"Sam, you need to get over this stupid shit!" Tucker screamed, his annoyance at the ghost fighter evident. "Danny is clueless and you just can't get over the denial that you care about him!" The Goth in question glared at the dark skinned male, her amethyst eyes shimmering with rage at his accusations.

"I don't have denial about my feeling!" she yelled back. "I just happen to know that Danny doesn't like me like that!" The pair stood almost nose to nose. "Trust me if I even knew that Danny liked me a little bit then I would have stepped up a long time ago, but Danny doesn't do girls like me," she said, her voice softer now, almost calm in comparison to moments ago as she stepped back. "I'm not the cutesy, need to be rescued damsel that he seems to like." A strangled laugh escaped her lips moments later. "And I don't treat people like something under my shoe either."

Tucker knew that she was making a joke now and he wanted her to stop. He always thought that the pair of ghost hunters would get together, but they still danced around their feelings. Even after the Disastroid thing, when it had seemed that Danny was taking on a death mission Sam hadn't stepped up, her fear for the halfa's safety evident as she had watched him get in his ship. He shook his head at her now, his annoyance at the maturity of his friends.

Little did they know that around the corner stood a particular halfa who had been on his way to talk to them. He stood there in shock at what he had just heard, his mind blown by the idea that his best girl friend had feelings for him.

Sam has feelings for me? He didn't know what to think about that. They had been friends since all three of them had entered Casper Elementary and now that they were graduating in just hours he had hoped to talk them into another summer of fun together, but this new information left his mind in the dust while his heart just stopped. What can I say? Do I confess to knowing about this or not? That decision was taken from him moments later when Elliot appeared before the other two ghost fighters.

"You know what, Tucker? I find it so fucking retarded that you think you can tell me what to do with my emotional issues when your own emotions can't choose what girl you want or what to do when you have her!" She turned to Elliot, her amethyst eyes narrowed at the former suitor.

"Hey, Sam, I am sorry for what happened a few years back and I was wondering if you would mind giving me another chance?" Tucker and Danny both stood there, so far away from each other, but both of them on the same thought process. They watched as she looked thoughtful for a moment. "I really am a vegetarian and Goth, but I my name was just so stupid that I thought you would hate it."

"You know what, Elliot; I will give you a chance to redeem your past, but let's start out slow and get to know each other first." The white haired teen smiled broadly as Sam walked off, her obvious disregard of the dark skinned male her way of telling him to fuck off. After the Goths had left Danny approached his technophile friend with a look of absolute shock.

"Hey," Tucker said, his voice quiet. "I assume you saw that." Danny nodded, though admitting he had overheard his two best friends quarreling over him was not something he wanted to admit since it had been a private conversation. "So, now you know. Good, because I have gotten so tired of sitting with that information while the pair of you dance around it like idiots." Walking away he left the halfa alone, the sun high in the skies above him.

"Fuck!" Danny muttered as he smacked his face, the sound of thunder echoing around him as the sun disappeared behind some clouds. "Really?" he asked the skies as rain began to pour on him like a large waterfall. Turning to see that Sam was still outside, her smile soft as she looked at the white haired male next to her as Elliot pointed something out in the skies. This just reeks. Sighing he walked away as the Goth pair headed further out from his view.

Hours later found it time for the graduation ceremony to begin and while Sam had been chosen as the valedictorian she had yet to tell anyone what she would say in her speech, not even her friends knew. When Danny and Tucker arrived in the auditorium they found the new couple sitting in the back by the wall, Sam looking at her phone while her beau checked his own PDA for something important it seemed before putting it away and saying something to the raven haired beauty at his side. She looked up and smiled before returning to her phone, her fingers moving over the pad of the phone.

"Should we sit with her?" Danny inquired only to find that Tucker had moved to sit next to the couple, his obvious hate of the white haired teen apparent as he moved to sit next to his enemy while allowing Danny to sit next to Sam. Unfortunately when he went to sit next to her he found a pair of amethyst orbs narrowed at him.

"I believe the popular table wanted you to sit with them," she stated handing him her phone so he could see the message given to her by Valerie, a teen female he had dated for a short time. "The Phantom is very popular so I would suggest giving your fans what they want." Taking the phone back from him she preceded to text back before pocketing her black cell. "We'll see you at the Nasty later." Turning away from him was an obvious dismissal, but Danny refused to walk off and sat down next to her anyway only to look up and find Valerie as well as Paulina staring at him before getting up to join him, something that made the Goth next to him let out an exasperated groan.

"Hi, Danny," Starr said as she walked past him over to where Tucker sat, his eyes wide as she went to sit by him. Before she could get comfortable though the door opened next to them and Jazz appeared, her teal eyes falling on the techno-geek before moving toward them. As she sat on the other side of Starr Tucker smiled, his teal eyes locking with hers before falling back on Starr's own orbs.

"Um, Starr, could I switch seats with you?" the dark skinned male inquired as he continued to look at the genius sitting on the other side of the cheerleader. At first the blond haired teen looked confused, but with a nod changed seats only to watch in despair as Tucker began to converse with the redhead. While this was going on Paulina and Valerie had seated themselves next to the halfa as the lights dimmed and Lancer began to call order to the large crowd.

Sam finally grew anxious waiting to be called to the front that she stood and headed away from the swarm of people. It wasn't just Danny though, and not the two females that were like little kids begging for the ghost fighter's attention, but one thing that she had never told the pair she called friends was that she hated large crowds because they made her anxious. The biggest thing that could happen during that time was a black out, and having only experienced one in her life she vowed never to let herself fall victim to it again.

"And now Samantha Manson, our valedictorian, will give her speech. Miss Manson." With a sigh of gratitude she headed for the front as applause echoed around her. Her parents sat up front with most of the parents, their proud smiles making her stop because they were hardly ever proud of her. Continuing on she walked up the stairs, a laptop in place on the podium and as she opened it a white screen lowed behind her and the lights on the stag dimmed down. A picture of the school appeared behind her. As she got ready to start she looked toward Elliot who had pulled out a camera and was moving to film her speech.

"Hi, you all know me so there is no need for introduction, but what you don't know about me is that my family is rich so I was always given the best in life until the year that I went to school and that's when I put my foot down and wanted to go to a public school." Gasps were heard as for the first time Sam put out her status, her amethyst eyes falling on the teen females next to Danny as well as the group of popular teens that sat closer to the front. "I also helped fight ghosts with my friends Danny, Tucker, and Jazz, the only people that I even remotely allowed near me, but this is not about me, no, this is about this school and the people who are moving onto the next stage in life."

"For those of you at the bottom of the chain you know what it was like in this large place called Casper High and you know that with all that you suffered that it will be better out there because you stuck to your studies and could rule the world with all that you know. Even though teachers never truly appreciated you for your grades that bosses out there will look at all you can do and will choose you or the simple fact is that most of you will be your own boss." She looked to a group that sat in the back close to where her own friends were. "For the ones in the middle, you had no place to call your own because you were neither extreme. I can't say that life will be easy or hard for you because your lives could definitely go either way. Choose now before you take that step because you may fall on your face and that is all you will be remembered for."

Pictures changed behind her with each sentence, each paragraph. There were several of the out crowd and several of the middle crowd and some of the teachers who were seen high fiving the in crowd while smarter students were ignored. "As for the last class, the class of popular or rich children know that as you had it so easy in class with teachers that passed you so you could play football or for the cheerleaders because someone was a little more show then actual brains," Sam said as the pictures behind her grew more graphic with grades being changed while the actual ones were replaced. It was followed by a blurred image of someone having sex with another student, a teacher filming it while another teacher watched. "Yeah, that may or may not work out in the real world until you become so used you have nothing to offer and then you find that you have no real skills to back up those looks and bodies."

"Miss Manson!" Lancer hissed as he approached the podium only to be stopped as several pictures of his flashed behind her, all of them pretty graphic. "The teachers are stuck here, but you, you have to live with that choice. May your life be grand because it may be the one you didn't want." Walking away from the podium she flashed a smile at Lancer as music blasted through the speakers. The words echoing in everyone's ears as the Goth walked past her stunned parents and past the groups she had equally insulted and praised before walking up to Elliot who was still taping. She flipped off the camera as she said, "Fuck the system." Taking the camera her and the white haired male with her walked out the door as parents erupted from their seats to attack the teachers whose faces had turned red during the speech. Danny was left there in shock as to what had happened while his sister who sat next to a smiling Tucker threw Danny thumbs up.

"What the fuck just happened?"