Boom! A double update. Were you surprised? I hope you so...that's kinda what I was aiming for. If not, well then I hope you at least have fun reading.

Chapter 3- He sees her

You enter Luffy's home and the first thing you do is to deftly look around the inside of the house. Something that's routine when you enter a new home. But then your eyes land on the figure at bottom of the stairs across you that leads to the top floor and they widen in surprise...and awe.

It's a pretty girl. A very pretty girl. Your brain files through all the female faces in your head, the ones you've seen on television and you do in real life, and it reaches a conclusion you totally support. She IS the prettiest girl you've ever seen.

Then she smiles and you have to remind yourself to breathe. Did she just get prettier, in the blink of an eye? You register at the back of your mind that she and Luffy have started a conversation about school and, a big box? You don't know. What your brain's top priority is, currently, is figuring out if those dark tresses are really as soft as they appear to be. If her tanned olive skin is as smooth as it looked, and the possibility of those astonishing eyes with their own unique shade of grey just being some kind of special color contact lenses.

But then Luffy's making introductions and you immediately decide 'Anne' is your new favorite name. And seriously? They're siblings? You start to look for any similarities between them but suddenly, you find yourself under intense scrutiny by a pair of 'colony green' grey eyes. At least it looks like it's colony green. She looks likes she's about to say something but then stops and returns your stare full force with the tiniest a bit of surprise. After a while, you chastice yourself, 'don't be a creep Marco. Quit staring and say something!'

You maintain your cool as you reach out your hand for a handshake. Grateful she hasn't banished ALL thoughts from your mind, especially your manners. She stares at your hand like it's a foreign object and then takes a hold of it and 'ohmygod, her palm is so soft'. She gives it an impressive shake and while on the inside you ask yourself 'how could a girl be that strong and did she just try to intimidate me?', externally you only show the cool facade you're trying so hard to hold on to. You're surprised you've lasted this long.

You smile to be polite and there's a tap on your arm before Luffy suggests for you both to go to his room. You turn to him to answer in the affirmative before you quickly look back at Anne. She meets your gaze and wow, those eyes. You don't think you could ever get sick of them looking.

By now, you think she might as well actually think you a creep with how long you've staring at her. You try to be respectful as you tell her how nice it is to meet her and before you can say anymore or be further enthralled, you're being nudged towards the stairs and then you begin to climb up.

Maybe you're being dramatic, or maybe you got bitten by a bug on your way here and its messing with your perception of things, but you think you just had a life changing experience. If you were to have a girlfriend, you'd be pretty happy if she could be anything like Anne. All of a sudden you literally come to a halt as you have a mini-epiphany. No, that's not right. It's not that if you were to have a girlfriend you'd like her to be like Anne.

If you had a girlfriend...you'd be over the moon if she WERE Anne. Anne. Gorgeous Anne, Luffy's older sister Anne, Anne who looks like she could bite your head off if you were to ever step her wrong Anne. Could you even dream of something so impossible? So surreal? So utterly inexecutable? She seems like such a challenge.

You allow yourself yourself to smirk as you answer your own questions. You always loved a challenge.

A/N: My sisters say I kinda made Marco a little creepy, but I think not... I wanted them to have a memorable first meeting. I hope that went across...Remember to review and share your thoughts...

Date written: 31st March.