Epals

Chapter Two

"Oh no you don't, Ace!" Franky grabbed my wrist and pulled me back towards them. I fell back to my seat with a slight huff.

"It's about damn time, if you ask me." Nami crossed her arms, looking rather pleased with herself.

"What?" was the dumb question that left my mouth. What are they talking about? Weren't they just going to judge me and not speak to me again? I swallowed, looking past them and at the large tv playing some random show. We were currently in Luffy and Nami's house, for our usual weekend get togethers.

"We already knew you were gay, Ace. We just had to wait for you to admit it to us before we could do anything about it. There wasn't a blind date set up, either." Robin spoke in her usual soft tones, amusement dancing in her blue eyes. At this point, I felt rather defeated. I really should have known they would accept my sexuality, after all Sanji and Zoro are dating; have been for nearly three years now. All it took to get them to finally accept their love for eachother was taking them to a forest then ditching them. Although we didn't see them again for nearly two weeks after that. They didn't appreciate that very much, but we're still grateful in the end.

"Oh. Well, in that case, am I off the hook now?" a stupid question, really.

"Of course not you idiot. Robin and I actually found this wonderful site last night, which got us to form this plan in the first place."

"I refuse." I crossed my arms in an x in front of me, looking away from them once again. I will not let them do this, even though I am quite lonely, I don't need to find someone.

"If you don't agree to this, then I will raise what you owe me to 1 million dollars." Nami grinned.

"What!? You can't do that! I would owe you for the rest of my life!"

"Exactly. Now, will you get on the site we found or not?" so, basically, I either had to go along with her stupid idea, or owe her money until my last breath. I growled lightly,

"Fine."

"Excellent! Robin, grab my laptop from the bedroom would you? Thanks." Nami smiled, watching as Robin nodded and stood.

"So..this is what exactly?" I was now scrolling through a light blue page with a lot of words on it. There were also a lot of hearts and a section to sign in.

"It's called Epals, a site where people log in and find an Epal. An Epal is similar to a pen pal, only you're sending emails and not handwritten letters." Robin explained. The guys had all left; some to stores, others to the nearby park. Though Sanji had left to his own apartment because he had a wedding to fix food for.

"We already took the liberty of making you an account. Your username will be Mera2, and the password is whitebeardpirates." Nami typed the information in and a new screen came up. In the middle of the screen was a picture of me, and below that I saw things like "view profile, inbox, sent, pictures."

"Now, we have to get going if we want to get to our spa treatments on time. Have fun, Ace. Oh, and I will be making sure that you actually get on there and talk to someone."

I groaned, smacking my head on the table. This is just great.