Impossible Love
two days later...
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Malon twirled a lock of strawberry hair around her index finger as she stared gloomily out the window. Straight across the street was Link's house. She could see Lunar running about while Linda dried laundry. But where, oh where, was Link!?
She sighed melodramatically as she stood up. Placing a hand on her forehead, she said, "A girl in my condition shouldn't have to go out and look for her boyfriend!" She coughed for effect. "But! I will be strong; it is important that I not be selfish!"
Ingo, overhearing this statement, rolled his eyes. Malon was always griping about how "ill" she felt, when she knew very well that her father was most likely on his death bed with high fever. Not be selfish- bah! But, of course, that was only his opinion.
"Malon, dear?" Talon asked, his voice barely making it out of his room where the door was ajar. "Are you leaving?"
"Yes, papa," Malon said. "But I shall tough out my pain!"
"That's a dear," Talon said. "If you feel dizzy, come back! Don't make your old man worry about you."
"I won't, papa."
Ingo nearly gagged. He didn't know which was worse. Malon faking ill, or Talon believing her!
Malon walked outside, into the dry, dusty air, and crossed the road to reach Linda. "Mrs. Teller!" she said sweetly.
"Oh, Malon, hi!" Linda said, cheerily. "I was just thinking about you! Looking for Link?"
Malon flashed a super-sweet grin. "Why, of course, Mrs. Teller! Your son is just oh-so-wonderful! You are an extremely lucky woman to be his mother."
Lunar was eavesdropping on this conversation (as all little boys do). 'Suck-up,' he thought.
Linda gave a quick smile, and turned around. "Um, I think Link is out back. If not, you can check by the castle gates, maybe?"
"Why would he be at the castle gates?"
Linda shrugged. "Oh, we had a visitor a couple nights ago, and they said they were from the castle. Link supposes he could see her--err, them again."
Malon nodded and forced a smile. "Thank you, I'll go check your backyard first." With that she stormed off around the side of the house.
"Oh dear..." Linda said as Malon disappeared from view. "I hope I didn't spoil the chance of grandchildren...!"
*
Lunar's eyes widened as he saw Malon coming near. He looked around for a place to hide, and ended up resorting to hiding in a berry bush growing right up alongside the house. He felt himself get scratched by the branches, and tears welled up in his seven-year-old eyes. But he bit his lip to keep silent-- he didn't want to be found by Malon! He saw her when she was mad before.
"That idiot!" Malon murmured as she stalked past where Lunar was. "I'll bet he's--he's CHEATING on me!!" With that, Malon stopped abruptly, then shook her head. "No, no, of course not!" She gave a haughty laugh. "Why would he cheat on ME? I'm the best there is!!"
With that she started walking calmly to the backyard. Lunar heard her greet Link.
*
Zelda looked around. Madame Loraine had left early due to some "important stuff". That left Zelda with nothing to do for about four hours. She sighed as she flopped onto her bed. She lay sprawled there, contemplating going to sleep. When suddenly an idea popped into her head. She quickly dismissed the thought as ludicrous.
But again, it whispered its way into her thoughts. She sighed.
She wanted to visit that poor family again.
But how? What if Madame Loraine came back? Or, or- her parents wanted to see her? Oh, there were so many things that could go wrong! Stuff she hadn't even considered the first time.
Besides, the conditions were nearly completely opposite than last time! The sun was blazing beautifully, and surely the guards would be at their posts. She sighed. Chances of making it out unnoticed were slim. Very slim.
So she pushed the thought to the back of her mind. Standing up, she strode across the room to her window. It overlooked the palace garden, and it was beautiful. The sun was shining brightly and the vibrantly colored flowers dotted the lush greenery like stars at midnight.
Unconsciously, she thought about new possibilities for getting out of the castle and finding that commoner family. She watched as a guard rode his brown mare to the Royal Stable when an idea snapped into her head.
"Oh my deity!!" she exclaimed. All previous thoughts of escaping being mere fantasies flew out of her head faster than you could imagine. She hurried out of her room, pulling the front of her dress up slightly so she could take long strides. "Madame Loraine!!! Madame Loraine!!!!"
*
"Hello, Link," Malon said. She sat down in the soft grass motioning for Link to do the same.
Link sat next to her and smiled. "Hi. Why are you here?"
"Can't a girl visit his boyfriend around here??" Malon asked.
"Yeah, I mean-- oh, you know I didn't mean it like that! I meant, you know, you never visit at this time of day."
"What? Is this a bad time for you?? Fine, I'll leave!" she said, and started to stand up.
"No, Malon!" Link said, grabbing her elbow and keeping her seated. "I never said that."
"Oh, do stop confusing me!" Malon complained in a strained voice. "You know very well I have a head-cold and can't take much!"
"Right..."
"So, Link," Malon said, making eye contact with him. "I wanted to--" She was interrupted by a sneeze.
"ACHOO!"
Malon whirled her head toward the house and her eyes landed on the berry bush where a tuft of blond hair was sticking out.
"Lunar!" Link called to his little brother. "What are you doing?!"
Lunar meekly got out of the bush and looked at the two teens. "I was...picking berries for mommy!"
"Liar!" Malon snapped. "You were spying on us!!" She drew a hand up to her forehead. "Oh, dear, you do make my head ache." She stood up and brushed grass off herself. "I'll leave, now." She sighed and hurried off to her house.
Lunar managed to stick his tongue out at her when she passed by him.
"I like the other one better," Lunar said to Link. Link sighed as he stood up. He started walking off, waving for Lunar to follow.
"What other one?" he asked.
"The yellow haired one!" Lunar said. "Um...Zelda! I like Zelda better than Malon! I'd rather have HER be my sister!"
Link rolled his eyes. "Yeah, so? Neither one's gonna be your sister if you keep chasing them off!"
"Hey!! I didn't chase Zelda away!"
Link shrugged. "I'm sure you will the next time we see her."
Lunar scrunched his face up and glared at Link. "Will not!"
"Yes you will. You always do. You used to LOVE Malon, too, until...I dunno, until you chased her away!"
"I did not!"
"Whatever," Link said. Then he smiled at Lunar as he ruffled his hair.
*
"What is the MEANING of this?!" Madame Loraine shouted once she saw Zelda running along the corridor, yelling her name.
"Madame Loraine!" Zelda said, huffing greatly when she managed to stop in front of the purple-clad woman. "I-I--"
"Why on EARTH are you running, child?! You KNOW that it's against the rules!!! Do you want to fall and break your neck and die?!" Her face started to turn red as she got progressively louder. "And you, pulling up your dress as you run! Flashing your royal shins to all those guards! Do you have any IDEA WHAT REPUTATION THAT GIVES YOU?!"
"But, Madame Loraine, I was--"
"No but's to ME, young lady!"
Zelda sighed as she narrowed her eyes. Then she started reciting the words Madame Loraine had taught her earlier that year. "I am oh-so-very sorry for breaking the rules, Madame Loraine. It was a horrible, horrible mistake, and I shall never ever repeat it. I do hope that you will be able to forgive me, and I have surely learned my lesson. As a proper princess, I shall never run, yell, or give guards reason to think unwell of my moral standards. I could be taken advantage of, and it would be my fault. I apologize wholly and sincerely."
Madame Loraine regained the pale peach color to her cheeks as she smiled. "Very well, Princess. Now, what is it you wanted me for?"
Zelda took a deep breath, and said, "I would like to take a stroll through the garden." Almost immediately Zelda felt even more aggravated. It had not dawned on her until now, but going through all that trouble just to ask for permission to walk in her own garden?! Oh, really, this was getting to be too much!
Madame Loraine looked at Zelda for a moment, and then said, "Very well, child. Get one of the guards to accompany you."
"Oh of course. Thank you very much, Madame Loraine," Zelda said, and curtsied. As she had her head bowed a wide un-princess-like grin spread over her face, but she cleared it when she had her head up again. And even so, as she was walking off, she couldn't help but add a joyous bounce to her step. Oh, joy!!
Once back in her room, Zelda shut the door and locked it. She went over to her walk-in closet, and opened it. Going to the very back, she pulled open a drawer, and at the very back she retrieved the very same brown outfit she had worn when she visited the Tellers for the first time.
She took off her princess dress, and slipped the dirty, brown one on. There was still some dried mud on it, but she just ignored it. After the whole outfit was complete with her brown slipper-like shoes.
Then she grabbed a long, blue button-up sundress and put it on, concealing the brown ensemble. It was long enough that she didn't even need to change shoes; it covered the brown ones. There was a blue sash that wrapped around the waist, and after she tightened it, it hid the form of the brown dress underneath.
She exited her closet and her room, and she walked along the hallway toward the staircase. Once again dismissing the rule where she needed a servant to help her down the stairs, she hurried down them, two at a time. She made it to the inner courtyard, and walked another set of hallways, and finally made it to a door leading to the garden. It was a giant door, painted gold and green, and it creaked when Zelda pushed it open.
Of course, she wasn't going to get a guard to accompany her like Madame Loraine told her to, but as she walked she met up with tons of guards. She merely smiled at them and walked by hastily. They were, of course, confused, but just shrugged it off, since they had more "important" things to attend to.
Zelda made it to the stable, and walked in, closing the stable door behind her.
"Hello?" she asked. But there was no answer. Only a few horse neighs. "Good, nobody's here." She walked by the horse stables and looked critically at each horse. She was going to take one to ride off on.
The truth was, Zelda had no idea what she was doing. She had no idea what to look for in a good horse, so she was just looking for one she thought was pretty. Or calm, maybe. She'd never ridden before in her life. It was "against the rules", of course.
Zelda bit her bottom lip as she found herself at the last horse stable. She didn't think she could handle any of them. They were all too intimidating. When she found the last horse, she immediately fell in love with it. It was a white mare, with random patches of black over her coat. Unlike the other horses, she was lying down in her hay, and looked up at Zelda quizzically. She seemed calm enough.
Zelda saw the sign on the door that said, "Mandy". Zelda grinned. A horse named Mandy shouldn't be too hard to ride!
She opened the door and Mandy stood up.
"Um..." Zelda said as she looked at the saddles and reigns off to the side. "How do I get those on?" She picked up the saddle, and looked at it over in her hands. It was heavy. She set it on top of Mandy, but it slid off on the right side and fell to the hay with a thud.
Zelda furrowed her brows as she picked it up again, and tried to set it on Mandy's back. This time it stayed on, but Zelda thought she was missing something. She tried mounting Mandy, but when she put her foot in one of the footholds and put her weight on it to get her other foot around, the whole saddle fell to the ground, and nearly tripped Zelda into a wooden beam.
Zelda huffed loudly as she glared at the saddle laying on the ground. She looked up at Mandy who looked at her with an odd expression.
Zelda gave a lopsided smile as she laughed nervously. "Hehe...um...yeah." She smiled as she set the saddle off to the side. "I don't really need that, do I? I've seen some people ride without a saddle...it can't be that hard!"
~fin~
lol...airheaded princess XDDD
Whoo, yeh, I'm so sorry fer taking so fookin long O.o;; Um...but...yeh. Not much I can say to get meh hiney outta this one ^__^;; So...SORRY!!! How's this to make up for it? I promise to update at LEAST every week! And this won't be some empty promise, either :D Okay? OKAY!?
*sigh* Okay, yeh, sorry again. To tell the truth, it was Flame Thrower who kinda pushed me to write this chapter ^^ I opened up my mail, and I was like "Fanfic review? WTF?" lol And then I was like "hhhhh...whoops! I better update!" :) Thank you ALL for your reviews, I really appreciate them!
I'm sorry for the slight-cliffhanger-thingy...but I did that so I would know what to write later! AND I WILL WRITE LATER!! This chapter was fun to write, so I'll actually start writing the next one as soon as I post this ^^ So STAY TUNED!! I'll try to update by next Wednesday if not earlier!
Um.../rant :)
Next Chapter: SHNUFF!!!! Zelda tries to escape and blah-dee-blah-dee-blah! Read it when it comes out :) WHICH WON'T BE MONTHS AWAY, I SWEAR!!!