I was looking forward to school. Who cares if Zelda and her cronies are there! Dark is waiting for me and I am pretty excited about that. I walked out my front door. Speak of the devil.

"I was just thinking about you." Dark blushed.

"Do tell." He gave me a flirtatious smirk. "Was it something I would enjoy." The tone of his voice made my stomach do flips.

"No." He frowned. "Not in that kind of way. I was just excited to see you." The grin on his face went from ear to ear. He strode up the front steps of my house and pulled me into a hug. Soon the hug was followed by a kiss. Not long after we broke from the kiss did he nuzzle his way into my neck. I felt my face grow red.

"Dark, what are you doing?"

"You smell so good, all the time." He pulled away and I couldn't help but notice how cold my neck felt. I had decided against the scarf. I felt I could finally face the world without it.

"Come on. I will give you a ride." His mischievous grin lured me in and any resistance to riding with him was gone.

I had never rode in Dark's car. It was a black Ferrari F12 Berlinetta. I knew Dark's family had a lot of money, but the car just proves my point. I was so caught up in my thoughts I didn't notice someone else was in the car.

"Dark." I tensed, the boy from the hallway. What was his name? Link.

"Yeah, Link." Yep I was right. Great.

"Is that the girl you always talk about?" It was an innocent question, or seemed like it, till the boy laughed. His laugh was filled with humor and something else. I couldn't place it, but it sounded like he was enjoying embarrassing Dark. I turned around in my seat as Dark pulled out of my driveway.

"Who are you?" He seemed taken by surprise when he saw my face. The boy, Link, dropped his jaw when he saw me. He seemed frantic.

"Are you ok? I heard about what happened." He blushed. "Zelda was boasting about it. I'm sorry. If I had known…" He looked like he was far away and I snapped my fingers to get him to come back.

"I would have stopped her. Zelda and I are childhood friends. She would have listened to me. If only I had known." I saw tears fill his eyes, but the look he had told me they were of rage.

"It is ok. It doesn't hurt too bad." Dark took a hand off the wheel and poked my stomach, making me hiss and slap him.

"Doesn't hurt. Yeah right. I bet it hurts like heck." His face was red and we started to speed up. I put a hand on his shoulder and he slowed once again, his face returning to normal.

"Please." He turned to look at me for a moment.

"Sheik. I just" Dark sighed. "It just makes me so scared to know that you wouldn't have told me." I tried to tell him that he was wrong, even though I knew he wasn't, but he stopped me. "No. I know you wouldn't have. But what if it was worse next time. What if she hurt you like that time when we met." I thought back to that moment. Sitting in a pool of my own blood.

"Goddess, Sheik! I was terrified. The girl I love won't even tell me when she needs help." I heard a gasp from the back seat, but ignored it.

"Dark. If I promise to tell you when Zelda has hurt me, will you calm down?" He nodded.

"And if you don't I get to have my way with you." I blushed, probably worse than any time before.

"Kidding." I signed. "Maybe."

"Dark!" I felt my face grow a deeper shade of red.

"What. I can't help myself. Your" He whispered the next words loud enough for me to hear. "Something I have wanted since the day we met."

I noticed we were at the school already. Dark turned to me and pulled me into an embrace. I heard a gasp again and the back door opened. Link must be embarrassed by the mushy stuff. I didn't get to think any longer because Dark had pulled me into a kiss.

"Mmmm." I smiled as we moved away from each other. "That was nice."

"I agree." We got out of the car and walked hand-in-hand into the school.