Tracy lay in her bed staring at her ceiling. She had barely slept last night as she had just kept thinking about the whole Link situation. Her mother was so angry with her for ruining her dress but once she had saw how upset Tracy was, she forget about it. There was a cool breeze coming in from her window and the sun was starting to rise. It was nearly time to get up for school but she was dreading going near the place. She decided to get up earlier as she knew she wouldn't be able to go back to sleep. The posters of Link which were stuck around her room were watching her, she couldn't stand looking at them so in fury she ripped them all down and scattered them across the floor. She didn't know how she could cope seeing the real him never mind the stupid posters. Looking into those crystal blue eyes would probably be the hardest thing to do because they just made her melt every time. Today Tracy had decided she wanted to do something different with herself so she put on her favourite yellow dress and she curled her hair, not too tightly but enough so her hair bounced on her shoulders. She grabbed an apple and walked out her door. Though today Link wasn't sitting outside her house smiling and giving her that signature wink of his, she really missed it but she knew she had to move on. Usually when she walked to get the bus she sang to herself and waved at people she saw quite regularly but not today. Even though it was a beautiful day she felt like there was a rain cloud following her around. She actually managed to catch the bus today and as she stared out the window she wondered what Link was doing at that moment.
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Link sat in his car for 15 minutes now waiting for Tracy to come out of her house he knew that she had probably went on but deep down inside him he really wanted her to come out. He knew if he didn't go soon he'd be really late for school. Deciding to try one last time he walked up to her door and knocked it nervously. He heard thumping and then the door swung open and her mother standing there.
"Oh hello Link" she said looking at him funnily, she had obviously been told what had happened last night.
"Emm hello Mrs Turnblad is Tracy in?" he said politely.
"No sorry she went on to school," she smiled sympathetically at him, "Don't worry hon, she'll come around soon enough."
"Thanks Mrs Turnblad." And he smiled weakly at her and walked disappointed down to his car. There was something else that had happened. Tracy wouldn't ignore him just because a girl kissed him, it was so out of character for her she would usually listen to him.
When he started to walk into the big grey school everyone was staring at him, probably wondering why Tracy wasn't by his side or maybe word had spread about what happened last night. He walked up the corridor slowly, he missed having Tracy by his side and having someone to hold and her smell. He was getting close to her locker and then he saw her, she looked amazing, those curls in her hair and that dress just was so perfect. He remembered every word she said to him last night that she understood but the problem was he didn't understand what she was on. Penny came walking over to her and they were in deep conversation and the Penny pointed at Link. Tracy turned around and stared at him for a moment but then she ran off.
"No Trace!" he shouted but he was too late.
Penny ran over to him "Link, I found Tracy's purse at the dance and I found this in it. She pulled out a crumpled note from her pocket. Link read and now he understood why Tracy was avoiding him.
"You've got to be … I didn't write that, I never would" he felt so frustrated it was obvious Tammy had been up to something she had no interest in Link before and he certainly had no interest in her!
"I tried to tell Tracy that it was lies but Link if she thought you wrote that then…" Penny said quietly.
"Penny I really need to talk to her is there any chance you could fix something up?" he pleaded.
Penny thought hard for a second and she had a sad expression on her face,
"Link I'm sorry but Tracy she is quite stubborn and after reading this she probably won't want to go near you." Penny stared down at her feet. Link felt like his heart had been ripped in two, he liked Tracy too much, no he loved her too much to let her go. He was in love with Tracy Turnblad except the problem was Tracy Turnblad didn't know that.
He walked into history class Tracy was sitting in her usual seat and he took the seat next to her. She stiffened up and stared straight at the board not even glancing at Link. On the other hand Link was staring the whole time not even glancing at the board.
"Link Larkin will you look at the board instead of Tracy Turnblad please I don't think she has American history written all over her!" snarled their teacher. There were a few giggles and Tracy's cheeks turned bright pink and he thought he saw a smile at the corner of her mouth but it quickly disappeared. He longed to see her smile again, to touch her but she was certainly not up to any of that. A paper ball hit the back of Tracy's head and Link turned round in anger to see Tammy and Shelly giggling at the back of the classroom. Then in cheek Tammy winked at him copying his signature wink and he felt his blood start to boil. Why was she doing this? He leaned over to see the crumpled up note and it was a picture. There was an elephant labelled Tracy at one side of it with a sad face and the other side Link and Tammy smiling with a sign Corny Collin's show above them. It was sick, he stood up and violently pushed his chair back.
"Mr. Larkin if you don't think you can behave in an appropriate manner in my classroom then I'm going to have to ask you to report to detention." shouted the teacher.
"Detention it is" he said crossly. The teacher stood still stunned and then started to scribble on a pink detention slip. Link snatched the slip from the desk and before leaving he looked over at Tracy whose eyes were all watery and stared straight back at him sadly. With one last sigh he walked out of the classroom and headed for detention.
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Tracy fidgeted, she felt terrible for letting Link do that. She missed him so much but it was for the best. Though she'd have thought Tammy would have been a little discreet about her and Link but she seemed to be flaunting him at Tracy. Tracy had been really shocked that Link came running after her the night before. He must have wanted to make their break-up official but Tracy didn't want to hear the words so she just avoided him. She remembered what Penny had said that Tammy was just up to something and Link had nothing to do with her but Tracy said to her how did she know and Penny couldn't answer her. As Link was leaving for detention Tracy just stared into those perfect blue eyes of his though when the teacher had told him off from staring at her she felt a moment of joy and then it disappeared once she remembered why he was probably staring at her. She was really not looking forward to the Corny Collin's show today.
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Link ran out of detention once the bell rang and ran back to his history class.
Tracy was walking out of the door once he had got there.
"Tracy, please just listen, let me explain, I don't know what Tammy…" he pleaded.
"Link will you just leave me alone, I don't want to have anything to do with you anymore" she said quietly and sharply. That couldn't be Tracy talking she just wasn't like that. Then floods of tears came out of her eyes and she ran to the toilets. Those words pained him more than anything he'd ever felt in his life. The girl he loved with all his heart had just told him he didn't want to see him anymore. How was he going to cope without her? Yes, you may say he has done it before but he hadn't made a very good job of it. Then Tammy came waltzing out of the classroom smiling and laughing with Shelly.
"You!" he yelled and she jumped back in surprise, then gathering herself together she stood up straight and smiled falsely.
"Oh hi Linkie darling" and she kissed him on the cheek.
He pushed her off him like her kiss was poison.
"What is it Tammy? Are you jealous? What made you want to ruin what I had with Tracy?" he shouted.
"Linkie are you really that big headed to think I was jealous? If I wanted you, you would be mine," she said slyly, "let's just say I have alternative motives." And she walked off.
Link was seriously confused, what ever could she mean? Then he remembered that fatal conversation with Tracy, how she had sobbed. Did she still have any feelings for him at all?
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"Front step cha cha cha"
"Back step cha cha cha" shouted the new choreographer as they were dancing.
Tracy was dancing at the back of the group with I.Q. and Link had been paired up with Amber. Amber had changed a lot since his and her break-up and she actually seemed nicer. She had moved on to one of Seaweed's friend called Duane. The practicing ended and Seaweed walked over to Link.
"Link, Penny told me everything, are you okay?" Seaweed looked completely serious and for once didn't call him cracker boy.
"No, no Seaweed I'm terrible and I don't know what I am going to do" he whimpered.
"Don't worry Link I'm sure everything will work out ok." But Seaweed gave him an unsure look.
Then Amber came running over to them and she was gasping for air.
"Link! Seaweed! I need to talk to both of you in private now!" she said looking nervously around her. The two boys looked at each other neither of them knowing what was going on and followed Amber to one of the closets.
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