Before Nojiko left for the market, Nami made sure to wake up early to give her a hug and see her off. A few hours had passed and it was almost time for Luffy to come over. Nami had prepare to make them French Toast. A dish used to eat for breakfast or brunch. Originating in Rome.

Before meeting Sanji she already knew how to cook, after meeting him her skills had increased, but not anywhere near his skills. She thought back to all the mornings of him, he'd come over and make breakfast for her and her sister. Then go shopping with them, carrying their bags and acting like their personal bodyguard. Making them feel secure and safe.

Her face softens thinking about him. Thr knock at the door caught her out of her daydream. She looks at the clock to see that it's only around eleven. Who could it be? She knew she told Luffy to come at twelve.

She opens the door to see a goofy grin plastered on her friends face. He stood taller than her, but not by much, his hair ruffled and his bag slung across his shoulder.

"Luffy...hi?" She steps aside to let him enter and closes the door behind him.

"I came early because my Grandpa is trying to make me do chores." He kicks off his shoes and heads for her couch.

"Well, I was going to make some French toast for brunch, but since your here early. Did you eat breakfast?"

"Yes, but I'm starving!! I ran here after this dog came chasing after me once I got off the bus."

"Oh, that must be chocho."

Nami hands him the remote control for the television in the living room and heads to the kitchen. Taking the bread out of the refrigerator and getting the eggs and milk. She already had her cinnamon, vanilla extract and ground nutmeg set aside.

After cooking the first two slices of bread and setting them aside she needed a bathroom break.

"Luffy." She calls from the kitchen.

"Yo."

"Can you come here a second?"

Luffy wanders into the kitchen rubbing his stomach standing next to her. He looks over to the side to see slice of bread on the pan and the other two slices on the plate aside.

"I need to potty real quick can you watch the stove?" She says crossing her legs to hold in her urine.

"Yeah, I can do that."

Nami let's him take her spot as she runs to the nearest toilet, which was in the living room. After releasing the hot fluid and flushing, she stood in over the sink examining her face. She looked a little flushed. She hadn't had a boy over in a while. Although, she just got out of relationship she can't deny the puffiness in her face is extremely noticeable after crying herself to sleep every night since.

She wondered if Luffy noticed. He is a guy after all, but maybe he didn't pick out every aspect of her face like her ex did. She splashes water on her face to cool herself off. While washing her hands she can hear the smoke detector ringing off.

Without drying her hands she runs back to the kitchen to find the bowl with batter had spilled onto the floor and the two slices of toast that were on the plate missing. Luffy...luffy had the pan with the burnt slice of bread running underneath the sink. The stove was still on so that was the first thing Nami attention went towards.

She turns off the stove making sure not to slip in the mess which was on the floor. Opening the kitchen windows and side door, she grabs the clean decorative towel hanging from the sink's handle and starts fanning the smoke detector. Luffy sees Nami having a hard time fanning the smoke detector by jumping up and down, went to help her out, he slips on the batter spilled onto the floor and falls face first on the floor.

Nami groans and hold her head in her hand.

They sat on each end of the couch. Nami obviously fuming and Luffy scared to say anything. They sat there in silence for a bit after cleaning the mess in the kitchen. Nami gets up to get his backpack and comes back to throw it at him.

"Ah-"

"Way to go idiot! What a perfectly good way to waste ingredients."

"If it makes you feel better...the French toast was delicious..."he looks at her then looks away.

It took everything within Nami not to turn into the devil and rip his head off. She turns away from him pacing back and forth. He took the chance to set out his textbooks and homework from last night onto the coffee table. He sits on his legs and cusp his hand together resting them in his lap.

Just looking at him pissed her off she needed to cool off. "Listen, I'm going to take a bath. Don't you touch anything in here but your textbooks or the remote. Got it?" She glares at him.

Luffy surrenders his hands and sits on thr couch. Nami walks off to the other room to leave him in the living room. She locks her room door and enters the bathroom to strip naked. She steps into her hot shower to get a good wash, clean her hair and shave. After her daily shower routine she soaks in her bathtub to let her body rest for a bit.

She lays her head back on the tile wall sitting completely still in her rose water. She was already having a rough week and Luffy came over and messed up her favorite pan plus he ate the first two French toast. She sits in silence, not hearing Luffy in the other room, but the television playing.

As much as she'd want to take her mind off of Sanji she just can't. Two years of dating went to waste. What an asshole...to think he was so in love with her. " 'I love you Nami-san' my ass." She frowns. It was like yesterday when they first started dating.

"S-sanji-kun...what's this?" middle school Nami was taken aback by the flowers presented before her and a crowd if students formed a circle.

"Nami-san, I really like you. Will you be my girlfriend?" the young boy with swirly eyebrows that was down on one knee presented, A bouquet of wildflowers.

Nami looks over to the dying flowers that stood in the vase she placed on the counter top in her bathroom. "It'll take me awhile to get over you...you...you cheating...lying...bastard." She says softly to herself. Her tears flowing softly down her cheeks.

She sits for a few more minutes before getting out to get dressed. Putting on a nice rompers she takes her hair out of the towel and looks at her straighten iron. She remembered her ex like when her hair was straightened. He said "it made her even more beautiful". She wraps the straightening iron with its cord and tucks it away in the drawer.

"Its time to wear my natural texture again." She says to herself in the mirror. She brushes out her wet hair to let it bounce back wavy once its dried and puts a headband on to keep her hair out of her face.

After spraying on some ocean breeze body spray she steps out to tend to Luffy. He lays back on her couch with the remote control switching through channels with a board expression on his face. "Ready." He hears her say and looks over.

In Luffy's perspective she was cute. He never saw her out of school uniform and she somehow looked more attractive than she already was. He fixed properly on her coach so she can sit. She looked more peaceful and focused.

He sits by thr coffee table on his legs and hands in lap. She sits a few inches from him flipping through his textbook. "Geography. My favorite subject." She says while skimming over a few pages.

"Y-yeah, my brother was good in that subject too."

"Sabo?"

"No...my brother Ace. He passed the summer before I came to highschool."

"I'm sorry for your lost...Sabo never mentioned having another brother." Nami face softens and looks at him with concern. She knew he was still hurting. Grief doesn't come and go. It lingers. And she knew that form her own experience.

"Yeah...we...we don't like to talk about him...it still..hurts. You know?" Luffy realizes that she had a hand on his back and inched away from her. The last time he opened up about his brother, it didn't turn out how he expected.

Nami notices his distance and removes her hand. She clears her throat to take away the awkwardness that just bestowed between them and got his notebook.

They spent the next two hours studying Geography, she gave him notes, he finished his homework, she gave him mini pop quizzes and jotted notes inside his notebook. It was almost nearing three o'clock. Luckily, they were just about finished. Nami hair had already dried and her hand started to hurt from how much writing nd drawing she had done.

"I think we should stop here for today. Its almost three o'clock. I'm going find a Jean jacket and a pair of sandals then we can head out." Nami says getting up and stretching her sleeping legs.

Luffy packs up as she disappears into the next room. Once he was done putting away his textbook and setting the potted plant back onto the coffee table he notices a picture frame above the television. It's weird how he didn't realize it until now. It was a picture of Nami, her sister and a woman with a cool haired and a plaid buttoned up shirt.

"She must be their mom." He thought to himself.

Nami steps out in the jean jacket and pair of sandals like she was looking for and grabbed her lanyard from the coat rack.

"Ready to head out?" She looks back at him who was standing a distance behind her.

End of chapter~