Chapter Seven

The next morning, Sam woke up more groggy than usual. She yawned, and as she started to wake up more, she felt something wrapped tightly around her hand. She looked to her right to see Danny asleep awkwardly on the side of her bed in a sitting position, his hand still in hers. She slipped her hand out of his cautiously and moved out of the bed, and almost immediately after she did, Danny fell over onto her bed, still in a deep sleep even after he collapsed onto the mattress. Sam almost laughed at the sight, but she didn't want to make any noises to wake him. She only grabbed her clothes and headed to the bathroom to get dressed.

After getting ready for the long day of school ahead of her, she walked out of the bathroom and into her room to see Danny awake, and groggily sitting up in her bed. She walked over to her bed and sat down across from him.

"Mornin' sleepy head." She said. He swiped a hand down his face.

"I fell asleep?" He asked.

"Yup." She laughed lightly and messed up his hair, which was already sticking out in all directions from the long night of sleep he had. "Nice bed head." He raised a hand to try to smooth his hair out, but it didn't help in any way.

"Shut up, I'd like to see you're hair after you just wake up." He said, still drowsy with sleep. She laughed and pulled him out of the bed.

"You better get home before your parents find out you're not there."

"Good idea." He changed into his ghost form, and the blinding light almost made Sam shield her eyes. As she was about to turn away to continue to get ready, Danny quickly pulled her towards him and kissed the top of her head. He quickly fled the room after that, missing the light smile that appeared on Sam's face as she watched him fly away.

She was surprised Mason didn't come in after that, he was always the one who could sense when something sneaky was going on. She walked out of her room to see him downstairs at the kitchen table. She sat down across from him and he looked up at her tiredly.

"Ready for school?" She asked. He groaned in response. "Cool, let's go." He made a face at her as they started out the door.

"Now you actually want to go to school?" She shrugged.

"It's better than being stuck in the house all day," He shook his head.

"No, no way, it's because of Danny, isn't it?" She didn't say anything but sighed and kept walking. "I knew it, it's been what, two months back and you already fell for him again?" She shook her head and looked at him.

"I've never stopped falling for him."

"How?" He asked, rather exaggerated. "He pretty much took your heart, and stomped on it. He's just going to do it again."

"No he won't."

"Yeah, that's what they always say."

"Shut up, you don't know Danny."

"Neither do you apparently." He muttered, making her scoff. As they got closer to the school, Sam scurried away from Mason and entered the school separate from him. She looked back to see if he had caught up with her as she looked for Danny's locker. When she got there, she saw Danny was already at it. He smiled as she approached him.

"Hey." He said.

"Wow, you actually made it on time." She said.

"Impressive, huh?"

"Not really since practically every student is able to do it."

"I'm not like most students."

"Stop acting like you're special." She joked. He scoffed and continued to pack his locker. Sam leaned against the locker next to his as she watched him."Hey, uh, do you want to go to the park with me after school?" She asked. He looked at her as he put a hand on his locker door.

"You mean like a date?" He asked jokingly.

"Call it whatever you want, we're just going to walk around in a park."

"Why do you want to go?"

"Uhh," The real reason; because she wanted to spend more time with Danny. There was no way she was going to tell him that though. She would never hear the end of it if Danny knew how long she had wanted to do something alone with him. "Because I haven't been back here very long, I want to see if the park has changed, and enjoy it if it hasn't."

"I see how it is nature girl. Sure, I'll go."

"Okay, well, I am going to go to class before I'm late because Lancer will chop my head off if I get another tardy." As she walked away, she didn't even notice Mason watching them from across the far hall way. He waited until Sam was completely out of sight before revealing himself. Danny looked at him, but stood where he was. He knew what this was going to be about, and he was going to stand his ground.

"Why can't you just stay away?" Mason asked.

"Because Sam's my best friend. Look, I know you're her brother and you just want to watch out-" Danny started, but Mason cut him off.

"No, you don't know. You don't know anything. So stay away from my sister."

"I'm not going to stay away from my best friend."

"It's not just that, is it?" Mason said, advancing towards him. "I've seen the way you act around her, you don't want to be best friends any more, do you? You want to be more." Danny didn't say anything but crossed his arms. "Well, that's not going to happen. Sam's already been through too much, she doesn't need you to break her heart to give her a mental breakdown." Danny looked at Mason, and right after the words left his mouth, Mason knew he shouldn't have said anything. If Danny could break her heart, then that means Sam likes him back, but what was all this about 'she's been through too much'? Danny turned around and laid his arms on the lockers behind him, leaning his head on them.

"Why isn't anyone telling me anything? I used to be the first person Sam would go to whenever something happened, now she's acting like I can't be trusted." He turned so he was facing Mason. "You've replaced me as her best friend." Now Mason felt bad. Danny really was her best friend before, and ever since he stopped talking to Sam when she moved away, Mason took that place. But it was his own fault, he should've made an effort to talk to her.

"Well, who's fault is that?" Mason asked.

"...What?"

"You're the one who stopped talking to her."

"Only because I was forced."

"What are you talking about?"

"Her email and cell phone changed and I had no way to talk to her. I called her house phone and someone picked up, whoever it was threatened me to never call again...That wasn't you, was it?" Mason stared at the ground, shaking his head. All this time, he thought Danny was just this little jerk who liked to toy with Sam's emotions, when it wasn't even his fault to begin with. He looked up at Danny.

"No, it was my dad."


SamXDanny: LOL Thanks :)

Sammansonreplica: 16 :3

Lady Rae of Ravenclaw: 16 actually... being a teenager sucks...

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PlasticPencils: I'm sure that's what everyone wants Danny to do lol AND YOU WILL FIND OUT SOON...

So anyway, how many of you guys will ACTUALLY read the sequel? Because I don't do well with sequels, I mean, look at The Secrets Between LOL

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