Chapter 6

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The sun beat down on Zelda as she dismally made her way down the sidewalk. She left a few of her schoolbooks back in her locker, making her backpack much, much lighter. Though, that didn't help the sweltering heat too terribly much.

"Hey babe, you looking for a good time?"

Zelda turned to see a car filled with football players with leather jackets. She cursed her bad luck and kept walking. They continued to josh her and poke fun until she finally exploded.

"Why don't you go give yourself a good time jackass!" she shouted.

Laughing, the driver swung his car through a puddle of mud. As they tore off, mud splattered and caked over the front of Zelda's body. A war raging inside her head, she began to run home.

"I hate this fucking town!" she screamed inside.

Once inside her house, she threw her book bag onto the floor and hurried upstairs. Ripping her clothes off, she dove into the shower and desperately fiddled with the knobs. Screaming at the top of her lungs, she fell to her knees as the ice cold water rained over her. Unnoticeable tears streamed down her face hidden by the water.

She felt a little better after her little shower incident, also since the mud was off. She wrapped herself in a robe and grabbed her mud caked skirt and shirt before she left the bathroom. Heading down the stairs, she noticed Serj was home now.

A bitter feeling crawling up her throat, she glared at the door and didn't even bother to greet him once he stepped over the threshold. Blowing him off, she headed straight for the washing machine and threw her clothes in with some soap.

"Zel?"

Zelda ignored her brother as she clicked the controls on the washing machine. She didn't know how to be nice in telling him just how much she loathed him at the moment.

"Are you ok?" Serj asked.

"No, I'm not ok!" she yelled as she whipped around, her wet hair like a ragged mop.

"What's wrong?"

"Do you even have to ask? This place sucks, this school sucks, I get blown off by everyone, and to top all of it off, you, the one person who I should be able to talk to is abandoning me! Yeah, I'm just fucking great!" she screamed this time.

"Hey, not to be a prick, but Link tried and you were kind of a bitch to him," he argued calmly.

"Damn it Serj! I don't want to be around him!"

"He tried at least, didn't he? That's more than I can say for the other people in the school," Serj continued, becoming a little flustered.

"And how the hell could you ditch me? Some punks harassed me on the way home and sprayed mud all over me. And where were you? Off having fun with your new pals, right?"

"Look Zelda, I'm not putting my life on hold because you are a fucking clam! I don't want to hear anymore of this stupid little girl shit. You're making this a bigger deal than you have to you know! Link tried and you blew him off. So no, I don't care, you're right. I'm avoiding you because you need to grow up sometime, and I don't see that happening with me standing over you all the time. Grow up Zelda," Serj shouted.

"Fine!"

"Fine!"

Serj turned and stormed off in a fury. Zelda was equally as flustered. After banging around the washing machine in utter rage, she headed up to her room and threw herself on the bed.

"He's right", she thought.

She was being kind of immature about the whole thing. She realized that she had a comfort zone she wasn't willing to break out of. Link was trying to help her, but she was pushing him away. She respected him for that, but sure as hell didn't mean she liked him.

The next brought a new Zelda with a different attitude. Grabbing the books she needed out of her bag, she headed downstairs to meet up with Serj. He was again sitting on the couch with his guitar waiting for his sister. He seemed as though he had nothing to say to her however, though she couldn't entire blame him. She had been pretty childish of the days of late.

Link slouched in his chair a few hours later. He had been in class five minutes and was already about to fall asleep. Trying to keep himself awake, he began to chew on his pencil eraser. Why he was doing that, don't ask, I bet he doesn't even know.

He hated physics. It was by far his least favorite subject of the year. He was no genius by any stretch, but he never really had a problem with any classes when it came to grades.

Mr. Rauru was also the most boring teacher he had every seen. Link watched as his silvery mustache bounced up and around with ever equally boring word that came from his mouth.

"You are waayyyyyyy too bored Link," he thought to himself.

He began contemplating whether or not he should take his pencil and stab himself with it in an attempt to get out of the class. He threw the hood on his hoody over his head and stuck the headphones of his CD player in his ears.

Pretending to be interested, he grooved on a mix of music he had made, all the while being unnoticeable. He couldn't help but look interested as Toxicity came on, followed by Dreamtheater's Pull Me Under.

He managed to hear the bell over the music and he darted out of the chair and headed for lunch. God he hated that class with a passion. Physics was not his favorite subject in the world, and the teacher being boring as hell wasn't much help.

"Damn that class is the shits," Link stated when Serj caught up to him.

"I wouldn't know," Serj stated with a hit of smugness in his voice.

"Fuck you," Link mumbled as they entered the cafeteria.

Grabbing a quick bite to eat, him and his usual band members grabbed the table they always sat at and began the continued useless chatter. Mido had picked up a babe named Saria they found out. Link had actually known the girl for a very long time, and was happy that Mido finally found someone that was actually cool and not a hoar.

Zelda caught sight of Link and his buddies as she entered the cafeteria coming from her second period class. Ignoring them, she began to head to the table she sat at yesterday.

"Watch it bitch!"

Zelda was shoved over and her books went flying in the air. Zelda looked up from the floor to see it was the football player who had been driving the car yesterday. Cursing under her breath, she stood up.

"You run into me again I'll do a lot more than sling mud at you," he threatened and turned to leave.

He was surprised when he found Serj standing behind him with his fists clenched tight. This football player was much bigger than Serj, but Zelda had no doubt that her brother could beat the shit out of him if he wanted. He was a scrapper to say the least.

"You may want to watch your back tough guy. I don't take to kindly to people talking to my sister like that you know," Serj snarled, trying to keep his cool.

"Fuck off you…"

Serj cut him off by grabbing the guy's arm and twisting it behind his back. Within a matter of seconds, Serj had the idiot on the floor at his mercy. Zelda couldn't help but giggle a bit as her brother squashed her enemy's face into the ground like a pancake.

"You see, what we have here is a failure to communicate!" Serj growled lowly.

"Alright, I get it! Get off me, you're going to break my arm!" the boy whined.

Serj let his grasp go and the stud got up off the floor, rubbing dirt off his jacket and face. He spat at Serj's feet before walking past him out of the building.

"You ok?" Serj asked his sister, who was busy gathering up her books.

"Yeah, thanks," she replied and for the first time, sincerely.

Serj simply nodded and walked back to his table, where he had his band mates in awe. Serj managed to catch the name of the jerk on the back of his jacket. Ganon… That would have to be a name he would watch out for.

"Here, let me help you."

Zelda noticed that a girl about her age with long red hair had knelt down to help her pick up her books.

"Oh, thank you," Zelda stuttered in a shocked voice.

"There you go," the girl said as she handed Zelda the rest of her books.

"Hey, thanks for that," Zelda thanked as she took the books.

"Oh sorry, my name's Malon," the red-head stated and extended her hand in a very girly fashion.

"Zelda," she replied simply and gave a light shake of the hand.

"Say, why don't you come over and sit with me and my bunch. I noticed you looked little lonely over here," Malon invited.

"Oh, of course," Zelda returned happily.

With a smile, Malon turned and headed to where she had been sitting. Zelda would have been stupid to turn down that offer. There were two other girls at the table when they arrived: another red head and a blonde headed girl.

"Girls, this is Zelda," Malon announced as she sat down next to the blonde girl.

Zelda smiled shyly and sat down next to the second red head. She found that the red head's name was Romani, and the blonde was Aryll. Malon and her hit it off well, and the other two girls were very sweet too. Overjoyed that Malon had the next class with her, Zelda began to like the school a bit. It had been rough at first, but things were ok now. Maybe things wouldn't be as bad as she thought…

After lunch, her and Malon headed to their Chemistry class.