First Mate: A Coinpin Story

Ship Shenanigans

LEAFY'S POV

Watching Coiny chase Firey around was funny, especially since Coiny was blushing so much! When I looked back at Pin, she just looked very flustered. "FIREY, WHAT IS WRONG WITH—" Coiny tripped on a loose piece of wood on the floor.
"WOAH!"
He fell. A few of us snickered as Coiny got back up. Firey ran down and into the boy's bunks and slammed the door shut while laughing. Coiny soon followed suit and so did the rest of us. When he couldn't open the door he started banging on it. "Firey open up the gosh darn door!" He commanded. "Never!" Firey said behind the door. Coiny continues to try and open the door until Pin showed up and shouted, "Coiny, it doesn't matter!" with an awkward laugh at the end. "Fine! You win this time, Firey!" Coiny yelled, waving his hand in the air in defeat. "Wait, Pin? Who's steering the ship?" Needle questioned. Pin rubbed the back of her head. "I had Snowball take over for a second." She then turned to Coiny, "Now, come on." She walked back up the stairs. Coiny sighed, putting his eyepatch down over his eye before following Pin.

When he realized it was safe now, Firey came out of the room. "That was actually kinda fun." He giggled. "I still think that was kinda dumb." Needle said, crossing her arms. Of course she finds it dumb, she has a crush on Coiny! Needle shot me a look. "Leafy, I know what you're thinking, and I'm telling you, I don't have a crush on Coiny!" She screamed. "Then why's it dumb?" She sighed angrily, grabbing my arm and dragging me up the stairs to the main deck. "Leafy, look at them," She pointed at Coiny and Pin, "They're acting awkward around each other now." Wow, they DID look awkward. "Can we get back to the game, it's my turn now!" Firey said, hopping past us and back to the spot we were sitting before. "Oh, sure! Okay guys, let's go back over there." We all walked back.

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PIN'S POV

It's been a bit since Firey said what he said. Maybe an hour or so. I tried to think about anything else but my mind kept going back to hearing, 'You two look like a cute couple.' Plus, Coiny and I haven't really been talking to each other since. I was starting to get uncomfortable with the awkwardness radiating from both of us. "Uh, do you want to... take a break?" I spoke, "I-I have been steering this boat for what feels like forever and I'm starting to get hungry." He flipped up his eyepatch. "Oh, uh, sure I wouldn't mind a break, my legs are tired from standing for so long, anyway." He replied. "Okay then, uh," I walked up to the railing to shout that we'll be taking a break, but I saw that everyone was looking up at the sails while cheering. Everyone except... I looked up and saw Leafy climbing up the mast. "HUH?" I ran down to where everyone was at. "LEAFY, ARE YOU CRAZY?!" I shouted. She looked down at me. "Hi Pin!" She shouted, while still trying to climb. "Get back down here, what are you doing?!" I asked, both hands on my head in a panic. Firey walked beside me and pointed, "Needle dared Leafy to climb up there." He said. "Firey!" Needle punched His arm, to which he replied with, "Ow!"
"WHY??" I exclaimed. "They're playing Truth or Dare." Snowball said, then went back to cheering for Leafy to climb higher with the others. "Guys stop!" I yell, then look back up at the climbing leaf. "Leafy, come back down here before you get hurt!" I yell. "Relax, Pin! I'll be fine!" She yelled back, confidently. She climbed a bit higher and everyone cheered louder. "Haha! I told you I could do it, Needle!" Leafy cheered. Just then, a big gust of wind blew strongly. "WOAH!" Leafy yelped, getting blown away in the wind. Everyone stopped cheering and started screaming. Her eyepatch flew off of her, fluttering down near the edge of the boat. Ruby quickly ran over to where the eyepatch was falling and JUST barely caught it.

I ran to the edge of the boat and looked at Leafy, who landed in the water. "I'm okay!" She reassured. I signed in relief. Just then, Leafy got ripped apart by the fish in the water. We all just stared in shock. After a second, Firey chuckled. "I remember when Blocky got bit in the butt by one of those." He said. I groaned and walked over to the hand powered recovery center, thank glob we brought it. I put in Leafy's name and cranked the lever. She came out and looked around. "I told you, leafy." I crossed my arms. She just giggled with a shrug. Then, she felt for her eyepatch. "Oh no! Did I lose my eyepatch!" She panicked. "No, I have it!" Ruby said before giving her the eyepatch. "What about your hook?" I questioned, gesturing to her hand. "Oh, I needed to hold onto it so she could climb." Needle explained and gave Leafy back her hook. Leafy put on her hook, then looked at me. "Pin, if you're here who's steering the ship?" She asked. Then I realized that I never ended up stopping the boat. I panicked for a second before I heard, "Don't worry, I handled it!" I turned around and saw coiny at the wheel. I smile, happy with his help. I suddenly remember what I originally wanted to do, turning to Snowball and asking, "Hey, could you drop the anchor?"

LEAFY'S POV

"Wait, why are we stopping the boat? We're still in the middle of the ocean." Flower stated. Yeah, I wondered the same. "Oh yeah, well.. Coiny and I decided we wanted a break, since I'm hungry and Coiny's legs are tired." Pin explained. "Heah, I'm gonna go sit down." Coiny walked down the stairs and sat down on the last one. Then, Pin walked down to the galley. I suddenly had the best idea. I walked over to Ruby. "Ruby, you know what we should do?" I whispered so only she could hear me. "Omg, I already know this has something to do with Coiny and Pin, tell me!" She whispered back. "Uh huh," I nodded, "Since they're on break, we should make them realize they like each other! Kt's painfully obvious but I can tell they don't see it yet." I say, watching as Pin came back up with a snack, then sat next to Coiny on the stairs. "I'm totally in! What should we do?" Ruby asked. I analyzed them, thinking about what we could do. They were talking with each other. Suddenly, Coiny pulled out the map again and Pin looked at it with him. "Hmm... Ruby hold this real quick." I gave Ruby my hook. I stood forward a bit and put my hands in front of me, creating a frame with my fingers. I looked at the two through my hands. I suddenly knew what our plan should be.