Ok, I'm back from my trip and it was awesome (sorry for bragging but it was fun). I went to Washington DC it was an uncomfortable 15 hour bus ride, all I did was write, play my DS, and tried my best to sleep which was impossible for me…. So anyways here's the next chapter it should be longer than the other chapters, mostly because this chapter is a flashback of…. Oh, caught myself before I told you ok on with the chapter…. XD

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Chapter 6: Bad Memories

The next day, at school.

'Ok, today's the day I tell Zelda the truth, no more lies… lies… that's what ruined my life….'
"Um, hi."
Link smiled. 'She always knows how to cheer me up.' "Hi."
"Sorry…"
"For what?"
"For starting another 'um hi' conversation…"
"Oh, ha-ha it's ok. So, what's up?"
"I'm sorry about yesterday?"
"What do you mean?"
"I interrupted you when you were about to tell me something very secret and I was being very rude when I cut you off and…"
"It's ok; I had a good time last night…" 'Well, at least she apologized.'
"Are you sure? You can hate me if you want…"
"Why would I hate you? It wasn't that bad."
"Ok…"
"… I'm still going to tell you, you are my friend… right?"
She smiled at him. "Of course, so does that mean you still won't eat with us?"
"No…"
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked…"
"It's ok. You'll find out why I hate Mido so much after school… he ruined my life… ok, bye." He leaves.

The day went by quickly, now it was after school….
'Ok, I'm a little nervous, probably because I'm about to tell the most beautiful girl my biggest secret ever. Wait, did I just call Zelda beautiful…? Well, it's true… ok, where is she?'
Someone pulled on the back of Link's shirt and started to drag him somewhere where they can be alone.

At the park, by a bench
"Hi."
"Wow, I'm impressed, you didn't say 'um hi'."
"Ha-ha. Well…"
"Sigh, sorry, I'm just a little nervous…"
"Why?"
"Well, I never told anyone this and now I'm about to tell the most beautiful girl who…" He covers his mouth with his hand while Zelda blushes.
"W-what?"
"Well," he took his hand off his mouth, "it's true."
"Oh, um, thank you."
He clears his throat. "So, I need to tell you something. Um, let's sit over there." He points to some swings.
"Hehe, ok."

They walk towards the swings, sat down and started to swing a bit.
"Hmm, where should I begin…? Ok, do you remember what I told you yesterday?"
"Yeah, you said something about Mido being your grade school bully?"
"…Well, he wasn't always my bully…"
"What do you mean?"
"We were friends for awhile…"
"What happened?"
"Well, it all started in 1st grade…."

Flashback

Link was sitting by himself on a swing until someone started to push him. Startled, he jumped off, and turned around to find a kid with orange wavy hair with a big grin. "Who are you?" asked Link.

"The name's Mido; Mido Kokori."
"Mido?"
"Yeah, so, what's your name?"
"Link," he slightly smiles, "Link Foster."
"Awesome, say, do you want to play tag with me and my friends?"
"…You mean, you want to be friends?"
"Sure."
"Ok!"
"Great, but first," he taps Link on the shoulder, "you're it!"

So the rest of the recess was Link, Mido, and his friends playing tag then the bell rings. During class Link and Mido always laughed about the stupidest things. They always got yelled at by the teacher which made them laugh harder. So, the goes by and it was time for their 2nd recess.

They sit on top of the jungle gym to discuss the rules of 'the gang'. Mido speaks, "First of all, I, Mido Kokori, am the leader of 'the friends'." The other 3 boys, Ryan, Blake, and Jacob, started to clap. Link watches them clap then slowly claps as well. "Thank you, thank you. Ok first rule, we allow no liars in our group. The one think I hate most is liars. Third, we must know some things about each others parents."
"Wait, what?"
"What? You have parents, don't you?"
"What? Oh…um…. of course I do…."
"Ok, since Link's the newbie, why don't you start Link."
"Oh, um, my mom was, I mean, is a nurse and my dad…. teaches karate."
All the other boys say, "Wow!"
"Does he ever teach you karate?"
"Um, no, he's always so busy…"
"Well that sucks."
"What's that?"
"What's what?"
"That word…."
"Oh, sucks? I don't know, I heard my dad saying it when he was talking about work or something."
"Oh….well that sucks." The gang started to laugh.

"Ok, tell me about your parents Mido."
"Well, I got to admit, my dad isn't as cool as your dad but he is pretty cool for an old man."
"Ha-ha… um, yeah, thanks…"
"Anyways, my mom is a teacher and my dad is a doctor."
"Cool."
"Hey Link, maybe if your parents wouldn't mind, we could come and hang at your place and maybe your dad could teach us some karate."
"Yeah!"
"Oh, um… my parents won't aloud anyone to come over…"
"Oh man, that really sucks."

So, the rest of the gang tells Link about their parents and what they do with them. After awhile Link thinks to himself, 'I am so stupid… I already broke one of the rules…. I lied… my parents are dead… but I wasn't completely lying…. My mom was a nurse, but my dad didn't teach karate, instead he taught with swords. Well, I can't take it back now, otherwise, they'll think I'm a freak and stuff… I can't let that happen… I just hope they don't find out… man, I am so stupid… Ok Link, just go with the flow and forget about it.'

"So Link, what do you want to do when you grow up?"
"Hmm, I'm not sure, what do you want to do Mido?"
"I'm going to be a ninja."
"A ninja?"
"Yeah, ninja's know karate and I always wanted to learn how to break a brick with my head or with 1 hand."
"Yeah that would be cool."

Later that day, school ended.
"Bye Link."
"Bye."
Mido, Ryan, Blake, and Jacob rode the bus while Link was waiting for an old lady to pick him up, she owns the orphanage which is where Link lives. The lady, Ms. Gulila, comes, picked him up and drove back to the orphanage. Link hates the orphanage because for some reason everyone picked on him, except the adults of course. They arrive at the orphanage and he ran to his room while in there he gets a visitor that he doesn't want to see.
"Hey loser."
Link sighs, "What do you want Todd?"
"Well gee, aren't you rude, didn't your parents teach you not to be so rude, oh wait, you don't have any, hahaha….."
"Hey, you don't either."
"Nah, my parents threw me out 'cause I'm too good for them but at least I have a relative here, unlike you."

"Hey, is that something on your shirt!" Todd points to Link's shirt and Link looks where he was pointing.
"Where?" Todd flicks his finger on Link's nose, which was painful. (AN: I know that's the stupidest thing in the book but that's what bullies do)
"Hahaha…. I can't believe you fell for that? Gee, you are so stupid." Todd and his gang laugh while leaving Link's room.

Link thinks, 'The only good thing about my life now is that I finally made some friends at school. Sure my life 'sucks' here, but at least it's wonderful at school…. Hmm, what does suck mean?'

He looked through his room to find his big dictionary; it's about 5 inches thick. He looked for the word 'suck' and there were about 14 different definitions. 1 definition read 'a word used when something bad happens.' 'Well, that must be the definition Mido was talking about. Let's see another definition… 'to suck milk from the breast or udder. Hmm, where have I heard breast before?'  (AN: ok I know I made Link dumb as a rock but I don't know if little 1st graders would know what a females part was yet… and sorry if you don't like hearing the b… word….) He looks the word breast up which also had a lot of definitions 1 read, 'the upper, front part of a woman's body' and another read 'one's feelings' Link thinks, 'Oh god!' his face turns red and he slammed the dictionary shut, ' now I know what it is!' He pushes the dictionary away from him. 'I don't think I'll look at a dictionary for awhile.

A week has passed since Link got his new friends and it was a Friday and parent teacher conference.
"Hey Link?" the teacher called.
"Yeah?"
"Come with me…"
"Um, ok," The teacher, Ms. Toola, drags him (not literally) out in the hallway to talk about the parent teacher conference thing, "Ok, what is it?"
"Link, since you don't have parents and Ms. Gulila is too busy, I'm going to talk to you about school." He nods his head, "You're doing splendid in school but you need to be more social, talk to others."
"But I have been Ms. Toola, I have 4 friends."
She smiled, "Ok, well let's get back to class."
"Ok."
They walk back to the classroom and Link sat back at his seat next to Mido's desk. "Pssst, Link?" Mido whispered.
Link whispered back, "What?"
"What did the teacher want?"
"…Uh, it's nothing, we were just talking about my parents…"
"Oh… Is your dad coming, I mean your parents?"
"Uh….. They already came…."
"Aw man, that sucks… I really wanted to meet them."
'Me too….' Link thought.

School was almost over and it was the last recess. Mido, Ryan, Blake, and Jacob were standing by the jungle gym talking about something. Link slowly walked towards them. "Hey guys." They stop talking and looked at Link angrily, "Um, what's wrong?"
Mido stepped forward, "You! That's what's wrong?"
"What?"
He pointed at Link, "You broke 1 of our rules!"
'Uh- oh….' "…. How did you find out?"
"We asked Ms. Toola if we could meet your parents and you know what she said?"
"I could probably guess…"
"Yeah, your parents are dead!"
"…Yeah, I know…"
"Dude, you're such a freak; it's no wonder you had no friends."
"…I just wanted to have some friends…"
"By lying?!"
"Well, if I didn't you probably would have…."
"If you would have told us the truth we would have understand!"
"Yeah but…"
"Forget it Link, we're no longer friends!"
"But…"
"Come on guys, let's get away from this freak."
"But…" Mido came up to Link and pushed him in some mud then kicked him so his face would be in the mud. As the 4 walked away laughing Link sat up and tried to wipe the mud off his face. 'I lost my only friends…. All because l lied….' For some reason, Link didn't cry…

The bell rang
He was, obviously, covered in mud and while he was passing kids, they pointed and laughed at him. 'This was the worst day in my life…. Maybe by Monday Mido would forgive me and give me another chance to be friends…'

Monday, at school, first recess. Link walked out of the doors until someone tripped him. "Woah…. Ow…"
"Hahaha….." Link slowly got up and looked to see who tripped him, it was Mido. "Hey Link, how'd the ground look? Hahaha…."
"….Dirty…."
"Hahaha…. Oh, by the way, the whole school hates you now."
"What? How can everyone hate me...? Did you…."
"Yeah, see I'm popular and I decided to tell everyone that you're a lying parentless freak who wasn't raised right. Hahaha…."
"…Why?"
"Its facts freak," Link looked at the ground, "now move out of my way loser." He pushed Link on the ground, yet again, and walked away laughing.
Link thought, 'I guess I can never have friends, otherwise they'll end up hurting me… mentally and physically….'

End of Flashback

"So, we've been enemies ever since, after that he always threw paper balls at me and pushes me around and stuff bullies do. So, that's when I realized it was stupid to have friends otherwise I'll end up getting hurt again… then I decided it's best if I stayed alone…" He looked at Zelda and his eyes widened. "Oh no, Zelda please don't cry."
"…Sniff… w-wh.… sniff… cough cough…sniff… Well, what am I suppose to do, laugh?"
"It's just… I don't like seeing you cry…"
"It's just… so sad… how he treated you and how you… sniff…" She went back to crying again.
Link took her face in his hands and whips her tears away with his thumbs and whispers, "Don't cry… I hate seeing you cry… I'm sorry…" She blushes madly and after awhile so does Link. He quickly took his hands away. "S-sorry…."
"It-it's ok."
"Sigh, I'm also sorry for…"
"For what?"
"Well, I lied to your parents…"
"Oh… it's alright."
"Well, now you know why I hate Mido so much and why I am who I am… a parentless freak."
He stood up and so did Zelda. "Link, just because you don't have parents doesn't' mean you're a freak."
"But I am a fre…." He got cut off when she hugged him.
"Don't worry Link, I won't hurt you, you're not alone anymore, I'm here for you and I won't leave you."
"Zelda…" He hugs her back.

After moments of standing and hugging Link began to blush, "Um Zelda?"
"Hmm?"
"Um, I'm not trying to be rude or anything but… um… how do I put this…"
She looked up to see that they were now only inches apart, face to face. She blushes then backs away.

"S-sorry."
"It's ok…um, so what about our deal?"
"Deal; what deal?"
"I said I would tell you stuff about me, now you have to tell me something about you."
"Oh… well," she sits back down on the swing as does Link, "I have 4 friends; Malon, Saria, Elice, and Megan, and they all have a boyfriend. I'm guessing you already know who Saria's dating."
"….No way! Why would she date that jerk?"
"Well, I didn't think he was a jerk until you told me about him and Saria wouldn't know either…"
"Hmph. I bet he acts all sweet and stuff around her but…. You know what?"
"What?"
"I think I'll sit by you at lunch at school from now on, see how he treats me when he's around Saria and when he's not."
"….Are you sure?"
"No, but we'll have to wait till tomorrow."
"Uh, today's Friday…"
"Ok, then we'll have to…. Wait, what? It's a Friday?!"
"Um, yeah?"
"Oh no, he's going to kill me! I'm sorry Zelda, but I have to go."
"Oh, ok."
"Sorry," he kisses her cheek, but I'll see ya Monday." He ran away while leaving a very red Zelda.
She thinks to herself, 'What just happened?'

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And there's chapter 6. Ok, the dictionary part was word from word in my big dictionary except the first definition of suck that I made up. But I have this humungo dictionary that's 5 inches thick and it did have 14 definitions ….. Well anyways sorry about the breast thing I don't know when kids learn that word so if I made Link a real dummy I'm sorry I can't remember when I first heard that word and what my reaction was…. But anyways please R&R…………… I'm begging you to review! XD