Took a holiday break from writing over Christmas but I'm back now!

ReluctantHero – Thank you for the review. I have played LBW (although only once through immediately after its release) and I didn't get much of an impression from Ravio. Honestly, though, it doesn't matter. I could easily change his name in this story and make him a full OC and the character would be exactly the same. To be fair, though, I left myself room to play around with Ravio because he's only got a few lines so far and he's BRAND NEW to their school so he's not exactly in his element… I'm just saying don't write my Ravio off as a total waste of the LBW character just yet.

I'm glad you enjoyed the last chapter (it was sort of my Christmas present) and I did originally end it with Fledge fucking Pipit until they both came, but it just didn't feel right… I want to keep consistent with Pipit's characterization as the dominating, controlling man, even in the dream, and I couldn't see him being fucked by Fledge (and certainly not Link, although I agree that would be hot).

This next chapter is comparatively tame, but there has to be a plot somewhere, right?

A cool breeze blew in through the open window as they passed the afternoon in Zelda's dorm.

Fledge sat on her bed, attempting to focus on his homework, and Zelda did the same from the desk just beside him. Link, however, was sprawled in the floor after declaring that the assignment was a pointless exercise as he would never learn it anyway. He talked incessantly to Fledge and Zelda, an active nuisance as they worked.

"What did Pipit mean when he said 'last night'?"

He glanced up, startled, but Zelda beat him to answering the question. "What? When did Pipit say that?"

Link glared at Zelda jokingly for a moment as he said, "I was asking Fledge, your majesty."

She rolled her eyes. "Well you should have made that clearer."

He looked back to Fledge expectantly, and he gulped uncomfortably. "I don't remember what you're talking about. When did he say 'last night'?"

"He said you seemed okay with it 'last night'."

Mind furiously racing to piece together an acceptable version of the meeting he had shared with Pipit, he glanced at Zelda, who raised her eyebrows curiously. "Well, he sort of came to my room the night before to talk to me about Keet, and we were talking about his… sexual appetite. And I guess that sort of led to talking about Pipit's sexual appetite, and he just sort of asked me if I wanted to."

Fledge furiously avoided Zelda's gaze.

Link rolled his eyes, groaning. "I'm sorry he did that, I told him to just drop it and used you as my excuse to not be enthusiastic. I guess he thought if he could prove to me that you were alright with it I'd have no reservations."

"It's fine, honestly. I mean, it was a little awkward, but it wasn't too bad. I didn't really know what to say but I told him that I wasn't like totally against it."

Glancing at Zelda, Link explained, "To bring you up to speed," he began, but she cut him off.

"Pipit wants a threesome. Yeah, Fledge told me."

Link looked peeved. "Fledge told you? When did he do that?"

"I ran into her a little while after and… well, you know how good she is at getting you to tell her what's on your mind. I told her all about it."

"So you guys aren't going to have a threesome?" she demanded.

Smacking her leg, Link tutted. "Sorry that we aren't going to fulfill your deepest fantasy, but Fledge and I outvote Pipit two-to-one so yeah I think that's the verdict."

Fledge tried to ignore the meaningful look Zelda shot his direction and push the guilt to the back of his mind. He didn't see how telling Link the truth now would help the situation in any way, but he could easily see how it might damage their relationship, so he kept his silence.

"He didn't say anything else to you, did he? What did he say about Keet?"

"Just that he didn't want to watch Keet hurt me the way he hurt him and that he thinks of me as a brother and doesn't think it's a good idea for me to be seeing him."

"Goddess, he is such a dick sometimes. I'm really sorry."

Fledge glanced around uncomfortably. "Yeah, I wasn't really gonna say anything, but he seems really pushy. Like, if things aren't going his way, he's gonna make them go his way."

Sighing, Link looked away from him sadly. "I've started to notice that too. In fact, I've started to notice a lot of things about Pipit that I never noticed before. I mean, I thought we were in love, but we've only been properly together for three weeks and I'm already starting to feel like it's been years."

A heavy silence hung over the room after he said this, and Fledge suddenly put his homework aside and climbed off of the bed, laying in the floor beside Link. They were close, but not touching excessively, and Fledge felt something unspoken pass between them. Their relationship had changed dramatically over the last few weeks, but they were, essentially, best friends, and Fledge was grateful for that. He swore to himself that he would always be there for Link and would never allow himself to hurt the other boy.

They lay there for several minutes in silence, each entertained by his own thoughts, while Zelda reclined over them in her chair introspectively. Suddenly, Zelda rose and left the room without offering an explanation.

It was silent for another minute.

"Fledge, is it bad if I'm thinking I might not be happy with Pipit?"

He was quiet as he formed an answer in his head. "I think the most important part of a relationship is that you're both happy. If you're not happy, then that's a big problem, and I think you're definitely allowed to be unhappy."

"But what do I do about it? I don't want to just give up on him."

Fledge bit his lip, very tempted to tell Link the truth. However, he was worried that Link would be angry with him and couldn't bring himself to say anything about it. Instead, he answered, "Do what your heart tells you, Link. If you think the best solution is to break up with him, then that's what you've gotta do."

"It's just that we went through so much shit to get here, with Keet and Karane, and it doesn't seem fair to throw all that work away after just a few weeks. And I don't really know how I feel. I mean, I thought I loved him, Fledge, but I don't really know if that's true anymore."

Fledge sighed dutifully. "What's wrong, though? Why are you getting the feeling that you might not be happy with him?"

Link turned his head to look at him, and Fledge saw the confusion and pain in his eyes. "I don't know. There's no big think that I can pinpoint as the reason it's not working, our relationship was always just so easy before all this. We were best friends, and it was effortless, like I am with Zelda or you. But romance and sex adds another level to relationships that I don't know if I was ready for. I mean, I only had the one before Pipit, but Nico and I were too young to really have something serious. I feel like this isn't what I expected, and what I wanted, when I was falling in love with Pipit. I put him on this pedestal, even forgave him for Keet, but I'm starting to realize that he's not perfect."

"I mean, yeah. Relationships are never easy, but you have to want to put in the work. Both of you do. If that doesn't happen, the relationship can't really happen. And of course he's not perfect, nobody is. He's always had flaws Link, before they just didn't matter as much because it was easier to get away from him if you wanted to."

"I know. I've always known that he was pretty demanding and could be pushy about certain things, but that takes on a new meaning in a relationship. He's pretty good at getting me to do things I wouldn't normally do."

Fledge rolled his eyes. "Like what?" He could practically feel Link blush.

"Just things that I wouldn't normally be comfortable with. In places I wouldn't normally do those things."

"Well if that's a big problem for you and majorly interfering with your relationship then you just need to tell him. It won't do any good to tell me about it."

He scoffed. "You're kidding, right? I really needed to talk to someone, and you didn't make me feel like an incompetent idiot."

"That's what I'm here for," Fledge said slyly, winking. He turned to look at Link and found himself nose to nose with the other boy.

"But seriously, thank you, Fledge." Fledge felt tension spark between the two of them, the old sort of tension that he always hoped for but never seemed to encounter with the other boy. However, he rolled his eyes and smirked easily.

"I just don't want to see you get hurt. Not again."

They lay in silence after that, staring up at the ceiling together.