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"She's Kate?!" Dani pointed at me with her finger. "But she looks like Vlad and you," she pointed to Danny, "Combined or something."

"I am Kate," I transformed back to my human half. "See?"

"So, Kate's now a halfa, too?" I quickly switched back to my ghost half.

"Yep," I beamed. I moved my hand a little. Dani hit my desk. "I'm so sorry," I moved to help Dani. "I don't know my own strength," I smiled a smile that was half pleasant, half fiendish. "Just got them this morning, or maybe yesterday." I turned to Danny. "Do you think I got them this morning or yesterday super late?"

"Does it matter?" Danny and Dani said.

"I guess not," I changed back to Kate. "I just thought I could remember the day for the future, remember my first day of being a ghost and my last day in Amity Park."

"I thought you could visit," Danny said.

"I can, but only for the first year. After that, my mom is planning to move to New York." I got a headache suddenly. I doubled over with pain. My mind went back six years.

I walked into the class, not know you or what to expect. "Oh, hello. You must be Kate Long." The teacher smiled. "Come in, and you can sit next to Daniel. Daniel, raise your hand." A kid with black hair and eyes my color, raised his hand, but only slightly. I walked over and sat next to him.

"Hi," I said, staring at my desk top.

"Hi," Daniel responded.

"I'm Kate." I looked at him. He looked back.

"I'm Danny." He smiled. I smiled in return.

I was brought back to the present. "Kate, you in there? Hello?" I blinked a couple of times. Danny was in my face. I pushed him away.

"Ugh, my head. It hurts like a mother." I rubbed my temple for a moment before realizing Dani had left. "Where did Dani go?"

"She said she need to let it sink in."

"I see. Well, I guess I need to pack. Want to stick around and talk?"

"Sure."

"Okay. That's the last of it." I smiled as I zipped up my suitcase.

"Cool. What you know what's been itching at my brain?" Danny tossed the ball back up into the air above him as he laid on his back on my bed.

"What? Because I only have psychokinesis." I giggled at the lame joke.

"What did you chose for your name?"

"Amity Luna. Or Luna, for short."

Danny sat up. "You know that means friendly moon, right?"

"Ah, yeah." I rolled my eyes. "I wouldn't name myself something if I didn't know the name."

"I was just making sure." Danny held up his hands. I pulled my phone off my desk. I check the time. It was only 11:28.

"Be quiet. I'm going to call my aunt again." I dialed her number. It rang twice. I put it on speaker as she answered it.

"Hello?"

"Hey, Aunt Susan."

"Oh, Kate. Did you finish packing?"

"Yeah, just did."

"Did you remember to pack everything?"

"Yes, I did. And I just wanted to ask if it was okay that I have a secret?"

"Of course. Why do you ask?"

"Because it makes it harder to study and pay attention. So I might miss some of a class because of it. I found it helps to go to the bathroom for extended periods of time."

"Okay. I'll put a word in for you with the principal."

"Will you? That would be lovely. Thanks."

"Was that it?"

"For the time, yes." We finished our conversation. "So how do you think my excuse was?" I asked Danny as I leaned back into my chair.

"Well, it's better than anything I would come up with." I snickered at the remark.

"I know, but how much do you think she believed it?"

"Well enough to ask your future principal to basically give you a free pass. For ghost stuff. I say that's pretty nice."

"I got that much. I was wondering if we could call or like face time each other every night or so. Keep up with each other's ghost hassle."

"Okay, but I doubt you'll get as much ghost fighting time as you should."

"I'll just go ghost every night and explore. I mean you don't need as much sleep as you did. So I shouldn't either."

"Yeah, but just be careful. You don't know what things could be in New York. I sure as heck don't know what's in the Ghost Zone."

"I will. Geez, stop talking like my mom." I giggled. "Any who, I just need to tell you now." I took a deep breath. "My mom isn't moving to New York. I just told that so Dani wouldn't hate me so much. I mean I just became a ghost. Why does she have to jump down my throat?" I took another deep breath.

"I think Dani is just concerned for you. I know I am." Danny walked over to me. "Dani wasn't trying to upset you. I think she just wanted you to be safe, but she couldn't flat-out say it."

"Like Sam?"

"What?" Danny stumbled back, shocked.

"Sam isn't good at that thing either." I spun once around. "I think I showed look up some landmarks and stuff, so my mom doesn't think I was totally goofing off." I flipped my laptop open and hit the power button.

"So about the face time thing."

"What about it?" I turned back to my laptop. It was still loading.

"How would we do that?"

"First grab my phone." I typed in my password. "Second, let this load." It took a few minutes, but it finally loaded. "Third, tap the face time icon. Type in my name."

"Okay. Like a bunch of pictures came up."

"This one's mine." It was of Danny and me at the Nasty Burger. "Now we just connect."

"Okay. I think I can manage that for a while." I smiled as I typed into my search engine "New York Landmarks". I clicked many links and back to the results page until I found a link to a Chinatown website. It listed about 400 results for businesses. I clicked a random link. It came to a Canal Street business. I instantly recognized it.

It was Aunt Susan's father's shop.