Author's Note: Whew! That was a heck of a cliff-hanger. Sorry. Internet not working still. This is your third chapter for last week. You're still getting three chapters this week, if my Internet doesn't glitch again.

On with it!

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One Year's Eternity

Chapter 8

September 22, 6:27 A.M.

Link was kissing me.

I didn't know what to do. I hadn't been kissed before.

I pushed him away. Part of me didn't want to, though.

"What are you thinking?!" I screamed at him.

There was knocking at the door.

"Zelda! Open up!" the hallway called. "It's Midna."

I turned back to Link. "Grab a Wii U controller," I said quietly. "Turn on Smash. Just make it look like we were playing games."

He did as I said as quickly as possible. I grabbed a controller and hobbled over to the door.

"Hey, Mid," I said when I opened it.

"You two playing Smash?" she asked once she saw Link choosing a character. He chose Lucario.

"Yeah," he said.

I turned around and chose Fox. He chose Mario Galaxy as the stage.

This is going to be easy.

"Well, before you start," Midna said, walking over to pick up the Game Pad, "can I join you?"

"Yeah, sure," I said. "Pick your character."

Link went back to character selection. Mid chose Yoshi.

"Let's get started," Link said. We all pressed ready and we started.

I won all of them.

After the ninth time, Midna left the room. It was about 7:00 P.M.

After I heard her walk down the hallway far enough, I turned back to Link.

"What, exactly, were you thinking?!" I yelled. "First, you pretend you're Shade, then you tell me he's getting targeted. Then what? YOU KISS ME!" I couldn't control my rage.

He just simply put down the controller.

"What?" I said, anger clear in my voice. "That's it? That's all your defending yourself with?!"

"No," he replied calmly. "I'm surprised you didn't see that coming, actually. And why are you getting so paranoid about this?"

"Because you…" I started. I couldn't tell him that he was my first kiss.

"Because I what?" he said. "Why are you so mad at me? You knew I would try sooner or later. It's not like it's never happened to you."

Crap. The Process of Elimination is strong with this one.

I fell back on my bed, my knees still bent off the side.

"Wait. Really?" he asked. "You've never been kissed?" he stood up and faced my bed.

"Is it that obvious?" I retorted.

He sat down next to me on my bed. He turned so that he saw my face.

"I was just surprised, since you've dated Shade," he said.

"He's always been distant," I said, sitting up. "We never really got passed just being best friends."

Link fell silent. I bent over, resting my head in my hands.

He got up to leave.

"Bye, Zelda," he said. "See you at breakfast."

"Bye," I said, not looking at him. I didn't want to see him at breakfast.

He left me to my thoughts and my games.

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September 27, 4:02 P.M.

School had been out for a half-hour. Boys who wanted to were out on the field trying out for football. Shade, I knew, would be one of them. I was sitting in my room playing 'Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again' from Phantom of the Opera on my keyboard. I couldn't help but sing along.

Passing bells and sculpted angels

Cold and monumental

Seem for you the wrong companions

You were warm and gentle

As the instrumental break started, I heard knocking at my door.

"Who is it?" I called.

"Midna," called one voice. "There's someone who wants to see you."

I turned my keyboard off and prepared for the worst. I opened the door to see that Link was behind Midna.

"Hey," Midna said, walking passed me, "you didn't tell me you sing!"

"That's because I don't," I replied.

"Right," she said. She turned my keyboard back on. "Play."

Link walked in slowly. He sat down on my bed. I sat at my desk with Midna standing right next to me, waiting for me to start again.

As the beginning of the song started, I lost myself. I must have started singing.

You were once my one companion

You were all that mattered

You were once a friend and father

Then my world was shattered

Midna turned off the keyboard before I got to the chorus. I was taken out of my musical trance and back into the real world.

"Woah," Midna said, sitting on her bed. "Link, she needs to try out."

"She does," he agreed.

"Try out for what?" I asked them.

"The school musical this year is Phantom," Midna said. "Only Mr. Ghir's favorite students know."

"Is he like, the drama teacher or something?" I asked.

"Yeah," Midna answered, "and he's looking for someone who can play Christine."

"I can't act," I said. "I can't sing, either."

"Okay," Link said, "we all know that's not true."

"And none of us have seen you act," Midna added.

"We need to introduce you to Mr. Ghir," Link said.

"No, you don't," I said.

"Okay, fine," Midna said. "You don't want to, fine. But I just want to see of you can act first."

"What would I act out?" I asked.

"We could find something online," Link suggested.

"Just something simple," Midna said, getting onto her laptop.

I turned my keyboard back on and started playing notes. I found that playing some in a certain order sounded like 'Titanium' by David Guetta. I played the melody and put some chords behind it. Before I knew it, I learned how to play the chorus by ear.

"What?!" Midna said, turning in her chair to face me. "How did you do that?"

"I don't know," I replied. "I've done it before. Look."

I played 'Heartbreaker' by T. Cruz and 'Wrecking Ball' by Miley Cyrus.

"Do you know any oldies?" Midna asked.

I played 'Yesterday' by the Beatles and 'Hungry Like the Wolf' by Duran Duran.

"Damn," Link said after I did the last chord in 'Hungry Like the Wolf'.

"It's nothing," I said, turning the power off. "I've done it since I was a kid."

"That's something!" Midna said. "You need to show me your acting skills!"

She got a script for a scene from a Disney movie, I think 'Tangled', and put it on her laptop screen.

"You're Rapunzel," she said. "I'll do the other lines."

"Okay then," I said, unsure of myself.

We went through the scene. All I did was the voice, I didn't do any actions, but I did it with as much passion I could without embarrassing myself. When we got to the last line, Midna and Link just stared at me. I laughed.

"What?" I asked. "All I did was read!"

"Yeah," Midna said, "but with more passion than the people who were voicing the characters in the movie!"

"Stop it," I said. "I'm not that good."

"Yes, you are," Link said.

I sat back on my bed and grabbed my 3DS. I put in my earbuds so I couldn't hear Link and Midna. They left about five minutes later.

What have I done?