Chapter 4
My favorite period of the school day? Lunch. After working so long on the ELA project, mapping Hyrule in World Geography, and pronouncing Sacaen greetings in Foreign Languages, I was in much need of a break. Our lunch table consisted of me, Pit, Zelda, Lucina, Robin, Peach, the two twins, whose names were Mario and Luigi, a third year student named Chrom, who was Lucina's older brother, and my younger brother, Toon. For some reason, Chrom was not all that pleased with having Lucina and Robin sitting next to each other. That, I could understand. Being an older sibling myself, I was always looking out for my little brother. Speaking of which, my brother, Toon Link, or just Toon, was a first year, and I a second year. Everyone ate lunch at the same time, because there was enough room in the cafeteria. Lunch break is a great time to socialize and make friends outside of your grade levels and classes. Me and Toon were Selected at the same time, so we got to have our first day of school together. The reason why I didn't catch him this morning was because he had run off to find his friends Kirby and Pikachu. He had promised to meet me during break, and Toon is always one to stick to his word. Zelda once again made a point of sitting next to me. If anything, she sat a little closer to me than the size of the stool suggested. After a few jokes, tall tales, and true stories, I began to get the feeling that I was being watched. I turned around, and sure enough, Marth was once again staring straight at me and Zelda sitting together from across the cafeteria.
"What's up, Link?" Zelda asked. She followed my gaze across the room to where Marth was staring.
"Oh, are you saying hello to Marth? I met him this summer, at camp. He's a really smart guy." She smiled and waved. Marth beamed and waved back. Then Zelda turned back to the conversation and Marth went back to shooting daggers at me with his eyes. Oh, I thought. Marth likes Zelda, too. Wait, what? I'd confused myself. Who'd said that I liked Zelda in the first place?
"Your drawing was awesome, am I right, Link? Just admit it, even Akira Himekawa would be proud," Zelda said.
"I'm not sure about that," I responded, blushing under her praise.
"Well, I think that you're the best in the school. Even better than me! And I'm sure that Camii agrees. Hey! I've got an idea! Link, could you draw a picture of me? I'll draw one of you. We can bring them in and show each other during art tomorrow. Deal?" She asked, holding out her hand. The same hand I'd shook this morning.
"Sure," I said. When the bell rang signaling the end of lunch, I wondered what I'd gotten myself into. Why was it so hard to say no to her? Well, I guess life does crazy things to you. Ugh, I need to stop acting like I'm in some sort of movie, I thought. But I could tell that in school of smash, things get weird enough for it to be just like a movie. I could feel Marth's eyes burning into the back of my neck as Zelda leaned in to tell me about Sir Ike. Something told me that this was going to go unnoticed by Zelda. At least then, Zelda won't have anything to worry about. Even so, thoughts threatened to prickled my consciousness all the way to gym. I shook my head and shoved my worries deep into the pockets of my mind.
Yang: Just so you know, Akira Himekawa is the real life author/artist duo who are writing and drawing the AMAZING LoZ manga series. I 100% recommend it to any Zelda fans. Also I wrote an entire 5 paragraph essay of 1500 words in an hour and a half so yay.