AN: Again sorry for delay. Thank you to EVERYONE who has reviewed, favourited and bookmarked this fiction. You guys have given me the inspiration to keep this going.

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It was 12.04am

Zelda was tired but she couldn't sleep. Her mind was full of smaller Zelda's arguing with each other.

"You know what I think? We love Link!" Desire said saucily.

"Don't be ridiculous!" Common Sense began, "We love, and always have loved Vaati, not that……that…."

"Asshole?" Offered Anger.

"You are all too quick to judge, Link has been nice to us recently!" Kindness said smiling warmly

"Yes but we all know that's just because he thinks we're going to sue him for nearly killing us!" Suspicious argued.

"And let's not forget Marin! It's probably all a ploy to get her and to get her, he thinks he needs our approval!" Envy added.

"But what about the party at Karkariko? Marin said he rejected her?" Common Sense replied

"Hmmm, perhaps, but then maybe he was just playing hard to get! I mean you saw them today…" Suspicious said trailing off into thought.

Honesty butted in "No no no… that isn't Link!"

"True…Link has been fairly obvious about his desire for as long as we have known him" Desire pointed out.

"When Marin was moaning about him declining her we stuck up for him!" Envy burst out; placing a cruel, sarcastic tone on Marin's name.

"Let's think why we would do that…" Common Sense said thoughtfully

Desire sighed deliberately drawing all eyes on her "Well I told you, it's because we love him!"

Honesty nodded in agreement.

"Marin kept going on and on about how he smiled at her!" Anger snarled.

"She was being cute, I thought!" Beamed Kindness.

"To be honest, I though it was more of a smirk and it certainly wasn't for her" Envy said scathingly.

Common Sense pondered. "I agree with Envy. Remember he smirked just after we tried to read his mind! He was smirking at us!"

Anger fumed "That bastard! We knew that his resistance had improved… he knew what we were doing!! He gave us that headache!!!"

"Let's not be too harsh on him" Kindness reasoned, "After all it was rather rude of us to try and read his thoughts."

"No, because we needed to find out what he was thinking…for our friend's sake, for Marin!" Common Sense replied

"Let's be honest people… we all know the real reason we tried to read his thoughts." Honesty said solemnly

All of the Zeldas' nodded slowly (some slower than others in Anger and Common Sense's case).

"We wanted to know…" Common Sense started.

Zelda snapped out of it and was hit hard with a realisation that hurt more than the headache she had been struck with earlier.

"…if he was thinking of me…" She whispered.

A shiver went down her spine and though previous to this revelation the room had been perfectly warm, now Zelda was cold; and she didn't know whether fear or shame was the cause. She did love Link. She didn't know for how long she had, whether if was from the moment she set eyes on him or just because Marin was and she was just…she didn't know.

What am I going to do?

She laughed sarcastically at herself. She wouldn't do anything because there was nothing to do. Marin would either go out with Link or not but whatever happened she couldn't be anything more than…well have any kind of relationship with Link. Marin would either be suspicious or think Zelda a traitor. Depending on how it works out.

And anyway she thought, He doesn't think of me like that. I don't even know if he thinks about me at all…apart from the law suit he expects.

Because of course Zelda had managed to get that much out of his mind on the day of the accident.

Zelda sighed as she sat down on the stool facing her dressing table and looked at her sad reflection in the mirror. Moonlight shone through the large window to her left and gave her blonde hair an eerie glow. Her pale skin reflected the light and made her azure eyes light up although they had never looked so sad. Zelda seemed to emanate a light yet it was a sad, hopeless illumination of the fact she could never share her secret with anyone.

She sighed once more then got up and walked over to her bed, sat on it, then turned over and tried to get to sleep.

Three hours later she was still awake, her pillow soaked with tears she wept silently in the dark.

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It was 7.30am.

Zelda yawned as she made her way towards chemistry. She was late but she couldn't really care less- for the first time in her life. She stretched her arms wide and then pushed open the door.

"Zelda you are very late. Explain yourself."

Zelda let out an inaudible sigh of exasperation and then turned to the teacher.

"I'm very sorry. I slept in." She bowed apologetically.

"Hmmm. It's not like you to be late. Don't let it become habit!"

Zelda sighed again and took her seat in the lab next to Marin.

She took her books out of her bag and turned to her partner. Marin looked as thought butter wouldn't melt in her mouth and Zelda's palms became sweaty.

"How dare you." Marin hissed at Zelda who was shaking slightly.

"What are you talking about?" She asked nervously, slyly checking for the nearest exits incase this broke into a massive bitch fight. So far the window was her safest bet but as they were on the second floor she looked for an alternative.

"You know what" Marin murmured, unblinking.

"…"

"You have been missing for half an hour!"

Zelda gasped in relief.

"Yes! Gasp you should! Zelda-"

"Yes…" Zelda asked; trying not to laugh.

"I think I may actually be learning things!" Marin's voice wobbled "I know the diatomic elements!"

Zelda laughed scornfully. "Don't worry Marin; I think there is little chance of that!"

Marin shook her head and her eyes filled with tears. "Iodine, Bromine, Chlorine, Fluorine, Oxygen, Hydrogen, Nitrogen….WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Zelda gasped in shock as Marin began to cry. Loudly.

The class turned to face their bench and the teacher narrowed his beady eyes.

"Zelda! You arrive late to my class causing disruption and taking away valuable learning time from your classmates and now you have made Marin cry! This is appalling behaviour! What has become of my star pupil?"

Marin dried her eyes as Zelda rolled hers.

"I'm very sorry Mr Shirogane. I will try harder."

"If your attitude doesn't improve I will be writing a letter to your parents. It will not be a pleasant read!"

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