"An Act to Follow"
Disclaimer: Roses are red, violets are blue, I don't own Zelda, and neither do you. Unless you're the king of Nintendo, that is…
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Author's Notes: Chapter Ten! I'm into the double digits, and I was sure I'd have stopped writing by now. Apparently not, but that's a very good thing, in my opinion. Only a few weeks before I go back to college, mixed feelings there, but I'm gonna keep writing this, wherever I happen to be at the moment. Bah, still getting used to a new version of Word. Darnit, spacing must work!! I think it's back to normal, for a while I was uploading as plain text, but now I'm back to html.
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An Act to Follow — Part 10 — There's nothing wrong with us that a little pie won't fix!
Timbre and Tejina probably should have followed the old proverb, 'look before you leap,' before they, well, leapt. But sometimes desperation makes fool of the wisest sage. Imagine, considering, what it'll do to two ten-year olds. Either way, they both plummeted out of the window without a second look.
And landed on something soft.
"Well," Tim remarked as soon as he regained his breath, "That was rather fortunate."
Tee blinked. "Why do you say that?"
"Otherwise we'd have been street pancakes-whoa!" Timbre was interrupted as whatever they had landed on suddenly moved. In fact, it did more then just move.
"Ow! What in the name of Din do you think you're doing, landing on me like that?!!" Timbre was thrown, and toppled onto the ground with a whoop, closely followed by Tee. Link, who had been the one unfortunate enough to break the escapers' falls, brushed himself off, and readjusted the shield on his back.
"Link?" Timbre blinked.
"Yeah, what's it to yo-" The boy in green turned around and stopped as he recognized them. "Oh. You two. What, did you fall asleep on the roof or something?"
As the Hylian spoke, Tatl emerged, disgruntled, from his cap. "What's the big idea, shaking me around like that?!" She hovered angrily in front of Link's nose, who waved her away.
"Don't blame me, blame them, they're the ones who fell on me."
Tatl zoomed over to Tim and Tee. "Nice to finally show your faces!!"
Link nodded, glad he wasn't the one being yelled at. "And where've you been, Timbe?"
Timbre groaned as Link got his name wrong intentionally. "You don't wanna know, honestly." Tee however, wasn't listening to either of them. She was busying herself by staring up at the window they had just dropped out of. After a moment, she looked back at them.
"I think we'd better scoot, Tim. What if they decide to look out the window?"
Timbre blinked. "Uh, right! We gotta find some place nobody ever bothers to go to!"
Link was slightly confused. "Gotta find what for why?"
Tejina gave the Hylian a withering look. She'd learned how from Ana, although she wasn't quite as good at it. "We'll explain eventually. You know of anyplace?"
Tatl decided to be helpful. "Well, there's the observatory-"
"Tried that, bad idea."
The Hylian raised an eyebrow. "Okay then, how about that little hideout behind the Curiosity Shop? Remember, Tim, when B.K. was hiding from his girlf-hey Timbe, wait up!"
Timbre was already walking away towards South Clock Town, with Tejina in tow. Link jogged to catch up, but Timbre just stared ahead, looking annoyed.
"You know that's not really my name, so either get it right or bug off."
"Heheh, touché," Tatl smirked.
Tee raised an eyebrow at Link as he caught up. "Why are you calling him that, anyway?"
Link shrugged at her. "'Cause it annoys him."
"Wait a second, that's my job!" Tatl whined.
Tee hid a small smile. She suddenly realized that Tatl was most likely Link's fairy partner, as their personalities seemed to fit rather well. After a moment, she remarked, "Well, you're both doing a marvelous job of it."
"Humph!" Timbre's back grumbled.
Link ignored that, and looked pointedly at Tee. "So, why are you two so in a hurry to get away, anyhow?"
Sond yawned loudly, and gave one more check over her shoulder. They were definately gone, as the curtains waved cheerily through an empty window. Breathing out, she turned the doorknob and opened the door. Sticking her head out, she blinked owlishly.
"Mwhassi?" she grumbled, acting as though she'd just woken up (this was easy since this was nearly the case).
Captain Viscen and Veneer headed the group, with two junior Guards behind them. Four pairs of eyes stared at the small girl, and Veneer grunted in recognition. "You?!"
Sond smirked impishly at the man, though she was kind of scared of him. "Hey there, mister. Didya ever find what you were lookin' for?"
"No." Veneer growled as he answered, but Viscen ignored him.
"Miss, we're looking for Keisou and Ana Meimu, who are renting this room. Are you with them?"
"Yeah!" Sond said suddenly, before she'd even thought out the question.
"So you are…Tejina, then…" Sond nodded slowly, stuck for it. But anything to give the two time to get away. Veneer scowled deeply as eyes flickered down to her ungloved hands.
"So where are they, then?" Veneer scowled.
Sond shrugged. "I don't know, they must have left before I woke up. I woke up when you knocked on the door. Maybe I could find them for you?"
Viscen looked confused for a moment, then nodded. "Perhaps that would be helpful. Veneer, what do you think?"
Veneer was confused. He'd been told that the traveling threesome had arrived in Clock Town the same day the strange sightings had started, and had begin investigation. Viscen had complained, saying he was jumping to conclusions. But Veneer's gut instinct was often correct, and that instinct was saying there was a connection. So he nodded at Viscen. "Aye."
Sond quickly threaded out of the room and hurried down the stairs, still aware of Veneer's eyes watching her.
She quickly swooped out of the front door, while Big Kafei's wife Anju looked on. Moments later, with a great deal of clanking, the Captain, Veneer, and their two juniors descended the staircase. Anju's bored eyes lit up slightly. "Hello, Captain."
"Good morning, my dear. Busy today?"
Anju sighed. "Not really. Not too many customers stopping for breakfast. You want anything while you're here?"
Veneer rolled his eyes, impatient to continue his search, but Viscen pointedly ignored him. "I guess we could stop for a while…" Veneer glared daggers, and was about to have several choice words with the Captain when a loud crash from the kitchen startled everyone.
A cloud of thick black smoke immediately followed the crash.
A blonde boy, apparently the cook, who was coughing as he ran stumbling from the kitchen, followed the smoke. His flight was stopped suddenly as ran, blinded, into Veneer. Sitting down hard, he groaned, covered in a great deal of black soot.
"Breakfast may be late," he said as casually as the situation would allow. Then he sneezed.
Anju just rolled her eyes. "And they said my cooking was bad…"
"Well, if we could actually get a stove that didn't belch up black soot every hour…" The blonde youth picked himself up off the floor, mumbled a sour 'sorry' to Veneer, and walked off back into the kitchen, supposedly to the washroom to clean himself off. After a moment, the boy's voice broke through to the lobby, raised an alarmed octave. "Oh NO! The kitchen's on fire!!"
Viscen raised an eyebrow at the trail of smoke, still curling from the doorway. "On second thought, maybe we'll skip breakfast…"
The door to the inn creaked open again, and Keisou entered, his boots clomping noisily. Ana followed her husband, blinking from the bright sun. Five pairs of eyes oriented on them suddenly.
"Er, hello…" Kei blinked, not sure why he was getting so much attention. After a moment, he shrugged.
"Here we are!" The Captain smiled. "Just the people you were looking for, Veneer."
Veneer was still grumbling, however, and didn't respond to Kei's presence. "Kids in this town have absolutely no respect, Viscen."
Viscen raised an eyebrow. "And what brought this on?"
Veneer thumbed over his shoulder. "That kid. All kids. They keep bumping into me for some reason. Las' night it was that girl we just talked to, and early yesterday it was some little short boy in a trenchcoat."
The last statement seemed to jog something in Viscen's memory. "Which day was that?"
"Day after that 'accident,' why?"
"It's funny you mention a trenchcoat. Who was it I saw, that night in a trenchcoat…it's weird, I can't seem to really remember exactly, but those two witnesses at the accident, one of them…what did the boy look like?"
Veneer snorted. "Becoming senile in our old age are we?" He smirked as the insult managed to gain a withering glare from the Captain. Veneer stopped baiting him a moment and humored the question. "The boy? I dunno, short, black hair-"
"-And wearing black gloves." Both men finished the statement at the same time. Kei blinked and raised an eyebrow, stopping in mid stride towards the stairway. He and Ana exchanged a look and a half.
Veneer looked surprised, almost impressed. "I believe you've just managed your first intelligent thought in quite some time, Viscen." With that he strode out of the Inn, not looking back.
The Captain looked from Anju, who shrugged, to the two junior Guards, who also shrugged. Worried about what the man might do on his own, Viscen hurried out the door after him.
"Weird guy," Anju remarked to herself, becoming bored again.
Viscen caught up to Veneer in front of the Clock Tower stage. "Now Veneer, let's not jump to more conclusions, this could all be a strange coincide-"
Veneer glared. "I'd rather jump to a conclusion than lose the trail. There's always room for apologies."
"Not when you're thinking about using brutal force, Veneer. Now, what exactly are you planning to do about this…new inkling of yours?"
"Easy, next time I see that kid I'll stop him, that's all. If it's a false lead, then it's back to square one."
"So can I stop my Guards from patting down every poor gate traveler, then?"
"No. Not until we've got something." Veneer stuck his jaw out as Viscen scowled. What Veneer really wanted at the moment was for Viscen to get out of his hair. "Tell you what, Viscen. If it makes you happy, go find that man Keisou and ask him what he knows. If you find anything interesting, I won't have to investigate other leads."
Viscen did not stop scowling. "Very well, Veneer. I do hope something good comes of all of this, it is quickly becoming a bother. I'm beginning to regret ever hiring you." The Captain turned to his two companions, who saluted and then marched away towards North Clock Town.
Veneer's eyebrows furrowed. "We'll see who's right soon enough, rustbucket.." he spat bitterly.
Link coughed a little. "Dusty in here, apparently nobody's used it since last summer."
Tee waved away several dust motes with her ungloved hand as she stepped in from the brightness of the Laundry Pool. "His big brother stayed in here?"
"Yeah, remember when we were telling you about the Skullkid and Majora's Mask? Well, Kafei's older brother found himself on the wrong side of a youthening spell. He was hiding from his then girlfriend, Anju in here. See look," Tatl hovered over to a small hole in the side of the small area. "That peephole gives a spy's eye view of the Curiosity Shop. He was watching for Sakon-"
"Who?" Tee raised an eyebrow.
"That scary dancing guy the Guards dragged away last night," Timbre cut in. Last night, was that? Felt more like a month or two, actually. But so much had happened since then, it was hard to contemplate. "Well, might as well make ourselves comfortable…" Timbre half-yawned.
"Do you think Veneer will find this place?" Tee asked.
Link shrugged. "Doubt it. Like I said, nobody ever uses this place. Kafei says it used to be a storage area, but it's too small." He stood up, brushing himself off importantly. "Well, I gotta go find the rest of our gang, I'll tell them where you are."
Timbre slumped against the wall. "Yeah, do that." He groaned. "I can't figure out it I'm more tired, or more hungry at the moment. Too bad we couldn't have caught breakfast at the Inn…"
"And Link, if you see Kei or Ana, tell them too, alright?" Tee sat down against an old crate, sniffing because of the dust.
"Okay."
"And bring back some food!" Came Timbre's voice.
"Will do. Have fun, Timbe!" And with that the Hylian and his fairy partner left, the door shutting with a dull thud.
"My name's…not Timbe…" Tim groaned, shaking a half-hearted fist in the direction of the door. Closing his eyes, he let the back of his head bang against the wall several times. "What a mess."
"Sorry."
Timbre opened one green eye irritably and glanced at Tejina. "Why are you apologizing?"
Tee shrugged. "Don't know."
The eye closed again. "Then don't."
"You know what? You were right."
"What?"
"You are a grump."
"Baah." Timbre turned the other way. "Don't talk right now, I'm trying to sleep."
Tee shrugged, and stared through the peephole, bored. Behind her, Timbre twitched, trying to fall back asleep. He fidgeted for almost a half-hour, changing positions 3 times a minute, until he finally gave up the idea. "This is great," he moaned. "Now I can't sleep."
Tee kept staring though the peephole, one eye shut. "I could've told you that."
Timbre shook his headband loose, then retied it out of sheer boredom. "I hope they come back with some food soon…I'm hungry."
"Exactly."
"What?"
"It's hard to sleep on an empty stomach, you know. And since you're no exactly comfortable, either, of course you're not gonna be able to sleep." She said in that slightly condescending voice. Backing away from the peephole, she sighed. "Nothing going on in that store, either. Everyone's outside."
Timbre let his brain wander. If he hadn't been stupid enough to go snooping, none of this would have happened, and he might be out there right now, having fun with the rest of his friends, instead of stuck in a dusty old closet with Tejina, who was easily the most annoying girl he'd ever met. He idly wished that he had a pack of playing cards, a book, anything to make the time go faster.
Tee was looking similarly bored. She looked up suddenly. "Hey Timbre."
"What?"
"Make conversation." She ordered.
"Why should I?"
"'Cause maybe then we won't be sitting here bored out of our minds."
Tim wasn't sure what time it was now, but he was certain not too much time had passed by since Link had left. "Uh, okay. Um…" His eyes roved around, trying to think of something to say. He wasn't very good at it. "Uh, it sure is dusty in here," he finally mumbled.
Tee rolled her eyes. "Sheesh. No, something that'll spark conversation, not babbling. Like this: So, Tim, where are you from?"
Timbre blinked several times. So that was it. She was being nosy, a typically female trait. So he decided to play stupid. Maybe she'd get bored and change the subject. "Uh, who said I wasn't from here?"
"Well, your friends said so, for one. Second, you mentioned it yourself last night. And besides, you don't look like a local. The locals are Hylians, they've got pointed ears, like mine." She pointed at hers, as if he hadn't noticed them. "And yours aren't," she added.
Self-consciously, Timbre pulled at one rounded ear. "Well…"
"So, if you're not from Clock Town, where are you from?"
Timbre suddenly turned the tables. "Where are you from?"
Tee chewed her lip, surprised by the reversal. "Er, well…"
"What?"
"Well, I…don't remember."
Timbre raised an eyebrow. "What do you mean?"
"Just that." Tejina shrugged. "Don't remember. Everything before Kei and Ana is just kind of…blank. I was wandering or something one day, and I met up with them. And I've been with them ever since. That's all."
"Oh." A beat. "Sorry."
"Why are you apologizing?"
Timbre shrugged. "Don't know."
Tee smiled sadly. "Then don't, okay? You couldn't have known." Tactfully, she decided not to pester him further. Five minutes went by, where nobody said anything.
Tee was secretly glad she didn't have a watch, because if she had, she would've been glancing at it every half-minute. As it was, she was currently fidgeting with her hair. It just wasn't…natural to sit around doing nothing. Tee yawned, feeling suddenly drowsy again. Looking over at her companion, she noticed he'd nodded off.
"Not a bad idea," she murmured vaguely, nodding off herself.
"Hey, check this out!"
Kat waved, excited, pointing to a poster plastered up behind a booth in South Clock Town. It was advertising the singing competition slated for that day.
"Contestants can enter as a group or individually, prize money is 200 rupees for a single winner, 100 each if in a group," Kat read aloud. "Sign up early for best audition times. Late entries may be accepted if time allows. First act scheduled at 7:30 PM"
"Hey," Ty said, "We haven't even thought about what we'll be singing yet, have we?"
Nick shrugged. "Do'en't matter t'me anyway. Can' sing. I jus' play drums."
"Same here," Kafei added.
"Oh we'll think about that when we're all together. When we find Sond and everyone, we'll work something out. I'm signing us up now though." Stepping up to the booth, she had a short conversation with the woman taking names. After a moment, she walked back to the group.
"Ten rupees each to enter," she said, holding out a hand.
Ty rummaged in his pocket. "Uh, some of our entrants aren't here yet. How many of us together is this gonna be?"
"Uh, counting everyone…Eight?"
"That's eighty rupees, then…" Ty groaned. Kat, Chiron, Nick, and Ty all rummaged in their pockets. "Uh, I've got a blue rupee and an old paperclip."
"Nuthin' here, sorry…" Nick shrugged.
"I've got twenty," Chiron said after a moment.
"And I've got ten," Kat said. "That's…thirty-five. We need forty-five still…"
Kafei cleared his throat…"I've got sixty."
"So that's ninety-five altogether. Eighty for the contest, and fifteen for lunch! Thanks Kafei!" Kat looked triumphant.
"But…well…uh…you're welcome." Kafei shrugged.
As Kat returned to the booth to sign the group up, Link (with Tatl under his hat) arrived.
"Well look who's up. Did Winky-kins get enough sleep, or does he need another nap?" Ty said in falsetto, as he battered his eyelids.
"Stuff it for a moment, Ty." Link scowled. "I found Timbre. Him and that girl Tejina are hiding out in the secret area behind the Curiosity Shop."
Chiron raised an eyebrow. "This wouldn't have anything to do with-"
"Th' searches at th' gates? Mebbe…" Nick looked thoughtful.
"That's not even the half of it. See, there's this guy, Veneer…" The Hylian proceeded to tell the rest of the group everything about the hunter Veneer and his commissioned job.
Ty bit his lip, tapping his tail. "Sounds pretty bad."
Kat walked up. "Well, we're all signed up, and-why's everyone look like they're at a funeral?"
So they told her as well. "Hmm, that is a problem. What's this 'Veneer' look like, anyway?"
"Kind of tall, a bit unshaven, fur-lined tunic, generally unpleasant air-"
"Li' tha' guy?" Nick said from the ground. He was picking the dirt out of his boots with his dirk again.
"Which guy?" Tatl re-emerged from Link's cap.
"Tha' guy." Nick pointed with his dirk towards the Clock Tower and the stage. Leaning against the stage was Captain Viscen and a tall, slightly unshaven man wearing a fur-lined tunic.
"Wow." Kat said. "I think that might be him, I mean, he's there with Viscen and everything-"
Veneer's face suddenly turned towards them, and everyone quickly looked away.
"Definitely him," Kat said, shuddering. "Scary guy."
"I think I'd be hiding from him too," Tatl agreed. "So now what?"
Chiron shrugged. "We still haven't found Sond, yet. And it's nearly lunchtime, and we haven't eaten yet."
That jogged Link's memory. "That's right. Timbe asked that we bring food. I don't think he's eaten since yesterday."
"Poor little guy," Kat said sympathically. "What if we have lunch with those two, then go look for Sond? And while we're at it, we can figure out what we're going to perform tonight."
There wasn't too much argument, as there wasn't much use in just sitting around.
"Excuse me sir, but you're going to have to be searched."
Kasumi stopped in his tracks, halfway across the Northern gate of Clock Town. Ty's brother raised a gray eyebrow at the Guard, who shrugged apologetically.
"Sorry, Captain's orders." His voice went into 'official statement mode.' "All persons entering or leaving Clock Town must be searched before being allowed to enter or leave."
Kasumi sighed in resignation, and his shoulders slumped a little. "…"
He suffered the two Guards' prodding with a neutral air. Why are they doing this? Kasumi wondered idly, staring upwards at a cloud in the sky. Since when do they pat down every poor traveler like this? Finally the first Guard asked him another question "You got gloves, sir?"
Kasumi wordlessly held up his hands, which were ungloved.
"Good," the first Guard seemed almost relieved. "Don't have to administer the eye test, then…I swear Viscen's losing it, ever since a few days ago…" The Guard shook his head.
The second Guard stooped and was pulling at the frayed end of Kasumi's cape. "We'll have to ask you to remove that cape si-"
SWISH-CRACK!
With a yelp, the second Guard leapt upright, shaking his hand.
"What's wrong?" The first Guard asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Something-ow-something stung me," the second guard whimpered. He stopped shaking his hand long enough to show the first Guard. "See right between the thumb and forefinger, see the red spot?" The second Guard sucked on his injured hand grumpily. "I hate this stupid job sometimes."
"Hmm," Kas said casually, speaking for the first time. "Must be a wasp around. May I go through now?"
"What? Oh…right, go ahead," the first Guard said, waving him away distractedly.
"Thank you, sir." The caped man walked away into North Clock Town without another word. Halting in front of the Great Fairy's Fountain, he paused long enough to hide his tail again. Nobody, especially snoopy Guards, needed to know about that, thank you very much. He hadn't wanted to swat the Guard's hand like that, but it had been a split-second decision. And better a slightly bruised hand then the alternative. After another moment, Kasumi cracked his neck, and pointed his walk towards South Clock Town.
Tejina woke up suddenly for no real reason. Or maybe it was because Timbre was snoring so loudly, she wasn't too sure. Sitting up, the young girl yawned and stretched. Momentarily disoriented, she looked around with half-lidded eyes before the events of the past day finally hit her. She was still hiding behind the Curiosity Shop. That, and she was hungry. She idly poked her stomach, trying to stop it from complaining. No use there.
Timbre snored again, and rolled over, mumbling something about 'demon horses.' Tejina raised an eyebrow. As far as she was concerned, Tim was possibly the strangest kid she'd ever come across. And the fact that he was a wolf like she was just made him stranger yet. Still, she thought, leaning back against the wall, it was nice to know she wasn't totally alienated in the world.
A knock at the door made her jump suddenly. Last time someone had knocked, she'd ended up running for her life. Her hands instinctively balled into fists, and she looked pensively at the door.
"Hey!" Thud Thud. "Open up, it's Link, and everyone else!" The noise made Timbre sit up.
"What??" He rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, and yawned.
"You told him to bring food, remember?"
"Oh yeah…" Timbre stumbled upright and opened the door. Daylight flooded in, and the boy was temporarily blinded. He quickly stepped to the side as his friends, laden with what appeared to be piles of white boxes, piled into the small room.
"Hey Tejina," Kat said, nearly tripping as she set down several of the boxes. They were square, made of some kind of cardboard, and about ten inches wide and half again as tall.
"Uh, hello…" Tee looked confused. "Is ALL of that stuff your lunches?"
"Oh good grief no!" Kat smiled, and thumbed back at Nick, Ty, Chiron, Kafei, and Link, who were similarly laden down. "They've got the rest of it!"
Timbre just blinked. "What did you do, buy the entire store?"
Ty grinned. "It was cheaper to buy in bulk."
Nick nodded. "Sinc' we're so many, 'ee gave us a big disc'ont!"
Tee's eyes widened a fraction. "Makes sense."
"Uh, yeah…" Timbre blinked. And sniffed. "Smells good. What is it?"
All of the newcomers exchanged looks, and grinned. "Pie!!"
"It was the only thing we could all agree on," Chiron explained.
Ty agreed. "We might argue about a lot of stuff, but everyone likes pie, cause it comes in so many varieties."
Kat started opening boxes, each of which smelled delicious. "Yeah, we got vegetable, beefsteak, rhubarb, apple, blueberry…and coconut crème…" She went off and listed half a dozen other varieties. "Uh, you guys might wanna dig in before it gets cold…"
Nobody really needed a second bidding anyways, as they were hungry.
As they ate, they tried making conversation between mouthfuls. "So, Kat, any idea?" Kafei said.
Kat stared upwards. "For a song? Not yet. I'll ask Sond, she's always got the good ideas."
"Uh…" Timbre looked slightly lost. "What?"
"A song, for the singing competition tonight," Kafei clarified.
"Oh wow, that could be ne-oh wait. I can't go, right?" Timbre swallowed.
"Yeah," Kat agreed quietly, with a little glance in Kafei's direction. "They're always next year, though."
Timbre just shrugged, as if he weren't sure if he'd be around then.
After lunch, Link stood. "Time to go find our absent members, right?"
"Yeah, and my brother too!" Tatl piped.
"Oh, we saw Tael a bunch of times last night," Timbre said. "He's with Sond, they were both at the Inn with us last night." He shrugged, standing up.
Kat poked Tim in the forehead. "Right then. You two sit tight, I know it's not fun sitting here alone and all, but…we'll come back for dinner. And we'll leave the leftovers here, alright."
Tee just shrugged.
As everyone said their goodbyes and left, Ty poked his head back in. "Have fun."
"Yeah, really…" Timbre slumped down again, chin in hands as the door clicked shut. Tapping one foot against the other, he groaned. "Great, now I'm really fidgety."
Tejina shrugged as she finished off a slice of blueberry. "Well so am I. Just accept it, we're gonna be in here for a while, so you might as well get used to it."
"How long is a 'while,' though?" Timbre retorted. "What if those Guards don't go away by the end of the Festival, what if Veneer doesn't leave? Then what?"
"Well then," Tee shrugged. "We find some way out. Maybe the Observatory again. Or maybe we'll risk climbing over the walls."
Timbre snorted. "Yeah right, and maybe we'll sprout wings and fly away while we're at it. I hate being a pessimist, about as much as I hate being shut in here with you."
Tee looked slightly hurt.
Running a hand through his hair, Tim corrected himself…"Uh, well…I didn't mean it like that, I-"
Tejina sniffed and stuck her nose in the air, eyes shut.
"It's jus-" He was quickly flushing. "I didn't mean I hated you…you're…okay…I guess…I just hate being shut in here, that's all…" When he didn't immediately get a response, he stood up. "That's it. I'm getting out of here before I go insane!" He hopped over to the door, and clutched the doorknob.
It rattled, but wouldn't open.
"Oh great!" Timbre swore.
Tee looked up, forgetting she was offended. "What's wrong now?"
"They LOCKED THE DOOR!" Timbre slumped.
Halfway across Clock Town, Kafei whistled innocently as a small brass colored key swung around his index finger.
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And here we have another chapter. Three weeks, then I'm back at college. *fidgets* In the meantime, I'll be writing as much as I can! *in announcer's voice* What will happen next time? You can only find out if you stay tuned! *back to normal voice* It would also help my self-esteem if you reviewed! Thank you!!! ^_^