"L-Link, what are you doing?!" I sputtered, barely keeping myself from punching him in the jaw.

"I-I'm sorry, I was just caught up in the moment, and you looked so beautiful, and you understood me, and..." He rambled on, but I didn't listen, I was too busy thinking about how Malon would react to this. I mean, I had to tell her, even if I didn't like her, she deserved to know. In the backround of my thoughts, I could still hear Link rambling.

"Stop." I whispered. He went silent immediately. "I thought you were different. You were kind and real, unlike the other popular people, but I was wrong. You're just like everybody else."

"Zellie I-" He began. I cut him off.

"You don't get to apologize to me! Just leave before you do anymore damage, you son of a bitch!" I yelled. I usually didn't swear, but the circumstances certainly called for extreme measures. Link went absolutely silent, turned, and walked out of my house. I leaned against the wall, and slid down it until I was sitting on the floor. I let the angry tears that I had been holding back fall. Why? Why did he have to kiss me. Sure, I like him, but I would never, ever be the person he cheated on Malon with! That is one of the worst things you can do to a person!

I heard Sheik calling to me as he made his way down the stairs.

"Zelda, I heard some yelling, are you okay?" He appeared in the room as he finished the sentence. "Why are you crying? What did he do?"

"He kissed me." I sobbed. "He has a girlfriend, but he still kissed me." Sheik sat down beside me and gave me a hug. "I feel so guilty. I have to tell Malon, even if she will hate me more for doing so."

"Well, you have a better sense of right and wrong than anybody I know, so if you think that that is the right thing to do, then I would trust your instincts." He told me. "And I promise, if I ever see him again, I will hit him so hard, his whole family'll feel it." I gave a sniffley laugh.

"Thanks, Sheik." I said, grateful that my brother was there with me. I got up and said: "I'm gonna go call Malon, we should meet in person if I am going to tell her this kind of news." Skeik nodded, and I ran up the stairs and into my room. I picked up my cell phone, and dialed Malon's number, which I still had, just in case. The dial tone sounded once...twice...three times. Oh please pick up. I begged silently. Four times...five times... And then:

"Hello?" I breathed in sharply, getting that tingling feeling in my stomach when I am nervous.

"Uhhh, Hey Malon it's Zelda."

"Why?" She asks in a stereotypically snotty way.

"Look I just need you to hear me out, okay?" She must have heard the desperation in my voice, because she conceded. "I know you don't like me, but there is something that I need to tell you. It can't be said over the phone. Can you please meet me somewhere, you really need to know what I have to tell you."

I heard the redheaded ranch girl sigh over the phone until she finally said:

"Okay. Meet me at Telma's Coffee house at noon tomorrow."

"Okay." I breathed, surprised that she agreed. As soon as I hung up, a wave of tiredness washed over my entire body. All I wanted to do was sleep for a month. I climbed into bed, and fell asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.

I struggled to pry open my tired eyes, as I fought to leave my bed behind. I finally succeeded in sitting up, and proceeded to make my way towards the bathroom. I quickly brushed my teeth, took a shower, and washed my face. I got dressed in an off the shoulder light purple sweater, dark blue skinny jeans, and black combat boots. Putting my red-brown hair in a braid, I went to Shiek's room to get him to drive me to the coffee shop.

"SHEIK, WAKE UP! I'VE GOTTA GO TO TELMA'S COFEE HOUSE!" I screamed at him.

"Okay, okay. I'm up." He opened the door to his room, looking disheveled. "Let's go." He grumbled. We got into his car, and he drove me to the coffee house. I thanked him, and told him to drive around for a while, and that I'd call him when I needed him to pick me up. He left, and I went inside. Not seeing Malon, I went up to the counter and ordered a hot chocolate. I sat at a small table for two and waited.

Just when I was starting to get worried that Malon wouldn't come, the fiery redhead walked through the door. She glanced around until she found me. Her eyes glimmered in recognition, but her face remained cold as she walked toward me.

"Alright, what do you have to tell me?" She prompted. I breathed deeply, trying to rid my stomach of the awkward tingly feeling that was growing inside it.

"So, Link was over at my house last night. Don't worry we were just hanging out, nothing serious, or at least I thought. Anyway, it was late, and he thought that he should leave before you started to ask questions. He was about to leave, when he turned back, and kissed me. I stopped it right away, yelled at him, and kicked him out, I promise. I totally didn't want him to do that." Malon sat in stunned silence. She was trying to hide it, but I could see the tears that were brimming in her eyes.

"I am so sorry, Malon." I said, hoping that it would help, even a little bit.

"I'm so stupid." She finally whispered.

"What?" I asked, surprised.

"I've been so blind." She mourned. "I thought that being popular would give me the life I wanted. I thought that everybody would love and respect me. But it seems like the exact opposite! Even my boyfriend seems so hate me!" She collapsed on the table, letting her tears flow. I put my hand on hers, and said the only words I could think of:

"I doesn't have to be like that, you know." She looked up, her face streaked with tears.

"Whaddaya mean?" She asked, sniffing.

"You became the way you are now really fast." I explained. "It would be just as easy to change back. No matter what you might think, Midna, Saria, and I will never stop being your friends." Malon stared at me for a moment, before running over to me and giving me a hug. She sobbed into my shoulder, but this time they were tears of joy.

"I-I left-hic- to find better friends that were-hic- cooler. I wish I had realized sooner that my real friends were right here all along." She confessed. I held her while she cried for a while, and the other people in the coffee shop stared at us as we sat there.

After a few minutes, she pulled herself together, and we sat talking. We hadn't talked in a while, and we had a lot of catching up to do.

"Wait." I said, stopping her in the middle of a story about her father, Talon, falling asleep in the middle of dinner. "I have to call Midna and Saria. They will be so excited to see you." I picked up my cell phone, and dialed both Midna and Saria's number in turn, telling them that I had a surprise for them, and that they should meet me at Telma's.

When they got there, they gasped, and ran toward me at the sight of Malon sitting next to me, and talking to me in a friendly way.

"What's going on?" Midna asked us. I then proceeded to tell her the whole story of how Link kissed me, and how Malon realized that being popular wasn't worth giving up her real friends.

"Woah." Midna breathed when I had finished.

"Midna, Saria, I just want to say that I am so sorry about what I did to you guys. I really lost my way for a while." Malon confessed. "And I want to say I am especially sorry for what I did to you Zelda. I feel like I treated you worst of all."

I gave her a soft, sincere smile. "It's okay Mal. Everybody gets lost sometimes." Saria and Midna nodded.

"We forgive you too, Malon." Saria said, motioning to herself and Midna.

"So, are we back?" I asked excitedly, referring to all of us being as close as we once were. All four of us looked at each other, our eyes glittering with glee, and said in unison:

"Hell yeah!"