It's been like three weeks since I last updated. I'm just hoping that this story is going to be one of those ones that people discover very late. Much like my blog. Such is Life has been going for a year and a quarter, and I have a massive grand total of three people reading it. Two of which friends from school, one of which a friend from the internet.
Without further ado, here is Chapter 7!
Chapter 7
"Okay, now what?" Gaipeia asked, as we walked through the double door onto the East road of Castle Town. Looking around, I could see many Hylians going about their business in the Town Square, but not many loitered in the East Road.
Maadlus pointed to his left. "We go down that road to get to the hotel. It's just across from Fanabi's Fortune Telling and Agitha's Castle."
Heeding his directions, our party walked past the STAR tent, and down the road to the hotel. His Highness paid for us country kids to stay in a hotel during the semester, but we either paid for our own stay during the holidays or we went home for the month. Many of us chose the latter option, seeing as none of us liked being cooped up in the busy city for long.
As we walked, I could see Murai's eyes flicking between buildings attentively. I assumed he was checking the surrounding area for escape routes. It was then that I realised that Maadlus had grown taller than his older brother, which, needless to say, surprised me. I didn't comment, though, because I knew best of all of us that comments about one's size tend to aggravate one more than other snide remarks.
Finally finding the hotel, we split up into our room groups. Mesa, Kaj and Maadlus grouped together, Murai and my sister grouped together (only because he didn't have any friends and my sister didn't have the heart to let him be alone), and needless to say, I went with Gaipeia and Merllis.
After we had chucked our bags onto our beds, we exited the hotel, meeting in the foyer. The two fifteen year olds left us young ones in search of my sister's friends, but I translated that as "We're older than you, and therefore will not hang around."
The boys pronounced that they were hungry, as men usually are. They trotted off to go find some food on the South road, promising that they would bring something back for us.
"Man, I'm getting hungry. When will those boys be back?" Gaipeia whined, sitting down on the stone path. Merllis laughed. "They're probably going to fight over what food they buy, then buy all of it, become stone broke, and come back with way too much food. Then we will eat as much as we can, and all that perfectly good food will be thrown in the bin." She predicted.
I looked over to her. "Can I quote you on that?" She giggled again.
Suddenly, a young boy about our age, wearing a bright orange shirt with tan pants rushed past being chased by a few loose cuccos. He had brown hair that hung just over his ears, and he wore low, ankle length brown boots with a belt of the same colour strapped around his waist. Two black, tight bracelets adorned his wrist like gauntlets, which looked very much out of place on his thin frame. He screamed as he hell over and crushed two old wooden crates. As he lifted his head and spat out some cucco feathers I squealed in delight.
"LESIN!" I cried as I ran and hugged him. He was a friend of mine from when I did a delivery here. His parents owned a small café, and wanted some bread, milk and pumpkins. He was the thinnest child that could possibly exist without being ill, and because of this he seemed to lack muscles, which was not made up for in wit. He constantly got into trouble, be it cuccos chasing him or being squashed by the heavy crates he was required to carry.
Gaipeia looked at me with her eyebrows squishing together. "Say what now?"
"Gai, Mer, this is my old friend Lesin. Lesin, this is Gaipeia and Merllis." I introduced. "Now get acquainted."
Merllis laughed asking me, "Do you say that to everyone you introduce?" Lesin frowned, and tried to push me off him. "Sheesh, Hale. You're so huggy. Here I am trying to regain what little pride I have left in front of your friends, and you come and hug me. Honestly." He jokingly scolded.
Gaipeia giggled, and after a few seconds of awkward silence, the boys came back. Kaj and Maadlus were animatedly talking, I suspected about explosives, and Mesa came back holding a large paper bag, trying to flick his fringe out of his eyes. When he finally succeeded, he stared at my position kneeling on the ground hugging a foreign boy. He froze for a minute, any joy on his face immediately disappearing. After a few milliseconds, he blinked, and averted his eyes.
The two pyros looked up from their conversation, and saw me hugging the thin frame of Lesin.
"Who's that you're getting so close to, Hale?" Maadlus asked, seemingly unconcerned. Mesa tensed.
"Ah, this is a friend of mine from doing deliveries. His name is Lesin. Lesin, this is Maadlus, Kaj and Mesa. Now get acquainted." I said, making Merllis laugh and nod. "That proves it."
Lesin chuckled, and bit my ear. "And she's mine, so don't come within two metres of us."
"Don't be disgusting, Lesin," I laughed, shoving him off, "We both know that isn't true."
It was then that I noticed the expression on Mesa's face. He scowled so angrily that I swore he was about to make the castle collapse. He shut his eyes, and took a deep breath through his nose.
"I'm going to our room." He announced, shoving the bag into Kaj's chest and storming off into the hotel. Lesin blinked.
"He didn't like that much, did he? Maybe he-" he stopped talking abruptly, a smile spreading across his pale face. "I think you should go tell him it was a joke, Hale."
Heeding Lesin's words, I took off into the building.
Le gasp! Mesa is jealous?
New chapters come out when you review. Even flames. Anything makes me happy.
So make me happy.
HOLY CRAP MASSIVE EARTH TREMOUR JUST HAPPENED! I could feel it all the way in AUSTRALIA. And we're in the middle of a tectonic plate!
See ya guys later!
