Zelda's Song Notebook

Zelink

Part one

Zelda sighed as she lugged the groceries in the front door. "I hate grocery shopping."

"Oh come on Zellie," Link, Zelda's best friend, laughed, pulling in some more grocery bags. "It's not that bad, I was there with you."

Zelda laughed and looked back at him. "Let's just move these into the kitchen and put them away so we can go up to my room…"

"Right." Link nodded. "To the kitchen!"

Zelda laughed as Link passed her, one hand in the air, and she ran after him. "You're so weird!"

She could here Link laugh and he slowly stopped, placing the grocery bags on the counter.

Zelda shook her head and continued to walk to the kitchen.

"Hey, where's your mom?" He asked her as soon as she made it to the kitchen at the back of the house.

"She's out with my dad and my aunt on a little vacation." Zelda answered, taking the contents out of the bag.

"Why didn't you go?"

Zelda froze. She didn't even think of why they left her. She just let them go, not even thinking of why they didn't take her. She suddenly tried to cook up an excuse to give him. "Umm, they said they wanted to have a siblings vacation?"

"Then why didn't your uncle go?" Link asked, seeing clearly that the response was a lie. "Come on, Zel, don't lie to me, you can tell me anything."

Zelda froze once again. "Uhh, to tell you the truth, I don't know, but I'm sure there was a good reason!"

Link nodded and began to put away the things in his bags. "I know there is, your parents wouldn't just leave you here alone for nothing."

Zelda nodded and moved to her other bag and poured the contents out onto the counter. "I guess."

The two continued to put away everything in silence and quickly finished.

"Alright, you wanna head up to my room?" Zelda asked, looking at her best friend who had just finished putting away a box of cereal.

"Sure." He answered with a smile. The 16 year old hadn't been to Zelda's new room yet, she had moved rooms and had it redone. She had wanted him to see it for a while but he was always busy with basketball and his band practice (that Zelda always went with him to, to hear him and watch him play.)

Zelda grinned excitedly and grabbed his hand and started to pull him up the stairs they had just gotten carpeted, another new thing Link hadn't seen.

They got up to the second floor and entered the hallway. As soon as they got up, there was bathroom a little further down to their left and then a room right across from it, which used to be Zelda's room.

Down a bit further on the left was the closet Zelda's coats and old clothes and toys were in and then at the end of the hallway on the right was the extra room that Zelda now lived in and the door stood out tremendously. Her door was a dark purple with a few music notes on it and green vines that were painted around the corners.

Link smiled and laughed. "Nice door. But the hallway doesn't match."

Zelda laughed and slapped his arm. "I wanted my door to be different. And my parents said it was okay sense it was all the way down the hall, and upstairs. And company normally never comes up here, just friends. So, they let me."

Link nodded and walked down the hall towards her door. He had a idea of what he'd see inside just by the door. And It made sense, her two favorite colors where green and purple.

Zelda ran ahead of him and quickly reached her door. She smiled to him and turned the knob.

Link finally got all the way down the hall and she opened the door. Link's mouth dropped.

The walls where dark purple with green dots spread out across them all. Some music notes and staffs where spread around the room as well and she had some words painted on the walls, also, like: Music, Singing, Inspiration, Courage, Wisdom, Power; and some others. Her desk was purple a little lighter then the walls. Her bed spread was green with purple music notes in a pattern across. She had a few drawings hung on the wall and the biggest one was actually a picture.

Link remembered when the picture was taken. It was taken a year or two ago. Zelda and Link's families when on vacation to the beach and their last day there, the hotel took a picture of them before they went out to the water the last time. Link laughed when he saw his little sister, Aryll, with her sunburn on just her nose cause she refused to put sunscreen on her nose.

He turned and looked at Zelda's dark purple dresser and went to look at the pictures she had. One was of Zelda when she was on the cheerleading squad in Kindergarten. She absolutely hated it and never joined again.

The second one was her 6th grade yearbook picture. She was really pretty in it and Link had to admit, it was the best picture of her.

The third one was one Link took of her when she came to band practice one day. She was smiling with her eyes closed and her notebook pressed to her chest so he could see what was inside. Link loved that picture.

He slowly looked at the last one and almost busted out laughing when he saw which one was in there. It was a picture her mom took when they where in the 8th grade. She made them hold hands and smile while they were eating ice-cream at the park. Link started to blush and was looking over at Zelda. Zelda was smiling and then quickly, before the picture was taken, stuck her ice-cream cone in his face. Link sighed and turned around.

Her room definitely looked like something Zelda would put together.

"Sooo…" Zelda rocked back and forth on her feet. "What do you think?"

Link looked over to her. "It's awesome!"

Zelda smiled and nodded her head. "Good!" Her smiled then faded a little. "Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go use the bathroom." She laughed nervously and waited for Link's response.

"Okay, take your time. I'm gonna explore your room some more." Link said as she started to walk out.

Link started to look around and sat down on the bed, inspecting the room like a critic.

While Link was looking around, he spotted a little blue notebook. Link recognized this notebook to be the one Link saw Zelda write/draw in during his band practice.

He bent down and picked it up and out of curiosity, he opened it.

To his amazement, Link saw there where lyrics. He thought she was drawing, but really she was coming up with her own songs. Link started to read them and then turned the page. They were pretty good…

"No wonder she wouldn't join the band. She wanted to write her own stuff…" He said to himself.

Link could here the toilet flush and he quickly closed the song notebook and dropped it back into the floor where it was before.

As if one cue, Zelda walked in, waving her hands in the air to dry them off from washing them. "Sorry 'bout that." She apologized and then sat down next to him on the bed.

"No, It's fine." Link said normally. He tried to keep his curiosity down about her notebook but it wouldn't stay down for long. He wanted to know why she kept that a secret.

"Hey Zel, Do you ever write?" He asked. As soon as it came out, he wished he kept it in.

Zelda froze and looked to the ground. "Why do you ask?"

Link caught his voice in his throat and then he looked down also. "Just curious, sorry I-"

"You opened my notebook, am I right?"

Link looked up and saw her eyes burning into his. She was obviously mad, but something about her showed joy, or excitement. Link got a bit confused by that, but let it slide.

"Maybe…" Link whispered and looked down. "But if you could do that, why didn't you tell me you could!?"

Zelda let out a laugh. "I didn't really want you to know yet."

Link looked at her confused again. "Why not?"

"Cause… I thought you'd go off and show Darunia, Saira, Malon, and Pipit, but I don't want them to see it… Not that I don't like them! I just don't want anyone to know…" Zelda explained quietly.

"Zel…" Link sighed, moving closer to her. "If you don't want me to tell them anything, you could just say so. Your secret is safe with me."

Zelda looked up and smiled. "Thanks."

"You're Welcome." Link put his right arm around her shoulder. "That's what friends are for, Right?"

Zelda scooted closer to him and rested her head on his chest. "Thanks Link. You really are sweet."

Link chuckled and then moved his arm from her shoulder, standing up. "Okay, now it's time to go to my house real quick!" He smiled and pulled Zelda up. He bent down and grabbed her notebook and headed for the door.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. What?" Zelda asked, pulling the back of his shirt which caused him to walk backwards towards her and fall back down onto the bed.

"Yeah, I wont tell anyone, but we are putting this to music." Link stated and grabbed her hand and the book, pulling her up and out the door.

"What?!" Zelda's eyes widened. "No! You're not reading it!"

Link turned around and let go of Zelda's arm. "I read the beginning already…" He whispered. He looked down to the book and smiled. "Why? Is this also a diary?"

Zelda narrowed her eyes and put her hands on her hips. "No! I just don't want you reading it!"

Link nodded and then quickly opened the book to a random page.

"Give it!" Zelda cried, reaching for it, but Link turned around. "Link!"

Link continued to read. "Looks like Zellie's got a little crush."

Zelda's face turned red and she continued to try and get it.

Link gladly handed it to her and then walked back into her room as she ran the threw it in her closet.

"Who is it, Zel?"

"No one." She mumbled out as she turned and closed the door.

"Come on Zel, I saw the words handsome, cute, love, and blue eyes. Who is it?"

Zelda looked down and folded her arms cross her chest "No. One."

Link walked up and her and stood really close to her. He quickly trapping her to the wall and made her jump. That was what he normally did when he was serious about getting the information she had, out of her.

"Come on Zel." He pleaded, looking straight into her eyes.

Zelda turned her head. She harshly pushed him back successfully. "Fine. Let's go to your house." She ran to her closet and grabbed her book.

Link watched her leave the room quickly and he chased after her. "Eh." He shrugged his shoulders. "I'll get it out of her at my place…"