After Zellie stormed off, all upset like that, Link went inside, sitting down on his bed and putting his head in his hands.
"What have I done..." I heard him muttering to himself. "This wasn't supposed to happen...none of this was supposed to happen..."
I awkwardly laughed a bit, trying to lighten the mood. "Well at least we know she likes you...unless she wouldn't have reacted like that..."
He looked up at me, glaring a bit. "At this point I really don't care if she likes me or not...I don't think you understand...did you not see the way she looked at us, well at me...it was like she was looking into the face of a monster...it was a look of pure mortification...Peach...I've never seen her look at someone like that before...and to know that I'm the first person I've seen her look at like that makes me feel worse..."
He turned away from me to look out the window and try to camouflage his hurt.
"Listen, Link...I know she wouldn't want to talk to us right now but there may be one person she might actually listen to. Link...we need to find Toon Zelda...she might be our only hope of getting to her..."
He looked back at me, a hopeful look spreading across his face. "You think it could work?"
"Well it could...but I give you no guarantees..."
"That's good enough for me..."
~~A Little Bit Later~~
About an hour passed and I still couldn't find Toon Zelda. I was losing hope and was beginning to turn back to break the bad news to Link, just as I saw the bottom of her dress as she disappeared around the corner at the end of the hallway.
I raced the rest of the way down the hall, bumping into people as I went and mumbling apologies to them, trying to catch up to her a best as I could. When I finally caught up to her she stopped for a second and turned around to look at me, glaring a bit.
"What do you want. Don't think I don't know what you did to Zelda. If only you could see her right not...oh that's right...she doesn't want to see you..." she replied a little snottily, crossing her arms and narrowing her eyes at me.
"I know she may not want to see me but I was hoping I could talk to you...just because she may not talk to me at the moment doesn't mean you won't...right..." I replied, kinda pleading her to let me get a chance of redemption.
"I don't know...why should I listen to what you have to say..."
"...well you should probably listen to what I have to say because you only heard one side of the story...and what you heard was not what actually happened..."
She took a moment to consider everything I just told her before simply said "Ok. But we can't talk here...let's go back to Link's room...I think maybe he'll also like to explain."
We walked back to the room in silence and when we opened the door I found Link in the same position as when I left, still with his head in his hands, he looked up as the door was fully opened.
"Ok" she said once we finally got into the room and closed the door quickly behind her. "What happened..."
I looked towards Link. "Would you like to explain...or do you want me to..."
"I'll do it..." he began, turning to Toon Zelda. "So what happened was that I was thinking of confessing to Zelda...and I decided to get Peach's help on figuring out what to say since she knows her more than anyone else. The thing is Zelda must've overheard what we said and assumed that I was confessing to Peach...causing her to react the way she did..."
"So that's all that happened...that's the full story" she asked suspiciously.
"Yea..."
"So you don't actually like Peach?"
"Ew. No, to be honest Peach is way too dependent on people, no offense Peach..."
I have to admit...it's pretty offensive but I guess it's actually true, I kinda do depend on people a lot...
"And Peach...you don't like Link?"
"No. I already know that Zellie likes him, and besides, he's like a brother to me."
"So you two never liked each other..."
"No" we both blurted out at the same time.
"...and this was all just a big misunderstanding..."
"Yea...a very crazy and confusing one" I said looking a little more hopeful now. "So do you think you can talk to her for us since she won't listen to a word we say?"
"Well...I make no promises but...I'll see what I can do...hopefully this is all sorted out by tomorrow..." she replied standing up and heading out the door. "Wish me luck guys..."