December 4 2008 :: 21 days to go!
It was all planned out.
Link had carefully spent his time and money deciding on hated presents for everyone. In fact, he put so much time into it that he was the only person left in the mall by midnight. Mario and Zelda got out of it, since Mario was his best friend and he loved Zelda. And Mario had promised to buy Link a fantastic birthday present. He bought Luigi clothes in his most hated colour, brown. He laughed at his set of awful makeup for Peach. Each Smasher was carefully thought over by Link, and he found it easy to remember all their complaining.
The mall wasn't far from the Smash Mansion. Instead of suffer from Mario's atrocious driving, he decided to walk it. He laid down his shopping bags and put his jacket on, incase it was cold. It was scary how quiet the mall was. Normally, at Christmas time, you couldn't breathe, there was that many people.
He stepped outside and began to walk. It was quite a nice night, he decided. It was clear, stars dotted about the inky sky, and it wasn't too cold. What he would have given to be with Zelda at that moment...
He let his thoughts wander off with Zelda while his legs automatically walked towards the Smash Mansion. He had a goofy smile placed on his face by the time he was only a street away from the Smash Mansion. Even from there, he could see the neon lights and the massive Christmas tree and the loud songs being blasted from Sonic's giant speakers.
His thoughts snapped back to real matters and he rolled his eyes.
Typical of them.
He walked to the front door and pushed it open, dreading the sight. Everyone was partying wildly to music, and it sounded like Fox's entire record collection was being played. He had everything - name an artist from the 50s to the 2000s and he owned it. Tonight's speciality was Enter Sandman by Metallica, and why they had picked such a wild song Link would never know.
He sat down, trying to avoid the chaos, then thought different of it and ran upstairs to his room.
"I am in hell," he muttered. "I am in hell."