Chapter 1: The Girl Across the Street
Danny looked out his window and saw them; the moving trucks. He knew he was getting new neighbors. His parents told him that the new family were also ghost hunters. That was bad news for him if these people knew what they were doing. Maybe these people won't be very good ghost hunters, Danny thought to himself.
As Danny continiued to look out the window, he noticed that a small, tan car had pulled into the driveway of the house. Danny looked more closely as the family started to get out of the car.
An older couple of about forty or so got out. These must have been the mom and dad. Then a boy of about twelve got out of the car, with the aid of a small beagle with a yellow halter. That kid must be handicaped or something, Danny thought, continuing to watch as a girl that looked about fourteen or fifteen got out.
The girl cought his attention the most. Her hair was a dark brown while the rest of her family's hair was blonde, and she was tall and thin, while the rest of the family stood a half a head short of her.
"Danny, will you come down here for a moment?" Danny's mom, Maddie, called up from downstairs.
"Uh, yeah, mom. Just a minute," Danny shouted in reply.
He took one last look at the house, then dashed down the stairs.
Later in the Time Stream...
The next day at school, Dannywas talkingwith his friends, Tucker and Sam, in the cafiteria.
"So, you have a new neighbor, huh?" Tucker asked, intrigued about the beautiful girl.
"Yeah, that's what I just said," Danny replied.
"I don't know what the big deal about some new girl moving in," Sam said, a very slight hint of jelousy in her voice.
"Hello, my name is Lia. May I sit here?" Danny whipped around so fast he fell off the crooked circular chair thing. Above him stood his neighbor, laughing lightly.
"Why, aren't you the charmer," Lia laughed, setting aside her tray and helping Danny to his feet again.
"Hey, Fen-twerp!" said an all-too-familiar voice. Dash sauntered cockily up to Danny and grabbed the front of his shirt, pulling Danny face-to-face with himself, "What are you doing talking to my girlfriend?" Dash asked Danny in a dangerous voice.
"What?" yelled Lia incredously, which made the entire cafiteria fall into a deathly silence. "Your girlfriend?"
She got right in Dash's face, causing him to drop Danny. She looked down into his eyes, because she was a good half a head taller than him, too, and looked like a hellhound, with eyes narrowed and mouth pulled back in a snarl. When she spoke, her voice did not sound like an angel as it did a second ago, but sounded as though a demon had entered her and was going to kill Dash, "Who do you think you are? You don't own the school, even if every body else thinks you do. You know what? As soon as you leave these halls, you name will bite the dust. That, DashBaxter,I can assure you." She turned to leave.
"Oh, and another thing," Lia said, tuning around one more time, staring Dash down, "I hate jocks." With that she turned and left.
Even Later in the Time Stream...
As Danny was walking home from school when Lia caught up with him.
"Hey, uh, thanks for getting Dash off me earlier," Danny said.
"No prob. Getting payback on jerks is my speciality," Lia answered with a smirk, "And besides, I really do hate jocks, and he was just asking for it."
"Well, thanks again Lia," Danny said, walking up the stairs to his house.
"Okay. And if you ever need my help again, you know where to find me," Lia answered,walking up to him, pecking him on the cheek and crossing the street to her house.
End of Chapter 1: The Girl Across the Street.
Author's Note: I, like many other kids before me, do not own Danny Phantom and it's characters. BH does. I do, however, own Lia and her family.
Author's Quiz: Lia's little brother does have a dissability. Try and guess what it is and send me an e-mail telling me what you think it is. I'll reveal it in either the third or fourth chapter. Keep on reading, friends. Keep on reading.