As Mr Lancer's English class continued, Sam couldn't help but look at Danny from time to time. Her mind kept wondering back at how he managed to take down Dash who was a lot taller than him and seemed a lot stronger. She had also looked up about contact lenses changing colour and discovered that it seemed Danny had told her a little bit of a lie about that.

Mr Lancer stopped reading and then said, "Okay. I'm going to pair you all up and each of you is required to do a presentation on the book that I give you. The assignment is due in a week so make sure you remember to do it"

He started reading off the partners and then finally announced, "Danny Fenton and Sam Manson, you two will do To Kill A Mockingbird. Now all of you spend the last five minutes of class planning your assignment"

Sam turned to Danny and said, "If you want, we can go to my house after school and get started on the report"

"Yeah, that'd be great" Danny said as he nodded his head.


Sam and Danny headed over to Sam's house after school and immediately began to work on the assignment in the library. Since Sam's parents and her grandmother were at a charity event, the two of them had the house to themselves.

"So, you're rich huh?" Danny asked.

"Yeah. My great grandfather was an inventor" Sam answered as they put their stuff down on the study table. "He invented that machine that twirls cellophane around deli toothpicks. I don't really like to tell anyone and the only ones who knew were Valerie and Tucker"

"Cool" Danny said. "Well I don't care. You're still Sam Manson, rich or not"

Sam smiled, glad that Danny didn't care that her family was rich and just wanted to be her friend like Valerie and Tucker. In two hours, they managed to get half the assignment done.

Danny then looked at his watch and said, "I better get home. Dinner will be ready in an hour"

"Okay. You want me to walk with you to your place? It's not that far" Sam offered.

"Uh…sure I guess" Danny said with a small smile.

As they walked home, Sam decided to break the ice and said, "I actually looked up your dad online"

"Did you find out anything?" Danny asked.

"Only what you told me and the news article about your mum. I'm really sorry about what happened" Sam said with sympathy.

Danny gave her a small smile and said, "Thanks Sam. It's been hard but, we've done okay"

They arrived at Danny's house and then after saying goodbye, Danny began to head inside and Sam began to head back to her place when suddenly a loud noise was heard and a car was coming right towards Sam.

"SAM GET DOWN!" She could hear Danny shout and Sam suddenly ducked down and braced herself for the car to hit her, but it never came.

When she opened her eyes, she saw Danny in front of her defensively and on the side of the car was a large dent on the door along with Danny's hand. He removed his hand and asked, "Sam are you okay?"

Sam pulled out of her state of shock of what she saw and asked, "How…how did you do that?"

"I just moved you out of the way" Danny answered.

Sam knew that was a lie, but before she could retort Jazz and Danny's father Jack Fenton had come out and saw them. Jazz then asked, "Danny, Sam what happened?"

"Jazz, call the hospital and ask for an ambulance" Jack ordered.


An hour later, Sam and the driver were taken to the hospital. It wasn't long before Sam's parents and grandmother had arrived after receiving the phone call from the hospital. The driver had explained that the breaks on his car had stopped working and he wasn't able to slow down as he came round the corner.

But Sam's mind wasn't on the accident, her mind was replaying the image of Danny stopping the car from hitting her and she knew that Danny never grabbed her or pulled her out of the way.

The doctor looked over Sam and said, "Sam, you're going to be just fine. Just a few bruises on your arm but that's it. You're very lucky that Danny Fenton managed to pull you out of the way just before the car hit you"

"Yeah. Lucky" Sam said. She turned to Danny who was standing with his father and said, "Thanks Danny"

Jeremy shook Danny's hand and said, "Thank you so much young man for saving my daughter"

Even Pamela had given Danny a hug to show her thanks. Jack then offered, "We'd be willing to pay for any medical bills Sam may have"

"No need, but thank you for the offer. We'll be able to cover for it" Jeremy said in appreciation.

"Well, we'd better head home. Sam, it was nice to meet you though I wish it wasn't in a hospital and like this" Jack said with a smile.

"You too Mr Fenton and I'll see you at school tomorrow Danny" Sam said to them both.

Danny nodded and said as he followed Jack out of the room, "See you tomorrow Sam"

As soon as Danny left, her smile dropped and the image of Danny in front of her and stopping that car kept playing in her head once again. She then thought in her mind, "You're hiding something from me Danny and I'm gonna find out what it is"