"So what was the deal with your dad?" Danielle's friends asked. "I thought he was done with all that crazy ghost stuff?"
"I guess not", she shrugged.
Danielle sighed as she sat with her friends at the mall. Everyone thought she came from a family of nutballs. Her dad with his ghost theories and her mom for supporting and working with everyone crazy who believed in that stuff. Everyone though she was crazy too. Danielle denied that she was crazy, that she believed in any of that. She wanted to fit in desperately.
"Well, look who it is."
Danielle and her friends looked up to see Amber Stride, the so-called queen bee of school and her group of followers.
"If it isn't the little ghost!" Amber laughed. "Is Daddy and his group of psychos coming to get you?"
Her group of friends laughed as hard as they could to something as lame as what she said. Danielle's friends looked at Danielle wondering what she was going to do. These jokes and torment had been going on for years. She was going to snap sooner or later.
"Stuff it, Amber", Danielle said.
The followers gasped and looked at Amber. Her face was getting red with rage.
"What?" she asked. "What did you say, you little freak?"
"You heard me", Danielle said. "I am so sick and tired of all the crap you put me through. Why don't you just get a life?"
Amber just looked at her with a straight face before pushing her. Danielle looked at her and pushed her back. The two girls pushed each other until it became a fight.
Denise and Ray looked at Egon worried. They recently did a job that nearly killed Egon. Ever since then, he had been acting very strange, as if he were hiding something. Lately, Egon had been getting strange and high PKE readings.
"Egon, are you sure you're okay?" Denise asked. "You know you can always talk to us."
"I'm fine", he answered. "Ray, we should discuss the readings that I've been getting for the past few hours. They're very suspicious, always coming during late hours of the night, here in this building."
"Let me see."
Ray and Egon looked at the readings. Danielle opened the door, walking in looking upset and tussled.
"Dani!" Denise gasped. "Baby, what happened?"
"I got in a fight with Amber Stride", Danielle answered. "She was calling me a freak and you guys insane, then she pushed me."
"Dani, you got blood on you!" Ray said looking at her.
"It's Amber's. I punched her in the nose."
"Damn!" Peter laughed. "Your girl's a scrapper!"
"Peter!" Denise gasped in disapproval.
"What?" he asked. "You should be proud of her. She drew blood!"
"I didn't want to fight Amber", Danielle said. "But she made me so mad. Mom, Dad, I can't take it anymore! This is all your fault!"
"Our fault?" Denise asked. "What are you talking about?"
"If it wasn't for Dad and his crazy theories, then maybe I could be treated normally", she explained.
"Honey, your dad's theories is what brought me and him together. Your father's intelligence is what makes him unique."
"This is your fault too. If you didn't support his crazy theories..."
Danielle got up and walked upstairs, leaving everyone in silence.
