Sorry again for the long wait! I've been busy (in summer?) with AP homework and vacations and practices and the like. So yeah, I hope you enjoy the chapter, it's the first one in awhile that makes any kind of real progress in the story. :3

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Aryll Forrester hummed to herself while she skipped into the kitchen of her brother's apartment. It was a good day; the sun was shining, it wasn't too cold for a December morning, and Aryll was going to give her tactless brother a lesson on women today. Yes, everything was going to be right with the world today and Aryll was going to be the reason why. While she didn't know just how much her brother didn't know about basic social interactions, Link's sister was positive she could teach him everything he needed to know to win over this Zelda character. The over-eager blonde opened the refrigerator and grabbed the milk, spun around while pushing the door shut, and returned to her bowl of dry fruit loops. After settling herself down at the table, Aryll swirled the cereal around the bowl and screamed like bloody murder.

It was not a good day; Link had not slept well and his head was already starting to hurt, which was not helped by his annoying sister's screeching. After screaming back a few curse words of his own, Link got dressed and headed to where he believed his sister to be. He stood, arms crossed, watching her eat her cereal. The blonde girl was humming to herself and reading a magazine, not looking up once. This went on for several minutes

"Why the hell am I awake? It's seven in the morning, Aryll." Link finally broke the silence. Aryll looked up at her brother and smiled, then went back to her cereal. Link let out an exasperated sigh.

"Excuse you, but can I finish my breakfast please?"

"Are you kidding me? You wake me up with a scream and then want me to wait on you? What kind of cereal is that anyway, it looks disgusting." Link responded to his sister angrily. Aryll looked shocked for a few minutes. She then quickly ate the last spoonful of rainbow loops and went to go wash out the bowl.

"Sorry Link. You usually take longer to hunt me down; I figured I had a good 15 minutes. And you should know what they are, especially since you are one!" Aryll laughed aloud to herself.

"I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were eating awesome-and-amazingly-perfect-man cereal for breakfast." The girl's brother returned with a smirk. Aryll shot her brother a glare in return.

"Hah, no. I was actually eating Fruit Loops, fruit loop."

"You woke me up to call me a fruit loop?"

"Basically."

"I'm going back to bed." Link started to turn to go when his sister caught up to him. "Seriously Aryll, what do you want?"

"I'm going to teach you how to fix your love life! Isn't that exciting?" Aryll was back to her overly cheerful mood from this morning. The sight of it made Link sick. Between that, and the mention of his 'love life', it's fairly shocking Link didn't puke.

"What in the world are you going to do to me Aryll?" Link lifted his left hand to his head; maybe he should take something for this headache.

"Like I said, I'm going to teach you skills to win over your little ZelZel!"

"Her name is Zelda." Link corrected his sister. Aryll rolled her eyes and scoffed. "And you have two hours; I have to be at work at 10, with extra emphasis on the 'at' part."

"Oh poo, that only gives us time to get through 'Part one: The apology'. That is, unless you already know how to apologize to a woman." Aryll looked towards her brother hopefully. Link crossed his arms and blinked. "Okay, apology it is. Hey, what time is your lunch break?"

As soon as Link answered, the lesson began.

Zelda could not find her earrings for the life of her. Usually she was a very organized woman, but lately she'd let her jewelry box become disheveled; and her vanity; and basically her whole house. If an average person were to come in though, they would still consider it clean. They probably would not find Zelda's other earring however. After another minute of searching Zelda gave up, Tetra would be here any minute now.

Since her cousin had flown in for Thanksgiving, she figured she might as well stay until all the winter holidays were over. Tetra had the ability to do that being a freelance writer after all. Zelda did appreciate her company, but Tetra was known for being a bit 'charismatic' and now that she knew about Link well, Zelda was nervous as to what her cousin might do.

Finally Zelda heard the doorbell ring. She shouted she'd be there soon and glanced at the clock. The digital screen read twelve fifteen, exactly on time, which for Tetra was unusual. Zelda double checked herself in the full length mirror at the foot of her stairs and walked towards the door. Casually Zelda swung open the door and said hello to her cousin. Suddenly Zelda realized something was wrong.

"Link, why are you here? And how do you know where I live?" Zelda cried out. Link looked a little taken aback and tilted his head a little bit.

"Malon told me, and I was hoping you'd be home because-"Link never got to finish that sentence. Once Zelda heard her friend's name and realized this was some kind of scheme she slammed the door shut, and locked it for good measure. Link knocked again. Goddesses he's persistent.

"I don't want to listen to anything you have to say Link. Goodbye." Zelda called from inside her house. Link crossed his arms. He had known this was a bad idea, visiting Zelda on his lunch break to apologize. Aryll should have believed him when he said this would happen, knowing her though, she'd find a way to blame him for this. Link turned to leave when he saw a young woman standing right behind him. She was tall, around the same height as Zelda, and had similar blonde hair, though hers was slightly darker and crimped. This girl was also athletic-looking and very tan, which Zelda most certainly was not. And she had dark brown eyes, completely contradictory to Zelda's blue ones. Despite those differences, Link found her to be quite attractive. However he just had a door slammed in his face, and didn't feel like chatting up women on Zelda's porch.

"I'd like to listen to what you have to say." The girl was smiling cattishly which put Link off in the slightest bit. He wasn't exactly sure what was happening anymore, and was starting to think this was some kind of dream. "Link, I think that's what Zelda just called you."

"Yeah, my name is Link, Link Forrester, but who are you?" Link asked quite bluntly. Tetra laughed. She could see why Zelda would be attracted to this guy. He seemed like someone who said what he was thinking, but managed not to be rude about it. Tetra was also very good at reading into people, and though she had only been there for a few minutes she had already discovered several things about Link. First he was persistent, but not in a bad way. Also, he was someone who became attached to people quite easily and would defend them in a heartbeat. Tetra also realized that Link cared for Zelda a lot, though even a cucco could figure that one out. On top of all that, Link was incredibly handsome. For starters, even though he was just wearing basic office clothes, Tetra could still tell that he worked out regularly. And his hair was some shade of blonde she had never seen before. It was kind of like honey, yet somehow seemed brighter. And yes, he needed a haircut, but the messiness suited his face; especially his eyes. Those were yet another shade of their own; similar to the ocean. Too bad Zelda was basically in love with Link, or Tetra might have made a move on him.

"I'm Tetra, Zelda's cousin." Tetra stuck her hand out for Link to shake it. He did, but very tentatively. "Well now that introductions are done, do you mind telling me what you're here for when you look like you should be at work?" Link gulped. This girl sure was nosy, but if she was Zelda's cousin, it's probably better she know what his intentions were so she can relay them to Zelda.

"Oh I, I was actually going to apologize for some, some stuff I said awhile back that I shouldn't have told Zelda." Tetra smiled the weird cattish smile again.

"Well I guess you should be going then, since you probably have work to do." Tetra winked and mouthed the word 'stay here'. Link muttered something along the lines of 'it was nice meeting you', yet stayed where he was. Tetra then proceeded to knock on Zelda's door and say, "Hey Zel, can you let me in now. Link's gone, but he really wanted me to tell you something."

"Good, because I really didn't want to deal with him anymo-" Tetra managed to cut Zelda off with some strange maneuver which consisted of Zelda opening the door, Tetra pretty much pulling Zelda outside, running into the house, and shutting and locking the door behind her. Needless to say, Zelda was pretty stunned, even more so when she realized that she was basically laying on top on Link. In Tetra's haste, she had thrown Zelda right into Link, knocking them both down onto Zelda's porch. Zelda was trying to figure out how to get out of this position in the least awkward way possible when she felt herself being moved. Link managed to roll her off of him into some kind of sitting position, the get himself up, just to finally grab Zelda's hands and pull her into a standing position as well. Link quickly shoved his hands into his pockets and tried to hide his blush as best as he could. Zelda crossed her arms and turned around, but more so she could avoid eye contact with Link than out of coldness. After a minute, Link broke the silence.

"So Zelda, what I came here for was to, um, apologize, for all the, um, things I've, uhh, said or done, that kind of, um, made you hate me and all that." Zelda turned around and looked at Link. He was still blushing a little bit, and he was scratching the back of his neck. Zelda had once read in Cosmo that men did that when they were nervous. Or was it lying? She really needed to stop getting all of her information from magazines and the internet. Zelda was going to go with lying on this one; Malon, or Malon's fiancé for that matter, probably sent Link here to try to make nice so their wedding will be perfect. Zelda rolled her eyes at the thought. Link looked a little bit hurt and confused at the action.

"Look Zelda, I just want you to know that I came here without Sheik or Malon or telling me to. It's just that, it really kind of bothers me that you hate me so much and I mean I know I wasn't always the nicest person to you and I probably shouldn't have done or said or whatever most of the things I did and all," Zelda lost track of what Link was saying. At least he got that Zelda didn't outright believe him. A part of her still said not to. Zelda had to tell herself though, Link's rambling apology was pretty adorable and it was making it hard not to give in. After watching Link for a couple more minutes, Zelda started to giggle to herself. Link stopped mid-sentence to ask, "What's so funny Zelda?"

Zelda had to think about how to answer this one. She could just reply 'you' which would probably offend Link and do nothing to their relationship. Relationship? Zelda couldn't find another word for it, but that sounded romantic, which their relationship most certainly was not. Eventually Zelda said, "Occasionally, you're cute; especially when you stumble over words. And I accept your apology, at least until you do something to screw it up." Link smiled widely. Though now he wasn't sure what he should do. He assumed leaving was the best option, gave Zelda a quick goodbye, and walked back to his car. Zelda was fine with this as she was busy finding the spare key to her own home. She did after remembering she taped it under her doormat and went to go lecture Tetra.

Tetra was sitting at the foot of the stairs, waiting for her cousin, and playing with a dangly triforce earring. Zelda found Tetra and proceeded to rant about how Tetra had embarrassed her for the rest of her life. Tetra watched Zelda go off into her tirade and laughed. Zelda stopped mid-sentence, huffed to herself, and went into the living room. Tetra finally decided to follow the girl, who she believed to be mentally unstable at this point, onto the sofa. Tetra rolled her eyes and said, "Zelda, you know you enjoyed that. This is not exactly the thank you I expected."

Zelda put down the remote she was using to angrily click through channels. She turned to her cousin, "Well THANKS Tetra! I'm so glad you did that. I ADORED every second of that, that interaction."

Tetra ignored the obvious sarcasm in Zelda voice, "You're welcome Z. Because it is blatantly apparent to me that you have a huge crush on Mr. Forrester and he has a huge one on you and neither one of you is ever going to make a move without an outside force, like moi." Tetra put her hand on her chest for effect, "Seriously, if you would just be nice to the boy, he'd ask you on a date, and you could get this out of your system, but you're afraid that you'll fall in love and he'll make a fool out of you. Here's something for you Zelda, either he's not the person you told me he was on Thanksgiving or he's a damn good actor. Because the fact he came here to apologize on his own free will tells me that he at least wants to try to fix things with you. Do you want to fix things with him?"

Zelda looked up at Tetra, who in her lecture had gotten up and moved all over the room. She simply stared and thought to herself. Was she really the problem? She could see how Tetra could think that. Did Zelda even want to date Link? Possibly. On one hand, he could be totally sweet. On the other, he could be a total d-bag. That day had turned into some kind of weird series of events and Zelda didn't know what to think anymore. She needed to clear her head. Luckily Tetra saw this and stopped pressing the issue.

"Hey Zelda, I'm sorry. Let's just go to lunch and talk about other stuff." Tetra shot a smile across the room. Zelda returned one. Tetra was a constant annoyance, and also a constant friend. At least she'd realize when she messed up and attempt to fix it.

"Oh yeah Z before I forget, you might want this." Zelda looked up just in time to get hit in the face with a silver earring. Looking at the object in her lap, Zelda reached up to her left ear and felt nothing. Wonderful. She had only been wearing one earring. This whole time.

"Aryll. You are a creep. A totally, completely, creepy, creep."

"Link, did you really expect me not to observe you and ZelZel? Puh-lease, that was the show of the year." Link shot his sister a glare for what seemed like the thousandth time today. Aryll just giggled madly and fiddled with the object in her hands. Link hadn't noticed it until now. He waited until he had successfully stopped the car at the stoplight before questioning his sister.

"Why the hell do you have a telescope? And get off of the floor Aryll, a cop might see you." Link worried about Aryll's sanity sometimes.

"Link Link Link, do I need to explain everything to you?" The girl's brother turned to her before realizing the light was green again and pressing on the gas pedal once again. "Obviously I was not going to miss that little display of your stupidity, so I needed a way to watch without being obvious; which is why I'm in the floor in front of the passenger seat of your car. And okay, did you know we don't own binoculars or anything? Because I didn't. I mean, who doesn't own binoculars? But I did manage to find this sweet telescope in Grandma's old stuff, and I like it, especially the seagull." Aryll stopped to point out the design that Link could really care less about. "So I made it work. And boy am I glad I did. And I figure we're good if a cop nabs us, because I can flirt our way out of a ticket if it's a man, and you can flirt our way of a ticket if it's a woman!"

Aryll was officially insane, absolutely insane. How was sitting on the floor even comfortable? All of her weirdness aside, Link was still glad she wasn't mocking him this time. That gave him the chance to ponder his encounter with Zelda without feeling completely idiotic. True, it hadn't gone anywhere close to perfect. Zelda seemed to be just as cold as ever; however she did accept his apology, though part of him felt like he made that part up because he wanted to hear it. Link sighed and realized that Aryll was still going on about something or another. He chose to start listening again, in case she figured it was time to mock him.

"She kind of looked like she was going for the sexy librarian look or something. I don't know. I mean, it kind of worked for her, not a lot of people can look good in glasses. And one earring. Did you notice she only had her right earring in? Nah, you were too busy blushing. No homo though, she's really hot so she'd probably look good in anything. Don't you agree Link?" Aryll looked at her brother expectantly. Link blushed. Of course he thought Zelda would look good in anything, or lack of anything. The pigtailed blonde made a face of annoyance. Why were all boys the same? They were always fantasizing about some girl or another. Finally Aryll poked her brother in the thigh.

"I know what you're thinking about. Stop it or I'm telling Ilia about ZelZel." Aryll knew that her friend had the biggest crush on Link; it was actually kind of disturbing. It was sort of like, stalking combined with creeping plus some possessiveness and the entire weirdness one could think of. Ilia didn't even know Link that well, aside from the fact she was Aryll's friend and her dad was his boss.

"What am I thinking about Aryll?" Link smirked at his sister. "And Goddesses no, or she might do something…dramatic. Again."

"Like tear all the pictures of you from her walls and burn them?" Link slammed on the brakes causing Aryll's head to hit the glove box. Luckily they were fairly close to their destination and no one was right behind them. "Ow Link, that's gonna leave a bruise!"

"Where the hell did Ilia get pictures of me from?"

"I sold them to her. Remember when I followed you around with a camera and took pictures of you doing random things? She gave me like, 10 bucks a photo. I swear I made 200 dollars off of it."

"Aryll, that is scary on so many levels! Don't sell pictures of me, especially if you're going to keep all the money!"

"What if Zelda wants pictures of you?" Aryll smirked.

"She won't. We're like a block away from Castletown University, so you can walk to class. I'm late getting back to work anyway." Aryll huffed and, after some difficulty, got out of the car and waved goodbye from the sidewalk.

The chubby, brunette receptionist gave Link the once-over for the third time today as he walked back into Hyrule Enterprises Incorporated. She briefly sighed as the man practically ran to the elevators before returning to her work.

Link arrived on the fifth floor of the massive building in about 30 seconds. From there he had to get to his cubicle, which added another few minutes onto his lateness. The large clock that loomed above the office read one twenty three; reminding Link he needed to be here twenty three minutes ago. Link was hoping to get to his cubicle without notice, aside from the females who typically glanced him over, and then speed through work so he wouldn't have to stay late, though honestly, he would probably have to anyway. Upon reaching his workspace, he sighed in relief, glad he'd gone unnoticed. At least that's what he believed. Midna was sitting on his desk, right next to his computer. When he looked up to see her there, the blonde let out an agitated sigh. Midna chuckled. "You better have a good reason for this Forrester. I want to be entertained."

"Sorry Midna, you're out of luck this time. I had to take Aryll to class, and traffic was bad." Link responded to his dark haired co-worker with a smile. Midna and Link weren't exactly acquaintances, but they wouldn't consider themselves friends either. Nevertheless, Midna knew when Link was lying.

She rolled her eyes before speaking again, "Forrester, that silly grin wouldn't be there if you had really been stuck in traffic, but I'll let you keep your secrets for now." Midna shook her head and started to leave. "Oh right, you might want to go talk to Bo. He was asking for you."

Link stood outside of the Manager of Public Relations and Advertising's office for a good two minutes before realizing he was already late and should probably knock. After pounding on the door, Link wondered what his boss could want to talk to him about. If Bo was trying to set him up with Ilia, for a second time, Link would have to tell his boss he wasn't interested. Link was invited inside the office almost as soon as he knocked on the door.

Bo, a large man somewhere around his late forties or early fifties, welcomed the blonde into his office. Sensing Link's nervousness, the older man immediately assured him that this meeting wasn't because he was in trouble (or because of Ilia, much to Link's relief). In fact, the only reason Bo called him here was to tell him someone of a higher authority wanted to speak with him. Again Link became nervous; at least until he had gone through several layers of higher-ups, then he became annoyed. He was definitely going to have to work overtime again. By about three forty Link had managed to find his way to the top floor of the building. This office was different from the others, mostly in the sense that it had a waiting room and a secretary. Wait what? Link wondered to himself where the hell he had ended up. Walking up to the secretary he said, "Hi, I'm Link Forrester. I was sent here by,"

Before Link could finish his sentence, the woman cut him off, "Oh yes, of course. We've been expecting you for sometime now. Mr. Nohansen will see you once this appointment is over." Link practically fainted. The secretary asked if he would like some water and recommend he sit down. Sitting in the char, Link wondered what the CEO of H.E.I. could want with him. Unfortunately, he didn't have time to think about it. Just as the secretary brought back a cup of water, the door to the office opened and a particular blonde stormed out. Link choked on his first sip. Sadly for Link, Zelda noticed and walked over to where he was sitting. After a moment of silence she asked, "What are you doing here?"

Link didn't know how to answer, mostly because he didn't know what he was doing there. So he just repeated the question. Zelda scoffed and said, "My dad wanted to tell me how to live my life." She sat down in the chair next to him, "Maybe if you're lucky, he'll lecture you too." Link decided today wasn't really happening, it was just a dream. What else would explain this? Before he knew it, Zelda was back on her feet. "Well Link, it was nice to see you, but I need to leave. I'll see you later."

The next thing Link completely remembered was looking around Mr. Nohansen's office with his big, blue eyes. It was very large room, which was to be expected. What wasn't expected were the many pictures of Zelda covering the walls. Obviously, the CEO did care for his daughter, despite what she believed. Link's gazing was cut short by a cough. The blonde brought his attention back to the man in front of him. Link wasn't one to be intimidated easily, but Mr. Nohansen certainly unsettled him.

"You're probably wondering what you're doing here, right my boy?" The boss smiled while Link responded with a yes sir. "It's actually a strange set of circumstances that's brings you here. You're acquainted with my daughter, yes?" Link was gave up any hope of understanding what was happening and nodded. "Lately, how should I put this? She has been avoiding any kind of…romantic relationships. This is the part where you come in. I recently overheard her talking to her cousin about, well you, so I decided to ask more of her friends. Apparently, they believe she's quite fond of you, whether or not she admits it to herself or not. I ran a background check on you, and you seem suitable for Zelda. Basically what I'm asking you to do is to take my daughter on a few dates, and…reintroduce her into the world of dating. You will be compensated of course."

Link blinked. He wanted to pinch himself, but that would be weird given the situation. This was a dream. Nothing this weird happens in real life. Not even in fiction. Never. Link thought for a moment before saying, "You want to pay me…to date your daughter?"

Mr. Nohansen made a look that said 'Duh', but refrained from actually saying so instead he said, "That is what I'm asking. If you're not comfortable with this, you may leave."

Link stayed.

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Oh my gosh that chapter took FOREVER to write. I started it in like…June. How sad. And it was pretty random. Like, where the heck did these ideas come from? Seriously, I feel like I'm write crap here. Enough self pity. On the plus side, I love Aryll, she's so fun to write for. :D

And if this chapter made like no sense, all will be explained soon. (So like another few months…) I feel like that sentence needed some spooky noises. I need some SLEEP.

If you managed to get this far, I commend you. And you should hit me up with a review so I know who you are and can love you forever. 3 Speaking of reviews…

sippurp123- Thank you for your review! You were the only person to review chapter 4. Sorry for taking ten years to update.

Yeah so that's it. I just felt like I needed another sentence here.