Hello! Interesting title huh? Yeah, I thought that was kind of funny actually. But then again, this story is total fun. Because it's constant, back and forth humor.
Summary: Sam never told her feelings for Danny and their lives continued on, pretty much without each other. Sam was married and raised two girls. And they've lived fairly for ten years. Until…her husband decides to cheat on her with a blonde bimbo who insists on being friends as Sam and Rich separate, the last thing Sam wants, let alone needs. And her eldest daughter Lillith? Only fourteen and suddenly with child. Things couldn't get any more complicated. Wrong!
Okay, for those of you wondering if I'm obsessive over anything else now, yes, I did get this idea from watching another tv show. For those of you who get which one it is or you might probably by the end of this chapter, it is totally different from that show besides the ex—husband and new wife thing and teenage pregnancy ordeal. Those are the only similarities really.
Other than that, all I can say is enjoy, because I'm having a lot of fun working on this.
Disclaimer: Danny Phantom is owned by Butch Hartman and Nickelodeon Studios.
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Raven Manson swung her legs back and forth underneath the table, humming a tune that she'd completely made up on her own and sipping milk through a straw. She had long, silky black hair, a curvy, pale face and indigo colored eyes.
They were compared so much because of their physical similarities that Sam was used to it and had the answer for every statement. And then of course, to describe their emotional and behavioral similarities, she was still working on an answer.
Sam rested her chin on her hands, her elbows propped up on the counter. Her lilac eyes were gazing out the window, staring around at the steadily rising sun. It was about seven o'clock in the morning.
She'd also gotten used to waking up in the mornings. (Not that she was particularly a morning person yet.) She'd been at it for fourteen years and would still rather stay in bed sometimes as she knew her daughters would prefer as well.
Ah, heredity.
"Mommy?" Raven asked. "Do I have to go to school today?"
"And why not?" Sam replied with a grin.
"Because I don't want to," she grumbled. "The boys are stupid."
She laughed. "Yes Raven, you have to go to school."
The five year old made a face, twirling her fork around on her toast and then deciding to stab it several times in defiance. "Stupid boys…"
"Mom, do I have to go to school today?"
Sam looked up, shaking her head at the repeated question but hearing it from a different voice, and saw her fourteen year old daughter, Lillith, enter the room.
Lillith had a shade lighter hair so that it was almost brown instead of black, but paler eyes closer to herself. She had a skinny frame, but this morning, her face was strained and paler than normal, her walk sluggish.
"What's wrong Lil?" Sam asked, concerned.
"I don't feel well," she replied. "My stomach feels horrible."
She pressed her hand against her forehead. "You don't feel warm."
"It's not my head mom," she grumbled. "It's my stomach." She pressed her arms over her stomach and put her head against the table.
Sam frowned, but started when Raven suddenly pointed and said, "Look mom, look!" at the top of her little lungs.
"Raven, inside voice," Lillith requested, looking up to see what the fuss was about.
She blinked several times and turned towards where she pointed and then rushed over to the television, turning it up louder.
"—the world famous, Climax set off for space today, destination Mars. The mission of the shuttle crew is summed up to find out what living conditions are for humans for possible human living space? (Laugh) The shuttle launched earlier last night and should return in three months. We wish all fifteen of the astronauts inside the Climax a safe and fun trip. In other news--"
"Mommy, is the superhero on that rocket?" Raven asked, cocking her head to the side.
Sam smiled. "I think he is," she said. How long it had been since she'd heard from the "superhero" she knew so well…
"He can blast off into space and land on the moooon…" she said, laughing.
Lillith rolled her eyes. "They're going to Mars, not the moon."
"Whatever," Raven retorted.
There was a knock on the door and Sam just barely had to look out the window before she knew who it was. She shook her head and crossed back over to the counter. "No one's here!" she called out absentmindedly.
"Oh, really?" replied a voice. "I'll just come back later then."
The shadowed figure disappeared from the window shade and Sam smacked her forehead.
"Did she just seriously fall for that?" Lillith asked, her face neutral. She would have laughed had it not been for the pain that went through her stomach.
"Yeah…But that's good news for us. I swear if--"
The door to the kitchen opened and two people walked in, one of which was her ex-husband. She sighed heavily as she saw the same person she'd just tricked into leaving her alone alongside with him like a potty trained puppy.
"And someone said that they weren't there and I thought--" she was babbling.
Sam rolled her eyes and turned to her black haired, brown eyed, middle aged ex-husband. "Rich, I swear you were here less when we were married."
"Sam, why did you tell Leann that you weren't home?" Rich asked, raising an eyebrow. The woman hovering over his shoulder stopped talking, waiting for her answer and blinking her bright green eyes several times.
"I would have thought that was obvious…" she retorted.
"Sam, dear," Leann said, swinging her blonde hair back behind her shoulders almost professionally.
"Don't ever call me dear again unless you--" Sam began, making a face.
"Sam…" Rich said.
"Oh, don't Sam me," she grumbled. "Now, before I interrupted, what were you saying that was so very important?" She layered on the sarcasm.
"I was wondering if I could borrow that recipe for your vegetarian lasagna," she said excitedly. "I want to try something."
"And what do you want to try?" Sam asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I was thinking about adding some hamburger--"
"Wait, wait, wait," Lillith interrupted. "You want to put hamburger, in--"
"—vegetarian lasagna!' Sam finished incredulously. "That would just totally diploid the point of vegetarian lasagna, wouldn't it?"
Leann blinked several times. "But--"
"Oh, I'm sorry, I should use smaller words, shouldn't I?" she snapped apologetically.
"Sam, can she borrow the recipe please?" Rich asked.
Sam made a face, muttering to himself to mock him. "No."
The door opened again and a teenage boy walked into the room, shouting excitedly. "Lil, guess what?"
"Chris, inside voice!" Raven yelled, putting her hands over her ears.
"Sorry," Chris whispered, walking past the two adults and over to Lillith. "Lil, guess what?"
"What?" she grumbled into the table.
"Lillith, what's wrong?" Rich asked, concerned.
"I feel like I'm going to--"
"Maybe we shouldn't talk about this during breakfast," Leann said, cringing.
"I don't care," Raven, Lillith, and Sam said together.
"Okay…then," she said, looking around nervously. "Can I please stay home today?"
"Alright," Sam replied sincerely, nodding. "You can stay home. Do you want something to eat?"
"No," she said.
Chris helped her to her feet, his tan face sympathetic. "I'll come with you."
Rich quickly intervened. "I think it would be best if she were to sleep alone without you there," he said.
"Don't even go there Rich," Sam muttered, giving him a look and glancing over at Leann. "We know how well you take your own advice." He laughed uneasily and she turned to her eldest daughter. "Lil, don't mess around with me, I'm trusting you on this. And Chris, you're going to school, you can see her after. Don't make me come up there and get you."
"Got it Miss M," he replied firmly as if talking to a drill sergeant. They walked together out of the room.
"So what about that recipe?" Leann asked, clapping her hands together.
"The answer is still no. This family is totally ultro—recyclo vegetarian, except for Raven, but she's a lacto vegetarian," she replied. "So, your answer is still…no…"
"Use the pan mommy!" Raven said with a giggle.
"What's the "pan?" Leann asked, confused.
Rich laughed again, trying to steer the woman out. "We need to leave now. Raven, do good on your spelling test."
"Reading," she corrected.
"Sorry, reading," he said, rolling his eyes.
By this time, Sam had taken her own daughter's advice and was walking around towards the oven, grabbing a pan handle tightly in her grasp.
"What's "the pan?" Leann repeated.
"I can show you if you like," she replied, picking the heavy metal piece up and looking at her reflection in the metal. She twirled it around and smiled wickedly.
"Come on, Leann, we don't need to see this," Rich said hurriedly, opening up the door. "Sam, are you picking up Raven after school?"
"Yes," she answered shortly.
"Bye!" Leann shouted.
She walked over and closed the door on them both, still holding the pan in her hand and stood by the door, just behind the corner so that she wouldn't be seen by anyone coming in but she could see whoever was coming in.
"I give her twenty seconds," she said. Raven laughed, watching her.
Sam looked at her watch, counting down. "Nine, eight, seven, six…" She pressed a finger to her lips as she heard a car door slam. "Four, three, two…one!"
The doorbell rang and a shadow cast over the window. She slid her hand on the doorknob and quickly pulled back when it opened and gave a Xena cry to make her daughter laugh and held up the pan—
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" said a different voice than they'd both been expecting.
Sam gasped and dropped the pan to the floor loudly, her lilac eyes widening in shock as she saw the familiar, yet unfamiliar face.
He had large, light blue eyes that never darkened and messy black hair strung in his face. He was very tall and built muscular, but skinny.
"Is this how you always welcome your old friends?" he asked, amused as he lowered his hands that had been protecting him from her attack.
"Danny!" she asked, amazed.
Danny grinned. "Greetings earthling."
Okidokies. For future warning; all characters will be fully descripted and explained in later chapters. It'll probably go for details until chapter five. All history and other things will be the same routine. Right now, for the first chapter, I was just introducing all of the main characters. For other characters, yes of course, Jazz and Tucker star in this story. Dash is not in this story. Paulina is of course to make things a bit interesting. And Sam does not know her daughter is pregnant yet. (I can tell you now it's within the next two chapters sometime)
So, for the first chapter, what did you think? I am going to include some sneak peeks in this one, but mostly because I love the story so much. It's really funny throughout the whole thing. So far, my favorite chapters are five, six, seven, eight, and ten.
Here's your sneak peek! Please R&R!
Chapter Two: To The Moon And Back
"No way…does Sam Manson actually have milk in her fridge?" he asked, staring into the bottom half.
"How did I know that as soon as I left the room, you would be in the food?" she countered, grinning.
"Because they didn't have this kind of food where I came back from," he replied. "I am starving."
"Mom, do you have any Tylenol or anything?" Lillith asked, walking into the room. Danny looked over at her, smiling and she gasped, smiling back flirtatiously. "Ooh, mom, who's the hottie?'
Lateraina Wolf