Vivi stays, for a while, but even after she leaves clicks on keyboards and laughter down telephone wires are commonplace.
Luffy finds he quite likes typing. It's slow, certainly, but every word can be double-checked and there's no problem with his awful writing if he types. It's easy, to type.
He types out invitations, when he turns sixteen, and makes sure Vivi gets hers super super early so she can come, and even when her father ends up getting them lost on the way to his place, she still gets there in time for cake. And cake's the best bit after presents, so she didn't miss much.
When there are cold cans of soda passed into every hand and the hours leave them for yesterday, Vivi's father comes by to pick her up. He chats with everyone, even Luffy, but there's still;
"You have Asperger's, right?"
"Wh-?" He asks, a question that stays poised on his lips, that he's not sure he should ask but wants to anyway.
Vivi's dad's face furrows, like he's confused but not really at the same time, and Luffy feels his toes curl into the marble floors. "Asperger's. Vivi has it as well, and so does Zoro, I believe."
"How do you-," Luffy started, with a feeling akin to panic in his head,
"When you answered the phone?" He laughs, an amused thing at the confusion brought tight into Luffy's brow, "It's a bit difficult to explain, but there are certain traits that just happen. Like when you answered the phone." Vivi's dad pauses, looking like his explanation is stuck, and offers a smile and a sigh. "I'm sorry, I'm not explaining this very well."
"Huh?" Luffy pulls himself from his thoughts and grins, fastening the word away in his head. "Naw old man, I get it."
Asperger's.
AN: And we're reaching the home stretch! There are three chapters after this, and I really really love them all because they just get super cute. :3
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