"Okay, before you taste anything I want you to try this peach wine. Impa had me taste it yesterday, She thought it might be a good wine to serve at the wedding." Zelda explained.
"Oh, alright. Yeah, that is something we haven't thought about yet." Zelda picked up her glass as Link picked up his. He tasted it. Zelda watched him the whole time her lips were placed on her glass. Link shook his head.
"That's really good. It's light, refreshing, sweet and you can really taste the peach. What do you think? I think we should serve this." Link said.
"Yeah, I think it would be a great wine to serve." Zelda said taking another sip of it.
"The soup is very good." Link told her.
"Oh, wait until you taste the turkey. I snuck a piece earlier and it is excellent." Zelda told him.
"You made a turkey!?" Link asked rather surprised.
"Well, not a whole turkey, just turkey breast. I'll go fill your plate." Zelda got up and did just that. She soon returned with a full plate for both of them.
"Oh my god, that looks so good." Link reassured her.
" I think you'll like it." Zelda said.
"So, I can't believe Impa actually went on that trip with your father. She's been hovering over you like a fly for the past few months." Link said. Zelda rolled her eyes.
"I know, I was surprised she actually went through with it. I mean, I'm glad she did. Impa needs to get away and do some things she wants to enjoy. It's so hard for her to stop worrying about me. Which, I guess I can understand that. God, she raised me." Zelda said.
"Sure, she has a right to be fanatical. You're her little girl after all. It's no wonder everything's been so hard on her. I found her outside in the rose garden crying last week. And I went up to her and asked her what was wrong and she said she couldn't find her hedge clippers." Link laughed. Zelda smiled knowing that this is something Impa would do. "So then I said, no Impa what's really wrong?" She just started wailing and she hugged me. I could barely understand her but she said I love you so much but I hate that you're taking my Zelda away from me. I tried to explain to her that I would never let anything happen to you and that you'd never want for anything in your life…but that only made her cry more." Link laughed again. "I actually feel really sorry for Impa. You're going to have to baby her big time." Zelda laughed.
"Yeah, I know. The other day we were changing the sheets on my bed and she just lost it. She kept talking about how moments were slipping away from her and how our time together had been too short. Then, I had to remind her that I wasn't dying just getting married and that she would still see me just as much. Impa's a handful lately, but it's okay." Zelda paused. "Has um…has Illia given you an answer yet? Zelda asked. She could see Link's face sink. Zelda had a look of concern over her face and she put her plate aside and took Link's hand in hers. She could feel him squeeze her.
"You know…this is…this is the most horrible thing to say about a woman and I shouldn't say it. But I've been thinking it which is kind of the same. And it's not right of me, it's rude of me and I swear I will never say this about a woman ever again…but Illia's being a bitch." Zelda's eyes grew wide because as long as she had known Link he had not once said such an awful thing about someone. Therefore, for him to say something like this…it was most definitely true. For Link to say this, the situation couldn't be good. "Like today, she came over and told me that she would come to my "stupid wedding". She's saying these horrible things about you and she's so, so jealous. At first when she refused to be in the wedding I thought it was just a phase with her and she would get over it and be excited about being a bridesmaid. But then when she told me she wouldn't be in my wedding if I was marrying a "stupid spoiled brat" and she would rather hang herself than "play dress up for a day" I thought that she would at least come to the wedding as a guest. And as you know she didn't give me an answer until today.
"I hate that so much. I wish I could do something to change her mind." Zelda said picking up her plate again.
"No, no Zelda this is Illia's fault. If it weren't you it would be anyone else that wasn't her. You know what I mean? I think somewhere in the back of her mind Illia thought that I would fall in love with her and marry her. Since things didn't work out that way she's determined to be scorned for the rest of her life. Frankly, I'm about to shut her out completely. Every time I give her some good news like, Zelda picked out her gown or Epona's going to lead the grand march through town or anything she isn't happy at all. She just finds a way to destroy the fact that I am excited about those things." Link explained.
"Well, let's still plan for a place setting for her at the reception and save her a spot on your side for the ceremony since she did say she would come." Zelda said.
"Okay, but if…if things get worse…" Link paused.
"We'll give her spot to someone else." Zelda said. Link shook his head in agreement.
"Alright, that sounds like a good plan. And by the way, this really is delicious. You cooked too much today. You really didn't have to go to so much work."
"It really wasn't that much trouble. I enjoyed it." Zelda answered.
"Here, you want some more wine?" Link asked her.
"Sure, when Impa comes back I'll tell her to order this for the reception. She's the one who will know about how many bottles." Zelda explained.
"We also need to set a menu so that when the invitations go out the guests can check mark what they want." Link told her.
"Oh, you're right. We definitely need to do that. You know tomorrow afternoon we get to pick the cake." Zelda said. Link's eyes grew wide.
"Are you serious? We get to taste cake tomorrow!?"
"The baker will be here tomorrow afternoon. He said he has seven different combinations for us to choose from. He'll do a small trial cake first to make sure we like it. Then of course deliver the real thing to the banquet hall during the ceremony." Zelda explained.
"Good, good it sounds like everything is planned really well. Okay, so show me the color on the bridesmaid dresses." Link asked of her.
"What!? You think I'm just going to show it to you like that." Zelda said smiling as she took another drink of wine.
"Nooooo! Oooooh no Zelda! You promised! You promised you'd show me the color tonight." Link said taunting her.
"Since when did I promise that I would show you?" Zelda said laughing.
"Since three days ago when you said 'I'll show you the color of the bridesmaid dresses….and since Malon won't show me."
"Oh she's good. I knew she would be such a fun bridesmaid." Zelda said.
"I've been bugging her all week to show me the color and she said she wouldn't that you would have to do it. So now you have to show me." Link said. Zelda sighed.
"Fine…hold on. But you only get to see the color!" Zelda said leaving the room. She returned quickly with a notebook full of papers. "Alright, it's one of these three colors…which one did I pick? Here, do you want some more turkey while I'm up?" Zelda asked taking his plate.
"Yeah, sure. If you don't mind." Link said. "You didn't pick this color because it's ugly, in fact you wrote 'ugly' on the back of the swatch. It's this one isn't it?" Link asked even though Zelda was in the kitchen. She soon returned to see which one he picked.
"Wow, you picked the right one." Link didn't say anything for a moment he seemed a little caught up. He was having as much fun planning this wedding as Zelda was.
"It's a beautiful color. It compliments the month of May very well." Link said. He reached up and took the fabric of Zelda's robe in his hands pulling her down to meet him in a kiss. This could have been dangerous, if he had moved his hand at all it would have been under her robe. As he kissed her, Link suddenly realized this and quickly let go of her. Once they had finished their dinner, Link took both their plates into the kitchen.
"Do you want me to come cut the cheesecake?" Zelda asked.
"No, you stay in there. I can do something for once this evening." Link said.
"Okay." Zelda answered and she laid down on the couch with her glass of wine. She felt…different. Her body was warm all over and she felt incredibly relaxed. It wasn't the wine…it couldn't be. Neither she of Link had drunk enough of it to have any effect yet, she noticed that they had nearly finished the bottle. When Link returned to Zelda he hadn't expected to see her lying on the couch twisting her hair around her finger and holding a wine goblet in the other hand. Her robe had crept up her thigh slightly. Link had never noticed her like this before because he had never SEEN her like this before. He found himself suddenly slightly nervous and he had no idea why. He hadn't been nervous around Zelda before but at this moment he could feel sweat on the back of his neck and weakness in his knees.
