So here's the next chapter and it's longer than the last few, cause it's dedicated to my first reviewer LANNY who made my day. This chapter's more for girls though so just a warning for the guy's haha. And yes, my story starts after the marine ford war, which breaks my heart because I love Ace. Lanny I'm happy you enjoy my story and I hope you keep reading.(: Well here it is, enjoy xD
"Pops was our captain, but everyone else called him Whitebeard. We called him pops because he gave us the family and feeling of belonging we couldn't find anywhere else as wanted criminals. He was a great man" Marco says staring off into the distance. He looked sad like he wasn't really looking at the waves but some horrid battle they'd fought and hadn't won. Instinctively I put a hand on his arm, and turned him around. Next thing I knew I found myself hugging a half-naked startled blonde.
After a few silent seconds he relaxes and wraps his arms around me awkwardly. I might mention that my clothes weren't in the best shape they've ever been. With tears and rips all over my shirt and a good few inches shrunk by the salt water I could feel his muscular arms wrapping around my torso. Even while comforting a stranger I'd just hugged I had the decency to blush and pull away.
"Sorry, it seems I don't like seeing people upset. I hope I didn't push too much by bringing it up." I say my head lowered to hide my blush. Cause let me tell you as inappropriate as the time was, man did his arms feel good. Not to mention I got a pretty good feel of his front. "Its ok yoi, he's been gone almost a month now. He'd want us to start moving on and keep living our lives, not stuck in a past we can't go back to." He says sheepishly after unwinding his arms from my waist.
"Come on, I'm sure some nurses left behind some comfortable clothes" he says leading me up to a door. Go in and look through the dressers, after you find some clothes I'm sure you'll want a shower, but wait twenty minutes because I need one to. Those showers aren't very private with no girls on board any more yoi. Just ask someone to lead you to the showers after you find clothes, lunch will probably start by the time you're done so just follow the noise they make and you'll find the food." He says giving me a little push into the room.
After he closes the door behind me, well...to tell you the truth I collapsed. If you ended up in the middle of the ocean with no memories, and were picked up by crazy people claiming to be pirates you'd probably freak out to.
I collected myself pretty well though and walked over to the dressers on the other side of the wall. There were like twenty, the first drawer I opened was filled with something girls tend to need to wear but I won't go into details for the guys sakes. Along with a few boxes of something I'd be in need of in the upcoming days for about a week, get my drift. I found a crap ton of short nurses outfits in the next drawer but I sure as hell wasn't going to wear that on a ship full of men. Thankfully in the next drawer I finally found some normal jean shorts, a tank top with an odd skull with a mustache as the design on the back.
Thinking it had been twenty minutes I walked out the door after finding a towel in another drawer with some soaps and shampoos. I found a random person and asked them to lead me to the showers.
Walking in, it seemed like the steam was from only seconds ago. I'm sure men don't take showers that long though so I was sure it was safe. I walked to a bar area and set my pile of stuff down. Stripping out of my shirt (and while I'm sure you're wondering why would I be so stupid as to do that on a ship full of men in their public shower, well luckily they had a lock on the door and everyone else was busy. Or I thought so anyways.) And about to do the same with my thread bare jean shorts. Imagine my facial expression when I hear someone, a male someone clearing their throat from behind me.
I had the natural reaction of whipping around grabbing a towel to cover myself and was going to start screaming pervert at the prosecutor. Until I took in their appearance, or a certain blondes anyway, let's just say what was running through my head at the time was exactly this..."DAYYYMMMMNNN, I don't know what I found attractive before but as of now I see the light" was my exact thoughts as I thoroughly and obliviously to his eyes. Well, to be blatant I checked him out.
He was dripping wet with beads of water running down his extremely eye appealing torso, down to the only covering he had of a towel wrapped around his waist; which mind you didn't do much to hide his toned legs. "um, see something you like yoi" was said in a deep coming to realize sexy voice as I snapped out of my trance I look up to see him smirking his usually half lidded eyes open slightly more with his raised eye brows. "I can drop the towel if you'd like too" he says teasingly as his hair sweeps in front of his face some he brushes it away. Taking his other hand he goes to grab the towel, which is when I finally snap out of it turn around putting my shirt on quickly blushing beet red and rush out the door. It's only when I'm back at the nurses room do I realize he was probably joking..."I'm hopeless" I sigh walking back to the showers slowly to avoid another run in.