"Sanji?" Nami said as she shook him awake.
Sanji rubbed his eyes, the sleep lingering in the corners.
"Sorry to wake you I was just wondering why you're sleeping in here and Zoro's was sleeping on the floor in the common room?"
"Are you two fighting again?" Kaya asked folding her arms close to her chest.
Sanji shook his head, "No I just needed some rest and I guess that marimo was tired as well."
"Okay," Robin answered, "Well dinner's ready."
Sanji followed the three ladies out the room and took the seat he had sat in at lunch time.
"Oi Sanji!" Franky yelled across the table. "Who was calling you earlier?"
"Yeah and how come you didn't come back to class?" Usopp chimed in.
Sanji and Zoro shared an awkward glance. The cook was desperate for the moss-head to not shed any light on the situation. The swordsman however had no idea what to say as a cover up for what Sanji had been about to do on the roof. Sanji huffed, he guessed the truth was the best option and these guys were his nakama he could trust them.
"I had a breakdown," he said not looking any of his nakama in the eye.
"But why?" Robin pressed.
"The phone call was from Ace and I went up on the roof and I was ready to jump," the cook stopped he could feel tears forming in pools behind his eyes.
He didn't want to cry again; he'd cried too much already that day. He blinked back the tears and looked at his loving nakama.
"Daijobudesu," he whispered.
Robin shook her head, her black hair bouncing on her shoulders.
"Sanji, you need help. If after one phone call you're ready to die you're not fine. Okay none of us really know what happened with Ace, but we were there throughout the depression. We can help you if you just tell us what happened."
"I'm not hungry," Sanji said standing up from the table.
Soon Luffy was beside him, his hand on the cook's shoulder. Sanji shrugged him off.
"Sanji, who's Mai?" Zoro asked.
The tears streamed down his face.
"I told you to never say her name," his fists were balled by his sides.
This couldn't be happening, everything he'd worked so hard to forget was coming back to him with just the mention of her name.
"Hey Sanji-kun," her voice betrayed no emotion as the cook listened back to the recorded message.
Sanji smiled, Mai's voice was always comforting but his smile faded when he began to hear the girl sobbing.
"Gomen ne Sanji. I'm so sorry," she sobbed.
"I betrayed you, I'm so sorry."
Sanji's brow furrowed as he listened to the rest of the message.
"A few weeks back, m-me and Ace slept together," she was choked on the tears spilling from her blue eyes.
"Gomen ne Sanji," the message stopped then and Sanji quickly pressed the buttons on his den den mushi to call her back.
"Mai!" he exclaimed as the girl picked up the phone.
"Sanji," she sobbed. "I'm pregnant."