Midnight Alarm

c h a p t e r 13

Zoro pov.

"Oh?" I heard, "Feeling for who?"

I stiffened and looked behind Nami. There stood Luffy, with a curious expression on his face.

"None of your business." I replied and sat back down, "Can you guys just leave me alone?"

Nami rolled her eyes and lead Luffy away.

I laid my head on my desk. 

He probably doesn't feel the same way anyway. I should just forget about him...

Luffy pov.

"What's wrong with Zoro?" I asked Nami

"He likes this one guy but is bugging out on confessing. Even when I provided incentive for him to, he wouldn't." Nami bit her nail anxiously, "I really just want him to be happy."

"Shishishi! I'm sure Zoro can handle himself! He seems to be the type of guy who would want to do things on his own." I nodded my head at my statement, "Anyway, I'm interested in how you guys met. You all seem pretty close."

Nami leaned on a nearby desk and started telling me how they met.

"We were in the same class in Elementary school. Zoro was always late for classes and kept getting lost. Usopp always made up excuses about how he couldn't do work. Sanji's adoptive father was a kitchen staff so he helped out frequently. I was a good student if I do say so myself.

The rest of them had terrible grades, so our teacher decided to start group tutoring sessions. And I was the one supposed to tutor them. Now, of course, I made the teacher pay me to, but I still wasn't happy. I didn't want to tutor a bunch of dumb boys. It was their fault they didn't pay attention in class. Not mine. So why am I doing their dirty work? I had thought.

Anyway, after the first session, we discovered we all had a love of pirates. Somehow. It was a crazy coincidence. But if it didn't happen, then we wouldn't be friends today.

After that, we started hanging out more often and became close friends. It might sound cheesy, but when something went wrong in one of our lives, the others would be there for them. That's still the way things work today."

As Nami finished her story, she looked me dead in the eye and said, "I guess that Zoro is worried about an outsider breaking the thing we have going on. That's why he doesn't want to be friends with you."

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