It was like any normal first day at the Hogwarts fourth floor corridor. The students were hanging out outside the classrooms, chatting, doing late hurried homework, and ocassionally waving wands. Then the magical bell rang, and they all hurried into a classroom, leaving the hallway deserted. Until in a few minutes, certain green-haired Slytherin stopped in front of a painting and started arguing with it.

"Just gimme the right directions this time!" Zoro yelled at the painting of an old man on a rocking chair.

"I told you already - it is down this hall, first staircase to the right, then the first door down the stairs," the old man in the painting replied indignantly. "It is the third time today you get lost!"

"Jack, your intructions were unclear!" Zoro spat back and started walking down the hall - in the direction opposite to which Jack had pointed.

Someone else appeared in the far end of the corridor, far behind Zoro.

"The other way, marimo," the person said with a mysterious giggle.

Zoro froze in his tracks and turned around. As he saw the person, he relaxed. "Oh, it's just you, Robin."

The Head Girl smiled and walked towards Zoro. "You're lucky that it was just me this time, Zoro. I saw Lucci patrolling nearby."

"Heh, well," Zoro grinned cockily. "It's just my luck."

Robin giggled. "Come on, I'll take you to class. You have Charms now, right?"

"Yeah, how'd you know on the first day?"

"I keep a copy of your timetable - having known you for quite a while, I've got to take care of my boyfriend."

"Oi, oi..." Zoro was a little uncomfortable with the fact that his girlfriend had to escort him to class, but he was secretly grateful. He followed her down the hallway and subconsciously started pondering.

Though she was a year older than him, neither of them, or anyone in their group of friends, felt uncomfortable with their being a couple, but it had raised many eyebrows at the school.

Robin was in 7th year, a Ravenclaw Head Girl. She excelled at everything she did, very confident, but not overconfident, and somewhat closed, never showing too much emotion. Zoro was a 6th year, handsome, rebellious Slytherin. Never getting a higher grade than A, almost always late to class due to his awful sense of direction, sleeps through most of the lesson, suffering from chronic procrastination (and even negligence), and Beater of the Slytherin Quiddich team. Every single girl in the school was after him - except, of course, for Robin.

Everyone (except perhaps for Luffy and Nami) had been surprised when they found out the Slytherin Beater had only eyes for the Ravenclaw Head Girl. Nobody really knew how it happened besides themselves, but one day they were merely in the same friend group and the next they were a couple.

"Here you go," Robin said, snapping Zoro out of his trance. He looked around and saw that they had arrived at his Charms classroom. "See ya then," Robin said and started walking away.

"Oi!" Zoro called after her, and she stopped and turned around. "Don't I get a kiss goodbye?" he said jokingly.

Robin smiled and walked back to him, then she planted a kiss on his lips. He returned it, and they were like that for about two seconds before she roughly parted and walked away, both of them grinning.

Professor Flitwick sighed when he saw Zoro enter the clasroom late, a usual, and with sloppy uniform, as usual. He really didn't know what he had expected, maybe that he had changed after yet another school year, but he was wrong.

Zoro sat down beside his fellow Slytherin and comrade, Sanji, who was reading his textbook.

"You're earlier than usual, shitty marimo," Sanji said boredly without looking up. "Did Robin-chan catch up with you in the way?"

"Don't call me shitty marimo, swirly-brow," Zoro said while taking out his books. "And yeah, she sorta did..." Then he folded his arms on his desk, rested his forehead on them and dozed off.