Writing this chapter with terrible neck pain, just so you know how dedicated I am to this story *cheesy grin*. A big thanks too Nerumi H, Khheroxasoray, and AvatarZeldatheTriforceBender . Anyways, enjoy!
WARNING: graphic language not suitable for persons under twelve even though these days eight year olds use those words.

Chapter 4 ~ Mad teacher

As I looked in the mirror I stared at a sad, scared, blonde girl who looked like she would break if pushed too far. I mean it wasn't my parent's fault for raising me to be petite and polite around people. The uniform I wore was completely different to my old schools uniform. The shirt was white and my skirt was black, I had a blue tie as I was sorted into Nayru house when we were placed in houses. I'd learnt that the other two houses were Farore, which was green, and Din, which was red.

I heaved a sigh, clicked my black leather shoes together and opened my door and stepped into the hall that was already busy with students walking back and forth.

"Hey Zel," Called Saria, she was standing against the wall chatting with Karane and Midna.

"Hey guys," I smiled as I walked over to them, "What's up?"

"Not much, just waiting for school too start I guess,"

I noticed that Saria wore a green tie meaning she was in the Farore house. Karane and Midna both wore red ties meaning they were in the Din house.

"Oh look, here the guys are," Saria said catching eye of all the guys coming into the hall. Some nearby girls giggled, which I found weird so I gave a questionable look. "Boys aren't suppose to be on the same floor as girls," Saria whispered in my ear making us both smirk.

I noticed the ties that the guys had on. Link had green, Sheik had blue, Dark had green, and Pipit had red. So the only other person who was going to be in the same homeroom as me was sheik.

I turned back to face Karane and noticed her already all over Pipit, yes, they were aggressively making out in front of everyone.

"Eww guys, not everyone gets a hit out of watching you two attack each other with your mouths," Midna muttered moving away from the two romantics.

There were suddenly three beeps coming from an intercom.

"That's our cue everyone," Saria said as we all followed here onto the crowded stairwell.

"Sheik!?" Saria called trying to grab the boy's attention. "Zel, is in your homeroom can you show her the way?"

"Sure, come on Zel," Zel? He was already using my given nickname, he hardly knows who I am let alone I know him.

Sheik led me down a quieter hall.

"Our homeroom is just here," Sheik said as he walked into a large classroom and took a seat. I paused in the doorway to take in the room. Many students were talking and laughing, people were throwing paper across the room, and the teacher, well the teacher looked to be asleep. I walked over to the old man and tapped his shoulder. He instantly awoke and squinted his eyes as he looked at me, the man put on a pair of round glasses still looking at me kind of weirdly.

"Well, I haven't seen your face around here before, my dear,"

"No, " I replied in my sweetest tone, "I'm new here and I was wondering if I could get my timetable off of you?" I glanced over at Sheik and saw himself laughing at the teacher who was unsuccessfully searching for my timetable.

"I know it's around here somewhere, they said something about a new girl," The old man was mumbling to himself, which made me giggle though I didn't burst into laughter until I had taken my timetable and seated myself next to Sheik.
"Silly old Gaepora, he's quite mad, I'm certain of it," Sheik chuckled. I found that I could be comfortable around Sheik even though I only just met the guy, really.

"Hey Sheik, those guys aren't suppose to be here. Most of them aren't even supposed to be in our homeroom." Sheik followed my gaze to six boys over in a corner, each of them looking like they had slept in their uniform except one who seemed to be dressed nice.

"Oh, them. They can get away with whatever they want, they seem to especially like picking on our group," Sheik explained quietly as we stared at them. One of them seemed to catch my attention the most, he was a tall guy that had brilliant red hair and wore a red tie, and he was the only one out of them all who was neatly dressed. He caught me looking and gave me a grin. I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be an evil grin or a seductive grin, though it freaked me out all the same.

"Oi, what you staring at?" One of them called making the rest turn and face us. Sheik and I tore our gazes from them and started talking about other things, while out of the corner of my eye I could see some of them walking towards us.

"We're talking to you bimbo," Said one of them that seemed to be the leader of the group. Suddenly he backhanded Sheik across the head, which surprised me.

The bell rang and I took Sheik's hand and bolted from the classroom. "What the hell is with those people?!" I screeched when we were far from homeroom.

"Zel, calm down. They just don't like me that's all," Sheik said rubbing his head.

"Who was he, by the way?" I asked calming down a bit.

"Well that was Ganon, everyone respects him though I think they're just scared of him. Among his friends are Vaati, Mido, Zant, Ghirahim, and Groose," Sheik stopped suddenly in thought before continuing, "You might want to stay away from Groose especially."

"Why?"

"Well, he likes flirting with all the girls, and he never stops at anything to get a girl that he wants," Sheik explained.

"Ok."

"Well, we've got to get to class, what do you have now?"

I checked my timetable and saw that I had algebra, so did Sheik so he we Sheik directed me down many of the halls and up some stairs until we reached the algebra classroom. I saw that Saria and Link were there, so was Karane and Pipit still smooching in the corner.

"Can't they keep their hands off each other for like five minutes," I said meeting Saria and Link.

"I'm afraid not, you're just going to have to get used to it like we all did," Laughed Saria as I groaned in distaste.

"Come on we better go in before the teacher gives us all detention," Sheik said walking with Link into the classroom. Saria grabbed Karane's shirt and forcefully pulled her away from Pipit. Karane waved to Pipit with a dazed look on her face, she giggled as Pipit blew back kisses too her so I made a gagging noise.

Saria mumbled in annoyance something about love being blinding and inconvenient, I just laughed as I followed them into class. Mostly everyone was seated so I sat next to Karane with Link and Sheik seated behind us. Since the desks were only in two's, Saria sat across from me and Karane in another row of desks, next to a girl that looked to be only interested in her appearance.

I sighed, 'so I'm stuck in a class where not many people want to actually learn,' I thought to myself as I gazed at the many people gossiping and throwing things.

"Hey Karane, why isn't Pipit in this class?" I asked when I noticed that pipit wasn't in this class.

"He's in the high achiever's class," Sheik said leaning forward.

"Because he's too smart for us," Saria mockingly said.

"Oh," Was all I could say before the teacher came into the room, making the whole class go quiet. As I glanced around the room I realized that it was larger than what I had thought possible, there had to at least be forty students in here.

"Now students may you please open up your text books to the first page and please work on the exercises once you have finished reading the examples," The teacher said, taking a seat behind her large desk. My eyebrows shot up in surprise, 'Well this teacher is very… Straight to the point.'

"Is Zelda Harkinian here?" The teacher called suddenly. I stood up at the sound of my name. "Come here Zelda," The teacher ordered making it sound as though I had done something wrong, and I was beginning to believe I had. As I walked up to the teacher's desk, I could feel every one had their eyes on me, the new girl. I had only felt like this once before and that was a month ago.

It was as I sat in the back of an ambulance, being treated for smoke ventilation and burns. Every one who passed was looking at me, looking at me out of pity.

I forced the memory to the back of my mind as I stood in front of the teacher.

"I am miss Fi, this is a list of rules for this classroom and I expect them to be obeyed," I nodded, and seeing that miss Fi had nothing more to say I returned back to my seat. I opened up my textbook and read the question, solve for x, and there were many equations listed all with an 'x' in them. Well this seems simple enough. I had always found algebra to be something a five year old could do, every one had so much trouble with it but to me it was a breeze.

I was working through the questions rather fast and I was still only half way through the lesson, when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around to see Link leaning over his desk towards me.

"Hey Zel, do you think you could help me with question twenty?" He asked.

"Of course," I swivelled around in my chair and looked at the question he was working on. I explained it to Link and did a few similar questions until he understood. I was happy to help because I knew miss Fi wasn't the sort of teacher to help students or explain the work.

"Harkinian!" I snapped my head around to see the teacher staring at me. "Did you not bother to read the rules?" She asked, I remained silent because I didn't; I knew the rules were something like no talking, no eating, and no cheating.

"Rule number three 'no talking, under any circumstances'," Wow, this lady had actually memorized her own rules, I was impressed.

"I was helpi…"

"No excuse, Zelda. This saddens me, but please move yourself to the desk of shame," Miss Fi pointed to a small desk beside hers in the corner of the room. Was this teacher mad or something, but despite being curious I moved to the desk and began working.

I finished ten minutes early so I just sat there watching everyone else in deep concentration. It was actually quite soothing in the silence knowing everyone was busily working, though there were some that were just scribbling and daydreaming.

The bell finally rang, which seemed like forever. But to my disappointment the teacher called for me to stay behind. So, instead I watched everyone leave including Saria, Karane, Sheik, and Link.

"Zelda, I know you are a new student here, but I do expect you to obey the rules," Miss Fi said in a stern voice.

"I do obey the rules, " I agued though I clearly shouldn't have.

"Then why were you talking to Link Gaiden?"

"He needed help,"

"If he needs help he can always come and ask me."

"How can he ask you, you don't even teach the class," oops, that was a mistake. Miss Fi's face turned red and I heard her breath come out even heavier, she was clearly annoyed with me.

I quickly collected my things and escaped from the classroom while miss Fi was still interpreting my words. Outside I saw Link leaning against the wall, upon seeing me he smiled and walked towards me.

"You have some guts talking like that to miss Fi," Link said chuckling. We walked down the stairs, which were almost deserted.

"It's the truth," I defended.

Link just kept on smiling to himself; I guess most people would have if they had heard me speak to miss Fi the way I did.

"Anyway, you and I should get to geography," Link said.

"How do you know I have geography?"

"Sheik told me."

"Oh, is Sheik in that class?"

"No but Karane and Pipit do," Link laughed when I made a disgusted face. Pipit and Karane in the same class, this was going to prove interesting.

I was right, Link and I sat behind Karane and Pipit and watched them exchange love notes and holding hands and such. It was awful; it kept on distracting me from my work. I eventually just gave up and started talking with Link. It turned out that he and I had a lot more in common from what I first gave him credit for.

I got through the rest of the day relatively well and I found that a lot of the teacher's were impressed with my vast knowledge.

I had just finished eating lunch with every one when I was walking to my locker in one of the more deserted corridors of the school. It seemed so quiet but that was mainly because there was no one around, everyone was either on the field playing football or in the cafeteria still.

I chucked my books in my locker, which I always kept very organised.

"What's up blondie?" A guy asked leaning on the lockers beside me. I hadn't even noticed him there. It was the guy who was looking at me weirdly this morning in homeroom.

I just ignored him only to turn around and find another guy there, but then four more of them came out and crowded around me. Great, I was alone with six guys all crowded around me with sick smiles on their faces, you could say the situation wasn't necessarily in my favour.

"What do you want from me?" I asked trying not to sound scared. Thought the only thing I was scared about was my safety.

"We want to get to know you," One said moving closer to me.

"Seeing as you're the new girl, and all," Another added chuckling to himself.

"But we already know all about you, how you lost mummy and daddy in a little house fire," Mocked one of the shorter guys.

"You probably left them to die, you evil little whore."

What, why were these guys teasing me, making fun of me because of what had happened. I didn't understand why, I felt tears form behind my eyes but I struggled to control them.

"She's the devil watch out she might burn down your house too." They all laughed.

"Zelda?" A voice said from behind the group closing in on me. I caught sight of Link, the Pipit come from around the corner to stand beside Link.

"Oh look, the bitch even has her own knight in shining armour," Spat the shorter one who had mocked me.

"Just leave her alone she is minding her business so why don't you mind yours," Link said calmly without showing any sign of fear.

"Leave them, we have better things to do," Said the leader, who's name I knew was Ganon. He hadn't said one word to me but already I knew he was wicked.

"Bitch," The short boy mumbled and kid the behinds of my legs making me fall on the cold, hard, tiled floor before he followed along with everyone else. As soon as they were out of sight Link and Pipit both ran over to me, I was crying hard, letting each of my tears fall to the ground wetting my hands. Words could hurt hard just like a blow to the gut. What did I ever deserve for such harsh treatment. I curled up into a ball and rested on the ground feeling awful, like death itself.

I felt a hand resting on my shoulder and I looked up through my tangled hair to see Link looking at me, and was that, concern, I could see.

"Dark you're in her next class right?" Pipit asked.

"Yeah, I'll just say she was feeling sick," Dark said, I realized I hadn't seen him all day not since this morning's early rush hour.

"OH MY GODDESSES! What in Hyrule happened to Zelda," Karane burst out saying as she rounded the corner with Saria who just gasped.

"Karane, don't say anything," Pipit hushed as he walked the two girls back around the corner, obviously not wanting them to witness me having a breakdown.

I suddenly felt two hands, one around my waist and the other around my legs, and then I was lifted up.

"Link, what are you doing?" I mumbled.

"Taking you back to your room, I think you need a rest,"

I felt weird being carried by Link; I had never even been so close to a guy before. I guess I could resist so I buried my head in the crook of Link's neck. He smelt of a forest, which made me tingle all over. I could hear Link's heartbeat, it was so soothing as it drummed against my ear. I guess I did need to rest, because I was suddenly tired. So I listened to Link's slow steady breaths and the sound of his beating heart, and felt myself drift off into a sleep. Even though sleep was like a curse to me now, and every time I closed my eyes I would re-live my worst memory, my worst living nightmare.

Yes, heavy language and a heavy Zelink moment! :D yay just what we were waiting for. When Zelda was in her algebra class I was sort of explaining myself, because I LOVE math, which means everyone asks me for help, and really algebra is a breeze compared to any other math related topic. Yes, I'm somewhat of a nerd, you got me :D Anyway hoped everyone liked the chapter, did you all notice this ones longer than the others :)