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I am so terribly sorry.

There you go, Bret! Happy now? Geez. . . but I guess I'm glad that I finally got this chapter done :) thanks for the. . . positive encouragement. Hope you all enjoy this chapter! It's the chapter you've all been waiting for! (at least, most of you. A lot of you are probably just waiting for the lemon parts, you dirty children X3

Note: Also, a few of my readers noticed a. . . weird little typo in this chapter. I must also apologize for that, because I'm pretty sure that was my sister trolling me again D: Every time I leave my files alone on the computer, she goes on and writes something stupid (trust me, it's not the first time I've published something online with a chapter messed up because of her). Hopefully it doesn't happen again :) I apologize for the confusion as well (but I'm sure you got a good laugh out of it, right? XDD)

The Legend of Zelda: Only Chosen Love

Chapter 11: Words That Were Never Said

Link stared at Zelda with a blank look.

"W-What?" he asked, confused by her words.

"You heard me Link," Zelda snapped. "We can't be together anymore."

Link stumbled a bit, like he was about to faint, but he caught himself and tried to balance himself as much as possible.

"Zelda. . . why? Is it something I did?" Link asked, his voice quivering and altering between sobbing and yelling. He grabbed Zelda's shoulders and stared back into her sorrowed eyes – her eyes appeared red, as if she had been crying earlier. "Please, talk to me!" Link lowered his face and stared down to the floor, trying to hide the tears that had started to emerge, but it was already obvious by the way his body was shaking.

Zelda placed her hand on his head, trying to comfort him. "Link. . . please don't be upset. . . I just think it's the right thing. . ."

Link suddenly stopped shaking, and he felt the tears dry up immediately.

"You're lying. . ." he muttered under his breath. "I can tell that you're lying." He looked up at Zelda with a stern and serious look. "Tell me the truth. Why do you want to end this now?"

"I'm not-"

"Yes, you are! I can always tell when you're lying! You're a terrible liar."

Zelda became silent, and then looked away for a minute before replying, "You really want to know?"

Link nodded.

Zelda took a deep breath, recollecting her thoughts and calming herself down.

"Link, I have no choice but to break up with you," she said, trying to keep her voice as steady as possible. "You. . . you didn't do anything wrong. It's purely my fault."

"Your fault? W-Why would it be your-"

"My father wants us to split up. He knows your uncle well apparently, and he said that he never liked him. Apparently my father has quite a vendetta against your family – at least, on your dad's side."

Link stared at her in confusion. "So. . . because your dad said so? That's the only reason?"

"I know, it sounds stupid," Zelda sighed. "I called my family the other day to check up on them, and I ended up telling my father about you. . . when he realized who you actually were, well, his temper blew."

Link's eyes widened in surprise. "Really? What happened?"

Zelda shook her head. "I don't want to talk about it out here."

Link nodded. So he led her to his room, and sat her down on his bed. He sat in a chair across from her.

"Start from the beginning and tell me what happened," Link asked in a soothing voice.

Zelda took a deep breath, and stayed silent for a few moments. She stared at her feet, and then finally began to speak, not taking her eyes off the ground.

"I try to stay in contact with my family as much as possible, because they worry about me being on my own. My father – my step-father – recently married my mother, which means that I have a new brother, Zant. Zant really has nothing to do with this though. My step-father is extremely overprotective. When he found out I was dating you, and that your uncle was Blake, who apparently played pranks on my step-father a lot when they were in school, he flipped out and said that I shouldn't be going out with a reckless person like you." Zelda's face cringed. "And this is from my step-father, not me, 'I don't want an innocent girl like you dating a reckless, stupid, underachieving moron like him'." Zelda bit her lip, trying to hold back the tears. "He just doesn't seem to understand that you're Blake's nephew, not Blake himself!"

Link let out a stress-releasing sigh, trying to calm himself down and think through the situation properly.

"So. . . you're dad has a vendetta against my uncle?" Link asked, raising an eyebrow. "Who's your dad – er, step-dad – anyways? Should I know him?"

"His name is Irwin," Zelda said.

Link smirked. "Irwin? That guy that owns the big phone company?"

Zelda nodded.

"Yeah, of course I know him! Well, we never actually met, but Uncle Blake told me about him all the time. Turns out the two of them were real dicks to each other back in high school."

"Then it makes perfect sense that he wouldn't want me dating you!" Zelda sighed in defeat.

Link sighed again and scratched the back of his head. "Does your step-dad really have the authority to do that? I mean, he's not even your blood father. . . has he been your step-dad long?"

"My mother and Irwin have been married for about two years now," Zelda answered.

". . . Well, he still shouldn't have that much control over your social life," Link muttered. "It's unfair."

"Tell me something I don't know," Zelda muttered back. "I've told mother about it, but she just doesn't seem to see if from my same point of view. But then again, she's not the one who's getting their social life crushed on."

Link sat down next to her on the bed, and held her hand tightly.

"Don't worry, Zelda," Link said in a soothing voice. "We'll get through this. I'm not going to give you up that easily. Not without a fight."

"Link. . . thank you. . ." Zelda whispered, and leaned in towards him.

The door suddenly burst open, revealing Sheik and Mido with a can of black spraypaint and mischievous looks on their faces.
"Sheik!" Link snapped, annoyed from their sudden intrusion. Although it was Sheik's room too, Link still felt that he should have knocked first. "What is it?"

"We're going to initiate the Plan!" Sheik snickered as he rubbed his hands together like an evil genius. "We're ready to turn ourselves into kickasses, and Ganon into a real kiss-ass!"

Link rolled his eyes and waved his hand at them in a shooing motion. "Get out of here! I told you, we're not doing that until tonight when Ganon leaves for late-night power-lifting! Go! Out! Now!"

Sheik and Mido groaned and walked away down the hallway, taking their spraypaint with them.

"What was that all about?" Zelda asked curiously, raising an eyebrow.

Link sighed and rubbed his forehead, trying to soothe his headache. "Nothing. Forget about it."

Zelda smiled, becoming aware of their prank, even though she didn't exactly know what it was that they were going to do.

Link looked back at Zelda, and made a small smile, trying to lighten the situation. He wrapped his arms around her and hugged her tight, not wanting to let go in fear of losing her forever if he let her go. Zelda dug her head into his neck, her body trembling, and feared that she would start bawling. She didn't want to make herself or Link feel worse about the situation – she wanted to stay with Link, she really did; and crying would just make the entire situation a lot more miserable.

"Zelda, look at me," Link said. Zelda raised her head and did as she was told, but it made it a whole lot harder to hold the tears back. He noticed her holding back the tears, and he hugged her as tight as he could. Unable to hold the tears back any longer, Zelda burst into a fit of crying, the tears soaking into Link's shirt. Link rubbed her back and kissed her head repeatedly, trying not to cry himself.

"It's okay, Zelda. . ." he hushed. "Calm down. . . everything's going to be alright. . ."

Zelda dug her face into his shoulder even harder. Link snuggled down into her shoulder as well, and continue to rub her back in a soothing manner. He lifted her head up by the chin, and smiled at her.

"I'm not going to give you up that easily, sweetheart," he whispered. "I finally got my hands on you – do you think I'm going to just let you go because somebody told me to?"

Zelda rested her forehead on Link's and tried to smile. Link smiled back, and kissed her forehead, and then resumed his position with his forehead leaning on hers. Then, very slowly, he moved forward, and placed a gentle kiss on her lips. Soft, and slow at first, but it grew in intensity and lust. Link held her face in his hands as he kissed her, rubbing her skin with his thumbs, and eventually moved his hands to the back of her head, combing his fingers through her brown-blond hair. Zelda did the same, dragging her fingers through his short dirty-blond hair. Zelda soon felt the tip of Link's tongue skim just across her bottom lip. She opened her mouth a little more, allowing the tips of their tongues to touch each other in each other's mouths. Zelda breathed heavily during the split-second intervals that passed between the movements of their lips, trying to get as much air in the short amount of time she had so that she wouldn't have to end the kiss. She didn't want to – because she felt that if she stopped kissing him now, and if he stopped holding her the way he was holding her, that this would be the last time they would every be able to kiss like this, that afterwards, he would disappear forever from her life. The thoughts made her hold onto him even tighter, pressing their bodies closer to each other, increasing the intensity of the kiss, as if it wasn't intense enough to begin with.

Zelda slowly started to lean back, until she was laying on the bed and Link was practically on top of her. But they didn't stop. They continued to kiss, only stopping to breathe for seconds at a time.

"Link. . ." Zelda breathed at one point, but the words were lost in another flurry of kisses.

Link finally stopped kissing her, and moved to her neck, placing kisses along her skin from her shoulder to her ear. Zelda sighed from the feeling, and tilted her head back, closing her eyes, relaxing her body completely as Link kissed her neck. His kisses soon became a lot quicker, as he placed his lips fully on her neck instead of just placing light, soft kisses. He dragged his lips down her neck, and kissed his way back up again, repeating the same thing over and over again. A moan escaped Zelda's lips, which was music to Link's ears. He smiled, and then tickled her neck with the tip of his tongue, leaving a very small dab of saliva on her neck.

"Link. . ." Zelda breathed again. She looked down, and saw that he was looking up at her with a very evil look in his eyes. She giggled. Link smiled in response, and then moved back up to her lips, kissing her just like before, dragging his fingers through her hair.

Link pulled his face away for a moment to speak.

"I'm never going to just let you leave me," he whispered in a sigh. "Not in a million years. Not now, not ever."

Zelda smiled, and kissed his forehead, then the bridge of his nose, working her way down until she finally kissed him once on the lips.

"I know," she replied. "I'm not going to leave you. Because. . ."

Zelda held Link's hands in hers, and kissed him again.

". . . I love you, Link."