To Meet Again
Chapter Two
'Oh crap, crap, CRAP! She's going to bite my head off!' Malon yelled in her thoughts. Meredith's school had just been dismissed and . . . Malon was still at work.
She groaned as she rushed to her car. 'I can't believe I could forget something as important as picking up my daughter! She's going to FREAK!' She thought, worriedly. Meredith was one to get scared easily.
Malon sped to Meredith's school. Of course, she was well over the speed limit and soon heard a police car trailing behind.
Sighing heavily, she pulled over.
"Mam," Started the woman garbed in navy blue, in a dull, emotionless voice. "Are you aware that you're speeding?"
"Yes officer, it's just that--"
"Malon?! Is that you?" Squeeled the officer.
"Uh . . ." Malon raised an eyebrow at the woman's sudden change of emotion.
The strange officer took off her regulation hat and sunglasses, revealing vermillion hair and golden eyes.
"Oh My Goodness . . ." Malon gasped. "Nabooru?!"
She laughed. "Hell yeah!"
"I haven't seen you in forever!" She exclaimed.
Nabooru shrugged "I've been here and there."
"Just one question . . ." Malon started. "How did you, that crazy party girl, end up as a police officer?!"
"Well, honestly, I'd always wanted to be an officer, but breaking the rules was just more fun!"
"Uh . . . alright then."
A moment of silence passed before Malon got out of her car and gave her old friend a hug. While doing so, she glanced at her watch and gasped. "Meredith!"
"Eh?" Nabooru said, confused.
"I have to pick up my daughter from school."
Nabooru gaped. "Since when have you been a mother?! You're married, and you didn't tell me?! Who did you marry?!" She instantly began to throw questions at the already stressed woman. Smirking, she spoke. "Wait, I think I know the answer to that last question . . . It's Link isn't it?! I remember you li'l lovebirds, always unseperable!"
Malon forced a small smile. "Well . . . he is the father . . . but I haven't seen or spoken to him for nearly 6 years . . ."
"What?!" Nabooru shrieked. "What the Hell have I missed?!"
"He . . . didn't want the kid" She whispered, blinking back tears that she hadn't released in a long time. "So . . . he left."
"It's either me . . . or the baby."
"That Snake!" Nabooru snarled.
"Yeah, well, I suppose we have to let go of the past." She mumbled. "But, I really have to get going."
Nabooru nodded unsurely. "Okay, we'll catch up another time . . . Drive safely."
Malon gave her one last smile and drove off.
XxXxX
"She's not here . . ." Meredith said, as her lower lip began to wobble. "Mommy. . ." She began to whimper.
"Hey, now, don't cry." Said a gentle voice. He bent down to her eye-level. "I'm sure she'll be here soon."
"I hope so . . ." She murmured.
He showed her to a bench at the office. "Just wait here until your mother comes. I'll be in the class if you need me." The teacher was unsure whether to leave this child was a good idea or not, but so much work! But then again . . . it'd probably be easier for her mother to find her at the office.
"Okay . . ."
He smiled reassuringly and headed to the classroom.
As soon as he was gone, a figure barged into the front doors. "Meredith!"
"Mommy!" Shrieked Meredith, gleefully. Then she got serious. "Where have you been?" She said, placing her hands on her hips.
Malon chuckled lightly. "I'm sorry, Dithy! I just got held up at work and met an old friend and--"
"How do you meet an old friend?" Meredith asked curiously.
"I . . . don't know. But, hey, I'm really sorry, so let's say we head out and grab somethig to eat."
"Yeah!" She cheered, her red hair bouncing. "But, first, I have to say bye to Mr H!"
"Mr H . . .?" Malon said, thoughtfully. "Oh! Your teacher?"
"Yup!" Meredith said, proudly. "He's really nice and I wanna thank him for waiting with me and say bye. Wait here!" She rushed off, leaving Malon behind.
"Mere-- Ah, she's gone." Malon sighed. 'Well, I'm glad she likes her teacher.'
XxXxX
"Ahem." Said a female voice.
"Oh . . ." He turned around to see the secretary, Ms Zelda Sage, daughter of the principal, Daphnes Sage. "Hello, Ms Sage." 'Wonderful. Just wonderful.' He thought, mentally groaning.
Zelda had seemed to have developed an infatuation with him . . . and it really didn't sit with him well. Also the fact that she was highly irritating, arrogant, stubborn, and of course, highly irritating. And another thing was . . . he just wasn't over her.
Zelda let out a light laugh. "Why so formal Hero?" She inched closer to him. Oh, and she really came on too strong.
'Need a distraction . . .' He thought desperately.
"Hey!" Cried a young voice. Footsteps came abruptly after.
He let out a breath 'That'll work.'
"Meredith?" He said, tilting his head.
"Yeah!" She answered cheerily. "I wanted to say bye!"
He smiled. This child . . . she seemed special . . . "I--"
The lovely secretary let out a cough. Meredith looked at her curiously.
Zelda looked over at the teacher. "I didn't know you had a child let alone know you were married." She muttered the last part.
He actually started to cough. "What?! What are you talking about?!"
She narrowed her eyes at him. "Oh, come on! Any fool could see she looks exactly like you!"
"Hey! I don't look like a guy!" Meredith interrupted.
Zelda chuckled. "Well, of course not, Sweetie, I just meant-"
"I don't know what you're talking about, she does not look like me." He said, clearly starting to get irritated.
"Well, you're blind then, she's the spitting image of you . . . except for that red hair"
'Red hair . . .'
Zelda turned to Meredith. "Don't think you look like your dad, but in a girly way?" She chuckled.
"My dad . . . I don't know . . ." Meredith mumbled. 'My dad . . .?'
"She is one of my students." He said sternly. "I am not married nor do I have any kids . . ." He trailed off.
Zelda sighed. "Whatever . . . This was a total waste of my time and I have important work to do." With that, she left, the click-clacking of her pumps, slowly fading.
"Yeah, right. What work?" He mumbled under his breath. Shaking his head, he turned his attention back to the child. "Anyway, what was it you were saying?"
'My dad . . .' Meredith broke out of her thoughts. "Uh . . . I was saying bye, 'cause my mom's here . . ."
He smiled. "That's great . . . Are you alright though? You seem a bit distracted."
"I'm good . . . but I hafta go now . . . Bye!" She waved to him, rushing out of the class.
Mr Hero glanced at the door.
"She is the spitting image of you . . . except for that red hair."
XxXxX
Malon tapped her foot impatiently as she waited for Meredith. 'I hope she didn't get lost!'
"Mommy! Let's go!" Meredith said, suddenly appearing before her.
"It takes that long to say bye?!" Malon said incredulously.
Meredith shrugged and took her mother's hand, nearly dragging her out the door.
When they reached the car and on their way home, Meredith popped a question.
"Mommy . . ." She started uncertainly. "Where's . . . um . . . nevermind." She said, flatly.
Malon looked concernedly at her daughter. "What is it? Tell me." She urged.
"Where's . . . My Dad?" She asked, nervously.
Malon gulped. She knew this question would come someday, but she never really thought of how to answer it.
"It's either me . . . or the baby."
"He's . . . Well, not here." She said, silently praying that Meredith would be satisfied with this answer.
But, of course, she wasn't. "Where is he then? Why isn't he with us?"
Go figure. The Goddesses hated her. "Um . . . I don't know . . . he's just always busy, okay?!" Malon stammered, on the verge of tears.
"But, I've never seen him . . . why, mommy?" Meredith asked, unaware of how much her asking these questions were affecting Malon.
That was all she could handle. Tears brimmed around her eyes. "I just . . . I just don't know!" She said, her tone agitated.
This quieted Meredith's questions.
A silence passed between them.
Malon sighed. "Don't worry . . . you'll probably see him someday."
"Okay, mommy." Meredith said, not wanting to make her mother angry again.
"Hey, how's about we go get some coffee from Uncle Sheik?" Malon suggested, trying to lighten the mood.
Meredith giggled. "Mommy! I don't drink coffee! That's for old people!"
Malon raised a brow at the old comment. "So, I'm old then?"
"Yeah . . . but not as old as grandma." She giggled.
Malon chuckled. "That's my girl! So let me rephrase that. How's about we go get some coffee and cake from Uncle Sheik?"
"Sound's great!" Meredith said, gleefully. Although . . . there was one more question that plagued her.
"Mommy . . . What's Dad's name?" She asked, unable to help herself.
Malon glanced at her daughter.
"Link. Link Hero."
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Ookay. A long wait, but I got it done, nonetheless. I'm just quite lazy and busy with tests . . . I've got all the hard, crappy subjects this semester . . . and easy, wonderful ones next. Anyway Oooh! Link is the teacher. Man, wasn't that just impossible to figure out?! Yep. Also, I was going to make Zelda the principal, but seeing as how principals are usually(as far as I'm concerned...) old farts, therefor I made Miss Zelda a secretary! And she's the principal's daughter! Wow! Yeah, I was pretty pas creatif when I made the last names . . . whatever. Anyway, on another uber important note . . . me birthday's on the 19th! Yay!
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-Smashie
