"C'mon, let's get the hell away from here," I said, grabbing his hand in mine.
"Alright," He nodded and I noticed the slight blush on his face as Vaati snuck up the fire escape and disappeared again—he's always doing that! We were out of that alleyway before Vat got to the second story.
"So, where is it we're going?" Link asked, clearly trying to keep his head off of Skull—I don't blame him.
"You'll see."
"Why won't you tell me?" He whined.
I smirked and rubbed the top of his head. "There, there, little bunny. No need to get fired up over nothing."
"Did you just call me a bunny?"
"It's a long story." I muttered and looked the other way as we turned the corner in time to see a bus in the distance. "Cool, we're right on time."
"On time for what!"
"What's got you so antsy?" I teased and pulled him over to the bus stop.
"You! Why won't you tell me where we're going?!"
I laughed lightly. "Do you trust me?"
His face darkened lightly. "Y-Yeah, why?"
"Then you have nothing to worry about." I answered as the large blue-panted bus pulled up to us. I pulled him up and paid for the both of us before pulling him to the back of the car.
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"Are we there yet?" He whined and I chuckled lightly.
"Yeah, we're here." I said as we stood up and got off of the vehicle and he looked around, seeing nothing but sand as the bus drove off.
"Where are we?"
"Turn around," I said and watched as he did so. "Welcome to Lake Hylia; it's not the beach but it's the closest we have in this part of the land."
He blinked a few times and saw the crystal blew lake set off by the white ripples from the sun and the green reflection from the grass on the small island in the middle of the lake. All over the water it was glistening bright yellow-green hue with a few random peaks of pink from the reflection of the wildflowers growing on the top of the gorge.
He blinked a few times noticing the single tree in the middle of the small island before turning to me. "Why'd you bring me here?"
"Last week you said that you missed being able to sneak away and go to the beach." I shrugged. "This is the closest we have out in the country."
"It's beautiful," He commented, looking around. "Hey, where's the road?"
"Its dirt," I replied, pointing to the dirt road. "The Zora's got mad the moment the city even mentioned thinking about putting asphalt down here, so we had to agree on something—that something turned out to be a dirt road."
He blinked. "Zora's?"
Chuckling a little, I shook my head. "They're the people that dwell in these parts. They're princess is a close friend of mine, if we see her, I'll introduce you to her, alright?"
" 'Kay." He agreed and we walked down to the water.
I faced him and grinned. "Race you to the island."
"You're on." He agreed and we both practically tore our shirts off and our sandals before swimming out to the middle island. We tied.
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"Dark Link! What're you doing here?"
Link and I both perked as we turned to see the blue skinned woman swimming up to us. She had an almost hammer-head like blue-green hairstyle to go with the ripple effect on the fins growing out of her elbows and hips. Her toes were webbed and her shoulders had more of a ripple effect than her fins did and her blue-green eyes with a red hue matched the diamonds that were attached to her ear lobes.
"Oh, hey, Ruto, I didn't know you were out of council today."
"Yeah, I just got out," She smiled and turned to Link. "I'm Princess Ruto of the Zora's, and you are…?"
"I'm Link." He smiled as they shook hands part way underwater.
"Ruto and I go way back. When we were younger I ran away and fell into the river that flows into the waterfall that goes into their Domain. To put it simply the king wasn't too happy until we met." I shrugged a bit. "We just clicked."
"You ran away?"
"You heard my dad," I answered and got him to pale slightly before he went back to Ruto. "So, you're a Princess?"
She nodded. "You must be the Link that Zelda's always going on about."
He blushed. "Well, Zelda and I are kind a close, I guess."
"You know Princess Zelda?" I asked half shocked.
He nodded. "Yeah, we're cousins."
"Well, never saw that coming," I mumbled under my breath.
"Nobody does," He shrugged.
"So, how're you related?"
"Our moms were twins."
I nodded and grinned—this was going to be a weird day… I'd say relationship, but I know what happens tomorrow.
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We waved on the shore as Ruto waved and ducked underwater.
The bus drove up as I pulled my shirt on over my chest and started up again.
"Hey, Dark,"
I looked back at him. "Yeah?"
"How far away is town?"
"I dunno, maybe ten, fifteen up to twenty minutes on foot."
He put his hand in mine and said, "Let's walk."
I nodded and felt as he wrapped his arms around mine and leaned against me.
"Hey, Link," I said once the sun had set completely and we were walking into town.
"Yeah?" Déjà vu anyone?
"Happy One-month Anniversary."
He blinked up at me. "You knew?"
"Course I did." I grinned at him, lightly. "Naa still hasn't stopped texting me about it."
He looked at me and held onto me tighter. "Happy One-month anniversary."
"C'mon, I'll walk you home." I said at last and watched as he nodded and clung to me a bit more.
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I kissed his cheek before watching him go inside and turning around to go back home—at the time, I had no clue that would be the last time I'd see him in a happy setting…