-rose-colored glasses-
link/penny.
By Katie
a/n: Ah yes, the path less traveled. (: I think Link and Penny would be adorkable. Mainly just as friends, though. Not really romantic...
disclaimer: I don't own Hairspray. Sorry to disappoint.
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"Hey there, little darlin'. What's with the long face?" Link Larkin sat down next to Penny Pingleton at their 6th period Lunch.
"Hi Link. Oh, Seaweed and I just broke up." Penny sighed, picking at the crust on her peanut butter sandwich.
Her hair, which was usually pulled up into three perky ponytails, had been perfectly pulled down.
"Well don't be down, Penny. He'll realize what a fool he is soon enough for breaking up with you." Link replied sympathetically.
"But Link, he didn't break up with me. I broke up with him. And you know what? I'm sad because I'm not even sad." Penny replied as she twirled a lock of blond hair around her finger.
"...Pardon?"
"I mean, I'm just sad because I'm not even upset about breaking up with Seaweed. I thought I'd be more upset, but I'm not..."
Link ran a hand through his dark hair, his blue eyes beginning to cloud; "Pen, I know how you feel."
"You do?" she looked up, visibly surprised.
"Yeah. Pen, what would you say if I said that I wanted to break up with Tracy?" he said softly.
Penny looked positively, perpetually, prominently stricken. Her eyes cast a stunned-yet somewhat strange-glow. Link didn't know how she felt by her expression; except that she was very, very surprised.
"Penny? Still there, little darlin'?" he waved a hand in front of her face.
"I'd say...um...gee, Link, I don't know what I'd say...!" Penny said, slightly stuttering.
He sighed. This was Penny he was talking to. She could be...slightly, "dim" for lack of a better word.
"How about if I said I am going to break up with Tracy?"
"I'd say that Tracy would be very upset." Penny said, absently licking a dollop of peanut butter from her finger.
"But what would you think?" he gritted his teeth, trying not to sound extremely exasperate by her obliviousness.
"Me? Well...uh...um...would you like part of my sandwich?" she blushed.
He smirked; "Nah, peanut butter's not my scene."
She shrugged, the blush still pristinely present on her cherubic cheeks.
"Pen, you remember when we were little and your ma and my ma would drink rum and Cokes while we played in my tree house?" Link asked.
"Are you kidding? Play? You used to force me to do the jitterbug with you the whole time!" Penny's eyes widened in horror as Link laughed.
Link smiled, and Penny blushed again.
Okay. Maybe she did know why she wasn't sad about breaking up with Seaweed.
Link was the reason why.
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Don't yell at me for writing LP, okay? It's not my fault that they're cute!
Please review with something more than "loved it" or "so cute" or whatever, mmkay?