Then someone shut the door: Sam. She was too smart to fall for an obvious trick like that so she started looked around inside for a sign of Daniel. She then saw a statue of him with his eyes closed. Very weird, statues were almost always carved with their eyes open.
"Hm, that statue seems very spirited." She teased. "But I won't know for sure until I see his eyes. How about it Danny?"
Daniel, recognizing the voice, opened his eyes. He then flew out of the statue.
"Oh Sam." He said with relief. "It's you."
"It's all right, the sea of raging hormones has ebbed." Sam smirked.
"Gee, it's great to see you." Daniel smiled. "I missed you."
"So this is what heroes do on their days off?" Sam asked as she lay on one of his sofas.
"Bah, I'm no hero." Daniel scoffed humbly.
"Sure ya are, everybody in Greece thinks you're the greatest thing since they put the pocket in pita."
"I know, it's-it's crazy." Daniel chuckled, a bit embarrassed. "You know I can't go anywhere without being mobbed. Sometimes I don't know whether I'm popular or had just been put on the ghosthunters' most wanted list."
"You sound like you could use a break." Sam smiled. "You think your little papa bear would go berserk if you played hooky this afternoon?"
"Oh gee, I dunno Frostbite's got the rest of the day pretty much booked." Daniel frowned.
"Frosbite schmostbite," Sam scoffed. "Just follow me out the window, round the dumbbells, you fly us over the back wall and we're gone."
Daniel smiled and gave in. The feelings he had for Sam had a lot to do with it too.
Later that night Daniel was laughing about what a great time he had. Even Sam was laughing, she had a great time too.
"Wow, what a day." Daniel grinned. "First that restaurant by the bay, and then that play that-that Oedipus thing? Man, I thought I had problems."
Sam suddenly heard a 'psst'. It was two birds near her. Actually, they were Skulker and Walker in disguise.
"Stop foolin around!" Walker whispered harshly.
"Yeah, get the goods sister." Skulker agreed.
They quickly flew away as Daniel turned back around.
"I didn't know that playing hooky could be so much fun." He smiled.
"Yeah, neither did I." Sam smiled back.
"Thanks Sam."
"Oh, don't thank me just yet-" She tripped but Daniel caught her. "Sorry, weak ankles. It's one of the reasons why I wear boots."
"Really? Then maybe you should sit down." Daniel carried her to a bench.
"So, uh, do you have any problems with things like this?" Sam lifted her leg.
Daniel just looked confused.
"Weak ankles I mean." Sam lowered her leg.
"Oh. No." Daniel shrugged.
"No weaknesses whatsoever? No trick knee, ruptured disks?"
"No, I'm afraid I'm fit as a fiddle." Daniel chuckled before standing up.
"Spirit Boy you are perfect." Sam said dryly.
"Thanks." Daniel didn't catch the sarcasm.
He then skipped a stone on a fountain but it accidentally broke the arms off a statue.
"Whoops." He said sheepishly.
"It looks better that way." Sam reassured him, joining him by the fountain. "No, it really does."
"You know, when I was a kid I would've given anything to be exactly like everybody else." Daniel admitted.
"You wanted to be petty and dishonest?" Sam frowned.
"Everybody's not like that." Daniel looked at her surprised.
"Yes they are." She looked at her reflection sadly.
"You're not like that." Daniel pointed out.
"How do you know what I'm like?" Sam retorted, now starting to feel bad.
"All I know is you're the most amazing person with weak ankles I've ever met." Daniel smiled.
Sam couldn't help but smile, though she backed away a bit, frightened of this new feeling she was getting. She stopped when she backed into something sharp. She turned around and saw that it was just a statue of a baby cupid...a baby cupid?
"Sam, when I'm with you I don't feel so alone." Daniel admitted, deciding to tell her how he really felt.
"Sometimes it's better to be alone." Sam went over and sat down on the edge of the fountain.
"What do you mean?" Daniel asked, shocked but staying calm.
"Nobody can hurt you."
Daniel now got it.
"Someone hurt you before huh?" Daniel said sympathetically.
"Ex-boyfriend...I'd rather not talk about it." Sam hung her head.
"It's okay." Daniel joined her at the fountain. "Sam, I promise, I would never ever hurt you."
"And I don't want to hurt you so let's do ourselves both a favor and stop this before we-" Sam said as she and Daniel leaned in to kiss.
Suddenly a bright light cut them off. It was Frostbite hovering Cujo over them. The bright light was coming from a candle-based spotlight that Frostbite had fixed onto Cujo's head.
"All right break it up break it up!" Frostbite said angrily. "Party's over! I've been lookin' all over this town!"
"Calm down ya blizzard it was all my fault!" Sam glared.
"You're already on my list sister so don't make it worse!" Frostbite snapped.
He then hopped down to get Daniel, leaving Cujo to growl at Sam. He stopped when Sam blew out his candle.
"And as for you ya bum, you're gonna go to the stadium, and you're gonna be put through the workout of your life!" Frostbite dragged Daniel towards Cujo. "Now get on the hound!"
"Okay okay." Daniel chuckled.
"Sorry about that." Sam smiled.
"Eh, he'll get over it." Daniel extended his arm to pluck a flower off a tree.
He then gave it to Sam and kissed her on the cheek. She froze with shock and put a hand to her cheek.
"Move!" Frostbite snapped to Daniel. "Move move move move!"
Daniel walked backwards towards Cujo, still wanting to keep Sam in his sights, and got on. Cujo took off quickly. Daniel still was watching where Sam was despite Frostbite being in the way. This meant that Daniel wasn't seeing where Cujo was going.
"Hey watch it watch it!" Frostbite said irritatedly as he ducked tree branches. "Whoo, watch it! Keep your goo-goo eyes on the-"
He got knocked off.
"That's it." He said dazedly. "Next time I drive."
He fell unconscious.