Author's Note: Hey Guys!!!

Whew!
I am so glad I am done moving and all settled in.

I know this chapter took a while to get out, but thanks for being patient!

I have been busy this whole week packing and unpacking.

And I had no Internet or time to write:( And haven't been getting much inspiration.

So I'm glad to be back and I will be back to my regular updates, every 1-3 days.

I know the last chapter was horrible in my opinion!

I wrote it in 30 minuets with only that much time to spare, so I apologize for that pathetic excuse for an update!

This chapter has some important plot foundation in it.

And plenty of drama and angst.

Which,if you haven't guessed already...I love!

I still didn't have much time to update, so this isn't really, really long.

School is kicking my butt.

Once again thank you guys so much!

Heres the long awaited..Chapter 8!

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"Trace. We need to talk, really talk." Link said intently.

His hand was tightly grasped around hers.

His pulse pumping rapidly.

Tracy 's eyes narrowed and she got a look of apprehension.

A slight gleam of hope entered her body, but at the same time fear was there.

Maybe he was finally ready to talk about what happened between the two of them.

"Um..ok, about what?" Tracy asked a little to eagerly.

Link's insides jumbled around a bit, ok a lot.

He looked down at her contemplating on where to start.

There was so much to talk about, so much left unresolved.

"Trace, I've been dancing and singing on the show for almost 2 years, and Amber's mom said there was going to be agents at the Miss Teenage Hairspray Competition. Trace thats my big shot, if I go to that march..my chances are ruined." Link replied simply.

"Is that all you care about?! Yourself?" Tracy said with a look of disgust and yanked her hands from his. Tracy knew she had to talk to him about that night, now.

"Link, do even think about that night!? What we did. What was said?!"

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I'm holding on your rope

Got me ten feet off the ground

And I'm hearing what you say

But I just can't make a sound

You tell me that you need me

Then you go and cut me down

But wait...

You tell me that you're sorry

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Didn't think I'd turn around and say..

Link's eyes widened in fear. A thin line of sweat covered his brow.

"O—of course I do." He replied meekly. Tracy rolled her eyes. His tone raised.

"Why are you so hung up on it!? It was one night!" He shouted throwing his hands in the air.

Tracy scoffed in disbelief.

"Have you even tried to figure out why I'm acting the way I am, or maybe try to understand how I'm feeling!?" Tracy yelled.

"No. I don't understand why your acting this way! I already apologized!"

"Yah. You apologized..for sleeping with me!" Tracy stated coldly.

"Well isn't that what your so upset about!?" Link asked obliviously.

"No Link,no it isn't. In fact if you haven't noticed I'm not mad about that at all, I even said that I wasn't mad about that already!"

"Just tell me whats wrong! Tell me what I screwed up this time!" He shouted back slightly enraged but he tried to maintain some kind of compassion.

"Don't you get it...I love you Link. I always have." She said tears filling her eyes as she choked on them.

She couldn't hold her feelings in any longer.

It was eating her up inside.

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It's too late to apologize, it's too late

I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late

I'd take another chance, take a fall, take a shot for you

And I need you like a heart needs a beat

But that's nothing new

Yeah yeah

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As soon as she said this she shrugged softly and lowered her head not wanting to see Link's reaction.

"Wha—what?" Link asked breathlessly. His heart stopped but his stomach did this flip as he felt tears sting his eyes as well.

"No—Trace you can't." He said shaking his hands and head.

She looked up at him skeptically.

"Yes Link. You need to know that—that night you hurt me so much, and not because you slept with me,but because you lied to me. You told me all these beautiful things. You said you loved me. You wanted me. You needed me. Do you know how much that hurt to finally think that we might have a chance to be together, and then you go back with Amber!?" Tracy's voice boomed with full of emotion and pain.

Salty tears were now flooding out of her eyes and she was finding it very hard to catch her breath.

Link looked at her sympathetically and took a step towards her.

She shook her head and took a step back placing her hands in front of her.

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I loved you with a fire red, now it's turning blue

And you say

Sorry like an angel, heavens not the thing for you,

But I'm afraid

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"I—I..." Link started but couldn't even began to finish.

"No Link! I can't keep doing this! I do everything for you! I'm always here, making you feel better giving you everything I have and all I want from you in return is love." Tracy stated melancholy.

This caused Link's heart to break. Again.

"Tracy I can't." Link said desperately trying to believe the words he was speaking.

"You can't?! If you can't then stop coming to me like this and lying about stuff that I care so much about!" Tracy shouted afflicted by his actions.

"I'm not lying, I didn't lie to you that night! Everything I said...was well true." Link stated grieved fiddling with his hands staring back at her deeply.

"Then why...why can't you just be honest with me and tell me how you really feel?" Tracy said softly.

"Because...Well, something happened, something I can't even began to believe still." Link said with a troubled expression playing on his face.

"What happened?" Tracy asked inquisitively. At that moment Penny walked in the room.

She knew it was wrong but she decided to eavesdrop.

But Link and Tracy were to into their heated confrontation to notice.

"Amber...she's um..well. Pregnant. I'm gonna be a dad..." Link turned bright red and lowered his head and voice.

Tracy gasped, her eyes darted all around the room.

"Wh—what!?" Tracy asked horrified.

"Oh Trace I don't know what to do!" Link yelled defeated trying to walk towards her again.

She denied him again.

"Wait, wait, wait I get it, your here telling me this so I can comfort you and make it all better, than you go back to Amber right? Acting like nothing happened between us." She laughed bitterly.

"Good plan Link, its so original. And what did you sleep with her the same day you slept with me?" She said sarcastically her eyes burning with anger.

Link was speechless.

"Sorry Link but thats not gonna happen this time. Your not hurting me again." She said miserably.

"Tracy stop ok!? I have enough to worry about right now! I just need my best friend again!" Link shouted fiercely.

"God Link! Your so goddamn selfish!" Tracy yelled infuriated. "Can we make this not about you for one second and maybe make it about us!?"

Tracy was enraged she wanted to attack Link and knock some since into his head.

Link was also not too happy as well.

With Amber's pregnancy, Tracy being mad (which is an understatement) at him, and not being able to stand up for something he believed in by not going to the march Link was beyond stressed.

Beyond any kind of emotion.

He didn't even know what he was saying, at all.

Which is what probably led to the next idiotic words he used next.

"Everything I did with you that night--It was all a mistake!" he replied bluntly.

Hearing these words ripped Tracy's heart out from the seams.

His eyes grew prodigious at his stupid choice of words.

Tracy let out a pained smile.

"It's nice to know your finally telling the truth" Tracy spat bitterly at him.

"Oh god,no no no,Trace--no, thats not what I meant to say at all." He defended.

"It's fine, go back to your pathetic,fake,using, knocked up,cheating girlfriend." Tracy shouted at him cruelly,

She thought since he gave her some hard hitting words that shredded her heart into a million pieces, she should give him some over her own.

"I. Hate. You." Tracy said furiously.

She walked over to Penny who was in the corner of the room was aghast at the scene before her.

Penny opened her arms to Tracy's trembling form, trying to calm her down.

Link stood there completely stunned at Tracy's harsh, but true words.

He knows what he did to her...and he deserved it..

The room was quite aside from Tracy's loud sobs of pain.

Which made Link desperately want to run over to her, and comfort her until the pain subsided..

But that wouldn't be happening since, he was the one caused her pain.
He hated himself for that..

"I should go" He said to no one in particular except himself.

Trying to convince himself that was the right thing to do.

Finally pulling himself together he walked out of the building.

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It's too late to apologize, it's too late

I said it's too late to apologizes, it's too late

It's too late to apologize, it's too late

I said it's too late to apologize, it's too late

I said it's too late to apologize, yeah yeah

I said it's too late to apologize, a yeah

I'm holding your rope

Got me ten feet off the ground...

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Tracy was broken in Penny's arms who was trying to make her feel better.

"Tracy it's gonna be ok" Penny said not to believable.

"No Penny, its not gonna be ok." Tracy said pulling herself out of Penny's grasp and walking away devastated.

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Link walked down the deserted ally punching every wall he encountered and kicking everything in his path.

He was now breaking down in a fit of rage and heartbreak.

Tracy hated him.

Oh God, how could he let this happen.

He thought by telling Tracy that Amber was pregnant she would be there for him.

Help him pull through.

But she didn't want to do that anymore.

Leaving Tracy behind was the right thing to do,...right?

He couldn't be with Tracy and have a child with Amber.

He was basically being forced with Amber.

But Link wasn't leaving this child behind.

Link walked shakily the rest of the way to Amber's house.

He needed some kind of something.

To make him forget.

But he couldn't seem to forget what Tracy said about cheating...and Amber.

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Tracy was sitting on Seaweed's couch .

Everyone else was still down in the record shop, celebrating Tracy's brilliant plan to hopefully lead to integration on the Corny Collins Show.

She would be too..if it wasn't for Link.

Oh no. Just the simple thought of Link and the painful words her spoke sent her back into the breakdown of tears and sobs.

Just then the door opened to revile a very solemn looking Seaweed.

Which is a far cry from what he usually looks like.

"Hey Tracy.." Seaweed spoke softly taking a seat next to her.

"Penny told me what happened...do you wanna talk?"

"No."

"Come on Tracy, you'll feel better." Seaweed pushed her on.

"Don't even say that Seaweed. Everyone said that after I talked to Link...I would feel better, well look at me now! Do I look better?" She cried bitterly.

"No...but it had to feel a little good to finally tell him how you felt." Seaweed implied.

"Oh yah totally, I told him I loved him, then I told him I hated him." Tracy rolled her eyes and gave him a pained look.

The beige carpeting on the floor suddenly catching her interest,

"Did you mean it?" Seaweed asked attentively.

"Mean what?" Tracy asked confused, she was to lost in her own head.

"That you hate him?" Seaweed replied simply.

"Ye—No--I mean..I don't know Seaweed. I love him so much but he hurt me so bad!" Tracy bawled her hands soon found their way to her face.

"I know Tracy.." He said sympathetic, he hated seeing his friend like this.

"But I—I need to forget about him, he's only hurt me. I've done everything for him and he's only given me pain, I do hate him." Tracy spat.

"You don't mean that Trace." Seaweed said simply.

Tracy flinched at him calling her Trace.

Link was the only one who ever called her that.

"Yes I do." Tracy whimpered, standing up.

"If you did...then what he said wouldn't even of affected you." Seaweed spoke as he looked on her.

"What are you trying to say Seaweed?! That I should just forgive him just like that, and let him keep using me!?" Tracy questioned perplexed.

"No--" Seaweed started.

"Then what are you saying? That what he said and did to me, was ok?!" She yelled dumbfounded.

"No, no Tracy I'm not saying that at all. What he did and said was wrong. If he really cares about you he shouldn't of said those things...but he is going through a lot right now."

"He's going through a lot!? What about me? Whatever it's fine. I should just go home now." Tracy said heading to the door.

Seaweed stopped her.

"Wait...Tracy are you still coming to the march?" He asked hopefully.

"Of course I am. It was my idea after all." She said blankly, walking out of the house.

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Link almost was at Amber's house.

He knew that her mother was out that night, or else he wouldn't be going over there.

Link slapped himself.

He wished Tracy would've, maybe knocking some sense into himself.

He said such terrible things to her.

She wasn't a mistake.

What they did wasn't a mistake.

He was just so lost.

Everything he said to her was a lie.

Except for saying that he wasn't lying to her that night.

He arrived at Amber's house and whipped his eyes.

Walking to the door he let himself in.

He took in the scene before him and his jaw dropped.

There was Amber and Fender...making out on her couch half naked.

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Uh oh! Someone,er I mean some people are in trouble!

Next chapter, it's going down.

Finally Link finds out Amber has been cheating.

I hope you guys liked this chapter more then the last one!

The next chapter will be longer.

And have much more action in it.

I know how much some of you like the questions I put at the end.

So here you go:

1. How will Link react to all this?

2. Should Tracy forgive Link after what he did?

3. Would you still love Link if he did all the things he did to Tracy to you?

4. What should Link do to get Tracy to forgive him?

5. Should Tracy just move on and forget about Link?

6. Should Link get slapped about 500 more times to maybe knock some sense into him?

7. If you were in Link's situation..would you ever say things like the things he said?

Thank you all to my loverly reviewers!

(In no order)

SingerChickLuvsLink, Traptrogue6, linklovesme, FelineMimiDavis74, yoursweetmelody, Lil Bre, BlindAlley05, Sailor Serenity5, and friendsandme.

I know theres probably more. But those are the regular reviewers I believe.

I thought I would thank you guys personally!

So thank you!!!!!!

:D

Next chapter will probably be out tomorrow or thursday!

So look out for that!