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The only thing I could see was him and Ruto, playing and replaying, over and over in my head. It was the most horrible nightmare I had ever had. The strong scent of coffee woke me up and my eyes fluttered open. I was confused to see that I was not in my own apartment, but that I somehow managed to get into Midna's instead. I rubbed my eyes with my fists and sat up on her purple couch.
"Zelda! Good Goddess! You're awake," Midna said, dashing over to me. She sat next to me and put an arm around my shoulder, pulling me closer.
"How did I end up here?" I asked.
"Sheik brought you," Midna said, avoiding my gaze.
"How?" I asked again.
Midna sighed. "Well, he saw you and you looked very upset. You mumbled some things that didn't really make sense, and you started yelling at him and then he kind of shut you up by hugging you and taking you here."
"I yelled at him? Sorry..." I said.
"That's ok, you can apologize later, he'll be here in a couple of hours. He stayed here to sleep too, but he went to the store to fetch some things for me," Midna explained.
"Oh. Ok," I sighed.
"But Zelda... What happened?" Midna asked hesitantly.
And that's when it hit me again like a hammer. I looked at Midna and tears started to well up into my already puffy eyes.
"Oh honey..." Midna said, soothing me. "If you're ready for it, you can tell me, ok?"
I nodded. "He… he cheated on me Midna." There, I said it out loud. There was no going back. He had cheated on me. That was the very truth.
"Wait what?" Midna yelled indignantly. "Link did what?!"
"I was returning him the book and his door was open and I saw him kissing with that crazy Zora girl, Ruto... I just- I-" I started to sob again and threw myself into her arms. She was rubbing my back to comfort me, whilst making soothing sounds.
I suddenly felt really exhausted. I told Midna and she told me that it would be better to go to sleep for a little longer, since I apparently didn't catch much sleep last night. Midna told me that I had been just staring ahead of me and that I only fell asleep out of pure exhaustion. I nodded at Midna's advice and lay down on her couch again.
"Try to clear your head for a little while, honey," Midna said, patting my head softly.
I fell asleep pretty quickly, figuring that what Midna had said was true. A couple of hours later, I woke up again, and I couldn't help but overhear the conversation Midna and Sheik were having.
"I swear that's what she said!" Midna hissed.
"I don't know, Link would never do anything like that!" Sheik hissed in response.
"I know, but I've known him just as long as you have Sheik, and I believe Zelda!"
Sheik sighed. "I know she probably wouldn't be lying about something like that, but I just can't believe it. I mean Link's my best friend, something must have gone wrong."
"Very wrong, yeah. I mean, what was wrong with him? He knew Zelda loved him to pieces. And she thought he loved her back like that. I repeat, what the hell was wrong with him? What was he thinking?!"
"I don't know Midna... I honestly don't..." Sheik admitted.
Midna sighed. "What do we do?"
"I don't know. He tried to call me a dozen times, but I didn't want to answer until I knew what had happened. And now I do know, I can't reply! I can't say like 'hey, what the heck dude?' Can I?"
"You can! And he called Zelda at least a hundred times; it was so bad I had to shut her cell phone off," Midna said.
"It's just so weird. I still honestly can't believe it. He is my best friend! I can't imagine him doing something like that. And why the hell with Ruto? He knew she liked him since we were little and that she was a bit crazy and a big drama queen. I just don't get it Midna..." Sheik sighed desperately.
"Me neither," Midna sighed too.
Suddenly someone knocked at the door. Someone went to open it, presumably Midna, since I heard her heels tapping on the floor. I decided this was a good moment to wake up so I slowly sat up again. She opened the door and immediately threw it back onto the lock. But it was too slow; I had already seen who was standing there. He looked awful. He still wore the same clothes as yesterday, and he had massive bags under his eyes. He clearly hadn't slept for a while. For a couple of seconds I just wanted to throw myself into his arms but that feeling was quickly taken over by the strong sensation of anger and sadness.
"Who was that?" Sheik asked.
"No one," Midna hissed angrily, gritting her teeth.
Sheik stood up and walked over to the door.
"Don't open it," Midna commanded him.
"Why not?" Sheik asked.
"Because it's him!" she tried to whisper.
And that's when I heard him. "Please Midna! Let me in! I know she's in here! Please, I just want to explain it to her!" he pleaded desperately.
I looked up when I heard the sound of his voice but Midna shook her head at Sheik, who looked a bit guilty.
"He doesn't even deserve to know how bad she's doing," she muttered.
Poor Sheik, he probably felt like he was betraying his best friend. But he would do anything for Midna.
"What do you want to do now?" Sheik asked.
"Let's just wait until he goes away," Midna sighed, clearly annoyed.
Now I even felt more awful. I didn't want them to argue because of me.
Midna was right. After half an hour of desperately pleading and pounding on the door, Link left, probably knowing Midna wasn't going to open up. I didn't want to see him anyway. I didn't even know if I was angry or sad. I think I was just a wild mix of both.
"Thanks by the way," I said to Sheik.
He smiled a bit, clearly tired. "That's ok Zelda. I just did what I had to do."
"I'm also sorry I freaked out so bad,"
"It's ok Zelda, really. And well, you had a pretty good reason to be so freaked out."
"It wasn't over the top?" I asked. Now I thought back, I didn't want to say I overreacted, not at all, I had a damn good reason to do so, but I just felt so bad. I still did, actually.
"What? No, of course not!" Midna interrupted.
"Thanks," I sighed. I already knew I wasn't going to get much sleep this week, or food, or anything at all. I just didn't want to do anything. The only thing I wanted to do was to curl up in a small corner and cry all day. I felt horrible. It was like a piece of me was missing. I was angry at myself, to be honest. I didn't understand how I ever could have fooled myself so much; by thinking he had been so perfect. I had to know it was way too good to be true. I guess I just wanted to have true love for once...
