Lavada and I ignored the argument during the whole lunch hours. For me, I'm glad to have a company to deal with this or it would be trying to get Sam's and Tucker's attention on me.

"So, Lavada. How old are you?" My mind needed to know basic.

She finishes up chewing her salad, "I'm sixteen years old, how about you?"

I chuckled, "Same as you are."

"That's good, I guess?"

"It's good, some of our classmate failed either Freshman or Sophomore years." I shrugged and kept my eyes on her.

"Wow, low standard here?"

My eyes blinked to hear the words from Lavada about our school. Is this normal for someone to say it this way?

"Did you go to a private school or something?" My voice took over.

Lavada shook her head, "It's too expensive for my parents to pay. My parents expect high priority of my education." There's that sweet grin.

"Oh, then I can see the plan for study group tonight is strongly welcome."

"What?" Two voices spoke up from their argument and setting it aside now.

Lavada nods and my shoulders shrugged to even react. I pointed at Lavada for Sam and Tucker to find out.

"I thought we all could do a study group tonight, seeing there's a few test this week." She explained when moving her hair back to see well.

Sam looked uncomfortable about this, "Not that I don't accept that, it's rude to come over to someone's house who is probably haven't finished unpacking."

Tucker nodded to agree with Sam and that didn't dawn on me before about moving into places since I was born in this city. Sam, on the other hand has moved twice before she came here and met Tucker and me in middle school.

"Oh, everything is fine at my house. I spent my entire time in my vacation putting it all away since I didn't know anyone or this place." She put some salad into her mouth.

"Well, if Lavada says it's fine. I say it couldn't hurt." Tucker approved.

Sam and I scowled at Tucker for being way too modest with the fact I have a patrol night to do. Damn, now I must use lies like bathroom or snack. Perhaps getting some training to duplicate myself more often would be wise to do over the weekend or free time. I can't have anyone knowing my secrets. Not even Lavada.

"Is everything okay? I won't mind if you guys have plans tonight." Lavada mentioned that caused me to chuckle.

"Nah, Tucker forgets that he has an appointment before dinner." I hurried to put the food into my mouth for obvious reasons.

Tucker stared at me and pulled out his PDA to check his schedule once he realizes, "Oh, yes. I do have an appointment. Thanks, Danny. You're my life saver." His eyes rolled.

Sam took quite amusement on Tucker, "Hey, call me when you're done with your appointment. I promised my parents I'd get home for dinner for little while."

I nodded, "Can do, Sam." I smiled, "At least some of us can study together."

Lavada had no clue about what we are truly talking about and that's how I wanted it to be. Sam and Tucker caught on fast and there's nothing to stop us from patrolling for ghosts.

"What about you Danny?" Lavada asked.

"I just have to meet up with my sister at the Nasty Burger to let her know more of my plans tonight. My curfew is ten o'clock." I informed her carefully.

We all ended up silent for the entire lunch time and manage to eat the rest of our food. Sam and Tucker were so over the fight this time. We had to be cautious of our actions and mainly, the entire day hasn't had a single ghost attack other than a no-show-wimpy ghost. Whoever did that attack was must be a distraction or just a one-time revenge. Hell, Sam and Tucker haven't said a word since Lavada welcome is important to our class.

I spent good time getting to know about Lavada like the fact she is into being journalism. My instinct took good note of that to prevent a giveaway of my secret. We survived through the entire day at school and settled into the plans for the day. Sam meets up with Lavada and me, Tucker waved and hurried off home to do his part of the patrol, and it's going well so far. Lavada started to lead the way to her house and I thought she'd get a ride home. Man, I rather fly to get to place. Lavada didn't have much worry in a rush. Sam and I recognize the streets every day because this is the street Sam lives on. We were getting very close to Sam's house and Lavada took a turn to the house that is practically next to Sam's!

Sam's eyes snapped wider than ever, full of confusion, and shuttering a few times in a whisper. Lavada turns around to see us and my thoughts are blur with everything.

"…how are you even my neighborhood, Lavada?" Sam asked right off the back.

She grinned, "My dad made a private business to find a place without letting our neighbors bothering us when we are so busy." Lavada gestured us to come inside.

I shrugged and followed her in, "Impressive, is there anything you can't do?"

Sam joined along, "Are you rich or something?"

"No, my parents just know the right people. Nothing serious." She grinned.

We could see the house didn't have much around since it's simple and the fact we're in the living room due to the couch. Lavada leads us to the couch and we all sat down to are sure we faced each other. Sam pulled out her cell phone and texted Tucker the details of our whereabouts. My feeling is that Tucker is going to react about the neighbor with Sam. We relaxed before we could start onto our studying or homework.

"Drinks anyone?" Lavada offers when she stood up.

Sam nods, "I'll have water please."

My eyes rolled, "I'm fine with soda."

Lavada smiled and headed out to the kitchen which gives Sam and me some privacy. Immediately, Sam took advantage to have our original conversation before meeting up with Lavada.

She whispers loud enough for me to hear, "Tell me more about that recent ghost attack you had before you came back to the class and Lavada joined us."

Oh, I forgot about that for a minute, "Yeah," I whispered along, "It was weird, I didn't see any of the ghosts and it was a red ghost ray hitting me on my chest, and nowhere to find out. I tried to hang around more and nothing. I gave up and kept my guards up."

She blinked, "Vlad wouldn't do that knowing how he plans carefully. We'll have Tucker look into the list and see who it could be."

That was the simple plan and Sam immediately texted Tucker to know what was going on and perfect enough, Lavada's entrance into the living room with a tray of our drinks. We began to start the easiest homework which is history. We all spent our time quizzing each other when writing down the answers on our homework. It's certainly fun when you do a study group and come down a conclusion to remember it well. We felt confident to take the test for history and agreed to do this more often. Though, Sam and I figured it'll have to work out with our patrolling plans. There is no way we could have risk Lavada discovering my ghostly secret and exposed it to the world.

A doorbell rang and this came well as we thought the plan to be. Lavada sets down the tray on the table in the middle of us and headed out to the door to answer. Typically, it's Tucker with his love of PDA and his smile to discover her home. The irony of Sam's neighbor of unknown. Hell, Tucker is definitely pestered Sam about she doesn't know everything.

"Hey Sam, you said you need me to let you know my appointment is done? I just got finished like ten minutes ago." Tucker reminded her, about her turn to patrol secretly.

Sam sighs and packed up her backpack, "My parents, Lavada, stay away." She warns and started to head out.

Lavada froze when she heard the warning and Tucker laughed off with his senseless humor.

"Sam means well due to believing her parents suffocate her with the world shallowest clothes and disapproving in rebellion." I explained and she loosens up.

Sam wasn't with us this time and Tucker started to join us for homework and studying group here. He caught up fast with history homework since he got his highly advance PDA that Sam got him for his birthday. It was a deal that he won't dare to shop online or she will have him to return it to her and works for her minimum wages. Tucker clearly took that seriously and kept that promise since then.

After finishing up history homework, we landed onto health homework. We felt confident to know all the answers due to Dash's project and hell, he'd hate it if we laugh at him senselessly. It's certainly fun to do this when you have new ways to study and takes about ten minutes to finish it up. We worked together on math with Tucker's oh-amazingly-good at math for his brain. At least he's good at explaining to Lavada and me. This took much longer than the rest to study on and finally, I have drawn to one conclusion.

"Tucker, you ought to be a math teacher. Seriously." I admitted.

He chuckled, "And not be with the love of technology? No thank you, Danny. Teaching is only for my friends. No one else." He smiled.

Lavada shook her head, "You can have a teacher career for the week and on the weekend involving the love of technologies, Tucker." That clearly has a huge point.

"Hm, I'll think about it. I make no promise to my future." He laughed off.

Tucker glances at his PDA for the time of day and groans, "Man, I got to go. Mom is expecting me to help cook with her for punishment." He muttered and started to gather his homework and text books.

"If you had my curfew, Tucker, you'd come home when you want to or less grounding or punishment like that." I shrugged.

Tucker nodded and heads out the door to his own personal doom. Lavada laughed to see his miserable behavior and I turned to see her laughing. We sat very close to each other and focused on science. I became the teacher for her to understand the chemical reading and the cause and effect of chemical. To me, it's relating to create the space shuttle somewhat and that we need chemical to be less harmful to our planet Earth. Lavada took a long time to understand the process until I discovered a connection to help her. Her mind is somewhat like I view, connect to something you'd love, and I used her journalism example by having her write out if she has to report about this article here. She caught on fast and I felt like Tucker did with math on us. We finally got passed our chemistry homework and headed into the very last homework. English. Damn, I don't want to waste any time on that and I hurried up to hide my stupidity. Lavada noticed how fast I was going and grabs my hand. I glance up at her and blushes.

Her sweet smile, "Need help? I haven't forgotten you said that you're not good at English. You helped me with chemistry, I'll help back." She slide down and grabbed our book that is written by Shakespeare and titled of Macbeth.

"Su-sure." I shuttered, dammit!

She carefully opens the book and returned to where we started off today. She explained how Macbeth is a foolish man to believe the witches to gain the highest power by killing anyone that gets in his way of power. How insane he becomes and more paranoid to other people.

"…when Macbeth's friend discovered the plan after what the witch foreseen and told him about his future. He had to make his own sacrifice to keep a secret in order to keep his power higher than the rest of the kingdom." Lavada explains well enough for me to understand all of the story and its old language.

"He did it out of selfish to be a king and stay as a king to live forever? Damn, I wouldn't want to do that if it causes to lose my own best friend and my mental health." I scoffed.

Lavada nodded to see that I caught on and understood well. We took a break and laid back on the couch. I almost rested on her and turned to her to see the smile. Her smile transformed into the creepiest one I have ever seen. She grabbed my hand and forced something onto my finger with something round, dark green and black, and it tightens up.

"HEY!" I was shocked to see such behavior like this!

Smirk planted across her face, "You are so gullible, Daniel."

"What-wait, what are you talking about?" I had to panicked for some reason, butterfly stomach turned into a stirring stomach.

I hurried up to back up, started to run, and there's horrific shocking starting up at my hand through my entire body. My instinct gave an urge to scream and fall down to the floor. How is Lavada doing all of this? What does she knows about me? I could see her laughing at me, the terrifying laughter of her voice made me lose confident to have a simple crush on a person, and Lavada bent down with her evil grinned smacking me in the face.

The horrid shocking ends, my body trembles and gathered myself together, and feared to what could happen next.

"I finally got you now, Daniel," She dragged me back onto the couch and made sure I lay down, "I was very surprised you didn't even recognize me and the plan was perfect." She chuckled and patted my hair oddly.

I looked at her eyes, "I-I don't even know who you are!" I wanted to move, so frozen up to shocked up all over again.

She dragged my head up and forced me to look closely, "My eyes should tell you."

I meet up at her eyes and carefully look into them, "I-I…" Then something came to me and somehow lost my voice, "…Vlad…" I whispered quietly.

She smirked and transformed to the actual Vlad Masters, "You are correct, my boy." He loosened up with holding me.

I didn't dare to move, whatever his new invention for the ring was, and I couldn't risk of being killed to electricity shock. Vlad grabs my hand with a forced ring and admired to his own achievement for today.

"Or should I say, boyfriend." He called me.

That made me want to puke, "What?" I looked at him insane enough.

"You are really that clueless, Daniel?"

I blinked to get the plot of his together, "…dude, you're way older than me!"

He laughed at me, "No. I meant for Lavada form, you are my boyfriend. I purposely set that up so I can have you in my hands without anyone stopping me. I can't have your parents, your sister, and your friends looking for you." He forced my hand up at my face where I could see the ring, "I created this ring a purpose to keep you in control. You will be forbidden to run away, that will cause to shock you tremendously. Disobeying my orders will force you to say embarrassing things. I can hone down your power when I want to announce them and lastly, I can track you down. Understand, Daniel?"

Damn, he had it all planned out well and gulped down of information from my own arch enemy or say that he became my…boyfriend or girlfriend here?

"Yes." I didn't know what to say personally and he dragged me up by forcing me to sit down.

"Good, I do not want you to write or say anything to anyone about this plan of mine with you. If so, you will go down with me whether you'd like it or not." He forced me to rest on his chest and patted my hair, or messing with them.

I stared down at the homework we studied earlier and it was all a lie. He knew his education well and I felt like a fool or an idiot to think I'm like a teacher here.

"Let's get back onto your English study. Or, I should say, iour/i studying." He picked up a book and carried on to what we mentioned before.

Man, it was difficult to see the fact that Vlad Mast…damn, even his made up last name tricked me. Messtar, massstar, masters…all sounded alike. His first name for a female said was Lavada…damn, it's like all the lettering is mixed up. Why didn't Sam or Tucker or I caught on?

A slap on my head and looked at him angrily, "What?"

"You are not focusing. I want you to take seriously on your education if I am keeping you under my hands." His third order within five minutes.

I sighed, "I can't make any promises." Another slapped at my head.

"Would you like a shock add before you disobey me?" He threatens me with his blue and evil eyes.

"No!" I immediately defended for myself, never going near that shocking through my body.

"I expect A plus average from you." His hand rubs my arm.

This felt so strange, unusual of Vlad, and studying carefully to prevent any…time to go through like this. I crushed on a girl side of Vlad and felt completely sick and horrible. Then it dawned on me, he was the one who came to school when he was a ghost, and he manipulated everyone. Damn, he was too good in acting and everything. And I almost was going to ask 'Lavada' out on a date? Ugh! This cannot be happening.

"What are you up to, Vlad?" I asked before he sets down the book.

His smirk did not lighten things up for me, "That's for you to find out and for me to know. I purposely knew all you speaking some sort of code for ghost business." He held my chin tightly in his grip, "Don't worry, you will have some sort of freedom when the time comes."

Great, if I want to get on Vlad's side and be free of him in a way. I'd need to be careful how I behave and how focus I am in my education. There's no way in hell he will have me forever and suddenly, my stomach turns for the fact he's my girlfriend and I feel like I'm the girl in this part. Dang it, Vlad! At least I have a privacy on my mind from the likes of him.

"Oh, yes, your phone. Hand them over to me," His hand gestured to be handed over.

I groaned and removed them out of my pocket, "You will get them back tomorrow morning." He removed it from my hand.

"…I better be, Jazz text me too you know?" I hinted.

He looked so amused to his little game here, "If she ask if you have receive a text from her, tell her you got it. Nothing else, if she dares to ask more about the text. Simply turn invisible and let her give up." He had everything planned well, hasn't he?

This isn't getting any better and my arms crossed to keep my right to be guarded up. He began to massage my arms and up to my shoulders. I felt so much at ease and relaxed. He leans nearby my ear and whispers with that hot breath of his.

"Moan for me, Daniel. I enjoy hearing the way you sound when I do things with you." He commanded.

Yet, I couldn't hold it all back in and let it all out to avoid being shocked. He knew the right places on my shoulders and he landed onto my neck. This is the best massage I ever had- WAIT! What the heck is going on? I pushed him on the side and sat at the end of the couch for some space. This is so insane!

"Daniel, hm? Is everything alright?" He slid down closer to me and tried to massage me.

I slapped his hands away, "Stop it, Vlad!" I begged.

He grabs me closer to his body and hugged me tight, "I want you relaxed, my dear boy. We have a test and you need a good night sleep." I kept fighting, struggling, and panicking to get out of his grip.

"No! This is all wrong!" He got tighter than usual on me.

"I'm afraid I can't, Daniel. You are too important." The more I kept fighting, the harder it was to get out of his harden grip, and the tears slipped down on my hot cheeks.

He hushed me, "Shhh, it's only a massage. Unless…" He slowly slip one of his hands under my shirt and I gasped.

I moved his hand out of there, "No! Fi-fine! Massage me, Vlad." I weeped miserably to see I had no control.

Vlad returned to massaging me, as long he doesn't dare to touch my body with violation, and that I still have some respect. There had to be a way to get out of this mess, the answer is how do I destroy the ring? I can handle my ghost powers, but what can it not handle? Everything seem so confusing after discovering Vlad IS Lavada. I must be stupider than Dash is! Ugh! I need someone to help me, help understand all of this, and the massaging from his hands felt too good.

He leans into my ear and spoke softly, "You're all mine, Daniel." I could tell the smile on his face against my ear.