Thanks Vergina-spva and MyLadyDay for beta'ing

Warning: Sexual content

Chapter 16

Kid stormed past Penguin out of the men's room and through the bar back to their table, where he grabbed his coat from the back of his chair before heading for the exit without a word.

Killer jumped up. "Oi!" He hastened himself after Kid and grabbed his arm, turning him around.

"I'm leaving, and you can't stop me," Kid snapped at him.

"What the hell happened in there?" Killer asked.

At that moment, Penguin came running after him, followed by Law. "Kid wait!" the former called. "I'm sure Law didn't mean what he said! Whatever it was!" Law crossed his arms before his chest and rolled his eyes. "Please don't go," Penguin pleaded as he stopped in front of Kid.

"I am going. He," he pointed at Law, "was right for once. We don't like each other and we never will. He doesn't even go to college here, so there is no need to force us to sit together. The first time I should have to see his face should be at your fucking wedding or something." He turned around and left the bar, leaving Killer, Penguin and Law stunned behind.

He didn't care. He had no idea what the hell had happened in the bathroom, but he was going to make damn sure it wouldn't happen again. Perhaps it was because Law had actually looked vulnerable for the first time since Kid met him when he was talking about this person who had died. Kid couldn't believe he had tried to sympathise with him. And then Law had seemed to want to give him advice. Like he needed it! He was normal! He just hadn't found the right woman yet, right?

His pace slowed, and he sighed. Law's voice kept echoing in his mind, telling him that it was perfectly normal if he was asexual. Like being straight or gay, apparently. But if everything was normal, what was even weird anymore?

Kid led himself slide down against a building, rubbing his temples. Why was everything so confusing? It seemed to have started the moment he had met Law, or was he just paying attention to things more?

"Are you okay, Kiddo?" Bonney's voice interrupted his thoughts.

He looked up. She was standing in front of him, leaning on her bicycle and looking at him curiously.

"Yeah, whatever," he muttered, looking away.

Her mouth quirked into smirk. "Let me guess, you met with Law again? He always seems to leave you angry and or moping."

"I'm not moping," he snapped.

"Wanna talk about it?" she asked, ignoring his statement.

He hesitated. "I guess." He rose to his feet and looked up to the sky. It had started to drizzle. "Not here, though."

"Hop on the back," Bonney invited him.

He did as she told him and held onto her coat as she started to peddle.

"Where do you want to go?" she asked over her shoulder. "I was heading back to the dorm, but if you want to go somewhere else…"

"The dorm is fine. Is your roommate there?"

"I don't think so," Bonney replied slightly out of breath. "My room then?"

Kid nodded until he realised she couldn't see him and made an affirmative sound. They rode on in silence. Kid changed his grip, placing his hands on her hips instead of holding the fabric of her coat, afraid it would tear. He wondered if he should feel something holding her like that. Well, apparently, he shouldn't feel anything, but he couldn't help but wonder if it was just Bonney that didn't do it for him or women in general.

Bonney braked when they had arrived at the dorm, and Kid waited until she had put her bicycle away before they walked inside together.

"So, tell me what's up," Bonney said when they entered her room. She made a half-hearted attempt to clean up some clothes, throwing them on her bed. "It's about Law, right?"

Kid flopped down on her desk chair and groaned, closing his eyes. "You know Killer's boyfriend, Penguin?" He heard some rustling of a wrapping being torn open and when he opened his eyes, he was met with the familiar sight of Bonney scarfing down some kind of candy bar. She offered him one too, but he declined.

"I've heard of him." She sat down on her bed across from Kid.

"Well, he's friends with Law and for some reason determined to put us together. To become friends, or whatever." He rolled his eyes.

"He's an optimistic one." Bonney reached underneath her bed and pulled out something that appeared to once have been a package of cookies. Again, Kid declined when offered.

"Yeah. He had arranged something tonight, and…" Kid squirmed uncomfortably on the chair.

Bonney's eyes widened and she forgot to take a bite. "Did something happen? You didn't kill him, did you?"

"No! Why does everyone always think that?" He waved with his hand when Bonney raised here eyebrows. "Never mind."

They fell silent again.

"So," Bonney finally said slowly, "what did happen?"

Kid just stared into space. "What are you?" he asked suddenly.

"What do you mean?" she asked confusedly. "I'm a lot of things. Hungry, for one." She shoved another cookie in her mouth.

"I mean…" He started to get uncomfortable again. "Your sexual orientation?"

"Oh." She didn't seem to have expected that. "I'm a lesbian, you know that."

"Yeah, okay." He scratched the back of his head awkwardly. "How did you find out?"

"I don't know. Maybe I started to notice that I was looking at women more than at men. Maybe I was suddenly making out with a chick." She shrugged. "Why the sudden interest, though? You seemed to prefer to avoid the whole subject of homosexuality." Her eyes widened again. "You don't think that you're–"

"No!" Kid hastily said. "I just… don't know what I am." He rubbed his face with his hands.

Bonney leaned forward and placed a hand on his knee. "You don't have to know, you know? Some people don't know for a long time. For some people, it changes. Don't work yourself up about it, okay?"

He looked up.

She rose from the bed and dusted the crumbs off her clothes. "I know what you need. Tomorrow, a guy I know is having a party. I think you could use a distraction," she smirked, "and lots of booze."

Kid wasn't sure about this so-called party, but he didn't have much of a choice in the matter as Bonney dragged him through a hallway of another dorm. Well, she did promise there would be booze, and aside from Bonney, he wouldn't know anyone there. Perhaps he could conduct a little experiment. After all, there was no way Law could be right about him.

In the middle of the hallway, a table was standing, behind which the party seemed to be going on. A woman with short orange hair was standing behind the table. "You here for the party?" she asked Kid.

He shrugged.

"That's five bucks then." She held up her hand and made a note on a list.

"Aw, come on, Nami," Bonney said as she wrapped an arm around Kid. "He's with me."

She looked up from her notebook. "If he's with you, it's ten bucks."

"What?" Bonney exclaimed outraged.

The woman, Nami, cocked an eyebrow. "We have to pay the food from something. Come on, pay up." She made an impatient gesture with her hand. "Do you also have a black hole for a stomach?" she asked Kid while they were looking for their wallets.

"He's more of a drinker," Bonney replied.

Nami rolled her eyes. "Great, another Zoro."

A man with black hair walked into the hallway from the room where the party seemed to be held. "Oh, fresh meat," he said cheerfully as he walked their way. He came to a halt next to Nami and seemed to study Kid.

Kid was returning the favour. The man was covered in freckles, which was even clearer because he wasn't wearing a shirt. He was muscular, more so than Law, Kid noted, and had a tattoo on his left arm. Kid had to admit he liked tattoos, even if he didn't have any of his own. Maybe he should change that.

"Hi, I'm Ace," the man said and held out his hand to him.

Hesitantly, Kid looked at it, until Bonney elbowed him in the ribs. He finally took it. "Kid."

Ace's eyebrows rose, but then he grinned again. "Don't let yourself be scared off by Nami. It's actually a fun bunch to be around. Come on, I'll introduce ya." He gestured to an open door, which appeared to be the main room for the party.

Kid looked at Bonney, who opened her mouth to say something, but then seemed to decide against it. Then he followed Ace inside.

"VIP costs extra!" Nami called after him, but Ace stuck out his tongue at her before leading Kid inside.

"I'm going to regret that later, but I'm sure it's worth it," he said with a wink.

Bonney was only one step behind them, following them in what was apparently the VIP room, until the table with food came into view and she was gone. At the table there was someone else eating like his life depended on it, a black haired boy.

"That's my brother, Luffy," Ace said as he pointed at the boy. "He gives Bonney a run for her money when it comes to food." He sounded affectionately, Kid noted. He didn't have siblings himself, so he had no idea what it felt like. "I know most people here through him. He has a way with people. That's Zoro," Ace continued as he pointed to a guy with green hair drinking in the corner. He looked vaguely familiar to Kid, but couldn't place him. The name sounded familiar as well. He would gladly join him, though.

Ace pointed out some other people, whose names Kid instantly forgot, but he seemed eager to change the subject. Leaning with his hand against the wall Kid was standing next to, he said, "So, tell me something about yourself."

Kid shrugged. "Not much to tell." He looked past Ace into the room. There were several women present, but none of them stood out to him. There had to be someone he liked?

"There must be something," Ace pressed. "Do you go to college here?"

"Yeah," he said distractedly. He scanned the women once more, but his eyes kept being drawn to the corner where the booze was stashed, with the guy, Zoro, in the middle.

"Oh!" Ace suddenly exclaimed. "Now I remember where I've seen you. You work in the garage here, don't you?"

"Er, yeah," Kid said, slightly caught off guard.

A smirk appeared on Ace's face and he leaned closer. "So you're a mechanic, huh? That's kinda hot."

"Is it?" Kid hadn't been paying attention much before, and right now, he wasn't sure what was happening here. Ace was currently standing very close with an odd look in his eyes.

"Yeah. You did a good job on my bike too."

"Which one was that?" Kid asked, glad he could talk about something he knew about.

Ace was about to reply, when he suddenly turned his head. "Lu! Get off of there!" he yelled at Luffy, who was swinging from the lamp. Then he sighed. "I'll be right back. Don't go anywhere." He placed his hand briefly on Kid's chest before he ran off, still yelling at Luffy.

Slightly confused, Kid made his way over to the corner where the booze had been collected. Zoro, if he remembered correctly, was drinking straight from a bottle. Kid liked his style and followed his example.

Zoro smirked approvingly at him, while Kid searched his mind where he knew him from. Suddenly, he knew. "You're the guy who couldn't find his own dorm."

Zoro snorted. "It's not my fault they moved it."

Kid decided to leave it at that, and they continued to drink in silence.

Suddenly, Zoro said, "Ace seemed to be into you."

Kid lowered the bottle and looked at him with a raised eyebrow.

"If you want to get it on with him, you should hurry. Ace is not picky, but he is easily distracted."

Kid choked on the vodka he was drinking and, coughing, he looked disbelievingly at Zoro.

"What, you didn't know he was flirting with you?" Zoro asked, annoyingly amused. "He's not very subtle."

Kid wiped his mouth and scowled at him.

Zoro shrugged. "Ace sleeps with everyone who's breathing and willing. Ah, it seems you struck out for tonight." He pointed to the other side of the room, where Ace was making out with some girl and soon left with her. "Don't worry, though. Tomorrow's a new day. He only sleeps with one person a night, though. Well, usually."

Kid looked at him wide-eyed. "I'm not gay," he finally said.

Zoro smirked around the neck of the bottle he was holding. "That's what I thought. And then I met Ace."

Kid fidgeted with the label of the bottle. "Did you…"

"Have sex with him? Yeah." Zoro grinned.

"And that's how you realised you're…"

"Gay," Zoro finished his sentence.

Kid nodded absentmindedly. Ever since he met Law, the topic sexuality had suddenly come up a lot. Kid couldn't say he had experience in the matter. Would that be the way to figure it out?

"You okay?" Zoro interrupted his thoughts while he opened a new bottle. He didn't appear to be drunk, though this was at least his second bottle.

"I don't know what I am," Kid admitted. "I thought I did, but then everyone around me turned out to be something different and now I don't know what to think anymore. There's this guy…" He narrowed his eyes when Zoro looked at him amused. "Not like that."

"Well," Zoro said as he took another sip from the bottle, "if you want, I can help you cross something off your list."

Kid fidgeted with the bottle and took a few draughts as he thought it over. He knew what Zoro was offering. In the best case scenario he would figure something out about himself. In the worst… Well, he'd have to make sure Zoro never spoke about it either way. In any case, it would make Law eat his words. "Now?" he asked.

Zoro just smirked and got up. He walked over to the door, opened it, before turning around and walking in the opposite direction to the bathroom. For a moment, Kid wondered if he made a feint, but then he remembered how he almost had to hold his hand on the way to the dorm. It was no surprise he would get lost in a room.

Kid waited for a while before he snuck to the bathroom as well, which he found unlocked. No one seemed to have noticed that nobody had left the bathroom since Zoro entered. Everyone was too busy drinking, laughing, dancing or eating.

When he was inside, he locked the door behind him. Zoro was sitting on the toilet with the lid down.

"So, what now?" Kid asked slightly uncomfortable. Killer had joked about him being a virgin, but in truth, he was. He knew how it worked, at least with a woman and making babies, but other than that, he was kind of lost. It was only his determination to prove Law wrong that made him stay.

Zoro smirked. "You really are new at this. Look, if you don't want to do this, that's cool. There's perfectly fine booze waiting."

"No, I do." Somehow, he felt like Zoro and he were kindred spirits, if only because of their love for booze. He seemed trustworthy enough, and Kid could say he was handsome.

"Well, whip it out."

Hesitantly, he unbuttoned his pants, but stopped there. Zoro didn't move until he reached into his boxers and pulled his cock out. He wasn't hard yet, but he supposed that was because of nerves. Not that he was nervous.

Zoro rose and walked over to him. He seemed to search for something in Kid's face, but seemed to find it when Kid shot him a challenging look. He reached out and grabbed Kid's cock.

The touch of his hand, rough with callous, felt actually nice. Kid had jacked off every once in a while, but the fact that he didn't do it himself this time was weird and appealing at the time. As Zoro started to move and he slowly got hard, Kid kept staring at his hand. Zoro's skin was dark, not as dark as Law's, though. Still, it wasn't hard to imagine Law's hand doing this to him, though that one would be a bit smaller and covered in tattoos. The thought of Law touching him like this was oddly exciting. Law who could kick his ass. Law who was studying to become a doctor and had to know all the places on his body that would cause pleasure or pain…

Kid's hips jerked, and he felt his orgasm building. Zoro seemed to notice and sped his pace up. It didn't take long for Kid to reach his climax. While he was catching his breath, Zoro handed him some toilet paper to clean himself up.

"So, you want me to do you too?" Kid asked hesitantly while he tucked himself back in.

Zoro shrugged. "That or booze. I'm not picky."

"Just get it out."

Zoro did as he was told. He opened his pants and took his dick out, but Kid noticed that he was hard already. Had he liked what he had seen, or was it because of the prospect of Kid doing the same as Zoro had to him?

He had never seen an erection from someone besides himself, let alone touched it. Still, he wrapped his hand around it. It felt familiar yet foreign at the same time. He wondered if Law would have the same size dick. Probably not, he thought. It would be more slender, fitting his body type. Would he have tattoos there too? He doubted it, but maybe a piercing? The thought excited him, and he moved his hand faster up and down. Zoro suddenly shuddered. It took Kid a second to realise what was happening. His hand was covered in Zoro's cum, and he washed it while Zoro cleaned himself up.

"So, figured anything out?" Zoro inquired, still panting slightly.

Before Kid could reply, someone pounded on the bathroom door. "Could you hurry up in there? I gotta pee!" a voice called.

Zoro exchanged a look with Kid, before he moved slowly to the door. He had barely unlocked it when someone Kid recognised as Luffy came storming inside, muttering, "Gotta pee, gotta pee!" Soon after, Kid heard a relieved sigh. Luffy hadn't bothered to wait until they left before peeing. He didn't seem to have noticed there had been two people in the bathroom.

Zoro just shrugged and casually walked outside. Kid followed him. No one paid attention to them.

"So, figured it out?" Zoro asked as he picked up a bottle.

"I need to think." In afterthought, Kid turned around. "Thanks, I guess."

Zoro shrugged. "My pleasure." He grinned.

Kid looked over to the table with food that was considerably emptier than when he had arrived. Bonney seemed to be using Luffy's absence to her advantage. Kid considered telling her that he was leaving, but dismissed the thought. He needed to be alone right now. He would explain later. Besides, she seemed to be busy anyway.

Nami eyed him suspiciously when he passed her, but didn't comment.

Outside the dorm, Kid finally allowed to let himself think about what had happened. Even if it hadn't been actual sex, his encounter with Zoro had made something clear to him, but it was definitely not the conclusion he had hoped for. It couldn't be true, yet it was the only explanation. It made Kid want to punch someone in the face, preferably one specific person.

Because how the hell could he be attracted to Law?