So here we are with happy spring! LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA! Spring makes me want to sing! LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! (Breaks every glass imaginable)
Eh heh heh! Sorry all! Okay thanks for your reviews from the last chapter. They were all appreciated. I hope you guys like this one! It may be a bit blah because I had to do this one in more of a story form instead of one-shot form. It was difficult! Well here we go! Spring with the two little cuties Young Link and Nana!
Spring
Spring was usually a very beautiful season of the year. It was the season of new beginnings. What kind of brand new? It depends on the brand new you want it to be. Mostly the brand new could be a change in you. Like how you think, how you act, or your feelings can change. Yes, the feelings you have for someone close to you. But this change can only be seen, if you're ready for something new. This is the story of two little buds.
"Spring! What a joke!"
The same phrase was prancing around in the ice climber Nana's head over and over. How could spring even exist in this world?
Spring was Nana's enemy. Well... maybe not spring in general, but the meaning of it was serving no purpose to her.
Spring brings a change in you.
"Nothing but lies." she would think to herself.
People will start to notice this change in you and see you in a new light. They'll find a friendship in you or cherish you dearly.
"No way." Nana would say to herself.
What did she think of spring? Nana thought of spring as the worst season of them all. Full of nothing but false hopes and dreams. All the meanings of spring were just phony. She now realized everyone said these were the meanings of spring because they could never actually find a good reason to have this season. This was what she believed.
She had false hopes and dreams? Yes, she had plenty. But this one she discovered today, changed her outlook on spring like no other. Her hope was what you ask? It was the hope that maybe a certain someone would accept her feelings and he would feel the one moment earlier in the day, she believed in the meanings of spring. One time only she believed spring would not let her down. Yes, earlier that morning, she was counting on this hope filled season.
Nana recalled it well. She was getting a kite for Pichu and successfully climbed to the top of the tree and got the kite. But as she looked down, she realized going down a tree was not going to be as easy as climbing up. Her body automatically froze up at the thought of trying to get down. As she thought of telling Pichu to get help, He appeared on the scene.
"Hey PC, what's wrong?" he asked as he neared the young pokemon.
Pichu turned her head at the sound of his voice. She weakly smiled. "Hi Young Link." She pointed up to the tree. "Take a look for yourself."
Young Link stood in the same place as Pichu and squinted up at the tree. He didn't see Nana at first. But then his big blue eyes stared right into her small brown eyes. She never felt so embarrassed. Why did Pichu have to announce where she was?
"Nana! What are you doing up there?" Young Link called.
Nana opened her eyes and looked down at the swordsman. "Oh just looking at the view," she said sarcastically. " … and hanging on for dear life." She added with a whimper.
"She was getting my kite." Pichu answered for her. "She climbed up and got it, but she looked down and saw how high up she was. She's scared!" Pichu blurted out.
Nana set her fear aside for a second to glare down at the pokemon. "I am not scared! My parka's stuck to the branch and I can't move!" she shouted.
"She's scared." Pichu whispered to Young Link.
Young Link called up to his Pink Parka friend. "Hang on Nana! I'll get you down, okay?"
Nana opened her left eye. "No! Get one of the older smashers! You're too little!"
"NO I'M NOT!" Young Link snapped in an angered voice.
If there was one thing Nana recalled that the Hylian hated, it was being called little. He would be called Squirt, Munchkin, Lil Link, Mini-me, and any other name the older smashers could put together. No matter how mature he would try to act, it would never work. They would say, 'He so cute when he tries to act so mature!' Or 'look at the little tough guy!' He pulled out his hookshot. "I'm getting you down without anyone's help! Then you'll see… I'm not little!" He aimed his hookshot at the branch Nana was grasping onto. "Heads up, Nana!" he called as he shot the harpoon like hookshot.
Nana saw it coming quickly shimmied back a little, not wanting to get poked. The weapon made a direct hit, shaking the branch a little, but it stayed firm. Nana looked down below to see the hookshot pull up Young Link quickly towards her. As he was reaching the branch, the ice climber started to feel an odd feeling in her heart. As she tried to figure this out, Young Link grabbed the branch. He hoisted himself on top of it and looked at Nana with a smirk. "I told you I wasn't little. When are you guys going to learn…"
Nana could see that Young Link was rambling on, but she wasn't trying to comprehend what he was saying. Something anew was sprouting in her heart. Young Link raised an eyebrow as he stopped talking, when he saw Nana's dazed look. Girls are so weird. He sighed and held out his hand. "Come on. I'll help you down." Nana snapped out of her thoughts when she saw Young Link's hand. She looked at it for a moment and then grabbed it while letting go of the tight grip she had to the branch. Young Link faced his back to her and she placed her arms around his neck practically hugging him. Nana was turning as pink as the overalls she was wearing.
"Hang tight." Young Link hopped off the branch with Nana hanging on tightly to him. He lowered himself and Nana down slowly with his hookshot. Young Link grinned big… as he saw the ground coming closer. "I told you I could…" He stopped abruptly as he heard a snap noise in enter his ears. As the two of them started to jerk around he realized the branch was what snapped.
Nana screamed. "Young Link!" She clutched even tighter once realizing also.
"Don't worry I-
SNAP!
The branch tilted down from breaking, making the hookshot release. They screamed even louder as they started pummeling to the ground. Young Link wasn't going to let his friend get hurt. He positioned himself as if he were lying facedown with Nana still hanging onto him. His face made impact with the ground, but not as hard as expected. He did lose some of the air in his lungs when Nana landed on his back.
Nana opened her eyes and started to catch her breath. She was unharmed and safe. Her friend was another case. "Oh Young Link!" She exclaimed as she quickly got off him. "Are you okay?"
The swordsman pulled himself off the ground and spat out the dirt caught in his mouth. "I'm fine." He said, trying to sound tough. His face was in pain, as if he had a headache. "What about you?"
"No injuries here." Nana gasped as she looked at his face. "Oh! You have a cut on you cheek! It's bleeding."
"What?" He placed his hand on his cheek and removed it quickly. Sure enough, there was blood on his hand. "It's nothing. Just a small cut."
"If you don't treat it now you can get infected."
"It's just fine!"
"Young Link! Nana!"
The kid smashers saw the Princess Zelda running towards them with Pichu right at her heels. She had a worried expression on her face as she kneeled down next to them. "Pichu told me what happened. Are you two hurt?"
"I'm fine but Young Link has a cut on his cheek!" Nana blurted out.
Young Link gasped and covered his cheek. "Nana! Don't tell her that!"
Zelda gently grabbed the hand Young Link was covering his wound with. "Let me see it." She said softly. Without looking for a protest from him, Zelda revealed the wound. "It's a really bad cut. I'll heal-"
"No!" Young Link protested. "It's just a cut. It'll heal up eventually."
Zelda rolled her eyes. "Fine. But at least clean it up and put a band-aid on it." she told him as more of a demand than an offer.
"I have one." Nana placed her hand in the front pocket of her overalls. She pulled out an ointment, a fluffy white cotton ball, and a band-aid. "I always keep these, just in case." She poured some of the ointment concoction onto the cotton ball and held it up to Young Link's cheek. "It might sting a little."
The fluffy and chemical filled cotton ball made contact with his face. He could feel the stinging sensation spread across his soft cheek. The pain was horrible, but he clamped his teeth together and withstood the pain. Nana rubbed it against his cheek softly a few times before pulling the cotton ball away. She placed the band-aid on carefully and softly.
She smiled. "All done!"
Young Link stood up and smiled. "Thanks."
The sound of his voice made Nana's heart skip a beat. His voice never sounded so…sweet to her. "You're welcome."
"Oh…" Zelda said softly.
Nana looked over at Zelda. She was now down on her knees looking into a garden rife with wild flowers and abundant with other beautiful plants of spring. She walked over to her side along with Young Link and they stood on opposite sides of the princess.
"What's wrong, Zelda?" Nana asked.
The Hylian Princess shook her head. "These two little buds have yet to bloom." She carefully touched the purple and blue bud and the pink and yellow bud. Both were closed from the Seeing Eye. "It's almost been a whole season of spring and these flowers have yet to bloom. There's only one day of spring left."
Young Link shrugged. "It's just two little buds. You have so many other wildflowers that have bloomed. What difference does it make if two never bloom?"
Zelda caressed the bluish purple flower. "It's just sad if a bud never blooms. We'll never get to see the beauty of it. When summer comes as of tomorrow, they're chance of being luminous will be missed. This one looks like it's being stubborn and isn't quite ready for change."
Nana's heart saddened. "I never thought of it that way."
The princess' hand moved across the pinkish yellow bud. "This one's close to blooming. But it seems like it's waiting on something. Maybe for the other bud. So they can bloom together." Zelda removed her hand from the bud. "Spring is a very magical season."
"That's nice." Young Link said flatly. Nana could tell this wasn't his kind of topic. "I'm going to find Ness and Popo." Without another word, the little Hylian dashed away and Pichu followed after him. "Bye Zelda! Bye Nana!"
Nana felt her face turning the color of a pink rose as he left the scene. She slowly waved. "Bye." she said softly.
Zelda smiled at young ice climber. "Are you blushing?"
Nana gasped and covered her face. "No! I just have rosy cheeks." She said as an excuse.
Zelda turned away from Nana and went back to tending to her flowers. "There's nothing you need to be ashamed of. He's a sweet boy."
Nana shoved her hands into her pockets. She started to vacillate between asking Zelda for some advice or keep her questions to herself. She knew that the princess knew she liked him, but she didn't want to get someone so mature and cosmopolitan as Zelda to solve her problems.
"Um…Zelda?" she spoke hesitantly.
"Hmm?" she hummed to indicate she was listening.
"Well I…" Nana sat down next to the princess and stared out at the flowers. "Do you think Young Link would ever… like me as more…than a friend?" she asked in almost a whisper.
Zelda stopped what she was doing and turned to Nana. "Sure, I think he would. Do you have some doubt that he wouldn't?"
Nana slowly nodded. This one time Young Link had saved her wasn't the start of her attraction to Young Link. It was when she started to get to know him. She found her attraction blooming for him. He was always so kind and courteous towards her and he never would leave Nana upset about anything. To Nana, Young Link was the little sunlight in her heart that made her heart bloom with love. "I'm afraid to tell him. I don't know what he'd think."
Zelda placed an arm around her. "You know. I think he feels the same way about you. But he's also afraid to admit what he feels about you too. You two are too young for love, but I think he considers you a very special friend in his heart."
"Why is that?"
"I didn't explain it earlier, Nana. When I mentioned the buds, I was thinking of you and Young Link. You two are like two little buds." Zelda faced Nana towards the pink and yellow flower slightly open. "You see this flower. It represents you. You see how it's slightly open? It's ready to bloom into the world just like how you're ready to bloom and tell Young Link how you feel about him. But it's waiting for the other bud to be ready. Do you see?"
Nana thought for a moment as she looked at the little bud. "It makes a little sense." She looked at the other bud. "So does this purplish blue flower represent Young Link?"
"That would be correct."
"But unlike the other bud, this one isn't open. What does that mean?"
Zelda ran a hand through her hair. "Well… in my opinion I think this bud is being stubborn. It wants to bloom but then again…it's not quite sure if it's ready for such change." She smiled warmly at Nana. "But maybe with a little push from the other bud, he… I mean 'it' will bloom in sync with the pink one."
Nana crossed her arms. She closed her eyes and started to take a full understanding to what the princess was telling her. Zelda stood up and ruffled Nana's hair. "You'll understand." She turned from the little ice climber and headed back inside.
Little buds? Young Link and I…are little buds? Nana looked up at the creation of spring. Nana had always noticed spring would be the season of change. Though fall was also known as the season of change also, spring's change was slightly different. Fall would bring change in lives but spring would give you another life. In other words, like being reborn. Nana had felt she was being reborn into someone new. She was becoming someone who was starting to appreciate what was around her and the people dear to her. Just like the little buds, she was ready to bloom and become a brand new. But she didn't want to do it alone, she wanted a companion in this process.
Just like the buds. Nana uncrossed her arms, realizing her discovery. I do like Young Link, but I'm waiting for him to feel the same so we can bloom together. But I'll never find out by waiting for him. Ah! It's just like Zelda said, he needs a little push and then maybe…no… What am I saying? I don't know if he likes me. He may like some other girl back in his world. But…I want to know…maybe I can find out somehow. Oh wait! We're picking partners for when we go on a trip to that festival in a few days. I can ask him if he'd like to partner up with me and then I'll tell him…
Nana felt the pink rosy blush coming to her face again. But this time she didn't feel so ashamed of it.
At least she wasn't ashamed of it at the time. Now she wished the blushing would just stop. She never felt this miserable in her whole life! It was all because of that friend. In fact she wasn't even sure she could even call him friend anymore. The words he said to her…were tearing her apart.
She looked out her sliding glass door leading to a balcony. The rain was falling at a fast rate and it seemed like it would never stop. But she no longer cared if the rain would keep washing away the last day of spring. She just wanted summer to come. She wanted to forget all about this terrible spring and get on with her life.
She looked out further and saw the two little red pots sitting on a table outside on the balcony. In each pot contained two very familiar buds. They were the same purplish blue and pinkish yellow buds Zelda was tending to outside. Zelda had brought the flowers to her room, in hopes of that Nana would take care of them. Nana agreed to keep them, but she didn't agree to taking care of them. If those two buds really did represent her and Young Link, she wanted them to dry up as soon as possible and die.
In her opinion, neither of them deserved life.
She jerked her head away from the buds. It was like the two plants were giving her looks of sadness, as if trying to make her feel like she needed to not give up hope. The young smasher knew her hope was gone and she had no desire to get it back.
"Zelda was wrong." Nana replied. "How could I have thought he would ever feel the same? Boys are all the same and they'll never change."
She bit her lip as she remembered another description of spring.
"Spring will grant all your wishes, hopes, and dreams."
The thought of this quote brought tears to her eyes. Lies…lies…lies.
Young Link never felt the same about her. They were just friends. They even may not have been friends either. Just like the bud, Young Link wasn't blooming. But unlike the purple and blue bud, she knew Young Link would never bloom into a brand new person who actually liked her. Feeling like she could no longer stay in her own room, she sat up quickly and wiped her salty tears from her eyes. Heartache had never felt this bad. She hopped off her bed and walked out of her room leaving the door slightly ajar.
The little pink and yellow bud started to change. It was actually starting to close. Even if it was getting the nutrients it needed to grow, the bud could not help but feel the same heartache that Nana was feeling at that precise moment. It started to seal up as the rain ran down the bud's sides.
After Nana left the scene, a door to another room opened. The little swordsman Young Link slowly peeked out the door and looked a few doors down. He knew this room to be Nana's. With help from his Hylian ears, he could hear Nana's faint sobs from his room.
How could he have been so stupid? Nana was one of his closest friends. Even closer than that…
It was true. Young Link really did have feelings for his close friend. He liked being around her whenever he could. Her sunny bright smile would always be on her face and she was always cheerful even when it wasn't necessary to be so happy. The way she would try so hard at everything and never give up always made him look to Nana as a role model in some way. She would never let anything get to her.
But today, Young Link had changed all that. He had crushed her spirit in a way no one ever has.
Though he couldn't help but think this would've never happened if it weren't for him and his friends Popo and Ness. Shortly after he left Nana and Zelda, he had gone to meet his friends. When he told him where he was and what he was doing, conflict started to rise. Popo and Ness started to tease Young Link saying how much Nana liked him and how he was falling in love with her too. Of course this embarrassed him and he denied it. But he knew in his heart he had some feelings for his friend.
Unfortunately Nana appeared on the scene while they were joking around and this was the start of the end of their friendship. She asked if she could talk to him alone for a moment. Young Link reluctantly agreed and Popo and Ness left so they could be alone. There was a moment of silence and he was unsure what Nana wanted so he asked anxiously. Looking back, he wished he hadn't asked at all.
Nana admitted her feelings to him.
Young Link was shocked to find out that Nana felt the same way he did about her. At that moment he would've hugged her but then his Hylian ears picked up on a snicker from the bushes. He knew right away Ness and Popo were watching from the bushes. The last thing he wanted was for his friends to think he was a softy and liked girls at their age. Worried they would catch on that he liked her, he blurted out the first words that came to his mouth and he knew they weren't words you would find in a serene poetry book. He bit his lip while he remembered the hurtful things he said to her.
"That's gross, Nana! Why would I like you like that?" I'm not some Prince Charming! I don't fall in love with anyone! You can be so dumb sometimes! Leave me alone, till you get some sense knocked back in your head!"
Hearing the words he said to her once again in his head, he sighed. He remembered seeing Nana have an emotionless look on her face. He ran back to his friends and they congratulated him for setting her straight. He felt if his friends were happy, he had done the right thing. He knew he could explain it later and Nana would understand. But that wasn't even close to what happened.
Sometime after Young Link left from his friends, he found Nana alone sitting on a swing. She was slowly swinging back and forth while looking down at the ground. He smiled his innocent smile as he walked over to his friend. She looked as soon as he was in a close enough distance. She immediately stopped swinging and stared directly at him. Then he saw something on Nana's face that made his smile fade away. She was giving him the most menacing glare he had ever seen.
"What do you want?" He remembered her saying in an angry tone.
He remembered trying to apologize to her about what happened before but she didn't listen. She simply hopped off the swing and walked past him. He called her name over and over again but she wouldn't listen. Finally he ran up to her and grabbed her hand, trying to stop her. The unexpected happened next. Nana pulled out her hammer and knocked Young Link about five feet away from her. When he recovered, he remembered her last hurtful words to him.
"Go away! I HATE YOU!"
Young Link hid behind his door again. It hurt him much to hear his close friend hated him so. The last thing he ever wanted to do was hurt Nana in any way. He felt foolish for pushing Nana away from him when she told him how much she liked him. How could he be so stupid to deny something that he felt the same about? His brain was racked with so many questions that he couldn't find an answer. He scratched his head as he walked out of his bedroom. He looked directly at Nana's door. It was slightly open as if an invitation for someone to come in. But was it an invitation for him? Would she want to speak to him? All he wanted to do was talk to Nana again. He quickly snuck to the room hoping not to be seen by anyone he knew. When he reached the door he hesitantly knocked on the door.
"Uh…Nana?" he said in a whisper. "Are you there? I wanted to talk to you." There was no response. He spoke a little louder. "Please Nana? I really want to…" when he made contact the door with his fist, it slowly opened all the way.
He took a step inside. "Nana?" he called. He walked all the way into the room and looked around. She was nowhere in sight. Nana's room was always very neat. She had her pink canopy bed in the corner of the room fully made with covers and blankets so smooth and straight. He looked at her walk in closet, which was organized and mostly covered with different types of snow boots. She had a few stuffed animals piled up in the corner of the room. There was one stuffed animal away from the others on its side by the closet.
Young Link wandered over to the stuffed animal and recognized it right away. It was a blue penguin, with a white crested breast of fur and feathers, and it wore black sunglasses. The last accessory was a little black tie around its neck. It was the Blues Penguin named Jazz. It was the gift Young Link had one her at a carnival they went to last year. Nana adored the stuffed animal at one time. But he guessed after this dispute, she no longer wanted it. He picked up the penguin and stared at it. He smiled when he remembered the big grin Nana wore after he won it for her. She would never smile the same sunshine smile that would make him always glad to be around her. Something caught Young Link's attention in the corner of his eye. He turned to the balcony sliding glass window to see two plants sitting on a table. He pressed his hands on the sliding glass door leading to the outside balcony.
It's those two buds Zelda was taking care of… Young Link thought to himself. What are they doing out there?
He pressed his hands against the transparent glass and looked at the two buds. He looked at the purple and blue flower it still wasn't blooming. But he noticed the pink and yellow flower was closed up.
"That bud wasn't like this before." He said to himself. "It was open earlier."
He remembered Zelda had said the two buds were taking too long to bloom, like something was holding them back, as if they're waiting for each other. He didn't realize it till now but Zelda was right. It would be sad if a flower never gets to bloom. The flower would never get the chance to be seen as something new. Young Link knew every flower was different, new, and beautiful in different ways.
"Just like Nana…" Young Link said. From all the girls, Nana was very different. To him, if all girls were buds they would bloom into plain and ordinary flowers. But Nana… he knew she was different from those other flowers. She would be the most rare and most beautiful flower of them all. There was no one like her and no one could take her place. She was like a rose or a sunflower standing in the center of a garden of dandelions.
Nana, I knew you like me after we became close friends and I liked you too. We were both like two little buds waiting to bloom into a close relationship. Just like the buds here. We weren't sure of our feelings, maybe you were more sure than I was but either way we were still staying little buds till we were ready to bloom. But I… Young Link's body started to shudder as everything started to become clearer to him. I caused us to be even more scared of blooming. I was acting so stupid that I didn't notice that we were starting to close up like the buds are right now.
Young Link felt a guilty feeling in his stomach. He now knew why he treated like he did earlier. It was because of his friends. He was so eager to please his friends that he wasn't thinking about his or Nana's feelings. He was abandoning his feeling just so Popo and Ness wouldn't tease him. But he knew now he had made the wrong decision. How could he fall for the typical childish thoughts? A girl and a boy could realize their special feelings for each other. There was nothing to be ashamed of. But he was too late to notice and now he was afraid there was a chance of him and Nana not even becoming friends again.
His tears started to roll down his cheeks. I ruined our friendship and… we may never have a second chance to bloom into something new. Nana…I'm so sorry.
"What are you doing in here?"
Young Link turned to the door and his eyes widened. Nana was standing at the door with the same angered expression on her face. "Get out of my room! Didn't I make it clear enough that I don't ever want to speak to you again?" she spat.
Her words pierced his heart. But he deserved everything he threw at her. It was his entire fault that Nana's change wasn't a pleasant one. It was more like she bloomed to be more like a venus fly trap. He wiped his tears away. "Nana…" he started. "Wait…I… I have something to say."
"What is it now?" Nana asked angrily. "Do you want to call me an annoying brat? Or do you want to call me dumb again? Take your pick!" she said.
"No!" Young Link protested. "I wanted to…"
"I don't want to hear it!" Nana cut him off. Just looking at him made her want to cry. He looked like he wanted to apologize, but she just couldn't accept his apology so easily. "You hurt me Young Link! You toyed with my emotions long enough! You always treat me like a friend but you're ashamed of me in front of Popo and Ness. I can't believe I thought you actually liked me!"
Young Link choked back his tears. He felt like he was losing a close relative. "Nana please…" he pleaded. "I didn't mean what I said to you. I wasn't thinking straight when I said that stuff. I shouldn't have said those things to you! Please forgive me!"
Nana opened her door all the way and stood aside to let him out. "It's little too late to be apologizing. Get out!"
Young Link sighed. It really was over. His shoulders slumped as he walked towards the door with his head hanging low. As he reached the door, he turned to Nana. He couldn't take it. "Nana! We can't let our feelings about our friendship die!" he blurted out.
Nana's angered expression dropped a bit. "What?"
Young Link looked back at the buds out the window. "We're those buds, Nana."
Nana looked in the same direction as Young Link. She noticed he was referring to the same buds Zelda was planting in the garden. She just stared at Young Link, not knowing what to say.
Young Link faced back to his friend. "Nana… I didn't notice till now. But we are those buds. What they're feeling is what we're feeling. We're both feeling pain in our hearts and it's affecting the buds. They're closing back up, just because our friendship is slowly dying." Nana turned back to the buds to see if his thoughts were true. Young Link continued. "I don't want those buds to wither and die and the same with our friendship! You're one of my best friends."
Nana's anger evaporated as every word he said to her started to sink in her head. "But…" she said in her regular calm voice. "All those things you said to me earlier! You told me I was sick for thinking you'd ever like me!"
"No! I was the one who was sick." Young Link gently grabbed one of her hands. " I knew in my heart that you are one of dearest friends! More than anything else in the world! I was just so worried about what my friends would think that I didn't care about my own feelings."
Nana felt her cheeks growing a pink color. "But…how do I know? How do I know you're telling me the truth?"
Nana's response was a warm hug from her friend. He shook his head hopelessly. "I-I don't know how I can prove it to you. I'm just hoping you'll trust me again and we can start over as friends."
Nana stood there for a moment. Though she wanted to push him away something in her heart stopped. What he had said to her was the same thing she was thinking. She did feel they were the two little buds and even if she was angry the last thing she wanted was their friendship to end . She wasn't sure why she told him why she hated him, but she now knew she could never hate someone as sincere as he was. She circled her arms around her friend.
"It is a shame if a bud never blooms." Nana whispered. "It will never get the chance to be seen in a new light. Like I'm seeing you."
Young Link pulled away from Nana. She was smiling the smile of peace he remembered. He felt like he could cry at that moment, but found something better to do. Without giving it a second thought, he pressed his warm lips against his friend's cheek. Nana accepted the small kiss without any hesitation.
He pulled away from Nana; feeling like a fifty-ton weight had been pulled off him. "I really do like you a lot, Nana. I'm sorry I didn't admit it sooner. Maybe we would have bloomed sooner into something more than just friends if I weren't so stubborn like the purple and blue bud.
Nana grinned. "Well…better late than never."
The two laughed.
The two buds in the window were working their magic again. They were both slowly opening again! But they weren't quite ready to bloom just yet. Something else had to be done.
Young Link saw a light from the outside. The sun had come out from the gray clouds in the sky. "The rain finally stopped! You wanna go outside?"
As Nana nodded, two smashers entered the room. They went by the names Popo and Ness.
"Come on Young Link!" Ness interrupted. "You have to get your partner for the festival in a few days. Soon there won't be anyone left for you."
"Yeah. Then you'll have to go with this lovesick puppy!" Popo laughed with Ness joining in.
Nana rolled her eyes. They can be such pains. But… She looked up at Young Link. What if he wants someone else as a partner? She couldn't help but think. After all, he doesn't want to lose his friends by being with me.
She lowered her head. "It's okay, Young Link. I underst-"
"I already have my partner." Young Link said with a smile. He gently grabbed Nana's hand and held it up. "She's right here!"
Nana's eyes widened. "Young Link." She said softly.
"WHAT?" Ness and Popo exclaimed.
"You heard me. I want Nana to be my partner!"
"Young Link…" Nana said in a whisper. "You don't have to do this."
"True." Young Link squeezed her hand. "But I want to."
Popo frowned. "I didn't know that you were a girl lover, Young Link!" he teased.
Young Link glared at him. "So what? Nana is someone I really care about." He gave Nana a peck on a cheek with no shame. "She means a lot to me. And nothing you two can say will make me change my mind!"The two boys stared in shock at Young Link's response. Young Link turned to Nana. "Come on Nana. Let's leave these two bimbos behind."
Nana couldn't believe Young Link's new change in him. He was finally thinking on his own and she didn't hate this change at all. She smiled brightly at him. "Sure!"
The two friends linked arms and walked past the two smashers and out the door. Nana turned to face her Popo and Ness. "You know. Maybe when you two grow-up, you'll see that we girls really aren't bad at all." She stuck her tongue out at them. "Nah!" she instigated as they left the room. Ness and Popo exchanged glances, looking dumbfounded.
A Little Later
Zelda was walking up to her room. She was almost there when she noticed Nana's door was wide open. Wanting to check on the ice climber she walked inside only to find out she was gone. She looked out at the balcony and saw something amazing. The two little buds had bloomed into two beautiful wildflowers.
She walked outside and looked at them. "Amazing. Spring really is a magical season." She looked down below and saw Young Link and Nana. They were playing catch outside with big grins on their faces, but they were unlike their usual smiles. Right away, Zelda noticed what change had occurred in them.
She knew that the two little buds Young Link and Nana had finally bloomed. They had moved from buds with a friendship, to beautiful flowers with a caring relationship.
A/N: So what did you guys think? I thought this was the hardest season to do. So I'm sure everyone's got different opinions of spring from what I have. So once again I'm sorry if my opinions make you mad. I don't have much to say except one chapter left and the season is summer! Oooh...what couple will that be? It'd be a shame not to know, but I'll let you guess. Well, please review! Oh and if you see any Spelling Errors or merged words. Please tell me!
Royal Kenya
