A Special Day For You and Me
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Chapter One

"Hey! Heey you!"

Link opened his eyes and saw a very beautiful face. It belonged to his best friend, Kokiri girl named Saria. She was looking at him with her arms crossed, but her eyes were smiling. Link stretched and sat up on his bed.

"Link, you overslept again! You know, Mido will be angry at you, so am I!" continued Saria as she sat by Link's side on his bed.

"No, you are not," Link replied jokingly.

"Yeah, I am, " she returned and laughed. They were looking into each other's blue eyes.

They were closer to each other everyday more and more. They were inseparable. They made homework together, they ate together, they played together. Sure they had other good friends, too, but even those friends were a bit envious, because of Link's and Saria's close friendship. And most envious of all was Mido, of course. Because.He was in love with Saria. He refused to admit it, but.it was a sure thing for every Kokiri in the forest. And that's why he was not very friendly with Link. He did not miss any occasion to yell at him or act haughty around him - only because he was said to be the boss of all Kokiri. But it did not help him much, because Saria loved Link and his bad behavior didn't help much either. As Link found out later that he was in love with Saria. But they were only ten years old.

"L-let's go, the lesson begins soon," Link broke the silence and diverted his sight.

He put his hat on his head and ran out of his hut. He was climbing down the ladder from his hut's terrace, when he realized Saria was still inside.

"Saria, come on! G-r-e-a-t Mido is waiting!"

But Saria did not reply. She was still sitting on Link's bed, crying.

"You don't know what's gonna happen. I can't stand it! But I'm not going to tell you, Link. I want you to be happy, to have a nice time together, before.," she whispered for herself and than her voice broke into sobbing.

Later after breakfast, they were sitting side by side under the tree, making notes of Mido's speech, which was very boring. But Link listened to him carefully, because he did not want to make him angry. Not today. This day was very special day, because he wanted to reveal his feelings for Saria. So he listened and wrote down almost every word Mido had said. Saria sat quietly next to him, thinking while making her notes. But she did not listen to Mido at all.

The lesson finally ended and all Kokiri kids scattered all over the forest. Mido looked enviously at those two, who were still sitting under the tree and did not mean to stand up at all. They were fine so. Then he turned around and went to his house, rampaging. Today was not good day for him!

"Saria, will you.will you meet me at our place in a while? I'll be there right after that. Please?" asked Link and looked at Saria shyly.

She looked at him back very surprised. He never acted so.insecure, when they were together.

"OK, Link. But, why don't we walk there together as usual?" asked Saria.

"That's why, it's surprise!"

Saria walked to the large stump in the middle of the Sacred Forest Meadow, with her ocarina in her hand. She used to play her ocarina here, sitting on this stump, when she felt lonely. Or when Link was there with her and she was very happy. But Link was not here now and she felt so much lonely. Because she knew what was going to happen, and because Link was so happy lately and had something for her, what was surprise. She started to play a very very sad melody.

"Saria!"

Link was entering the Sacred Forest Meadow, when he heard this sad melody. The song itself was very beautiful but also very heartbreaking.

The melody overpowered Link and he fell on his knees and shouted desperately again: "Saria!" Tears started to fall from his eyes.

***************************** To be continued in the next chapter. *****************************

saria-chan

Author's notes: This takes place right before "Ocarina of Time" Nintendo 64 video game. I've been always interested in Saria's and Link's friendship and feelings for each other before the game took place. So I hope you still
like it even if you know how it will end. Please excuse my bad English,
because it is not my first language. Thank you! I really welcome any reviews (both positive and negative)! Shall I continue with it? What do you
think?