My Class Meets One Piece Chapter3:
Room Assignments...oh joy...
Last time:
"That's it, you guys are joining my crew!" Luffy announced.
"That's not such a good idea Luffy," Bri said slowly.
"Why not? I'm the Captain, and what I say goes!" he replied.
"I'm sure that most of us want ta join your crew, but...we're a class where most of us have A.D.H.D and dyslexia. If we don't have our meds, we'll be bouncing off the walls by morning," Bri explained.
"Those things won't stop me from loving you, Bri-Chan!" Sanji said as his eye became a heart again.
"Sanji, A.D.H.D. is short for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. To make it simple, without the prescribed medicine, almost all of us have memory spans of rats and bouncing off the walls. Dyslexia is a learning problem when you always have a hard time reading and writing," Ana explained to the love struck chef.
"That sounds like Luffy," Zoro pointed out.
"Ok! Val is done getting stitched up! Just make sure that her bandages are changed daily," Chopper told us as he put away his doctor supplies.
"Thanks Chopper," Jessica told him.
"Zoro, you can carry her to the Going Merry," Luffy told his first mate. "And you can put her in the girl's room where the girls will stay,"
"WE'RE NOT JOINING YOUR CREW DAMNIT!" My class and I shouted at the same time.
He really is as persistent as he is in the manga.
"Give it up, guys. Luffy kept asking us until we joined," Nami told us, "Even though I hated pirates, he still made me join even before he knew I could be a navigator," she continued.
"I used to be a pirate hunter, but he kept bugging me so I joined," Zoro replied.
Present
"I guess it's not like we have much of a choice guys," Bri said as she turned to Luffy, "looks like we're joining your crew"
"YOSH!" Luffy yelled out in excitment.
"I swear, this guy is retard." David said as he shook his head. (Me: I apologize for the use of that word. I hate typing it out even beacause I know someone who is like that. It's just the way the real David acts like in reality. Sorry!) Ana kicked David in the shins while Gabbie, Ashley, Jessica, Bri, and I took turns slapping him.
"What the hell was that for?"
"For being born!" Ana responded. Jessica glared at the Mexican while Ashley nodded and said,
"And for saying that! You know that Mrs. Kirk hates it when people say stuff like that!"
"But she's not here!"
"SHE'S HERE IN HER SPIRIT FORM! SHE'S ALWAYS HERE! SHE'S OUT TA GET ME I TELLS YA!"
"...you forgot to take your pills again, didn't you Zoey?" Brian asked with a sigh.
"Do you guys act like this all the time?" Nami asked with a sweatdrop.
"Nami, you better get used to this, 'cause it's gonna get worse." Pete told her while Chip 'eek'ed in agreement.
"How so Shadow-san?" Robin asked.
Sweet! She's gonna give us nick-names! "Trust me when I say it Robin, you don't wanna see us without our medicine and sugar-high." Maggie told her. I then got one of my famous impulses. I poked Rick-James and when I poked him, I let out a noise that sounded like the most annoying sound on Earth from the Dumb and Dumber movie. When I took my finger off him, I stopped. Everyone just stared at me.
"Yeah, see, that kinda shit is what happens." T.J. said while shaking his head. Everyone on the Straw-Hat pirate crew, save Luffy and Robin, looked a bit scared. Luffy just laughed.
"You guys are funny! C'mon, let's go to our ship!" My eyes got wide.
"Damnit Luffy! You should've told us the boat was tiny! How are we gonna fit?!" Gabbie demanded from her new captain. Luffy just smiled again.
"I didn't know you had a potty mouth Gabbie." Grant said.
"Relax Gabbie. Just be glad. It could be worse. Like when my mom was a kid, she had twenty-six cousins who came to visit at their Grandpa's small one-floor beach house with their parents. We can do what they just about did: Grab a blanket and pillow and find a place to sleep." I told her.
"Didn't they wake up one morning and people were asleep on the kitchen counter and in the bathtub?" Pete asked.
"That's because it was one of her cousins who went out partying with some friends. They all came back and were too stone drunk to know the difference between the floor and a kitchen counter. As for the bathtub thing, I dunno, maybe they didn't want to be stepped on while they were sleeping." I pointed out.
"Just make sure to find a place to sleep inside. The Grandline has unpredictable weather. The last thing we need is one of you guys being washed overboard and drowning." Ussop advised.
"Val should stay in the medical room." Chopper told us.
"Ok, boys get the anchor room while girls get the storage room." Nami declared.
"But the anchor room is so small!" Al complained. I mentally agreed, after seeing it on the tour of the boat.
"Relax Al, we can fit you in any sort of tight spaces." Maggie joked.
"Just don't touch anything that has to do with the cannons." Nami told us.
After that chaos, we all found ways to entertain ourselves. It's never a good thing when A.D.H.D. kids are bored. Wanna know how you can tell that we are A.D.H.D? We can be occupied by a clicking pen and a bottle cap that clicks. I am one of those types of people sadly.
I opened my bottomless backpack and pulled out a random book. This one was by James Patterson. As scary as it is, I don't just read manga, I read horror/murder/mystery. This 'scary' one is called Roses are Red. Even though it's 378 pages, I'll have it done in an hour, two hours tops. Yeah, I'm a speed reader. But I understand what I read, no matter how fast. Having A.D.H.D has its good sides to it. Too bad I've already read this book. I sighed and put the book down only to see that Robin had taken a seat next to me on deck.
"Reader-san, do you wish to read something else?" She asked me.
Reader-san? Couldn't it be anything better? "That would be nice Robin. Do you have any murder mysteries that I could read?" I asked the oldest (and most sane) one of us. She shook her head.
"I'm sorry Reader-san. As you know, I am a historian. All I have are history books."
"I like history. It's like one big story and I like telling stories to my youngest sister."
"How many siblings to you have? When you were talking about you Mother and her cousins, it sounds like you have a big family." She said with a hint of sadness in her voice. I wonder why. I don't have the One Piece manga about Robins past, and I don't spoil it by watching the uncut subbed versions on YouTube before I read the manga.
"I do have a big family Robin-sempai. My mom's mom, my grandma, was one of thirteen. My dad's dad, my papa, was one of six. I have three cousins, two step-cousins, too many second-cousins to count, and don't get me started on third-cousins. Whenever we need to do a project in school about our family history, I have no hope at all. Not to mention, I'm European mutt." I explained to her. She then asked,
"What's European?"
"Oh, it's a different continent that have a lot of different languages and countries in it. My mom's side of the family is from France, Poland, Ireland, and Germany. My dad's side is from Italy and Ireland.
"It must be hard to find some alone time." She said with a small smile.
"Not really. About six years ago, my dad got a job transfer, so we had ta move to the south. We're the only ones in my family who live their." I told her as I got out a map of the U.S. I pointed at my old homestate and then pointed to my new state.
"That must have been hard for you Reader-san."
"It was. My youngest sister, Annie, wasn't born yet. I was ten, and my middle sister, Katie, was eight."
"What about your classmates? What are their stories?" Robin asked. I smiled and replied with,
"You've asked the right person Robin-sempai. I know everyone like the back of my hand. Who do you want to know about first?" She thought for a second and replied with, "How about Water-san." I assumed that ment Rick-James, so I told her.
"Rick-James was adopted. His birth mom was around eighteen when he was born, a few years after his half-brother. According to him, his birth dad is a carnie. But he's lived in our city his whole life, so there's not much else besides that. Who's next?"
"ZOEY! You better not be telling her about our entire history!" Fort Knox complained.
"I'm doin' nuttin' busta! You wanna make somethin' of it bub?!" I shouted at him with my Northern accent slipping out.
"OI! Zoey! Your friends say that you can sing! Sing for us!" Luffy shouted from his dubbed 'seat' on the figure head. I glared at my friends and they his. The rest of the guys held their ears in pain, moaning, "No! Don't let her sing!" Knowing Luffy, he won't stop bugging me about this until I agree. I sighed and took out my portable battery-charged iBoom with my iPod.
"Fine, but I pick the song and if you guys gotta problem, tough." I said, refering to my male classmates. I picked a song, took the lyrics out, and started to sing.
"Now I will tell you what I've done for you-
Fifty thousand tears I've cried,
Screaming, deceiving for you.
And you still won't hear me (going under)
Don't want your hand this time I'll save myself.
Maybe I'll wake up for once. (wake up for once)
Not tormented daily deffeated by you,
Just when I thought I'd reach the bottom.
I'm dying again,
I'm going under! (going under)
Drowning in you! (drowing in you)
I'm falling forever! (falling forever)
I've got to break through!
I'm going under!
Blurring and stirring the truth and the lies,
(So I don't know what's real)
So I don't know what's real and what's not. (what's not
Always confusing the thoughts in my head,
So I trust myself anymore.
I'm dying again,
I'm going under! (going under)
Drowning in you! (drowing in you)
I'm falling forever! (falling forever)
I've got to break through!
I'm...
So go on and scream
Scream at me I'm so far away. (so far away)
I won't be broken again! (again)
I've got to breathe - I can't keep going under!
I'm dying again!
I'm going under! (going under)
Drowning in you! (drowing in you)
I'm falling forever! (falling forever)
I've got to break through!
I'm going under! (going under)
I'm going under! (drowning in you)
I'm going under!"
After that song, I sang a few more, the ship almost got blown up by Rick-James and some other guys, dinner was served, a battle royal started between my class and Luffy for food, a fight between Sanji and Zoro, the boys trying to wash dishes (and broke the dishes, which made them all get kicked senseless by Sanji as we all watched in enjoyment), more chaos, half of us getting sugar high and annoying the hell out of those who weren't, another explosion, and something that cannot be written down. I will tell you it invovled life-sized voodo dolls, weseals, toothbrushes, and pudding. Yes, pudding. Lots and lots of pudding. I like pudding. Mmmmm...pudding...
Of course it was only after all of this that we started to get tired (keyword being started here people). See, most of us, me included, are insomniacs or have sleeping disorders. We can get two hours of sleep and still feel well-rested the next morning. Yep, that'll come in handy with college. I mean, a cup of coffee at Starbucks is like three bucks each. You get about one coffee a day. Three times seven is twenty-one dollars! Tat right there is a college feast!
Meanwhile, the Straw-Hats, even Luffy, were dead tired.
"We really need a bigger boat. With a place to lock you all up and throw away the key." Nami panted out.
"No way are we getting rid of the Merry!" Ussop managed to protest.
"Ussop, the Merry is in bad condition, you know that. You really need to move on. Maybe onto a boat with a lock on the fridge." Sanji said as he halfheartly kicked a snoring Zoro.
"NO! Merry was a gift from Kaya-chan! I'll never let her go!" A frying pan hit Ussop in the head with a voice saying,
"Can ya'll shut up? We're tryin' ta sleep."
"SHUT UP FORT KNOX! DO YOU WANT ME TO BLOW YOUR EARDRUMS OUT?!"
"Both of ya'll shut up 'fore I go ninja all over ya'lls asses!"
"You don't even punch hard Chuck."
"Not at home, but I sure can now Randy. 'Sides, all you can do is turn into metal. What kinda power is that?"
"SHUT THE HELL UP ALL OF YOU! US GIRLS NEED OUR SLEEP! REMEMBER, 'HELL HAST KNOWN NO FURY LIKE A GROUP OF PROVIDENCE GIRLS WITHOUT ANY SLEEP!'"
"That's not how it goes Bri."
"Hey, Chip an' I are tryin' ta sleep!"
"Oo eek eek!"
"Somebody shut that damn monkey up before he becomes breakfast!"
"YOU'LL NEVER TAKE MY MONKEY ALIVE RICK-JAMES!"
"This is going to be a long night, right Navigator-san." Robin said with a half smile. Nami just looked at her with a look that could kill the first one of us who made a sound. This went on for about three more hours until we all fell asleep.