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Chapter 9:

Monday Morning, December 4th

Danny was eager to go to school for once. He figured that Sam and Tucker would be back and he was eager to tell them about his experience at the mall the day before, well maybe not to Sam, he figured that she might be jealous.

Danny got out of bed before his alarm even went off. He quickly put on fresh clothes and went to the bathroom to shower.

After about 20 minutes and a bowl of cereal later, Danny left his house to head to Casper High once again. On his way there he ran into Tucker and he was glad that he wasn't going to be alone all day in school again.

"Hey Tuck how're you feeling?" Danny asked. He assumed that he wasn't as sick as he was the last time he saw him.

"I'm doing good, except the fact that we're going to school," Tucker replied. Even though he was a total nerd, he hated school.

"It's not that bad. Speaking of which, I gotta tell you something that happened to me yesterday!" Danny said with excitement in his voice.

"What is it?" Tucker asked anxiously.

Just then Sam walked up and joined the two on their walk to Casper High. Danny looked over to Tucker and gave him a signal telling him that he would tell him later.

After about five minutes, the trio arrived at school and went to their lockers to get their books.

When Danny opened his locker, a note fell out. He stood so that no one would see what he was doing from behind.

He looked at the note and noticed that there was a phone number on it and nothing else.

He was wondering who's number it could have been and decided he would text it after school.

Danny walked into Lancer's class a couple minutes after Sam and Tucker. As he was making his way to his seat he noticed Star siting in the back as she waved to him. Danny reciprocated and sat in his seat smiling broadly.

Sam and Tucker both noticed his large smile and looked at him suspiciously.

"What's up with dopey over here?" Sam whispered to Tucker.

"Not a clue," Tucker responded, just as confused as Sam.

Jumping to lunch because nothing exciting happened from then up until about lunchtime because they were just sitting in classes all morning.

After their morning classes were all over, Danny and Tucker made their way to the cafeteria to eat lunch.

"Where's Sam?" Danny asked noticing that she wasn't walking with them.

"Oh she had to go do some catch up work for Mr. Lancer," Tucker replied as they continued walking.

"Well why don't you have make up work?" Danny asked curiously.

"Already did it! Because I actually do my work," Tucker replied proudly.

Danny laughed as they entered into the cafeteria. They both got their lunch and sat down at their usual table and began eating.

"So what was that thing that you wanted to tell me earlier?" Tucker asked while stuffing his face with a burger.

"So yesterday I went to the mall to get some Christmas shopping in and..." Danny was cut off by Tucker immediately.

"What'd you get me?!" Tucker asked eagerly.

"Does it look like it's December 25th? No? That's what I thought so can I finish what I was saying?" Danny said sassily.

Tucker just gave him a dirty look and Danny took that as a sign of acceptance.

"So I was at the Food Court in the mall and when I went to sit down I saw Star there by herself. So I went over to thank her for helping me up the other day and I started talking to her and she told me that the A-Listers kicked her out for some reason," Danny explained as he paused to take a breath.

He caught his breath and continued explaining his story, "So bought her a milkshake and we started talking for awhile and then I asked why she helped me up on Friday and she mentioned that she thought I was cute and then when she left she kissed me on the cheek!" Danny finished his tale, exasperated and panting for breath.

Tucker couldn't believe his ears.

"An A-Lister, falling for you?" Tucker said questioning Danny's story.

"Former, Danny corrected, "And hey!" Danny said slightly annoyed.

"Yeah whatever, so are you gonna go after her?" Tucker asked eagerly, "From what you've told me, it seems like she's way into you," he explained.

Danny thought about it for a minute. He wasn't sure if he liked Sam or not and he knew that Ember might have a crush on him but he figured that she would never admit it to him.

"I don't know dude, I got a lot on my plate as is and I've only talked to the girl once so it's not like I really even know her," Danny explained still mulling over his options inside his head.

"It's worth a shot dude, I mean what's the worst that can happen?" Tucker asked sincerely.

Now Danny really wasn't sure, he knows that whenever someone says "what's the worst that can happen?" in his life, something bad happens.

Just then the bell rang signaling the end of their lunch period.

The rest of the day flew by since Danny didn't really mind his afternoon classes.

As soon as school let out, Danny started walking home immediately, not even waiting for Sam or Tucker.

He dug into his pocket for the note that he received in his locker earlier this morning. He entered the number on his phone and texted it, hoping to find out who it was.

He continued walking around town until the unknown number responded. After about 15 minutes, the unknown person responded.

The text read, "Hey this is Star, wanted 2 get 2 know u so i left u my number."

Danny began smiling stupidly again. In hindsight, he didn't know how he didn't realize that the number was Star's, but he is pretty clueless to be honest.

Danny decided to wait a little while to respond so that he didn't look desperate. He finally made his way back into Fenton Works, still smiling like a goofball.

Jazz was the first to notice his unusual cheery act.

"What's got you in such a good mood?" Jazz questioned. She was kind of worried seeing Danny in such a good mood because it was in such a contrast to his normal pissed off attitude.

"None of your business," Danny retorted and continued on his way to his room.

Once inside, he locked his bedroom door to keep Jazz and her annoying questions out. After flopping down on his bed, Danny began texting Star back.

The two spent their night texting each other back and forth until they both passed out.

The rest of the week actually flew for Danny. He enjoyed his week of texting back and forth with Star, and before he knew it, it was already Friday.

Danny shot out of bed as soon as his alarm clock started sounding off. After quickly throwing together an outfit, brushing his teeth, and wolfing down some cereal, he said goodbye to his parents and started to make his way to Casper High for the final time this week.

On his way there, Danny began shivering profusely. It was starting to get very cold out since it was December. He almost wasn't sure whether he was seeing his breath during his walk or if it was his ghost sense.

Once Danny arrived at school, he walked immediately to Mr. Lancer's class in hopes to have time to talk to Star before class started.

The moment Danny layed a finger on the doorknob, his ghost sense went off suddenly.

"Oh come on!" Danny yelled. Luckily no one else was around since it was still early.

Danny ran to the bathroom and transformed into his ghost form and flew out of the roof of the school.

"Alright show yourself! Let's get this over with!" Danny yelled out loud to no one, "Who's it this time? Skulker? Technus, The Box Ghost?" Danny questioned.

The response Danny got instantly made him frown.

"Long time no see Baby-Pop," The ghost taunted sarcastically.

Danny wanted more than anything else to it have to deal with this right now. He just wanted to have time to get to know Star.

"Listen, I don't feel too hot and I got this thing I really gotta do so how's about quietly going away and forgetting that we saw each other?" Danny said pleading.

Just then Ember remembered about what she saw at the mall just last Saturday.

"What else could you be doing, talking to your little girlfriend?" Ember taunted

Danny's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates.

"What uh no she's not my...we're just frie...she's just my..." Danny began stuttering at Ember's accusation.

"Save it Dipstick, I saw your little date at the mall last Saturday," Ember said smugly.

"What the hell? She was spying on me?" Danny thought confused. Then a lightbulb went off in Danny's head.

"Wow you were following me around? If I didn't know any better, I'd say you're a little jealous of Star," Danny said slyly with confidence trying to freak Ember out. It definitely worked.

Ember's eyes widened and she felt her face start to go slightly red at Danny's statement.

"Wh...What?! N..No way Di...Dipstick! I was simply at the mall and happened to see you two, yeah that's it!" Ember said stuttering and with absolutely zero confidence.

Danny thought again for a second.

"Yeah right, I mean it would make a whole lotta sense, you're always around looking to fight me for no reason, and now you're stalking me when I go to the mall?" Danny said slyly.

Danny could see the wheels turning inside Ember's head which made him almost burst out in laughter. He had accomplished his job and he was almost certain that what Kitty had told him was the truth, he just didn't know if Ember knew it was the truth.

"You...You're outta your mind D...Dipstick," Ember tried to say while still stuttering.

She was practically self imploding on the spot.

Ember then quickly dissapeared in a whirlwind of baby blue flames and teleported to her realm in the Ghost Zone.

"Well goodbye to you too," Danny said sarcastically. He then heard the first bell ring and flew back into school to transform back to his human half and start the school day.

"At least I just avoided a major headache!" Danny said cheerfully and he headed to Mr. Lancer's class.

Meanwhile with Ember

"ME LIKING PHANTOM?! THERE'S NO WAY!" Ember screamed in her head. She had begun pacing back and forth inside her realm like a madman.

"There is no way what he said is true at all!" Ember yelled completely unsure.

She had to admit, she didn't really know why she was always being a pain in the ass to Danny and trying to fight him every other day. She never really had a reason to fight him anymore she just kinda did it.

"No! What am I thinking?! ARGHHH!" Ember screamed at the top of her lungs. "Oo I know, I'll go see Kitty, she'll help me come to my senses."

Ember flew to Kitty and Johnny's realm and knocked on the door to no response. She knocked a few more times and decided to give up since she figured they were out together.

"Great, just great!" Ember said slapping her forehead with her hand. She wasn't looking forward to staying home alone with her thoughts for the next 24 hours.

"Ugh this day just keeps getting better and better," Ember said dejectedly as she began to fly home and think things over for the rest of the day.

Another chapter in the books! Sorry again for my horrible updating schedule, school takes up a lot of my day. But anyway, the stories starting to pick up now that it's December and I'm excited for you guys to see where it'll go! So if you enjoyed, leave a review and tell me what you like! Until next time!