Okay... I know some stories get a little boring if they add new characters but I hope that this isn't one of them. The new member in Amity Park will be there but the story will go on barely unafected; I added her because I thought that Sam doesn't have many girl friends and it wouldn't work for what I'm aiming for. Rate, review and tell me what you think:P
9. A new member in the team
"I hate Mondays" Sam said angrily as she was awakened by her alarm clock that just so happens it got turned on two hours earlier than usual, making it around 4 in the morning.
She groaned and slowly got up, she was about to face a horrible day at school today; she could feel it. Sam scratched her eyes sleepily and saw her reflection in the mirror; "Man, I look terrible" she thought as she saw her hair up high making funny designs and her face was paler than usual. Her eyes where no more shinning as bright as they used to, she didn't feel the holiday spirit anymore.
She got all of her bath things from a drawer next to the bathroom and headed to the tub. She needed a nice long hot bath to get a good start in a bad day. "Remember, be strong. You can live without him I mean, come on! He's just a boy… with ghost powers, blue eyes and a perfect smile… No! No more nonsense." She said her heart fighting with her mind; her heart was winning.
On the other room, something completely different was going through Danny's mind. He had also woken up early, not getting much sleep at all. He was walking through the room, memorizing every spot of it. Soon, he felt a little tired so he sat at the small couch and sighed. He was in trouble; big time and he even do anything!
"Remember, get a hold of yourself… she has the right to be angry; just not at me. I'll have to talk to her and fix this; then everything will go great between us again" He said smiling weakly only to frown softly in less then a second.
"What if she thinks that I was playing with her feelings?" He thought worriedly. "Nah, she knows that I would never do that to her, especially after telling her how I feel."
He relaxed a little but still felt some guilt on him. That kiss confused him, but still a part of him couldn't stop thinking about it, he actually liked it. He sighed; his head was flooded with thoughts of him on dates, both Valerie's and Sam's. "What should I do?" It was the question that bothered him so much since yesterday. He knew that he loved Sam, but what about Valerie? Why did he felt happiness knowing that she kissed him?
"Love is way too confusing for a human to understand." He said after many minutes of silence. He felt a cold shiver up his spine and he suddenly felt so cold he could see his breath blue. "Oh great…" He said as he transformed into Phantom.
He flew around the city but couldn't find the ghost anywhere. His eyes where getting heavy and he couldn't fly straight, he kept descending until his boots brushed against the cold streets making him get back on track instantly. He kept looking and just as he was going to head back he heard someone calling his name.
"Who's there?" He asked looking everywhere. That voice, it was calling for help and worst, it sounded like Sam.
He flew down and started walking through the streets slowly listening to every noise carefully. There was a scream that came from an alley nearby so he made a run for it. The alley was dark, the only thing that could be seen where his amazing glowing green eyes and hands ready to fight.
"Danny! Help me!" The girl screamed in pain, it wasn't Sam but whoever she was, she was in trouble.
He ran as fast as he could, he forgot that he could fly but got there quickly anyway. He was shocked and gasped at what he saw. A girl was getting beaten up by a ghost, really badly. The ghost didn't seem to notice his presence as he kept blasting rays at the girl.
"Phantom!? Help me!" She yelled at the top of her lungs in pain.
The ghost turned around to face Danny and pushed him to the ground. Danny jumped on his shoulders, did a back flip kicking his face followed by a pull of his feet. The ghost fell to the floor in pain and phased through the ground. Danny rushed to the girl, she looked awfully familiar somehow. She had collapsed during the fight and looked really hurt so he picked her up and flew to Sam's house to get help.
"Sam! Help!" He screamed as he dropped the girl on his bed.
Sam came in running with a worried expression on her face. She was dressed up in her regular clothes and ready for the day, even though it was really early. She ran to Danny and looked at him in the eyes.
"What is it?" She asked eying him to see if he was ok.
"There was a ghost attack and this girl got hurt badly. I need your help." He said pointing to where the girl laid turning around groaning loudly.
She didn't say another word and dashed to where the girl was laying while Danny changed back into human. She was dirty and her clothes where ripped out, her face was covered by her golden blond hair. Sam's eyes grew wider by the second as she realized who this was.
"Lei!? Are you okay?" She yelled amazed at who she saw.
Danny gave her a confused look "Who is she? She look's familiar."
"She's my cousin Leilanie!" She said shaking her shoulders to wake her up.
She moaned and started to open her eyes slowly. Her view was a blur; all she could see was a shadow holding her shoulders and then she felt like she was being hugged.
"Oh Lei, are you okay!?" Sam said in slow sobs. They haven't seen each other in four years and they where really close friends.
"Sam? Is that you?" She said as she looked at Sam with a weak smile.
"Now I remember! You're the one that pushed me in the park and made me eat dirt!" He said frowning slowly.
"Danny? Oh my God you have grown! You look even cuter than you used to!" She said as she pulled him closer and gave him a hug. "Where am I, and where's Danny Phantom?"
"He said he had to go, ghost duties you know…" Danny said scratching the back of his neck.
"What are you doing here? And how do you know about Phantom?" Sam asked smiling widely.
"Oh, we decided to move here, Amity Park is a nice place to live and every one knows about him! He's a hero after all." She said smiling.
"Where do you live now?" Danny asked smiling a little remembering all of the tragedies Lei made him go through when they where younger.
"You'll never guess! I live in front of an empty lot that looks like it was your house… something happened, right?" She said curiously.
"Yeah, fire accident. Oh, those neighbors moved last week!" He said looking at them. Sam was looking at Lei with a huge smile.
"It's so good that you're here! Are you going to school today?" Sam asked looking at her hopefully.
"Ah… sure?" She said lifting an eyebrow.
"Come on, I'll let you borrow some clothes." Sam said taking her arm and pulling her to her room completely ignoring Danny.
He saw his wrist watch and saw that he only had thirty minutes to get ready and he couldn't fly to school now. In about ten minutes, the two girls knocked on his door and entered his room.
"Wow, you look like twins, except for the hair and the eyes…" He observed making them look at each other and nodded in agreement.
"I love these clothes Sam! There so… original and they make a statement. You don't have to wear pink to look pretty, wear the clothes that you like and if they don't like it they can go to-"
"Okay! You made your point clear." Danny said laughing at how much they looked alike.
They got out of the house and started walking to Tucker's house; they always walked to school together. In the walk, Lei couldn't help but notice that Danny was looking at Sam with a long and puppy dog stare, making her sigh sadly.
"Those two are still clueless lovebirds I guess…" She thought.
They got to Tucker's and called out his name. They heard someone running inside of the house and suddenly the door bursted open with Tucker coming out of it. He closed the door and stared at Lei for a couple of seconds.
"Hey there doll face; I'm Tucker, Tucker Foley. That's TS for too fine!" He said winking at her.
"Cut it out Tucker; you're still the same as always huh…" She said giggling.
"What do you mean? Wait a minute… I know you… Leilanie!" He yelled hugging her.
"What did you say? Don't you ever call me that again!" She said angrily hating that people called her by her whole name.
"Sorry Lei! So, what's this surprise all about?" He asked. They all explained what happened and he only smiled and nodded.
They walked until they got to school, getting weird looks from everyone. They went to Danny's locker first to get his biology book and bumped into Paulina.
"Hey losers, watch where you're going!" She yelled as she held her hip making a pose. "Hi there! I haven't seen you around here." She said smiling at Lei.
"Uh… hi? I'm Lei" She replied back.
"We're not losers!" Sam yelled to Paulina who just frowned.
"Who asked you Goth freak? Hey, wanna go and hang out at lunch time?" She asked smiling at Lei and glaring at the others.
She told her to wait a minute and turned around to talk to the boys who felt ignored.
"Who's this?" She whispered.
"This is Paulina, the most beautiful girl in the whole world" Tucker said.
"She's a shallow witch." Sam said indifferently.
"I am not shallow! So, what do you say? We can go after school and buy you some decent clothes" She said looking at Lei with a smile.
"I think that I redder spend my time with some losers." She said coolly looking at her with an eyebrow rose.
Paulina only glared at her too. No one ever had said no to an offer of lunch with her, EVER! Every one wanted to be popular like her, except Sam but almost every one so this was shocking to her.
"Oh, I see... so that means that we got another geek in the school." She said smiling maliciously.
"I'm afraid so! Now, if you excuse me, me and my loser friends are going to be late for class if you don't move your big butt out of the way." She said uncaring and pushing her with her shoulder to move to Danny's locker.
"Why, you'll pay for this." She said as she walked away with teary eyes mumbling something about her butt.
"Nice going there Lei, I see you're still the same." Sam said smiling widely while the boys only stared in shock.
"Yep! What's with you?" She said to them.
"Nothing!" They said in unison.
The bell rang and they quickly grabbed Danny's things and ran to their English class where Mr. Lancer was already talking to them about Shakespeare. The over weight teacher pointed to some empty seats but stopped Lei.
"Mind presenting yourself to the class?" He said looking at her boredly.
She explained everything and sat where all of her friends where. The hours passed and it was finally lunch time. They where chatting every now and then, but every once in a while it seemed like if Sam didn't wanted to talk to Danny. Tucker noticed this and told Lei if she could go with him and look for something in his locker leaving them alone.
After long minutes without talking, Danny sighed loudly and looked at her. She seemed to be looking at everyone except him.
"Listen Sam, I'm sorry if I hurt you in anyway, but you know it wasn't me; it was her." He said explaining everything as if it was nothing to worry about.
"Well… I didn't see you trying to stop her either." She snapped back angrily.
"Look, I-I'm sorry okay! I don't know what got into her, she just kissed me and that's it!" He said softly trying to get the least attention from the students nearby.
"She might be the one that kissed you, but you didn't stop her and that's enough for me to figure out that you like her and that you lied to me!" She said still angry feeling fresh got tears forming in her eyes.
"I'd never lie to you Sam; I love you and you only." He said softly trying to calm her down.
"No, you don't." She stated simply.
"Do you love me back like I do?" He asked feeling his heart being ripped out.
"How dare you say that Danny! Please, stop. Let's do something to get this over with. You give me some time to think… and when I'm ready… I'll tell you." She said calming down.
"Okay. Let's go get Lei and Tuck; it's almost time for class." He said standing up giving her a hand to help her stand up but she ignored it and stood up by herself.
They walked out of the cafeteria without talking or even looking at each other. Their friends where talking in front of Tucker's locker quite loudly.
"I would so kick your butt on that stupid video game!" She said faking anger.
He just laughed and said "Yeah, look. There's only one girl that has beaten me and that's Sam, I'm pretty sure that you can't."
"Well see…" She said giving him a smile and turning around to see Danny and Sam walking toward them.
"Hey guys, it's almost time for class. We better get going if we want to get there early." He said but stopped and murmured "Oh no" as blue mist escaped his mouth. "I'll go later, see ya!" He said as he disappeared into the boy's bathroom.
Lei giggled "Wow! That cafeteria food must really be bad if it goes through you that fast!"
Tucker and Sam looked at each other and laughed too. There was a loud exploding sound outside and everyone ran out to see what happened. Phantom was fighting the lunch lady and she had thrown a huge steak making a small earthquake.
"Oh no! How could she waste that tasty meat by throwing it to the dirty ground!?" Tucker yelled as he closed his eyes making weird expressions of sadness.
Lei gave Sam a questioning look and she nodded. He always is this exaggerated when it comes to meat. Danny Phantom fought the ghost and took out a thermos and sucked her in it. He looked everywhere and smiled at Tucker and flew to them. He grabbed one shoulder and Tucker raised his head and sighed, all of the meat was gone.
"Om… Mr. Phantom? I never got to tell you how thankful I am for you saving me and all." Lei said looking at the ghost carefully.
"Oh! Ah… all in a day's work! Um… I gotta go, by!" He said and flew away. In a few minutes Danny Fenton came out behind them asking what happened. Lei explained excitedly and they all just smiled.
Mr. Lancer was in the crowd with the principal talking and he finally yelled through a megaphone "Due to the events that occurred recently, we decided that you kids take the day off."
Everyone cheered and ran through the school gates happily. Tucker was still talking at the loss of meat and they just ignored him. They explained to the new member of their group why they where going to the hospital today.
She couldn't go with them since she still had some of the packing to take care of so they walked her home first and then headed to the hospital. They walked in silence except for the sound of Tucker's PDA and the sound of their shoes. Getting tired of this, Tucker stopped and frowned at them.
"Are you guys gonna keep this up or are you going to say that you need each other to live or something mushy like that." He said crossing his arms.
"You better shut up if you know what's good for you." She said frowning.
"Yeah Tuck, stay out of trouble for once." Danny said smiling a little.
"Oh, so this is the thanks I get for trying to help you guys get back together? Fine; I won't help, but if you asked me…" He said and ended up talking to himself because they weren't listening anymore, they where too busy thinking of a way to make him shut up.
They finally reached the hospital, got into the elevator which was finally fixed and reached the third floor. Danny ran pass the door to Valerie's dad room, just in case she was there, and got to his parents room before anyone else. He entered and was happily greeted by his mom and was crushed in a hug by his dad.
"Hey sweetie! How have you been?" She asked smiling.
"Oh, fine mom. You guys will never guess who got here all the way from Puerto Rico!" He said smiling.
"Puerto Rico? Leilanie's back?" Jack said smiling too.
The door opened and in came Sam and Tucker slowly but smiling softly. They said hello and sat on some chairs that laid close to the windows. They all talked for a while; Jack had already gotten through with his depression and Maddie was happy that they where recovering quickly.
"How's Jazz?" Tucker asked getting a little red.
"She woke up this morning! She wanted to see you, especially Danny. For some reason she said that she owed you a lot." Maddie said happily looking at her son.
"Really? I'll be right back then!" He said as he jumped to the door and rushed to her room.
She was in the bed reading a book: 'Psychology for Teenagers after a Tragic Event'. When she heard someone knocking on the door, she yelled "come in!" and smiled as she saw her little brother coming in. He hugged her and kissed her forehead gently.
"Oh Danny; you're so sweet when you want to be. How are you?" She said smiling.
"I'm fine, how are you?" He said looking at her holding her hands.
"Okay I guess… the doctor said that I have to stay here for a whole week for a full recovery. I'm gonna miss so much school! My grades are gonna go down the toilet!" She said worriedly.
Danny rolled his eyes and talked with her filling her in everything she had missed. She felt happy knowing that her little brother had finally admitted his feelings, sad because of the Valerie incident and worried because of the ghosts weird attitudes. When they where acting like that; something big was going to happen.
A few minutes later, Sam and Tucker walked in to say hello to Jazz. She was happy to know that so many people care about her and said that she owed her life to Danny for saving her, making him give her an incredulous look.
"Of course you do… If we look at it this way, the whole world does too!" He said rolling his eyes.
"Anyway, I'm glad that you're okay! I wish that you can get better soon." Tucker said smiling softly.
"Thanks Tucker, I hope so!" She said closing her eyes and yawned loudly.
They looked at the clock on the wall, it was already eight o'clock and they said good-bye so she could rest. They went to Danny's parent's room and said good-bye too. They slowly walked down the road leading to Tucker's house since he lived the closest to the hospital. When they reached his house and said their good-byes; Danny transformed into Phantom and flew with Sam where his home used to be.
"Don't worry Danny… things will get better soon, I promise." Sam assured looking at him forgetting that she was still angry at him.
"No, they won't. My life is going downhill; my house doesn't exist anymore, I told you how I felt and things went good until Valerie ruined it and now you don't even know how you feel." He said making his point and Sam only looked at him sadly. It was true.
He flew down to the streets and held her hand. She looked at him and he was looking at her too. They both blushed and Sam nodded, confusing Danny.
"Danny… I'm sorry but, I don't know how I feel neither." She said sighing heavily.
"It's okay, I understand. Do you want to take the aerial road or walk to your house?" He said trying his best not to sound hurt.
"Let's walk; it's only a few blocks away." She said nodding.
He sighed and morphed back into human and started walking toward Sam's house with her by his side without knowing that there was someone that saw everything that had happened; since they where high in the sky until they turned around the corner.
There you go! Guess who it is... I bet you want to in a review!
