93- Give Up
Don't ask about this one, kids.
Freshman year:
Danny stared longingly after Paullina. It was old news. Tucker shook his head and Sam rolled her eyes. That was old news too.
"Dude, give it up, she's not ever going to notice you," Tucker said. "She likes Danny Phantom and she won't give Danny Fenton the time of day. That'd never be a very stable relationship," he continued wisely, so out of character Sam had to close practically scrape her jaw off the table before throwing in her two cents.
"As weird as it sounds, Tucker's right," Sam added.
"I bet if I told her that I was Danny Phantom, she'd like me."
"Doubt it," Sam remarked. "Besides, you want to tell your secret to Casper High's priestess of rumors? She'd never be able to keep herself from running around blurting it out to everyone she saw."
Danny half glared at Sam. "She wouldn't if she really liked me."
Sam shook her head. "But she'd never really like you. She'd never really like anyone. Just give up, Danny. You're better than that."
Junior year:
Danny stared longingly after Valerie. Well, at least she was newer news than Paullina (who had mysteriously disappeared after first semester. And Dash had been transferred around the same time. Most kids had put two and two together).
Tucker resisted the urge to bang his head against the table. "Man, you have crappy taste in women. You can't seem to pick a girl who like all of you, can you? It's just gotta be one or the other. Fenton or Phantom."
"Come on, Tucker, she nearly gave up ghost hunting for me."
"But she didn't. Face it dude, you're gonna have to find someone who knows your secret and still loves you." Tucker urged, hoping his clueless friend would take the hint.
"But there isn't anyone like that…" Danny muttered forlornly.
As if on some sort of twisted, karmic cue, Sam slid in next to Danny in their usual booth. "Hey guys," she smiled.
"Hey Sam," they said in unison, Tucker in his normal tone, Danny in his pathetic one.
"What's up with Mr. Smiley over here?" Sam asked Tucker, gesturing to Danny.
Tucker rolled his eyes at Danny. "He's all upset because he thinks that no girl is ever going to love both sides of him."
Sam didn't know whether to laugh or cry or slap Danny.
"That's not it!" Danny protested. "I just thought… I thought maybe Valerie could be that girl."
Sam, at that moment, excused herself to order and Tucker just shook his head. "She'll always want to kill you. You can't change someone whose motive is revenge. Give up on her, dude."
Senior year of college:
Danny stared longingly after Sam. Tucker smiled. Finally, his friend was getting it. He considered Danny very lucky that Sam had held out for the halfa this long. She'd grown up a lot and gotten many offers from the opposite sex (and even some from her same sex too, but that's another story…). But all these years and she was still head over heels for Danny.
"So you finally gave up on Paullina and Valerie, huh?"
Danny sighed contentedly as he watched Sam make her way to the library. "Yeah."
"You gonna give up on Sam?" Tucker said with a grin.
"Never."
Yay! Less angst!
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