The Singer's Secret
Hey guys!
This is a special edition for Christmas, I hope you like it!
The site didn't let me udate it on time, so sorry for the late...
It' a last minute idea from me for Christmas, so it's not really into the real plot, so have fun guys~
Merry Christmas!
Disclaimer on the first page.
Special Chapter - With the Boys on Christmas
It's winter, it's cold, it's movie night at the band's place one week before Christmas. They usually let the internet choose the film each time they had a movie night. It made easier the picking with less complaining. The (an.: It's a real site, I just found it, never thought that there's something like this tho…) is a site, where you can choose the quantity of the movies you'd like to see, click the button and it shows one or as many as you'd want.
Tonight, the randomizer's chosen a Christmas themed movie. So, it's not too surprising that after the film, the topic went to that event as well.
"So Nami, how do you spend the Christmas?" Asked Sanji, but when Nami's mood visibly depleted, he there's something not right.
"I'm not so into this whole Christmas celebration." She tried to avoid the answer, but she never deceived any of them.
"What? So, you're not doing anything?! " questioned back Zoro. Now, they were all curious about what she does at Christmas.
Well, I just drink hot chocolates on the couch with some good books. Nothing special." The tension grew in her posture, it was clear she was embarrassed about how she spends her holidays.
"What, so you're alone?" Fired back Luffy. The concern in his voice audible, even if his composure didn't show it.
"I a-amm… no-o,It's just yes, but-but, no. Don't worry about it."
"Well then, you're gonna come here and have Christmas with us!" Luffy declared, no questions asked. He said it and in his voice, there wasn't any waver, not a bit uncertainty. He just said it expecting it to happen that way. Plus, by his brothers smirking faces, she knew there isn't any escape possibilities out of this. Not like she wanted one, she just didn't want to interfere their holiday.
She just nodded, finally the sing that she's given up on escaping.
XYZ
The week passed faster than ever. She was exited. To be with them made her days better, but to celebrate with them is just the extra. She wanted to be with someone on this holiday for so long, but was too shy to actually ask someone.
She came early to help them decorate the place. She didn't want to be just some guest, she wanted to be a part of it, to help them the whole time.
This year's Christmas eve started relatively great. They bought the tree weeks ago, none unexpected expiration date was miss-calculated, so the food's still good to go, none of the boys broke themselves or something around them in the past few days with their bickering, so great, really great start for their usual Christmases.
She was worried about something tho, the boys 'parents' finally had time to come back home for the holidays and they going to meet for the first time, now that made her quite nervous and she didn't even know why.
Nami was standing before their front door, giving herself a motivating pep talk on how-to-knock-on-your-best-friends'-front-door and how-to-do-it-faster-than-twenty-minutes.
She was on her third try to lift her hand when the door suddenly flew open and Luffy was standing there, grinning like an idiot or more like a five-year-old and boldly pulled her in, while kicking the door behind them closed.
This whole action took a little less than twenty seconds, so her forming shriek of surprise or protesting didn't have time to get out before she was standing in their living room right before the whole family.
Nami was still processing what had happened while Luffy started the introductions. When he finished, Nami stammered out a weak 'hello' then turned to Luffy with a face that said, 'What the hell?' to which he reacted with a smug, smirking expression, that told 'you took too long'. She didn't want to know how he knew she was standing there, especially not, if he saw how long she was standing there, that'd be super embarrassing.
To her luck, Shanks and Makino realized her uncomfortableness towards them, so they made the first move. Firstly, Makino was talking about her boys' adventures and their not so presentable endings, then Shanks broke the ice with telling the guys' every and most awkward stories ever to her. They were lively kids, so telling their embarrassing stories are the parents dream come true sometimes. The guys didn't even try to stop them, knew well enough that it was pointless from the start. Nami never laughed so hard, as on that afternoon.
This whole talking took them at six pm, so it was time to decorate! The guys job was to make the tree standing while the girls finished the cooking. Luffy went to the attic to get the decorations for the tree. This whole time he was acting like a kid. She thought it was adorable, he might not look like a nineteen-years-old right now, but it was undeniably cute how much he loved this.
He found it, lifted the gigantic box up and started his way down the stairs. However, he didn't notice the Christmas lights' end was sticking out of the box, so when he went forward, the mini lights one-by-one came out of their place. He stopped for a minute to readjust his hold on the box, but by then the lights reached its end and fell out so, when he made his first step again on the top of the staircase, he stepped on them. The little bulbs under his foot made an excellent slippery surface one the wooden step. His feet slid ungracefully, and he started falling backwards. The box which contained the decorations not so smoothly fell ahead of him all the way to the bottom of the staircase while he tried to save his landing by grabbing the stair rail on the wall, on both of his sides.
Luffy stopped himself at the last minute, so when he stood up he almost made a victory dance. His celebration died the moment he looked back in front of him and saw, that every little breakable decoration for the three were shattered all over the place. When he saw this, his strong enthusiasm left him at once, defeated, his mind went blank and a weak 'Oh… please no' left his mouth.
XYZ
While the others made the three standing, the ladies in the kitchen prepared the food. Makino started cooking while they were story-telling, so most of the food was almost ready and set on the dining table. Sanji came in after they made the tree standing straight and offered he'd take over so they could decorate the tree as soon as Luffy got the decorations.
He was in the middle of chopping some parsley, when suddenly heard a giant thud which was followed by little ones. Each sound had its own cracking accompanying sound. Sanji was so concentrated on the cutting -as a perfectionist in the kitchen he had to- that the sudden voice startled him quite well enough the break his concentration and he cut himself.
Sanji hissed at the pain, cursed a little 'shit', dropped the knife and backed away from the countertop. He acted fast and carelessly so he back away right into the dining table, knocking it over. The food on it ended up on the floor. Luffy's far away sound -probably still on top of the stairs- broke the previous silence saying "Hey oh-hmm guys.. I think I broke the decorations!" To which Sanji mumbled back "And I'm the food.." while he was progressing what happened a minute ago.
XYZ
Not letting the previous things to spoil the mood, they started decorating the tree with was left unbroken or wasn't made of breakable material, like tinsel. Shanks bought new fairy lights, when he was walking on the street and a girl stopped him for charity, he couldn't say no, so they superimposed all of them on.
The moment came to lit it all up by plugging in them. Shanks squatted down and firstly plugged in their old lights. The warmth it gave was calming, giving an impulse, that everything's fine. Then he grabbed the second one, the charity one, plugged in and it's true it lit up for a moment, but then it struck the current and the whole house was left in the dark.
Zoro was the closest one to the power distribution box, in the dark, using his senses like palpation and hearing, plus using his memories of the place, he got to it.
He found the right switch and pushed it up. The electricity came back, and they were calming down when the lights went down after a minute and the only light source this time was the fire on the power distribution box, while Zoro shouted out a "What the fuck?!".
Shanks ordered Usopp to go into the closet and grab the fire extinguisher -yes, they had things like that at home, for situations like this.
Usopp ran, grabbed it, sad to say that the fire's light helped him find it. Ran close enough he thought it's range take, pulled out the safety pin out and with max force squeezed it's top and aimed it against the fire.
The fire was out, but when he tried to stop it, it didn't work. It's contempt's just poured out uncontrollably. Usopp freaked out, tried to pull back the lever on the top, but it didn't stop it. He let go if the hose, thus of the pressure, it's started, without control, back and forth pouring the white foam all around him. When Usopp finally managed to stop it, he took out his phone to turn of the flashlight and he saw the whole room was covered in the foam. While stuff on absolutely everything, even on everyone around him.
He awkwardly scratched the back of his head as he said his sorry on the matter.
XYZ
The room was lit by candles all around the place. The family with their guest was sitting in the living room, eating half melted ice cream from the powerless fridge in blankets around them. The room was still covered with the foam, the places where they sat was cleared a little, but other than that, they didn't bother.
By the way, they only hope for the Christmas mood died out, the moment they noticed the neat presents were ruined in the fire-extinguisher-incident too.
The silence was broken when Luffy suddenly started to laugh, pretty badly. He couldn't even form a sentence to tell what's so funny. Tears were streaming down his cheeks as he fell down of the couch they were sitting on and was rolling on the ground while clutching his stomach.
They say laughter is contagious, because minutes later everybody was laughing with him. On this whole situation, on him, on how could they celebrate Christmas like this.
The only time Luffy stopped laughter, when a thought struck him. He stood up and walked to stand before her.
"Hey, Nami. Sorry it didn't go as planned. We wanted to give you the best Christmas party, but…" he sheepishly scratched the back of his head, avoiding eye contact.
By now, everyone was looking at them, laughter quieted the second he stood up. She looked around them, seeing their sincerity in their expression. She looked back at him, seeing his bashfulness on the matter melted her heart into a puddle.
Moisture formed on her eyes as she quickly hugged him with all her might. She was overwhelmed by them, she was so glad she got to meet this people. A few second later as the shock died down, he hugged her back and started laughing again, Nami followed close by.
When they calmed down, she let go of him and looked around. An unbeatable and honest grin appeared on her face.
"This was my best Christmas in a long, long time and thank you for everything. All I wanted for Christmas was to spend it with someone so thank you, thank you for everything again, it meant a lot to me." She chuckled again a little as the night's events went through her mind.
"Plus, I'm never gonna forger this night, that's for sure!" And with that, they roared out in another fit of laughter.
To Be Continued...
I hope you had as much fun reading it as I had writing :P
But next time we'll get back to the real story. Plus good news, I officially finished every little detail on the plot! Now I just have to write it down properly, which's gonna take a lot of time, but it's gonna worth it :D
As I counted, there will be 6 more Chaters above this!
See ya next time, happy holidays again! 3