"Oi, are you listening to me?" Zoro sighed. He wasn't usually asking for attention, but for once he needed advices. Robin turned to him with a smile and he knew she was listening carefully.

"What seems to be the problem?"

"Well..." Zoro said, then realised he didn't really know. "I don't know, he's not..."

"Gay?"

"Yeah obviously, there's that."

"Are you sure?"

"I never asked... He definitely likes girls I think, but maybe he's... I don't know. I can't ask that."

"Maybe he doesn't like boys at all," Robin said with a smile and Zoro sighed. Why was he asking her for advices? Right, best friend thing and all that.

"No but what am I saying?! He's not... We're not... I don't... even know what he looks like!"

"You're speaking with a stranger without having a clue of his face? Maybe he's very old. And fat. And gross. With big lips ready to swallow you..."

Zoro winced at the mental image but quickly resumed what he was doing – playing with his drink. "I saw his hands, they're clean and... pretty perfect. Though his phone has a bad quality and it surely doesn't show the flaws, I'm sure they're not that pretty."

"But you like him," Robin smiled and Zoro sighed again.

It had been almost a month since the first text from Sanji, and after a week of not that much talking or only recipes sent by Sanji – that Zoro would do as soon as possible without ever admitting that he loved this – or fights – they argued a lot for nothing – they had taken the habit of texting each other everyday. Silly things that Zoro felt ashamed about afterwards, like talking about his day, seriously that was stupid, right?

Maybe he liked him, but he had also the incredible gift of upsetting him really quickly at the same time, and Zoro had mixed and confused feelings about this man, and it was both frustrating and overwhelming.

"Why don't you two meet?" Robin said after a while. Zoro just shook his head as he was sipping his drink. "Why not?"

"I don't know, I don't even know where he lives."

"You don't?" she asked, surprised.

Zoro shrugged. They didn't share that sort of details. No last name, no precise place (like where they worked) and no city names.

He quickly changed the subject, suddenly not wanting to talk about Sanji any more. They talked about Robin's job (she had studied ancient art and culture and gave advices to some museums or estimated prices for pieces of art) but his best friend's statement didn't seem to be leaving his mind alone. 'You like him', did he? He had fun, he liked talking to him, he even liked their little fights, but did he truly like him when he had never seen him before, when he had not the slightest idea of what he looked like?

Luffy joining them cut his reflections, as he and Robin had stopped talking, both liking a bit of quiet. Luffy wasn't like this at all. He probably was Zoro's second best friend though he didn't even remember how they had met. He was younger and all Zoro knew was that he knew him since his childhood. But he had always liked him, even if they had very different personalities. They both did sleep a lot though, that was a pretty huge common interest.

As they were drinking – and eating, because Luffy – they talked a bit about life in general, what they were doing... And Zoro caught Luffy smiling at his phone sometimes. After Robin left, he leaned over the table as Luffy had a huge smile again. The young man brought his phone down to ask Zoro what he was doing.

"What are you smiling at?" Zoro frowned. Luffy smiled a lot, but those smiles were different, even happier if possible.

"Oh nothing, my boyfriend."

Zoro stared at him. "Your what?" he managed to say after a while, eyes wide opened.

"Torao, it's been a few weeks. I didn't say?"

"No you clearly didn't! And since when do you have silly random smiles when talking to your boyfriend? And who? Torao, as in Law? The man that works in the same hospital as Chopper?"

"That one! And that's nothing, he just told me he'd take me to Sanji's! You can come over if you want! You never come when I ask you."

Zoro opened his mouth at Sanji's name. He probably looked very dumb, but he didn't really care because that was a lot of informations in less than a minute?

"Wh... Where?" he said after a while, finally blinking.

"The Baratie, I told you to come with me, it's so delicious!" Luffy exclaimed with a huge smile.

"You... know someone there?" Zoro asked, now thinking he had dreamt the name. He certainly did not say Sanji.

"The sous-chef, Sanji! He's acting weird with the ladies, that's funny every time I go with friends! You'll come then?!"

Zoro nodded without thinking, lost in his thoughts. Sanji wasn't an ordinary name, and the number of Sanjis working as a sous-chef in a restaurant within the country probably was low.

"I could invite Nami as well... If Robin is here, she'd be happy!"

"Who's Nami?" Zoro asked, snapping back to reality. He knew that name from somewhere.

"She's a friend! Robin introduced her, you weren't here?"

"Don't think so," the teacher shrugged.

"You'll like her I'm sure! You're okay for it then?" Luffy smiled and Zoro nodded again, wondering if this was a good idea.

Or if he wasn't dreaming, that seemed unreal, but that Sanji probably wasn't the same one, right? He'd just have to make sure of this and keep going with his life.


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I know the story might be going a bit too fast, but I usually don't like to let linger things for chapters and chapters, and once again I wrote this for a friend in a week and a half while catching up with One Piece at the same time (I had 150 episodes late) so it was pretty short haha