I really need to start wrapping up this particular 'episode', so I can move on with the rest of this story. XP This is taking longer than even I had planned! Oh, btw, I have an in-class scene planned for Skulker soon involving the word 'overcompensation'...hehe.

False Positive

Chapter 21: Double Cross My Heart - Invisible

He didn't even bother going to lunch with his normal company that day. Instead, when the lunch bell rang, Danny simply headed toward the nearest boy's bathroom after 4th period ended and walked in, allowing himself to become invisible from view while still in human form before literally walking through one of the walls and into the hallways. No one had dared to approach him before arriving in the bathroom, even Dash had a shiver crawl up his back before backing away from the depressed kid.

Of course, this just made Danny feel all the more worse.

"No one even cares," he muttered to himself, walking through the few people that remained in the hallways as he walked with his intangibility, hearing mutterings of a cold spot blowing past them as he did. If only they knew how right and wrong they were.

He wasn't sure why, but he lifted his head when he heard the sounds of...beeping and chirping?

Dead ahead of him was the Ghost 101 teacher playing on what looked like a Nintendo DS with Celevoir following and watching over her shoulder.

"Yeah, I know I shouldn't have T-spun that piece, but I got a Tetris out of it anyway," he heard Ms. Kyani mutter as she rapidly pressed the buttons under her thumbs and pointer fingers, almost entirely engrossed at the small screen in front of her. Celevoir, out of sheer boredom, was watching her human partner, almost missing Danny as he walked past the pair.

But alas, she didn't. Therefore, the bird gave a wave toward the invisible human as she gave a pair of chirps, alerting Kyani to the presence of another, though the human didn't see who as she looked around.

"Celevoir, there's no one..." The brown-haired lady's eyes met with Celevoir's large black and white orbs, catching sight of Danny's reflection as she did. "What the...?" Snapping her head between where Danny appeared to be standing and his reflection in Celevoir's eyes, Kyani finally settled her eyes on where the ghost boy was invisibly standing. "Daniel?"

Danny couldn't help but stare at the woman. She didn't looked shocked at all. Instead, she looked confused and worried, as if she had missed something important. He debated between showing himself just staying invisible, but before he could make up his mind, she had managed to place a gentle hand on his arm. "Something up?"

Though he managed to keep his face from changing away from his depressed appearance, he was still panicking in his head. Between the fact that Celevoir had seen him and Ms. Kyani had actually laid hand on him, he was left unable to deny the fact that he had been standing invisible in the middle of the school hallway toward the huntress.

He was just glad she hasn't made one motion toward either one of the odd guns in their holsters. "Ya know, it would help if you could make yourself visible, kiddo."

Kiddo? Kiddo?! The aggravation of being called something so young had caused Danny to slightly growl, unwittingly fading into view of both human and bird. "I'm not a kid," he muttered with a low voice, hoping to be unheard as he was unaware of what he had done just yet.

"Don't know what you said, but you do realize you're visible again, right," Ms. Kyani asked of the kid with a sad smile, prompting Danny to take a glance down at himself before slowly looking back up toward his teacher as he cautiously stepped back repeatedly. An increasingly-panicked look began to appear on his face as horrific possibilities started to fill his head unbidden.

"No...oh, no..."

The kid about-faced and bolted, going as far as running through the wall at the end of the hall, not giving a damn who saw at that moment as just continued to run, turning invisible just before emerging on the other side to keep anyone who could have seen him from panicking.

She's gonna find out, that was the only thought running through his head as he ran, unaware that he had run outside of the school grounds. He was afraid to look back, to see if the huntress was following him.

When he finally opened his eyes, he found himself looking upon the sight of the town's local hotspot, the Nasty Burger, still cloaked in his invisibility. Had he really run that far?

"Ya know, abilities like those would make you golden for occupations like those among the Secret Service." Though still out of normal view, Danny felt himself pale even more before turning around, his light-blue eyes falling upon his teacher, whom was perched on Celevoir's back like she was a mount. Only Celevoir has her eyes placed on the invisible human, Ms. Kyani simply had her eyes closed. "If you're worried I'd somehow get you experimented on, the Guys in White can't legally do that to False Positives like you and I."

"Yeah, right," Danny couldn't help but mutter under his breath before making a fast dash toward the bathroom, finally allowing the invisibility to drop before walking back out of the building. Celevoir turned her head up toward the human on her back and gave a chirp before the suited lady opened her eyes, hopping off the large bird just after doing so.

"Now, after a stunt like that, you must be hungry. Would you like something to eat? My treat."

The black-haired kid couldn't help but get the feeling that she was actually trying to be nice to him, but why? And what was with the sad smile on her face?

Knowing that he could get himself out of danger if he really wanted to, the boy gulped and walked in along side the teacher, whom pushed a bit of her shoulder-length hair behind her head as she looked around the inside of the building. "Well, it's no Olive Garden, but it'll do," he heard her mutter before finally walking up toward the ordering counter, looking up toward the menu as she did before glancing back at the student. "You order fir-"

"GHOST!" At the outburst did both teacher and student turn around, the only ghost in the area being the serpent bird that followed Ms. Kyani everywhere. Unfortunately, it was her everyone was panicking about, which was causing the bird to begin panicking herself.

"Aw, fuck," Danny had heard Kyani swear before the sound of a hand planting itself against a forehead became heard.

He was just glad he didn't have to fight anything this go-round.