I turned and saw Ruto, but before I even had time to react, I had the force of 120 lbs. running into me at 10 mph. Her arms wrapped around me instantly and she began laughing. I could only imagine how embarrassing this would be for her if I was the wrong person. The thought made me smile. I glanced over at Zelda. For a split second I thought she was surprised to see me smiling, but quickly changed the look to a smile.

Ruto looked up and me from the hug. "Link! I haven't seen you in forEVER! Are you happy to see me? How have you been? You know, I dropped off Sheik here only a few minutes ago! I had to come back because I think my sunglasses fell out of my car. Aaaaand there they are!" She walked over to the other side of the lot to get them.

I turned to Zelda and said, "Yes I am happy to see you, I've been fine, and yes Sheik told me he met up with you." She smiled at me. I looked over at Ruto. She was right, it had been a long time since I had seen her last. She let her long dark brown hair grow out past her shoulders, but had it in a ponytail. She also was still wearing the sapphire earrings she wore every day in high school.

Ruto walked back over to us. "Zelda! Hi, it's nice to see you again!"

Zelda nodded. "It's nice to see you too."

I spoke up before Ruto could start talking again. "So, Ruto, are you here visiting your sister?" Crap. I shouldn't have asked a question, but I couldn't think of anything else.

Ruto put on her sunglasses. "Wellll, I'm not really visiting Lulu. I was just at my parents place and my sister wanted some stuff from their house. I decided I could bring it up for her as a chance to get out of the house. When I saw Sheik I got really excited because I remembered you guys are going to school together. I'm guessing you are going with them, Zelda?"

"That's right."

"Mm. Well, I'm sorry I wish I could stay and talk, but I still haven't actually given Lulu her things yet, so I have to run! I could stop by tomorrow or something." She offered.

"Sounds great." I said, mentally punching myself.

"'Kay, great! Bye!" She said running back to her car.

Zelda began laughing and I turned to her with a look of amusement and exhaustion. "Shut up."

She shook her head. "Link, you are too much of a nice guy. Wait until you tell Sheik."

"Come on, Sheik's an understanding guy." Zelda began laughing again. "You have to come over again tomorrow so she won't keep talking to me."

She looked up at me and smiled. She grabbed my chin and said, "Only for you." I pushed her hand away, but thanked her. She opened her door and got into her car. "You know, she still likes you." I sighed. I knew it to be true, but kind of thought that if it didn't come up, she would just change her mind. Still, I wanted to know why Zelda thought Ruto had a 5 year crush.

"What makes you say that?" I asked, bending over and resting on her open window.

"Think about what she said. When she saw Sheik she was happy because she remembered that you two went to the same college. Link, that was 3 years ago. I don't remember where most of the people in our class went to college, other than a few friends. Do you?"

"I think Darunia went to some college in Termina."

"That's a good start. I'm telling you, the first way to get someone to like you, is to remember as many things as you can about the person, even if they're just little things. It shows you care about them and their life. Now get off of my car; I'm turning on the air conditioner. It's hot for only being May."

I smiled at her. "Bye Zelda."

She smiled back. "See you tomorrow Link."

I have a bad habit of thinking of characters as they are in-game. For example, I write Ruto as a human but I think of her as a fish. Hopefully that doesn't affect my writing. It's why I try to humanize.