Tracy sat in her kitchen as her mother was cooking up something or another, staring at the old clock hanging on their wall. Link was already ten minutes late and there was still no sign of him. She walked into her room and picked up her bag. A little flash of light caught her eye from her bed; it was Link's shiny silver comb so she picked it up and slipped it into her bag. Then she glanced out her window and saw Link's car skid into her driveway. Tracy ran out of her room, kissed her mother on the cheek who handed her a bag of pancakes and ran on out of the house, forgetting to close the door behind. She hopped into Link's car and smiled brightly at him,
"Morning" she said but she didn't receive her usual good morning kiss.
"Hello." He mumbled and drove on up the street.
Tracy glanced round at Link several times and he didn't open his mouth. They sat in silence for five minutes and Tracy started to feel uneasy so she thought she ought to break the silence. She couldn't think of anything to say until she heard his stomach growl and she felt a smile coming at the corner of her mouth.
"Ma made you some pancakes this morning." And she held the little brown paper bag up and there was a delicious smell coming off them. Her Ma always cooked her friends something but this morning she thought that Tracy and Link would be eating together but after Link had rushed out she had just put his share of the pancakes into a bag and Tracy could give it to him when he picked her up. He parked the car in the school and pulled out the keys.
"Oh okay" he said dryly. Tracy felt a bit hurt. What was wrong with him?
"Link what's the matter?"
"Nothing" he muttered quietly.
"Link I know when something is wrong with you, so please just tell me." And she placed a comforting hand on the top of his arm.
"AHH!" he yelped in pain and dodged away from her once she had touched his arm. Tracy gasped and moved closer to him, she could even sense some fear off him.
"Link what's the matter with your arm?" she said genuinely worried and started to pull his sleeve up so she could have a better look but he abruptly pushed her hand away.
"Nothing Tracy will you just leave it! Why do you always nag at me!" he snapped at her and he looked into her eyes and she saw that his eyes filled up with guilt. Tracy turned to get out of the car.
"Look Trace I'm…"
"No Link I'll just leave it! I don't' want to annoy you anymore than I already have. I'm sorry for caring about you but it looks like you don't want me!" she said sharply but her voice started to wobble and tears ran down her cheeks but she wiped them away. She slammed the door shut and walked into school briskly. People stared at her and she felt more tears welling in her eyes. Link called out her name several times but she just ignored him.
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Link had really screwed up big time. He'd been such a jerk to Tracy and all she'd done was be kind and caring. He could feel his eyes water, everything was so messed up. He couldn't bear to go into school but he didn't want to go near his home either. He noticed that Tracy had left the little bag of pancakes on the seat for them. He lifted them up and started to eat them, they tasted so good and his growling stomach agreed too. He should have at least talked to her, got on like normal or something instead of turning into this big jerk, like the old Link Larkin…
It wasn't as if he didn't like last night, actually he'd loved it. He'd loved the fact he got to wakeup with his girl in his arms, if only he could do that everyday but then reality hit him like a ton of bricks and he left her confused and hurt. Link rubbed at his arm again it still ached a lot and he would once in a while get sharp pains in it. He pulled up his sleeve and the top of his arm was completely purple. He knew Tracy would freak completely if she saw it but that was no excuse for how he had treated her. He needed to find her before first class.
Link sprinted down the corridors every once in a while banging in to someone, he heard some shout "Larkin what's the rush?" but he couldn't make out who it was so he went on. He ran up to Tracy's locker but she wasn't there instead Penny and Seaweed was standing there in deep discussion.
"Hey you guys have you…" suddenly Penny slapped his right across the face really hard.
"Yeah I deserved that." He said truthfully.
"Damn right you did cracker! What the heck came over you!" shouted Seaweed looking very angry, Tracy had obviously told Penny what had happened and penny had told Seaweed.
"I know I know I'm a complete idiot but I really need to find Tracy, have you seen her about?" Link said looking over his shoulder in case she was about.
"Girls bathroom." said Seaweed but Penny didn't open her mouth she was still huffing with Link.
"Thanks, I owe you." And Link ran off.
"Damn right you do Larkin, be glad I didn't kick your ass!" he shouted down the corridor half joking, half being honest.
Link stood patiently outside of the girls toilets and lots of girl walked out of it and the bell went but Tracy still didn't appear.
A group of girls walked out and all smiled at him flirtatiously.
"Hey, by any chance do you know if Tracy Turnblad is in there?" he asked.
Their smiles dropped when they realised that he wasn't interested in any of the.
"If you're talking about the girl sobbing then yeah," said the tall blonde haired one, "if things don't work out between you two give me a call." She said and winked and slipped a piece of paper in his front pocket.
Link looked at her disgusted, if she'd had said that too him last year he would certainly have called her back but not now that he was a changed man.
"Sorry doll, but even if things didn't work out, I wouldn't be calling you." He said and handed her back the piece of paper.
She shot him a dirty look and so did the rest of her group and they strutted on down the hall obviously saying stuff about him but he couldn't have cared less.
He heard a teacher come down the hall and he knew he would get a detention of he didn't hide and fast so he slipped quietly into the girl's toilets.
It smelt particularly nice compared to the boy's toilets and it actually way clean.
It was completely silent except for the small sobbing noise which was coming from the last toilet. He walked toward it slowly and his shoes clicked on the hard tiled floor. He knocked on the door and the sobbing stopped at once.
"I'm coming out now." said that sweet familiar voice sniffing gently.
The door swung open to reveal Tracy standing at it clutching on to a couple of tissues.
"Link what are you doing in here? Your not supposed to be here!" she said and tried to push the door shut again but he put his foot in between it so she couldn't.
"Trace, please." He said.
"Don't you please me! You were the one who completely ignored me in the car, who shouted at me, so don't make me out like the bad guy!" she shouted and looked him right in the eyes but he could see more water appearing in them.
"I know I was totally out of line. I shouldn't have treated you like that at all. I'm such a jerk." He said apologetically.
"I just wanted to know if you were okay." She said quietly.
He went to speak again but she got in first.
"Look Link if you really hated last night, why didn't you just go? Though since you're too cowardly to do it yourself I'll do it for you." She said and walked straight past him but he grabbed onto her arm so she couldn't leave.
"No Trace, please just listen. I never thought that I loved last night, it was amazing, special. I'm so sorry I just left, I panicked I was scared my fath…folks would get angry at me. Yeah you're right I am a coward but I'm a coward because I just left you like that." He said.
"Why were you so off with me this morning then?" she asked him and his hand slipped down from her arm to her hand.
"I don't know I felt rotten afterward. I'm so sorry babe. Please forgive me." He pleaded.
She reached up to him and kissed him softly.
"I forgive you." She said smiling a tiny bit but still sniffed a bit.
He wrapped his arms around her tightly,
"I'm so sorry I got you so upset." He said and kissed her on the lips
Suddenly the door squeaked open and a small girl with ginger hair, freckles and big glasses walked, she gasped loudly
"You're not supposed to be in here! I'm telling!" she squealed and ran out of the toilets.
"Run!" Link said laughing and him and Tracy ran out onto the corridors. Then they heard the little girl shout,
"Look there they are!"
Link and Tracy ran out of the old school building and round a small corner. Tracy giggled uncontrollably and Link laughed quietly a couple of times. They heard the clicking of heels on the ground and three people discussing where they might have went to. They heard the footsteps get closer and closer and Tracy was still giggling.
Link covered Tracy's mouth in an attempt to get her to keep quiet. Her soft mouth tickled his hand and he could feel her warm breath hitting it. He started to tingle a little. Finally they heard all the people walk back into the school and Link let out a sigh of relief.
"What do you think of classes today?" said Link mischievously.
"Entirely pointless, it's not as if I listen in them anyway." Tracy said smiling playfully at him.
"Well then maybe me and you should skip the rest of the day and go out somewhere?" Link said.
"Now that sounds like a plan." She said and they ran over to his car heading for who knows where.
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It wasn't fair, so what she had been talking to Shelly that was hardly a cause for a detention? Mr. Flak had always hated her and he was just trying to find a reason to get her out of his classroom. It was partly his fault that she had lost Link as well, if he hadn't have given her that stupid detention. Amber walked into the room timidly feeling all eyes in the room land on her. She dropped the small pick detention slip on the teacher's desk and went and sat down at one of the small desks. Everyone had stopped looking at her and had returned to their dancing. She watched them twist and turn smoothly, if only she could dance like that. Everyone looked like they were having fun, they didn't have a routine they just went with the flow. Though one person who stuck out like a sore thumb to Amber that boy Seaweed. He danced so smoothly and those hips moved in all the right directions. Maybe if she could just talk to him though that stupid bimbo who he was dating was standing over there sucking on a lolly pop. Amber then remembered that was Tracy's best friend. Her mother was right there were other advantages to being nice to Tracy.
"Emm hi I'm Amber."
"I know who you are." He said rudely. She'd thought she would melt once she saw those deep brown eyes gaze into hers.
"Hi I'm Penny, Tracy's best friend, you know the girl who you hated because she started to date your ex-boyfriend."
"I know who she is." Amber replied bitterly and Seaweed gave her a funny look. Amber then turned her attention to Seaweed.
"You're a really good dancer." She complimented him. She saw Seaweed wasn't sure how to react to her.
"Oh em, thanks." He said.
"I know we all started on bad terms so I was wondering maybe you would like to come to my party tonight so we could start again. Seaweed looked unsure and penny looked a bit confused.
"Can we bring friends?" Penny said. Perfect, she'd fallen right into her trap and the good thing was Amber didn't have to say anything.
"Yeah sure, bring whoever you like but try and limit the number to about two or three, I don't want my house getting too over crowded." She said smiling innocently. Amber knew exactly who'd they bring.
"So I'll see you at my party tonight?" said Amber.
"Yeah okay then." Penny replied and Seaweed looked quizzically at her. The bell rang loudly and everyone started to pack up.
"Toodles!" Amber said with a fake on her face and strutted out of detention, everything was falling into place.