Sunday was once again spent at Zelda's flat, the two of them sitting at her kitchen table. Although Mipha was almost completely certain that she could have gotten more done than what she actually had if she had been able to not let herself become distracted by Zelda's presence or how she would tap her fingers against the side of her computer, drumming a slow rhythm while trying to figure out what word she wanted to use, she still managed to almost finish her assignment, which was, all things considered, most likely more than she would have managed had she not gone to Zelda's place.

But by Monday, she was back to her usual routine of going to lectures, taking notes, and then having to run to be at the café in time for her shift.

"You know," Link said once they were alone in the back of the shop, Revali having left, most likely to go argue with a customer about how their specifications for their order were simply not possible, "you gave us all quite the scare when we woke up Saturday."

With a sigh, Mipha started on her rehearsed apology. "I am sorry about that, I know that I should have—"

But she did not manage to finish her sentence as Link interrupted her. "No, no, I wasn't looking for an apology. I just wanted to say that, well, you know you can talk with us if you are worried, right?" he must have noticed the doubtful look on her face she did not manage to hide in time as he looked down at the ground, forming silent words for a second before placing a hand on her shoulder. "Sidon was already talking about how he had to call you to check up on how you felt about your exam, and Revali does talk a lot about you. They would love to be able to help you when you are feeling sad."

She knew that. Mipha knew all of that, she had, after all, tried to remind herself of it countless of times over the last couple of weeks. It just seemed that she was never able to recall the words once she really needed them.

But that had nothing to do with Link, so although Mipha wanted to tell him that it was not that simple, she bit back the remark. He did not have to feel obligated to become involved in her problems. "I know that. I just think that I was a bit tired so I didn't think things through."

"Well, you did call Zelda," Link stated, "so I think you did realise that you needed to talk with someone. I just wanted to make sure that you knew that if you ever want to talk to someone, no one here is going to feel annoyed, even if you have to wake them up in the middle of the night. So, just, if this happens again, you won't have to feel like your only option is to leave in the middle of the night to go talk with someone. Of course, if you want to that is fine—though you should probably remember to leave your note under something heavy the next time just to make sure that it won't fly away." he blinked at her and for a second, a smile flickered across his face before he grew serious again. "But I just wanted you to know that, if you want to, don't hesitate to call."

"I think Sidon would be kind of angry at me if I called him to ask him to pass the phone to you so that I could explain why I was feeling anxious and talk with you rather than him," Mipha teased him. She wasn't even sure why her immediate reaction was to try to deflect Link's worries by joking, but it was nevertheless what she did. It was simply so much easier to handle the thought of the reason for her not calling being something as small as her not having his number than the fact that she had already seen him cry countless of times, instances that had established their roles in regards to each other, with Mipha being the one to comfort him when he had gotten hurt and Link being the one to get a chance to just complain for a bit. It was simpler than what it could turn into if she let their roles turn into a mess of different actions. Not necessarily worse—in fact, Mipha was almost entirely sure that she would be happier if she let it change—but definitely more complicated. So she was in no hurry to change it.

There was no way Link was not aware of how the only thing keeping her from sharing her worries with him was not and had never been the fact that she did not have his number, but he still held out his hand towards her. "Well, if that is all that is keeping you from contacting me, just give me your phone, and then I can write my number into your contacts."

Realising that she had let the lie go on for far too long for her to turn around now, Mipha hoped that the grimace on her face could at least resemble a smile as she handed him her phone. For a while, they were both silent, the only sound in the room being that of Link pressing the screen as he typed in his name, added his name, and then gave her back her phone.

"There you go." he said, and either he might not actually have seen that there was more standing in between Mipha and actually calling anyone except for Zelda when she was feeling sad, or else he was just better at faking a smile than Mipha had realised, for she could not spot any signs of the telling lack of wrinkles around the eyes as he gestured towards the door leading into the main room of the café. "I should probably hurry up now, or else Revali is going to barge in here in two seconds, asking us why we decided to leave him all alone with the customers."

"Hylia, those poor customers," Mipha laughed.

"Yeah," Link closed his eyes, "it's nice most of the times when he tells the rude customers to make their coffee themselves, but when he starts to argue with someone who just didn't know any better, you know? That becomes awkward really quickly when you have to step in. By the way, I heard that he confronted Zelda about you disappearing." Link lifted his eyebrows, the question left hanging in the air between them.

"He kind of did. And I get it, or at least I do a little bit, but it was still such a relief to hear that he knows that it was not anything she could have prevented."

"I have to agree with you on that. That one was all on you." Link reached out to direct a light punch at her shoulder. "But, if it makes you feel better, I think that Revali was the one of us who was angriest about it, and I don't even think that he was all that angry."

"He seemed pretty angry Saturday."

"That is because you didn't hear how he sounded when he called Sidon and me Saturday morning to ask if we knew where you were." her stomach curled up, guilt making her chest feel tighter. She knew exactly what Link would say even before he continued. "He was genuinely afraid that something had happened to you. So, in a way, I suppose that he just thought it would be easier to handle it if he pretended to be angry rather than worried."

That, Mipha could understand. Although she did not exactly use the same strategy to cope with things, she could recognise a little bit of it from herself.

Putting on a cheery attitude, she grinned at Link. "And how do you know all of this? Last time I checked you weren't able to read his mind."

"No, but he is my boyfriend, so I would kind of be doing a very poor job if I weren't able to at least tell when he was lying to both me and himself about how he was feeling." Link responded with the same joyful tone of voice, but just like Mipha could tell that her own smile was a thin mask, intended to hide how she still felt bad about it all, she knew that Link could just as well have been sitting down in a chair across from her, a serious look on his face, while her told her the exact same thing with the sole difference in his tone being that he was not able to say it like it was some kind of joke.

They had evidently been staying in the back of the shop for too long, for before Mipha got the chance to figure out something smart to say—and, frankly, she was not sure how much time she would have needed before she would have been able to do that—the door was pushed open, and Revali entered the room.

"Where have you two been?" he asked, the accusing tone in his voice reflected in his eyes. "Did you even know about how I just had to tell someone that they aren't able to order us to make their wedding cake? No, you don't, because you have just been hiding out here, leaving me all alone."

Holding up his hands in an apologetic gesture, Link managed to calm him down with just a smile. "Sorry. I was talking with Mipha and then we must have gotten distracted. I didn't mean to leave you all alone out there."

"Okay," Revali said with a huff, though he was not able to muster his usual level of indignant anger, "just get out here and then I won't talk about it again." he had almost turned around to head back out into the café when he seemingly remembered something, continuing the twirl until he was facing Mipha once again. "Oh, and, Mipha, your friend came in just a few minutes ago."

Her heart felt like it moved to sit in her throat. "Zelda?"

"Yeah. She told me that she was sorry about suggesting that the two of you could go to the beach together without also reminding you to remember to leave a note."

Oh, Hylia. Mipha could easily imagine how that had ended. Yes, Revali might have told her just a few hours later that Saturday that he was no longer angry at them and that he had at least realised that forgetting to make sure that he would find her note was no one else but Mipha's fault, but Mipha had known him for enough time to be aware of how that might not exactly be the case.

It was with a slightly higher pitch than what was normal for her that she tilted her head and hoped for the best. "What did you say? Please tell me that you didn't yell at her or anything like that."

Revali shot her a hurt look, though it soon gave away for a reassuring smile. "Of course I didn't yell at her. I only yell at the rude customers, and although I still think that it was really dumb to just leave like that, you were still the one who could not figure out that it might be a good idea to place something heavy on top of the note that I needed to find to know that you were still okay even if you weren't in your room anymore." he held out his hand towards her, unclenching his fist to let her see a little crumbled up piece of paper. "And she also asked me to give you this."

It did not take Mipha more than a fraction of a second to realise what it was, and she grabbed it, bringing her hand closer to her chest as she look back over at Revali. "You didn't read it, did you?"

"No. I get that you think I want to know everything, but Zelda was quite clear when she said that I was not allowed to look at it. And, I hate to admit it, but Zelda can be quite intimidating when she wants to so I was not about to do the thing she had just told me not to do."

"You?" Mipha laughed. "Intimidated by a customer? Had it not been for how you almost always seem to argue with someone while here, I might almost have believed it."

"Oh, you know that I only argue with those who simply aren't willing to realise that perhaps I know how I am supposed to do my job better than they do," Revali replied, "but I am still going to insist that Zelda can be quite scary when she just marches up to the counter only to look mildly disappointed when you come over to her."

"I am sure she wasn't disappointed."

"Oh, no she most definitely was," Revali said, "but I do get her." a wink and then he let out a laugh. "I think that everyone in here know that you two are quite close."

Mipha could feel how her face grew redder at the barely hidden implication. But she was not about to just let it go by without once again making sure that Revali was aware that Mipha knew exactly where she stood in regards to Zelda, or that, well, she hoped she knew, so she took a deep breath. "Sure we are, because that is what it is like to be friends with someone."

"Huh," Revali said, and the sarcasm in his remark was not lost on Mipha, "then I just find it funny that when you were upset about the results from your mock exam, your first instinct was to call her and leave in the middle of the night even though I know about how you were so tired that you might have fallen on sleep on the couch rather than to walk the few metres to go talk to me if I had tried to talk with you about it."

Apparently, Mipha's plea for him to drop all of that had only been able to last for those couple of weeks that had passed since their last confrontation. Perhaps she should sit him down once more to explain to him that she was already confused enough as it was, how it was actually quite nice to be able to convince herself that she was right and push the issue away for a little bit, and that, though he probably thought he was helping her, was actually only making her have to worry about it even more. But for now, Mipha just had to make sure that he would not continue with the jokes. However, the conversation she had just had with Link kept Mipha from reacting by poking him and making some playful jab about how he should probably take it as a sign about how close they were. Mipha could still remember how Link had leant back against the wall while telling her about how Revali had reacted to her not being in their flat, so she didn't even try to tease him.

Instead, she called behind her. "Link! You have to come over here and back me up. Would you please tell Revali that sometimes friends call each other to talk about the things that make them worried, even if one of them might be asleep?"

There was no response. Mipha looked over her shoulder, but found that, unlike what she had thought, Link was no longer standing right behind her.

"Would you look at that." the self-satisfied tone was so apparent in Revali's voice that Mipha almost did not have to look over at him to confirm that, yes, he was indeed smirking at her. "He isn't here anymore. Seems that you are easily distracted by even the smallest mention of Zelda, huh?" she did not get the chance to argue with that as Revali immediately dropped the smile and pointed towards the door he had entered through. "But we should probably get back to work now. That was after all what I came to tell you to do, and I think that Link would be more than happy to remind me that I might have wasted even more time back here than he did, so let's get going."

Mipha nodded, but as Revali left, the door slamming shut behind him, she stayed in the room for just a couple of seconds longer. Now that she was alone with no one around to either try to sit her down for a long talk about her feelings on the subject of Zelda or to tease her about it, she could unfold the little piece of paper that Revali had handed her.

It was a single sentence, short, but still more than enough to make her heart speed up and for the feeling of warmth to spread from her chest to the rest of her body as she read the message on the paper, reading aloud for herself in the empty room.

"'You are beautiful'," Mipha read, suddenly feeling incredibly relieved that she was alone. For not only would Revali have made sure to draw attention to the fact that she was not able to hide the smile that spread across her face just like Link would most likely have tried his best to make her actually confront her own feelings for once, but if Zelda had been there, Mipha was not able she would have been able to stay silent. But luckily Zelda was not there, so if Mipha toyed with the idea of asking if Zelda also wanted to find out if their second kiss would be like their first for a fraction of a second, well, then no one would ever have to know.