CHAPTER 2

Tracy was all dressed up in her black and white dress and her white boots. She had just flattened her hair when Penny walked into her room.

“Wow, you look great!” Penny exclaimed as she pulled Tracy out of the room and downstairs. Luckily, Edna or Wilbur, who were both watching TV, didn’t catch them. Seaweed was in his car and fixing his hair when the girls got in.

“Hey, Tracy. Lookin’ good, but where’s link?” Seaweed asked.

“That’s why I came along! Amber was talking to him after school and then he ditched me and said it was just an emergency, but would you believe that?’ Tracy blurted out.

“Um…no?” Seaweed said.

“Amber probably paid someone to make him goto the party and not bring you,” Penny told her.

“It’s sort of obvious Penny,” Tracy said.

“Yeah, Link. You finally ditched Tracy?” one of his friends said giving him a high five.

“Yeah,” Link said giving him a half smile.

His friend looked confused. Then he knew what was bugging him.

“Dude, cheer up. This is just a party,” he said. “it’s not like you told her, right?”

“No,” Link said. “of Course I didn’t tell Trace where I was going. Just like Brad said, I told her I had an emergency and she said I could go.”

“Really?” asked his friend. “That’s an awesome girlfriend letting you go to a party all just because you lied to her.”

“Yeah,” Link sighed. “She is.”

“Okay then! Let’s get this party started!” his friend exclaimed and looked toward Amber’s dj player. The dj looked at him and turned up the music louder.

His friend walked away screaming to some other teens who had just arrived. Link sighed and looked down at his sneakers. He lifted up his right leg and held the bottom of his shoe. Right on the side of his sneaker was written TRACY LOVES YOU VERY MUCH! In great big bolded letters. Gosh, did he love her too!

The first day he laid eyes on her was the one day he would never forget. It was about three years ago when it happened actually. He remembered seeing her dancing in detention with Seaweed. He remembered telling her about the Corny Collins Show and if he saw her dancing like that, Corny Collins would’ve put her on the show.

Link also remembered the time he bumped into her before he left the detention room to go to the station. Ever since then, his life began to change. She cam came on the Corny Collins Show, he went to detention with her, he went to Seaweed’s mom platter party with her and her he also got to dance with her that night. He favorite thing he did though, was singing the song Without Love of how much he loved her. But the only thing he knows he’ll never forget was when he had kissed her at the Miss Teenage hairspray Pageant.

He sighed another long sad sigh. He really started to miss her.

‘Maybe I should go home and call Tracy’ he thought in his mind. He then got off the wall and headed toward Amber’s gate to get to his car. But just then Amber stopped him.

“Where are you going?” she asked crossly, folding her arms.

“Home,” Link answered back more crossly. “I need to call Tracy.”

“Call Tracy?!” Amber shouted. “What do you mean call Tracy?!”

“I have to talk to her,” Link said walking away from Amber. Amber grabbed his arm and he turned around.

“Let go of me,” he ordered grabbing her arm and trying to unleash her grasp but Amber held on good and tight.

“Not until you kiss me,” Amber said smirking.

“No way,” Link said trying to break free. Amber yanked on his arm and he moved closer to her.

“Amber, let go of me,” he ordered again. “I want to leave.” Amber held on tighter. Link screamed a little from the pain her fingernails were causing because they were digging into his arm.

Tracy, Penny and Seaweed got to the party after seaweed had to quietly explain to his mom, Motormouth Maybelle, of where they were going. He stopped the car behind a truck. Tracy, Penny, and Seaweed all got out of the car an ran toward Amber’s gate that led to her backyard. They stopped before reaching the gate.

“Go on, Tracy,” Penny encouraged her. “We’ll wait here.”

“Are you sure?” Tracy asked nervously. Penny and Seaweed nodded and Tracy smiled. She unlocked the gate and walked away from them and around the corner.

“I’m telling you for the last time Link,” Amber said not letting go. “Kiss me and I’ll let you go.”

“Never!” Link said trying to pull his arm free. Amber was just about to pull harder when she saw Tracy talking to one of her friends. Amber knew how to deal with Tracy and to break up her and Link. She pulled Link’s arm harder and just before Tracy could stop him, he and Amber were kissing.

“No!” Tracy cried. Penny heard Tracy cry and her and Seaweed rushed into the party.

Link heard Tracy scream no and he shoved Amber’s lips and her away from him. He looked over at Tracy who now had large tears coming down her cheeks.

“Tracy it’s not what you think…,” he began. Tracy closed her eyes quickly and more tears came down. She shook her head sadly at him, disappointed and yet hurt. She turned around and ran back around the corner, her eyes full of tears and Penny following close behind her.

“Hey cracker boy, is that how you white people show love? Last time I checked, you don’t ditch your girl and kiss someone else. Oh. Wait. That’s call cheating! Something your obviously good at!” Seaweed spat and stormed off after Penny and Tracy.

“Don’t listen to him, Link. Black’s are short tempered,” Amber said; loudly so everyone could hear. Since Seaweed was the only black there, he quickly spun around and shouted.

“You know what Amber? Blacks are more loyal to their girls than you whites so shut up!” he then ran back around the corner and over to his car where he saw Penny sitting in the back with Tracy comforting her. Tracy was weeping and looked a mess.

“he ditched me for Amber!” Tracy sobbed getting tears on Penny’s baby blue dress.

“He doesn’t know what he’s missing, Trace!” Penny said. Seaweed got in the drivers seat, started up the car and then headed to Tracy’s house.

“Tracy, he’s unloyal and cares about himself and himself only! It’s been that way since I can remember,” seaweed told her.

“You don’t understand! He could’ve told me what he was doing and I would’ve let him go but he didn’t! He went and kissed Amber right in front of me!” Tracy wailed.

“Don’t worry, we won’t let him in spitting distance of you or your house,” Penny said proudly.

“Yep, and if he tries to get near you, I’m going to beat him stupid,” Seaweed laughed.

“Thanks guys. I’ll see you tomorrow at school,” Tracy said. She got out of the car and closed the door behind her. She ran up in to her house and quietly closed the door trying not to wake up her mom and dad. The lights were all off so she thought she was going to get away with going to a party and missing curfew.

Suddenly, the lights came on from inside the living room. Edna Turnblad got up off the chair and walked over to Tracy. Staring coldly at her daughter, she folded her arms.

“Tracy Edna Turnblad!” her mother began. “Where have you been? You had me worried-“

“Link kissed Amber,” Tracy said and she bursted into tears. Edna ran over to her daughter and wrapped her arms around her.

“Oh I’m so sorry, honey,” she said. Tracy broke free of her mother’s hug.

“I’ll be fine,” Tracy said wiping away her tears.

“I’m going to bed.” Her mother nodded and tracy ran up the stairs and into her room.

Suddenly, as she got tp her room, her phone rang. She hesitated to pick it up but she did anyways. She sat down on the edge of her bed and picked up the phone.

“Hello?’

“Tracy, listen. Amber was just-“

“Link, I don’t want to talk, heck, not ever!”

“No! I didn’t know she was going to make a move! She had my arm-“

“link! We both know how she is and yet you still go to the party!”

“I had no idea she was having the party at her house!’

“you don’t think that I was embarrassed? Everyone knows that you cheated on me!”

“I’m sorry!” Link cried his voice getting higher.

“Bye.” Tracy hung up her phone and laid down on her bed putting her face into her pillow. She cried and cried until she fell asleep. Then she remembered, he would try and talk to her tomorrow at school.