OOH, chapter four. I think this one will be sloppy, sorry, I get nervous when someone's around and I'm writing...

Though she's not present here, Gwin is my only property...

After I had finished eating, I should probably tell the cooks how good their pizza is, I stood up and trumped over to the girls table.

I had given up on the idea of resistence.

'He'll notice you this way.' I had been repeating to myself all day.

Zelda had been giving me side glances all day like she would like to apologize, which made sense, she could read minds, apparently.

In the safety of the table I quickly glanced sideways at Snake, of course, he was looking at me the same way, and talking to himself by the looks of it.

'Wait, huh?'

"It's called a 'Codec' and yes, I do read minds." Zelda muttered to me.

I looked at her questioningly, "You don't usually answer people's thoughts though..."

"No, but I wanted to ask you about some..."

'Did you hear about Link?'

"No, I was going to ask you about just that."

'Later, and we can do it in my room.'

"Okay."

V

"Am I ruining your vacation?"

Mei Ling had come to the Smash mansion, needing a holiday for issues that I didn't want to understand.

"No, unless you can't find anyone to spend your time with, then I'll probably send you back."

We were both sitting on the couch in the living room, the designer had just arrived and most of the hospitable people here were still eating.

"I'll try really hard. Have you made any friends?"

"A couple of people."

The silence was ruined by Sonic, who commented that Mei Ling was plain while passing through the room.

She was probably having problems about something regarding men or women if she was actually a lesbian, though I couldn't picture that, and feeling plain, because her eyes looked a lot wetter than they had before he had said that.

Fox McCloud walked by and stopped when he saw her, "You new here?" he asked, she nodded.

"Do you know where your room is? I was sent to get you," he continued, "our normal tour guide is... busy." Fox explained to me.

Mei Ling silently stood and pulled her suitcase behind her, "I don't know where it is. Thank you." She said while walking away, "Um, your room is this way." he said, she followed him away.

I sighed, suddenly craving a smoke in the solitude.

Before I gave in and left the building to sate my addiction Peach walked into the room and said "Sit down, we girls went shopping today and we want to show off our clothes."

I started for the door immediately as she continued to call all the guys in, Fox yelled "NO, I'M BUSY AND I DOUBT KRYSTAL WOULD MIND." from somewhere, "NO I DON'T, I DIDN'T GET ANYTHING ANYWAY." She returned from down the hall, I was still backing subtly towards the front door.

"NO THANKS." Link half croaked from somewhere, it was more of a 'I don't yell, or talk much fr that matter' croak than a 'I'm angry and depressed so don't bother me' croak, but Sonic, who had suddenly appeared at my side yelled a profane word at him.

After a few minutes of yelling and being pulled back by some unknown person, I think it was the new girl, about five guys were seated on the one couch, some caving to their girlfriend's wants, others being perverts.

It was mind-blowing-ly stupid, and only about two girls looked happy about what they were doing and one girl looked like she was betrayed.

It was Samus, who was showing off her body in something not unlike an Anime I had seen three seconds of that Otacon had been watching once and, of course, my eyes were glued to her.

After the fashion show, which seem to only fully amuse Peach, who had a truly evil look in her eye, people scattered. Samus had sat down in one of the goofy outfits and was doing odd things with her facial expression, wrinkling and cocking her eyebrows and looking cross-eyed at me. It was probably some confused attempt at flirting, or she was just making fun of me.

After trying to suppress laughter for about ten minutes, the urge to smoke overcame me and I grabbed my pack and walked out the door, muttering "Excuse me."

V

I think I messed up on the flirting thing mostly because, in my embarrassment of showing off parts of my body that I had issues showing off, and in front of Captain Falcon, I got 'eyelashes' and 'eyebrows' mixed up.

It didn't offend me when Snake stood up abruptly and left, it probably was because he had an addiction and he needed a fix, or whatever it was that people said in that century.

After he left I bolted for my room, feeling really mad that I had let myself do this, and wondering if I should go talk to him on the porch.

The weather was really nice tonight, not that I could really judge. But on my terms it was, nice and cool, not stuffy or hot or humid or anything like that. Nothing like the messed up radiators in space.

I changed into a normal outfit, or at least I think it was, still debating on what to do.

Zelda unintentionally chose for me by knocking.

"What happened to Link today?" she asked while sitting on my bed.

"He got violent in a fight and everyone's mad at him. He's real stressed this year, and the guy he fought hadn't really clicked."

"Oh." she looked worried, "What should I think about this?"

"Maybe just forget... I don't know..."

"So how badly did you fail at flirting?"

I laughed, for some reason it was funny now, "I confused eyelashes for eyebrows in my stress, whose idea was it for Captain Stalker to come?"

She burst out laughing as well, "I don't know. He probably slipped in while no one was looking."

I started to get but stopped, my confidence failing.

"Maybe tomorrow..." I trailed off, "I'm tired..." I replaced with a yawn.

She smiled half-heartedly, "Don't worry, friend, he likes you."

Zelda left after decided that I wasn't going to reply, I hoped that she was right.

Peeking out of my window and just barely over my balcony, I caught a glimpse of smoke rising in the cool night air, it was comforting, in a twisted kind of way.

Snake saw me in his peripheral vision but I didn't notice, and smiled.

...so yeah... whatever I always say about reviews... mymindistiredI'vebeenupsincefour.

Ummm... how apposed are you people to Gwin having a POV?

Just asking, this was going to be from her, but I thought I should ask first... Well... umm... I fail beautifully at Snake, at least I really hate how I portrayed him... hopefully that will eventually improve.

Possibly starting school tomorrow, shouldn't affect my writing but might.

That's...all...I think...