It's Time To Leave

When Alexander came home, the first thing he did was to go to bed.

When Alexander woke up, he felt refreshed somehow and found new strength just coming from his body, so without further ado, he went towards a mirror.

When he looked towards the mirror, he could see the same 18-year-old with neck length golden blonde hair, nordic blue eyes, above-average v-triangle face, and a lean muscular body.

As he looked in the mirror, he couldn't spot any difference from before.

He stood there for a while but couldn't figure out where it came from, so he put the matter behind and put on his clothes so he could go and pick up Nojiko.

A while later, he finally arrived at the Galley-La Headquarters.

He arrived near the door and knocked.

After a while, someone opened the door; it was Robin.

"Oh, Morning, Alex." she said with a smile on her face.

"Morning, Robin." he gave her a little smile.

"So, where can I find little Nojiko?"

"She's in the back by the pool with Nami." she said with a little laugh.

He went inside and walked towards the back.

When he reached the pool, he found Nojiko talking with Nami.

So he smirked a little as he quietly sneaked behind Nojiko, and when Alexander was just behind her, he grabbed her by the waist and picked her up.

"Aaah" she let out a yelp as he picked her up.

"Hello, beautiful." he whispered in her ear.

Nojiko got a little shocked when she was picked up, but when she heard a familiar voice, she calmed down and got excited.

"Alex!" she said excitedly.

Alexander let her down just to be hugged by her.

"You miss me this much, and you have only been away for one night. I can't imagine what would happen if I was away for one week." he said teasingly.

She didn't stop hugging him but buried her face in his chest.

"Ahem"

When he heard that he was instantly brought back from reality, he looked up to see Nami and Robin standing there looking towards them with a playful glint in their eyes.

"Nojiko, they are watching you know" he told her teasingly.

Nojiko didn't seem to care anymore and continued hugging him.

He found it strange that she was acting this way, so he looked towards Robin and Nami with a questionable look.

The two girls just showed him an innocent expression as they had been wronged somehow.

He seemed to have figured out what seemed to have happened.

"Well, you girls seem to have been bullying Nojiko while she was with you girls yesterday."

As Nojiko hears him saying, she nodded in his chest as to approve that is what had happened, and Nami and Robin just started laughing a little.

He just shook his head.

"So, where are the others?"

"They went down to look at the new ship again." Nami said

"Oh, should we go there too? I have something I need to tell them." he told them with a heavy sigh coming out from him.

Nami and Robin looked confusedly at each other but didn't seem to figure out what that heavy sigh was for, but they seemed to have a hunch at what it could be.

Nojiko seemed to have understood what he might have wanted to tell them, so she looked a little sad.

Nami and Robin lead them towards the shipyard where Luffy and the others.

When they arrived, they could see Luffy and the others, and they also noticed the new arrivals.

"Alex, come over here and look at our new amazing ship" When Luffy noticed him, he couldn't stop himself from showing off the new ship they got.

"Hi, Luffy! Yeah, that's a good ship do you want to gift me that ship, or what do you say?" Alexander said, while laughing.

"Eeeh, never this is my ship." Luffy proudly announced as he also started laughing.

When the rest heard their conversation, they also started laughing with them.

The day continued like that until when it started to approach dawn when Alexander wanted to tell them something.

"I'm planning to continue my journey tomorrow, so this is my goodbye." he sadly announced.

Somehow it was hard for him to tell them this. Still, he understood that he might never leave Luffy and the others if he stayed any longer.

Even if he had just started being with them and only recently gotten to know them in real life, he felt alive and that he could trust them with anything and being with them.

But he had already told himself before that he wouldn't join them even if it were tempting he knew better than to do that.

He wanted to start his life with Nojiko, and it might just be him and Nojiko, but he didn't want anything else.

It was messy in his head right now with all these thoughts.

So he just calmed emptied his thoughts and sighed.

After saying that he quickly looked around weirdly when he looked at them, Alexander noticed that they weren't shooked and seemed to take it weirdly well he had thought they would cry or something along these lines.

He only noticed Nojiko seemed a little sad to have to leave her sister so soon.

He reached out and held her hand and looked towards her flashing her a gentle smile.

"You can stay with her if you want" he told her with a sad look on his face but still smiled gently.

Nojiko, hearing his words, surprised her, but a moment later, she looked towards him with an angry expression on her face.

"So you want to leave like that after telling me that you love me, and even if I would love to stay with my sister, I have told you before that I want to follow you, and this journey is "our" journey together."

She declared to him still a little angry at him.

That surprised him a little, but he immediately understood that he offended her.

He went down to kiss her on the lips and showing her a sorry look on his face.

"I didn't mean it like that I'm sorry."

With that kiss, she got a lot happier.

"I'm sorry for being mad at you" she told him with her head down.

"Ahem, you guys should just get a hotel and just be done with it." Nami annoyedly told them.

Everyone started laughing at her outburst.

"Let's go back to the Galley-La Headquarters. I went and bought more meat hehe!!!." Luffy excitedly told everyone

Nami heard what Luffy said and looked towards him with a devilish expression.

"Hehe, Luffy, with what money did you buy more meat for? Was it my money?

"We didn't have any more money in the stash, so I went in your room and found a big stash of belli in your room, so I used that to buy more meat" Luffy proudly said while he began to droll while thinking of all the meat he had bought.

When Nami heard that she walked towards Luffy with heavy steps, Luffy seeing this looked towards Nami with a confused look.

"Nami?"

The only thing you could hear after that was Luffy's painful screams and everyone's laughter.