//Link…//

//I was like you once…//

//Well, almost like you…//

//Did you ever think of me?//

//I've thought about you every day…//

"Naaaaaaavi!" A young girl called out to me. I looked up to see a tiny girl running towards me. She was so full of life, her mouse-brown hair swinging behind her as she ran to me. Her face was in a perfect smile, for smiles fit her so well. Her long, pointy, elf-like ears went well with her childish face. She was Tea, my friend, Tea.

//Tea… How I have longed to see you again…//

I only looked up at her and smiled. Happiness was always contagious around her although I had a hard time accepting happiness, as most people said.

"Whatcha doing?" Tea asked me. I lifted up my work to show her.

"Drawing again, Navi? Ahhhh! C'mon, you need to get out more." She tugged at my arm. I wouldn't budge from my tiny rock outside my house. This rock was where I sat when I decided to venture out of my house into the village of Respigem.

//Respigem… I don't know what ever happened to the village. After all, it is a secretly hidden from the outside world.//

"Navi! No other Hylian is as nearly as quiet as you are!" She smiled at me. I was not offended. How can I be when her words are yet true? I just hung my head slightly and my pale blonde hair fell over my eyes. Tea just shook her head. How did she ever manage to put up with me?

"Navi, I know you don't like venturing out, for you're always…" Tea cut herself off as to not break the truth to me. I knew what she was going to say.

"Bullied." I said in a firm voice. I looked up at her. Her eyes filled with concern. Why would anyone feel concerned for me?

"No, that's not…. all true. You just don't always fit in right." She was right. I didn't fit in. I was just the deformed Respigan wasn't I? Tea… She was always bouncy and energetic and always managed to find company. Why she picked to bother with the lonely girl named Navi, was beyond me. I looked away from her for a moment.

"Well, what I came to ask you was, you want to help me pull some weeds? I have to do it for my daily job for the carpenters." Tea's family wasn't one of the richer Hylian families. She managed to do most of the work for her family.

"Sure" I said and stood up. I brushed my long pale blonde hair behind my pointy ears."

"Navi, you're allowed to smile every once in awhile." she said to my dull reaction. I gave her a weak smile and followed her to pull weeds. We past by the ledge where Tael sat.

//Tael… I have many memories of you… Although you probably don't remember me too well…//

Tea nudged me in the arm. I blushed, and it was really showed over my fair skin. Tea knew that I had had feelings for Tael for a long while. Normally Tea would go out of her way to pair us up, like she tried matchmaking for many of her friends, but there wasn't much of a chance of anything happening between us. Yes, I was overly shy, but that wasn't the point. His sister was Tatl, who utterly despised me for unknown reasons.

I watched Tael as we past by the ledge. His midnight hair was beautiful and his eyes were dark and mysterious. His sister was just like him, of amazing looks. Her hair was a very yellowish blonde and she had silky blue eyes. His sister hated me.

We approached the weeds to be pulled. I got down on my knees, ready for the extreme work to be done, for there was many, many plants to be pulled, and an overwhelming amount for Tea and I.

"All these?" I questioned with a suspicious look on my face.

"Yes! Yes, all these." She sighed. I smiled at her, which made her genuinely happy, for she smiled back.

"Okay, then. Are you going to get on your knees and help me or not?" I gave her a mock serious look.

"If you say sooo…" She said in a singsong voice and got down on her knees with me as we desperately tried to pull the weeds. Those weeds sure did have roots.

After many hours gone by, and few weeds gone by I noticed a figure walking towards us. I lowered my head as I was very sure it was someone else coming to tell me off for whatever I did this time.

//What did I ever do anyway? Was it my shyness? Is that what made me an irresistible target?//

But, as the figure moved closer, I recognized his presence. No, he was not coming to tell me off. It was Tael. My heart skipped a beat. There wasn't any way that someone like him would even bother with someone like me. He sat down besides us. I tried to quickly glance at him. Tea spoke up first.

"Hey Tael… What brings you here?" Tea said in a cheerful voice, "Navi and I are just pulling weeds." She glanced towards me. "Want to help?" I lowered my head.

"Hello Navi…" He said to me. I looked up at him, which was a mistake. My presence was most likely working negatively against his. He looked into my eyes and smiled. Why would anyone look in my eyes? I was so mystified at the time that I didn't pay attention to that obvious fact.

"Hi" I said, for that was the only thing I could think of saying right now. He continued to stare into my eyes, my blue eyes, almost searching them. Or were my eyes blue? People said my eyes changed colors depending how you looked at them. But they also said that my annoying, quiet personality would never change.

//They were wrong… I did change…//

Tea reached down between us to pull a weed. I pulled my eyes away from his and put my head down in shame. I continued to pull the weeds. He turned his head away after me and put his head down, but it didn't seem as it was the way I did it. I did it because I'm shy, he did it because he was just pulling weeds. Weeds… how I hated weeds.

"How's your sister" Tea questioned Tael in her overly perky voice. Tael didn't lift his head.

"She's good, I suppose." For some odd reason he glanced quickly at me. Why would he ever glance at me? I'm certainly not good enough for that.

I saw a yellow glimmer approaching. Perfect, I knew exactly who it was. It was Tatl. Agh, she hated me so much, just like everyone else.

"Hey brother" Tatl said in her overly sexy voice. When her eyes caught sight of me she glared.

"What are YOU doing here?" She demanded. She had found her prey and wasn't going to let it free now.

"Brother, why do you even BOTHER with these uncultured people?" Tea's cheerfulness was fading, I saw it in her face. Tael didn't answer.

"Mind if I borrow… Navi? Navi, is that it?" She didn't give me time to answer; she just grabbed my arm. My arm was in pain now, from pulling all the weeds. Tael stood up for a second. Tea had shifted a bit. Both of their eyes were full of concern now. Concern? For me? Why?

Tatl kept her grip on me and pulled me away from Tea and Tael. I had a general idea of what I was in for. I was always being harassed, this was just normal for me. My arm was really beginning to hurt. And there was a red mark around where her hand was tightly grasped. I saw Tael in the distance running towards us. Was he coming to rescue me? Tatl began to move faster, forcing me to move faster. Tael was gaining on Tatl. Was he coming to rescue me? Why would anyone do anything like that for me?

//Oh… I don't want to remember much beyond this part…//

All of a sudden I felt my whole body drop… Down, down. I was falling. Tatl and I landed hard all tangled together. We untangled ourselves and I rolled to the side. Tael must have not been far behind us when we fell because he fell down too. We were in a grotto.

//I didn't know the dangers then…//

A lighted room was in the distance. As in a trance we all wandered towards it. The room was filled with white translucent water. I stepped in it first, with Tatl and Tael following me. No one said anything. The whole grotto was beautiful. Pink flashes rised from the water but I don't remember much after that because it all went black…

//Although I wasn't happy then, maybe I should have been grateful… Things just got worse…//