"Link are we nearly there yet?" groaned Penny from the backseat of his car. Tracy was applying some lipstick with his side view mirror and Seaweed and Penny had been making out for the past five minutes until Penny had just spoke up. Link had hoped he never would be going near Amber's house again in his life but Tracy had convinced him it would be a good thing to do since Amber had been nice to them recently. None of the four teenagers wanted to go in the first place but they all had persuaded themselves and each other that it would be polite to go.

"Yeah we are coming up to it now." said Link. Amber rarely threw house parties when they were dating as her mother wouldn't have wanted to mess up her house but since her mother was gone and Amber was supposedly living on her own she'd decided to throw a house party. Link had only been to two of her parties and they never turned out good. Link saw Tracy gazing out the window looking quite miserable. He knew hat she'd been looking forward to night out with him alone and this was the last place she wanted to come but being the kind hearted person she is she agreed to come for Amber's sake even though Amber had always been a cow to her. He'd such an amazing evening planned, dinner at the fanciest restaurant in town, then they'd go dancing, it would have been perfect. Finally they reached her house, Link knew it all to well. It was a tall grand house painted a creamy colour everything was so plain no bright colours in sight except in an attempt to brighten up the place he noticed that Amber had scattered white fairy lights all over the roof of her house. It really didn't do anything. There were already loads of people walking into her house and there were even some hanging about outside, the people arriving now really weren't the usual crowd who would come to her parties. They got out of the car and walked up to her door, Seaweed knocked on it and suddenly Amber opened the door and put on a big fake smile. Link did really not like the look of that.

"Seaweed, Penny, Link and Tracy!" You made it, it's great to see you!" she squealed. They walked into the living room, the room was filled with people dancing and it looked like the party was in full swing. They stood over beside the drinks table, none of them felt like dancing. He noticed that Tracy was staring at Amber's grand father clock willing it to go faster, he felt exactly the same way. Why were they even here? This was stupid, they should really just go no one is forcing them to stay here. Suddenly the door burst open and a big group of teenagers came in, they were holding bottle of beer and they looked pretty rowdy. He felt his heart pumping faster and Tracy latched onto his hand.

"Hey who invited you here?" said Amber, Link did really not like the tone of her voice it sounded all to knowing.

"Link I really don't like the look of this, can we just go?" Tracy pleaded Link, she obviously was feeling a lot worse than he was.

"I know what you mean lil' darlin. I'll tell Seaweed." He said calmly.

"Hey Seaweed I think we should go." he said.

Seaweed nodded his head in agreement, "Yeah this really ain't our scene."

They got up and walked over to the door when they heard one of the older teenagers shout,

"Hey look it's the Corny Collin's kids!"

Link gulped, this wasn't going to turn out good.

"Well go on give us a dance!" he shouted tipsily and then downed another can of beer and the rest of his group laughed loudly and they looked like they had a lot to drink too.

They all walked up to them and Link took a step back and he felt the hard cold door hit against his back, if only he could reach that handle they could get out of here.

"We were just leaving." said Seaweed trying to show that he was unaffected by their sudden ganging around them.

"Aw so soon, you are not even going to give us a dance with your girls." He said and looked at the rest of his gang and then two of them grabbed Tracy and Penny.

"Let go!" shouted Tracy but they had a strong grip around her. Tracy and Penny tried to pull away when Link stepped in and pulled the two girls away from them.

"Well I don't really go for nerds and fat chicks anyway!" and they all started to laugh.

"Shut up!" shouted Link and he stood taller and braver.

"Oh so the skinny white boy talks. Well Link, if that's your name I thought you would have a bit of a better taste she really isn't your type. I mean I bet the only reason your dating her is because she is easy. How's she in bed? I'd say she'd turn into a right wee minx but she'd probably just squash you." He said spitefully and his whole group burst into fits of laughter. Link felt the anger bubbling up inside of him but before he did anything Seaweed spoke up.

"Hey will you shut up and stop disrespecting my friends!" he yelled at him. Link could see from the corner of his eye Amber standing there pretending to be shocked but he knew it was all an act.

"Me shut up? Negro boy I think you should be the one to shut up." But before he could continue Tracy swung her leg right into his crotch. The boy fell onto the ground in pain and the rest of his group looked at her astounded.

"GO!" she screamed and they ran out of the house and sprinted to Link's car. Penny and Tracy jumped into the backseat and Link and Seaweed got into the front.

"Hurry up man!" shouted Seaweed as Link tried to get the car started as the rest of the gang were running out after them. The car started at the nick of time and Link floored it and drove as fast as he could away from the place. He sped up the road not heading in any particular direction, just getting as far away from Amber's house as possible. He pulled in outside a closed shop, it was pitch black outside and there was not another person in sight.

They sat in complete silence but not an awkward one, they were just so relieved to get out of that place, away from the danger.

Link was about to speak but he didn't bother he sat still.

"Are you okay Tracy?" said Seaweed and Link turned round immediately at the mention of her name.

He saw her face was buried in Penny's shoulder and Penny waved them to turn back around. Link felt his heart sink, this was the second time today she had cried. She shouldn't have to put up with all this. He knew exactly why she was crying, it was because of what that drunken jerk had said. He started the car again and drove toward Maybelle's place. Seaweed looked over at him and gave him a sympathetic look. The silence returned in the car again except for a small sniff every once in a while from Tracy. This had been such a terrible day except when Tracy and him went off during school. He knew from the start that going to Amber's place was not a good idea

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Hey this chapter is really short because I'm hoping to write shorter chapters so that means I can update sooner. Please read and review xxx