Emma sat down at her and Penny's usual table and expected Penny to join her. She wanted to talk things out with Penny and make her see what a good friend she really was. The whole Link situation was no reason to forget about their friendship. "Do you mind if I sit with you?" She heard Shelley say as she stood over her table. Emma simply nodded and Shelley put her tray down in Penny's usual spot. "Who are you looking for?" Shelley asked her when she saw Emma looking around the cafeteria.

"Penny, she usually sits with me." Emma explained to her.

"She's sitting over there." Shelley said looking towards a table with Penny and Lil Inez and some of Lil Inez's friends. Penny caught her glaze and quickly turned away. Emma was hurt. She couldn't believe Penny was snubbing her.

"Why are you wasting your time with her anyway? Penny Pingleton is a dork and you have so much more potential to make better friends." She said rolling her eyes. She started to defend Penny to Shelley but figured why bother. Penny was the one who chose not to be her friend anymore and after everything she did for her! She gave her a glamorous make over which was something her best friend Tracy, whose own wardrobe needed help, could never do for her. "I guess you're right," she said.

"I always knew we would be friends from the moment you came here. I'm so glad you got Amber kicked off the show. I've always hated that bitch," Shelley said and smiled at her. She knew it wasn't really her fault that Amber got kicked off the show but Emma couldn't help laughing anyway. The show was a lot better now that Amber was gone. She knew Shelley wasn't interested in being a real friend though. She was mean to her when she auditioned for the show just like the other council girls were but Emma guessed they shared a common bond in their hatred for Amber, and that was why she was talking to her now. She knew Shelley couldn't be the friend Penny was but it was better then having no friends at all.

"Hi Tracy." Penny said sitting next to her in history class. Tracy still wasn't talking to Penny and she didn't even know why she bothered to sit next to her instead of with Emma who wasn't in class for some reason.

"What do you want, Penny?" Tracy asked her.

"I just wanted to talk to you. I'm really sorry about everything. I want things to be like they were before I became friends with Emma."

"I don't know Penny. You won't listen to me about Emma and I know I'm right about her." She said and turned away from her.

"I know you are right about her now. You were right about her and Link and I'm sorry I didn't listen." Penny said guiltily. Penny was shocked about Emma telling her that she was sleeping with Link. She wanted Emma to be a nice person and she actually felt bad about walking away from her for some reason. Emma looked sad all day and as much as she tried to tell her self that she didn't care, she really did but Penny knew she couldn't be friends with Emma anymore not after what she did to Tracy.

Tracy turned back to Penny. She wondered what made Penny change her mind. Penny went on and told her. "She told me everything and expected me to still be friends with her. I can't believe I couldn't see her for what she was. I'm very sorry."

"It's okay Penny. I know you like to see the best in people. I still can't believe Link slept with her though. Doesn't he know what a whore she is? Anyway what made her just confess to you about the whole thing?"

"I asked her and then she admitted it. She claims she and Link really love each other. I don't know if I believed her or not though." Tracy was surprised about that. Link loved Emma? How could that be possible he still hardly knew her! She didn't care about the consequences she needed to confront Link right away.

"Tracy I'm glad you're here because I need to talk to you." Link told her when she came over his house later the same day. "Great because I need to talk to you too." Tracy said and closed the door behind her. She couldn't hold it in any longer. She was sick of knowing about what he was doing with Emma and not saying anything about it. She was hoping it was some kind of one time thing but it was still going on. "Maybe you should go first then because what I have to tell you isn't easy." Link told her.

"I know everything!" She said

"You know what?" he asked confused. It made her angrier. She couldn't believe he was playing dumb about this whole thing! "Don't even play dumb about it! I know what you have been doing with Emma Harralson! How could you do something like that and with her? You know I hate that girl!"

He looked down guilty which confirmed the whole thing to her. "I didn't want you to find out this way. I really like her and I want to be with her. I was going to tell you about it just now but now that you know about it…" She started crying. He wanted to be with that disgusting whore? What did she have that she didn't? She didn't think Link was so shallow. After all he did leave Amber for her so she thought he could look past outside appearances. He put his hand on her shoulder but she shrugged it off. "Tracy look I'm sorry but there's something about Emma that made me fall for her."

"And what's that Link? The fact that she opened her legs for you? Well, don't flatter yourself because she has also opened her legs for Corny, Brad and who knows what other guys,"

"Tracy stop it! You really need to stop hanging around Amber because you are just as bad as she is." She didn't know what else to say to him but it didn't matter because they were still over and he was still going to continue to date Emma. She took off the necklace that had his council member ring on it and threw it at him. He probably wanted it to give to Emma now. She walked out off his house and slammed the door ignoring him calling her name. Giving up Link Larkin was going to be hard but then she figured if he liked a girl like Emma he wasn't for her anyway.