I'm depressed!

Chapter Twenty-Five

Ia and Cam stared in disbelief at Shanks and Ia said, "W-wait... this June 2nd?"

"Yes." Shanks said happily.

"We can't get married on June 2nd!" Cam yelled.

"And why not?" Shanks asked, staring down Cam.

"Because we can't plan a wedding in less than three months! Plus, nobody knows about this yet!" Ia tried to explain.

"Why?" Shanks asked, beating Ia down in this discussion.

"I... Yes! Why, Cam?" she pushed towards her fiancé.

"It was your idea!" he pushed back to her.

"No, it wasn't, it was yours." she said, shoving the conversation back.

"You said to keep it a secret?"

"But you asked me." she said, winning the argument and smirking in doing so.

"That doesn't count!"

"Yes it does! It wouldn't be a secret if you hadn't asked me!"

"If I hadn't asked you, there would be no secret!"

"Yeah, exactly! So, therefore, your fault!" Ia pointed, getting down from the counter and walking up to her now standing fiancé.

"It is not my fault! I never would have kept it a secret! I'm surprised you did for so long."

"What do you mean by that?" Ia asked, her eyes narrowing. She was trying to not let him know she was very confused by that statement.

"You're a loud mouth." he said plainly.

Ia's mouth dropped in shock, her face was angry, and a small gasp escaped when it fell open.

"I am not!" she yelled, reproachfully.

"You are, Ia." Sanji said, Shanks nodding in agreement.

She glared at them all and then turned to Cam with a look on her face that said 'well, then.'

"Well, then!" she said and then closed her mouth and then made a motion as if she were locking her lips with an invisible key and then throwing the key away.

"What are you doing?" Cam asked but Ia didn't reply, but left the room quickly.

"Ia? Where are you going?" Cam yelled after her and then followed her out of the room.

There was silence for a minute or two, then Sanji asked, "So... am I done with cleaning the floor?"

A-Q-U-A

The next day dawned quickly and everybody was up about two hours later. So, when the bells were ringing 10:00, everybody was about the house, eating their breakfast and talking. Everybody but Ia, was talking, at least.

"Ia, do you want the sausage?"

Ia nodded quickly and when the plate came her way, half of the two dozen sausages were then on her plate.

"Hungry?"Nami asked as she put the plate back on the table.

Ia shrugged.

Nami exchanged an odd glace with Zac and he turned to Ia and said, "Ia?"

She looked up at him and met his gaze.

"What time is it?" Zac asked, wondering if she was talking at all.

Ia shrugged.

"What's Sanji doing?"

Ia shrugged again.

"I'm going to take some of your sausage." Zac, who was sitting next to her at the dining table.

Ia grabbed her fork quickly and held it in a menacing way towards Zac's outstretched hand. Her glare got him to take it back.

Over on the other side of the table, Shanks was sitting in-between Izzy and Ian and he was talking, loudly, about Ian's upcoming wedding to Skie, who was sitting on the other side of Ian. Sanji was on the other side of Izzy. The table setting went like this in clockwise with Shanks at the end of the table and Nami being at the other end. It went Shanks, Izzy, Sanji, Chey, Zoro, Luffy, Usopp, Nami, Zac, Ia, Cam, Chopper, Skie, Ian, and then back to Shanks.

"So, the sky wants Ia, that sword girl, the map girl, and her sister in the wedding?" Shanks asked Ian.

"It's Skie, and yes."

"They have names, you know. It's Ia, Chey, Nami and Amber." Skie injected loudly as she cut her pancakes. She quickly glanced up and saw Izzy cutting her own pancakes. Jealousy wrapped aroud her as she sat beside Sanji.

"I'm not good with names." Shanks complained as he took a swig of grape juice. He still thought it was wine.

"You know Ia's name?" Skie said.

"Yes, but that's because Ian liked her before he met you. He told me."

Skie looked over at Ian and asked quietly, "You liked Ia?"

"Liked! I liked Ia! Back before I met you! I just met her and all of a sudden I liked her! Just for that one day, though, Skie! Cam was on the ship at the time when I met her!"

"Really, Ia?" Skie asked down table and Ia looked up and nodded, smiling while she held her fork threateningly towards Zac.

"But why was that so important?" Skie asked Shanks, who had a whole waffle in his mouth and had to chew and swallow it before he could respond to Skie's question.

"Because he and Ia were makin out the very same day." Izzy said like a snob across the table at Skie before Shanks could swallow everything. When he did, he said, "That's right!"

Skie turned towards Ian with a look of hurt on her face and he didn't look back at her. When he didn't, she got up quickly and fast walked to the door in the living room and out to the girls' apartment.

Ia and Chey exchanged quick glances and followed suit.

Ian looked up, finally, to find Cam glaring daggers at him. And he would not stop till Ian left the room a couple minutes later.

T-H-E-K-I-L-L-E-R-S

"He kissed her before he met you!" Chey said, wondering why Skie got completely upset. Even Ia didn't know. All Skie kept saying in her head was 'He kissed her... he kissed her... he kissed her while Cam was there!'

Ia said nothing, for she was still on her little thing where she would not talk.

"I know... but because he kissed Ia while Cam was there! On the ship! How could he do something like that?" Skie said as she was sitting on her bed with her knees drawn tightly up to her chest and her arms were wrapped around them.

Ia nodded slowly.

"What are you going to do?" Chey asked, sitting down beside Skie and putting her arm around Skie's shoulders. Ia felt that she shouldn't approach Skie at that moment. Skie just might snap and blame Ia for all of this and then kill her. She didn't even know why she followed Skie?

Ia sent a mental note to Chey, who then asked Skie, "Ia wants to know if you're mad at her?"

Skie looked up at Ia, who was in the far back corner away from Skie. She was trying to be as far away without being out of the room, but for safety, she was right next to the door.

"No, I'm not mad at you." Skie said slowly, but didn't look at Ia, but glared at the spot of wall underneath the window beside Chey's bed.

Ia nodded once and left the room quickly.

M-Y-C-H-E-M-I-C-A-L-R-O-M-A-N-C-E

Now that the entire crew knew about the kiss that happened so very long ago, Ian couldn't bare to show his face. Instead, he stayed up in his and Sanji's bedroom in the back apartment.

It was maybe an hour later when Sanji walked into the room.

"Hello, Ian." he said. No emotion in his voice at all.

"Hey, Sanji." Ian said, sitting up from where he was laying on his bed, staring up at the ceiling, his hands folded behind his head.

"Why'd you do it?" Sanji asked intently.

"It was a brief moment of weakness. I was really liking her and that was just something I wanted to do."

"You did know she had a boyfriend, right?" Sanji asked, nodding.

"Yes." Ian said forcefully. He wasn't proud of what he did... but then he remembered that Izzy was just as bad. She had made out with Cam, hadn't she?

"Good."

"Why are you asking?"

"I'm trying to think of ways to get Izzy to break up with me." Sanji said, not trying to hide that from Izzy's brother.

"Why?"

"I love her, but I don't think she loves me. So, I can't break up with her, she's gonna have to break up with me! But how to do that so I don't get killed?" Sanji said and Ian knew that he couldn't really kiss any girl in this place. Ia had Cam (and Cam would literally punch Sanji into tomorrow, he was that fast), Skie had Ian (and Ian knew of the plan and would throw Sanji off the roof), Chey had Zoro (Zoro didn't even need his swords to kill Sanji), and Nami didn't need a guy, she'd just make sure he never got to have children of his own. Well, all the girls would do that, but the guys would just make it ten times worse.

"Why don't you just ask Ia? She knows how to ruin relationships." Ian said, mainly wanting Sanji to get the hell out of their room so he could reflect on how much of a jackass he was.

"Alright. She did start this whole thing anyway." Sanji said and got up and left the room.

C-H-E-A-P-T-R-I-C-K

Sanji found Ia sitting against Skie and Chey's bedroom door on the floor. She had her knees up a bit and her wrists were resting on them and her hands were dangling in front of her. She looked like she had the weight of the world on her shoulders.

"Hey, Ia?" Sanji asked, walking up.

Ia looked up, saying nothing.

"Could you help me in ruining my relationship?"

She shook her head no, and lowerd her gaze to back to in front of her at the wall.

That threw Sanji through the loop.

"What? Why? You love ruining relationships!"

Ia gave him a questionable look and he continued to say, "Well, mine."

She again shook her head.

"But why? You love to torture Izzy! This is going to torture Izzy!"

Ia stood up and grabbed the open collar of Sanji's sport coat and dragged him into her bedroom where she picked up her open notebook and wrote down, I don't wanna ruin any more relationships!

"But this is for good! This just isn't working out between us and I need her to break up with me!"

Ia was busy writing again, Why don't you just break up with her, you idiot?

"Because I don't want to. I like her, but she doen't feel the same."

You said love to Ian, and she does, moron.

"What? Stop insulting me! She does?"

Ia nodded.

"Then why is it so rough?"

Her pencil was just flying when she wrote this response, Cuz I'm here. Once we're completely separated, she'll go back to being her normal self. She hates my guts and every time she sees you and me together, she wants me to suddenly combust... do you get it?

Sanji shook his head, "What?'

Ia glared as her pencil went flying, She's jealous!

Sanji blinked and said, "I get it." slowly.

You're and idiot.

Sanji gave her a look of annoyance and left the room.

G-U-N-S-N-R-O-S-E-S

ZAC'S POV

Everybody was going insane. I wasn't, but I'm awesome. I don't go insane.

Skie was sulking her bedroom with Chey's shoulder to cry on, Ian was in his own bedroom, sulking with nobody's shoulder to cry on, Ia wasn't talking and was going around thinking she was the relationship destroyer (Sanji told me), and the rest were trying to get everybody out of this slump.

It was now the first of April (April Fool's Day) and the snow was still flying around outside. Luffy and Usopp were staring out the window, whining about when the snow would leave. Ia was sitting in the big arm chair which use to be her grandfather's, since we were in the downstairs part of the house. She stared at Luffy and Usopp and said nothing, which still wasn't a change. She had only spoken two words since her vow of silence that week and a half ago. She had said, "Shut up!" and that was towards Zoro three days ago when he kept annoying her, again.

I was sitting in the other arm chair, which use to be Ia's grandmother's, when we heard a really loud knocking on the outside door.

"Did somebody just come to the door, Luffy?" I asked.

Luffy turned his head towards me and said, "Yes. A girl with dark hair."

I looked at Ia, who shrugged, and then went to open the door.

When I opened the big brown door leading to the enclosed porch, I saw standing there a girl with dark brown, maybe black shoulder length hair framing a pretty face.

She was wearing a lime green winter jacket with jeans and black winter boots. Beside her on the floor were two giant suitcases. One black, the other red. On her black hair was a frilly dark purple winter hat that had flaps to covere her ears and tassels hanging down past her chest.

"KELLY!" someone screamed from the top of the stairs and then I saw Skie bounding down them two at a time till she reached the bottom and hugged the girl standing there.

"ACK! HUGS!" Kelly yelled and Skie let go, remembering that Kelly wasn't so hot on hugs.

"Sorry!" Skie said, laughing.

"This can't go on, KELLY!" Ia shouted, coming into the front shed and hugging Kelly.

"WHY IS EVERYBODY SO INTENT ON GIVING ME HUGS?" Kelly yelled as Ia held on.

"Hugs, not Drugs!" Skie sang.

"What can't go on?" Kelly asked once Ia finally let go.

"Are you finally talking again?" I asked, looking down at Ia. See, I was taller than her. And I always made her know that!

"Yeah. But don't tell Cam." Ia said, crossing her arms across her chest.

"Why not?" Kelly asked, pulling her suitcases into the shed and Skie closed the door behind her.

"Cuz he called me a loud mouth last week and I'm showing him that I'm not one." Ia said, smirking in her own evil little way.

"Isn't there a better way to do this?" I asked, feeling that she was being immature again.

"No." she snapped and lifted Kelly's suitcases up the stairs and into their apartment without moving an inch. Just another way for her to be lazy, I guess.

"Whoa! So it is true!" Kelly said, taking off her jacket and placing it on the over flowing hat stand that had everybody's jacket on there. All fourteen people.

"That I can move things with my mind? Of course." Ia said and led Kelly into the downstairs part. I saw that Kelly was wearing a red tank top and I wondered how she wasn't freezing?

"Kelly, arn't you cold?" I asked her as Ia showed her the downstairs. Luckily, the crew was up in the back apartment. Sanji was cooking lunch up there.

When they passed by my bedroom, Cam came out and asked, "Who's she?"

Ia, of course, said nothing but just looked at him.

"This is Kelly!" Skie said happily, "Kelly, Cam. Cam, Kelly."

"So this is Cam?" Kelly asked, turning to Ia who nodded, her face expressionless.

"When are you going to talk again?" Cam asked, sounding like a whine, Ia who shrugged and motioned to Kelly to continue following her.

N-O-V-A-C-A-N-C-Y

I never knew Kelly could scream so loudly and high pitch till she met the crew. Zoro stared, Nami covered her ears, Luffy and Usopp screamed back, Chopper ran and hid behind the couch arm, and Sanji's eye widened, which was weird.

"OH MY GOD! THEY'RE HERE! THEY'RE REALLY HERE!" Kelly screamed and ran over to stare at Luffy.

"Excited much?" Ia asked.

"You talked!" Cam yelled and Ia looked up in surprise and yelled, "Frick!" and stormed out of the room and out of the apartment. Cam following.

"Weird..." Kelly said and then turned to Luffy and asked, with these huge eyes, "CAN YOU REALLY STRETCH!"

"Yeah!" Luffy said and stretched his arm into the kitchen and grabbed a can of Root Beer, which Skie stole from him when his arm was slinging back. "HEY!" Luffy shouted and jumped towards Skie to get his pop back, but he crashed into the wall face first and Kelly laughed.

I managed to slip out of the room while Luffy was lunging back at Skie for his pop and I left the apartment.

The wind was blowing pretty hard as I walked the twenty feet to the back door to the main house.

It was when I walked into the living room to watch some TV or maybe play some Oblivion when I hear shouting in the very quiet house.

I sighed and crept up the stairs to listen to what they were shouting about. I was curious and it might help to know what's going on for when later they both come to me separately to complain. Just the norm, I guess.

When I got up to the top of the stairs, I didn't hear anything anymore. Did Ia kill him, I wondered.

"Ia? Cam?" I asked, knocking on the door and when I heard nothing, I opened it slowly, hearing the creak, and saw nobody.

I checked all over the apartment and still didn't see anybody.

"Where are you guys?" I called out, thinking that they were hiding and playing a prank on me. It sounded much like what Ia would do to annoy people. Mainly me.

When I really couldn't find anybody, I went back to the back apartment and yelled, "IA AND CAM ARE GONE!"

Everybody looked up from their laughter and yelling and then Chey asked, "What?"

"Yeah! They were yelling and I went up to check on them and they were just gone!"

Everybody but a few looked confused. The ones that didn't look confused were Izzy and Shanks. Izzy looked happy and Shanks just looked like he understood what was happening.

"Where'd they go?" Kelly asked cautiously as she stood next to Luffy, who was holding Skie's arm in a tight grip to get the can of Root Beer. I didn't even know why he wanted it so badly?

"I don't know?" I said and then Shanks spoke up and said, "They're back home!"

Everybody stared at him and then I noticed something, "Where's Usopp?" I asked.

Everybody looked around and then Luffy said, "I don't know? He said he was going to the bathroom..."

T-H-E-L-A-S-T-G-O-O-D-N-I-G-H-T

That night Kelly slept in Ia's messy messy room. That night, four more people disappeared, Luffy, Chey, Izzy, and Ian.

It was now down to the eight of us.

By lunch, it was down to six. Nami and Shanks were the next to go.

So it was me, Kelly, Sanji, Chopper, Skie, and Zoro.

But, of course, by supper, we were down to four. Chopper and Zoro were gone when Sanji put the supper on the table. It seemed unusually open at the table.

An hour later, Skie and Sanji were gone.

It was just me and Kelly.

"I wonder how they got there?" she wondered aloud around nine that night as we were watching TV in the downstairs living room. I was in the grandfather chair and she was on the couch- er- davenport.

"Got where?" I asked her as the Colbert Report finished up.

"To One Piece. The Grand Line! I wonder what it's like there?"

"It's very nice and warm most of the time." I said to answer her question, looking at the TV.

"You've been there too?"she yelled, sitting up straight in her seat and staring at me. She was a very curious person and liked to get up in your face, a LOT.

"Yeah... I was there for maybe a month?"

"Was it nice? What'd you do? Who'd you see? Was it fun?"

"It was nice. We didn't do much, really. The crew. We got to beat up this candy man and his candy army."

"CANDY ARMY!?" Kelly shrieked in this high pitch tone that probably a bunch of dogs all around Negaunee heard.

"Yeah. Chey found out that they were really made of candy so we could just eat them and that's how we won! Ia broke her ankle and her arm, though."

"Ooo... sound's painful. Is she alright?"

"Yeah, she's fine." I brushed off. It wasn't much of a concern. Now...

"You seem so concerned!" Kelly said, chuckling a bit at me. She was sorta mean like Ia but very hyper like Skie... it was a double dose of horrible crap.

"What was that?" she asked suddenly, staring at the floor.

I looked down too, "What?"

"You didn't feel that? It felt like a tremor. Like a mini earthquake!"

Then I remembered back when Ia and Sanji went missing for that little bit in January that Izzy described an earthquake right before they went missing.

"Oh no..." I said and quickly grabbed onto the chair and then the earthquake came, shaking the entire house and us. I could hear Kelly screaming.

J-O-U-R-N-E-Y

It was dark when I felt that the earthquake had stopped.

"Kelly?"

"Zac? Are you there?" I heard her hiss in the darkness.

"Where are we?"

Then we both heard creaking floorboards and then a flood of light appeared at the other end of the room.

Down the little half stairs, half ladder came... somebody.

"Oh! Oh, hey!" Chey said when she saw us amongst the crates and boxes.

"Chey... are we on the Going Merry?"

"Yep! Come on, everybody else is in the kitchen. Half of them are arguing." she said, rolling her eyes as she helped us up and walked up and out of the cargo hold.

I looked at Kelly who shrugged and ran up, too.

I followed, slowly.

6-28-08...

Happy B-Day, Cam.

GAH! Chapter 25 DONE!

No SongTime today, sorry. I couldn't think of any song titles that would work, so I used Band Names!

Aqua
The Killers
My Chemical Romance
Cheap Trick
Guns N' Roses
No Vacancy
Journey