Link walked into his house and threw his keys onto the coffee table which was cluttered by empty beer bottles. He smelt the familiar stench of whiskey and cigars. His drunken father was lying on the couch snoring extremely loudly. He and his father had used to get along so well up until his mother died, she had always seemed to make things alright but now with her gone all that his father did was drink he was surprised they got any money from when he goes to work. After work he'd always go down to the bar and drink himself stupid. He never seemed to be sober anymore. His night had been so perfect but he hated coming home to this. No one knew about his father, he didn't want anyone to know because he was too ashamed but to tell you the truth no one really cared they all expected him to be perfect boy Link with no troubles at all, he was quite the opposite. Though tonight he was too happy to care, to dwell into things because all he could think about was sweet, kind and caring Tracy. She was like his mother she made everything better and she did care about him. He walked into his room and collapsed on his bed in sheer tiredness. He stared out his window at the twinkling stars. Just like Tracy.

"BBBRRRIINNNNNGGGG BBBRRRIINNNNNGGGG" SOUNDED Link's alarm. He rubbed his eyes roughly.

"Damn it's 7 o'clock already" he muttered to himself.

He ran around getting ready, desperately trying not to wake his father, he couldn't be bothered to listen to his complainants about a sore head and feeling tired. He started to fix his hair trying to make his signature curl sit right. He sprayed his hair with ultra clutch hairspray and sprayed a bit of cologne on himself just for Tracy of course. Grabbing his school bag he ran out to his car and he spotted this big beautiful yellow flower growing in his garden, he pulled it out of the ground gently and jumped into his car. Speeding up to Tracy's house he squirmed nervously in his seat.

Was she already gone? What if she didn't want a ride from him? Also what …

All of Link's nervous thoughts drained out of him when he heard that sweet familiar voice singing softly. She'd left her hair down so it was just hanging round her shoulders and she was glowing. There was something about the way she walked, like she was dancing to the song in her head and her hips moved smoothly side to side. Link beeped his horn and once she saw him her face burst into smiles.

"Link Larkin what on earth are you doing outside my house for?" she said teasingly

"Well I was thinking that you might need an escort to school" he said cheesily and winked at her.

"Okay, if I have to" she sighed jokingly and she hopped into the passenger seat. There was something about those eyes they were so pure no sense of malice or coldness in them just pure warmth and kindness. Then he leaned in and kissed her passionately, he was finding it hard to break away as he could have stayed forever, just him and her. Eventually hey both pulled away from lack of oxygen though their foreheads were still in contact.

"Wow" she muttered, gasping for air.

"I…I know" was the only thing that he could manage to say.

He sat up straight and cleared his throat, his heart was racing and he felt unbelievable, like joy was rushing round his veins. He'd never ever felt like this with Amber she was controlling he never felt like himself. She was so clingy and she didn't even try to understand him to her he was just an image to make her more popular. Tracy didn't use him for anything she actually did like him for him and not for whatever an icon he was.

"Link?" she whispered

"Yeah babe?" he said coolly trying not to give away what he'd been think even though he desperately wanted to tell her. She'd probably run a mile.

"School?" she said not even showing a hint of impatience.

"Oh yeah sorry" he stumbled.

When they were driving to school there were so many thoughts running through his head. Why hadn't he noticed her before? His ignorance and vanity had blinded him from ever even noticing someone like her, someone sweet, kind and generous, who had really changed him for good. The old him wouldn't have looked her way, he wouldn't have even talked to Seaweed or stood up for anything that was right. The old him was a coward hiding away in his popularity. When he first saw Tracy in detention that day dancing she stood out to him she was doing her own thing not caring what anyone else thought of her and when she saw she had an audience she was so embarrassed and he chuckled inside himself remembering the expression on her face when she noticed him standing there watching. Now she was sitting beside him in his car, his girlfriend. Wait a minute; he'd been so busy thinking about these things that he hadn't noticed that neither of them had talked for five minutes. Okay he really need to break the ice some how. Then it hit him, the flower. Parking the car in a space outside the school he pulled the flower out of his pocket and held it in front of her.

Tracy beamed "Link, that's so sweet"

"Anything for my girl" he said giving her a wink.

He saw a blush rising on her cheek and she looked so adorable. He couldn't wait any longer he just had to kiss her again. Once their lips touched he felt his heart melt. Everything was just so perfect wait a minute is that ….

Amber had seen it all from the flower to the kiss. She felt like she was going to puke, her mother had told her to hold her head up high but come on that was her man in that great big white whale's arm and she had stolen him from her. She saw Link look up and he was grinning like an idiot. Though she was the one feeling like an idiot, how could this happen to her, she was Amber Von Tussell the prettiest girl in the school and she was Tracy Turnblad the chubby girl who no one cared about. She noticed Link had spotted her and his smile had dropped. She glared daggers at him, that will teach him for messing with her and she stormed off into the school.

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Link and Tracy walked nervously together into the school. People all around them were staring though Link noticed that there stares were mostly directed at Tracy. Well of course it was at her, she looked stunning. Then he heard some of the boys checking her out and whistling and she actually looked slightly scared. He put his arm round her protectively and she smiled up at him.

"Here's my locker, so I'll see you at lunchtime?" said Tracy.

"Okay I'll see you later babe" and he kissed her on the cheek.

He walked over to his locker and then he heard two boys who were standing near him start to talk about Tracy.

"Did you see that doll Tracy today, she looked mighty fine."

"Yeah and did you see the size of her things, I liked to get some of them, I bet that's the only reason Larkin is going out with her and also because he wasn't getting much action out of Amber." And they both started to laugh. Link felt his blood start to boil, how dare they talk about her and him like that. He slammed his locker door shut and their laughter immediately stopped. He was starting to lose control of his anger.

"So you think you funny, well you won't be laughing if you jerks say anything else like that!" He yelled. One of the boys backed away but the other stood face to face with Link.

"Oh, I'm so scared what are you going to dance us away!" and they both started to laugh.

He was about to lose it when he felt a hand on his shoulder.

"Leave them dude, they're not worth it" said Seaweed calmly.

"Yeah Larkin, listen to your dog and go running back to your big breasted girlfriend"

Link couldn't control his anger anymore and he punched him in the face. The boy fell down in pain, blood gushing out of his nose. Then the other boy punched Link in the eye and the pain was merciless. Seaweed then pushed the boys off and they ran off. Everyone had stopped dead in the corridor and had witnessed the fight. Though unluckily for Link and Seaweed, Mr. Brown had saw Link punch him and that was about it.

"Larkin! Stubbs! Detention!" he yelled.

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They walked in and the usual music was playing but everyone stopped dancing when they saw Link and Seaweed walk in. Link had his hand over eye and the pain was killing him.

"Link?" he looked over and saw Tracy standing there. She looked shocked and she ran over and hugged him.

"Someone grab me a bag of ice!" she shouted and she gestured for him to sit down while someone ran out to grab some ice.

"Take your hand away" she whispered and he removed his hand from his eye.

She gasped. And she kissed his cheek gently.

The skin around his eye was red and swollen and it was sore to move that side of his face. The person came running back in with the bag of ice and handed it to Tracy. Seaweed told people to back off and then the conversations started again.

"This might hurt a little" she said and dabbed his face with the ice.

Link clenched his fist as it stung quite badly.

"Hold this up at your eye" she said quietly

The coldness numbed it so it didn't hurt as much. He knew he couldn't stay silent for much longer but he really didn't want to tell her because he didn't want to hurt her.

"What happened?" she said and she griped his hand. He was just going to have to tell her, he couldn't lie to her.

"It was these jerks, they were saying stuff about you and I couldn't stand it and I lost it, but they wouldn't stop I hit him and he hit me back." Link stared down at his feet waiting for a reaction from Tracy. He felt her hand lift his face up and she kissed him tenderly on the lips.

"Wh…what was that for? He said confused.

"For being the best boyfriend ever" she smiled.

He sat the ice bag down and wrapped his arm around her waist and kissed her gently on the forehead.

"What are you here for?" he asked

Her cheeks started to turn pink "Well I was asked in history why did Christopher Columbus go to America and I said," she hesitated a bit, "I said Link"

He laughed and he noticed that she was slightly embarrassed.

"Lil' darlin' I'm the reason for a lot of things" and he winked.

"And just when I thought your ego couldn't get any bigger" she said teasingly and lightly slapped his arm. Then he kissed her gently again.

"Everything good Cracker boy except for that big shiner you have" joked Seaweed

"Yeah everything is great," he said dreamily "Wait a minute I've got a what!"

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Hi everyone thank for all your reviews they really keep me motivated to keep going. I'm sorry about the odd typing mistake but you get my drift … usually lol

Well this chapter was really long because if I split it in 2 then it would be too short so I went for long instead :D

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