"Yeah...the water looks cool when the moon refelcts off of it."

"Is the moon full? It kinda looks like it."

"It is full," Matt said, agreeing with her. She smiled.

"So that’s why everyone's acting so weird."

"Maybe. I don't know...Jeff's always wierd...so you can't judge him by the moon."

"But everyone else...like us."

"I suppose....but this probably would have happened whether it was a full moon or not."

"You think so?" she asked.

"Yeah....I do." Matt pointed up the north star. "Follow the third star to the left and go striaght on until sunrise. Know where you'll be then?"

"Never-Never Land, silly."

"Jeff still hasn't figured that out," he whispered to her. Gabby laughed quietly.

"Oh well. That doesn't matter."

"Did you make a wish on a star yet?" he asked. She shook her head.

"I wouldn't know what to wish for," Gabby admitted.

"Wish for what you want the most. Didn't you say before you wanted true happiness?" he implored.

"But everyone wishes for that," she said.

"But not many people actually get it...I know. Maybe you'll be one of the lucky few who actually find true happiness."

"And if I don't?"

"You'll end up like me I guess. But if you never try....you'll never get anywhere in life," he added.

"Nah...you'll find your happiness," she assured him.

"Maybe I will," he said, thinking quietly to himself. Gabby looked up, and wishing on a star>

"I did it. Now you wish," she whispered. He looked up and closed his eyes. He made his wish silently.

"Done. Don't you feel better knowing you tried?" She nodded.

"So what did you wish for?" she asked.

"Happiness. For all the people I know and love."

"What about for yourself? Doesn't that matter?" she asked him.

"Not really. If people around me are happy, then I'm happy."

"Well, now I feel selfish." Matt laughed.

"Don't feel selfish...I've never met any girl whose wish didn't envolve herself....no offense."

"None taken. Its quite true. Most people are selfish anyway."

"I've learned that the hard way," Matt admitted.

"Isn't that how everyone learns everything?"

"Yeah....just not everyone in the same degrees of extremity."

"Oh. How did you learn that horrific lesson then?" Gabby wondered.

"I'm not saying me."

"You said your learned it the hard way though. Or was it just from observation?"

"A little of both."

"And I take it that's not up for discussion?"

"Not now it's not....later it might be...but not right now." Gabby nodded.

"I can deal with that."

"Good thing. So.."

"You know, I'm glad I didn't bring Edge and Christian today," she admitted. Matt grabbed a handful of sand and let it trickle through his fingers.

"Me too..." he said. Gabby frowned in thought.

"So what do I do now?"

"I don't know...what do you do?"

"I guess...when we go back home, I just stay away from them two," she guessed.

"I suppose....if that's what you want to do."

"I don't really want to be around either of them. So avoidance is what I do."

"So poof them gone for a while," he suggested.

"Oh yeah. I think I'll do that."

"Wen you feel good and ready...poof them back again."

"What if I never want to poof them back?"

"Then you don't have to."

"I don't like them. They're icky. and rather sex-crazed," she informed him.

"Hmm...sounds like it." Matt sighed and ran his hand back and forth in the sand.

"Alright, now your sighing. Whats up?" she asked.

"Aboslutely nothing. There's a difference between a guy sigh and a girl sigh."

"Not always..." she said.

"Some times." Gabby shrugged.

"It’s getting late."

"Yeah...I guess it is."

"And whats this, our 4th civilised talk today?"

"Yeah...I think so," he repiled. Gabby shook her head.

"Weird. Good though."

"Well...I thank you for your company on this pleasant night."

"Likewise. It was rather nice to spend time with someone who didn't whine about not getting laid every 5 seconds." Matt smiled as he took her hand and kissed the top of it.

"Shall we go fetch the others?"

"We shall."