Author's Note: I know, I said I wasn't going to post any Friday through Sunday, but my trip got cancelled because I got sick. Fun.

Anyway, I have come up with an official update schedule! I am going to post at least three new chapters every week. Hope that's good for you guys. Enjoy, and please review!

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One Year's Eternity

Chapter 5

August 26, 6:28 A.M.

Why can't I sleep?

I lay restless in my bed, my foot elevated by a pillow. I was having the hardest time sleeping. My alarm was turned off, because today was Sunday. I got my phone off the nightstand and started texting Midna, who was still sleeping. I wanted to wake her up, but I didn't want to get slapped from shaking her awake. It had happened before.

IHop for breakfast? I can text the guys.

I hit send, laid back down, and waited for the eruption. Skrillex started playing.

Hello, again, to all my friends.

Together we can play some Rock 'N Roll.

Hello, again, to all my friends.

Together we ca-

Midna slammed her hand into her phone. She groaned reaching for it. I was on my bed across the room with my eyes closed, pretending to sleep.

"Upi frvoa," she said in Labrynnian. She was catching on quickly. (AN: That's 'You devil.')

I sat up in my bed. "Now, I wouldn't call myself a devil, Mid," I said across the room.

"I would," she said groggily. "But yes, IHop sounds good. In two hours." She turned back around in her bed. "Now, good night, Zellie."

"Don't call me that terrible nickname!" I said through my teeth. I grabbed my crutches and hobbled across the room. I smacked her on her head, then backed away before her arm could hurt me. "I will wait for IHop, but I wanted to ask you if you wanted the guys to come, too."

"Why not?" she said sarcastically.

"Okay. Two hours right?" I asked.

"Yeah. Sure," she said, rubbing her eyes. "Now let me sleep!" she chucked a pillow at my bed, apparently not knowing that I was standing be my desk.

"Okay!" I laughed. I started texting Link, Beck, and Mikau.

IHop in two hours. Wanna come?

I laid back on my bed to think.

Why has Link been so gentle?

I thought back to that joke text Midna had sent me six days earlier.

Idk… crush maybe? Jk

Was it?

I shook off the thought and grabbed my 3DS. I plugged in Kid Icarus: Uprising. It was my favorite game, partly because of the humor. Partly because of the controls; everyone else hated them, but I found they play better than what everyone wanted. My load screen came up. I was on Chapter 21: The Chaos Vortex. I vowed to myself that I would finish every chapter on difficulty 9.0. I was the hardest gamer I knew.

I played the game, unable to beat Chapter 21 on 9.0. I played for two hours. My phone buzzed. It was Link.

We'll be ready when you guys are.

I woke up Midna. I poked her with the end of my crutch. She moved her hand fast enough to knock it to the ground. It landed with a loud clang.

"Ow!" Midna said, covering her head with her pillow.

"Get up!" I said, picking up my crutch and poking her more. "I let you have your two-hour nap."

She growled at me. She took the pillow off her head and glared at me with a smirk.

"C'mon!" I said. "The guys are waiting!"

"Are we just 'the guys' now?" she asked. "We're not guys, yet we say we are."

"What else are we supposed to call our little group?" I asked smartly.

She crinkled her nose in thought. "What do you call a group of rejects?"

"Wait," I said, "we're all from different places, right?"

"Yeah. Why?" she asked, clearly intrigued.

"You called us 'rejects'… And we're all from different cultures…"

"Where are you going with this?" she asked sitting up.

"No, it's stupid," I said shaking it off.

"What?" she egged on. "What's so stupid that you can't tell me?"

"Hyrule was never meant for us," I said. "We're all Hylian Rejects."

"Woah," she said. "That's freakin' awesome! Why did you think that was stupid?"

"Cause most of my ideas are stupid," I said, grabbing my crutches.

She stood up and started digging in her dresser. "That's so not true."

She pulled out her "Nerd? I prefer 'Intellectual Badass" shirt and black skinnies. I was already dressed in my "Gaming Goddess: You May Now Bow Before Me" shirt and jean shorts. I was wearing one Converse, with my cast on the other foot. She had her Cargo boots on. I put my light brown hair into a messy bun, Midna following that idea.

"Make-up?" she asked.

"Not today," I said. "Sorry."

"I don't want to put up with it either," she said. "Not today." She opened the door for me to exit. She followed after me. I got out my phone to text the other 'Hylian Rejects'.

Ready and out in front of the elevators.

We walked down the hallway slowly.

"Mid?" I asked. "I have a question for you."

"What's that?" she called back, since she was ahead of me. She slowed down so I could catch up.

"There was a text you sent me last week," I said quietly. I got out my phone to show her the "Idk… crush maybe? Jk" text. "Did you mean it?"

"Do you not understand 'Jk'?" she laughed. "But, I have been noticing that he's been a little closer than usual."

"Yeah," I said, stopping in my tracks. "I've never had a guy like me like that."

I was lying. There had been one, back home in Labrynna.

She turned around. "Really? That's surprising. You're… well… you!"

"Am I really that attractive?" I said, starting to hobble down the hallway.

"Apparently," she smirked. "If Link likes you that much. He hasn't liked any girl since he came to this school. Farore actually tricked him into dating!"

What?

"And how is that possible, exactly?" I asked as we approached the elevator.

"For those… er… noyvhes," she said, "anything's possible." A door at the opposite end of the hallway opened. Link came out first, then Mikau and Beck. Mikau sprinted to the elevator.

"So, IHop?" he asked, panting.

"Yeah," Midna said. She turned to me. "Yraa yjrn sipny ire masu?" she asked in Labrynnian. (AN: That's 'Tell them about the name?')

"Not yet," I replied.

"What?" Mikau asked. "Labrynnian?"

We nodded our heads.

"I don't even want to know," he said with a smile.

Link and Beck caught up. Midna pushed the button for the elevator.

"What are you guys talking about?" Beck asked.

"They're talking in Labrynnian," Mikau said.

"Then I could understand them," Link said, "maybe. Say it again."

"Eju?" I asked. (AN: That's 'Why?')

"Never mind," he said. "Let's just get some food."

"Gladly!" Mikau exclaimed.