Tracy sat in her bedroom looking at herself in her vanity mirror. She was fixing her hair to sit like it was on the miss hairspray pageant. She applied some mascara to her eyelashes and a bit of her favourite lipstick. She wanted tonight to be as special as the pageant was. Though she was still really stuck about what she was going to wear. Link had told her to dress fancy but to tell you the truth she didn't have anything that fancy. Then the idea popped into her head. She scurried down into her mother's closet. There was a box of her old clothes she wore when she was younger and a bit slimmer. She threw clothes out trying to find something to wear. There were old jackets and skirts, all of course quite old fashioned but still nothing that would be suitable for tonight. Then she found at the bottom of the box a thin, long box and she pulled it out. It was slightly dusty and she opened it. There was a picture of her mother standing with her father and they looked so happy and her mother was wearing this beautiful dress. She lifted the photo out and there was the dress. It was so silky and smooth. She ran it through her hands and stood up and put it up to herself. It was red and flowing. It had small sleeves and went in at her waist line and then flowed out from there. It was just beautiful. She tried it on carefully and it sat perfectly on her, making her look a lot thinner and curvy in all the right places. Then her mother came in and gasped.

"Tracy, hon you look lovely."

"I'm sorry ma I was going to ask you, look if you don't want me to wear it I'll put it back" Tracy said politely, waiting to see what her mother would say.

Her mother lifted up the box and smiled. She then picked out of it a necklace and she put it round Tracy's neck.

"There you're all set."

Tracy hugged her mum. The necklace had a red sparkly ruby in it and it had just seemed to make the dress.

"Tracy you've got a guest!" Wilbur shouted from the kitchen.

"Well go on I'm sure Link won't want to wait all day" her mother said.

Tracy slipped on the red stilettos that were in the box on and of course they were a perfect fit and her mother gave her light tap.

"Go on!" she said impatiently.

Tracy bit her lip and walked down to her front door and Link was standing there wearing a tux talking nervously to her dad and he was holding a bunch of roses.

He turned round and saw her. His mouth practically dropped open.

He pulled at his collar and she was going to laugh as he looked at her.

"Uh hi Tr...Tracy" he stuttered and handed her the bouquet of roses.

"Thanks." she said smiling and put the roses in a vase. She linked hands with him and walked out the door, she knew this night was going to be amazing.

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Link was driving up the road but his eyes kept turning to Tracy.

"Link will you keep your eye on the road!" she shouted when he nearly went through a red light.

Link was really trying to focus but she was just so beautiful tonight. Of course he thought she was beautiful everyday but tonight she had just blown his mind. She was sitting in his passenger seat and he felt really nervous around her. He had felt nervous before but this was completely different.

"Link the road!" she squealed when he nearly drove onto the pavement.

Okay he really needed to focus, what was wrong with him? This was stupid, it was just Tracy, and she was his girlfriend, what was the problem?

He pulled over and cleared his throat "We're here" he said charmingly and tried to cover up his feelings at that moment. Tracy went to open her door when Link stopped her. "Oh no that's my job" she giggled when he winked at her. He grabbed a big black umbrella out of his back seat and ran to open her door. The rain was pouring down quite heavily. "Here you go." He said and she smiled that one hundred watt smile at him and it dazzled him. He knew that Tracy really didn't know what to expect because he still hadn't told her where or what he had planned for the date. He and Seaweed had been trying to figure out what to do for their girls for a special date then Seaweed had came up with a killer idea when they were in town.

"Link what's going on?" She said curiously looking at him but there was excitement in her eyes.

"Now what would be the point of a surprise if I told you what it was" he said laughing. He put his hand over her eyes.

"Right no peeking" he said and she giggled.

"Link Larkin you are a mystery"

He saw Seaweed standing at the entrance of the hall with Penny and his hands over her eyes. He walked over to him.

"Right you can look" Link said and the two boys removed their hands.

"Penny! Tracy!" the two girls squealed simultaneously.

Then they looked at their surroundings and saw the ballroom. There were couples dancing over the dance floor mostly teenagers like themselves and maybe some older couples. There was a huge disco ball hanging from the ceiling and everyone was very well dressed.

"It's…." Penny said

"….amazing." Tracy said finishing her sentence.

Link grabbed Tracy's hand and led her off to the dance floor. The music was slow and he twirled Tracy around and pulled her in close to him.

"Tracy you look amazing tonight" and he felt a blush rising on his face.

"Link Larkin, are you blushing?" she said teasingly

"Oh just rub it in while don't you." he said.

"Aw well you just look so cute" she said

"Uh no don't call me cute, I'm not ten" he said jokingly.

"Okay then what about charming, handsome?" and now she blushed slightly this time.

"That's better" he said smiling and gazed into her soft brown eyes.

"I need to go to ladies room hold on a second" she said and kissed him on the cheek. He watched her wander off and he walked over to talk to Seaweed.

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Tracy stood in front of the mirror and started to fix her hair. There were girls from the council wandering about and she had said hi to a couple of them. Then she heard Tammy and Shelly walking in talking.

"Have you saw Link tonight?" asked Shelly.

Tracy ran into one of the toilets and locked the door and listened to their conversation.

"Yes he was dancing with Tracy. I thought he would have said something to her by now, I mean read what he said." Tammy said quietly.

Shelly giggled and they both walked out. Tracy felt her heart plummet to the ground. What were they talking about? Once she knew that they were definitely gone she wandered out of the toilet and there sitting beside the sink was a crumpled up note. She stared at it for a moment and then she picked it up and read it:

Dear Tammy

These past few days have been painful for me without you. I like Tracy, but I love you. We have a special connection and I just want to be with you. I was stupid to ever get involved with Tracy and I got myself in too deep, but after tonight we can be together. I want tonight to be a good night for Tracy so the break-up won't be as hard for her. I'll tell her what and amazing night this has been but she isn't the girl for me. You are the girl for me.

Until tomorrow your love,

Link xxxx

Tracy dropped the note into her purse. It felt like someone had yanked her heart out of her chest. No, this couldn't be true, Link wasn't like that. Though how did she know? She'd only known him properly for a while. It was killing her, she loved him so much, and she couldn't handle this at the moment. She walked back out and saw Seaweed and Penny were standing hand in hand talking to Link. He was standing there laughing with them and she felt sick, how could he do this to her? Her eyes started to well up but wiping them she strode over to them. She saw that Penny had sensed something was wrong but Penny just gave her a weary look. Link smiled brightly at her and Tracy tried her best to smile back but she struggled. He grabbed her hand and started to dance slowly with her. Though in the corner of her eye she could see Tammy staring over at them. What was he playing at? How could he break her heart like this?

Link pulled her closer to him and he whispered into her ear, "This has been the most amazing night ever."

She felt sick; no he couldn't do it now not when they were dancing. She felt herself back off a bit and he looked at her curiously. Suddenly the lights went off; there were a few loud screams. Tracy couldn't see anything and she started to worry a bit and trying to grab for Seaweed, Penny or Link at least but she couldn't find any of them. There were people shuffling around her but no one she knew. She started to call out Link's name but she could barely be heard above the noise. Then the lights went back on and she felt relieved, that was until she saw Link and Tammy kissing. He pushed Tammy away and looked at Tracy but she had seen enough. She needed to get out of there and leave behind everything. So she ran.

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"Tammy! Get off me!" he shouted. She ran away giggling. What was going on?

Then Seaweed stormed over, "What the heck Larkin! What are you doing!" he yelled completely serious. Link had thought he had been kissing Tracy until the lights had come back on.

"I...I thought it was Tracy! Where is she?" he shouted really confused.

"She just ran, ran away." Penny shouted, crying. Link started to panic, he needed to find her and he didn't have a clue what was going on. He sprinted out of the hall; it was pouring with rain so he grabbed his black umbrella and ran after her. Tracy was out in that somewhere and he felt scared that she would get hurt. He looked a mess but he didn't care. Then he remembered that her house wasn't far from here so he ran in that direction. The roads were empty except for the odd car driving past. He didn't even bother putting the umbrella up as he was too worried about Tracy. He'd been running for over five minutes now. Then nearing Tracy's house he saw Tracy was just standing there.

"Tracy! Tracy!" he yelled and she just turned round. Sprinting up to her he put the umbrella up and held it above her head. She was shivering violently so he took his jacket off and attempted to wrap it around her but she just pushed it away. His legs were aching and he was taking sharp intakes of air.

"Trace" he said gasping for air and he tried holding her hand but she pulled away. Her eyes were all blotchy and her hair and clothes were dripping wet but she still looked amazing. They stared at each other for a moment then she spoke up.

"Link its, o.k. I understand I just wish you told me before." And she looked up at him about to start sobbing.

"Tracy, what are you talking about? I don't understand? I swear I don't know what Tammy was …"

She interrupted him " Li…Link stop making it hard for the both of us" and then she started to cry and ran off into her house.

Each tear that had landed on her soft cheek had felt like a dagger stabbing into his heart. The worst thing was she didn't let him explain. He stared up at the house. It was a good thing tears never show in the pouring rain and he felt his drip down his face. This was meant to be the best night of his life and it had turned into the worst.