Chapter 8: Family Issues
If I had to pick out which days had passed the slowest for me in my entire life, I would have had to have gone with the time that I was waiting for my chance to go and pick up the other Links. Zelda had given me a pretty good idea of when would be the perfect time to go, so all that I had to do was wait. I did try to distract myself, though, with a sad attempt at schoolwork. However, even that ended badly. Every time that I even tried to focus on something other than the situation at hand, I failed miserably.
Knowing that that was rather unhealthy and that I actually had about a week left when I decided to so this, I went to visit some of my family because I knew that it would be some time before I would be able to see them again. Also, I was hoping that they would help out a little bit in distracting me. What actually happened, though, was totally different. My parents kept on getting upset at me over how my grades were falling and they wouldn't drop it. They kept on going on tangents about how I once had good enough grades to go on the annual trip to the tower of the gods and now, after going on said trip, my grades just plummeted.
I tried to tell them that it was complicated, but they wouldn't understand unless I told them the whole story. The problem was that I just couldn't do that. I knew that they would stop me from going any further in my quest… or they would try to help and only end up hindering everyone. Thankfully, my little sister, Aryll, was on my side and she told them to lay off a little bit. It didn't help the situation much, but I was glad that there was finally someone who accepted it without having to be told any bit of the story.
When I left their place, I came to the conclusion that that didn't help even in the slightest. In fact, they made me only more eager to continue the quest. It was at that point that I realized that I sounded like a video game protagonist in my attempts to continue. However, I simply shrugged it off as a part of an active imagination. After all, I couldn't be thinking about something like video games with all of the stuff that was surrounding me at that point.
Finally, though, the time came for me to meet up with the other two Links. I could only hope that they would be on schedule, like me. I remembered a little late, though, that knight Link didn't do cars very well. Therefore, I made sure to stop at a convenience store in order to get what was necessary for a tolerable trip. My only regret was that they got there before I did.