Disclaimer: -checks the credits in Brawl- Nope, not mine

Chap's really short...I guess people would be expecting a longer one?

Ugh...my bad. Last chapter I said they where sophomores right? They were supposed to be freshmen, three years later and all.

Three Years Later...

"Look at her..."

"...strutting around sulking because of such a little thing..."

Every word sunk into her like a knife. According to the whole school, her parents decided to move suddenly leaving her in the care of her mother's siblings.. The police only reported that three people in a family have been found dead in their homes. The fact that was her family, however, was kept secret. Despite how much she tried to keep up an everything-is-okay act, her melancholy eventually got out and everyone else started to think of her as a masochistic bitch. You agreed to keep it hushed up! Don't regret that decision now! Three years...and still no sign of evidence that may help unveil the killer. Zelda Hikari, seventeen year old junior, ignored the mutterings and whispers that followed her everywhere. She occasionally thought about the group she used to consider her friends. Peach, chatting away as if she doesn't have any worries in the world with Link. Along with them, would be Samus Aran, who seemed to have taken Zelda's title as "most popular"...though she sometimes got the impression that the other girl didn't want to be part of that group. It could have been a lot worse I guess...

Somebody pinched her cheek.

"Done being all emo now, Zel?" Ike laughed as he let go of her face. Zelda forced a smile and she rubbed her cheek. This was one silver lining at least. Somehow she just gotten closer to Marth and Ike, the only people who wouldn't talk to her with overly cheerful expressions and doesn't start muttering the second she turned her back; different from the friends she had in Peach and Link, but friends all the same so she wasn't complaining.

"Yeah...I am." she replied, and she glanced back down. The two of them was making their way to their next class – physical science. Ike just looked at her with a worried expression before remembering, "Oh yeah. Mist's birthday party is this Sunday and she wants you to come."

"Sure, I'd love too. Does she want anything in particular?"

"Seriously Zel, she'll like whatever you get her...you should know that by now." Ike assured her. Just then, Marth caught up with the two of them.

"Hey, Zelda, Ike." he greeted them casually. Ike cast a look at his best friend.

"Say...Marth you know those notes we where supposed to take in science yesterday-?"

"No, you can't borrow them." Marth replied, seeing though his friend's act at once. "Stop being lazy and take your own notes for a change. It won't kill you."

"Ugh..."

Zelda giggled silently as the two boys continued arguing before going back into her moody self.

"Zelda!" Ike's voice rang out, "I though you said you where done being all emo."

"Yeah...sorry, Ike." She replied hastily. Marth glared at his friend for a moment before noticing one of the digital clocks on the wall.

"Aw crap. I've got Japanese 2 next period, and it's on the other side of campus. Gotta run!" he said taking off.

"Japanese 2?" Ike mused. "And he calls me lazy. Come on, Zelda, we're going to be late. And I'm so dead without those notes..."

"Then hope your new lab partner is generous enough to share them." Zelda replied, grinning. Teasing Ike about his abnormally poor performance in Physical science was laughable when he has almost straight As in everything else.

Amusingly enough, Ike's new lab partner was Samus. Not only was she the most popular girl in school, Ike also happens to have a very large crush on her. Judging by Ike's expression – he was either grinning like an idiot in his head or having a nervous breakdown. As the teacher began giving instructions, Zelda's partner gave her a expression that said as clear as day, Oh crap. In return, Zelda gave her an equally cold expression.

Physics passed quickly enough. She and Ike split up since she has English next period while he had Calculus. Entering the classroom and ignoring the looks everyone gave her, she took her usual seat near the back of the room and she took out her binder. Samus walked in after a minute and she sat down in front of Zelda. The English teacher started his class of by telling the class to pass forward their homework from last night so he could collect them. Zelda reached forward with the sheet of binder paper to Samus, who took it without saying anything or giving her any sort of expression that she was used to receiving from other students.

Samus glanced quickly at the paper the girl behind handed to her. She herd about her parents moving, but why they would leave their daughter behind was beyond her. She still found it suspicious since that family of three was killed approximately at the same time Zelda's family moved away. Deep down, Samus wanted to get to know Zelda, whom she had known by appearance since middle school, but never talked to. Three years ago, she was at the top of the social pyramid, but now only hung around Marth and Ike (again, knowing them by name and appearance, but nothing more). Did her parents moving away really have that much of an impact on her?

The teacher finally dismissed the students and Zelda packed up quite quickly and she walked past Samus without an expression on her face. Samus turned around and noticed Zelda's pencil case lying on the floor. Self-consciously, she picked it up. Remembering she had history with Zelda next period, she zipped up her backpack and decided to return it to her. She managed to avoid many of her friends on the way there before she turned a corner and almost walked right into Ike, one of Zelda's friends and her new lab partner for physics.

"Oh, sorry." she said.

"It's okay, no harm done." Ike replied. He noticed Zelda's pencil case in her hand.

"Um.." God, why was she mumbling? "She left this behind in English. I figure that she would want it back."

"Oh." he paused for a sec. "She has history in room C-15 this period."

"I know. She's in my class. Well...er...see yeah around I guess." She hurried past him without waiting for a response.

Behind her, Ike blinked for a second or two before rushing to his next class where he met up with Marth.

"Hey," his friend greeted him. "You okay?"

"I'm better than okay," Ike replied, with a grin once he realized what had happened, "I just had a conversation with Samus!"

"Oh, congrats buddy," Marth said with a hint of sarcasm in his voice. "how many gay babies where brought into this cruel world, I wonder."

"Shut up." Ike glowered at his friend. "Oh yeah...Zelda said that she'd be coming to Mist's birthday party."

"Your sister's party...?" Marth trailed off as the two boys reached their classroom door. "Oh god, I forgot."

"Well, Zelda obviously didn't get her a present yet." Ike hinted grinning. Marth scowled and he took out his books for class before reaching into his pocket taking out a cell phone, keeping it under his desk and out of the teacher's range of vision.

"Normally I wouldn't do this, but..."

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"Hey." Zelda could hardly believe her ears. Was Samus Aran actually talking to her? "You left this in English today." She placed her pencil case on her binder and headed to her own seat without a second glance. Zelda frowned and she looked in her bag and to find that her pencil case wasn't in there. Well...Samus could've paused long enough for her to say thanks.

Suddenly, her cell phone vibrated in her pocket. Glancing around and saw that nobody was paying any attention to her and that she still had three minutes left until the start of class, she took it out under her desk and saw that she received a text message from Marth. Curious, she opened it, because she knew Marth normally wouldn't text in class...or before class in this case.

Hey. I wuz wonderin if u wud like to go 2 the mall tmr to buy Mist a present for her B-Day?

Sorry for the shortness. Next chapter would be longer, I promise.