Beautiful Mess

Chapter 8

The last person Vivi had expected to see tonight was him. She didn’t know why she looked out of the window at that moment, but a small gasp escaped her lips when she did. Pulling into the Charlotte's driveway was that familiar grey minivan. Countless hours were spent in that van with him. Countless times, she held his hand as he drove aimlessly. Countless nights were spent in the back discussing secrets only they know about. Seeing that grey minivan made her sick, and seeing him walk out of it made her sicker.

Tears welled in her eyes, but she frantically wiped them away. 

“I need a distraction...” She muttered. Her eyes fell upon a few bottles of something she had always stayed away from. “One won’t hurt.”

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Nami loves parties. Well, actually that's an understatement. In fact, she believes that they're her natural habitat. However, she just wasn't in her element while at the Charlotte's party. 

She leaned against the wall as she sat on the steps, clenching the cup in her hand. The music boomed around her, but she tuned it out. 

Thinking back, at parties she was always with Vivi, her older sister, and all of their friends. But now, except for Vivi, they're all gone. She really missed the times she spent with all of them. The times she spent with Sabo… 

But soon, she'll go back to how things were! Nami was confident that by the time summer rolls around, Vivi and Ace will be back together! Just in time for their friends to return from their first year of college. She just needed to be patient.

And in the meantime she can make new friends. Even though Luffy and Usopp are super immature and nothing like her old friends, she couldn't deny the fact that they could make her laugh her head off. The most fun she's had these past two months were with them. 

"I should find them!" she thought aloud, as she stood abruptly.

She turned the corner of the stairs but crashed into someone, causing Nami to spill her drink.

"Ack! Sorry, that was my fault-" She raised her head and met the piercing eyes of someone she'd rather not mess with.

Boa Hancock.

But it was too late, she spilled her drink all over the tall girl, and Nami could tell that she was irritated.

"Hancock! I'm sorry I-" 

But before Nami could get another word out, Hancock aggressively pushed past her, swearing under her breath.

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"Sabo and Ace are literally the coolest guys I've ever met."

"Right? And even if you weren't close to them, they were always so nice! Well, Sabo was at least."

"I didn't even know they had a brother, but you look just like them!"

Luffy thought that last comment was strange considering that he and his brothers all have different parents, but he was only half listening anyway. 

Even though these people really liked his brothers and wanted to talk about them, his attention was solely on the delicious food in front of him.

That was until Luffy heard someone mention her name.

"Yeah Pudding wants us to play some video on the speakers tonight." 

Luffy turned in the direction of the voice and saw Ace's friend...stove? and a few other large guys talking.

"Another guy? She really likes breaking their hearts in the worst way possible…" a guy with purple-y hair revealed.

Suddenly, Luffy remembered the real reason he was here. Not to eat delicious food or even talk about his brothers, but for Sanji. He had to find Pudding and stop her from hurting Sanji.