Link and Bubbles entered into her house she carrying just a small bag while he was weighed down with boxes and bags and take-out.
"I hope you two are hungry." Gran-gran stated as Link set down the pile with a thud.
"I don't know if I could eat another…" Link started but was quickly interrupted by Bubbles, "I'm starving all this shopping has really worked up an appetite." She said running up the stairs to her room.
Link let out a small groan and turned to see Gran-gran looking at him, "So you're Link huh? You're a cute one." She said smiling and Link blushed. Bubbles entered the lobby and went over to Gran-gran and whispered something in her ear and Gran-gran turned to Bubbles, "Really! Oh well good for her." She smiled and walked into the kitchen.
"What did you tell her?" Link asked
"Oh nothing." She said smiling, "Now if you want your room is up stairs to the right just off my room. You just need to make sure that you keep it clean."
"I will." Link said thankfully picking up the pile and heading up the stairs. His room was mid-size with a nice dresser to the side. Link took out his clothes one piece at a time putting them carefully inside the dresser drawers. His bed was basically a thick blanket on the floor with another blanket on top. He looked around at the spotless room and saw a small window to the side which he slid open and leaned out. There he could see the setting sun and feel a warm evening breeze. It smelled like plants and the sound of crickets and frogs from the pond echoed across the walls surrounding Bubble's house. Something felt familiar but for some reason Link just couldn't remember what it was.
"Link it's time for dinner!" Bubbles called up
Link closed the window and went down to try and fit something in his stomach so as not to insult his new friends.
Meanwhile Blossom and Buttercup were walking home as the sun was setting talking about whatever they could think of and soon Blossom turned to Buttercup, "So Buttercup what do you think about Link?"
Buttercup was walking with her arms behind her head and she turned a little to the side to hide her blush from Blossom's prying eyes. "What do you mean? He's a good guy I guess." She said trying to sort out some of her own feelings about the subject.
Blossom looked half amazed and half furious, "Oh come on you can't say that you don't feel anything for him." She said
"Why should I?" Buttercup asked in a matter-of-factly tone of voice.
"Oh come one everyone saw the way you two looked at each other." Blossom stated
"We didn't look at each other he was just helping me up, after all he did just knock me for a loop." She said in an effort to divert suspicion. Deep down she did feel something but she wasn't even sure if Link felt the same way.
"Whatever, think what you want he's just a good friend." Buttercup said
"Good friend? We hardly know him!" Blossom stated
"Well we know that he likes soccer," Buttercup retorted, "and that makes him good in my book."
"Mm-hmm." Blossom hummed and then they waved goodbye at the intersection that separated Blossom's street from Buttercups and each went their own way. Buttercup entered into her house where her dad was teaching her brothers a new hold. "Awesome teach me that!" She said running into the room trying to clear her head from the conversation on the way home. "I'll teach ya!" her older brother stated grabbing her around the head.
Later that night Buttercup went into the bathroom where she stood in front of the mirror. She looked at her hair which looked kind of like a tangled mess even though she knew that it was well kept she started to feel like it wasn't and straightened it out just a little. When she left and started to head into bed she passed through the kitchen where her mother was putting most of the food away.
"Wow you look nice. Sooo…," she sat down and looked at Buttercup, "Who is he?"
"What!? Not you too!" She said putting her head between her hands, "I just thought my hair looked a little messy that's all!" Her father and two brothers looked in from the side of the door that led to the kitchen and Buttercup's mother gave the father a stern look.
"Eh! C'mon guys let's go for a run around the block!" The father said straightening up and putting his hand behind his neck.
"I'll go too!" Buttercup said trying to get out from under her mother's piercing eyes.
"No! Uh I mean… why don't you help your mother with the dishes?" he said trying to cover for the unseen conversation between him and his wife.
"But…" Buttercup started, "All right! See you two in an hour." Interrupted her father and ushered her brother's out the door amid strong protest on their part.
The house went quiet and Buttercup became aware that her mother hadn't turned from her, she couldn't hide it anymore.
"It's a new kid his name is Link." She said and waited for her mother to respond but she didn't so Buttercup continued, "We met him a few days ago when he was a new student. At first he was kind of closed but then it changed when he got on the soccer field. Him and I were the best ones on the field. Then he got amnesia and…," at this she saw her mother get a motherly worried look but she said nothing, "And well, he got scared and I helped to calm him down. I don't know what I feel about him but I feel happy when he's around and he's just…," Buttercup started to cry a little, "Who am I kidding? He'd probably want someone all girly like Bubbles or Blossom not some tom-boy like me."
"Come here." Her mother stated and walked into her room. There she reached up on the shelf and pulled down a couple picture albums. Buttercup had never really been interested in her family history but for some reason she felt like listening this time. He mother opened the one album to show a young boy holding the hand of his father outside on the steps of an apartment building.
"This was my father and that," she said pointing to the boy, "Was me!"
"What!? I thought that was a boy there!" Buttercup shouted and her mother laughed.
"Yes and most of my classmates thought so too." She stated
"But you're so girly now when did you change?" Buttercup asked grabbing the book and leafing through the pages.
"Well he happened." Her mother said pulling up the second album. Inside were all sorts of pictures of a very good looking boy in a variety of settings. "This is your father when he was young. He was the best looking boy in the class. All the girls wanted to ask him to the dances and the hang out places all over New Townsville. I of course had a secret crush on him too but I was sure that he had his eye on Sakura Nato who was claimed to be the best looking girl in the school. This continued for a few years where I would be watching all of your father's adoring fans from afar and just imagining one day I might be able to talk to him. I started to dress a little differently every day in an effort to get his attention, going to such extremes as wearing a full-on dress, all to no avail. All of this changed the night of the big homecoming dance. Everyone who was anyone was going and I was just going to skip it, you know because it was all girly, from behind me someone cleared their throat and I turned to see your father standing there with a bouquet of flowers, he asked me to the dance and then and there we became inseparable. When we got married I decided to hang up my jeans and accept the woman that I was."
Buttercup didn't even look up once during the whole story and she kind of stared at the page where her mother and father were holding hands going to the dance. The page became a little blurry and a small tear found it's way out of her eye and onto the side of the picture. Buttercups mother took her in a loving embrace, "Never think that you aren't good enough, that's not for you to decide it's for him and if he thinks there's something wrong well then he's missed a special occasion with a special girl."
"Thanks mom." Buttercup said hugging her mother from the side and wiping the tears from her eyes. "I'd better get to sleep I mean I have school in the morning." And she left her mother's room and walked into hers just as her brothers and father came walking through the door.
She lay on her bed thinking of that picture, it had given her hope maybe Link would like someone like her. She smiled and turned off the light anticipating the moment when she could go to school in the morning and see Link.
In the meantime Link stared out his window looking at the moon in the sky and thinking about the day's events. His thoughts turned to Buttercup for a bit but he shook it off silently rationalizing that she is too cool to want anything to do with him.
He felt a pang in his heart that actually kind of hurt and soon the pain spread to his limbs he looked at his hands which had started to grow black and silver fur. He felt his face and hair was rapidly growing all over his nose elongated into a snout.
Soon a silver and black twilight wolf stood where once the young Link stood and jumped out the window to the grassy knolls below.
Thanks everyone for continuing to read. Hopefully the story is interesting enough for you let me know if you have any ideas to put in when I do my future chapters and I might just include them, Ultima S. Next, A sticky situation.