Honey, Your Aspies' Showing

by authenticaussie

Luffy has something wrong with him; he just doesn't know what it is. Words are dropped around him like he can't hear what they're saying, and it's almost like he doesn't, because even when the terms to describe it all stick in his head, he can never seem to find out anything else. (AKA, that one modern AU where Luffy has Asperger's syndrome and hints of minor ADHD.) Drabbles

3. Friends and How Not to Make Them

Friends are bubbles, Luffy finds.

They float away if you don't watch them and follow them, and they pop and are gone if you try and hold them.

Luffy tampers down on every urge he has to cling and follow and he lets them float away when they don't want him anymore, because he's learnt that everything his mind tells him to do isn't to be believed, and holding on is the wrong way to make them stay.

They all pop anyway.

Pop, pop, pop, and every time they do there's bubble liquid in his eyes and it makes them sting and burn and but he knows that if he's closer– if they're closer – and he tries to hold them down, it'll hurt all the more.

Pop, and the one he held close pushes him away and leaves him nonetheless.

Pop, and the one he let go leaves him forever.

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AN: You guys are all fantastic and wonderful and every time my email comes up with a review I get this super happy feeling, like you have no idea. (whispers two chapters is a good way to say thank you, yes?)

Thanks again to Love in fire, LadyofDragons99 and Pugslover (for doing both chapters even though I'd already posted them! ^w^ You're fantastic!), and last but not least, Frostbert (your review made me laugh out loud and grin like crazy every time I remembered it! ^u^)