Slowly pulling away from the kiss she looked over at him. "It's 3 in the morning and if I have any chance of trying to explain all of this to my parents we need to get some sleep instead of kissing in the bathroom. Not that I am complaining at all but sleep. Yes sleep." She said softly as she took his hand as she quietly made her way out of the bathroom and into her bedroom. Pulling the blankets back she smiled at him. "Make yourself comfortable. There is extra blankets in the closet if you need them and pillows in there too. " She continued as she watched him get into the bed. Slowly she walked over grabbing the blanket off the chair that she was using before and a pillow from the chair. "If you need anything I will be downstairs. Okay?"

He looked at her with a surprise look on his face. "Downstair?" He questioned as he sat up in the bed.

"Yea I will be down on the couch. " She answered him honestly and smiled at him. "If you need anything."

He looked back at her shaking his head. "If anyone is sleeping on the couch it is going to be me. Trace this is your house and you are nice enough to have let me stay here when I came in here being a total.. Well you know why now. But I am not going to take your bed away from you Trace. You have been good enough to let me stay here tonight. "

"Link I am fine. You had a long night and it will be a lot more comfortable up here for you. Besides it will be a lot better if my parents find me on the couch and not you. My ma might think you are an intruder and try to hit you with something and I don't want that happening " She giggled at the thought and came over kissing his forehead. "I love you and will see you in the morning. "

Reaching out to grab her arm as she went to leave he shook his head. "Wait. Tracy. I am not letting you sleep on the couch. I have a way we can solve this. We can share the bed. " he gently pulled her down. "Besides. I think I will sleep a lot better with you next to me. "

"Link, I am fine. Seriously I have slept on the couch downstairs a bunch of times. It is really okay. I would rather you be able to stretch out and relax. I love you for worrying about me but I will be okay." She smiled at him.

He looked at her shaking his head. "If you are sleeping on the couch then I am going with you. And I am serious. You go I go. I don't want to sleep in this bed without you. Please don't make me follow you." He winked at her.

"Fine. You are lucky I can't resist that wink." She shook her head. But as soon as you are asleep I am going downstairs." She laid down next to him.

Stifling out a yawns he nodded slowly. "Uh huh. " He knew full well that she would probably be sound asleep before his brain even shut off. Once she was out there was no way he was waking her up. Besides he would never interupt a chance of waking up with the women he loved by his side. He wrapped his arm around her and closed his eyes. "Trace?" He spoke softly as he heard cute mumbles from her lips. She was out to the world. Smiling softly he kissed her head gently. "I love you. " with those words he closed his eyes and slowly drifted into a happy slumber.

Morning came and the sun peered into the window. Tracy and Link were sounds asleep cuddle up together. Happily in their own dream land.

"Tracy honey." A voice called. "Tracy." She called out again and slowly started opening the door. Normally she just had to say her name and she was up and ready to go or she at least gave her a response.

Slowly starting to stir she remember that Link was laying in the bed next to her. What her mother would do to her if she walked in that room right then and there. Without even letting Tracy explain as to why he was asleep in her bed. She jumped up quickly and slid a pair of bedroom slippers on going over to the door before her mom could open it up. "Ma. Sorry." She came out and shut the door quckly behind her. "Ma..." She stopped as she looked at her.

"Tracy are you okay? Is something wrong?" She could tell that her daughter was not acting like herself.

Taking a long deep breath she looked at her. "Ma please don't be mad." She watched as her mother started to look at her. "If I show you something promise me you won't yell at me. I will explain. Just promise that you will not flip out on me. I have a good explanation."

"Tracy Edna Turnblad, what did you do?" She looked at her. "I can't make a promise like that if I don't know what is going on." She watched the look in her eyes and agreed reluctantly. "Fine."

She slowly put her hand on the door knob. "Remember Ma, you promised me that you are not going to yell." She opened the door slowly as Link was laying there. "He is sleeping." She sighed and shut the door. "Ma please don't yell at me. And please don't yell at Link. Trust me nothing happened and nothing would. He just needed a place to go." She sighed a bit as she ran her fingers through her hair.

Edna shook her head and headed down the steps into the kitchen.

"Ma." She called after her as she went into the kitchen. "Please listen to me?"

"Tracy, I know you love him..." She sighed loudly looking at her daughter. "You are way to young for this stuff. You have to consider the consequences of your decisions and things like this are the first start of other things happening and then other things happening and Tracy you are not old enough to be making those types of decisions."

Tracy looked at her sadly as a few tears came down her eyes as the weight of the entire nights before events coming down on her shoulders. She quickly tried to wipe them away before her mother seen them. But it was too late.

"Oh Tracy. I didn't mean to make you cry. You just have to understand. Love is a crazy thing and it does such powerful things to your mind, heart and your body. And sometimes people get caught up in the moment. Sometimes you don't think and it gets your in trouble. I know you and Link are both smart but sometimes being smart gets lost in the heat of the moment. I trust both of you it is just..." She sighed hugging her daughter.

Tracy sighed softly. "Ma. Something happened last night." She watched her moms eyes as the widened quickly. "No no. Nothing like that. I promise. Link came over in the middle of the night. Ma his dad." She sighed softly trying to put the right words together to say it. "He is really mean to him. And not just verbally. Ma he hits Link. And when he came here last night I didn't know what to do. So I let him sleep here. We slept in the same bed but we didn't do anything. I just. I am scared for him."

"Tracy. Sometimes people do bad things. " She sighed stroking her daughters hair. "Link can stay here with us for as long as he likes, but he will stay in the guest room. We will explain it to your father."

"Explain what to me." Wilbur said as he entered the room. "If it has to do with Link being here I know. I heard him come in last night. He hit the wrong window at first. I heard you guys talking. And I trust you Tracy. That's why I didn't say anything. He sounded like he had a bad night. I figured let him sleep it off." He looked at his daughter. "He can stay here. We will fix up the guest room a bit. I don't want him going back into a situation like that. I will go speak to his father later and let him know what is going on." Wilbur continued as she walked over and kissed Edna. "Now would you stop worrying so much. We have a good kid with a good head on her shoulders. I don't think we have anything to worry about."

"Thanks daddy." Tracy hugged her father. "You won't have anything to worry about I promise."