Danny grunted as he was slammed hard into grey lockers of Amity Park High School. He sighed looking annoyingly at Dash Baxter who had backed into him while catching a football from his equally popular friend Kwan.
'Watch where you're going, Fenton!' Dash barked, pressing his large hand on Danny's chest so his back crashed into the locker once again.
They continued to pass the football while talking in loud bravado tones and disrupting everybody in the hallway.
Dash Baxter and Kwan no last name were the only freshmen on the football team. They got in due to their enormous body frames which gave them an intimidating bullying status. Danny hated being pushed around. They were freshmen like him! What made it worse was that Danny knew they only acted like it because of the arrogance they got from being on the team. He only tolerated them because of their ability to beat him into a pulp.
He remembered that he had been heading towards his locker and proceeded a few feet down the corridor. He was turning his combination lock when he heard his name being called. Well, shouted.
'Danny!' shouted the Goth girl half jogging towards him.
Danny opened his locker without even bothering to look up to know it was one of his best friends. Sam Manson, you could say, was one of the most unusual girls Danny had ever met.
She was a Goth for start, but never hanged out with the other Goth's in the school for too long. She was an ultra-recyclo vegetarian which meant she never ate anything with a face. She was fond lover of animals and nature and was always protesting for animal and environmental rights. Danny had been friends with her since 2nd grade after Paulina and the other girls ostracised her for not liking Barbie dolls.
'Hey, Danny' Sam repeated as she came up beside him.
Danny looked up at her as he began to pile his books into his locker. He acknowledged her with a small smile.
'Hey' he replied.
'Would you be able to help me put up posters in the cafeteria?' Sam asked looking hopeful.
Danny looked into her hands and saw a dozen posters which colourfully depicted the importance of recycling. He knew that she must have spent the past few nights drawing them up herself.
'Sure' Danny said without much enthusiasm.
'Are you okay?' Sam wondered as she looked at him, 'you sound like Lancer at the end of every English class'.
'Sorry' he grumbled, 'I'm just in a bad mood'.
He closed his bag which was now full of his biology and geography books and banged his locker shut. He held out his arms for the posters.
Sam handed him the posters and they began to walk towards the school cafeteria.
'We've got three periods left anyways til freedom', Sam said in a cheery tone which contrasted her dark appearance, 'anyways, I've been waiting all week for you to tell me about the ghost portal'.
Glad for the change of subject, Danny recounted all of the preparations his parents were making to build a portal which would connect our world to the ghost world (if by chance it was successful).
Danny was telling Sam of his parents' wacky invention plan as they entered the cafeteria. There was a sophomore couple staring at each other in the corner table of the room, but most had ventured outside after eating their lunch.
Sam began to pin blue tack on the walls while Danny pressed the posters against it. Sam adjusted the poster and smoothed it over so the artwork could be seen clearly. They continued this for a few minutes while they casually discussed the ghost world, when Danny heard the familiar footsteps of his other best friend.
Tucker Foley, as always, had his PDA in his hand as he walked over towards them. His eyes were focused down on the device as he walked towards them. He didn't seem to notice where he was going and tripped over his own feet as he didn't see the slimy remains of spilt Jell-o.
Danny laughed and Sam rolled her eyes. Danny went over to offer him an arm and help him off the floor. Tucker glared at Danny's smile and rejected his arm. He pushed himself off the ground unsteadily and walked towards Sam who was putting up the last poster.
'Where were you?' Sam asked him as she smoothed the poster over.
'Mrs. Brookes held the class back for 20 minutes' Tucker said as he yawned.
'How come?' Danny asked, still grinning about Tucker's fall.
'Star and Valerie wouldn't shut up about the new guy Star met when she went to New York so we couldn't finish our assignment in time' Tucker muttered.
'That's why Tucker's in foul mood' thought Danny.
Tucker was the type of kid who always tried to flirt with girls who found him intensely creepy and usually ran away in repulsion.
The bell rang and other students began to pile in from the doors to make their way back to the hallway.
'Meet you guys by the front door afterschool?' Sam asked them as she had to go the other direction to get to her sociology class.
'Sure' Danny and Tucker replied as they made their way towards the school labs.
