Sanji left and Zoro just sat there on the floor. How can he say that? How can Sanji have started to like him? They haven't really talked before, then they stop all contact and they only hung out for two week after Sanji learned about his problem. How was that enough? It had to be a lie again. No way was that enough. It's a trick, it has to be. Zoro gets up and decides to not think about it. He'll just not talk to Sanji and ignore him again. He has to get ready for work so that will help distract him for a while.

Sanji couldn't believe that happened to him. He's pissed off at this Charles. Most of it could be because he likes Zoro and can't believe he was treated like that but some of his anger is at the fact someone had the nerve to mess with someone's feelings. That's not something you mess with. After hearing that he knew what he had to do. He's going to give Zoro some space before talking to him again. Luckily for him it is Friday which means he'll give Zoro the weekend to himself. Which he hasn't done in a while. He'd had been bothering Zoro on the weekends too, trying to get him to talk. Now is a good time to thinks things over. He did what he wanted, confess and apologize, so now what does he do? Where does he go from here?

It has been three whole days since the cook has seen his marimo. His want to see the greenet has grown exponentially. Which is weird considering he hasn't seen him long, only that few minutes where they talked and he confessed. He couldn't help it, he wants to know if Zoro is ok. He also wants to know what Zoro has been doing all day. While he's at school what does he do? does he train like crazy? Does he even eat? He knows he hasn't been doing his work like he's suppose to.

Sanji let out a loud sigh.

"Everything ok Sanji?" Patty asks. Sanji stopped himself from saying yeah.

"I need to take a walk." Sanji says taking off the apron he wore over his casual clothes. "Can you finish for me?" Sanji asks. Patty just nods but doesn't ask more. Sanji won't tell him, at least not before he tells Zeff what wrong with him. The whole staff has known Sanji has been getting antsy, for what they don't know. He came home on Friday a little sad and really angry. Saturday he had calmed down, Sunday he was starting to twitch a little. And now he seems so lost. Like the young chef was missing something. He watched as Sanji got ready to leave, leaving him to finish the dish. Hopefully Sanji would come back better.

"Be careful, there's been talk about boys getting attacked around the area!"

"I will!" Sanji says walking out the back door with a wave. Sanji left with his secret pack of cigarettes. Sanji walked. Not caring where his legs are taking him. He's thinking about Zoro more than he should, more than he's ever thought about someone else. If it's not what Zoro is doing at the moment it's wondering what he should do when he sees Zoro again. Then he ends up planing things for them, he plans their meals and what they'll be doing in between.

Sanji inhaled some smoke and exhaled it, looking at all the neon signs above the stores. The whole street lit up from the street lights and signs. Sanji takes in the people. It's rather busy for a Monday evening, so many people walking around, some light traffic. There are couples walking around, arms linked together, friends hanging out laughing. When was the last time he talked to the others?

He saw something green. He stopped to look closer, squinting his eyes to see better. It's Zoro! How can he not be surprised? He hasn't seen Zoro out of his house for weeks. Oh right, Zoro works but he's usually home when the young chef comes knocking. Sanji sees him on the other side of the street. He couldn't help himself. He looked around for which side of the street crossing he's closer to. When he looks back, Zoro is gone but that's ok, Zoro will be back with his nonexistent sense of direction. Sanji runs to the cross walk, and waits. Jumping in place, patience is not in him at the moment, when the light finally turns green (couldn't have been any longer) he runs across the street then back up to where he last saw Zoro. This side of the street was rather empty. Not a lot of people are walking on this side walk. He started walking slowly in the direction Zoro was heading in.

His heart thumped against his chest, from the running and the thought of seeing Zoro. But he was getting afraid as he neared the end of the street. He didn't know which way Zoro went, but he didn't want to head to Zoro's house and be there before Zoro does. That would be weird.

Sanji pauses. He looks around to see no one else had heard that noise. It sounded like a scream, at least the start of one. But maybe it was in his head, no one else heard it but... Sanji takes a closer look to see that the people weren't really paying attention or had headphones in. Sanji retraces his steps. He stops when he hears a muffled scream. "Fuck stop moving!" He hears. he turns his head to the side, having stopped in front of an ally. Nothing really out of the ordinary but it didn't help that the lighting is horrible. You could hardly see the silhouette of things thanks to the lighting of the street and the small and dim light in the far end of the alley. He does hear scuffling. Something was happening, someone was there. He looks one way then the other. Well who is he to ignore something that's going on? He ignored someone in help once and look where that ended him up.

Sanji walk in quietly, he doesn't know how many people there are but no one seems to have noticed him. He doesn't want to end up surrounded by to many people, the alley isn't the best to fight in, specially with the way he fights, he needs more space but it's not undoable. Once close enough he sees the green hair he has started to love, though dark due to the lighting he could recognize the hair style anyday.

His blood started to boil.