Chapter 2

I walked into class the next day determined not to bump into anyone and getting a good seat. As luck would have it, there was a seat next to that blonde curly brow, sure it was still in the same row as the farting clown but there was a seat in between so it wasn't within blast range. Quickly I took my seat, placing my books on the desk and removing my jacket, I began to nervously tap my desk waiting for class to begin.

Through the corner of my eye, I noticed the blonde and green-haired guy looking at me. Suddenly the large, tan man with the green hair spoke up.

"Is that a real tattoo?" he asked questionably

"Yeah" I replied back with an honest smile

"That's awesome." He then complemented

"Thanks" was all I managed to say in return

Suddenly out of nowhere, the green-haired guy grabbed my sleeve and pulled it over to his seat. He placed my arm side-by-side to his bulky one, using it as an example to show the blond sitting in front of him.

"Oi curly, you see? This is the lettering I want" the man holding on to my arm said to the blond

"This mosshead is Zoro; he's almost too gay to function." The blond guy said

"Nice to meet you" I stated while taking out a paper from my binder to look down at.

Soon another guy with long wavy blond hair and deep blue eyes began making his way down the aisle, insulting the curly-brow as he passed by.

"Nice wig Sanji, what's it made of?"

"Your mom's chest hair!" Sanji spat to the other blond. "I'm Sanji." he later addressed while genuinely smiling.

"Hi, I'm Ace" I smiled and introduced back "Um, do you guys know where room G14 is?"

Zoro took my paper that held my class schedule and began to scan over it, reading it out loud for Sanji to hear. "Health, Tuesday/ Thursday room G14."

"I think that's in the back building?" Sanji answered while the two looked at one another sharing an identical smirk.

"Yeah that's in the back building"

"We'll take you there" the blond insisted as Zoro handed me back my schedule.

"Thanks" I smiled graciously at them for being so nice as to help me out. And here I was thinking that Sanji was nothing but a jerk.

After the bell rang, Zoro took my wrist and Sanji pushed me from behind. Together they began pulling me through the massive hoard of students down the hall. "Watch out, new meat coming through" Zoro shouted through the crowd.

Soon we were outside and I proceeded to follow the two towards a giant tree next to the football field.

"Math, Spanish…wait, you're taking 12th grade calculus!?" Zoro said in shock as he scrolled down my schedule again to make sure hadn't misread anything.

"Yeah, I like math." I replied assertively

"Ew, why?" he said in disgust.

"Because it's the same in every county"

Zoro paused from walking, taking in my insightful words. He then looked at me with one eyebrow furrowed up as he began to pick up his pace again.

"That's touching, really, this guy is deep." Zoro stated sarcastically as he took a seat beside Sanji by the tree.

I continued to stand though, looking around in confusion. The other two, just sat there with their legs crossed, making themselves comfortable as I looked around in search of the health building that was nowhere to be found.

I looked at them weirdly before asking "Uh…Where's the back building?"

"It burned down in 1987" Sanji bluntly stated.

"Won't we get in some sort of trouble for this?" I couldn't help but worry.

"Why would we get you into trouble? We're your friends." I hesitantly remained standing there for a while. I know it's wrong to skip class, but Sanji said we were friends, and I was in no position to pass up friends. I guess I'll never know what I missed on that first day of health class.

- Meanwhile in Health Class -

Mr. Vergo stood in front of the classroom with a big chalkboard behind him and the words 'SAFE SEX' written on it. He stood tall and firm as he paced back and forth from the chalkboard, awkwardly lecturing his class with his intimidating voice.

"Don't have sex, because you will get the girl pregnant …and die. Don't have sex in the missionary position; don't have sex standing up…you know what, just don't it, promise? …okay, good now everybody take some rubbers."

"Why don't they just keep homeschooling you?" Sanji asked

"They wanted me to get socialized" I replied, making coma signs with my two fingers as i emphasized the word 'socialize'.

"Oh you'll get socialized alright, a guy like you" Zoro straightforwardly declared.

I couldn't help but look at him in mere confusion. "Eh…what are you talking about?"

"Let me put it to you this way, half the guys in this school are either gay or bi. But hey, that's what happened when you're put in an all guy's school. Face it Ace, you're a regulation hottie" The blond informed me as he finished the last of his cigarette that I wasn't even aware of.

"A what?"

"Own it!" Zoro proudly said as he swung his arm over my shoulder, wearing a smirk on his face that showed off some of his white teeth.

"Oh shit, would you look at Penguins gym clothes?"

"Of course all the hearts are in the same gym class" Sanji added in contempt.

"Who are the hearts?" I had to ask

"There something like teen royalty…check it, if Grand Line was US weekly, they would always be on the cover." Zoro strangely explained, though I still quit didn't understand.

"That one over there, that's Penguin. He is one of the dumbest guys you'll ever meet." I began to observe Penguin as he ran to catch a football that came flying in his direction, but soon after knocked him full on across the face. "Marimo over here had to sit next to him in English class last year."

Zoro leaned in closer to me and began to speak quietly "He asked me how to spell orange" he then chuckled and of course I did too because damn, really? What idiot couldn't spell orange?

"That other one, that's Shachi." I watched as Shachi walked across the field talking on his phone, paying absolutely no attention to the football that was flying straight for him. "He's totally rich because his dad invented the smiley candy…Shachi knows everybody's business, he knows everything about everyone."

"That's why his hair is so big, it's full of secrets." Zoro said warningly

"And evil takes a human form in Trafalgar Law…don't be fooled, because he may seem like your typical, selfish, backstabbing, dick-faced, ho-bag…but in reality he is so much more than that." I couldn't help but stare at this attractive Law guy who was being carried across the field by other guys and was so charmingly set down by them. He eyed them up and down before arrogantly throwing a wink to them as he turns around to stand with his two friends.

"He's the school prince, the star; those other two are just his little workers."

"Trafalgar Law…How do I even begin to explain him?" Sanji uttered

Interview

"Law is flawless"

"He has two prada hats and a silver Lexus"

"I hear his hair is insured for $10,000"

"I hear he does car commercial…in Japan"

"His favorite movie is Varsity Blues"

"One time he met Johnny Depp on a plane—"the short boy with the fuzzy blue hat said, standing next to his best friend, Usopp. "—and he told him he was cute"

"One time, he punched me in the face…it was awesome!"

End Interview

We were now walking down the hallway again. The halls weren't as crowded as before thankfully, so maneuvering wasn't so hard. Sanji and Zoro continued to tell me more about these 'hearts' and just how evil this Law guy really was.

"He always looks fierce; he always wins Dressrosa King—"

"Who cares" Zoro interrupted

Sanji began to look distraught "I care! Every year the seniors from Grand Line and Amazon Lily throw a dance for the underclassmen called the Dressrosa Fling—"

"Whoever is elected Dressrosa Fling king and queen automatically becomes head of the student activities committee for their school—"

"And since I am an ACTIVE MEMBER of the student activities committee, I would say, yea I care!" Sanji retorted back at Zoro.

"Wow cook, you've truly out-gayed yourself." I couldn't help but chuckle towards that response.

"Here, this map is going to be your guide to Grand Line High, now where you sit is crucial because you got everybody there…" Sanji stated as he handed me the drawn map he made. "You got your freshman, preps, JV jocks, Asian nerds, cools Asians, varsity jocks, unfriendly black hotties—"

"—guys who eat their feelings, guys who don't eat anything, desperate wannabes, burnouts, the greatest people you will ever meet, that would be us…and the worst…beware of the hearts." Zoro warned as both of them left for their classroom that they were obviously late for.

Lunch finally came around, thank god because I have been starving all day. Thankfully this time I had a place to sit; now all I had to do was try and find them in this sea of jungle high schoolers. I scanned the cafeteria, passing through familiar groups Sanji and Zoro labeled on the map.

This first table I passed must have been the cool Asians, judging by the expensive clothing styles they wore. Like the map, the next group where the varsity jocks, arm wrestling over there hotdogs and fries while the rest of the group cheered. Right next to them where the unfriendly black hotties who were staring me down as I passed by. Then there were the guys that ate there feeling and guys who starved themselves-just like the map said. The burnouts, desperate wannabes-yup and yup this was them I said to myself as I walked past them, until I finally saw the table I have been searching for.

However right before getting to my table, I was stopped by Killer who wanted to ask me some questions. Well ain't that the first.

"Hey, were doing a lunchtime survey of new students, can you answer a few questions?"

"Okay" I said.

"Is your sausage juicy?" He asked as chuckling was suddenly heard behind me.

"What?" I didn't understand

"Would you like us to assign someone to juice up your sausage?"

I began to look around questionable "My what?"

"Is he bothering you? . . . Killer, why must you be so vile?" Law, the supposed star of the school questioned.

Killer looked back at Law with a teasing smile "I'm just being friendly"

A grunt was heard from the dude with the shoulder- length brown hair known as Shachi, who was seated on Law's left side "you were suppose to call me last night!" he whispered to Killer.

"Oi Killer! You do not come to a party at my house with Shachi, and then scam on some poor innocent guy right in front of us three days later…He's not interested…You there, do you want to have sex with him?" he directly asked me out of nowhere.

I looked from Law to Killer in mere shock. What the fuck was he talking about? Of course I don't want to have sex with this perverted creep! When did I ever say I wanted to?

"No thank you!" I aggressively spat back to Killer

"Good, so it settled. You can go shave your back now, Killer." Law firmly shooed him away

"Asshole" Killer mumbled as he walked back to his table

I watched as Killer left my sight, then shrugged my shoulders as I continued walking until Law begun talking to me again.

"Yo, wait, sit down…seriously, sit down" I looked towards Sanji and Zoro who were staring straight at me, urging me to come over. I couldn't help to look around nervously before finally deciding to take a seat across Trafalgar law. "Why don't I know you?"

Well so much for avoiding the 'hearts' I guess. "I'm new, I just moved here from Africa. I used to be home schooled"

"What?" Law wore a bewildered face

"My mom taught me at home—"

"No, I know what home schooled is, I'm not retarded….so you've never been to a real school before?" he firmly asked

I simply shook my head as a response, not really sure what to say. It was all still very weird for me to be sitting at the 'hearts' table as they small talked with me. Not to mention Sanji and Zoro who were staring me down the entire time.

"Shut the hell up, are you serious?" he leaned back on his seat as he continued to stare at me "Home schooled….thats really interesting….you're seriously really hot"

"…thank you" I didn't really know what else to say to that. No one's ever called me "hot" before, let alone by someone as good-looking as Law, what else was I suppose to say?

"So you agree…" he raised his eyebrow at me curiously "you think you're really hot"

Shit, when did I agree to that? "Oh, I don't know—"

"Dude, I love your necklace, where did you get it?" he abruptly changed the subject, finding better interest with the red beaded necklace hung around my neck.

"Oh, my mom made it for me—"

"So wait, if you're from Africa…why aren't you black?" Penguin, the airheaded one asked.

"For fuck sake, seriously Penguin you can't just ask people why they're not black." Shachi scolded the dumb one while smacking the back of his head.

Suddenly Law silenced them and looked at me "Sorry, could you give us some privacy for a second?"

"Yeah, sure" the three huddled in a small circle, mumbling words that I couldn't hear. I turned to look at Sanji and Zoro who were giving me strange looks from across the dining hall but all I did was shrug back to them. Suddenly, the 'hearts' stopped talking and all three leaned towards me placing their elbows on the table simultaneously.

"You should just know we don't do this often, so this pretty much is a big deal." Law confirmed

"We want to invite you to have lunch with us every day for the rest of the week." Shachi announced, wearing an honest smile on his face.

"Uhh…that's okay I—"

"Excellent, so we'll see you tomorrow." Law cut me off

"Oh, and on Wednesdays we wear green" Penguin said as all three of them stood up to make their leave.

In home economics, Sanji began to cry out hysterically through laughter. Nobody paid much attention to it though, apparently his loudness was a common thing in this school. I stood beside him explaining my lunch experience with the 'hearts' as he brushed a joyous tear from his eye and inserted a cake pan into the oven.

"Oh god…okay you have to do it! And then you have to tell me all the horrible things that Law says."

He said excitedly while still trying to hold back his laughter.

"Law seems cool." I was only being honest.

"Cool? That bastard is not cool, he's a scum sucking road whore, he ruined my life!" Sanji spat angrily at me.

"He may be cool, but he's evil…trust me" Zoro replied, eating a cupcake from a batch that laid on the table he was leaning on.

"Hey you're not in this class, get out of here!" the little dude known as Chopper snapped at Zoro. He was pissed because the marimo devoured one of his cupcake assignments that still needed to be graded before class ended today.

"Oh shit, it's Danny Devito! I love your work!" Zoro stuck his arms out drastically pretending to chase after him but only scared the poor kid away. I bit back a chuckle at Zoro's randomness, after I brought my attention back to Sanji, bringing up a question that I've been curious to ask since earlier this morning.

"Why do you hate him?"

"What do you mean?" he asked

"Law…you seem to really hate him." I repeated a little more clearly this time.

"Yes…so what's your question?" he began to sound irritated

"Well my question is why—"cut off again for the god knows how many times now.

"Law started this rumor that Sanji—"

"MARIMO! Shall we not!" he frantically shouted back at Zoro, cutting off whatever reason he was about to share with me. "Now look, this isn't about hating him okay? I just think it would be like a fun little experiment if you hang out with them and then tell us everything they say."

"What do we even talk about?" because honestly what do people like Trafalgar Law talk about? Even I don't know what to say most of the time in front of other people, let alone hot guys like him.

"Hair products" Sanji recommend

"Tom Hiddleston" Zoro suggested

"Is that a band?"

Sanji cut aside the nonsense of me trying to figure out what everything they were saying meant "Look, would you just do it, please!"

"Okay, fine…uhhh, by chance do you have anything green?"

"No—yes!" both replied. Zoro proudly declaring in satisfaction.

By 8th period, I was so happy to get to math class. I'm good at math. I understand math. Nothing in math class could mess me up. However, as I sat there giving Mr. Shanks my undivided attention, this one guy with tousled jet-black hair sitting in front of me turned around to ask me a question.

"Hey do you have a pencil I can borrow?"

It was like my entire world stood still as I stared at the guy in front of me. His eyes were a shade of chocolate brown with a small scar under his left eye that suited him perfectly. I've only had one other crush in my life. His name was Sabo and we were 5. It didn't work out, but this one hit me like a big yellow school bus

"Ace what do you say?" Shanks asked

He was…

"So cute…" Shit, shit shit, did I seriously just say that out loud!? Fuck, just shoot me now why don't you. The entire class turned to look at me strangely; even hottie was staring at me now. My entire face felt like it was heating up, causing me to frantically look around the classroom and stutter my words.

"I—I mean…uh…a-sub-n equals n plus one over four."

"That's right…good, very good…alright; let's talk about your homework."

Walking back home from school, I arrived to my house where both my parents sat outside on the porch reading and going over some paper work. I walked up the stairs, hoping that they wouldn't notice me as I sneaked inside.

However, my father managed to stop me right in the nick of time "Hey how was your second day?"

"Fine" I replied with a smile

"Where people nice?" my mother then asked

"No" I shook my head.

They both looked at each other in concern before my father spoke up again. "Did you make any friends?"

"Yeah" I responded as I stepped inside leaving both my parents in complete confusion.