Hello all! Thank you all for the reviews! They make the world go 'round. I know that the story has been moving really slowly but I promise it will pick up! I had planned on updating this weekend, but I came down with some virus this morning, so I didn't go to school. I feel like crap, but what could make me feel better that writing? Ok enough of me, story time.
Chapter 4: Dead Rocker III
Tucker and I finished our lunch, talking about the dance, and the approaching relief of summer vacation. The bell rang and everyone shuffled out of the cafeteria. I looked over and saw Sam gathering her stuff from the table she had been sitting at with Nicholas. She was laughing at something he said and she leaned over and touched his shoulder. At that I felt a sharp pain and my stomach.
I'm just being an over protective friend, that's all. The thought played over and over in my head.
"Dude, we gotta go. I don't need Lancer yelling at me, and neither do you!" Tucker grabbed my arm, and I looked away from Sam.
"Yea… lets go." I said walking out of the cafeteria. We walked into Lancer's class and sat down. Tucker sat a couple of seats behind me. I started pulling out my stuff that I needed to at least pretend I was paying attention, when Sam walked halfway into the class, turned and waved at someone, I wonder who it could be, and sat down at her seat to the left of me. She turned to me and smiled, I smiled back.
She seemed so happy. On one hand, seeing her happy was great. Everyone wants to see their best friend happy right? But then again, I wasn't happy. Before I could make sense of my contradicting feelings, Lancer stood up and began to talk, and there went my mind: out of the classroom and off to think of anything else.
"All right everyone, I hope you were paying attention, you're finals are next week," Lancers voice suddenly penetrated my mind and everyone started cleaning up. I did the same. Then I looked over to Sam who was still smiling.
"Wow, someone really enjoyed Lancer's lesson," I joked, throwing my backpack over my shoulder. Sam smiled and blushed,
"No, I guess I'm just a little happy cause Nicholas said he'd walk me home after school." Sam stood up to adjust her backpack.
"Oh, so we aren't studying today." Normally that thought would have been a relief but…
"We still can, um… why don't you and Tucker come over to my place a little later. My parents are going to some dinner party at 5:00 so it would be better for you guys to come over after they leave anyways." She obviously didn't want to put Nicholas before her friends, that was just Sam. At least it was then.
"Ok cool," I said just as the bell rang.
"What's cool, me?" Tucker joked, walking up behind us. Sam left to go find Nicholas and I filled Tucker in on the plan.
"And you don't have a problem with that?" Tucker said as I closed my locker and we started heading out of the school.
"No why would I?" I said smoothly. Tucker gave me an 'I don't buy that' look. Before I could say anything else, a high-pitched voice piped up from behind us.
"Oh Danny!" Paulina said teasingly as she walked up to Tucker and I.
"H-hey Paulina," I said, holding tightly to my pants to avoid having them fall down again. "What's up?"
"I was wondering if you had talked to the ghost boy lately, you know the End of the Year dance is coming up…" Paulina said innocently, "and I was wondering if the ghost boy was going."
"Oh um… he told me that he was thinking about going, and he said if he did go he would…um… definitely take you." I lied, trying to sound casual. A big smile spread across Paulina's face.
"Really! Tell him I would definitely go with him if he's going! Bye Danny! Thank you!" and with that she skipped off to gloat to all her friends. Tucker and I turned around to continue our walk home, but as I turned around I saw on the other side of the street, Sam and Nicholas walking, hand-in-hand. The joy that has just seconds ago engulfed me left, and I got that same twinge of pain in my stomach.
"Dude! Total score! She came to you, so now you don't have to worry about asking her… and you're not listening to me." Tucker followed my gaze to Sam and Nicholas. "Ah hah… man you need to make up your mind, make a move on Sam or let her go and focus on Paulina."
"What?" I said, looking away as Sam walked out of view around the corner. "Oh, no I'm just… concerned… I mean she just met this guy yesterday… and now she's all… I don't know." I said, giving up trying to explain feelings that I didn't, at the time, understand. Tucker raised an eyebrow and put his elbow on my shoulder as we continued walking.
"Man, you got it bad… and until you realize it, you are gonna be in a world of hurt while Sam's getting buddy-buddy with this guy." Tucker said as we neared my house.
"I'm fine with Sam and Nicholas, Tuck. It will just take some getting used to. Don't you find it a little strange, Sam having a…boyfriend?" Why was that last word so hard to say?
"Whatever man," Tucker said, giving up on trying to knock some sense into me. "So I'll see ya at Sam's place at 5:00 right?"
"Yea, we're going to study Algebra tonight OK?" I said opening my door slowly, looking out for someone who might tackle me.
"Sounds fun. See ya later." Tucker said, walking away. I shut the door behind me and, taking advantage not being ambushed at the door, walked quickly into the kitchen and grabbed a bag of potato chips out of the cupboard. Then I hurried up to my room quickly. Finally, an afternoon where I don't get a lesson on the newest invention for an hour!
Up in my room, I plopped on my bed and began munching on the chips. Just when I had time to relax and think, my ghost sense went of.
"Great, there goes my quiet afternoon," I said to myself, standing up and changing into Danny Phantom. As I phased through the wall, I was surprised when I didn't see a ghost. I flew up a little high to get a better view of my surroundings when I was hit in the back of the head with something.
"Ow! What the heck…" I said turning around quickly and grabbing what had hit me out of the air. "The Fenton Boo-marrang?" And then I heard the familiar voice of my dad.
"I hit him Maddie! See I told you he would come if he saw that ghost with the obsession with boxes!"
"Yes Jack, now hit him with the portable portal before he escapes!" my mom said patiently.
The Box Ghost, I don't see the Bo-"Beware! For I am the Box Ghost, master of all things cardboard and square! I have told you, ghost child, that you cannot hold me in your cylindrical container! My new masters have freed me, and now they shall destroy you!"
"Masters? Wait my parents let you out? But they would never free a gho-ahh! I barely dodged the green goo from the portable portal. Unfortunately for the Box Ghost, he got hit right as he turned around. With a swirl of green light, he vanished.
"We'll get you, Ghost Kid! If it takes the rest of our ghost hunting lives, we will put back into the ghost zone where you belong!" I could hear my mom shout as I went invisible and flew back into my room.
"Great, now not only is Valerie after me, but now my parents have it out for me too." I said changing back to normal and flopping back down on my bed. "I can't believe they would free the Box Ghost, just to try to catch me. What have I ever done?" Then several flashbacks flew into my head of times where 'Inviso-Bill reeked havoc' on the town. "At least Paulina doesn't think I'm evil… oh my gosh Paulina!" It was then that I realized that if I took her to the dance as Danny Phantom, Valerie and now my parents would be there to ruin the dance.
I told all of this to Sam and Tucker later that evening as we ate the pizza we had ordered.
"Dude that sucks!" Tucker said shoving the pepperoni-less pizza slice into his mouth.
"Tell me about it, now what am I gonna do?" I said, throwing my head down onto the table.
"Well, I'll tell you one thing you're not gonna do, and that's fail your math final. I think tomorrow we can have one last study session to review everything, and you should be good to go." Sam said cheerfully, standing up and throwing away the empty pizza box.
"Sorry man, but I can't study with you tomorrow. That's when I'm going to Valerie's to be her knight in shining armor." Tucker stood up and flexed.
"More like 'knight in shining barrette' Sam teased as she sat back down at the kitchen table. "That's ok, Danny and I can study here again. Same time ok with you Danny?"
"Yea sure, anything to get away from my parents." I said, brightening up. Just me and Sam, wait no…bad thoughts.
"Speaking of that, what's the dizzle with you and Nicholas, Sam. You two looked awfully cozy walking home today." She blushed and giggled a little, then immediately regained her 'don't give a damn' composer.
"I don't know, he's just cool to hang with is all. He's taking me to a movie after school tomorrow. Tucker and I looked up from our food.
"Ooo… Sam's gonna get cozy with Nicholas in the movies." Tucker said with a really perverted tone.
"Shut up Tucker! We're just friends." Sam defended, thought the last part of that sentence didn't sound very sincere.
"What movie?" I asked, "Cause you can tell by the type of movie whether it's a date or not…"
"Yea, like if I took Valerie to a movie, I would take her to Dead Rocker III. Plenty of 'arm grabbing, lap sitting' scary goodness in that movie," Tucker laughed. Sam's eyes widened and she was quiet.
"He's taking you to a scary movie? That's a date Sam!" Tucker said, almost in tears at Sam's expression.
"That's not really 'first date' material, Sam. I mean… when a guy asks a girl to a scary movie… its not to… you know… watch the movie." I said, trying to keep the emotions brewing in my stomach from showing.
"We go to scary movies all the time though," Sam suddenly was angry at how Tucker and I were treating her like a baby. "I think I can handle myself just fine, I'm not some easy going slut like Paulina."
"Hey, leave Paulina out of this!" I said, I don't know why but I just got so defensive.
"Ok guys… lets just let it go. Sam, we know you can take care of yourself, we're sorry. Right Danny?" Tucker said slowly, trying to stop this from escalating.
"Yeah, sorry Sam." I said, I really was sorry too.
"That's ok. I guess I need you guys to be there to look out for me, you guys are like brothers. She went over to Tucker and gave him a hug, and then she walked over to me and did the same. I didn't want to let her go, and I didn't like the idea of being thought of as Sam's brother. I can remember how good her hair smelled, as I buried my face into it. Sam froze. Tucker cleared his throat loudly and Sam and I quickly left each other's embrace.
"It's getting late, we had better get going before your rents show up, Sam." Tucker was almost always there to end the awkward moments. Sometimes I wondered what would happen if he wasn't there.
"Oh, yeah… right." Sam said, following Tucker and I to the door.
"Thanks for all the help, Sam." I said as I opened the door.
"Anytime Danny, see you guys tomorrow." Sam called as Tucker and I walked out of her house. We waved, and she shut the door. Tucker looked at me, but surprisingly didn't comment on the events that had taken place in the past few minutes. He just shook his head, waved goodbye, and started to walk towards his house.
"See ya man!" he called, turning around slightly.
"Later!" I yelled back, as he was now fairly far away. As I entered my house, it was obvious that my parents had gone to bed, and Jazz was sitting on the couch watching TV. I plopped down next to her and sighed loudly when I saw what was on the TV, a preview for Dead Rocker III.
Yea for finishing this chapter! I feel better already… actually I feel like I was hit by a truck, but it's nice to think positive! Ok people, review time… I know you can do it…just click that button down there. Reviews make my day, and I need cheering up right now! Loves to all!
True always
Snapcat