Well, here you go! Another romance story, hee hee. And this time it is not a One-shot! *gasp* Me? Not writing a one-shot? But what about The Legend Of Zelda: Nightwane's Curse? Well, I am putting that story on hold, you can find out why in my profile ;) Anyway, please enjoy my newest story, Reminiscence is Calling!
Chapter 1: Cutest Couple
She stared at his handsome face; he had a strong smile, and the clearest blue eyes she had ever seen. However now, his eyes were sad, and his smile nonexistent as he placed his strong arms on her tiny shoulders.
"Zel, I'm sorry."
Why would he be sorry? He had no reason to be, even if they were going out. She smiled, confusion riddled on her face.
"What do you mean?"
"W-we need to go our separate ways."
"What? B-but, we love each other right?
"Yes, I do love you, Zel. However, I don't think it's fair to you to have you wait for me. That is why, when I go to college in Faron, I don't want you to wait for me. Go on with your life, but I will come back to get you, if you still want me, after my schooling is done. It's going to take more than eight years though. I have to get my doctorate. I must if I want that apprenticeship I've been talking about."
"I understand."
"You do?"
"Yes, you will be gone, out of my life, for more than eight years, and during that time period you want me to keep dating. Keep seeing other guys, because you don't want me to feel 'tethered' to a guy who isn't even in my life. I get that, but this is what I say to it. Bull Shit. You can tell me that, but what happens if I marry huh? What will you do then?"
"Well, like I said, I will only return if you want me. If you're married, I'll continue on in my career, same goes for you. Don't forget about your flute."
"Okay, silly. But know this: I will not forget about you. I will hold on and wait as long as I can. I will not date unless someone really strikes me as special. Understand?"
"Of course."
"Good."
"I- *Ring Ring* Okay? Don't you ever *Ring Ring*"
"I got it."
"*Ring Ring*"
She couldn't understand him, but she answered anyway. What was that ringing? What had he said? Her head was swimming with too many questions. . .
Zelda awoke with a moan as her phone rang in her ear. Groggily, she sat up under her white covers in her bedroom. The room was a nice shade of Lavender, with several throw pillows and random green bean bags. Zelda was laying in a master bed, and she fingered the area where her husband used to lay….
*ring ring*
"All right already!" Zelda snapped, grabbing at the fuzzy pink phone. It had been a gag gift from her friend Saria. Zelda hated the color pink, and fluffy things didn't go her way. She wondered why she had yet to throw the stupid phone out. Oh well.
"Zelda! Guess what!"
The over cheery voice on the other end told Zelda that it was her friend Marin. The girl had strawberry blonde hair, blue eyes, and an orange flower was always in her hair. Always, even at Zelda's husband's funeral last year. That flower had annoyed Zelda, but she let it slide, seeing as Marin really didn't take no for an answer.
"What?" Zelda replied with a sigh, glancing at the clock. It was six in the morning, there were two more hours of sleep Zelda could be having before she had to get her son ready for school. Ugh, good job Marin.
"I found him! Oh my gosh! He's here in the morning paper! He won some award for his geologic work or whatever."
Marin didn't act like a 35 year old, Zelda thought. Her friend, Midna, agreed. On the other hand, Midna didn't like Marin that much.
"Wait. Who are you talking about?"
"Geez, you need to keep up! Link! You know? Your old beau back in high school?"
Oh. Him. Zelda hadn't thought of him in forever. That reminded her of the dream she had just had. That was their "break up"; it had been the biggest thing in school for two months. Zelda had no idea why, it left her crying for only one week.
She had tried to keep her promise to Link too, but then she had met her husband at a carnival. Now that she thought about it, Marin had been the one to introduce them. Maybe that was when Marin officially became Zelda's friend. She had needed Marin to get to her husband, Ike Royale.
Her and him had gotten a lot of laughs out of his last name, Zelda remembered fondly.
"Oh, yeah. I remember him. Why, what about him?"
"Well, you told me a couple years ago that you had wanted to find him."
"Huh?"
"You said you wanted to catch up on old times! You know, reminisce?"
"Y-yeah, but that was years ago. Now I have Sheik to take care of." Zelda yawned. It was too damn early. Before Marin could get another word in, Zelda spoke again, rather agitated,
"Look, Marin. I know you're excited, but can't this wait until brunch? My head hurts, it's too early."
"Um, Okay. Sorry then Zelda. See you at brunch." Marin said flatly before the other line ended.
Zelda sighed, she felt bad that she had snapped at Marin, but she really didn't want to talk about something so taxing at the moment. Link was a complicated subject. He had been her first love interest back in high school, and they had gone out for a majority of it. Then when Link graduated (he had been a year ahead of Zelda) he had broken off the ties. He was to attend South Faron University, a prestigious science academy that had the latest in science exposure. Link had gotten accepted, of course.
The school was so prestigious that it required all of its students to focus on their studies basically twenty four hours a day, for fear of failing a class. In other words, Link couldn't see Zelda for eight years. He was just going to (poof!) leave her life for eight whole years. That had obviously made Zelda mad, in fact after that one week of tears was followed by three weeks of punching pillows and ripping up stuffed animals. Those poor animals…
If you hadn't noticed, Zelda had an awful temper, which had placed her past relationships in danger plenty of times before. Zelda spoke her mind, she really couldn't help it. And, to most people's surprise, "harsh" Zelda also played the flute. She had participated in the County Orchestra and Band for five years, but she quit after she had to move from Castle Town to Eldin Province with her new husband. There, amongst the rock, she had lived the rest of her twelve year marriage to Ike with her son Sheik.
Ike had died at the beginning of the twelfth year from brain cancer. Zelda had never been sadder in her whole life, and Sheik, having been eleven at the time, had been out of it for five whole months. They had mourned together, along with all of their friends and family. Just a few months ago, Zelda had finally put her life back together. She no longer went to bed crying, and neither did Sheik.
They really did mirror each other, they even looked similar. They both had platinum blonde hair, violet eyes, and fair complexion. The only thing from Ike that Sheik received was his motor skills. The kid was like a ninja.
However, that didn't mean that Ike and Sheik weren't close. It was the opposite, those two were inseparable. They did everything together, watched movies, played baseball, ran, talked, laughed, and sang. It was amazing. Amazing that Ike could do all that, still work full time as a lawyer for Gorons, and keep Zelda happy. He truly was incredible.
So incredible, that the goddesses had felt the need to take him from her. Zelda sighed again, tossing and turning in her bed. There was no way she was going to sleep now, she was too riled up. She got out of her bed and stood, stretching her arms high into the air. She quickly got changed from her baby blue satin pajamas to more appropriate "mom" wear: Jeans, white lace camisole, and a dark green cardigan. She then put on a light brush of makeup, pearl earrings and a pearl necklace. She then stepped into a pair of light brown sandals and proceeded downstairs.
It was now 6:30 A.M. and Zelda decided to start on a special breakfast for Sheik. She would make him pancakes, eggs, and bacon. Better than that cereal he usually ate. She walked past the marble entryway of their two story farm style house. She then proceeded past the living room with a large leather sofa and a leather love seat with a glass coffee table in front of it. Zelda didn't own a television because it rots kids' brains, so they improvised with a huge wooden bookcase filled to the brim with books. Zelda glance at it as she passed through and stopped in her tracks.
On the shelf was a variety of books. There were Fairy tales and children's stories from when Sheik was younger, Law theses, Action stories, encyclopedia sets, a huge variety of fiction best-sellers, and non-fiction on tons of topics from Ancient Hyrule to the lifestyle of the infamous Gerudo. Also on this shelf were Zelda's yearbooks from high school. She couldn't bear to part with them; high school really had been great, no matter how much she was indifferent to Link now.
Zelda walked over to the high shelves and reached up to grab her junior yearbook. She looked at the dusty white cover; on it depicted the Triforce, with tiny pictures of the schools large sports selection put together in a yellow hue to make up the Power triangle, all of the clubs making up the Courage triangle, and various academic pictures making up the Wisdom triangle. It was beautifully and intricately made by the Yearbook Club all those years ago, and Zelda truly appreciated their effort.
She brushed off the dust with her hand, and opened the yearbook up. Inside were black and white pictures of all of the students and their activities, obviously. Zelda paged through to the section laid aside for the seniors and looked at the "Senior Picks"
Class Clown: Tingle Dingle
Best Smile: Saria Forester
Most Fashion Forward: Marin Tarin (Zelda burst out laughing at the atrocious dress Marin was wearing. It had a deep turtleneck at the top that flared out into a jean skirt. It was hideous, but was the style at the time.)
Best Car: Dark Shadow
Most artistically talented: Malon Lon Lon
Cutest Couple: Link Avalon and Zelda Harkinian
And there they were, holding hands and looking at the camera, huge smiles on their faces. Link was two heads taller than Zelda, and their blonde hair showed through the black and white film. Link was built; he had been a fencer and a black belt in Kung-Fu. He wore a sweater and jeans, while Zelda wore a long bohemian skirt with a blouse. Seniors had voted for them even though Zelda wasn't a Senior, but a Junior, at the time.
Zelda fingered the photo, caught in her memories. The first date at the soda shop, dinner then the movies, their re-enactment of Mars Attacks (it had turned out better than the original film, in Zelda's opinion), trip to the bowling alley with Dark and Midna…
"Mom?"
Zelda dropped the book in shock. Sheik was standing there in the hallway, staring at her quizzically, and he was still wearing his Hero of Time pajamas. Zelda smiled, embarrassed.
"Oh, good morning Sheik! Why are you up so early?"
"I heard you laugh. We've been over this mom; your laugh is really loud."
Zelda chuckled, "You are too much like me! So straightforward!" She walked over to him, and tussled his already messy blonde hair.
"Now I was thinking of making pancakes, eggs, and bacon for breakfast. How does that sound?"
"Great! I'm starving!"
"Alright, go upstairs and get ready for school," Zelda glanced at the clock, it was only 6:45!
"Even though you have more than an hour to get ready." she laughed easily.
"Okay." Sheik turned and ran back upstairs, banging all the way up.
"So noisy." Zelda chuckled, returning to pick up the yearbook. She looked at the picture again, and then returned the book to the shelf. Sighing yet again, Zelda went to the kitchen to make Sheik his breakfast.
What did you think? I got the idea for this from an episode from On The Fly on TLC. It was a story of a long lost couple getting back together. It was really quite cute, so I was like. "I Know! I'll make a fan-fic about it!" But don't worry, it is a lot different from the show, it was just a basis of inspiration. Thanks for reading, and please review! If you do, I'll give you, uh, a plushie Link! With sword swinging and sheild bashing action. Oh, you know you want this plushie *holds it up* so review! Please?