I am so so so so very sorry! Our computer was broke for a while. I was sick. We went out of town. I didn't have time. So I am getting this story back on track. Anyways, well, I don't have anything else to say. On with the story!

Growing up with a Girl Named Zelda

When we were nine

Back before Zelda and I was enrolled in the academy, we spent most of our time together. My father worked full time as a knight. Her father worked to keep the academy in order. My mother worked hard at the potions part of the market. And I'm not sure about her mother. But the point is that we never spent much time with our own parents, so we always hung out with each other.

But when I was nine, they introduced the Mini-Knight Academy. It was required for age's nine to twelve. So we both had to enroll. Five hours a day. Three days a week. Every week until you turn thirteen and either go to the academy or not. We would learn the basics of being a knight. It would give us a chance to decide if we wanted to or not. We learned to fight with fake swords. We trained every day by flying laps. But we usually stayed in the classrooms and learned about technique and history.

Every day we had this, Zelda and I would meet at the Market. She would convince me to go. I didn't like being around Groose that long, especially since he always beats me in the sword fights and Loftwing races. One day actually stood out in my mind, though.

"Link! Come on! You have to come to class today! We are going to learn how to properly groom our Loftwings!" Zelda said to me.

I leaned against the wall of the market. "Why? So Groose can be beat me at that too?"

She rolled her eyes at me. "Link, trust me. You will be the best knight someday. Better than Groose! I am sure of it!"

I smiled. 'Thanks, but I'd still rather not go today."

"Well," she looked around. "We could, just this once, cut class today!"

"Zelda, are you okay? You sound sick."

"Let's pretend I am! We can go hide at one of the far off islands. Come on. You need a day off!"

I thought about and then heard the dreadful school bell.

"Yeah, let's go!"

We snuck off and I stopped by my house to get some food. We jumped and flew to our island. We declared it ours. I still go there. Anyways, we had to fly high up to avoid anyone seeing us. After a while of flying, we made it. The island is fairly far from Skyloft.

"There it is, Link!" Zelda yelled.

We landed, and lied down in the grass.

I sighed in relief. "It feels good to be away for once."

Zelda agreed. "You needed a break."

"You did, too."

"Well, we both had to get away from Groose!"

We laughed. After that, we talked about general stuff and ate lunch. Two hours remained for class. We sat up, and she laughed at me.

"What?" I asked.

"You have butter right there." She took her thumb and rubbed it against the corner of my lips.

"Thanks."

"I saved you for embarrassment. You are welcome."

Her tone changed. "Link, we are best friends, right?"

"Of course we are!"

"And we can tell each other anything, correct?"

"Yeah. We can."

She leaned to me and put her mouth to my ear and whispered, "I like you, Link."

We were only nine, but started to like like each other.

"I like you, too, Zelda."

Then, we lied in the grass and held hands. We fell asleep. But we got caught.

We awoke to three knights yelling at us. "LINK, WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?"

"ZELDA, YOUR FATHER IS SO UPSET!"

"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD DITCH, LINK!"

"YEAH, YOUR FATHER IS A KNIGHT!"

We had to endure this for a couple minutes.

"Come on. We have to get you back to the academy."

The knights flew us back. And the instructor looked furious.

"We were looking everywhere. Link, your father is a knight. Zelda, yours is an instructor. I definitely didn't expect this out of you two."

"I'm sorry, Professor," Zelda said.

"Me, too."

He sighed. "Okay, here is you r punishment. We will redo the lesson right now. The whole five hours. And afterwards, you will be grooming the Knight Academy Loftwings."

I groaned. "All of them."

He nodded.

"Yes sir."

"Yes sir"

He said, "Alright, let's get started."

It was late when we finished. We started to walk home.

Zelda said, "That took a while."

"Yeah, it did."

"We shouldn't have ditched."

I smirked. "Why? You admitted you liked me."

Zelda turned red. "You did, too."

We reached my house.

"Yeah, I know I did."

"Good night, Link."

Without warning, I conjoined our lips for a split second.

"Good night, Zelda."

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