconuts fall on my head, and reached the top.

I stared out across the horizon, wondering why I'm so clueless, when something in the bark made take a double take.

In the bark, Mary Ann wrote "Mary Ann loves Gilligan." Now I know I have to find her and make everything right again. I climbed down like a chimp, and ran into camp, where everyone was having a meeting of some sort.

"Gilligan, where were you? We're just about to get a search party to look for Mary Ann." The Skipper said. I took a deep breath and spoke.

"Look everyone I said something that upset her, and now I must go and find her and make everything right. Alone." Everyone was strangely quiet after my announcement. Then, the Skipper stood up. I thought he was going to hit me with his hat. I stood tall, ready to defend myself, but the blow never came. Instead, he put a hand on my shoulder.

"Gilligan, if that's what you want to do, then go find her." Wait, what?

"Your not going to yell at me? Or at least hit me with your hat?" He chuckled.

"Let's say I had my eyes recently opened. Just bring her home little buddy." I looked at him to make sure he wasn't kidding. He wasn't.

"You mean it Skipper?" He nodded. I went and packed a few things. Like blankets, food, water, and my dear diary. When I walked back out, everyone was waiting for me.

"Gilligan, we may often take advantage of you,but let me assure you that those days are over now. We're pulling our own weight from now on. Now, go bring our Mary Ann home." The Professor said. I smiled.

"I will. Goodbye for now." With no idea on where to start, and only enough food for two days, I started out into the woods to find the farm girl from Kansas.

Longest chapter yet. R&R please!