I was stressed out trying to do this but weedee (Wendy) told me this:
To link without the link showing up, you just need to click the "insert link" button. Once you put your link in, you have to edit the HTML code and replace the link not in quotations with whatever you want it to say instead.
From there, I messed around with it, wanted to throw my computer out the window a few times, but I finally got it!