Can Life Get Any Worse?

Disclaimer: After all this time, One Piece still doesn't belong to me…. Oh well!

Chapter 10: Party Planning

"So that will be one Caesar salad, a medium-well steak, buffalo wings, pasta and two orders of fries. Is that it?" The waiter stood next to the table of four girls, a notepad and pet in his hands.

Vivi nodded. "Yup, and 4 glasses of water please."

The waiter nodded and walked off towards the kitchen.

"So…" Kaya turned towards Nami, Kuina and Vivi looking her way too. "What happened yesterday?"

"Yeah, you weren't in your room!" Kuina said with a grin.

Nami blinked once. She wasn't exactly planning to tell them how Luffy helped her. Then again, she wasn't planning on this either.

"Luffy wasn't there either," pitched in Vivi.

"Well… um…" Nami stammered. "I was going to get his hat-"

"Why?"

"You bothered to get his hat?"

All eyes were on Nami, questions being asked. Her cheeks turn a shade of red.

"Like I was saying…" Nami took in a breath as the questions finally stopped. "I was getting his hat and some guy tried to mug me and he came to save me, happy?"

All was silent for a moment. But it didn't last long.

"He did? Aw, that's so sweet!"

"Wow, he must care a lot about you a lot!"

"Looks like Sanji has some competition…"

"Come on, it's not like that!" said Nami, quickly defending herself. She only received grins as a response.

"Here we go ladies," said the waiter as he set down 4 plates of delicious looking food.

Kaya looked down at her pasta, carefully dressed with tomato sauce and cheese.

Kuina's steak had mashed potatoes on the side, a few leaves of parsley and a slice of tomato, along with the large piece of juicy steak.

Vivi had her buffalo wings aligned in a star type shape, a cup of sauce laying the in middle.

Nami's Caesar salad was a collection of leaves, topped with Caesar dressing and cheese. Crotons were also aligned along the salad.

"Enjoy your food," the waiter said as he walked off with a smile.

"Yum! This is real good food!" Without hesitation, Kuina had already taken a huge chuck of meat and stuffed it into her mouth.

"Do you have any manners?" Vivi asked with a small smile. It was quite funny to see Kuina pig out sometimes.

"Is it my fault if I just happen to have a good taste for food?" Kuina quickly defended herself.

Nami and Kaya giggled as they soon began on their on food. For a little while, it remained silent.

"So, what did happen yesterday?" Vivi broke the silent as she swallowed a piece of a buffalo wing.

"Just what I said," Nami said quickly, trying to avoid details.

"Well yeah, but we mean in better detail!" added Kaya.

"It was nothing," said Nami with a slight blush.

Just as the girls were about to try to get some more answers out of Nami, the waiter once again walked up.

"I see you liked your meals," he said, pointing to the four empty plates. "I'll bring the check."

They all smiled as he walked off. "Thanks for treating us to lunch again Nami," said Kuina with a smile.

"Yup, that was really nice of you!" Kaya said. Vivi nodded in agreement with her two friends.

"Wait, what!" Nami exclaimed.

"Well, it's not like we brought our money!" Vivi reminded her.

"And we all know that you always have money with you… or you get it, somehow…" Kuina gave a mischievous grin.

Nami sighed as she pulled out some money. "Fine, fine. But next time, please remember to bring some money."

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The boys, on the other hand, didn't want to go all the way to a restaurant to have lunch, none the less pay for that lunch. So they decided to just eat at the hotel, which wasn't as good food, but was at least inclusive to the vacation.

All four were seated at a table, Luffy stuffing his mouth with the many types of meat, Usopp also stuffing his face, but not as much as Luffy, Sanji eating like the well mannered young man he is, and Zoro drinking down his juice happily. It was just a matter of time before Zoro's new obsession would be beer. He was only four short years away from 21.

"So guys aren't you having fun here?" asked Usopp between bites.

"Yup!" Luffy said, partly chewing as he talked.

Zoro took the last sip of his nineteenth cup of juice. "Yeah, I guess. I finally had time to catch up on some sleeping…"

Sanji nodded. "So many cute girls… oh how I love it…" He smiled as he began to daydream in his own little world.

"But didn't you say Nami was the most beautiful girl in the entire universe and beyond?" Usopp questioned the daydreaming Sanji. He snapped out of his fairytale land and glared daggers at Usopp, who had taken emergency measures and hidden behind his chair for dear life.

"Anyway," Luffy said as he finally finished his who knows how many plates of meat and began chugging down his water. "Maybe we show go play something!"

Zoro shrugged. "Like what?" He asked as he got up form his seat.

"Vollyeball?" Usopp suggested. His other three friends shook their heads.

"We already did that… and well lost to the girls. But they played so well!" Sanji's eyes were immediately replaced with hearts.

And so the four friends sat there, thinking of what they wanted to do while Luffy continued stuffing his face with probably his twelfth breakfast that he was eating IN THE SAME HOUR.

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"A party sounds like a great idea! Good suggesting skills you got there, Kuina!" Vivi said with a smile as she looked over towards her navy haired friend.

"But… I didn't say anything…" Kuina stated with a dumbfounded look on her face.

Pretending she didn't hear anything, Vivi went on. "We should have it in our room," she said, signaling Kaya and herself. "So there will be no roommates bursting in last minute that will say: What the hell is going on here!" Vivi smiled widely, likely her idea very much.

Nami, Kaya and Kuina nodded in agreement. "We should invite everyone!" Kuina suggested for real this time.

"Yeah! I mean, I bet no one else has thought of this idea. It will be like, a Good Bye Caribbean Party!" Nami said.

"Well, we only have 5 more days here, so I guess we'd better start the planning," Kaya reminded everyone.

Everyone nodded in unison and continued their trek towards their designated sun tanning spot for today.

"So…" Kuina began as they were nearing their spot. "What are we going to do at the party anyway?" The other girls took a long moment to think.

"Dance, I guess," said Kaya, who had the 'isn't it obvious?' look on her face, but she didn't make it sound so obvious.

"That's a good idea!" Nami said. And then, another wonderful idea popped into her mind. "I remember bringing my CD player, and better yet, CDs! I have The Black Cats, The Straw Hats, Baroque Works, and Captain Smoker and the Cigarettes!"

"Awesome! So we'll have a party, in my room, with dancing, and awesome music!" Kuina summed up quickly. "Wait," she said as she paused and thought for a moment. "We need really awesome food to be in this really awesome party!"

"Kuina's right!" Vivi exclaimed as she pulled out a random piece of paper and a random pen out of nowhere and began jotting things down. "Let's see. We need food…"

"Invites!" Kuina reminded her.

"Invites…" she jotted down.

"A boom box!" Kaya said.

"Boom box…"

"Uh…" The three friends looked at each other and thought.

"Uh…" Vivi wrote down, only to realize seconds later that that didn't belong at all! So she used the trusty white out bottle that she so happened to have to white it out.

"I think that's it," Nami said, turning towards her three friends to receive nods of agreement.

"Let's go get some of these things then!" Kuina said as she snatched the list from Vivi and read it. "Food, invites and a boom box. That can't be hard!"

"Ok, how about you," Nami pointed to Kaya, "get the invites." She turned towards Kuina. "You get the food, and you," she looked at Vivi, "get the boom box."

Everyone nodded, knowing their tasks. "Wait…" Vivi looked at Nami. "What are you going to do?"

"Tell people about it of course!" She responded in the 'It's obviously obvious!' tone that not many people used.

"Right!" Vivi said. And so the four girls ran off in separate directions, two of them running back towards other directions, realizing that they had indeed made a mistake, and continued to complete their tasks.

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The boys were now finished with lunch, which took a good hour and a half, and were now at the beach. Sanji was glancing in all directions, managed to see just about every girl in a bikini. Zoro was still half asleep, since he was never actually fully awake. Usopp was babbling on about another one of his 'many adventures' to Luffy who seemed to be listening quite intently. And suddenly they all stopped.

As random as it was, in front of them was an Ice Cream Stand. One that had absolutely no line on it. And what better than to have an ice cream on a parching hot day? So the four boys rushed towards the stand and were about to make a dive for it, but a random and rather large group of other kids came to form a line that was at least 9 feet long. And so the four sighed and went off walking in another direction.

"So, what should we do now?" asked Luffy, becoming quite bored as usual.

"We can build a sandcastle! I mean, we are at the beach!" Usopp suggested.

Sanji and Zoro stared at him for a moment. "We are 11th graders," Sanji clarified.

But it did not seem that Luffy got it, since he immediately said, "Yeah! That's a great idea Usopp!" So the two rushed towards an untouched spot of sand near the water, but not too close of course. Any amateur sandcastle builder knows that it can't be too close to the water or too far. It needed to be just right.

Zoro sighed. "Guess we might as well join them," he said, even though he really didn't want to.

"No way! You can go with them, but I'm going over there!" Sanji pointed in some random direction and walked over there, attracting the attention of many teenagers. After all, he was a ladies' man.

Zoro sighed once more and went over with Luffy and Usopp, helping them build their sandcastle. Still, he didn't know why.

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Nami, meanwhile, was having quite the exercise walking from one beach chair to another, informing random 11th graders about the up coming party. So after informing everyone, except for the teachers of course, she found nothing to do. So she decided to go wait in the much smaller line at the Ice Cream Stand. And she waited… and waited… and continued to wait… and stared at the water… and waited.

Oh look, it's her turn!

"One tiny scoop of strawberry please," she asked with a bright smile.

So the man gave her the ice cream. "That will be $2.50."

"Oh, I forgot my wallet…" She sighed and then looked behind the man. "Oh, what's that?"

The man looked over his shoulder only to find nothing out of the ordinary. "I don't see any-" He turned back only to see that she had ran off without paying. He sighed.

Nami smiled as she ate her ice cream, soon throwing the cone in the trash. Eating the cone was just like total fat! Now who wanted that?

Shaking her head, she continued walking. There was nothing much to do except sun tan, like her friends originally planned. So she grabbed a beach chair and laid down on it, not bothering to put sunscreen since she already did about 3 hours ago in her room! She was about to close her eyes to peacefully sun tan when she heard her name being called.

"Hey Nami!"

Oh no… not him…

A/N: Whew, there it is. Chapter 10. I know it took like almost 2 months. I am truly sorry! The story kind of slipped my mind in December and then I went on a two week vacation (to the Caribbean just like Luffy!). I am really sorry I didn't update for a while. I just hope I am forgiven… Well I will try to update a lot more frequently than before, but now, I must depart, so bye bye!

P. S. I am again realllllllly sorrrrrrry!

P. S. S. Enjoy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! (It's my friend's birthday!)