A.N: I´ll probably start to update slower because my school starts again tomorrow and because of the other reason that´s in the author´s note at the end so if you want to know read it too.
Chapter 2: Moving in to the new apartment
An orange car parked in to the parking lot of a modern apartment building. The door to the car´s front seat opened and out went a young woman, her shoulder length hair same color as the car. She had red brown eyes and she was wearing white miniskirt and dark blue t-shirt.
"It´s so hot in here" the woman said, waving her hand in front of her face. She had lived in a warm place her whole life, but too hot was always too hot.
"Stop complaining Nami" another woman said, coming out from the car´s driver's seat. She had purple hair, slightly shorter than Nami´s and a strange purple tattoo from her chest to her right shoulder. Her attire was simple; grey jeans and a yellow top along with sandals and red ribbon tied to her hair.
The orange haired woman, Nami, turned to face the other one.
"Gee Nojiko, no need to get mad" she said "It´s just so hot in here!"
The other woman, Nojiko, was her older sister. Someone who didn´t know it would never be able to tell, but that was no wonder since they were both adopted from different families.
"I know" Nojiko said, closing the door "But it´s not much hotter than back at home"
"Yeah, but it´s still a bit hotter" Nami said with a sigh, already wiping sweat away from her forehead. Nojiko laughed.
"Let´s go inside; Gen should already be there" she said. Gen was a nickname for Genzo, who was kind of like their father figure. They had been adopted by a single woman who had been close friends with him for years and now they pretty much thought the two of them as their parents even though they never called them mom or dad.
"Yeah, let´s go" Nami agreed and they left after Nojiko locked the car doors. The building had five floors, their apartment being in the fourth. It didn´t have an elevator, so they had to use stairs, but they didn´t really mind.
"You here Gen?" Nojiko asked as she unlocked the door to their apartment.
"In the kitchen!" he yelled. Nojiko and Nami went inside, careful to not step on any of the boxes.
"Hi Gen" Nami said as she got to the kitchen with her sister. Gen looked up at her. He was a man with black hair that was starting to get grey and black eyes. He was the sheriff of their small home village and was now wearing his brown uniform.
"Took you two long enough" he said "Most of the furniture is already in their places, but we still need to handle the ones that come in to your rooms"
"Good; now it won´t take too long" Nami said with a smile. Gen glared at her, saying: "Easy for you to say, brat. You haven´t been here the whole morning"
"Gee Gen, relax a little would you?" Nojiko said with a laugh. Gen sighed and stood up from the floor and asked: "So whose room do we start with?"
"Mine" both girls said at the same time, blinking afterwards.
"Nojiko´s room it is then" Gen decided, leaving the kitchen.
"What? Hey!" Nami protested.
"Better luck next time Nami" Nojiko said, patting her little sister on the shoulder and leaving to her room. Nami stuck her tongue out at her sister and went after her.
Hours later they had gotten all furniture in their places.
"Well I better leave now so I can get home before the night" Gen said. They were in Nami´s room since it was the last one they organized.
"You´re right" Nojiko said "Thanks for the help!" the two women chorused. Gen nodded, leaving the apartment.
"I´m so tired" Nami said "Luckily tomorrow is Sunday"
"Yeah" Nojiko said "I´m hungry; should we go eat outside? I don´t feel like cooking…"
"Sure, let´s go. We can start unpacking later" her little sister agreed "But first I need to take a shower"
"Yeah, me too"
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Since Nami didn´t want to spend too much money they simply went for hamburgers in to McDonalds which was only one kilometer away from their apartment.
"You sure spare your money in every place you can" Nojiko said with a laugh "It´s not like we´re poor anymore"
"Yeah, but you know that I´ll need a lot of money when I graduate from high school" Nami defended herself, taking a bite from her hamburger.
"I know I know, for your dream" Nojiko said, taking a sip from her drink. Nami was about to eat a couple of fries but then she got a text message.
"I wonder who…" she mumbled, pulling her shell phone out. The message was from Vivi and it said: "Meet you in the park near the school tomorrow at 12:00 am?"
Nami shrugged and texted back: "Sure"
"Who was it?" Nojiko asked, finishing her hamburger.
"Vivi" Nami replied "I´m seeing her tomorrow in the park at 12:00 am"
"You sure you can find your way there?" Nojiko asked, munching on a fry. Nami looked at her funnily.
"Name one, even one time I´ve actually gotten lost" she said. Nojiko laughed.
"Sorry, can´t think of any" she said, making her little sister laugh.
"Though so"
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Next morning Nami woke up from the floor. She couldn´t believe she had fallen asleep while unpacking. And on top of that she still haven´t unpacked everything.
"Damn it" Nami groaned, looking at the clock on the wall. It said 10:30 am.
"I slept long" she thought, deciding to go take a shower. Only ten minutes later she came back to her room with a towel around her body and hair. She took a good look at her room. It wasn´t big, but not small either. The wooden floor was painted with simple white and the wallpaper was bright green. On the opposite wall of the door there was a window with bright orange curtains and a table under it. Next to the table and the window was a bookshelf which was almost full. Against the same wall as the door was in were a big bed and a small table next to it. And against the fourth wall was a closet that held Nami´s clothes.
"Now what should I wear today?" Nami mumbled to herself, walking to her closet and opening it. She took out pink underwear, green top and dark blue shorts and then closed the closet. There was no need for socks in a day like this. She dropped her towel on the floor and dressed. She picked up the towel and walked over to her bed, dropping both towels on it. She took her hairbrush from the small table and brushed her hair.
"Damn it" Nami thought "I forgot to put my mirror on to the wall"
Nami sighed, deciding to use the bathroom´s mirror. She could put the mirror up later. She looked at herself from the bathroom mirror making sure she was looking fine and then went to the kitchen to eat breakfast. She noticed a note on the table and took it. It said: "I´m going to see my new boss" It was from Nojiko, she had gotten a job from the nearby bar and was working nightshifts.
"So Noj went to check her working place, huh?" Nami thought. She worked too, but she was able to handle her job from home. She turned gathered information in to maps; she had practiced it ever since she was a child. She had also studied navigation for years and was pretty good at it. And she had an excellent sense of direction.
Nami sighed. She threw the note in to a trash can, made herself a sandwich, poured a class of orange juice for her and sat down. She ate quietly, all kind of thoughts going through her head. What kind of people were Vivi´s friends; the ones she always talked about? Would they accept her even though she could be, like Vivi said, really violent sometimes? It´s not like she couldn´t get her own friends, but she´d just like to get along with her best friend´s friends. And the most important thing she wanted to find out was this: was Vivi telling the truth when she said she didn´t have a boyfriend? If she was, Nami would make sure she´d hook her up with someone. And if she was lucky she might be able to hook her sister up with one of Vivi´s friends, too. As far as she knew neither her sister or Vivi never had had a boyfriend, and she was planning on fixing that.
Nami giggled, knowing it wouldn´t be easy. Vivi as really shy and as far as she knew her sister had a really weird taste in men.
"Well life is never easy…" Nami thought, finishing her breakfast. She decided to watch TV until it was time to go see Vivi. She knew where the park was; she had checked it from a map last night. She dropped herself on the sofa in the living room and turned the TV on.
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Vivi sat on leaned against a tree in the park, looking at her clock.
"11:52… I´m a bit early" she thought. And there was always a chance that Nami would arrive a little later than agreed since she didn´t know the area.
"Vivi!" never mind, there was no chance something like that would happen. Vivi turned her gaze to the left and saw an orange haired woman coming towards her. She smiled, saying: "Long time no see Nami"
"Yeah" Nami agreed, going to give her friend a hug "How have you been?"
"Fine, thanks. You?" she asked.
"Nothing to complain about" Nami answered "Our new apartment is nice and Nojiko got a job too, so we´ll be able to handle our rent."
"That´s good to hear" Vivi said as they started to walk out of the park.
"How about your father? Is he doing well?" Nami asked, making Vivi nod.
"Yes, he is doing surprisingly well and has been on his feet for a long time already" she said with a smile.
"Great" Nami said with a smile, stopping at the edge of the park "Where to?"
"Well I thought that you´d probably want to know the city a bit better and after that we could go shopping since you want anyway" Vivi told. Nami had excellent memory, especially when it came to remembering her surroundings.
"Sounds good to me" Nami said and they left the park. They walked around the town a bit, Vivi telling Nami what shops and coffee houses were good and which ones, well, weren´t. Of course they couldn´t go through the whole town, but the area between Nami and Nojiko´s apartment and the school was the top priority anyway.
"I think we could eat lunch here" Vivi said, looking at the restaurant they were standing in front of.
"Sure, but let´s eat something light since we´re going to go shopping" Nami said and Vivi agreed so they went inside. They took a table next to the window and sat down. Vivi ordered the day´s lunch which was vegetable soup and Nami chicken and rice.
"So Vivi, do you have a boyfriend yet?" Nami asked as they waited for their lunches. Vivi sighed; she knew her friend would ask this sooner or later.
"No, I don´t" she answered "So how are things going between you and Arlong?"
Nami´s smile fell, making Vivi realize she shouldn´t have asked that.
"We broke up" the orange haired woman muttered.
"I´m sorry" Vivi said "What exactly happened?"
"It was nothing, we just" Nami paused, thinking how to put it "Wanted different things from life" she finally said. Vivi nodded in understanding. She knew Nami´s dream and how important it was to her. If Arlong hadn´t accepted that it was no wonder to her why they had broke up.
"I see" Vivi said, not wanting to seem rude by asking too much. Right then a waiter came to them with their orders.
"Enjoy your food" she said cheerfully and left after the two girls thanked her. They ate in silence until Nami asked: "So Vivi, who were these good friends of yours again?"
"Well there´s Kohza who you´ve already met a couple of times" Vivi started.
"Oh yeah, the cute blonde guy. Isn´t he your childhood friend or something like that?"
"Yeah" Vivi said with a nod "And then there´s Luffy and his gang"
Nami raised an eyebrow. Vivi was friends with some gang? Now that´s something she didn´t expect.
"Not that kind of gang" Vivi said quickly as she noticed Nami´s face "Everyone just calls them "Luffy´s gang" or "Straw hat gang" since they are always together"
"I see"
"Okay, so their boss is Luffy. He´s in second grade and has a cheerful personality" that´s how Vivi said it, but others called him simpleminded "Then there´s Zoro, a quiet and sometimes a bit rude guy from the third grade, but he´s still a good person. Sanji is a real gentleman, but a bit weird. He is in same glass with Zoro."
Vivi kept a little break as she ate a bit of her soup before continuing: "Then there´s Usopp from Luffy´s class. He´s… unique"
Nami laughed, figuring out that that was Vivi´s polite way of saying someone was a bit weird. Vivi waited for her friend to stop laughing before continuing: "And then there´s Chopper, in his first year like me. He´s a nice little guy."
"Little guy?" Nami asked.
"Yeah well, he´s really small for a fourteen year old and acts a bit childishly" Vivi explained.
"Okay… wait, fourteen years old?" Nami asked. Vivi nodded with a laugh.
"Yeah, he´s a little genius, fourteen and already in high school" the blue haired woman told and continued eating.
"Okay, so all of these friends of yours are guys?" Nami asked, taking a bite of her food while waiting for her friend´s answer.
"Well all of the closest ones are, but of course I´m friends with some girls, too" Vivi said, telling Nami shortly about Margaret and Kaya. After the girls finished eating they went shopping like they had planned. In the end Vivi ended up with a bag of clothes and Nami with two bags of clothes and a third one for books, papers, etc.
"Well I´ll see you tomorrow at school" Nami said to Vivi as they left to separate directions.
"See ya!" Vivi yelled. While walking back home the only thing Nami could think about was how she would fit in her new school.
A.N: Just so you know: I´ve been getting many good ideas for new stories lately, and I might start writing them now before my inspiration is gone, so updating this might take time (or not if I get even better inspiration for this) but don´t worry, I´m not going to completely stop writing this. Please review.
