Chapter 11 When Link got home he went up to the bathroom and washed his mouth out with mouth wash. "Ugh I still cant believe Amber kissed me! I don't like her like that anymore. She knows Im with Tracy and shes jealous that's all there is to it. She needs to back off and leave me and Trace alone. I just hope Tracy never finds out about Amber kissing me" Link said to himself. There was a knock on the bathroom door. "Link? You okay in there?" said his mom Maria Larkin. "Yeah mom I'm fine" said Link. "Are you sure?" Maria asked. Link sighed. He unlocked the bathroom door and opened it. "I'm fine mom. Just got a lot on my mind is all" said Link. "Okay hon. If your sure. Because I'm always here if you need someone to talk to" said Maria. "I know" said Link. He walked down the hall and into his bedroom. His mother followed him. "How was school?" she asked curiously. "Fine" said Link "And is Tracy doing well?" "Yes mom she's doing good too. Can I get to work on my homework please mom? I have a lot to do" said Link. "Sure hon. Ill call you when dinner is ready" said Maria. "Okay" said Link. Link opened his backpack after he sat down on his bed and started pulling out his books. Maria sighed and left Link's room. She walked back downstairs where her husband John just walked inside the house. "Hey babe" said John. he walked over to his wife and kissed her on the cheek. "Hello" said Maria. John instantly could tell something was wrong with his wife by the tone of her voice. "Whats wrong?" asked John. "Well nothing really is wrong with me John. But I think there is something going on with Link" Maria told him. "He seems to be upset over something." "Is it girl trouble?" asked John. "I don't think so. He said Tracy is doing good. But that doesn't mean that other girls might be causing him problems with Tracy. I don't know why our son doesn't want to confide in us. He can tell us anything" said Maria. She walked into the living room and sat down on the couch. John followed her and then sat down beside her. He wrapped his arm around her shoulders. "Listen hon Link is a teenager. He's going to be an adult soon. Hes not going to come to us with every little problem like he use to. He wants to figure things out for himself" said John. "I know" sighed Maria. "I just know that something is bothering Link and I want to know what it is." "Well maybe he will tell us when the time is right. We cant pressure him into telling is whats going on in his personal life. He'll start to think that we are invading in his personal space" said John. "When the time is right for Link he will tell us whats going on if he cant handle it. I know you don't like hearing that because you want to know now but babe he will tell us eventually. And then again maybe he wont because maybe this is something that he knows he can handle." "I guess your right John. I'm probably just being a bit paranoid or something" sighed Maria. "Our son's not a little boy anymore." "That's right hes not. He's becoming a bright young man. And we got to give him his space." "Right" said Maria. She kissed her husband on the lips. He kissed her back. "what was that for babe?" asked John although he was thrilled that his wife kissed him. "Do I need a reason to kiss you?" asked Maria giving John a look. "No no you don't. Im just curious as why you did" said John. "Because I love you. and it was a thank you" said Maria. "Oh. Well your very welcome honey. You know I'm always here for you" said John. "And I am you love" said Maria. They kissed again. Then Maria got off the couch and walked out of the room to the kitchen that was across the hall. Meanwhile upstairs Link was working on his homework when the phone in his room went off. He answered it. "Hello?" "Dude I thought you were with Tracy?" asked his friend Adam on the other line. "Yeah I am with Tracy. Why are you asking Adam? I thought you knew?" questioned Link. "Well occording to this picture I just received it looks like your not and are still in a relationship with Amber" said Adam. "What? Im not with Amber anymore. Me and her broke it off the day of the Miss Teenage Hairspray Pageant. I'm with Tracy" said Link. "Oh yeah? Well explain this picture" said Adam. He sent Link the picture to his email address. Links computer beeped and he walked over to it. He opened up the email he received from Adams phone. He saw a picture of himself and Amber kissing today. "How-What-" Link tried to get words to come out but he was in shock from how the picture of him and Amber kissing got to Adams phone. "Exactly you cant explain it because you are cheating on Tracy with Amber. Knew it" said Adam. "Wait Adam. Im not cheating on Tracy. Im not with Amber. Amber kissed me there. She had me shoved up against the wall of the school. She kissed me. I didn't see anyone else around. She had been talking to Tammy about something and I asked Amber if I could talk to her and I told her to back off of Tracy and to stop spreading rumors about her. I wanted to get to the bottom of it" said Link. "Amber didn't like that I was telling her what to do and she said that she wasn't going to knock it off and that she was going to do whatever she wanted at least until she got what she wanted." "But I didn't kiss Amber. Adam. She kissed me" said Link. "Well if what your saying is true then you might want to tell that to the whole school Link" said Adam. "Why do you say that?" asked Link. "Because whoever sent this picture sent it to everyone in school" said Adam. "Oh no" said Link. He sat down at his computer chair and slumped back into it. He laid his head down on his arms as he propped his knees up. "No no no no" he kept repeating over and over. "How am I going to fix this? Once Tracy sees this shes going to think I've been cheating on her and leave me" said Link. "Dude what am I going to do?" "I don't know man. But you better think of something" said Adam. They hung up with each other. Link looked back at his computer screen of him and Amber kissing. He got red in the face and glared angrily at the tv. he got up from his chair went behind his computer and unplugged it. Then he took it off his desk and threw it on the ground. The computer fell on the ground with a loud thud. Which caused both his parents to come running up the stairs.