Chapter 1

Danny Fenton and his friends Sam, Tucker, and Emily sat by themselves at their lunch table because nobody else wanted to sit with them. The foursome was often called the "Unpopulars", made up of the four biggest misfits in the 9th grade at Casper High. Sam was the weird vegetarian Goth girl, Tucker was the PDA obsessed techno-geek, Emily was the lowly cripple, who provided spectacular entertainment to the popular crowd by falling on her face at least once a week. And Danny...well, he didn't stand out. He didn't get great grades, but he didn't fail every class, either. He didn't excel at art, neither did he like music. He was forgettable, at least, that's how he seemed to the popular crowd. He was ordinary.

City lights shine down upon the place that I call home
Surrounded by a million but I feel like I'm alone
And I might be a nobody to you
But if I'm playing, would you listen?
If you would get to know me
Maybe you would love me
I'm so ordinary

Dragging 'round an old guitar that I can't even play
I fade into your background like a piece of yesterday
I might be a nobody to you
But somewhere they're gonna listen

If you would get to know me
Maybe you would love me
I'm so ordinary
And if you would let me know you
Maybe I would show you
Wouldn't we be something?

Sad the way we always seem to pass by one another
Hiding, so afraid of the things we might discover
Caught up in a moment that only you can live in
You never know who's giving the air that you might breathe in

If you would get to know me
Maybe you would love me
I'm so ordinary
And if you would let me know you
Maybe I would show you
Wouldn't we be something?

City lights shine down upon the place that I call home
Surrounded by a million but I feel like I'm alone
And I might be a nobody to you
But somewhere, they're gonna listen

But Danny Fenton wasn't as ordinary as he seemed. The three people sitting around him were the only people-besides his sister Jazz-that knew that Danny was half ghost. An ill-fated lab accident with his parents Ghost Portal months ago had altered his DNA and made the teen half ghost. Ever since then, it was routine for Danny to stop in the middle of his sentence and chase after whatever ghost was harassing him at the moment. Usually, he was accompanied by one of his best friends, and also half-ghost, Emily Link.

Emily was sitting next to Sam at the table, which had Danny and Tucker on one side and Emily and Sam on the other. While she was sitting, she looked perfectly "normal". She had medium-length dirty blond hair that fell to about a little past her shoulders. At the moment, her hair was pulled back with a deep blue hair tie. Her hazel eyes looked animated as she chatted with her friends. Emily, though extremely shy with strangers, was the queen of gossip when she was with her friends. She had a fierce temper, but forgave easily-sometimes too easily, her friends thought. The only things that gave away that there was anything unusual about the young girl was the slight stutter in her speech and the bright blue forearm crutch propped up next to her.

Emily was born with mild cerebral palsy, which affected all of the muscles in her body, including her speech, her walk, balance and her motor skills, to name just a few. She was able to walk unaided, but used one forearm crutch most of the time. Not only did she have ghost powers, but she also had incredible healing powers. These powers were given to her when she was an infant by Isabelle-the Healing Ghost. For reasons still unclear to Emily, Isabelle had given the premature baby girl these healing powers, and using them, Emily had saved Danny's life many times. She had also saved Sam's life once when the raven haired girl was dying of pneumonia, and for that, Sam was deeply grateful.

Sam was the moody, Goth, Ultro-Recyclo vegetarian of the group. Her hair was a deep black, although Danny, having known Sam for most of his life, knew that that wasn't its natural color. She was a strong animal rights activist, and she had once tried to run a Save the Frogs campaign against dissecting frogs. Unfortunately, her plot had been thwarted by Danny and a couple of rogue ghosts. She never let Danny forget it.

Tucker was the African-American techno-geek. He never went anywhere without his various PDAs. Danny had suspected that his best friend slept with those PDAs, but he had never confirmed it. Those PDA's did come in handy, though, when there was some technological task to do, such as turning the lights out. It was also extremely useful for ghost fighting. Danny and Emily stored backup files of all the ghosts they've ever seen on Tucker's PDA. Whenever a new ghost came along, it was added to the files immediately. Other than his obsession with technology, Tucker was a C-student. He didn't necessarily have to be-it was just that he thought paying attention to the lesson was a waste of time. His one good quality was his sense of humor. Tucker was naturally funny, though he never seemed to notice this fact.

These four were the outcasts, the outsiders. Even the lowest kids on the social scale didn't want anything to do with them. The foursome existed in a lonely world, a solitary world, with only the others for company. The others either tortured them for sport, or else ignored them completely. But the foursome never seemed to know or care what others thought of them. They were perfectly content to have each other-for the moment.

A/N: Yaaayy! I have writer's block, so what do I do? Create a new story! AND-trumpets blow-this is my first songfic! Not all the chapters will be songfics, only some of them. It will mostly be Saving Jane songs, although I might include a couple others that I think might fit in with the story. Oh yeah, and I guess I should include a disclaimer this time, since I'm actually using other content than the TV show or book.

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN DANNY PHANTOM, OR ANY SONGS I MAY INCLUDE IN THIS FIC. The only thing I own is Emily-and she's a pretty damn good thing to own, in my opinion. OC's rule!