As the last measures of You Can't Stop The beat ended Penny Pingleton looked around and smiled. She was happier than she had been in her whole entire life and she had finally made peace with her mom. Penny never thought that would happen but it had. Her mother, Prudy Pingleton, had finally accepted that Penny was dating a colored boy. As she looked at her mom Penny looked down and saw her sister, Polly, who was also smiling more than she had in her entire life.

When the song was finally over Penny saw her friend Tracey was kissing Link Larkin, the only boy Tracey had ever loved. It made Penny happy to know that everything had worked out.

That's when she heard the voice "Penny?". Penny turned around to see a man about the same age as her mother. This man had brown hair and brown eyes with glasses in front of them. Penny was almost speechless but said the first thing that came to her mind "Dad?".

And with that the whole room seemed to be staring at Mr.Pingleton.

"Patrick?" It was Prudy who was first to talk after the awkward silence she seemed shocked to see her husband (who she thought was still in jail) standing right in front of her. Out of instinct she grabbed her younger daughter by the hand. But the girl wouldn't budge. "Dad?" was all she could say.

You see Polly didn't know her Father was in Jail. For as long as she could remember her mother had told her that her father had died when she was a toddler. So for Polly the whole idea was confusing. "Yeah it's me." Patrick began "I'm so sorry I haven't wrote but … I didn't think you really wanted to talk to me after everything I've done. And all I can say is that I'm sorry. And I hope you can forgive me." With that Mr. Pingleton threw open his arms hoping his daughters would hug him. Penny ran into her fathers embrace so quickly no one really saw her move but just saw her in one spot and then the other.

As Polly ran to hug her father the hand of her mother pulled her back. As everyone looked at Prudy they could tell she was going to go even crazier than when she learned Penny was dating Seaweed. "Patrick Andrew Pingleton! How dare you come back here expecting us to just come running back to you like we've forgotten everything you've done! You know I hate you. More than I've ever hated anyone and if you try to come in contact with either Polly or I, I will have you arrested.".

The whole room fell silent no one had ever seen Prudy explode like that before. To most people she seemed a weird overly religious person but usually calm. But before anyone could say anything Prudy almost ran out of the studio with Polly whose hand she was still holding.

"Well that went much better than I expected." said Mr. Pingleton.