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EDITED Hopeless Romantics: Chapter 11
When Luffy returned to her dorm, she entered an empty room. After dropping her backpack on the floor, her shorts and undies sharing the same fate. She changed into her pajama shorts once she pulled on a fresh pair of undies.
She glanced down at her discarded pale blue underwear, Luffy could see the evidence of her previous arousal soaking the cotton. Her cheeks flushed, Traffy is so sexy…he made me feel good. So that's what it's like to be horny… So that is why Robin always complains about not having a boyfriend…I wonder where Robin and Nami are anyway…
As if on cue, the two girls came into the room whilst in the middle of a conversation, "Robin, I'm telling you—Zoro is just messing with you!" Nami sounded irritated, as if they were having the same conversation for the hundredth time.
"What's going on?" Luffy questioned them as they walked into the room.
Nami huffed, "Robin thinks Zoro likes her."
Luffy's eyes grew wide, "WOOOAAAH, REALLY?"
She watched her raven-haired friend blush before she replied, "He keeps smiling at me and checking me out. Remember how we told you he took his shirt off for me yesterday? Well, today when Nami and I went to the gym to work-out, he was also there. The whole time he kept making eye contact with me and was showing off how much weight he could lift."
Exaggeratedly, Nami rolled her eyes, "That wouldn't have happened if you could've stopped staring at him."
"Shishishishi, Zoro sure has gotten stronger since we last saw him," Luffy smiled at her friend, "Don't you think so, Robin?"
Still with a red hue on her cheeks, Robin replied, "Y-yes," clearing her throat, "But it's to be expected from Zoro, he has always obsessively trained."
"Well, if you think he likes you, try kissing him." Luffy picked her nose with her little finger as she spoke, nonchalantly.
Both girls turned to their friend with confused expressions, Nami ended up saying flatly, "I'm pretty sure Zoro is gay, so that isn't really a great idea."
Robin silently agreed, nodding her head at Nami's words, but she still couldn't shake the feeling that Zoro might be interested in her. In all the time she had known him, Zoro had never once acted like he was now. Throughout the day she had been thinking about how much her best friend had changed in the past two years.
They met when they were young kids, Robin became intruigued by him when he started coming to train at the dojo her father ran. He was always obsessed with learning how to swordfight and her father was eager to teach and train him. She had spent countless hours reading at the dojo as Zoro sparred with her father. He was always shy and quiet, he would blush easily from her teasing, and would always focused on his training.
When her father found out Zoro didn't have a family or home, he was brought to live with the two of them. From that point on Zoro was like a big brother to Robin, but even more he became the person she was closest to. Robin considered Zoro her best friend, she told him about everything, even after he left for college two years earlier.
She would call Zoro at least once per week to keep him updated on her life. Robin always wanted to tell him what was going on, Zoro actually seemed to care unlike her father. As much as she loved her father, he wasn't very easy to talk to—especially about personal things. She always felt like he secretly resented her for the fact her mother died in childbirth and being born a girl. Zoro was like the son her father never had, he could teach him swordfighting techniques as Robin read a book nearby.
Some people might think she would resent Zoro for being favored by her father, but she liked the green-haired boy just as much. Her father wasn't the only one who benefitted from him joining their family. Robin had another child around for her to play with and talk to. Before Zoro lived with them, the house she grew up in felt sad and empty, his presense brought life back into the home for the first time since before she was born.
Robin used to mercilessly tease him about how much he would train, even after they would come home from the dojo. He would go to the backyard and lift huge rocks to become stronger. She oftentimes would lay in the hammock that hung between two trees and read when he would do this. Sometimes they didn't talk at all, other times they would have conversations about nearly anything. Even though they have always been close, the past two days were different. Zoro was much more talkative and bold. He radiated this confidence Robin had never seen before, Zoro just seems so different. He has been acting so weird…the only thing that hasn't changed is how much he trains… Fuck, he has turned into such a beast!
Nami had been right, she couldn't stop staring at Zoro while they were at the gym. She couldn't help it, his entire body was covered in a layer of thick, hard muscle. Robin thought there was something so incredibly sexy about a man with a large, muscular body. He always seemed to notice when her eyes began to linger and he would turn to catch her while showing off a toothy grin. Zoro would continue to lift his weights while looking at her, she watching as he strained his muscles and his eyebrows furrow while he finished his set.
There had been one time when Robin was taking a water break where Zoro walked up beside her, unnoticed, and asked, "Still enjoy watching me train, eh?"
He surprised her and she almost spit out her water, but quickly swallowed it before she calmly replied, "I guess it's just habit."
Zoro had taken a long drink from his water bottle before saying, "You could always join me."
Robin stared at him, confused, "Aren't I right now? Usually I just read, but today I have been working out, too."
"Nevermind," She had seen a blush on his cheeks before he turned away and walked back to a machine and begin another set.
Being pulled back to the present, Robin listened as Luffy began to talk about how Law had taken her to a buffet and she got to try a bunch of different foods.
"Wait, you went out to dinner with Law again today?" Nami asked the girl.
"Shishishishi!" Luffy had a huge grin on her face while she laughed and anwered, "Yeah! Then we went to his apartment and had pizza with his friends Penguin and Shachi!"
Robin glanced at her orange-haired friend, who's eyes were wide with shock. She turned back to Luffy who was glowing, "I think Law-san likes you!"
"He does, we kissed today!"
They both turned to Luffy and shouted in unison, "WHAT?!"
"Shishishishi, you two look funny," Luffy laughed as her friends stared at her with strange faces.
Robin was the first who could speak, "Luffy, did you really kiss Law?"
"Yeah, why?" Luffy looked at her oblivious as to why she was so curious.
"It's just that, well…" Robin bit her lip nervously, "What about Ace and Sabo? They aren't going to be happy to hear that…," Robin imagined how the two brothers would react to this news.
"Oh, they already know. Sabo punched him in the face," Luffy said it so causally, as if it was normal.
Nami was now shouting, "WHAT?! LUFFY, HOW COULD YOU NOT TELL US THIS SOONER?!"
"What? It's not a big deal, Nami," Luffy shrugged her shoulders and looked at her orange-haired friend with a confused expression.
"What Nami is trying to say, I believe, is that this is unexpected news." Robin spoke softly to try and calm the atmosphere of the room, "We are just surprised you're interested in a guy," she giggled as she finished explaining.
"Oh," Luffy's face went back to her usual smile, "Well, I really like Traffy. He has cool tattoos and I like it when he smiles."
Robin smiled at the girl, "Well, just be careful. We don't want Ace and Sabo to set his body on fire with gasoline."
"ROBIN!" Nami yelled in complete horror, "Why do you always say such creepy things?"
Instead of answering, Robin laughed it off. The three girls decided to call it a night, once they got ready for bed they laid down with the lights off.
As the other two girls drifted off, Robin was still awake reminiscing about the shy, green-haired boy who was now a cocky, handsome young man. It was uncanny how different he acted, these past two days Robin spent with Zoro were the first time being around him in two years. She fell asleep thinking about how much he had changed, drooling on her pillow from the memory of his bulging muscles…
Robin ended up waking up a few hours later sweating from the intense dream she was having about Zoro. In her dream they had been making out in her childhood bedroom, Zoro was whispering to her things that Robin couldn't remember once she awoke. She did remember they ended up naked, bodies tangled on her bed, and were screwing each other like rabbits.
It was actually the intensity of her orgasm that woke her up; Robin was panting after waking up and was happy to see Luffy and Nami were still asleep in their beds. When she picked up her phone and looked at the time she decided to get up since it was nearly 5am. Robin made her way to the bathroom with a towel and her shower supplies, softly closing the door behind her, so as not to wake her sleeping friends.
Suddenly, Nami sat up on her bed, also waking from a dream, well, hers was more of a nightmare. Nami had been dreaming about the blonde cook, she was eating at his father's restaurant, sitting at a small table all alone. Sanji had come to take her order and when he returned with her food, he put down a plate of still-live fish, flopping around and one of them fell onto her lap. When she looked back up at Sanji to ask him why he served her live, uncooked fish, he was nowhere to be seen. Nami began to look around the restaurant, wandering around the room through the tables, looking for Sanji until she spotted him surrounded by women. He didn't even look up as Nami called out to him, her voice quiet despite how loudly she tried to shout his name. She had woken up after falling to the ground in her dream, tears running down her face.
When Nami lifted her hand to her face, she felt wet tears on her cheeks. She hopped out of her bed and saw Robin wasn't in her bed. Nami decided to take a shower and left the room with the things she would be needing for the bathroom.
Meanwhile Luffy was in a deep slumber, she was in the middle of a dream like the one from the night before. She was back on the ship with all her friends, this time there was also Marco, Penguin, and Shachi, but her brothers and Traffy were once again nowhere to be seen. Luffy began to wander around the ship again, searching for the three. Eventually, she found herself on the opposite end of the hallway from the same red door with chipping paint and a golden knob. As she walked towards the door and realized she wasn't getting any closer, Luffy began to sprint in the direction of the strange door. This time she was able to place her hand on the knob, but when she tried to open it, she realized it was locked. However, she thought she could faintly hear voices on the other side of the door and began to pound on the door with her fists. She was shouting for the voices to open the door and let her inside.
"Luffy, wake up!" She was shaken awake by Robin, who was standing beside her bed in a towel and her dark hair dripping with water.
As she realized it had only been a dream, she gazed at Robin with a confused expression.
"You were yelling in your sleep, were you having a bad dream?"
Luffy blinked at her friend, "Yeah, I guess it turned into one."
Robin smiled at the girl sweetly, "Take a nice hot shower, that'll make you feel better."
She nodded and got out of bed, listening to her friend's advice, Luffy grabbed her shower bag and towel. Opening the door to leave for a shower of her own.
AN: Hey everyone, sorry this chapter feels kind of short, but I hope you enjoyed it nonetheless.
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