I let out a shaky sigh of relief. Just finished my report with six minutes to spare. That all nighter was though, but i did it!

Leaning back I do a good old stretch followed by a loud popping noise. I should stop putting stuff off till last minute. Its not the best to live off cup-o-noodles and three to four hours of sleep. But im a poor college student, so i need to conserve money.

...Maybe in a better way but conserve money nun the less.

Pulling out my phone, I check my messages. Looks like my good pal Alexander asked to hangout tomorrow and watch anime, yesterday...

I introduced anime to my friend to about 2 years ago and gradually have tricked them into becoming a weeb. I respond with a 👍 and tell him to be hear in 5 hours. Its like 5 a.m. right now and i need at least some sleep and time to clean up.

I wake-up to falling on my face. Good, now I have a reason to use my baseball bat. Looking up I see Alexander looming over me with a god dam smug look.

He's dead to me.

Growling, I start to get up then kick him as hard as I can in the kneecap. The highest pitch scream I've heard this month sounded throughout my apartment. Revenge. He then proceeds to grab his knee and fall forward... Hitting his kneecap hard on the ground. Another shrill scream is released. So he's the one who took my spare key...

I feel no regret, just hope I don't get a noise complaint.

"Is that how to treat a friend that bought you a gift? I think im just going to keep this then." Alexander said as he shakely got off the ground.

"Swory (sorry) Ander, I didn't mean fwor (for) it to gwo thwis fawr (go this far)." I say in a baby type voice as a joke for the apology. We do this type of thing a lot.

"Ya ya, laugh at my pain why don't you. But are you sure you don't want to see what I got you?" He stuck his tongue out at the end.

"Show MEEE! Sorry bout kicking you btw."

"It's fine. *sigh* you owe me for this."

"Owe you for- ow my god!" As I spoke he pulled out the original first addition one piece manga! I've been trying to get my hands on a copy for years!

"I want to be repaid in your famous chocolate peanut butter cake. Two of them."

"Deal!"I said as I carefully snatch the manga from his hands. "Were did you get this...?" I eyed him suspiciously.

"My grampa didn't want it anymore, something about it being beyond comprehension or something, he never opened it. Just be happy I gave it to you instead of selling it online."

"Thank you so much! You don't know how long I've been trying to get my grubby little hands on one of these. I wish I could go and be apart of the anime some times..."

"That's what OC's are for, but you just like to bully them." He said as he sat on my couch.

"I don't bully them! I just have them go through character development. It's perfectly normal!" I sneer.

"Mutilating you characters face is not character development." I glare at him.

"At least that was beneficial to them in the long run. Lets just drop it and watch some anime."

And we did for the rest of the day, till I kicked him out for making a mess. Looking at the clock it was 9:30 pm. Time to look at the manga Zander got me!

I didn't read it while he was hear cuz he would make snotty remarks about the story. It would ruin my good vibes.

Opening the manga to the first page i noticed something written on the inside cover. 'To join the world of one piece say I wish I could be in one piece out loud.' Lol. I have nothing better to do, sucks that the manga was tampered with though.

"I wish I was in one piece!"

I sit there a few seconds, then blinked. It was dark when I opened my eyes, I could hear chatter happening around me. But it sounded like it was through liquid so it was muffled.

Then I felt like I had the soul squesed out of me. And there was light.

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