"What's wrong?" Dark asks. Link had stopped in front of the lunch room with Dark standing behind him holding his bag.
"I'm frightened," He says moving over to the wall so that he isn't standing in front of the crowd of hungry teenagers fighting to get into the lunch room. Dark follows quietly, standing in front of Link.
"Haven't you ever gone to school before?" Dark asks sarcastically, "Just come sit with me and my friends; they won't care." Link frowns and looks away from the boy in front of him.
"Why are you hanging around me?" Link asks softly. Dark laughs and smiles down at the blonde gently.
"I'm bored," he says, "and you interest me." Before link can reply Dark grabs his wrist and pulls him into the crowded lunch room. Still holding onto him, Dark leads Link to a booth with a fairly normal looking couple seated at it. He takes a seat and drops Link's bag on the floor before dragging the shy boy onto the seat beside him and motioning towards his two friends who are staring curiously at them from across the table.
"Link," Dark says carelessly, "Meet Craig and Zelda. Craig and Zelda meet Link."
"A new one Dark?" Zelda asks rolling her blue eyes, "Don't run him off just yet; he has a nice face." Link raises his eyebrows at her and shivers as Dark laughs beside him.
"Nothing's going to happen to him," Dark says rolling his eyes.
"I can take care of myself," Link says feeling slightly offended. Zelda gives a toothy grin and stares at him.
"No you can't," she says, "you're practically shaking in your seat." Link scowls and turns his nose up at the blonde girl across the table.
"I don't like you," Link says quietly, "You irritate me." Dark snorts beside him before bursting into laughter at Link's surprising forwardness Across from him Craig was chuckling quietly and Zelda was fuming.
"Well I don't like you either," Zelda says obviously at a loss for a proper insult. Dark stops laughing at the lame comeback and Link just rolls his eyes.
"Come one Craig, I want food," Zelda says before grabbing the silent boy by the hand and dragging him to the cafeteria. A few seconds of silence settle between Link and Dark until the taller one clears his throat loudly.
"So, why did you move here? Where did you move from?" Dark asks.
"I moved from Georgia with my mom. We moved because my dad died a few weeks ago and we couldn't stand to live in the house that he left behind," Link says softly. It's quiet after that until Link feels a hand on his shoulder and turns his head to look at it blankly.
"I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable pet," Dark says softly, "Are you okay?" Link blushes at the softness in his voice but nods quickly.
"I'm fine," Link says, "I don't think it's really hit me yet. I'm okay, really." Dark removes his hand and sits back in his seat looking at the ceiling.
"My parents died about a year ago," Dark says blankly, "I didn't really care though; they weren't good people." Link frowns and is just about to say something else when the bell rings and he slides out of his seat with Dark following close behind.
"I'm home mom," Link yells before dropping his bag on the couch. His mom comes running out of the kitchen and gathers Link into a big hug until he is begging to be released.
"How was your first day?" She asks excitedly. Link gives a soft smile and blushes softly.
"It went well," he says, "all of my teachers were pretty cool and it's a really clean campus." His mom makes a clucking sound with her tongue and puts her hand on her hip.
"Now tell me what's really on your mind." Link smiles sheepishly and takes a deep breath.
"I met this guy..." His mom squeals and gathers link in a quick hug. Link had come out of the closet when he turned fourteen so his mom had had two and a half years to get used to the idea. She was now perfectly comfortable with his sexuality and loved him all the same.
"I'm so excited Link," she says loudly, "you deserve a nice boy." she claps her hands before muttering to herself about overcooked eggs and dashing back into the kitchen. Link laughs softly before collapsing on the couch and throwing a hand over his eyes. Maybe this new life wasn't going to be as bad as he had originally thought.
Authors Note-
So I have a huge confession to make, when I started writing this story like a month ago I had NO IDEA what was going to happen. I don't believe in plots. Actually, I kind of gave up on this little baby until I was scrubba dub dubbing in the shower the other day and I decided exactly what was going to happen in this fic and exactly who it was going to go down. Now I just have to write it. LOL. I have a slight fetish for pet names so if you see Dark call Link like thirty different nicknames, don't freak out, it'll be okay. The next chapter shouldn't take as long if I can actually manage to get off of my lazy ass and write it. Yeah, that's probably not going to happen.
Thanks for reading and reviewing.
~Emmi
