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Storytime

The next morning Link woke to find Ravio gone. Rising out of his bed, the sleepy boy lazily wipes his eyes. Checking the time, he noted that he had ten minutes before class starts. 'Might as well go today.' He noticed his hair was wild when he went into the bathroom to brush his teeth. Deciding that it wasn't such a bad look, he ran his hand through his hair before spitting the toothpaste out of his mouth. Link laughed at what he found when returning his toothbrush. There sitting perfectly next to his green one, was a purple toothbrush. Not just any purple toothbrush, a purple toothbrush with little rabbit ears on top. How that didn't get uncomfortable in one's mouth, he didn't know. Smiling to himself, Link pulled on his signature green hoodie and left the dorm.

Despite being on time today, Link got an earful about how school is important and how he shouldn't be so lazy from Gulley's dad.

"Look," the rather buff looking man said, "I know you might not think so, but you're like a son to me, and I'm just trying to look out for you. I really want you to shape up and do well so I can rest easy knowing you'll do great in life." Link was harshly patted on the back. Despite this, he smiled. Link did think of him as a father. Having no chance to really get to know his parents, Impa had been his guardian, but he had spent weeks staying with Gulley and his family, who had no problem looking out for him.

"ALRIGHT NOW GET BACK TO WORK!" the man's voice boomed, and nearly everyone in the room jumped.

During lunch, Link ordered his usual meal and Zelda joined him. Eventually the table consisted of him, Zelda, Gulley, and Irene. While Irene was chattering Gulley's ear off, Zelda leaned toward him and whispered.

"Link, I think something weird is going on." she said quietly. He gave her a worried look. Being friends since childhood, he has found that if she thought something bad was going to happen, it happened.

"How bad is it?" he asked.

"I'm not sure. It's the phone calls from my father that has been worrying me." her brow furrowed. "He keeps saying he has some big surprise. I feel like I should be excited, but something feels off. I have to go visit him next week, and I'm dreading it because I just know that something bad is going to happen!"

Link wrapped his arm around her reassuringly. "I'm sure everything will be fine." He really wasn't sure. "If anything goes wrong, and if you need me, for anything, give me a call and I'll be right there."

Her face reddened at the statement, but Link didn't take notice as a familiar purple bunny approached the table.

"Oh, hey Ravio!" Link waved the boy over.

"Link! Hey do you mind if I sit with you?"

"Not at all!" Link gestured to the others at the table. "Hey guys this is Ravio, my new roommate. This is Gulley, Irene, and Zelda." They all welcomed him warmly, despite the strange glances at his outfit, and Ravio placed his things at the table.

"So Ravio," Zelda started, "What brings you to Hyrule?"

Ravio thought about this for a moment before responding. "I just wanted somewhere new. And it sounded like fun." Zelda gave him a stare that said she saw through his slight lie but brushed it off.

"I'm sure you'll like it here. There's lots of nice people here." she smiled. "So what are your parents like?"

Ravio stiffened at the words. She had meant no harm he was sure, but she had still affected him. "I lost my parents a long time ago." his voice grew serious. "When I was three we got into a car accident, and they lost their lives." He smiled and brightened up, trying not to worry her. "But that was a long time ago. They were great people and that's all that matters."

"I'm so sorry for bringing it up." Zelda placed a hand on his shoulder, then looked at Link worriedly, like talking about Ravio's parents would make him think of his own. But Link didn't feel sad, he felt a connection with Ravio. Like they lived similar lives. He was hoping that they would become great friends one day, and he would like to get to know Ravio better.

Zelda tried to change the subject. "Would you like to come to the basketball game tonight? We're going against Lorule High. Oh, and Link's playing! Everyone says he's the best!" Link looked away in embarrassment. He thought himself to be good, but not the best.

"Ah! I'm sorry! I can't go tonight, I have some really important things to do since I just transferred here!" Ravio didn't want to tell them that he was actually just afraid to go to Lorule.

"Another time then." Zelda smiled.

That night Hyrule and Lorule faced off. Link felt like it was a true battle. Lorule's defence was tough, their offence even worse. Several times Link was jostled by the other players, and many of his teammates had acute injuries because of them. 'Why aren't the ref's calling fouls?' he thought. Several occasions called for them, but Link pressed on determined to win this game. 'The time is running out. Thirty seconds left. If we can just make one more shot we'll win.' They seemed to be blocked from the basket at every angle. Spotting an opening, Link ran for it. "Link!" he turned his head to see his teammate shooting for a basket. The ball came close, but not close enough. Just before the ball hit the backboard, Link jumped. Someone grabbed his ankle but he managed to grab the ball and dunk it in before the timer buzzed.

Cheers erupted from the gym as the game ended. Lorule's team stormed off of the gym floor as their coach was shouting at them.

Link stumbled in surprise as someone jumped into his embrace and blond hair obscured his vision.

"Link! You were fantastic!" Zelda squealed as her arms wrapped around him tightly. "I can't believe how you pulled that off at the end!" Link wrapped his arms around her waist and twirled her around. He liked to hear her giggle in excitement. "Wait!" -giggle- "Put me down!" -snort- "I have to go find the others!" Link smiled before obediently putting her down. "I'll go get everyone! Meet us outside!" She ran off as her blonde hair bounced in sync with her steps.

Heading to the locker room, Link was stopped by an unfamiliar voice.

"Hey," He turned to find a girl with long dark curls and crimson eyes. "I'm Hilda. It's nice to finally meet the hero of Hyrule's basketball team. It seems that the students in this school don't greet others as nicely as I do. For that, I apologise." She stepped closer to Link. "I'm the student body president here. I should be encouraging them to get along, but they don't listen." she suddenly got close, too close, to Link. Grasping his hands in hers, she whispered. "Maybe you can help, you are the hero after all." she smirked before releasing his hands and walking away. "We'll meet again I'm sure, Hero." If Link didn't know any better, he would think she was almost flirting with him.

Hyrule was in full celebration mode. After the first win against Lorule in what felt like years, there were pizza parties in every other dorm. Returning to his own to grab a change of clothes, Link ran into Ravio along the way.

"Oh Link! I heard about the game. Way to crush them with that final blow!" Ravio threw his arms in the air and danced from side to side.

Link grinned. "Yeah, it was pretty cool. Everyone is meeting up in Gulley's dorm for pizza. Would you like to come?"

Ravio scratched his head. "Sorry bud, but I still have some things to take care of. Next time you have a party though, I'll surely show up!"

Shrugging, Link continued his way back to their dorm. "See you later then. I'll be staying with Gulley tonight!" he waved as they both took their separate ways.

Ravio did want to go with Link and have fun, he really did, but he had to have a talk with Impa. He wanted to clear his head of all the thoughts he had about why he really came here. He worried endlessly about what Link thought about the story of his parents dying. He worried that he wouldn't be able to become friends with Link, or at least comfortable enough to remove the mask over his true thoughts. He worried about the problems of his previous school, and of the girl who hated him the most.

Link was pondering about what was bothering Ravio as he headed to Gulley's room. Shrugging it off for later, he knocked on the door. His eyes met with Zelda's as she pulled him in and slammed the door shut. Waiting for him was Gulley, Irene, and Osfala. The white haired boy seemed a little miffed to see Zelda so close to Link, but congratulated him on the win nonetheless. Irene tackled him in a hug and yelled in his ear.

"You guys were AMAZING! And at the last second you were like WOOOSH and it was like you were flying on a broom or something and that one guy was like grrrr and tried to grab you but then you got the ball right as the timer was like BZZZZZ and you won and everyone was like WHOOOOO AWESOMEEEE!" She jumped up back towards Gulley and tackled him asking 'DID YOU SEE THAT?! YOUSAWTHATRIGHT?!' Link chuckled.

Zelda cut in to save the poor blonde boy from Irene's excited wrath. "Irene, let's go pick out a movie to watch before the pizza gets here." If it was possible, Irene got more excited and ran into the other room to pick out her favorite movie. Osfala followed, not intending to watch the same movie for the millionth time while she was here.

Alone, Link smirked at the other boy. Gulley's face was red, from lack of air or from embarrassment he didn't know. "So when exactly do you plan on telling her that you're head over heels for her?" Link asked, smirking. Gulley's face got redder and turned away.

"Actually, I was thinking about telling her tonight." he said sheepishly.

Chuckling, Link teased more. "Are you sure you can handle all of… that?" All he got in response was some grumbling and a scowl as Gulley walked into the other room where the girl he liked bickered with Osfala about a movie. Link grinned and followed. 'This is going to be a fun night."

Author's Note:

I got chapter two done! Sort of on time! And we got a leeeetle bit of plot this time. Tell me if I'm going too slow and I'll try to pick up the pace a little. Also I feel like I might not putting enough detail but I'm unsure. Just tell me what you'd like to see more of and I'll see what I can do :)

I plan to update every Sunday as I can possibly do. Next weekend I'll be in Vegas, so depending on what I'm doing I'll either have more time or less time to write.

Please tell me how I did and if there is anything I can fix or do better, it will really help.

Thank you for reading!