When Ace finally got out from the school, Lucci was already waiting for him at the school's gate. He'd been off from school three hours earlier than Ace, so he had visited his home to change his school uniform. Ace blinked to the sight. He had never seen Lucci in casual clothing and there he still was, wearing baggy black hoodie and tight jeans that really flattered his round ass.
Fire Fist shook his head. He couldn't actually believe that he was thinking about Rob Lucci's round ass, but somehow casual looking pidgeon-boy turned him on.
"Hello, Ace. Finally here", Lucci greeted, straightening himself. Ace just huffed, making somehow disappointed face despite his thoughts. Lucci grinned.
"Still mad at me from earlier?"
"Of course I am!" Ace snapped, motioning with his hand in pretty offensive manner. "You were teasing my friends again and you know what I think of that!"
Lucci backed of a little. "I got it, I got it. I'll apologise them next time I see them, okay?"
Ace huffed again. He knew that Lucci was just saying that to make him calm. In real life Lucci had too much pride for apologising from anyone.
"Whatever. I'll forget it now. Let's concentrate on our date, m'kay? Did you plan something special?"
"Not really. Maybe we could just go for a coffee or something? I'll pay", Lucci offered. This made Ace smile. Maybe Lucci wasn't that bad guy after all...
They went to town center and Ace soon realised that he had been kind of right. Lucci was bad guy, but to him he was trying to act all nice. Ace even noticed that Lucci was actually trying to smile friendly, without that evil shadow behind it. It was sad to say that other guy was total failure at smiling nicely.
When they arrived to café, Ace ordered nice hot mint chocolate while Lucci ordered espresso. This made Fire Fist chuckle. He had guessed that espresso or some other kind of strong coffee would be Lucci's cup of tea.
They sat down to one corner table and started some random chit-chat. They pretty much talked about school and who's teacher was the best, but some personal information was also shared. Ace felt like he could trust Lucci.
"Wow, you've had crush on me for several months? Geez, usually when people have crush on me, it fades away in like... few weeks or so", Fire Fist said. He was flattered by this information. Lucci just shrugged.
"Maybe that proves that some of them aren't worth of you attention...", pidgeon-boy said with suggesting tone. Ace sighed.
"Let's not get in that area again. I accepted your date invition because I wanted you to stop teasing my friends."
"You know you can end this if you'd become my boyfriend."
Ace stood up, glaring at Lucci's eyes. "Are you blackmailing me?"
Lucci's answer was nothing but pretty cold smile when he put on his jacket. "I think this date's over? I must say I'm pretty disappointed, but I had fun until the end. Thank you, Fire Fist."
With those words Lucci left, leaving dumbfounded Ace behind. Lucci, that awesome-assed bastard! He was really blackmailing him! And Ace somehow knew that it was probably going to work at some point, because he was super protective over his friends.
Fire Fist shook his head, deciding that it was not good time to think about that kind of stuff. He got rid off Lucci faster than he thought and it was only a good thing - now he would have more time to spent with Luffy.

Luffy was laying on the couch, playing Pokémon with his good old Game Boy Advance when his phone rang.
"Hello?"
"Hi Luffy! It's Ace here. My date's over already so I thought that if you could meet me at movie theatre. I'll pick the movie this time. See ya, don't make me wait!"
With those words, Ace hung up. Luffy grinned widely and jumped from couch, starting to look for his clothes.

Ace watched the clock ticking. He had waited Luffy for over fifteen minutes now and other one should arrive in any moment. Older D had decided the movie already. It was described as overly disgusting movie, where some insane doctor made somekind of centipede from humans. Ace was fan of disgusting and horrifying movies so he wanted to see this.
He felt someone grab his shoulder and when he turned, he saw Luffy's grinning, flushed face.
"Took you long enough, idiot", he chuckled and embraced his little brother, who just gently punched his chest.
"Long? Screw you, I had to walk from home!" younger D. laughed heartily. He grabbed the movie tickets from his brother.
"Human Centipede? Sounds fun!" he declared, taking Ace's hand and pulling him into the theatre.

Marco was cleaning his apartment when his doorbell rang. Phoenix frowned and looked at the clock. It was half past four, who on Earth would visit him this late? Usually his friends would come around noon if they wanted to visit him.
Drummer's jaw hit the floor when he saw who was behind the door. Shanks was leaning to stairs' safety rail and grinning widely, holding bag of candies in his hand.
"I'm here to kick your ass. You choose the game", Redhead said, not waiting for invitation to come in. He kinda had known that Phoenix would be shocked if he'd appear behind his door and Shanks was known by his habit to troll people and he really did enjoy it.
Shanks slomped to Marco's couch, letting out a whistle when he saw his honorable collection of consoles, games and large TV.
"At least there are many games where I can beat you", Shanks said, still grinning. Marco was starting to recover from his shock and he patted his television proudly.
"Don't count your chickens before they're hatched. I'm pro in every game I own", Phoenix stated and sat down beside his teacher, stretching out to Need for Speed.
"Now you're talking. No one has ever beaten me on that game", Shanks warned as Marco offered the controller to him.
"Me neither. The best one wins. But I'll take the best car."
"Pfft. I could beat you with bicycle in this..."

Marco soon noticed that Shanks wasn't kidding. Though his teacher only had one arm, it didn't stop him for being him up in every game they played.
They played for several hours and drank up over twenty bottles of soda and two bags of chocolate candies, so at the end of Shanks' visit Marco was giggling to every random thing his teacher came up.
"Aww damn! I could've beat your up in this one! Look, only 3HP left!" Marco cried in frustration when his character in Street Fighter collapsed to ground. Shanks cracked his knuckles and was obviously pleased to himself.
"You owe me some homework here. I'll send them to your email."
"Hey! We didn't have this kind of deal!"
Shanks just chuckled as he stood up, ready to leave. Marco escorted him to door.
"Thank you for the one hell of a night, Redhead. I can't recall when was the last time I had so much fun with someone", Marco thanked, earning warm smile from Shanks.
"I should thank you. I'm kind of lonely because I live alone and stuff. When I'm home, I just usually do my work and go to sleep early. Speak of no-life..."
"Huh? I thought you'd have wife and kids."
"Well.. let's put it this way. I'm not too fond with them, especially with women."
Marco nodded in agreement and before he realised what he was doing, he leaned forward and planted a shaky kiss to Shanks' rough cheek.
This act caused the two to fall in awkward silence which Shanks soon ended with cough.
"Like I said, thank you for wonderful evening. Maybe all that soda you consumed caused you to go little sugar high... But still, I'm going to think what I'm feeling right now and you should too." Deep sigh. "When you're sure what you feel towards me, come to me and we can discuss about this. But make sure that it's after school has ended."
Marco nodded and all Shanks could do in that point was close the door and head towards his own apartment. He seriously wasn't sure how he had been able to leave Phoenix-boy's apartment without flooring him. Shanks had figured out his feelings towards the boy over month ago when he attempted to his history class for the first time.
Now all he could do was hope that Marco would come to him someday after school and they could decide what to do.