Link walked Mac to the back of a car. There were very few people in
the car. Tara and her husband, Jack, were sitting up front and Tabitha was
somewhere to the side listening to her CD player.
Mac and Link played video games for awhile and listened to some CDs. They started played cards. B.S. It was always a competition.
"Hey Mac." Said Link trying to start up a conversation in which he could ask her out.
"Yo Link. B.S.!" she said pointing to his cards. She was right.
"Um, listen. I think." he carried off.
"Yeah Link." Mac looked at him hopefully
"I think I'm in love with you." Mac gasped. She had been waiting for this since the first time she met him.
"Well to tell you the truth, I'm in love with you." She whispered
"Mac, will you go steady with me?" Link asked tipping up her chin with his finger, making Mac look him in the eye.
"Of course." Mac reached over and hugged him.
"I've wanted to ask you out forever, until I had a wake up call from a few faeries." Link said laughing.
"I've wanted you to ask me out forever! I never thought you would get up the guts." Mac smiled
"Man, I'm glad I did it."
Tara looked back at Mac and Link, who were hugging. She looked over at Jack.
"Finally Jack. They have been waiting forever." Tara started kissing him again.
A half an hour later they arrived. Seaweed, Penny, their kids, Li'l Inez and her family were there to greet them. It was a big family reunion. They all piled into the cars that they had provided and went to Seaweed and Penny's residence. Everyone started catching up. Link and Mac got into a conversation with two of Seaweed and Penny's kids, Gwyniviere, and Sampson. They were twins.
"So Link here tells us you can sing." Sampson said to Mac
"Um, yeah. So?"
"You are going to have to sing at the club downtown. It's for kids under 21. And if you're good enough, you get to go on a local show that is soon going to go national!" said Gwyniviere. She was called Vivi.
"Really? Link, we should go out for it. You are not a bad singer yourself."
"I don't know Mackie." He put his arm around Mac.
"Come on Link. We've heard you. You are just like your dad man." Said Sampson high fiving him.
"We can go tonight!" said Vivi. "They are having open auditions."
"All right. Let's do it." Link said openly.
After dinner, Link, Mac, Sampson, and Vivi got ready to go to the club. Link came down in a black button up shirt and black pants. Mac came down and Link gasped. She had on black cargos and a red quarter length shirt. It was glittery. Her hair had a wide red headband in it.
"Wow Mackie, you look beautiful." He said taking her hand and putting his arms around her waist.
"Oh please," Link kissed her on the cheek
Vivi and Sampson came down in their party wear. Vivi was wearing a black leather knee length skirt and knee high boots and a blue t-shirt. Her hair was pulled up in a French twist. Sampson had on khaki pants and a blue shirt.
"Hey, we're going down to the club!" yelled Sampson. There were mumbles from the living room as they carried on their conversation.
They grabbed the keys to the car and started going to the club. When they got there, Vivi's boyfriend and Sampson's girlfriend were there. They instantly went in and started dancing to the singers on stage. Their group of six walked up to the stage. The host came down when he saw Sampson.
"Sampson, my man. You going for the singing or dancing?" he asked.
"Viv, Clay, Chantal and I are definitely going for the dancing. Our friends are going for the singing." Sampson pointed out Mac and Link, who were standing behind them. The host walked up to them.
"Hey there, Rich Roark." He said holding out his hand. "So you two think you can sing?"
Mac held out her hand. "McClarin, most people call me Mac. Yes, I can sing." She said confidently.
"Link Larkin." He shook Rich's hand.
"All right then, get on up there. Tell our DJ what you want to sing." He pushed Mac up the stairs. She gave a nervous glance to Link but walked over to the DJ.
"What songs you got?" he handed her a book of songs that the band new. "I wanna dance with somebody, by Whitney Houston." Mac handed him the book back and he gave her a microphone. Rich came up on the stage.
"Next we have Mac Dark, singing I wanna dance with somebody."
Mac climbed onto the stage. The lights hitting her eyes and reflecting off her glasses causing a glare. Her palms started sweating as the music started. Then Mac got in her zone and started singing. Mac started dancing a little.
"The clock strikes, on the hour, and the sun begins to fade. Still enough time to figure out, How to chase my blues away. I've done alright up 'til now, it's the light of day that shows me how, and when the night falls, loneliness calls." At this point she lost all fear of life and started spinning around
"Oh, I wanna dance with somebody. I wanna feel the heat with somebody. Yeah I wanna dance with somebody, with somebody who loves me. Oh! I wanna dance with somebody. I wanna feel the heat with somebody. Yeah! I wanna dance with somebody, with somebody who loves me." Mac continued to sing
At the end there was uproar from the audience. Mac took a bow and handed the microphone back to Rich.
"Well, that was Mac Dark. Now here comes Link Larkin, singing "It takes two." Rich gave the microphone to Link
In the back Amber Von Tussle and her two daughters, Ashleigh and Anneliese. Amber sneered at the fat girl on stage.
"Girls that is somebody who doesn't deserve to be on T.V." Amber said to her daughters. "Anneliese I know you can beat her."
Amber's ears perked up when she heard Link Larkin. She wondered why he, being so old, would be trying out for the show. She saw him as he got up on stage.
"They say it's a man's world but that can not be denied. But what goods a man's world without a women, by his side. And so I will wait until that moment you decide. That I'm your man and you're my girl that I'm the sea and you're the pearl it takes two baby, it takes two." Link was singing directly to Mac.
"A king ain't a king without the power behind the throne. A prince is a pauper babe without a chick to call his own. So please darling choose me I don't wanna rule alone. I'm your king and you're my queen that no one else had come between. It takes two baby, it takes two. Don't you know? Lancelot had Gwyniviere and Mrs. Claus has old Saint Nick? Romeo had Juliet, and Liz well she has her Dick. They say it takes two to tango, well that tangos child's play. So take me to the dance floor and we'll twist the night away!" Link showed off his range
"Just like Frankie Avalon had his favorite musketeer, I dream of a lover babe to say the things I long to hear. So come closer baby oh and whisper in my ear." Mac took a microphone, figuring she couldn't let a moment like this pass her by. She knew the song.
"Yeah." She sang while coming onto the stage.
Link and Mac came onto the end of the song. "It takes, Two." They sang.
Amber came to the edge of the stage. Her Anneliese was up next. Amber saw Link and Mac coming down hand in hand.
"Well Link you do hold your youth well." Amber said
"Uh, who are you?" he asked
"Don't you remember me? Amber Von Tussle?" She asked her arms crossed
"Oh wasn't she like your dad's ex-girlfriend?" asked Mac
"Yeah. I'm Link Larkin junior; you would have gone out with my dad." Link said putting his arm around Mac's waist.
Amber sneered. "You are just like him. Going out with some fat retard again." Amber glared at the two. Same in love like Link Senior and Tracy were. It disgusted her. She was stuck with Fender, who left her with her petite versions of herself.
"Watch it." Link said protectively. "Mac is the love of my life and my best friend. Deal with it." Sampson, Chantal, Vivi and Clay stood behind them glaring at Amber. Amber 'hoomphed' and pushed Anneliese on the stage.
Anneliese was the spitting image of her mother with red hair. Her twin sister had blonde. Anneliese was always nervous under her mother's watchful eye. She wanted to be normal, not an 'Amber Clone' as Dad had called them. She was going for the singing, and her sister would go for dancing. Its how it always was, Ashleigh got the part that Mom did and she got the leftovers. It is how it worked in their house.
"I wanna sing," Anneliese thumbed through the book, "Are you happy now?" Anneliese went on the stage and started singing.
"Now, don't just walk away. Pretending everything' okay and you don't care about me. Night no is just no use. When all your lies become your truths. And I don't care!" Anneliese said to the audience mostly toward her mother.
"Can you look me in the eyes? And tell me that you're happy now? Oooooooo." Anneliese sang with precision and passion.
As her song ended she got applause from the audience, not as great as Mac's or Link's but still pretty large. Anneliese smiled and walked off.
Next was the dance competition. Vivi and Sampson did doubles with their mates. The audience loved them. Sampson eyed Anneliese. He knew she was different from Amber. Link saw him catch her eye.
"Looks like Sampson has a new friend." Link whispered to Vivi and Mac. They both looked over and nodded.
Mac and Link played video games for awhile and listened to some CDs. They started played cards. B.S. It was always a competition.
"Hey Mac." Said Link trying to start up a conversation in which he could ask her out.
"Yo Link. B.S.!" she said pointing to his cards. She was right.
"Um, listen. I think." he carried off.
"Yeah Link." Mac looked at him hopefully
"I think I'm in love with you." Mac gasped. She had been waiting for this since the first time she met him.
"Well to tell you the truth, I'm in love with you." She whispered
"Mac, will you go steady with me?" Link asked tipping up her chin with his finger, making Mac look him in the eye.
"Of course." Mac reached over and hugged him.
"I've wanted to ask you out forever, until I had a wake up call from a few faeries." Link said laughing.
"I've wanted you to ask me out forever! I never thought you would get up the guts." Mac smiled
"Man, I'm glad I did it."
Tara looked back at Mac and Link, who were hugging. She looked over at Jack.
"Finally Jack. They have been waiting forever." Tara started kissing him again.
A half an hour later they arrived. Seaweed, Penny, their kids, Li'l Inez and her family were there to greet them. It was a big family reunion. They all piled into the cars that they had provided and went to Seaweed and Penny's residence. Everyone started catching up. Link and Mac got into a conversation with two of Seaweed and Penny's kids, Gwyniviere, and Sampson. They were twins.
"So Link here tells us you can sing." Sampson said to Mac
"Um, yeah. So?"
"You are going to have to sing at the club downtown. It's for kids under 21. And if you're good enough, you get to go on a local show that is soon going to go national!" said Gwyniviere. She was called Vivi.
"Really? Link, we should go out for it. You are not a bad singer yourself."
"I don't know Mackie." He put his arm around Mac.
"Come on Link. We've heard you. You are just like your dad man." Said Sampson high fiving him.
"We can go tonight!" said Vivi. "They are having open auditions."
"All right. Let's do it." Link said openly.
After dinner, Link, Mac, Sampson, and Vivi got ready to go to the club. Link came down in a black button up shirt and black pants. Mac came down and Link gasped. She had on black cargos and a red quarter length shirt. It was glittery. Her hair had a wide red headband in it.
"Wow Mackie, you look beautiful." He said taking her hand and putting his arms around her waist.
"Oh please," Link kissed her on the cheek
Vivi and Sampson came down in their party wear. Vivi was wearing a black leather knee length skirt and knee high boots and a blue t-shirt. Her hair was pulled up in a French twist. Sampson had on khaki pants and a blue shirt.
"Hey, we're going down to the club!" yelled Sampson. There were mumbles from the living room as they carried on their conversation.
They grabbed the keys to the car and started going to the club. When they got there, Vivi's boyfriend and Sampson's girlfriend were there. They instantly went in and started dancing to the singers on stage. Their group of six walked up to the stage. The host came down when he saw Sampson.
"Sampson, my man. You going for the singing or dancing?" he asked.
"Viv, Clay, Chantal and I are definitely going for the dancing. Our friends are going for the singing." Sampson pointed out Mac and Link, who were standing behind them. The host walked up to them.
"Hey there, Rich Roark." He said holding out his hand. "So you two think you can sing?"
Mac held out her hand. "McClarin, most people call me Mac. Yes, I can sing." She said confidently.
"Link Larkin." He shook Rich's hand.
"All right then, get on up there. Tell our DJ what you want to sing." He pushed Mac up the stairs. She gave a nervous glance to Link but walked over to the DJ.
"What songs you got?" he handed her a book of songs that the band new. "I wanna dance with somebody, by Whitney Houston." Mac handed him the book back and he gave her a microphone. Rich came up on the stage.
"Next we have Mac Dark, singing I wanna dance with somebody."
Mac climbed onto the stage. The lights hitting her eyes and reflecting off her glasses causing a glare. Her palms started sweating as the music started. Then Mac got in her zone and started singing. Mac started dancing a little.
"The clock strikes, on the hour, and the sun begins to fade. Still enough time to figure out, How to chase my blues away. I've done alright up 'til now, it's the light of day that shows me how, and when the night falls, loneliness calls." At this point she lost all fear of life and started spinning around
"Oh, I wanna dance with somebody. I wanna feel the heat with somebody. Yeah I wanna dance with somebody, with somebody who loves me. Oh! I wanna dance with somebody. I wanna feel the heat with somebody. Yeah! I wanna dance with somebody, with somebody who loves me." Mac continued to sing
At the end there was uproar from the audience. Mac took a bow and handed the microphone back to Rich.
"Well, that was Mac Dark. Now here comes Link Larkin, singing "It takes two." Rich gave the microphone to Link
In the back Amber Von Tussle and her two daughters, Ashleigh and Anneliese. Amber sneered at the fat girl on stage.
"Girls that is somebody who doesn't deserve to be on T.V." Amber said to her daughters. "Anneliese I know you can beat her."
Amber's ears perked up when she heard Link Larkin. She wondered why he, being so old, would be trying out for the show. She saw him as he got up on stage.
"They say it's a man's world but that can not be denied. But what goods a man's world without a women, by his side. And so I will wait until that moment you decide. That I'm your man and you're my girl that I'm the sea and you're the pearl it takes two baby, it takes two." Link was singing directly to Mac.
"A king ain't a king without the power behind the throne. A prince is a pauper babe without a chick to call his own. So please darling choose me I don't wanna rule alone. I'm your king and you're my queen that no one else had come between. It takes two baby, it takes two. Don't you know? Lancelot had Gwyniviere and Mrs. Claus has old Saint Nick? Romeo had Juliet, and Liz well she has her Dick. They say it takes two to tango, well that tangos child's play. So take me to the dance floor and we'll twist the night away!" Link showed off his range
"Just like Frankie Avalon had his favorite musketeer, I dream of a lover babe to say the things I long to hear. So come closer baby oh and whisper in my ear." Mac took a microphone, figuring she couldn't let a moment like this pass her by. She knew the song.
"Yeah." She sang while coming onto the stage.
Link and Mac came onto the end of the song. "It takes, Two." They sang.
Amber came to the edge of the stage. Her Anneliese was up next. Amber saw Link and Mac coming down hand in hand.
"Well Link you do hold your youth well." Amber said
"Uh, who are you?" he asked
"Don't you remember me? Amber Von Tussle?" She asked her arms crossed
"Oh wasn't she like your dad's ex-girlfriend?" asked Mac
"Yeah. I'm Link Larkin junior; you would have gone out with my dad." Link said putting his arm around Mac's waist.
Amber sneered. "You are just like him. Going out with some fat retard again." Amber glared at the two. Same in love like Link Senior and Tracy were. It disgusted her. She was stuck with Fender, who left her with her petite versions of herself.
"Watch it." Link said protectively. "Mac is the love of my life and my best friend. Deal with it." Sampson, Chantal, Vivi and Clay stood behind them glaring at Amber. Amber 'hoomphed' and pushed Anneliese on the stage.
Anneliese was the spitting image of her mother with red hair. Her twin sister had blonde. Anneliese was always nervous under her mother's watchful eye. She wanted to be normal, not an 'Amber Clone' as Dad had called them. She was going for the singing, and her sister would go for dancing. Its how it always was, Ashleigh got the part that Mom did and she got the leftovers. It is how it worked in their house.
"I wanna sing," Anneliese thumbed through the book, "Are you happy now?" Anneliese went on the stage and started singing.
"Now, don't just walk away. Pretending everything' okay and you don't care about me. Night no is just no use. When all your lies become your truths. And I don't care!" Anneliese said to the audience mostly toward her mother.
"Can you look me in the eyes? And tell me that you're happy now? Oooooooo." Anneliese sang with precision and passion.
As her song ended she got applause from the audience, not as great as Mac's or Link's but still pretty large. Anneliese smiled and walked off.
Next was the dance competition. Vivi and Sampson did doubles with their mates. The audience loved them. Sampson eyed Anneliese. He knew she was different from Amber. Link saw him catch her eye.
"Looks like Sampson has a new friend." Link whispered to Vivi and Mac. They both looked over and nodded.