I'm curious...
what do you think is wrong with Eden?

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  The next morning, (Y/n) is awakened by a light knock on her door. She groggily sits up, confused on where she is for a solid few seconds. Then, it dawns on her, she's in heaven. She falls back into bed, but the knocking continues, making her remember that she needs to train.
The realization of someone waiting on her makes her run around the room to get ready. By the time she opens the door, she's out of breath, "S-sorry... I guess I was just really tired... Eden! Good morning!"
The younger female just gives her a small nod, facing away from the energetic woman. She doesn't say anything as she walks away, (Y/n) following closely behind her. Soon, a delicious smell starts to waft into her nose. The thought of food suddenly making her stomach growl loudly.
"Sorry, I guess I didn't realize how hungry I was last night before I went to bed," she says sheepishly, but once she doesn't get a response from the smaller girl, she bites her lip. "Are you-"
"That's the dinning room, Marco will show you where to sit once inside," the white-haired girl says, turning around and making walking back the way they came. "I'm going back to bed."
  The (h/c)-haired woman goes to call out to her, but a hand on her shoulder causes her to look towards the person it belongs to. It's... Izo, she believes his name is, also the person Ace said found Eden... if she recalls correctly.
"Let her be... she's been doing this every couple of days," he says, his hand still rests on her shoulder, but in his eyes she can see the concern. "Supposedly, some of the girls say that Eden doesn't like hanging out with them and that she always looks nervous. She avoids questions like the plague as well... but according to Ace, she seemed to really take a liking to you. The fact that she even brought you here proves that to me... I just hope that she's alright. Let's get you some breakfast."
  Before she follows the taller male, she sends one last glance down the hall Eden just disappeared down. Was it just her imagination, or–for the very few seconds she saw Eden's face–did it look like she was crying? She'll have to make sure to check up on her after breakfast.
  Once inside the dinning room, the delicious smell that was once faint now smacks (Y/n) in the face. She really didn't eat enough last night and if she thinks about it, did she even eat dinner? She's almost certain she didn't, but that shouldn't matter. She needs to make sense of the chaos happening right now if she wants to eat. There are empty seats at a long table, most people are still piling into the room so they haven't taken their seats yet.
  In fact, most of them are in a line that snakes around the room. It's an assembly line for food, best bet is to get in line before it gets too long. While she makes her way there, she's surprised to see the boys come in the room. Kid looks like someone woke him up and he's in a bad mood, but she still waves them over. Heat, Penguin, and Shachi run over to her, the other three just walking.
  "(Y/n), it smells amazing in here!" Heat puts his arm around her shoulder, taking in a deep breath. "How'd you get here? Jozu woke us up saying that if we don't get here and get some food Ace will eat it all when he gets up."
  "Ah, well, Eden woke me up," she says, smiling at how much energy this man has, he never ceases to amaze her. "Then she showed me the way here and-"
  "She? Is she cute?" Penguin looks around the room, obviously checking out all the girls in close proximity. "Where is she?"
  "If you had let me finish..." (Y/n) sighs out. "She's not feeling well and went back to sleep."
  "Bummer," Shachi places a hand on Penguin's shoulder to shake him back into reality. "But look at this food! What a feast."
  "What are you idiots on about?" Kid covers his mouth as he yawns. "You're all annoying, I don't get where you get your energy from."
  "We get it from you," Heat says, letting go of (Y/n) and stepping away, creating a little space between them. "We just siphon it from you, that's why you're always tired."
  "Oh, I see," Kid folds his arms, dropping the conversation, and turns to (Y/n). "How'd you sleep last night? You missed dinner."
  "I'm... aware," she says, moving with the line, grabbing plates and handing them out to her friends. "And I slept amazingly well, actually. Thanks for asking. I'm surprised you even care. I thought Law was going to be the one to yell at me."
  "I've already done it many times, (Y/n)-ya," the taller man says lazily. "I've found no use in keeping it up, if he wants to do it, let him. He'll soon find that it bares no rewards."
  "Whatever, where's your friend?" Kid rolls his eyes, but takes the plate.
  "Sick," she turns to face the table on table. "I think..."
Kid raises his brow, but says nothing. Instead, he just takes his place in line, following the lead of the people in front of him. (Y/n) compiling her favorite breakfast, using all the utensils given for the food. Once she's done, she finds a spot at the table and sets her food down. She saw a few drink dispensers and she should get something to drink.
The rest of the group setting down their plates, and some of them already eating, "What's up, (Y/n), why aren't you eating?"
"I need to find the drinks," she says, still observing the area until she finds the jugs. "Do you guys want anything?"
"Orange juice if the have any, with out without pulp is fine!" Heat gives her a thumbs up, turning to Wore and nodding before facing (Y/n) again. "He'd like some milk!"
She blinks, but smiles anyway, turning to Penguin, Shachi, and Law, "And you...?"
"We'll just take orange juice as well, right?" Penguin turns to Shachi, he nods, then turns to Law who only stares back with dead eyes. "Or not... Shachi and I will take an orange juice."
"I want coffee... I'll get it myself," he gets up and walks in the opposite direction of the drink dispensers.
"I'll go with you, you honestly can't expect to carry all of that, can you?" Kid says before she can even ask him, and then he grabs her wrist and drags her towards the stacks of cups. "So... that's three orange juices... whatever you and I want... and one milk."
He hands her three cups and takes the other three, filling them up with orange juice, then grabbing one of the other cups and fills it up with orange juice as well. He picks up three of the cups and waits for (Y/n) to finish what she was doing and pick up the other three, "You got orange juice?"
"Why not?" he shrugs, walking away from her handing out the orange juices and taking his seat.
She follows his lead and sits down. The sudden urge to eat hitting her now, "This is a great breakfast. Let us pray to the gods. If anything good came from the end of the world... it's that I got to partake in this amazing breakfast!"
"I'm happy you feel that way, it really used to be the best breakfast around," Marco takes a seat next to the (h/c)-haired woman, his plate only filled with fruit. "But now that he was–our best cook... isn't around... it's just not the same-yoi."
"Were you and your best cook dating?" (Y/n)'s mouth moves before she even has time to censor herself, but the way Marco laughs tells her that it's okay.
"That obvious-yoi?" he scratches the back of his neck, his face slightly tinted. His face falls and he brings his hands in front of him, one in the other, "That's why we can't let Blackbeard run this town... ever. I'm not telling you this so you join our fight. In fact, I think you should do what you need and leave as soon as you can as to... not be forced to stay. I'm just telling you so you know why we're putting our full effort in-yoi."
He stands up as Ace walks into the room and hands the plate he had to (Y/n), "Do me a favor and give this to Eden when you leave-yoi."
Before she can agree he walks away, leaving her alone with the thought dawning on her that Marco said he... so he was dating a guy. Therefore, he's gay...? Oh cool. Nothing wrong with that.
"(Y/n), what's going on in that thick skull of yours?" Kid leans over and flicks her forehead. "We're talking about what we need to do in order to be ready to leave."

-Chapter 17: Breakfast... End...-

-Chapter 18: Eden... begins now...-