Round One: He'll ask me on a date… Link asks Tracy out for their first date after their life-altering kiss on the Miss Teenage Hairspray Pageant.
"Hey, Trace! Wait up!" Link Larkin's voice calls from behind her. She stops immediately, feeling her face light up and her heart start to pound.
"Oh, uh, hi, Link," she stammers. Even after their kiss on live television and all the time they had spent together before, she still couldn't control her reaction to him. He was everything she had dreamed of for so long, and now, he was talking to her at school. It didn't seem possible, and she keeps waiting to wake up and find out that it was all a dream.
"Hey, little darlin'. How've you been? It seems like we keep missin' each other," he says, a confused expression on his breath-taking features.
It was true. She had been avoiding him as much as she could – blushing and stammering aren't good ways to make the right impression on a guy she desperately wants, and after that mind-blowing kiss, that's all she was able to do.
"Uh, yeah, I guess so," she winces at the stammer in her voice, and wants to kick herself in her own overly large backside.
Link gives her one of his heart-stopping smiles, and says, "Well, how 'bout we do somethin' 'bout that? After the show on Friday, Corny's havin' a big party at his place to celebrate the show bein' integrated. You wanna come with me?"
Her heart nearly stops beating. Link Larkin just asked her on a date! "Come… with… you?" she clarifies, terribly confused.
Link's smile falters unsurely. "Well, yeah," The hurt in his face nearly makes her giggle. Did he really think that she was going to refuse him? She hastens to assure him that she definitely wants to go with him.
"Yes, yes, of course I want to go with you!" she blurts, and her face flushes. That was way too forward. But he had thought that she didn't want to go with him, which was so far off it was practically in China, and, well… she just doesn't know what to say to him. In real life, living her dreams was a lot more difficult.
She was embarrassed to even think about her daydreams now… Link, running up to her, passion in his eyes. Link, sweeping her into his arms and kissing her senseless. Herself, holding his hand and pointing at something in the distance. They all seem so silly now, when it's actually happening.
His smile returns, and he reaches up slowly to brush a piece of hair that had escaped this morning's dose of Ultra-Clutch up into her 'do.
"Cool. I'll swing by your place after rehearsal, and take you home after. That cool?" Link continues to question.
"Of course," she replies, still mystified by this turn of events.
He shoots her one of his trademark 'Link Wink's and mutters, "Cool. See ya at practice," and spins on his heel, starting to run when the school bell signals his tardiness.
She watches him go, a euphoric feeling building in her chest. She was going on a date with Link Larkin!
On her way to class, she begins to dance… bell- hop, bell- hop, turn, shimmy, sway, mash potato, mambo…
Holy Moly! What was she going to wear?