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KRISTEN

"Are you going to show any of these to Ace?" Nicky asked me Sunday afternoon as we looked over the pictures of Ace I'd taken the day before.

"What do you think?" I asked as I sat down in the rolling desk chair next to my bed. Nicky was lying across my pillows spreading the pictures out across my bed.

"Yes?" She questioned picking up one of my favorite pictures. It was Ace with his entire right arm in flames.

"No." I correced her. I thought she'd argue instead she shrugged.

"You know I heard your photography teacher telling the princapal that the best pictures would be hung up around the school." She told me before tossing up a piece of popcorn and catching it in her mouth.

"Yeah so? They always do that. That's why there were pictures of you floating around the school for the longest time." I told her.

"Point being some of tehse look like you have a thing for the guy." Nicky answered.

"So I won't summit the ones that look like I have a thing for the guy when I turn in the assignment." I told her reaching for a picture before I realized what had just been said. "Wait. How do any of these say I have a thing for the guy?" I demanded. Nicky rolled off, careful of the pictures, and stumbled a little bit before straightening herself out. She went over to my desk and started going through my box full of pictures. She left my question unanswered.

"You're my best friend right?" She asked me pulling something out of her backpack.

"Of course." I said offended that she would even ask. nicky walked back over to my bed.

"Look at these." Nicky said lying two pictures in front of me. They were of the same six year old girl at the same place and time. The only thing different was the fact they were taken by two different people. I knew because one was taken by me the other by a proffesional who hated Nicky for smearing cake in his hair. "Do you see the differnece?" Nicky asked. I shook my head. "Can you tell which one you took?" She asked me. I picked one up. Sure enough my signature smiley face was on the back. "The camera can see the relationship between the photographer and the person inside the pictures." She told me. "And anyway whatever pictures you don't summit I'm putting on a website for fangirls." She said with a smirk. I knew she couldn't stay serious for long. I sighed.

"Must you try and get under everyone's skin?" I asked her.

"Yep." She said her eyes bright with a micheviousness I didn't even want to know about.

"Well besides Mr Watson and Portgaz D. Ace who are your newest targets or are they your only ones for this year?" I asked her. She shrugged.

"Who knows. Maybe I'll turn on you and play matchmaker with you and Mr Portgaz." Nicky answered playfully but I could see it in her eyes. She really would do it.

"I do not have a thing for Ace." I protested. Nicky just laughed.

"Sure you don't. I mean come on doll since when are you on first name basis with Portgaz?" Nicky teased. I glared. She laughed.

"Let's talk about this website you're planning." I said changing the subject and fast.

"Alright. I'll set it up right now if you'd like." Nicky said rolling with it like she usually always did. I nodded.

We spent the next half hour organizing a website where people could review on the pictures they saw and everything. The loading sign was my signature, no not the smiley face but a camera lens on fire. The buttons you clicked on to navigate the site were Nicky's signature, a blood red evil smiley face.

NICOLE

I had lied when I'd told Kristen that I didn't know who my other victims were going to be. I had a special target in mind. He was awesome at messing with people. He hardly had to so two words to someone before he made them want to rip him limb from limb. I could only do that with two people but it wasn't hard to bother them. Say something about one of their noses and call the other one ugly and you got a very deadly cocktail. In fact insulting Buggy the Clown's nose is why I now bore a scar.

I'd bugged Buggy so much he randomly started swinging a knife around. Before I cold get teh knife out of his hands and into mine he'd slashed it across my chest. It shouldn't have been deep enough to scar but it did. Most of the time I didn't wear shirts that showed my cleavage because of it. Stupid Buggy.

Back to my admiration from afar. The name of this genius when it came to getting on people's last raw nerves was Trafalgar Law. He lived two streets down and unfortantly he next to always had an entrage. The awesomely cute and cuddly polar bear Bepo and best friends Penguin and Shachi. The sad part was one of the times he was without his posse was in our science class. Than again that's when he pulled off his mad freaking scientist act. On Monday though. On Monday I was going to bug him. If I could get under his skin I ruled. If not than he was the master and I needed to learn a few tricks from him. Heck the guy probably had a whole arsenal. I mean just look at the number of peole he had ticked off. Some of whcih lived in my neighborhood.

For instance his favorite target was Eustass Kidd who lived across the street from me. Tha on either side of my house was Arlong and Buggy. Down the street was "Blackbeard" a guy I despised iwth all my heart. I don't know why I hated him I just did. There were more people but those were just the ones that I cold think of off the top of my head that lived really, dangerously, close to me.

I parked my truck four cars down the street from my house. Why? Because when they were mad at me, which was all the time, Buggy and Arlong liked to block my driveway. They must have had friends over. I sighed. Oh well. Usually the ring leader kept them off my back. Why would Eustass Kidd do that for little ol' me? Because the first and only time he messed with me I nearly broke his jaw... and my foot. So we had an arangment. I don't mess with him he keeps his gang off my back. It was fine by me. There were only two reasons why I would ever mess with Kidd. One I had a death wish or two I wanted to one up Trafalgar Law. I wasn't that desperate yet.

Someone grabbed my shoulder but not tight enough. I dropped down and sweept the person's feet out from under them. My oppenet was luckily bigger and bulkier than I was and I was more agile so I got to my feet first. I quickly pinned the person with a foot to the throat. Though the red hair gave him away. I don't know if that was a good or bad thing. I kept my mouth shut. Part of our arrangement was that no one in his little "club" knew that he was giving me "protection". I put preasure on his throat. Not a whole lot but just enough for him to know I was keeping my end of the bargin and not letting his group know about our deal.

"What are you doing Red?" I asked Kidd letting my weight rest on my other foot so I wasn't chocking the guy.

"What does it look like I'm doing?" Kidd asked as he looked at my shoes. "You're not wearing our favorite boots." He added. He was refering to the first time we met. I'd just moved across the street from Kidd. I was wearing knee high boots that had complicated buckles latched clear up to top. Of course they were big on me so unless I latched the top buckles really tightly I could slip right out of them. Kidd had decided to hang me upside down by my boots using his metal ablities. I had undone the top buckles and slid out. As I fell I lashed out with my foot. It connected with Kidd's face right before my shoulder connected with asphalt. It was worth it though. A few scraps and scabs for "protection" from Kidd's followers. I'd make the trade anyday. Why? Because I knew if they messed with me they weren't just going to get it from me but Kidd as well.

I looked over the group. Besides the usuals, Blackbeard, Arlong, and buggy there was Alvida, Buggy's girlfriend and Doflamingo otherwise known as Pinky. Great. What were they doing here? I voiced this question while glaring at Pinky and Alvida.

"We're here to mar that not so pretty face of yours." Alvida said running her finger down my chin. I aplied pressure on Kidd's throat.

"Back down Alvida." Kidd ordered. Alvida scowled but took a step away from me. I eased up off of Kidd's throat a little. Holding their leader as leverage now what were they going to do?

"Blackbeard old buddy how about getting rid of her transportation." Pinky suggested. My fists clentched. They touched my truck and we were going to tango and they were not going to like the dance. I'd spent months making it the awesome thing it was now.

"Do it and die." I hissed applying a lot of pressure to Kidd's throat. He needed to stop this. He didn't. Blackbeard sucked in my truck, my prescious baby, and spat it back out.

Using Kidd's throat as a spring board I lunged at Blackbeard. It took both Kidd and Pinky to get me off of him and they had to rip me off at that. "For all the blood, sweat, and tears that goes into reuidling that truck I will see to it that you pay thrice that in your own blood." I snarled. Kidd grabbed the collor of my T-shirt and pulled me away from Pinky before hauling me over to my house.

"Is your door unlocked?" He hissed in my ear. I nodded tightly almost too afraid that I'd blow up on Kidd who was more than likely the only one who could get me out of this situation without being sucked into a black hole. Kidd opened my front door and shoved me insidde though surprisingly he followed me and shut the door behind him.

"I thought we had a deal." I hissed at Kidd.

"We do." He answered.

"Than why were you and your buddies practically waiting to ambush me?" I demanded. "I kept up on my end of the bargin when you obviously didn't." I continued.

"Look if this is aobut the truck I'll help you fix it." Whoa that was new. Kidd offering to do something nice for me.

"And what would your gang say to that? Wouldn't they think their leader is betraying them?" I questioned.

"I'll just say I'm looking out for Blackbeard." Kidd answered. I shged and ran a hand through my hair.

"Fine. Just let me go change and we'll get started." I said turning to walk deeper into my house.

"Alright. I'll go talk to the others and get rid of them." Kidd answered. I nodded. This was goinng to be an akward partnership as we fixed my truck.