A/N: Hooo boy . . . That was a longer Hiatus than I expected . . . I honestly wasn't expecting my writer's block to last that long . . . Well . . . it might be that because school's going on, I've been a lot more busy lately . . .

BlueMouse: Free! Free! Free! I can see! I can hear! I can . . . SHINEY!! (chases shiney)

Kara: . . . She's easily amused . . .

Chibi: What? I wasn't listening. There's something shiney over there.

Kara: (facepalms) Never mind . . . So since Chibi and BlueMouse are . . . um . . . distracted right now . . . -THE WORLD WILL FALL TO DARKNESS!!- . . . (blinks . . .) Um . . . Pay no attention to my dark side . . . she's not supposed to be here . . . We don't own Danny Phantom. -BUT WE WILL RULE THE WORLD!!!-

Chapter 6: Do I want to go home?

Sam walked a ways in front of Phantom as he floated behind her. She knew he was behind her because she noticed that the temperature dropped slightly when he was around. She glared at the deep red carpet in front of her, ignoring the many dusty portraits and vases. As much as she hated it, it reminded her of her own home . . . except without the two runaways, and so much dust . . . As Phantom continued to follow her, her bad mood increased since she wasn't used to people following her continuously. She just gave off the aura that said, 'Don't mess with me unless you want to get your ass kicked.' Abruptly, she stopped and turned around only to fall backwards from the proximity between her and Phantom. Phantom had been following behind her a lot closer than she had thought and while stumbling backwards to avoid a collision, tripped over her own feet.

Danny followed behind Sam, wondering when she was going to stop sulking. He was glad his ghost powers helped him to heal faster since he couldn't even feel any pain from where she had punched him. Suddenly she turned around and from the shock on her face, her eyes wide, and her mouth open, she hadn't been expecting him to be so close. As she fell, Danny's own eyes widened and acted in instinct. "Sam!" he called out as he took a step forward and caught her before she could hit the floor. "Are you okay?" he asked with concern, not noticing their position. His arm was wrapped around her waist and she was still tilted towards the ground.

Sam blinked as he caught her. She hadn't been expecting that and as she looked up into his vivid, electric green eyes, she became uncomfortably aware of his cold arm around her waist. Her mouth felt dry and she knew her heart was probably beating a lot faster than it should've been beating. Her cheeks felt hot as the blood rushed to her face and pounded in her ears. How embarrassing. "I-I'm fine." She stuttered out.

Danny looked down at Sam, with a bit of confusion at first, wondering where her blush was coming from and then noticed their position. He quickly stepped back, blushing himself, making sure that Sam wouldn't fall down again before recoiling his arm and using it to rub the back of his neck sheepishly. "Uh . . . hehehe . . . S-sorry . . . I-I don't know why I did that, well I mean, I did it to stop you from falling but . . . um . . ." he fell silent, realizing quickly that he was rambling.

Sam brushed dirt that didn't exist off her skirt. "Um . . . I-it's fine . . ." she stammered herself, her animosity towards him earlier completely forgotten in the awkwardness of the moment. His next words however, jogged her memory.

"So . . . why'd you turn?" Phantom asked.

Sam's face turned to her familiar scowl. "I turned to tell you to stop following me." she growled. Then her expression changed to one of angry confusion. "Why were you following me anyway?" she asked.

Danny blinked. Had she already forgotten that she was going home? "Um . . . Because I'm supposed to escort you home remember?" he asked, his face one of confused concern.

Sam's face went blank as she blinked as well. "Oh yeah . . ." she said absently, sounding oddly disappointed. "Well, let's get going then." she said and started walking again.

Danny stayed where he was. "Um . . . the door's this way." he said, pointing behind him in the opposite direction.

Sam blushed, realizing her mistake and quickly turned around and speed walked past Phantom. "Let's go!" she said, feeling him floating after her.

"You're not even going to say goodbye to Tucker?" he asked, a bit concerned, knowing that Tucker would be upset when he found out.

Then, Sam did something that surprised him. "Well I'm going to see you guys again right?" she asked, a rather concerned look coming over her face.

Danny wasn't quite sure how to answer and rubbed his neck awkwardly. "Well . . . I-I don't know . . ." he said, wondering what she meant by that.

Sam sighed. "Either way I should get back before my parents go too worry crazy and call in the army to find me . . ." she said and went back to walking. Knowing her parents, they would do it too. Sure they quarreled, and didn't really see eye to eye, but she knew that for all their non-vegetarian, pink loving ways they did care for her. But inside she couldn't help but wonder. I don't even know these guys . . . and yet, I feel like I'm completely willing to face my parents' wrath to spend even a few more days with them . . . I should go home, it's the right thing to do but . . . do I want to?

End Chapter 6