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Awkward, awkward, awkward.
Yeah.
The whole way to the mall, neither of them is saying anything. It is silent all the way.
Luffy steals glances of Law once in a while, and the older never takes his gaze off the view outside his window.
Which is actually not that bad.
At least they are not forcing a conversation or anything...
Luffy knows he should be focusing on driving the car and he is indeed trying. He knows he should just leave the situation the way it is but still, he cannot shake the awkward feeling off him...
Oh, yeah! Maybe he can just turn on the radio or something!
Luffy automatically reaches for the music player, trying to turn it on but he stops abruptly from a thought.
He remembers Law did not really like music, let alone his favorite pop tracks.
Law said they were annoying. Maybe he would prefer the silence more. So, Luffy slowly takes his hand back to the steering wheel.
He will just put up with it. Just thirty days, right? He will be okay.
They reach the mall after a while, and Luffy helps Law get a temporary phone first before he leaves Law to shop on his own, while he goes to the camera stores nearby. He goes through the new arrivals, trying to see anything worth buying but he had gotten most of them online few weeks earlier.
Yeah, he is always up to date with anything related to photography. Well, duh, he is a photographer.
He then decides to explore the store, just to kill some time. Maybe, he can actually find something interesting. He walks past a glass case after a while, where the older camera models are displayed and, he remembers using some of them back before he moved away. He still kept the last camera he bought there but he rarely uses it now.
Maybe because it always reminds him of the painful memory from the break up.
He bought the camera three weeks into the break up, with the money he originally saved up to splurge on Law's birthday. But then, Law canceled all the plans a week before so Luffy decided maybe he could just use it some other time.
Maybe on Christmas.
And then, things happened...
Luffy starts to sniff. Shit. That was a year ago. Cannot cry in public now.
He immediately makes his way out of the store, into the store where Law is getting his clothes. Law is at the counter paying when Luffy entered, and the younger stops moving, just looking.
Law still looks the same. Cold and distant.
Luffy wonders if Law and the other guy are still doing fine together.
He does not want to ask Law though. It does not even have anything to do with him, right? He should just live the remaining days with Law peacefully, with no expectation.
It is fine even if they still end up being strangers.
Luffy knows how pathetic he is being now but he will be fine.
As long as Law is happy.