Silence ✔️

• Ten

School rolled around again, and the students who actually enjoyed it and cared for it rose out of bed effortlessly. Others drug themselves out of their beds and homes, but only because they were required to. No one actually wanted to go there.

Link sat with his old buddies today for some reason at lunchtime. He wanted to sit with Zelda and Midna again, but his friends insisted they hang out with him. So, he obliged to their words, sitting down at their table and picking at his food.

Nobody was talking to him, so why was he here again?

Heaving a sigh (he seemed to do that a lot), Link just ate his food in silence, trying to ignore the screaming and shouting that emitted from every direction.

Seconds later, Zelda entered the cafeteria, rushing over to the table she usually sat at with Midna. When she sat down, she flashed a grin at Midna.

She was wondering where Link was.

Midna had suspected this by the brunette's confused facial expression, so she pointed over to the table where Link was sitting. Zelda stared at his back, wondering why he decided to sit there instead of her.

Not that she cared. She should be glad that he's not sitting near her. Link is annoying and mean.

Zelda cursed herself for wishing he was sitting here.

Some good came out of this. Lana decided to sit next to Link, many seats away from where Zelda and Midna were sitting. So, that was a very good thing.

"Lana is really annoying," Zelda signed to Midna, rolling her eyes.

Midna nodded and signed a quick yes of agreement.

The two girls ate their lunch quietly, not really talking much today. Zelda was constantly debating whether or not she should go over to Link and invite him over. It would be easy, really. She didn't have to sign it out. Easily, she could gesture him over to their table with just hand motions. And even if his friends laughed at her, she could ignore it better than others, because she couldn't hear the noise that Midna says is sickening. Also known as, people laughing directly at you. Zelda didn't want to imagine what that sounded like.

But, the other half of Zelda didn't want to go through with this. After school, she could find Link and hang out with him for a little bit then. She didn't have to converse with him at lunchtime.

The debate in her head lasted too long, longer than she thought. Midna tapped Zelda's shoulder, pointing to the door. Zelda looked over and saw that all the students began to pile out of the room.

Sighing, Zelda grabbed her almost empty tray of food and dumped the excess in the trash can, placing her tray on top of it along with the others.

Walking to her next class, she spotted Lana and Link. Lana was talking to him again, not that Zelda minded. Lana was annoying, but that didn't mean she had no rights to talk to Link. It just aggravated Zelda for a reason she couldn't comprehend.

As Zelda opened her locker, she stole glances at the two talking. Lana was leaning against the wall as Link stood beside her, just nodding as she chatted up a storm. Clearly, he wasn't paying any attention and looked bored out of his mind, but that didn't seem to concern Lana.

Zelda felt pity for Link. Not a feeling she expected to feel towards him.

Placing herself in the situation was easy, and she realized how annoying that would be. She herself had never experienced something like that, but she could tell it wasn't pleasant. Lana's voice was probably squeaky and annoying, anyway.