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Chapter 9: Best Friend's got your back

A/N: Cover image by me ^v^

'Marco's POV'

Yes, finally! School's done! I can finally rest my head on my fluffy pillow, and drift to sleep. No homework. No projects. No exams. Just a whole night for me, and me only... or so I thought. As I closed my dorm room door behind me, took off my sneakers and properly placed it on my shoe rack, and headed straight to my bedroom. I flopped down to the comfort of my bed, and let the feeling of sleep succumb to me... then my fucking phone rang!

'Why do you hate me God!' I proceeded to get up from my bed and grabbed my phone on the tiny table I had, I looked at the caller's name and I was kinda surprised when I read 'Yamato', which was weird for me since she doesn't call me unless it's about school related things, or she's drunk. I swiped the green button and spoke with a "Hello?".

"So who is it...", was all she had to say to me right after she went silent.

I was confused by that, so I answered her question with another question, "what do you mean?".

"I mean, who does Ace like? I need to know!!".

Then something clicked in my head, "oooh that, well... I can't tell".

"What?! Why not?", she said while I hear in the background were the clattering of bottles.

"Wait a sec, are you in a restaurant?".

"Actually I'm at a bar, I'm with some friends of mine".

"Alright...", I then layed on my bed and put the call on speaker, "... and I'm not telling you since Ace still isn't sure to tell you guys yet, he's still insecure about it".

"That's bullshit...", she respond while she paused for a bit, "... I already told him to have little trust on us, since we would be worried for him", she continued as she sounded like having food in her mouth.

I sighed at that as I respond, "let him take time... besides, he's still beaten up from the fight with Bellamy earlier, plus that head of his is still on the process of healing".

"Wait, hold up... Bellamy? He started to pick a fight again?"

"Yeah, ain't no surprise there to be honest...", I replied as I feel like my eyelids getting a bit heavy, "... look, if you really want to know who he likes so much, try asking Thatch about it. He already figured out earlier, now if you excuse me", after I said that I immediately hang up on her mid sentence. 'Now that that's done...' I finally closed my eyes as I really get to dreamland... then I hear a fucking knock on my door, 'You must really hate me, do you God?'. I got up once again and went to the door to open it, only to be met by someone unexpected.

"Hey Marco! Is it okay if I crash in here for the night?"

I sighed and scooted back for him to enter, "come on in Luffy". He walked inside and made his way to my bedroom whilst he sat on the floor, "so what brings you here, isn't Ace in your dorm?".

"He isn't, he's going out to see Dadan at a diner somewhere", he respond while he took one of my manga's in a nearby shelf, "and Zoro just ghosted me after what I did earlier, Usopp is working on a major project, Nami is off working again, Chopper is busy in the nearby hospital with Doctorine, Sanji isn't talking to either Zoro or me, Brook is somewhere on a club or something, and Robin and Franky are on their date night... so yeah".

I nodded and hummed to his story, I checked on my phone to see I got a lot of messages from Yamato, saying that she doesn't know Thatch's number and is asking if I could give it to her. I just ignore it since I know that Thatch would immediately spill it to her and would bug Ace a lot. "So, did Sabo kept bugging you about Fire Fist's identity?", I asked Luffy who was reading the manga.

He looked over to me and respond, "not that much anymore... he eventually stop when he kept following Ace".

"Wait...", I said as I got up from my bed "... he was following him? Why?".

"Well at first I thought he finally knew who Fire Fist is, but actually he was just worried about him because he hit his head at the stairs".

"Ooh I see...", I said flopping back to the mattress. "Did he by chance... saw the fight?".

Luffy thought about it for a second, then just responded with a shrug, "beats me... I turned my head to see him no longer in my area of sight, so maybe?".

Well that might be a problem, if Sabo knew that Ace is Fire Fist, then Ace won't have a chance with him, and I really don't want to see him binge eating a tube of ice cream while watching telenovelas under his blanket. Because that's just sad. I gotta find a way to not let him know about it, then an idea struck me, "... say Luffy," I said getting his attention from the manga he is reading, "tell me... how much do you care for Ace".

To which he replied, "like a brother! I care about him like a brother!".

"Okay, so if you do care for him like that, then you need to not let the other student body members, including Sabo, to not know his identity as Fire Fist or he might get in trouble, or worse expelled... think you can do that?".

He nodded his head in a rapid speed, and I can practically see stars in his eyes, maybe it might be my imagination or something. When 15 minutes had past, he left my dorm, waved me goodbye and rushed off to his own dorm. I shut the door and went back to my bed to finally sleep, knowing that no one is gonna interrupted me this time.

Then I noticed that my tiredness is all gone, and I cannot sleep. 'Fuck you there is no God'. I got up from my bed again and walked towards the kitchen, 'I might as well just make myself somethin' to eat' I thought to myself whilst I grabbed some ingredients from the fridge, then that's when my phone rang again, I ignored it thinking it was Yamato. But the ringing still continued, so I grabbed my phone and looked at the name of the caller, to my utter surprise it was someone I didn't even expected. Edward Newgates.

A/N: This part is done, let's move on to the next one ^v^