Penny walked down the empty streets of Baltimore on a cloudy day heading to her boyfriends house. Where he was home sick in bed. She reached the record shop just when it started to sprinkle and was greeted by Maybelle and Inez. She walked to Seaweed's bedroom only to hear muffled voices of people arguing. So Penny pushed her ear to the door to listen better. But she still wasn't able to hear what they were saying. She carefully opened the door just enough so she could hear and see who was arguing with Seaweed. Only to see Tracy sitting on Seaweed's bed.
"Seaweed we have to tell them. They deserve to know." Tracy said as she looked on the verge of tears.
"I know baby. I just don't want to hurt them." Seaweed sat next to Tracy and put his arm around her. "We'll tell them tomorrow, together. That way they can comfort each other, Okay?"
"I don't want to hurt them ether but we have to do it." Seaweed smiles at Tracy and leans in and gave her a passionate kiss on the lips.
Penny could hardly believe what she was seeing she turned and started running. She passed Maybelle who was shouted something at her but Penny didn't stop. She ran with tear's running down her face blinding her vision. She was in so much shock that she didn't even know were she was going.
After awhile Penny fell to the ground from exhaustion. After she calmed her self down a little she started looking around, she had no idea were she was and it was starting to get dark. But Penny was so lost in thought she didn't notice any of that. All she could see was the image of her best friend kissing her boyfriend. Penny only snapped out of her thoughts when it started to pour.
She got up and continued walking down the street trying to find something she recognized. She was getting socked but kept walking until finally she saw a house she knew. There she was standing out side of Link Larkin's house. She didn't know if she should go and knock or just keep on walking. What would she do when she saw him, she would tell him what she saw. He didn't deserve that pain.
In the end logic won out, so she walked up to his door and knocked. It took awhile for someone to answer but finally Link opened the door to find a very sad and wet looking Penny.
She was going to tell him everything but the minute she saw him she just couldn't do it. It would hurt him to bad and she couldn't do that to him so she just stood there staring at him. "Penny, what are you doing here? Are you looking for Tracy cause she's not here?" A very shocked and confused Link asked.
Upon hearing Tracy's name Penny burst out in a new set of tears. Link wasn't expecting that. He just pulled her into a hug and tried to calm her down. "Shh it's okay. Come on little darlin' lets get you inside your soaked." He pulled her in side and sat her on the couch with a warm towel. He sat down next to her and started rubbed her back soothingly and waited until she calmed down. "What's going on Penny?" Link asked in a concerned voice.
She opened her mouth to speck but no words would come out. What was she suppose to tell him she couldn't tell him what she saw it would break his heart to find out what Seaweed and Tracy were doing. She didn't want him to feel the way she was feeling, no one deserves that. So she closed her mouth and shook her head. "You're not going to tell me?" She shook her head again. Still not able to form words. "Do you want me to take you home or to Tracy's?"
Finally she chocked out. "No." she said in-between sobs. "My mom can't… see me like this and I don't want to see Tracy right now. Can't I just stay here?"
"Well I guess." Link just couldn't refuse Penny right now she was so upset and vulnerable. "But wont your mom wonder where you are?"
"I'll tell her I'm staying with the preachers daughter she wont check."
"Why do you want to stay here? Why not stay with Seaweed?"
"We're fighting right now." She lied.
"Okay well you can take my room and I'll sleep on the couch."
"Don't you have to ask your parents?"
"Oh you don't have to worry about that little darlin' my dad's not here, he's going to be gone the whole week." Link showed Penny where his room was and gave her a tee shirt and sweet shorts for her to wear. She used the kitchen phone to call her mom. Then she said her goodnights to Link and went off to bed. Penny thought she wouldn't be able to sleep with the day's events running through her mind. But once she laid down she found Links bed very comfortable and the smell of him very relaxing and in minutes she fell fast asleep.