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Zelda and Link walked out of the Cart House on their sixth day of work. Smiling happily, Zelda gave Link a high-five.
"Almost a week at work! I feel so accomplished!"
"Exciting, isn't it?" Link asked, as they got inside his car.
"Yeah, I've never really had a job I've liked so much!! The first day was rough, but I'm getting used to it!"
"Where else have you worked?"
"Oh, don't get me started!" Zelda sighed, rolling her eyes. "Sales clerk, Ice Cream scooper, candy shop co-worker. . ." They passed a McDonald's. "My first job was over at Mickey D's."
"So was mine," Link laughed. "I worked the cash register."
"Me too," Zelda commented. "It was a lot more confusing than I thought it would be, though. My sister is a psycho about me having a job. I guess it's because I've been staying with her for a while. . .y'know, looking after her daughter while she's at work."
"Oh. Well, here we are." Link slowly brought the car to a stop.
"Thanks so much," Zelda said, getting out. "You're so sweet for driving me to and from work every day!"
"No problem," Link said, blushing. "You're right on my way!"
From inside the house, Zelda watched Link outside the window. He pulled into her driveway, then turned around the car and went the way he came.
'Hmmm....that's funny,' Zelda thought. 'He usually goes the other way.'
After calling their names around the house, Zelda discovered that neither Peach or Nicole were home. She sat down at the kitchen table and wondered what to do to pass the time until dinner.
Since tomorrow was the 4th of July, the Cart House had been closed early (though Zelda was a little confused about why it had been). Peach wasn't very patriotic, and the 4th was exactly one of her favorite holidays, but they always went to see fireworks together anyway.
Walking into Peach's room, Zelda found an old high school year book. She flipped through it a bit, finding some of her old teachers, friends, enemies, and boyfriends. Lying down on Peach's bed and flipping through the pages, Zelda slowly started remembering that day in high school that still stood out.....
*FLASHBACK*
"Did you hear?" Fox asked Ness, his best friend. "I just found out from Samus--Peach Toadstool and Zelda Harkinian are half-sisters!!"
"Wow, really?" Ness asked. "What a coincidence!! The two hottest girls in school are related!"
"Yeah, and to think that they used to be worst enemies."
It was sadly true. Before realizing they had the same mother, Zelda and Peach were huge rivals. They always did their best to outdo the other. There was the time that Peach flushed Zelda's biology notes down the toilet; when Zelda had allegedly "made out" with Peach's boyfriend, and when both had accused the other of cheating on a standardized state test.
Then one day, Zelda, who'd been staying with her (now late) Uncle-in- law, answered the door. That fateful day. The woman standing in front of her burst into tears, and Uncle Joe was forced to explain the whole situation.
Three days later, Zelda moved in with the Toadstools. The next day, Peach and Zelda had suddenly become the best of friends. The day was filled with apologies like "I'm sorry I set your dog on fire," and "I'm sorry I put sea monkeys in your lemonade," and "I'm sorry that I framed you for pulling the fire alarm."
*PRESENT*
Zelda couldn't help but smile when she saw the "Seniors and their Siblings" page, which showed Peach and Zelda walking down the hallway arm- in-arm and grinning. Everyone called it a classic, because it was spontaneous.
Flipping the page, Zelda saw the school wrestling team. She glanced up and saw Peach's poster of Ah-nold. Way back when, Zelda had dated an older body builder.
*FLASHBACK*
"Are you sure this is what you want?" Roy asked.
"Yes!" Zelda cried, unbuttoning Roy's shirt and tossing it to the ground. "This is what I've lived for!"
"I'm just thinking of you."
"Well all you need to know is that I love you," Zelda said, taking his hands and putting them on her coat collar. "More than anyone or anything in the whole universe!"
Roy started unzipping Zelda's jacket, then stopped and shut his eyes. "I can't," he said, backing up.
"Why not?" Zelda asked, feeling that he was joking. She placed her hands on his shoulders, moving her tongue from his upper chest to his neck. "C'mon Roy, this is what you want!"
"No, it's not!" Roy said. "I can't, because. . .because. . ." He sighed heavily, not able to meet her eyes. "I should've told you this before, Zelda. I've already impregnated a woman today. She's my wife. I-I'm already married."
*PRESENT*
The next thing she knew, Zelda was almost drowning in her own tears. Roy had broken her heart that day. He'd led her to believe he loved her, carrying on an affair with her when he was already married!
'Damned jerk!' Zelda thought angrily to herself. She'd loved him so much and so sincerely, and yet he just played around with her. He completely broke her heart.
She'd sworn never to go out with a man again, but of course she broke the promise. Zelda had had several boyfriends in her time, but none that she loved as much as Roy. . .and none that she ever had genuine feelings for. Perhaps all that time she'd been trying to make him jealous.
'I feel like I'm the Scarlett O'Hara of some bad soap opera!' Zelda said inwardly.
Zelda stood up and headed out the door. She felt like going to the gym to work out. Almost every week she went there, maybe from Roy or just because she didn't want to become a fragile old hag (probably the latter one).
After about a fifteen minute walk, Zelda reached the gym. She saw a throng of girls her age crowding around one of the windows that peered into the partially underground gym. Curious, Zelda walked over.
"What's up?" she asked, recognizing one of her friends, Saria.
"Those guys down there," Saria answered excitedly. "Duh! Have you ever seen how hot some of them are?!"
"Kinda," Zelda said. "But whenever I come here, I normally focus on my exercising. There can't be anyone too good-looking in there, because I'd have noticed them before."
"HEY GIRLS, MOVE OUTTA THE WAY!!" Saria shouted, pushing through some of the gals. "WE HAVE A NON-BELIEVER HERE!!"
There were several gasps of astonishment at this statement as Saria pointed at the window. "Look in there, Zel! That guy in the right corner! Y'know, the one with a 45 pound dumbell ring on his chest doing sit-ups!! See him?!"
See him? She sure did. "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!!" she exclaimed. "That's Link!!"
"You mean you know that guy?" asked a girl.
"KNOW him? He's my co-worker, and one of my friends!!"
"You're friends with that hunk??" Saria asked excitedly. Zelda nodded numbly. Saria pushed her towards the gym door. "Well if you came here to work out, Zellie, you go in there and work out!! And talk to him, he's so hot!"
"Hey, wait!" Zelda protested as Saria literally shoved her at the door. "Don't I have a say in this??"
"Of course not."
Saria opened the door and flung Zelda inside. Suddenly, she felt very nervous and vulnerable. Gulping, she took off her light coat (there had been a bit of a breeze on the way up), which revealed a light blue tank top.
Zelda walked down the stairs. She stood on her toes and peered through the glass on one of the doors. If she went in, she'd be the only girl in there. Her eyes finally found Link, and she put a hand on the door handle.
'Target acquired,' she thought to herself. 'Here I go!"
She pushed open the door. Pretending not to notice he was there, Zelda walked past him and headed towards the punching bag.
"What's she doing?!" one of the observing girls shouted. "She went and walked right past him!"
"She's going for the coy attack, I think," Saria said.
As Link was doing the "up" part of his sit-ups, he saw her. "Zelda!" he said in shock. He crashed to the ground. Quickly, he stood up as she turned around.
"Oh Link, hi! Fancy meeting you h-here. . ."
Zelda's eyes had practically glued themselves to Link's chest. A perfect six pack, and arms that did them no shame. He was simply a mountain of muscle.
"Zel, you okay?" Link asked, waving a hand in front of her face.
"Oh!" she said, coming back to earth. "Er, yeah! Fine! Heh heh! I was just punchin' this ole punching bag here!!" She took a swing at it, her eyes still fixed on Link, which caused her to miss badly.
"Your swing was a little off," Link said. He put his hands on her shoulders and gently steered her towards it. "Here, lift your right hand like this," he instructed, positioning her arm, "and then swing it like this."
Zelda bit her lower lip to stop from smiling, even though he wouldn't have been able to see it anyway. She knew the right way to punch, but she wasn't going to let that stop Link from teaching her how. Zelda backed up a bit, then swung her first as hard as she could.
The punching bag swayed back, then came flying forward. Instinctively, Zelda got to the floor, but the bag hit Link full force. He flew back to the ground.
Zelda turned around in horror. "Oops! Oh, sorry Link!" she said in a very small voice. She walked towards him on her knees and tried to help him up. Her heart fluttered as she felt his bare back and arm with her hands.
Link sat up and wriggled his jaw. "You hit that thing pretty hard," he acknowledged, getting up with a laugh.
"Are you all right?" Zelda inquired, getting to her feet as well.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Link answered, rubbing the back of his neck. "Erm. . .do you come here a lot?"
Feeling a little guilty, Zelda shrugged. "Every other week or so. How about you? I've never seen you here before, I don't think."
"I've just started coming a little while ago," Link said. There was an awkward silence until he said, "Um.....I've been kind of wondering about something......do you have any plans for--for dinner tonight?"
Zelda was floored. She tried to speak, but it felt as though her heart had flown up into her throat, which made it very difficult to talk. "N-no," she finally managed.
Link turned a deep shade of red (but it was hard to notice, because he was already red from all the working out he'd been doing). "Th-then would you possibly consider maybe perhaps....um....going out tonight? With me?"
Zelda's eyes widened. "Sure, I'd love to!" she gushed. "That sounds great!"
'YEEEEEEEES!!!!!!' Link thought, smiling broadly. "I--I've just got to go home and change out of this. . .can I pick you up in say. . .twenty minutes?"
"I'll be ready!" Zelda laughed.
"Great! Do you want a ride home, or anything?"
"No, thank you, it's only a little--I'll walk. But thanks!"
"No prob." Link walked into the locker room to get his bag, and Zelda flew towards the stairs.
An Ah-nold look alike stopped Zelda from going through the doors. "Have you ever been here before, babe?" he asked, giving her the "up-and- down" look.
"Yeah," she answered roughly.
"Have we met before?" he asked. "Hong Kong? Peru?"
"Oh, shut up!" Zelda laughed. She shoved his arm out of the way and quickly scaled the staircase.
"We saw it ALL!!!" Saria squealed, who had gone to meet Zelda at the front doors. "What did you guys say?"
The small crowd of girls all ran up to the steps to find out (even though the majority of them didn't even know who Zelda was).
"Well, believe it or not," Zelda began, making her way down the steps. "I've got a date with him."
"When for?" half of the girls asked.
"In twenty minutes, so I'd better be getting home to change!"
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ A/N:
Scarlett O'Hara: Fiddle-dee-dee. I hate Ashley Wilkes!!!
Roy: Wow, I'm a Fanny Ferris Butt.
Zelda: You're even MORE of a butt than fanny!
Peach: Would you care to explain this whole "Fanny Ferris Butt" thing?
Nicole: Didn't you ever see Sense and Sensibility? With Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet and others?
Peach..................no.......................
Link: Well there's a really evil sister character named Fanny Ferris.
Zelda: So we think that her mother knew she'd grow up to be a butt, and that's why she was named Fanny.
Peach: Ohhhhhhhhh, NOW I get it..............I think.
Sawyerzelda: I love that movie!!
Link: Hey, where does your penname come from, anyway? Like, the sawyer part?
Sawyerzelda: You reeeeeeeeeeeeally wanna know? Welll, you can go and review my story to ask, Link!! which isn't a bad idea, readers. plz review!!!
Zelda and Link walked out of the Cart House on their sixth day of work. Smiling happily, Zelda gave Link a high-five.
"Almost a week at work! I feel so accomplished!"
"Exciting, isn't it?" Link asked, as they got inside his car.
"Yeah, I've never really had a job I've liked so much!! The first day was rough, but I'm getting used to it!"
"Where else have you worked?"
"Oh, don't get me started!" Zelda sighed, rolling her eyes. "Sales clerk, Ice Cream scooper, candy shop co-worker. . ." They passed a McDonald's. "My first job was over at Mickey D's."
"So was mine," Link laughed. "I worked the cash register."
"Me too," Zelda commented. "It was a lot more confusing than I thought it would be, though. My sister is a psycho about me having a job. I guess it's because I've been staying with her for a while. . .y'know, looking after her daughter while she's at work."
"Oh. Well, here we are." Link slowly brought the car to a stop.
"Thanks so much," Zelda said, getting out. "You're so sweet for driving me to and from work every day!"
"No problem," Link said, blushing. "You're right on my way!"
From inside the house, Zelda watched Link outside the window. He pulled into her driveway, then turned around the car and went the way he came.
'Hmmm....that's funny,' Zelda thought. 'He usually goes the other way.'
After calling their names around the house, Zelda discovered that neither Peach or Nicole were home. She sat down at the kitchen table and wondered what to do to pass the time until dinner.
Since tomorrow was the 4th of July, the Cart House had been closed early (though Zelda was a little confused about why it had been). Peach wasn't very patriotic, and the 4th was exactly one of her favorite holidays, but they always went to see fireworks together anyway.
Walking into Peach's room, Zelda found an old high school year book. She flipped through it a bit, finding some of her old teachers, friends, enemies, and boyfriends. Lying down on Peach's bed and flipping through the pages, Zelda slowly started remembering that day in high school that still stood out.....
*FLASHBACK*
"Did you hear?" Fox asked Ness, his best friend. "I just found out from Samus--Peach Toadstool and Zelda Harkinian are half-sisters!!"
"Wow, really?" Ness asked. "What a coincidence!! The two hottest girls in school are related!"
"Yeah, and to think that they used to be worst enemies."
It was sadly true. Before realizing they had the same mother, Zelda and Peach were huge rivals. They always did their best to outdo the other. There was the time that Peach flushed Zelda's biology notes down the toilet; when Zelda had allegedly "made out" with Peach's boyfriend, and when both had accused the other of cheating on a standardized state test.
Then one day, Zelda, who'd been staying with her (now late) Uncle-in- law, answered the door. That fateful day. The woman standing in front of her burst into tears, and Uncle Joe was forced to explain the whole situation.
Three days later, Zelda moved in with the Toadstools. The next day, Peach and Zelda had suddenly become the best of friends. The day was filled with apologies like "I'm sorry I set your dog on fire," and "I'm sorry I put sea monkeys in your lemonade," and "I'm sorry that I framed you for pulling the fire alarm."
*PRESENT*
Zelda couldn't help but smile when she saw the "Seniors and their Siblings" page, which showed Peach and Zelda walking down the hallway arm- in-arm and grinning. Everyone called it a classic, because it was spontaneous.
Flipping the page, Zelda saw the school wrestling team. She glanced up and saw Peach's poster of Ah-nold. Way back when, Zelda had dated an older body builder.
*FLASHBACK*
"Are you sure this is what you want?" Roy asked.
"Yes!" Zelda cried, unbuttoning Roy's shirt and tossing it to the ground. "This is what I've lived for!"
"I'm just thinking of you."
"Well all you need to know is that I love you," Zelda said, taking his hands and putting them on her coat collar. "More than anyone or anything in the whole universe!"
Roy started unzipping Zelda's jacket, then stopped and shut his eyes. "I can't," he said, backing up.
"Why not?" Zelda asked, feeling that he was joking. She placed her hands on his shoulders, moving her tongue from his upper chest to his neck. "C'mon Roy, this is what you want!"
"No, it's not!" Roy said. "I can't, because. . .because. . ." He sighed heavily, not able to meet her eyes. "I should've told you this before, Zelda. I've already impregnated a woman today. She's my wife. I-I'm already married."
*PRESENT*
The next thing she knew, Zelda was almost drowning in her own tears. Roy had broken her heart that day. He'd led her to believe he loved her, carrying on an affair with her when he was already married!
'Damned jerk!' Zelda thought angrily to herself. She'd loved him so much and so sincerely, and yet he just played around with her. He completely broke her heart.
She'd sworn never to go out with a man again, but of course she broke the promise. Zelda had had several boyfriends in her time, but none that she loved as much as Roy. . .and none that she ever had genuine feelings for. Perhaps all that time she'd been trying to make him jealous.
'I feel like I'm the Scarlett O'Hara of some bad soap opera!' Zelda said inwardly.
Zelda stood up and headed out the door. She felt like going to the gym to work out. Almost every week she went there, maybe from Roy or just because she didn't want to become a fragile old hag (probably the latter one).
After about a fifteen minute walk, Zelda reached the gym. She saw a throng of girls her age crowding around one of the windows that peered into the partially underground gym. Curious, Zelda walked over.
"What's up?" she asked, recognizing one of her friends, Saria.
"Those guys down there," Saria answered excitedly. "Duh! Have you ever seen how hot some of them are?!"
"Kinda," Zelda said. "But whenever I come here, I normally focus on my exercising. There can't be anyone too good-looking in there, because I'd have noticed them before."
"HEY GIRLS, MOVE OUTTA THE WAY!!" Saria shouted, pushing through some of the gals. "WE HAVE A NON-BELIEVER HERE!!"
There were several gasps of astonishment at this statement as Saria pointed at the window. "Look in there, Zel! That guy in the right corner! Y'know, the one with a 45 pound dumbell ring on his chest doing sit-ups!! See him?!"
See him? She sure did. "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!!" she exclaimed. "That's Link!!"
"You mean you know that guy?" asked a girl.
"KNOW him? He's my co-worker, and one of my friends!!"
"You're friends with that hunk??" Saria asked excitedly. Zelda nodded numbly. Saria pushed her towards the gym door. "Well if you came here to work out, Zellie, you go in there and work out!! And talk to him, he's so hot!"
"Hey, wait!" Zelda protested as Saria literally shoved her at the door. "Don't I have a say in this??"
"Of course not."
Saria opened the door and flung Zelda inside. Suddenly, she felt very nervous and vulnerable. Gulping, she took off her light coat (there had been a bit of a breeze on the way up), which revealed a light blue tank top.
Zelda walked down the stairs. She stood on her toes and peered through the glass on one of the doors. If she went in, she'd be the only girl in there. Her eyes finally found Link, and she put a hand on the door handle.
'Target acquired,' she thought to herself. 'Here I go!"
She pushed open the door. Pretending not to notice he was there, Zelda walked past him and headed towards the punching bag.
"What's she doing?!" one of the observing girls shouted. "She went and walked right past him!"
"She's going for the coy attack, I think," Saria said.
As Link was doing the "up" part of his sit-ups, he saw her. "Zelda!" he said in shock. He crashed to the ground. Quickly, he stood up as she turned around.
"Oh Link, hi! Fancy meeting you h-here. . ."
Zelda's eyes had practically glued themselves to Link's chest. A perfect six pack, and arms that did them no shame. He was simply a mountain of muscle.
"Zel, you okay?" Link asked, waving a hand in front of her face.
"Oh!" she said, coming back to earth. "Er, yeah! Fine! Heh heh! I was just punchin' this ole punching bag here!!" She took a swing at it, her eyes still fixed on Link, which caused her to miss badly.
"Your swing was a little off," Link said. He put his hands on her shoulders and gently steered her towards it. "Here, lift your right hand like this," he instructed, positioning her arm, "and then swing it like this."
Zelda bit her lower lip to stop from smiling, even though he wouldn't have been able to see it anyway. She knew the right way to punch, but she wasn't going to let that stop Link from teaching her how. Zelda backed up a bit, then swung her first as hard as she could.
The punching bag swayed back, then came flying forward. Instinctively, Zelda got to the floor, but the bag hit Link full force. He flew back to the ground.
Zelda turned around in horror. "Oops! Oh, sorry Link!" she said in a very small voice. She walked towards him on her knees and tried to help him up. Her heart fluttered as she felt his bare back and arm with her hands.
Link sat up and wriggled his jaw. "You hit that thing pretty hard," he acknowledged, getting up with a laugh.
"Are you all right?" Zelda inquired, getting to her feet as well.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Link answered, rubbing the back of his neck. "Erm. . .do you come here a lot?"
Feeling a little guilty, Zelda shrugged. "Every other week or so. How about you? I've never seen you here before, I don't think."
"I've just started coming a little while ago," Link said. There was an awkward silence until he said, "Um.....I've been kind of wondering about something......do you have any plans for--for dinner tonight?"
Zelda was floored. She tried to speak, but it felt as though her heart had flown up into her throat, which made it very difficult to talk. "N-no," she finally managed.
Link turned a deep shade of red (but it was hard to notice, because he was already red from all the working out he'd been doing). "Th-then would you possibly consider maybe perhaps....um....going out tonight? With me?"
Zelda's eyes widened. "Sure, I'd love to!" she gushed. "That sounds great!"
'YEEEEEEEES!!!!!!' Link thought, smiling broadly. "I--I've just got to go home and change out of this. . .can I pick you up in say. . .twenty minutes?"
"I'll be ready!" Zelda laughed.
"Great! Do you want a ride home, or anything?"
"No, thank you, it's only a little--I'll walk. But thanks!"
"No prob." Link walked into the locker room to get his bag, and Zelda flew towards the stairs.
An Ah-nold look alike stopped Zelda from going through the doors. "Have you ever been here before, babe?" he asked, giving her the "up-and- down" look.
"Yeah," she answered roughly.
"Have we met before?" he asked. "Hong Kong? Peru?"
"Oh, shut up!" Zelda laughed. She shoved his arm out of the way and quickly scaled the staircase.
"We saw it ALL!!!" Saria squealed, who had gone to meet Zelda at the front doors. "What did you guys say?"
The small crowd of girls all ran up to the steps to find out (even though the majority of them didn't even know who Zelda was).
"Well, believe it or not," Zelda began, making her way down the steps. "I've got a date with him."
"When for?" half of the girls asked.
"In twenty minutes, so I'd better be getting home to change!"
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ A/N:
Scarlett O'Hara: Fiddle-dee-dee. I hate Ashley Wilkes!!!
Roy: Wow, I'm a Fanny Ferris Butt.
Zelda: You're even MORE of a butt than fanny!
Peach: Would you care to explain this whole "Fanny Ferris Butt" thing?
Nicole: Didn't you ever see Sense and Sensibility? With Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Kate Winslet and others?
Peach..................no.......................
Link: Well there's a really evil sister character named Fanny Ferris.
Zelda: So we think that her mother knew she'd grow up to be a butt, and that's why she was named Fanny.
Peach: Ohhhhhhhhh, NOW I get it..............I think.
Sawyerzelda: I love that movie!!
Link: Hey, where does your penname come from, anyway? Like, the sawyer part?
Sawyerzelda: You reeeeeeeeeeeeally wanna know? Welll, you can go and review my story to ask, Link!! which isn't a bad idea, readers. plz review!!!