Walking towards the bedrooms, you awkwardly greeted on your way the new crew that you were now, part of. They were everywhere. There was no part of this ship which was not populated. You hated that.

You just wanted to have at least one small corner where you could hide away from everyone and everything. It seemed strange that all that confidence you had earlier washed away almost in a blink of an eye.

Maybe because you finally left your old place. Maybe you were so overloaded with all these new emotions that it made you want to go back. But you didn't want to come back. After all, this was something you always dreamed of. Why go back now?

You didn't liked to be new. Everyone seemed nice to you at least. Especially Ace. He never wanted to leave you alone on this ship since he was afraid you would get lost. But thanks to Thatch's and Marco's tour of the Moby Dick, you learned the ship's surroundings so that wasn't a problem anymore.

The only thing that this crew lacked was the female crew members. Of course, you did not met all the Whitebeard pirates since the crew was so huge and you were travelling with them only for 12 hours but from what you met, you noticed that there was no female on Moby Dick other than you.

Reiko warned you about it and you were sure you could hear her voice in your head right now telling you the the most hated three words you could possibly hear: 'I told you.'

Rolling your eyes at your thoughts as you entered your bedroom. You were surprised to see Ace sitting on the bed, staring at the ceiling. You raised your eyebrows and walked towards him.

"Did I accidentally walked into your room or something?" You asked. He was surprised when he saw you at the end of the bed and that made him jump out of it. He didn't even noticed that you came in.

"Ah, no! I mean yes? Well, uhh-" He started to mumble something which you couldn't really figure out exactly what he was saying. "Well, yeah. I uhh, wanted to tell you about it, but uhhh-" He stuttered. "Tell me what?" You asked.

"Well, uhh since we have no more room available, we have to share this room." He finally announced. "What?!" You yelled. "Yeah, well everybody shares a room here and since I was the only one who didn't had a roommate they put you in with me." He explained the situation.

"But there's only one bed." You said as you pointed at the twins sized bed. "Yeah, also-" He started but you stopped him before he could continue. "Oh, I get it." You sighed as you sat down on the bed as well. You dropped yourself on the bed and covered your eyed with your arm. What a stressful day.

"Normally, girls would share a room but since we have no other girl here..." He said as he noticed your displeasure. You uncovered your eyes and looked at him. You stood up and sighed. "That's not it. It's just I feel like I'm an outsider here." You started.

Ace raised his brows. "I'm not sure anymore if I did the right choice. I have no one here that I truly know. I just don't know know..." You said slowly. "Oh man, you should've seen me the first time I travelled with this guys. I was forced on this ship." He laughed. "I didn't talk to anyone and I would try to kill Pops at least ten times a day." He confessed as he rubbed the back of his neck.

"What made you change?" You asked him. He gave you a smile before he answered. "I had a talk with Marco that really opened my eyes. I didn't regret a thing ever since then. I became more bold and fearless in everything I was doing because he told me that even if it may seem to me that I was alone, if I would look around me, there were tons of people who were there for me, waiting to risk their lives for me. All I had to do was to accept them and treat them with the same amount of respect."

You smiled at him. He was something, alright not everybody could put a good smile on your face but him, in a matter of minutes he did it all on his own.

Maybe being part of this crew isn't going to be so bad after all.

♡

Making your way towards the promised place, you could already spot Ace in the distance. You put on a huge smile when he noticed you and started to wave at you. You started to laugh very loud when you saw him, as he was walking towards you, trip and fall.

People around you would give you a weird look but you didn't care anymore. This was way too funny not to laugh about. You slowly walked towards him, laughing all the way there and helped him stand up. He gave you a mean look as you continued to laugh at him.

"Stop laughing." He said strictly. "The mighty Fire Fist Ace was defeated by a rock!" You continued to laugh. "Yeah, yeah, laugh it up." He shrugged as he threw his bag in the boat.

"We still have a long way towards Sabaody Archipelago..." He said. You finally calmed down. "Yeah. Let's hope you don't fall over more rocks or else it would take us even more time." You joked. "Stop it." He said quickly.

"Aye, aye, commander." You chuckled as you got on the boat. "May I remind you who forgot the log pose and now we will take trice more time to reach the archipelago?" He said with a smirk. "At least I wasn't the one who fell over a rock." You laughed again.

"You're going to make fun of that my entire life, aren't you?" He asked as he got on the boat as well. You wrapped your hands around his muscular body and smiled. "You bet your ass I will." You said as you got closer to his lips. But just as you were about to kiss him, Ace smirked and used his devil fruit power to start the boat.

The sudden movement made you fall on your back. Ace started to laugh as he watched as you were unable to get up thanks to the high speed. "You bastard!" You laughed.

A few moments later, he stopped laughing and helped you get up. "I hate you." You told him.

"I love you too."

♡

You wimped away your tears. No, you won't cry over a guy! You promised yourself you won't cry over a guy so why do now? Just because he said everything meant nothing to him...

Just thinking about it made your heart ache even more. You hated this. You hated him. You hated that even in moments like this, you still loved him more than you should.

On the other hand, Ace was even more devastated. He hated himself for what he said. Those meaningless, thoughtless words he just said had a huge price and that was your trust. It's very rare for Ace to cry but right now he didn't care anymore.

"I hate you so much." He could hear you say from the other side of the door, making him cry harder.

His heart was breaking because he was the reason he could hear you sob behind this door that was separating the both of you.

♡

Hugging the life out of this man you're lucky to call yours, you were afraid that he might hear your own heartbeat who was going crazy right now. You smiled into his chest as you smelled his, oh so familiar scent.

He had a smile on his face as well as he watched as you snuggled against him. "The amount of power you have over me is scary, (Name)." He mumbled. You pretended not to hear and moved even closer to him. He moved the piece of hair that was on your face behind your ear, action which made you smile even more.

You gave him a small kiss on the lips and his smile grew brighter. "So that means I'm making you powerless, Portgas D. Ace?" You asked him. He threw his arms in the air and with a smile he replied. "Man, sea-stone is nothing compared to you!"

The both of you started to laugh while he wrapped his arms around you.

♡ flashbacks end here ♡

Staring in blank, you could feel the tears streaming down your face. The only sounds you could hear were your heartbeat and the echoing giggles from your memories.

You had the worst headache but you didn't care cause more painful was the fact that you just lost the best thing in your life without even remembering who it was. Garp pulled you into a hug which you gladly accepted it.

You started to sob as you remembered more and more. Everything, from the moment you were born up to this day. All this new information was too much for you and eventually, you fell asleep in Garp's arms.

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Okay! So like literally after an hour after posting the last chapter I finished writing this chapter. I'm fast af lol.

I will probably post this one in the morning not right away.

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