Danny was feeling considerably better by the time Tucker came back to the room. Apparently all he'd needed was a few hours to nap, watch some cable TV and check out the mini fridge in the corner of the room.
Tucker came back to the room at about nine thirty that night carrying some movie merchendise, some T-shirts, and looked at Danny whom was sprawled on his bed with one hand resting on his stomach and the other stuffed in a bag of peanuts.
Tucker kicked the door closed and walked over to his bed and dumped his stuff onto it then started shifting through it as Danny sat up. "Did you have fun?"
"Yeah totally. Wish you had been there the horror movie convention was awesome. How are you feeling by the way?" Tucker finally asked as he found what he'd been looking for. It was a nice pair of low riding black jeans and a black shirt with a V neck and mesh sleeves, and a silver metal chair belt.
Danny opened his mouth to answer Tucker, but his friend tossed a bunch of clothes at him, hitting him in the face with them as something heavy hit the bed next to his hip. He pulled the fabric covering his face, away and stared at Tucker for a moment as if he'd like to give him a wedgy in retaliation.
But instead he simply checked out what Tucker had thrown at him then gave him a questioning look as his friend pulled his shirt over his head and grabbed a clean one out of the closet and said in quickly, "Change your clothes. We're going to a party."
Danny looked doubtfully at the clothes then back at Tucker. "A party-" Danny said in a bemused tone as he licked the salt from his fingers before asking. "What party?"
"Dash is throwing a party in his room. There's going to be music, girls, possibly some drinking-" Tucker said as he pulled on a sleeveless red shirt and ran his fingers through his dark hair until he had a nice wind swept look going.
Danny looked at Tucker then at the clothes, then back at Tucker and mentally weighed the pro's and con's of going to this 'party' that Tucker wanted to go too.
Getting drunk and groping someone wasn't all that appealing to him since things could get way out of hand fast. And he wasn't sure that he'd be able to stop himself from doing something stupid if he was inebriated.
Then again, Tucker was probably the same way. Which would explain why he was dragging him out with him. He probably needed a buddy to keep him out of trouble just in case he decided to drink.
Danny sighed and looked down at the clothes in his lap again and ran his fingers through his hair. Well hell. You only live once. Danny thought as he pulled his shirt off and set it aside and picked up the shirt that Tucker had bought and slipped it over his head. The shirt fit him like a second skin, showing the hard muscles of his chest and abs perfectly.
He picked up the pants and belt and walked into the spacious bathroom and quietly shut the door and then stripped off his pants and pulled on the new ones, and was just a little bit startled by how low the waist was around his hips.
He glared at his reflection in the mirror for a second and mentally swore bloody vengence on Tucker for getting him pants that he had to go commando just to wear.
He grasped his boxers and used his ghost ability to phase them off and had to resist the urge to scratch his inner thigh.
The material of the pants was so stiff that it was causing his skin to itch. But he somehow managed to resist temptation then picked up the chain belt and wrapped it around his hips so that it rode a little bit lower than his pants then walked out of the bathroom to grab his shoes.
Fifteen minutes later he and Tucker were getting off of the elevator on the tenth floor, just two floors below where they were staying and walked up to Dashes room and stood outside of the door for a second to take several calming breaths to settle their nerves before they knocked and were let in.
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Ara had no frigging clue how she'd wound up at the party.
Well okay that was a lie. She did know. She just didn't seem to understand how the preppy, peppy disgustingly cheerful cheerleader had mistaken her for a popular girl at her school and dragged her to the room that she was currently stuck in with the group of partying teens.
She looked towards the door again for what must have been the thousandth time in the past ten minutes since someone had handed her a spiked cup of punch, and then looked back at the guy she'd been cornered by.
He was a football player who was attempting to 'wow' her into being his girl. It would never happen.
He was too blond, dim witted and athletic; he wasn't her type.
She'd much rather escape this hell hole and go back to her room and hide for the next day or so like she had originally planned to do after her encounter with the strange boy with the eeriy glowing green eyes, earlier.
And she might have managed it if she hadn't forgotten the number for room service and gotten hungry.
The blond finished tlaking and leaned in and pursed his lips. She responded automatically by kneeing him in the groin and then stepped around him and walked away while he sank to the floor whimpering and wheezing in pain.
Again, this party really wasn't her scene.
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He sensed her the second Danny stepped through the door.
It was the strong 'pull' of her aura that alerted him to her presence. As Danny paused in the doorway and looked around, not realizing that he was borrowing his eyes for a moment in an effort to pin point her location.
He found her across the room, standing in the shadows trying to blend in and not draw attention to herself. He inwardly chuckled. The task was easier said than done, her beauty made it difficult for her to blend into the walls and keep from being noticed.
He saw Chou walk up to her and try to coax her into something and narrowed his eyes at the teen's back and growled as she shook her head no and flattened her back against the wall.
She looked distressed.
And he didn't like having so many guys around her. They might try to poach his- He shook his head and shoved the thought aside. She wasn't his partner. Not yet. But he had already decided that she would be.
He saw Chou hang his head and walk away from her and had to resist the urge to purr. "Thats right Chou, walk away. She isn't for you. She's mine." He thought as he watched her bury her face in her hands for a second as a tremor shook her a little bit.
He should do something. Walk over and try to talk to her. Put her more at ease in his presence so that he could claim her.
But putting her at ease around him would be a mite difficult since people like her were usually gobbled up for their strong spirit energy by others of his kind.
He took a deep, nervous breath and exhaled as he over shadowed Danny, forcing him back into the darkest recesses of their combined mind to sleep while he took over for a while and slowly made his way over to the girl.
Noting the way her body stiffened as she dropped her hands away form her face and gave him a doe caught in the headlights look. He smiled and before she could even react, he had her boxed in with his arms, trapping her body between his and the wall.
"You need to pay better attention to your surroundings honey, if I were anyone else, you'd have been eaten up by now-" She stared at him as if he had two heads and he grinned at her and leaned in a little bit and said cheerfully, "I'm Danny Phantom, by the way. And I've been dying to talk to you."