I ran through my living room to my bedroom after work, making sure to not be caught by either of my parents "watchful" eyes. I shut and locked my door so that neither one of them could get in before passing out on the beds sheets.

I woke up and got ready again.

As I was about to leave the house I heard my father's drunken call for me and then I was sent into a whole new level of pain.

I coughed as I collapsed to my knees in the park, using my hand to prop myself up and the other one to hold my stomach. I could hear someone running up behind me and tried to stop crying—really, I did try—but he/she/it got to me too soon.

"Dark," It was Link—greeat—and his voice was hurriedly concerned. "Dark, are you ok?"

Just as I thought I was going to black out, he rolled me onto my back and the sudden electric feeling kept me going.

"Dark, Dark, say something!" He was on the verge of tears and I suddenly wondered why; did I look as bad as I felt? Probably not.

"…Li…nk…"

He smiled slightly. "What happened? Why were you running-?"

I blacked out until the bus came.

"Dark, talk, please. You're scaring me; why were you running?" Link asked again and put his hand on my wrist.

"I'm sorry," Again with the apologies…

"Wha-? You're sorry, what for?"

"For scaring you," I paused a moment to lean back and shut my eyes… "And... I can't talk about it."

He sighed and smiled. "Good morning!"

Anything but, I rolled my eyes at my inward thought. "Yeah good morning."

"How'd you sleep?"

"Poorly you?"

"With my eyes shut." He remarked, giddily.

"I could've told you that." I rolled my eyes.

"Then why didn't you?"

I paused a moment. "Your right; why didn't I?"

I walked to first period alone after slipping away from Link and sat in my seat so that I could rest.

"I thought I'd find you here."

I jumped and hit my knee on the bottom of the desk. "Damnit! Who the hell is sneaking up on me-?"

"Me silly!"

I groaned and looked back, only to see the person I wasn't expecting.

"NABOORU!" I cried and stood up to pull her into a large hug. She hadn't changed much, her skin was still as tan as the desert-dwellers and my father's (which surprises me, my dad's a desert-dweller, too, yet I'm paler then the moon) and she still wore her puffy white pants and shirt that covered only her chest; on the other hand though, she now wore white lipstick and had on gold earrings, a gold choker, and a golden forehead-piece so that it brought out her gold eyes and red hair—that's when I realized that she was also wearing some orange and red eye shadow, too.

"Who'd you think it was, Zelda?"

"Oh hell no." I answered and winced at her hands on my back.

"Break it up, love birds." I heard a sarcastic voice say and looked up to see who I was expecting.

"Hiya." I grinned at him, but something didn't feel right with him calling us "love birds" something was just… out of place…

"Dark, we're not love birds!" Nabooru complained and pushed on my chest to get out of my grip.

"Not in front of company, darling," I joked with a large grin. "You know how much I don't like that!" I quickly leaned towards her and kissed her on the cheek, making her match my eyes.

"DARK, THAT'S NOT FUNNY!" She screamed as I laughed and while she rubbed the skin on her skin. "I'm still gay!"

"Yeah, and?" I remarked and winked.

She rolled her eyes and crossed her arms over her chest.

"What's going on here?"

"Link, this is Nabooru, she's an old friend of mine. Nabooru this is Link, he moved here a couple days ago."

"Nice to meet cha, Link!" She greeted like she always does.

"Where're you from, Naa?"

Naa… I like that…

"Gerudo Desert, you?"

"Hyrule City."

"Wow, you're a city kid?! I've never met a city kid before!" I found myself grinning; Naa had made a new friend. Suddenly her hand smacked down on my back and I cried out in pain as I fell to the floor.

"DARK!" She cried as I went into the fetal position.

"What's the matter, Dark-?" I must've startled her because when I slapped her hand away from me, she gasped.

"Do-Don't touch me." I gasped to the ground.

"Dark, what's wrong?" Link repeated in a concerned matter.

"Just…. Just do-don't touch… me." I ordered and managed to stand up, though every joint and muscle and, basically, cell in my body screamed bloody murder.

"Dark, tell us, we're here to help-"

I shook my head at Naa and sat down silently. "It's nothing, class is starting, and you'd better sit down."

And they did… Naa was diagonal from me and Link was to my right.

Damn.