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Author's Notes: This is high school through the eyes of Sheik. Oh, and if you see a (%) sign, there's a little foot-note to it at the end of the chapter, ok?

Sheik is a some-what gothic girl. How? Well, she dresses like one and she's often hanging out in the Shadow Temple (her safe Haven). At school people fear her except for the ones that TRULY know her.

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Chapter 1: Can You Feel It?

:::::Sheik:::::

"Sheik, time to get up..."

My mother tries to wake my from my pleasant nightmares. I pretend to still be asleep. I hear her footsteps as she approaches my bed. She puts both her hands on my back and gently shakes me until I surrender to the morning light.

"C'mon, I made Pop-Tarts!"

She smiles. Like there's something to be happy about. Maybe it's because of the "feeling" she gets from actually COOKING something instead of depending on the microwave. If you could call it that.

I slowly crawl from bed and head into the shower.

"Breakfast's getting cold Sheik!"

GODDESS!(%) Will you please shut up mom!

"Coming!!"

I say with a slight hint of annoyance in my voice. After my shower, I stand in front of my open closet deciding what to wear.

After 10 or so minutes, I decide to wear my fish-net arm-warmers, my black ripped tank with the Sheikah Eye, my black ski cap with the Eye on the front, some baggy black pants, and my boots with the spikes on the platform.

I slide down the railing of the stairs and there's mom. She looks me up and down and frowns.

"What?" I asked.

"Y'know, one day you are going to cut yourself with those..." Oh, she's referring to my shoes.

I roll my eyes and sit down at our green card-table in the kitchen. She places a saucer with the Pop-Tarts in front of me.

"Eat up!" She smiles.

I take a bite. It's my favorite flavor...

"Strawberry. Thanks mom."

She sits down at the chair across from me with her cup of coffee.

"What's the matter, baby?" she asks with concern in her eyes.

"Ehhh...nothing." I let out a heavy sigh.

"Tell you what...After you come home from school, how about we go do a little shopping?

"Thanks mom, bu that's okay...I was thinking of kicking it in the Shadow Temple and communicating with Poes." I answer without even looking up from my breakfast.

"Oh...Okay." She looks down and wipes away a few strands of her gray hair. I think I might've hurt her feelings...

"Well, I'm off to school mom." I give her a kiss on the forehead and leave.

As soon as I open the door, there's Marron(%). She's wearing a tight plaid shirt with a white tube-top underneath. She's also wearing blue jeans and her favorite brown boots. Her red hair is tied into pig-tails.

She looks like those lumberjack girls that you would probably see modeling in a Field & Stream magazine.

"Hiya Sheik!" she greets me and smiles.

"Hey, Marron!" I fake a smile and hers disappears.

"Whatsa matter Sheik?" She asked.

"You mean you don't feel it?" I blurt out and instantly clasp both hands over my mouth.

"Feel? Feel what?" She looks around.

"Well, I've been having all these...'ticks' lately." We start to head to school

"Ticks? Ewww, I think you should go to the vet" She joked but I didn't laugh.

"Marron, this is serious!" I told her. Although Marron was my best friend, she was ditzy enough to not understand things first-time-through.

".....Well, what do you 'feel'"? She asked rhetorrically. Doing the two fingers thing when she said the word "feel".

"I feel..." I closed my eyes "I feel...something STRANGE is going to happen..."

"Strange, eh?" she asked. "Oh! Maybe that cutie Kuh-faaaaaaaaay will ask you out soon." she giggles.

For a split second, my heart raced. Yes, I did have a semi-crush on Kafei. I have no idea why but there's something about him that draws me close to him. Like a fat kid wearing blue(%) to a starving mosquito.

"Thanks for the optimism but I don't think that's it." I smiled, then put my serious face on again.

"What else could it be?"

"Hmm, word of mouth down at the Shadow Temple--" I started but she cut me off with a:

"The Shadow Temple?! Man, Sheik! I swear, one day you're gonna die down there. I mean, don't those Re-Deads choke the life out of you or something?" She cringed.

"Yes, but that only goes for those who can speak the language..." I laughed.

"Language?"

"Yeah, you think they just moan and groan for their health? They talk too y'know. See, Impa's been teaching me the Dead Language (as we like to call it) so I've been able to talk to them."

She paused.

"ANYWAYS..." I continued and rolled my eyes. "I asked around and several of them said the same thing..." I just noticed we had approached the school.

"Hiiiiiiiii Zelda!" Marron shouted and waved her hand violently.

"Oh hiiiiiiiiiiiii Marron!" Zelda skipped to us. She was one of the "preps"(%).

She came up to us and gave Marron a friendly hug.

"Hi Zelda!" I said with a fake grin on my face.

"Oh, hi Sheik!" She said as if she just realized I was there. She whispered something to Marron and the two of them walked off.

She left me alone...again.

"Sheik! Over here!" I hear a familliar male voice calling my name.

I turn to see Link. He has on a green shirt and baggy blue jeans with side pockets. He's not wearing his hat but his hair is tied into a short ponytail.

I rush over to where he is.

"Link! Oh my GODDESS I have something very...important...to--" I cease my speech when I spot Kafei. He was running his soft, pale fingers through his beautiful indigo hair.

"Sheik? Um, Hyrule to Sheik..." Link catches me staring and I snap out of my trance.

"Oh yeah uh..." I blush Link looks back at Kafei and back at me.

"You like Kafei don't cha?" He smirks.

"Shhh! The grass has ears..." I cover his big mouth with my gloved hand.

"Hmmm, hard to believe you two aren't related..."

"GODDESS why does everyone SAY that?!" I yank my huge blonde bangs.

"Yo, Link!" I hear someone call his name. Man, can I EVER talk to someone?!

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End Chapter 1

So? How was it? Did'ya like it? I thought I'd try something new for a change. Oh, and here are the footnotes...

(%) GODDESS!

Well, in the Zelda world, they don't have a god. So...

(%) Marron

If you've ever read the authentic Japanese Manga of Zelda, you'll know that there are several ways a characters name is pronounced. MALON happens to be one of them. It can be Maron, Malon, Marron, etc. But I prefer Marron.

(%) Wearing blue...mosquitos

Studies have shown that the color blue attracts more mosquitos than any other color.

(%) Preps

Well, if you don't know your high-school cliques, the preps are those "oh-so-popular" and "pretty" girls that the wanna-bes dream of being.