It turned out that Vivi shared some classes with you, so you had been able to walk together to your first two classes, but while you headed to Art she headed to Culinary, you made quick plans to meet up for lunch near your locker as it was closest to her classroom at that time. You managed to get to class early enough and took a seat away from others, sure you had miraculously made friends with Vivi but there was no guarantee you would make more. You settled yourself back in your seat, glancing round as the classroom filled up, you recognise a certain blonde neighbour as he comes in fending of a brunette while chuckling, he catches your eye and gives you a smile, you return the smile with a shy awkward one and quickly avert you gaze as the girl glances over.
"Hey you're the girl Law rescued this morning," a voice drags your eyes back up to find someone dropping into the seat beside you, you blink and tilt your head confused, briefly wondering why he's wearing sunglasses indoors,
"Law?" you question, the boy beside you grins,
"With your locker, you have the cursed one, it never opens unless you give it a good whack," he chuckles while miming the action,
"Ah, I see," cursed locker, of course you would get a cursed one, "I'll be sure to keep a note of that,"
"So, what's your name? Your new right?" he's rather talkative isn't he,
"That obvious huh?" you shake your head, of course it obvious. You doubt students transfer in all that often, he's still sat looking at you, waiting. Oh, he asked for your name, "Uh, it's (Y/N)," he grins wider,
"I'm Shachi,"
"Um, nice to meet you Shachi," you say awkwardly, inwardly cringing and wishing you were better with socialising. He doesn't seem to care though as he launches into a conversation asking how you were liking the school and where you used to go. He does most of the talking, getting in trouble a few times after being told to be quiet. You can't help but chuckle quietly as the teacher threatens detention, he grins and gives you a quick wink before quieting down.
Shachi gets held back in class at the end so you don't find out if he potentially shares your next class with you, you head out glancing down at your schedule and map, "Need any help?" jumping slightly, you look up into a set of blue eyes, "sorry I didn't mean to startle you," Sabo smiles at you apologetically, the girl beside him rolls her eyes,
"What do you expect when sneaking up on a girl?" Sabo looks at her with a frown,
"I didn't sneak up..." he denies while the girl raises a brow, he sighs and turns back to you, "Sorry (Y/N),"
"A,ah no, it's fine," you respond shyly,
"What do you have next?" he enquires glancing down at your schedule,
"Oh, um, Algebra with..." but he's already read your schedule,
"You're with us, we'll show you the way," he offers and starts walking, you hesitate a little surprised, the girl chuckles and tugs you along,
"Y,you don't have to..." you nervously respond,
"Don't worry about it," the girl smiles brightly at you, "as members of the student council, we can't leave you hanging, you obviously know Sabo," she nods to the blonde leading the way, "I'm Koala," her smile is infectious, and you find yourself smiling back with ease. The three of you arrived at the class in record time, Koala pulling you inside before taking a seat next to Sabo and scolding him for walking too fast, after a moment of awkward hesitation, you take a seat at the table in front of them.
"Maybe you're just slow Koala, hmm," he grins, she scoffs and looks to you, you tense up slightly,
"What do you think (Y/N)? We could have gotten here plenty on time without him rushing us, right?"
"Ah, well..." you don't get to finish however as someone drops into the seat beside you,
"So, I may have caused a fire," the person now occupying the seat says, you glance to the side at him feeling your heart race a little,
"Ace..." Sabo groans, "what did you do?" Ace just chuckles, he glances at you and his dark eyes widen a little,
"Did you get detention?" Koala asks him, Ace quickly looks to her and you remember you should breath,
"Nah, not exactly, I've got to go back during free period to clean up," he rubs his nose which you now notice has a band aid across it, "it was an accident like, and it wasn't my fault anyway, Kid distracted me," he shrugs,
"Of course," Sabo rolls his eyes, clearly not believing his brother, you turn to the front as the teacher comes in calling the class to order, Sabo leans forward and whispers, "you better hope they don't call Pops," out of the corner of your eye you see Ace cringe.
You couldn't focus in class. Math had never been a strong point for you, and you detested algebra with a passion. You were also finding yourself hyper aware of the person next to you and couldn't help but stealing glances at him, he had dozed off with his chin leaning against his palm. You had found Sabo cute, but being close to Ace, you couldn't help but admire him, even with the small cuts and bruises on his face, clearly a result of Saturday, there was something alluring about him, the teacher slamming a workbook on the desk has both of you jolting, you quickly direct your gaze back to you work, "Mister Portgas, am I boring you with my lesson?"
"Ah, no..." Ace responds smiling sheepishly, "but I guess you could say it doesn't exactly excite me," you bite your lip to prevent yourself from laughing as Sabo groans behind you and quiet chuckles can be heard,
"I see," the teacher hums in disapproval, "in that case, you can stay after class," the teacher turns away heading back to the front, Ace clearly is about to say something else when a ball of paper hits the back of his head, he turns to look at Sabo with a heated glare but then sighs and slumps in his seat. The bell rings shortly after and Ace turns to his brother with a small plea,
"Grab some food for me? Please?" he pouts,
"You don't deserve it," Sabo scolds making Ace sulk, the blonde brother then turns to you, "would you like to join us during lunch (Y/N)?" all three of them look to you making you feel awfully uncomfortable,
"Oh... um, thank you but I ah, I have to meet a friend at my locker..." you tell Sabo, noticing a slight frown of disappointment on Ace's face out of the corner of your eye,
"Well if you want, feel free to come sit with us in the cafeteria once you meet up with your friend," Sabo suggests,
"Ah, okay," you smile timidly as you pack your stuff into your bag,
"I guess I'll see you when I'm released from my torture," Ace sighs giving the three of you a wave as you leave. You say a quick goodbye to Sabo and Koala and hurry to your locker through the now crowded hallways. You spot Vivi hovering near your locker awkwardly as two students argue close by, she spots you and smiles relieved,
"Hey, you okay?" you ask her, she nods and glances at the two boys, a blonde with strange curly brows and a greenette with a scar over one eye, they are literally in each other's faces, she leans close and whispers in your ear,
"The blonde started to flirt with me, then the other one started making comments on his behaviour..." you raise a brow at her before reaching to open your locker. Once again struggling,
"ZORO! SANJI!" you know that voice, you glance to the side as your grinning neighbour crashes into the arguing pair, his arms wrapped around their necks and halting their heated words as they struggle not to fall,
"LUFFY!" they both growl at him,
"Shishishi," he chuckles then spots you and his grin widens, "(Y/N)!"
"Hey Luffy," you can't help but chuckle as the other two boys look at you now, Vivi hiding at your shoulder, "do you greet everyone this way?"
"Only my friends shishishi,"
"So, everyone," grumbles the greenette, the blonde has gotten free of Luffy's choke hold and is now down on one knee, hand raised to you,
"What is this beauty I see before me..."
"Don't start again ero-cook," this has the blonde back on his feet,
"What was that marimo!" you blink at the rapid change and glance at Vivi with a raised brow, she shrugs, Luffy is laughing.
"Luffy! You have to stop rushing off like that!" a girls voice yells while grabbing and stretching Luffy's face, effectively pulling the boy off the green haired guy in the process. You notice Vivi's eyes widen and you lean into her whispering,
"He's a devil fruit user," you then focus on your locker again as the arguing beside you stops and the blonde turns to the girl,
"Nami-swan!" he practically dances around her as the other guy shakes his head and looks at the pair of you, Vivi tenses up beside you as he steps forward. You find yourself leaning back a little as his scowl is a little intimidating. He reaches up and slams his fist against your locker. You face palm,
"Dang it, I forget I was supposed to do that with this cursed thing," you groan, "um, thank you ah..." you peek up at him,
"Zoro," he gives you both a slight smile, making him a little less threatening, "you're a friend of Luffy's?"
"Isn't everyone?" you find yourself saying before covering your mouth, he just chuckles,
"(Y/N) come eat lunch with us!" Luffy shouts appearing at your side,
"Ah, well I was going to eat with Vivi," you pull the equally shy girl beside you once you've stored your bag, not needing it during lunch,
"She can come too!" he grins grabbing both your hands and running off, you yelp and Vivi stumbles trying not to fall,
"Slow down you idiot!" Zoro yells running after the three of you.
By the time you get to the cafeteria, Luffy is rubbing a large bump on his head and pouting, both Nami and Sanji had hit him after he had run around a corner too fast, colliding with someone and ending up having the four of you in a pile on the floor. Thankfully no-one got hurt, Vivi found it amusing and the unfortunate soul who happened to get slammed into happened to be another one of Luffy's friends. "Honestly, he just doesn't think," Nami sighs and smiles brightly at both you and Vivi while linking arms with both of you and walking into the cafeteria,
"Did you have to hit me so hard..." Luffy sulks,
"You should learn to treat a lady respectfully," Sanji tells him, it falls of deaf ears mind, as Luffy suddenly races off yelling meat at the top of his voice,
"What happened to the other one... um Zoro?" Vivi asks quietly, you look around and find that he is no longer with the small group that's formed,
"Don't worry about Zoro," Nami sighs, "he'll turn up at some point,"
"He can get lost in a paperbag," Sanji notes, "How about you lovely ladies go find some seats, I'll go get your lunches," he then spins off before you can refuse,
"Ah..."
"Don't worry about it," Nami pulls you off looking around,
"B,but we didn't even give him any money..." Vivi says as the younger girl tugs you both along,
"It's doubtful he would take it," there other friend responds, you look to their long-nosed friend, the one Luffy had caused you to crash into, "it's just how Sanji is, I'm Usopp by the way," he smiles,
"(Y/N)," you tell him, then nod to the blue haired girl, "and this is Vivi, sorry about the crash before," he waves his hand,
"I've known Luffy long enough to expect it to happen, it's happened before and it'll happen again," he laughs, the four of you come to a stop at a table,
"Hello again (Y/N)," you turn surprised to find Sabo, "I see you must have run into Luffy," Nami has released both you and Vivi and is rapidly talking with Koala and another girl, a really pretty raven-haired girl,
"Yeah... oh, this is my friend Vivi, Vivi this is Sabo," I tug the girl at my side, she blinks and smiles at Sabo,
"Hello," she gives a little wave,
"Please sit down, I'll introduce you to everyone," you both sit down slowly and he calls attention to the rest of the table, "guys, this is our new neighbour, (Y/N) and her friend Vivi," you both wave, Vivi shyly and you just feeling really awkward with the attention, Sabo points each one out and tells you their names and years, "You know Usopp and Nami, then there's Chopper, they're freshmen with Luffy, then there is Robin and Franky, they are seniors," everyone gives you a smile, Nami leans forward and looks at you,
"Zoro and Sanji are sophomores," your surprised this group of friends expands all four years of high school which you honestly find rather amazing, but then again, this is Luffy's group of friends. Speaking of Luffy, he drops into the seat beside you, mouth already full with ham,
"Where's Ace?" he asks after swallowing,
"Had to stay behind in class," Sabo tells him as Sanji dances around the table placing food in front of you, Vivi and Nami,
"Thanks, Sanji," Nami gives him a bright smile,
"Anything for you Nami-swan, and you two lovely ladies," he then kneels near Robin, "Next time I will bring you something delicious too Robin-chan."
The table is lively and you find yourself relaxing despite not being used to being around so many people at once, Camie is never going to believe this. Vivi quickly becomes talkative with the others while you're happy to sit quietly and eat, responding to a few questions from Luffy from time to time. Zoro never did turn up, and as the bell went you wondered if Ace ever managed to get any lunch too.
