AUTHOR'S NOTE

I probably won't update for a while after I finish this chapter and chapter 8 of my other fic, for reasons that I'll keep to myself. Also, in case anyone has heard the song 'Lola' by 'The Kinks', that's where I'm getting Lola's name from, becuz I luv the song. And I'm getting the name 'Hallia' (you'll see in a bit…) from the 'Merlin' series by T. A. Barron.

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Emeralddesitiny: who is being a very wonderful person, helping me to get more reviewers.

NOTE TO:

Emeralddesitiny: I too am having mixed feelings about this… I love link/tetra pairs, but I think that I'll have something different in this fic. But yes, you are correct, Lola is very infatuated with Link.

CHAPTER 3 'LOVE IS IN THE AIR'

Lola slumped back to the ship, immensely angered at how Tetra had dismissed her like she was a little girl. The guys onboard spotted that Lola was fuming, and they steered well out of her way. A few minutes later, Tetra came back with an amazingly great amount of what the pirates called their 'prizes'.

Tetra was angry with herself, because she abandoned all of her memories of Link, only to see him once again. She once loved him, but she threw that love away once he left her to explore the ocean. She hated him for it, but, at the same time, she was remembering all of the sweet memories she had with him.

Lola sat in her room, pondering over the night's events. 'I met up with a great guy, and once he and Tetra reunited, it was like they were in love all over again,' she thought. Lola believed that the two had been fond of each other, but somehow or another they got separated, and now she knew that Tetra once had a lover. The look on Link's face, that astounded look, showed Lola that the guy wanted Tetra more than he would ever want her. Lola hated Tetra for it, but knew that it wasn't Tetra's fault that Link loved Tetra, and he didn't love her. Lola now didn't want to be with Tetra; she wanted to be back home, eating dinner with the seagulls on the top of her special hill.

FLASHBACK (to when Lola was around 7 years or so)

Link was at Windfall Island, purchasing a bouquet of roses for Tetra. After he was finished, he tucked them away in a small backpack he had recently bought, when it was on sale at Greatfish Island. Link strolled down the hill, and plucked a few daisies on the way down, too. He put them in with the roses, and got on his boat, the King of Red Lions. He used his baton, the Wind Waker, to warp them to his home island: Outset Island. He placed his boat under his grandmother's porch, which jutted out over the water, to keep it safe.

As Link walked up a large hill, a small, newborn baby crawled towards him. He knew that it was Hallia, because of her small bow atop her head. Hallia was barely a year old, and she and Link had recently become friends.

When Link continued to walk up the hill, Hallia started to cry and wail from behind him. Link sighed, and he didn't want the baby to be a bother on his fist date with Tetra. Link didn't want the baby to be a pain when Tetra came either, though, so he picked Hallia up and continued to stride up the hill.

Tetra was already waiting for him when she saw his bright, blond hair enter her view. She was sitting on a rock on the edge of the cliff, and smiled happily because she knew that this would be her first ever date. Sure, she had pretend dates with guys older than her when she was younger, but those to her weren't real at all. All of a sudden Link was in front of her, holding a baby.

"This is Hallia," Link said, as if he were proud of Hallia adoring him. Still, maybe he wasn't proud about the baby, but instead he might have been proud about having a girlfriend. "Guess what," Link said flirtingly to Tetra. "What?" she asked. "This" Link said in a definite tone, as if it made things official between Tetra and him.

Link handed to her a large bouquet of roses, with small daises spotted around them. "Link," she said, "You are the best and most romantic guy I know."

"Thanks…" Link said sheepishly.

The sun was setting, and Tetra was waiting on the rock. Link said that he'd have to return Hallia to her parents before it got too late.

Tetra was dozing off when Link finally returned. "I'm back" he said in his loving, romantic way. His thoughts turned to Lola, a nice little girls almost 8 years old. He didn't see her very often because she was nearly always either swimming or being with nature, or he was always traveling. It bothered him that he didn't spend time with his own community, but he was spending time with a pirate.

"What are you thinking about, Link. Am I too beautiful for you?" Tetra said, waking Link from his daydreams. Tetra was beautiful, yes, but he loved her for a different reason. She was the only one on the ocean who really knew him, because she was the one who fought with him against evil.

"Link," Tetra said, once again waking him from his dreams, "don't think about Ganon, or the fight for our world, or anything like that." Link had a stupefied look on his face, like he didn't know what Tetra was talking about. "Come on, Link, you can't fool me. Your face always tells me what you're thinking, and I know that you're thinking about Ganon. Well, don't." Tetra continued to say.

"You're right," Link finally replied. He wanted the evening to be as romantic as possible. Link couldn't identify it, but there was a knotting feeling in his stomach. His love for Tetra was slowly fading away, but he didn't want it to be. "I-I'm sorry, Tetra. We just can't be together. Not now, and I don't know when. Just- not now…" he said.

"Oh Link, how could you be so down on yourself?" Tetra asked in return.

"I'm sorry, Tetra, but we'll just have to, I don't know, stop-"

"FINE THEN! RUIN OUR RELATIONSHIP SO YOU CAN GO SEE ANOTHER GIRL!" Tetra screamed in Link's face. She ran down the hill, not answering any strange questions. She just wanted to be alone and weep; she didn't care what others thought of her. Not now, anyway, after Link dismissed her on their first date together. She threw the bouquet of flowers into the ocean, and watched as they slowly disappeared away.

Link couldn't believe it. He didn't want to hurt her feelings, only tell her that it wasn't working. 'Oh well,' he thought. 'I'll just have to confront her and tell her that I was wrong…'

END FLASHBACK

Tetra remembered that night, long, long ago. It still brought tears to her eyes, but she didn't dare show that to the guys. Or Lola, for that matter. She hated Link for it then, but she still wondered whether or not it was right for him to repair their love a few weeks later, only to destroy it once again when he started to travel.

Lola had calmed down, and now she was positive that she would meet Link somewhere else, some other time. She was happy that Tetra had won whatever she did, and got them a load of treasures and prizes. Lola was sure that Tetra would split the dough, and pondered over what she would spend her share on.

'Maybe a new necklace,' she thought as she toyed with the necklace that she had had since childhood. 'No, that wouldn't work…' she continued. 'Oh! I know! I'll buy myself a ship!' Ever since Tetra told Lola that one day she would own many ships and give one to Lola, Lola had been fantasizing over it. Lola knew that she wouldn't have near enough just yet. 'But,' Lola continued to think it out, 'If, when we land, I do chores for the residents and other stuff, I'll eventually get enough rupees!'

Lola was sighing even as she was having these great thoughts. She knew that she would never get enough rupees, even if she did work hard. It would never work out the way she wanted it.

Tetra didn't even dream of giving anyone any part of her loot: least of all Lola. The only female she considered a friend had found Link, and, not only that, was infatuated with him. Tetra long ago wanted Link far out of her life, but never did anything happen the way Tetra wanted it to. For instance, Tetra didn't want to be a princess, she didn't want to be captured by Ganon, she didn't want Link to rescue her (but only because she didn't truly know him).

Tetra sighed. It was going to be a very long day.

AUTHOR'S NOTE

I'm sorry if this chapter wasn't very long, but I had to leave it at this so that the next chapter could be its proper length. Also, if you think that this will only be dreams of guys/girls, YOU ARE WRONG!