Just as I suspected: someone's been sneaking the shortbread cookies…
The annual Spring Smash Bash was today, and this year I was tasked with setting the tables. I will not allow anyone or anything to come between me and a perfectly presentable table. Precisely three napkins by every plate, check. Hors d'oeuvres arranged in alphabetical order, check. But just look at that dessert platter…! Not one, not two, but five shortbread cookies missing… Simply unforgivable!
"Come now, it is only a trivial thing," Zelda smiled. "Oh how fussy you can get."
She was right, irrefutably so. This, however, I cannot let go!
In order to catch the perpetrator, I set my plan into motion. Some new shortbread cookies were in place, and hiding just behind the corner I vigilantly monitored the table and its many visitors. Suddenly Ness, Villager and Pichu, in a rowdy game of tag, bumped into the table, and had it not been for my impeccable reflexes there would be shattered goblets all over the floor. I was grateful that Samus happened by, catching the champagne bottle.
I thanked her afterward, realizing then she had styled her hair marvelously for the occasion, and I promptly became aware of the heat upon my cheeks.
…The crumbs around her mouth seized my attention as well. She seemed quite pleased, knowingly winking at me as she helped herself to another shortbread cookie.
I merely chuckled, accepting defeat for now, and had some of the macarons, if only to take in her beauty a little longer.
