hiding

oh god oh god

"To what do I owe the pleasure?" Izo asked, as he entered his room, noticing Alexia perched at the edge of his bed.

"I'm hiding from the world for the rest of eternity." Alexia mumbled.

"Oh come now darling it isn't that bad." Izo clicked his tongue, "If anything it's adorable. It's not as if it was unexpected. You two are so close anyways."

"What the hell are you talking about?!" Alexia exclaimed, "We didn't do anything!"

"If you say so," Izo sighed, "It would be such a shame if you didn't."

"I swear to god we haven't done anything! I don't even know what the hell happened." Alexia grumbled, "Stupid asshole had his arm all over me. He never sleeps in his damn bed! What the hell?"

"What happened?" Izo asked pleasantly and filled with curiosity. Gossip was definitely something he enjoyed.

"I don't know! We woke up cuddling or some shit! I don't remember most of anything from last night." Alexia hissed, rubbing her head as her headache was starting to overpower her burst of anger from earlier, "Thank god I still had my clothes on."

"You don't remember anything?"

"No I drank too much I think. I don't remember even going to bed."

"Honey you only had three bottles." Izo shook his head in amusement.

"Yea well I also obviously can't handle my liquor." She snapped.

"What did Marco have to say for himself. It usually takes a lot to get him drunk."

"He didn't get a chance to. I was thinking about sneaking away before he woke up, but two obnoxious idiots had to come barreling through the door."

"So what do you plan on doing then."

"Hiding away from the crew for the rest of my life, avoiding Marco for the rest of my life, and hunting down Haruta and Thatch continuously for the rest of eternity." Alexia sighed.

"I hate to say it, but that is a terrible plan. If you thought I'd let you hide in here for the rest of eternity your wrong." Izo frowned.

"No, just until Marco is six foot under." Alexia admitted.

"Honey, that stubborn bird will never die." Izo chuckled, "I'm sorry darling but I'm kicking you out. I would like to say it's for your own good, but honestly it's because I want to see how all of this progresses."

"Your just as bad as Thatch and Haruta!" Alexia pouted.

"Yes I am, and it brings me much entertainment." Izo admitted as he shoved her off the bed and out the door. Alexia moaned in defeat as Izo closed the door behind her.

Alexia thought for a second, deciding on finding one more person. Luckily anyone she ran into on her way didn't look her in the eye or attempt conversation. Alexia knocked on the door in front of her, slightly aware of how close it was to Marco's.

"Come in." Jozu's voice was muffled slightly from behind the door.

Alexia closed the door behind her. Jozu was sitting weirdly in a chair, a book on his lap. The scene before her was incredibly weird to take in, Jozu's large frame making his position look extremely unusual. Alexia decided to sit on the edge of his bed, before looking at him with sincere, encouraging eyes.

"Jozu, I know out of all of our foolish brothers on board; you are most likely to be honest with me right?"

"What would you like to know." Jozu nodded his head in agreement.

"How drunk was I?" Alexia grimaced, "I honestly don't remember much after three or four hours into the party..."

"You were pretty drunk." Jozu admitted, "A very happy drunk at that. You're such a lightweight."

"Please say I didn't do anything embarrassing." Alexia held her head in her hands.

"Well you wanted honesty..." Jozu trailed off.

"Oh god. Oh god. What? Just tell me."

"In the beginning it wasn't anything embarrassing honestly. You attempted poker; Thatch made you bet taking off your shirt if you lost. And you lost... terribly. But Marco overstepped for your sake." Jozu noticed her breathe a sigh of relief before continuing, "You were a bit clingy with Marco, very giggly. You even kissed him, but I think even at that point he was too drunk to remember that."

"I what?!" Alexia all but shouted.

"Sorry, but you did." Jozu winced in sympathy, "After a while you were worn out, and almost too drunk to walk. Marco ended up carrying you back to your room and we didn't see you guys for the rest of the night.

"Please shoot me. Dear god, my life is over." Alexia moaned.

"You'll be fine, you always seem to have a way of bouncing back from anything life throws at you." Jozu smiled at her.

"I wish that was encouraging, but honestly I'm too embarrassed to want to continue on with my life." She said halfheartedly, getting up to leave, "Thanks Jozu."

"Anytime little sister." Jozu grinned, "Well not anytime, if you get drunk like that often we are probably going to have to stage an intervention."

Alexia gave a full-hearted laugh at that, leaving his room. She groaned as she trudged back to her room, unfortunately having no other place left to go.

She entered the room. Ignoring Marco sitting at his desk, she flung herself onto the bed, wrapping herself up in the blanket like a cocoon. She groaned, annoyed.

"You going to make it yoi?"

"No, you damned pervert." Alexia muttered.

"Hey hey hey, I'm not a pervert." Marco rebutted.

"If you had just left me on the deck instead of carrying my drunk ass to bed, we wouldn't have this problem now would we?" She poked her head out of the blankets to glare at him.

"You were absolutely wasted, and obviously had no good judgement yoi. I couldn't exactly leave you out there."

"You absolutely could have! Oh god you remembered the whole night?" Alexia was mortified.

"It just so happens I do. You remembered?" Marco looked mildly embarrassed.

"Jozu told me about it." Alexia groaned, burying her face in her hands, "I want to go die now."

"Was kissing me that terrible?" Marco laughed at her reaction.

"Like I would have any idea. I was drunk off my ass." Alexia sighed, "Damned inability to hold my liquor."

"You sound like you wish you knew." Marco stared at her awkwardly.

"Marco, I will throw you overboard as well. We will never ever mention what happened last night ever again." Alexia threatened.

"And I'll make sure you never get that drunk again." Marco agreed, letting them both slip into silence as Marco attempted to make the environment less awkward by completing paperwork. He found it quite a difficult task as his mind continued to race at a million miles an hour. Alexia's doing the same.