Hey everyone, okay this one goes to JWood201 but that review was what made me continue. He or she, I'm not sure, talked about Mary Ann's fiancé from movie.

It made me think about it. From episode postman cometh Mary Ann only spoke of Horace Higginbotham so here's my explanation. I also don't know if Mary Ann only lives with her aunt and uncle but that's all I think she is with.

Mary Ann closed her eyes just like Gilligan did. But then she opened them.

"First you need to know about Herbert and how this all started fifteen years ago when I was told I was to marry him" she said and then closed her eyes again picturing herself fifteen years ago.

"Oh Aunt Martha, why him?" Mary Ann pouted from her window as she peeked out.

The young girl in her twenties had no desire for marriage yet. She wanted a boyfriend it was true but not a man she was tied to. She didn't want to make a vow to them anyway.

"He's a good man Mary Ann and you'll be very happy, you should be happy my dear" she said.

Mary Ann turned and raised a brow to the forty-two year old woman.

"I don't want to marry Herbert though…I don't want to marry anyone right now" she cried.

Aunt Martha put a hand to her hip. "Stop that right now young lady" she scolded. Mary Ann stopped but pouted still.

"Stop pouting too or I'll give you something to pout about" she added storming off.

Mary Ann made a face as she went back to the window to spy on her neighbor the charming Herbert. Sure, he was cute and all but not for her.

Mary Ann closed the window and disappeared to her room packing up stuff immediately.

"I then did what any smart, sensible woman did…I ran away to be with you people" Mary Ann said stopping her story.

"And Herbert's been waiting for fifteen years?" Ginger asked. Mary Ann nodded. "I guess so" she said.

"That doesn't make much sense…I can see if this had been a month or even one year but why wait fifteen? I mean not that you're not worth waiting for my dear, it just doesn't make sense" Mrs. Howell asked.

Mary Ann nodded. "No offense taken Mrs. Howell and I have an answer, my aunt and uncle lied to him" she explained.

Everyone's eyes bulged. "They lied? So the man thought you were trying to get home to him the past fifteen years? That you loved him?" Ginger cried and Mary Ann nodded.

"Yes to all three" she said simply.

"Okay Mary Ann please, explain everything after you left us so we can really understand" Professor urged and she nodded.

"I went home to my family after our teary eyed goodbye. When I got home like Gilligan my family didn't believe it was me but after that was settled we had a nice reunion" she said.

She then shook her head. "Least before Herbert showed up, after I proved to be Mary Ann, uncle George called him and I found out the wedding was still to be taken"

"I thought it'd be done with, I mean it has been fifteen years but Herbert grabbed my hands and said it was okay, that he forgave me and knew because we loved each other so much he'd still take me and that he had waited and prayed those fifteen years" she added.

Mary Ann clenched a fist. "Of course I found out all this only after Herbert married Cindy" she explained.

She then looked fondly at her boyfriend and the Skipper. "After you two left me I got scolded for ruining the wedding and usually I'd take it and not talk back but this time I told them I didn't care and that I was never going to marry someone because I was forced and then they admitted it was all fake" Mary Ann added.

"So your aunt and uncle set this all up but then why Herbert, why not another man?" Gilligan asked.

"Because my sweet Gilligan, Herbert's family also set this up because they disliked Cindy, so basically all of this was to avoid Herbert and Cindy's marriage which actually took place" she said and then laughed.

"Serves them all right if you ask me, and quite honestly I'm happy they did this because if not I never would have been aboard the minnow and made six of the greatest friends I ever had" she said.

"I guess all's well then…Herbert and you are both free now thought it had to take fifteen years" Mr. Howell said.

"Yeah…Poor Herbert and Cindy they got hurt the worst, I mean I got to live here with all of you, I thought after a month without my return they'd have cancelled all of this and certainly after a few years if not then" Mary Ann said.

"So that explains Horace then" Gilligan said snapping his fingers. Mary Ann looked at him but let him explain.

"I mean…you wrote those notes a few years after we were shipwrecked, by then you were convinced it was all over but you didn't want to have no romance so you made up you and him being together" he said and she nodded.

"Exactly right and I'm still sorry I deceived you all" she said kissing his cheek. He only smiled.

"That's okay, I told you already, I'd do anything to see you smile" he said and she smiled and he kissed her lips.

"Well I for one know what you mean Mary Ann, I still feel so awful dining with those vermin" Mrs. Howell exclaimed.

"I second that Lovey…I mean I know at first I didn't highly of being with all you second class people but you've touched this old man's heart dearly" Thurston Howell the third agreed.

Skipper smiled. "Thanks you two, you didn't have to lose your friends for Gilligan and I, being sailors were used to being insulted" he said.

"That's no excuse Captain, if only those vermin had the honor of being called a castaway they'd understand you don't just abandon anyone you can call a good friend" Mr. Howell objected.

"That's correct Mr. Howell, all seven of us did have a useful talent to keeping us all alive" Gilligan said.

He then looked at each in turn. "My big buddy of course was our leader, and Professor was our smart man we turned to for advice, Mary Ann was the best cook ever, Ginger was our entertainment and Mr. Howell paid all the ransoms…and of course Mrs. Howell paid too but she also like a mother to us all" he said.

Everyone smiled at their acknowledgments like when they had been on their reunion cruise. They all saw it had been easier on the island and it was obvious why. The seven depended on each other.

"But Gilligan you forgot yourself" Professor pointed out.

"Oh yeah me the one who ruined everything, that's a good talent professor" he said.

"No I mean your gift Gilligan, you keeping all those animals friendly did help us out especially when that lion came" he said.

Gilligan smiled at that. "Yeah…I guess I just never think of it as a gift it just comes to me, animals just like me" he said.

"Well there's a lot to love….so who is next to tell about their time out in the real world?" Professor asked.

"I say we let the Howells, I want to know about the vermin they were talking about" Mary Ann suggested.

Everyone nodded in agreement and Mrs. Howell smiled.

"Well…"

And stopping there, I hope you liked my explanation about Mary Ann. Till next time this is Ali signing off GI