After all staring at each other for another moment or so, they decided that it was now time to LEAVE the mall! So, after boarding the bus and then getting home, they realized that it was NOW FIVE O'CLOCK! GOLLY GEE WHIZ HOW LONG DID THEY SPEND IN AMERICAN EAGLE?

"Hey guys, can we make a lemonade stand NOW?" whined Luffy.

"Luffy, you have all summer to make a lemonade stand." Said Nami.

"But I want to make one today!" Luffy complained.

"You want to make one all year round." Zoro pointed out.

"I just don't know what I'm going to do with all this free time this summer!" Sanji exclaimed out of nowhere. "I mean, it's like a two and a half month long weekend! But you know? I want to go back to school!"

"Why?" said everyone.

"Because." said Sanji, looking confused as to why they were asking him such a silly question. "It's All School.I want to go to All School."

"Oh." Said Zoro. "I thought you were going to say that it was because you wanted to learn more."

"I want to learn more!" said Usopp.

"Well, I thought you were going to say that you thought I was going to say that it was because I wanted to learn how to read." Sanji said.

"I thought you'd say that." Said Zoro.

"And I thought you'd say that too." Sanji replied.

"No, you thought I'd say that I think you should think about learning to read."

"How do you know what I was thinking?"

"I can tell just by the way you say things."

"So you know what I'm thinking just by the things I say?"

"That's not what I said."

"I thought you said that you could tell what I was thinking just by what I said."

"You thought wrong."

"Can't you tell? After all, you said that you can tell what I think just by what I say. I would THINK that you would be able to say what I'm thinking just by listening to the things I say."

"AHHH!" yelled Luffy. "I'M GETTING CONFUSED!"

"I was confused a LONG time ago!" said Usopp.

"I've learned to block them out." Nami sighed.

"Block me out, Nami?" said Sanji as if this was news to him. "Why would you do such a thing?"

"I'm not even going to dignify that with an answer." Nami said, rolling her eyes.

"Technically, Nami, that was an answer." Said Usopp.

"Shut up, Usopp." Said Nami.

"Whose house should we go over to tonight?" asked Luffy. "We can't go over mine because Ace is having an end of the year party and he told me not to come home until tomorrow morning or he'd never take me to Friendly's again."

"Well, you can go over Usopp's house." Said Zoro.

"YEAH!" said Usopp. "You can come over MY house!"

"YEAH!" Luffy said excitedly as the two grabbed hands and swung each other around in circles.

"Now that you two are going to hang out, does everyone else except for Zoro want to come to MY house?" Sanji requested.

"No, Sanji." Said Nami.

"I am offended." Said Zoro, and he probably was.

"It would just be CASUAL!" said Sanji. "I would offer to do homework with you but it's the summer and we don't HAVE homework!"

"Very good." Said Zoro.

"Leave me alone." Said Sanji, giving Zoro an evil eye.

"How about we ALL go over to my house?" Usopp asked as he and Luffy finished swinging each other around.

"Um." said everyone else, avoiding eye contact. It was one thing to go over Luffy's house, but going over Usopp's house was a whole 'nother story.

"I'm sure you and Luffy will have a SUPER fun time alone!" said Nami, giving Usopp the thumbs up.

"That's right!" said Sanji, joining in. "You don't need US to spoil your fun!"

"That is so kind of you!" said Luffy, his eyes welding up with tears.

"So hurry!" said Zoro, trying to push them away. "To Usopp's house!"

"But we can ALL walk back to our houses together!" Usopp tried to argue. "After all, we all live reasonably close, right?"

"Oh very well." said the three older people.

They started walking and pretty soon came across Usopp's house.

"We'll see you guys tomorrow!" said Luffy as he and Usopp ran off to his little cottage thing.

"I don't expect to hear rocks being thrown against my window early tomorrow morning!" Zoro called after him.

"Early?" said Nami skeptically.

They kept walking and walking and walking. Actually, it wasn't all that far to Nami's house.

"All right you guys, don't kill each other on your way home!" Nami said.

"Oh Nami, you're concerned for my welfare?" Sanji said happily.

"Well, I most certainly wouldn't like to see you dead." Said Nami. "Mortally wounded, perhaps. But not dead. As long as it was something you could recover from."

Nami figured that she put Sanji in enough shock so that she could sprint into her house and slam the door before he could intelligently react. Zoro walked up to Sanji and waved his hand in front of his face.

"Oh Nami, why must you be so cold?" Sanji pined.

"I am SO thankful that my house is just a few houses from now." Zoro said as he quickly started walking.

"Hey, so am I supposed to walk home all by myself?" Sanji demanded as he hurried after Zoro.

"Yeah." Said Zoro. "So?"

"I don't find that very fair that everyone else had someone to walk with but not me." Sanji said. "And it's not like I live near you or anything. It's a fair distance from my house to yours."

"Thank GOD." Said Zoro.

"Hmph." Said Sanji. "Now I think I WANT to walk alone."

"What's stopping you?" Zoro asked.

"Your presence." Sanji replied.

"Well aren't you lucky then?" said Zoro. "Here's my house."

"Good riddance." Said Sanji, thinking he was winning when, in reality, he really just sounded like a fool.

So, without exchanging another word, Zoro walked into his house and shut the door behind him, leaving Sanji AAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL alone!

Sanji had to walk past the raging party at Luffy's house and then he finally got to his OWN house. . That's pretty much it. He didn't do any talking to himself and he most certainly didn't get kidnapped. He just reflected on what it was going to be like to have an entire summer off and then go to All School.

Meanwhile, at Usopp's house, those two crazy future seventh graders were party-heartying! First, they made Kool-Aid. Then they went outside and tried to sell some lemonade but that didn't really work since it was already dark outside. Then, since they were already outside and all, they decided to look for bugs and then put them in Usopp's collection. Then they ran back inside to eat a meal or two. Then they spread out their sleeping bags. Then they went to sleep.

Nami entered her house and picked up the phone. She started talking to one of her friends and then went on the three-way phone so she could talk to another one of her friends. Then each of her two friends went on three-way phone so they were talking . a bunch of people. Then, all THOSE people went on three way phone and pretty soon, Nami was talking with some people she didn't even know! But she didn't care because they were guys and they sounded older and maybe she could potentially use them to up her popularity. However, it's not like her popularity could have been upped anymore because she was the most popular girl in school! HAHA! But she could always get a head start on being the most popular freshman in the high school for next year.

Zoro walked into his house, walked up the stairs, walked over to his bed, lied down, and went to sleep.

Sanji, on the other hand, frolicked about in his house for a while, happy that he had an entire summer to spend with Nami but also sad because there would be an entire summer until he got to go to All School. There was a downside to All School, though, and that was that he would have to wait an ENTIRE YEAR before Nami joined him there! To get his mind off sad things, he decided to cook himself a grand meal and spent hours and hours making himself all sorts of elaborate things! Of course, what took the most time was reading those gosh darned labels!

The adventures of the five friends throughout the summer will go on FOREVER in our hearts. But will not be written on this paper. Instead, we'll just jump forward three years.

Yeah 's the end. As a completely random side note, I think the most difficult part of this story was not mentioning or referring to any sort of parental figures since a few of them have unexplained families or we just didn't watch the episodes that center around a particular character's family life. (COUGH NAMI COUGH)