Link woke up looking around his small bedroom. Sighing he got dressed and fixed his hair. He was thankful he got his hair from his father instead of his mother, if he had gotten it from his mother then he wouldn't be able to slick it back even with all of the gel and hairspray he used. Even with all of his treatments he couldn't stop that one little hair on his forehead from curling.

"Levi, breakfast," His mother called and Link rushed down to greet her.

"Morning mom," Link said kissing her on the forehead.

Link loved his mom. She did all those things tat you'd see on TV. IN fact Mrs. Larkin liked to say she did everything that Samantha did without an ounce of magic.

"Morning, Levi," She said turning back to the stove.

"Mom, I'm going to be home a little late they're having auditions for the Corny Collins and I've got to be there," Link said picking up his breakfast to eat on the way.

"Okay just make sure you're home in time to take Joshua to his appointment," Link's mom said now placing a kiss on Link's forehead and shooing him out the door.

Link arrived at school 10 minutes early like always to finish his homework he didn't finish because of the show. When he got to his locker he noticed that there wasn't the usual group of girls lurking around trying to get a peek at him. Odd? Yes, but a relief nun the less, so Link let it go and walked to his homeroom, humming and thinking.

Link thought a lot, mainly about his little brother, who had a rare disease that Link quit trying to pronounce. Josh was okay most of the time but had to be taken to the hospital once a week for treatments.

Josh had been hospitalized a couple of times that year, but he always ended up okay and that was all that mattered to Link. He would do anything to make sure that Josh was okay, that's why he was even on that racist, sexist show that would probably kick him off if they found out he was Jewish. Josh loved to see him on TV, to be able to tell the nurses that his big brother was a TV star.

So Link danced, and sang, and even went out with that little spoiled princess Amber, just for his brother. Going with Amber was probably his biggest sacrifice, because you see Link didn't really like Amber, hell if he admitted it to himself he didn't really like girls at all. Link had only started dating Amber because her mother, not so subtly, threatened his position on the show if her baby didn't get what she wanted.

As Link walked down toward the detention room he noticed that a lot of the black kids were giving him sympathetic looks. Still not thinking much about it he smiled and walked on past. Coming nearer to his home room he noticed that everything seemed a lot tenser, and no one was looking directly at him. Still Link walked on thinking, no hoping, that something socially horrible had happened to Amber and that he might be in a position to break up with her.

When Link finally got into his room, he sat down at his customary desk near the back and toward the window. Link set to work on Math first figuring that he should start with second hours homework first, just as he was getting to the end he heard giggling outside the door. Closing his book quickly and stuffing it in his bag he waited for Amber and her cronies to come and sit down making him listen to their mindless drabble.

When they did enter the dreaded class they looked quickly over to Link, then before he could even send a fake smile their way, they turned and walked over to the other side of the class sitting near the front so that they were as physically far away from him as possible. Okay, now Link was getting that this may be about him, I mean he knows that people think he's a little slow but anyone with half a brain would have gotten it by now.

"Okay class quit down, start on your homework or shut up which ever one you want," Mr. Hensen said walking over to his desk and plopping down slipping the fedora over his eyes effectively going to sleep.

Link sat there pretending to doodle all alone in the corner that used to be considered popular, wondering why Amber and everyone else was sitting as far away from him as possible, why everyone was acting weird and why he someone had parked in his place this morning. Could they have figured out that he really didn't give a damn about what any of them thought? Did they figure out that he was the one that called the cops when they decided to terrorize the old couple in his neighborhood? Did they figure out about Josh?

All of these things while likely didn't explain why they weren't speaking to him anymore. If it had been about any of his misdeeds to the group then they would have surely yelled and raved and possibly tried to beat him up by now, but no they were just ignoring him treating him like the plague. This had to be something bigger, something that people wouldn't even confront, but what about Link could possibly apply to…

…they found out that he was…