Hey everyone, thanks for all the support for the first chapter. I decided to make another one because I enjoy writing for it. I might do a final prompt if I see more love and support for this. But if not then this might be considered the last one so...yeah.
But anyways, enjoy the chapter.
Luffy and Tama walked inside their house, the cold air hitting against their wet skin. They shivered in their swimwear from the uncomfortable feeling. The two came from the neighborhood pool since it was a hot summer day in Foosha city.
"That was so much fun!" Otama pulled up her donut float.
Luffy nodded, "Yeah, it sucks that Ace couldn't come with us though."
"Where was he anyway? I haven't seen him all day today." Tama looked all over to locate him.
Luffy scratched his head, trying to remember. "Hmm...he told me he was going to see his girlfriend this morning."
"Oh, okay."
Music was heard from upstairs. It was loud enough for both of them to hear it from the living room. They looked at each other with confused expressions.
"Wait, is Ace here? I thought he was out." Luffy said.
Tama shrugged her shoulders and set her donut float down. "Let's go check on him."
Walking upstairs, the music became more known to their hearing, sounding like a slow song. Based on the melody and the lyrics, it seemed like it was a sad love song being played from his room. When they reached his door, they noticed that it was slightly cracked open.
Tama raised her fist and slowly knocked on the door. "Ace? You in there?"
It was a moment of silence until they heard a low "Yeah." coming from behind the door. Luffy pushed the door open, revealing his room. Ace was laying down on his bed with a depressed look on his face. He was shuffling through a gang of photos with a pair of scissors sitting next to him.
Luffy and Tama walked over to him with worry sitting on their faces. The siblings wondered why he looked so down in the dumps.
"Ace, what's wrong?" Tama asked him.
The teen sat up and placed the cut-up photos he was holding on his dresser. They saw that the photos were of him and his girlfriend, Bonney.
Ace stared down at his bed as he fiddled with hands. "I broke up with Bonney today."
The younger sibling's eyes widen from surprise. They were shocked because he and Bonney were together for so long, a year and a half. Every time she came over, they looked so in love with each other every time they interacted. Tama felt bad for Ace because she knew how much he loved and cared about Bonney. So much that she even saw it in his eyes every time he looked at her.
"Why did you two break up?" Luffy asked.
Ace paused before looking up at them. "I caught her cheating on me with some guy."
"What!?"
"Why would she do that?" Tama said with surprise.
"I don't know. For the past hour, I've been trying to think back and figure out where I went wrong to make her do this."
"Ace, it's not your fault. You treated her nothing but good. Great actually." Luffy defended.
Tama started to get angry by the second. "Yeah, it's her fault. She doesn't deserve you."
"I don't know. Maybe I wasn't listening to her enough one day? Or I probably should have taken her on better dates? Maybe I didn't-"
"No Ace, stop that right now. Stop talking down on yourself. You treated her with nothing but love and respect. Me and Luffy seen it, everyone knows it. Every time you talk about her your eyes glow up and you can't help but smile. So don't sit here and say that her cheating on you was your fault." Tama said.
Luffy nodded with an angry frown. "That's right."
"Guys..." Ace couldn't believe his usual annoying (and spoiled) siblings were comforting him right now. "Thank you. That honestly made me feel a little better. But can I just get some time to myself for right now? I'm feeling kind of depressed and I don't want to bring you all down with my problems. I've been with her for almost two years. I even told her about Sabo, and you two know that I never talk about him around just anyone, not even my friends, except for you guys. I know I should be upset at her but I can't help but feel sad that it had to end this way."
"Is that why you have this sappy music playing?" Luffy stated bluntly.
Ace couldn't help but chuckle weakly at that. "Shut up, Luffy..."
"Alright, we'll leave you alone. Let's go Luffy." Tama said.
"Okay. Feel better Ace. You'll find someone way better and cooler, I promise." Luffy patted him on his shoulder for comfort.
Ace didn't respond to that, he just laid back down on his pillow. He pulled his covers up to hide the bottom half of his face. The sappy, heartbreaking love song played from his music speakers as he depressingly stared at his room ceiling.
After Luffy closed his door shut, he sat next to Tama on the hallway floor. Tama had her fist balled up as she stared at her damp skin angrily. Luffy frowned as he put on his signature hat.
"Luffy, I really don't like Bonney."
"Me too."
The two younger siblings turned to each other, their faces holding concern for their older brother.
"I hate seeing him like this. He doesn't deserve this at all."
Luffy nodded. "We need to find a way to cheer him up. Do you have any ideas?"
Tama made a face of realization and slammed her fist into her other hand. "Oh, I know! One of my friends told me one day that her sister got over her breakup by watching movies and eating a lot of ice cream. We should buy a bunch of ice cream and surprise him with it!"
"That's a good idea. I've been craving some ice cream too. But wait, how does ice cream make someone feel better?"
Tama shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know."
"Oh...well whatever, if it's gonna make Ace feel better then ice cream it is!"
"Alright, but let's get out of our swimwear first."
ooo
Walking through the outlet mall, the two searched for the popular ice cream shop called "Chilly Scoops". It was known all around town as the best place to get ice cream from, so they decided to get their cure for Ace's breakup from there.
Once they entered the shop, they each ordered an ice cream cone and bought a large bucket of ice cream for Ace. Tama even got herself a lemonade to cool herself down from the heat. The two walked out the shop, Luffy happily munching on his strawberry ice cream and Tama taking sips from her lemonade drink.
As they were walking, someone in the distance caught their eye. Tama was the first one to stop in her tracks, causing Luffy to turn to her.
"What's wrong Tama?"
"That's Bonney..." she said low enough for him to her.
Luffy turned around a saw a group of girls walking in the opposing direction. They were all chatting and laughing, not even noticing the two staring at them. Bonney munched on a chocolate bar while she grinned at one of her friends.
Tama felt her anger rise the longer she stared at her.
"I'm so glad you broke up with that Ace dude. He was too much of a nice guy for you." One of her friends told her.
"Yeah, especially since you had eyes for Kid this whole time. You do know we dared you to date Ace for only six months right?" Another friend commented.
Bonney gobbled down some gummy worms next. "Well he was treating me so good, he always bought me gifts and food. Who wouldn't take advantage of that? Sucks that he finally caught me with Kid though, but hey, at least I don't have to sneak around anymore."
The girls all laughed, walking past Luffy and Tama. The two siblings' blood was boiling as they heard all of this. When they walked past them, Tama turned around, facing their backs.
"Hey, Bonney!"
Her high, child-like voice caught their attention, making them all turn around to the call out. Bonney eyed the little girl and mean mugged her when she recognized her.
"Oh, you're Ace's little siblings. Fancy meeting you here."
"How dare you do that to Ace!? How dare you talk about my big brother like that!? He treated you so great and this is how you repay him!?" Otama shouted at her. She wanted to cry because she has been holding in her pent-up anger ever since Ace told her what she did. Luffy noticed this by hearing the desperateness and frustration in her voice, but he still kept his angry gaze focused on Bonney.
Bonney let out a mocking chuckle. "Oh boo hoo, cry me a fucking river. News flash, your brother is a boring nice guy. I didn't even like him when we started dating, my friends only dared me to date him because they heard he had a crush on me." Bonney laughed. "The only reason I stayed for so long was that he was treating me like the queen I am." Bonney sighed while checking her nails. "I'm gonna miss him treating me like that, but I guess I have to move on the next nice guy who will do anything for me."
Luffy grip tightened on his ice cream cone, some of the melting strawberry ice cream ran over his fingers. "You..."
Tama walked up closer to Bonney and looked up at her. Bonney smirked at her, "You gonna cry?"
The younger girl didn't respond and simply stared at her. Her hold on her cup tightened and removed the lid swiftly. In one quick motion, she thrust her arm forward, spilling the lemonade all over Bonney. The lemonade went everywhere, that a good amount of it got on her friends.
The group of girls was shocked, to say the least. Their mouths hung open as they lemonade drip from their bodies. The sticky liquid was all on the clothes, hair, and faces.
One of the girls screamed in horror, "My hair! I have a date in an hour and it took me so long to do my hair! I can't believe you did just that!"
Bonney eyes were sharp like daggers as she stared at the little girl. "You little brat!"
Tama smirked and placed her hands on her hips. "Ace is way out of your league. He deserves someone who will match his level of love and compassion. He's just too good for you. So thanks for breaking up with him because he can honestly do better."
Bonney looked at her with disbelief, surprised by the sass this little shrimp was throwing at her.
Luffy walked up to Bonney and shoved his ice cream at her, making sure to smear it so it got in her face pretty good. Bonney gasp as the melting ice cream ran down her face to her clothes. She felt so disgusted that she screamed out in frustration, causing other people passing by to throw her weird looks. She turned around and ran away with her friends quickly running behind her.
The two siblings turn to each other and did a high five.
"Nice one Tama." Luffy smiled at her.
Tama chuckled sneakily, "You didn't do too bad yourself, big bro."
As the two began walking from the outlet mall, Luffy pouted causing Tama to look up at him.
"What's wrong Luffy?"
"I'm still hungry. I should have thought ahead before shoving my ice cream in her face."
Tama looked down at her chocolate ice cream and lifted it to him. "Here..."
Luffy brows perked up from surprise, "Really? Are you sure?"
Tama smiled, placing the cone in his hand. "Sure, I'm not really hungry anyway."
Luffy flashed her a smile of gratitude and started to eat the chocolate treat.
"Twanks Twma!" He muffled with ice cream in his mouth.
"No problem, bro."
ooo
Tama and Luffy enter their home, seeing Ace brood on the couch. They sighed at the depressing sight of their usually strong big brother. But Tama smiled anyway and hid the bucket of ice cream behind her back.
"Ace, we're back."
Ace slowly turned his head and didn't even smile at the sight of his younger siblings, something he usually did whenever they came home. "Oh hey..."
"We got something that can help with your breakup." Luffy cheerfully announced.
"Oh?" Ace responded in a bored tone. "What could possibly help me get over a girl I loved for almost two years?"
Tama wanted to tell Ace the whole truth of what she heard, but she quickly stopped herself. She didn't want Ace to feel more heartbroken about the fact that Bonney never felt anything towards him and used him for so long. That will just be adding more salt to the wound in his heart.
Tama brought the bucket of ice cream in front of her, presenting it to him. Ace's eyes widened when he noticed the bucket of the creamy treat. "Ice cream?"
"It's your favorite, sea salt caramel."
Ace raised a brow, turning his head slightly. "Why did you two buy ice cream?"
"My friend told me that her sister got over her breakup quicker when she ate some ice cream. She said that ice cream is the number one cure for breakups. So we decided to get you some so you can feel better!" Tama explained cheerfully.
"Mmhmm!" Luffy agreed.
Ace stared at them for a moment before bursting into laughter. Luffy and Tama looked at each other with confusion before turning back to their brother. Ace laughed so hard that he was beginning to tear up. When he calmed himself down, he wiped the side of his eyes and flashed his siblings the brightest smile he could make. The first genuine smile he formed all day.
"You two are really something else. Eating ice cream is a thing that girls typically do to get over a breakup. Not only that, but it's usually a cliché."
Luffy rubbed the back of his head while Tama sweatdropped.
"But that doesn't mean guys can't do it too. Plus, I've been craving for some sea salt caramel ice cream lately."
Luffy and Tama smiled and ran over to join him on the couch. Ace lifted the lid on the ice cream bucket off and swiped some of it with his finger. He tasted it and made a satisfied look on his face. "Mmm, it's so good. Let me go get us some spoons."
Before he got up, he looked at both Tama and Luffy and pulled them in a big hug. "I love you guys."
"We love you too." They both responded with cheeky smiles. When Ace sat up to get the spoons, Luffy turned to Tama and patted her on her head. "Mission accomplished."
Tama flashed him a thumbs up with a wink. "We make the best team, don't we?"
Luffy nodded, "You know it."
Ace overheard some of their conversation, raising a brow. "What about mission accomplished?"
The two snapped their heads towards their big brother and shook their heads quickly. "Nothing. Nothing at all." They both assured him.
ooo
Garp came home from a long day of training young navy troops in the making. After closing the door behind him he turned to see his three grandkids eating ice cream while watching a horror movie.
Ace, Tama, and Luffy looked towards his direction, each with a spoon of ice cream in their mouth.
"Welcome home." They all muffled.
Garp raised a brow. "Why are you three eating ice cream? Did you even eat dinner?"
"...No." They muffled.
The elder man couldn't help but chuckle at their simultaneous answers. "Well, I'll let you off the hook for tonight. These old bones are tired so I'm heading off the bed."
They all nodded and continued watching "Buggy's Slicing Massacre Part II" as Garp headed towards his room. The three siblings bonded that particular summer night, scoops away from finishing the bucket of ice cream.
Hope you enjoyed! Like I said before if you guys really want me to make one about Luffy then I'm willing to do so. If not then I guess you can consider this one the last one. Just let me know.
Have a great day or night :)
"Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation..." - Samuel Johnson
-NinjaQueen33
