"Come on Link please?" Zelda knew she was begging and she knew that his answer wasn't going to change, but she was getting desperate.

"Zel as much as I love you and all, I can't go to a dinner with your family and pose as your boyfriend."

"Why not?" She knew why not.

"One? I have a girlfriend remember? Two? Hmm oh yeah we've been friends forever and they'd see right through that... And let's not forget that your precious sister is the only reason my beautiful Ilia has a job."

"I need to do something Link! They keep trying to set me up with doctors and lawyers and you know how obnoxious they are," Zelda groaned as she collapsed on the couch next to her lifelong best friend.

"Why don't you ask Ike?" Link suggested and Zelda almost laughed at the suggestion. It must've shown on her face because he gave her a look. "Ike's successful, he's attractive, and Ike's-"

"What about me?" Ike asked as he walked into his living room and leaned against the doorframe. Zelda blushed self consciously as he stood there, almost missing Link's joke about the blue-haired man being like Beetlejuice. "Did you really say my name three times?" Ike chuckled, the sound forcing Zelda to recall the first time they met.

"Yeah and poof here you are. Ask him Zel."

"Ask me what?" Ike turned his eyes to her and she just shook her head.

"Don't worry about it-"

"C'mon Zel," Link rolled his eyes and turned to Ike. "She needs someone to go to dinner with her so her family will stop trying to set her up with successful losers she can't stand."

"You need a fake boyfriend for a night?" He asked her, mischief in his eyes.

"Just one dinner so they lay off for awhile," Zelda admitted, already prepping herself for the dismissal. Because why would Ike say yes to something so ridiculous?

"And why not ask me?" Ike asked as he crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow, something Zelda found achingly sexy.

"Would you want to?" she barely managed to ask and he shrugged.

"Could be fun," he said with a little smirk. "When and where?"

"Tonight at my sister Peach's house. Her and her husband just got back from their vacation and she wants to show off so she offered to have the biweekly family meal." A tune sounded from Ike's pocket and he pulled out his phone.

"Call your sister and ask if you can bring your boyfriend," he said with a wink as he answered the call. "This is Ike," he said into the phone as he went back down the hallway to his room.

"Call Peach," Link reminded her as she stared at the spot Ike had been standing, still in shock from him agreeing to do this. Zelda pulled her phone from her purse, almost hoping her overwhelmingly exuberant sister wouldn't answer.

"Zelda!" Naturally, the psycho answered on the first ring.

"Hey Peach, about tonight's dinner-"

"No way, you are so not canceling on me! I have been planning it out perfectly all day and-"

"I was hoping," Zelda spoke over her, "that it would be okay for me to bring along my boyfriend."

"Since when do you have a boyfriend and why the hell is this the first time I've heard of him?! Details. Now."

"Well," Zelda took a deep breath, completely unsure what to say to her, "we've only officially been together for a week and it happened while you and Mario were on vacation-"

"Who is he? What does he look like?"

"He's uh, he's a friend of Link's-"

"Send me a picture of him now!" With that, Peach hung up, leaving Zelda to stare at her phone.

"What's up?" Link's query pulled Zelda from wishing the couple that adopted her hadn't also adopted two blonde bimbos.

"She wants a picture of Ike."

"So? Go get one," Link shrugged like it was nothing and Zelda blushed violently as she moved off the couch and down the hall. This time, she made sure she knocked on the door on the left side of the hall. When she barged in...

"What's up?" Ike asked as he opened the door.

"My sister wants a picture of you to prove you exist," she said and Ike chuckled as he stepped back to let her in. She tried to fight off her mind recalling exactly where Ike had been when she waltzed in on him, but her brain made her look to the spot eagerly, which she hoped he didn't notice.

"Here," Ike took her phone from her hands and turned on the inner camera. He moved close to Zelda and put an arm around her as the other held the phone. "One together will send a better 'together' vibe. So smile." Zelda tried to do what she was told, but it looked so fake. "You're smiling like you're proud of your fucking toothpaste c'mon gimme a beautiful smile." Zelda turned her head slightly, about to tell him that her smile wasn't in fact beautiful when he leaned his lips to her cheek. It was a soft sweet kiss, one that made Zelda squeak and leap away from him like the contact burned. He looked at the phone and grinned as he held it out for her to see. "See? Send that, she'll think we're together when we show up tonight." Zelda took her phone back, a self-conscious smile coming to her lips at the moment he captured. It was the perfect split second before she panicked, a smile on her lips, his eyes half-lidded as he leaned in to her... They looked like a couple. A happy couple that not even Peach could argue with. She sent the picture, not risking looking up at Ike. A message dinged and she smiled at it.

'Wow he's hot'. Zelda looked up at Ike who raised an eyebrow and she bit her lip lightly. Peach had no idea.

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And... Here is proof positive I have no self control. This idea has been buzzing in my brain for a while now and I said "Leigh you won't post a new story until you finish one." And then apparently I must've had a conversation I missed with myself where I told myself to go fuck myself because here's another story start. Let me know what you think so far, much love to my awesome peeps, Leigh