the box ghost's last day on earth.
Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom or it's characters.
Chapter 9,
The movie 'Sleepless in Seattle' ended and Gloria and Paul stared at the credits as they passed. Gloria the one who broke the silence first.
"Interesting." She said and Paul glanced at her.
"I agree. Very interesting." Paul said and Gloria smiled at him.
"You, sir, are a terrible at lying." She said and Paul sighed.
"You're right. I didn't like it. Maybe that has something to do with me not liking romantic comedies." Paul admitted and Gloria giggled.
"I don't think so, because I like romantic comedies and I was not a fan of it. But I think that we would have liked it if we had seen that movie they kept talking about." Gloria said and Paul shrugged.
"I don't know, maybe. What was it called again?" He asked and Gloria smiled.
"Uh, it was An Affair to Remember." Gloria recalled and Paul nodded.
"Yeah, it was. What time is it?" Paul asked and Gloria looked at her clock.
"Look's like it's 2:45 right now." Gloria said and Paul sighed.
"It's getting close to Tommy's play date with Danny." Paul said and Gloria smiled.
"I'm glad that those too are friends. I really feel like Tommy can boost Danny's confidence, and that Danny can help keep Tommy grounded." She said and Paul blinked.
"Do you think Tommy is some daydreamer?" Paul said and Gloria shook her head.
"No, no, that's not what I mean. But I think that you're keeping me grounded right now, and if I had a friend in the past to ground me then I may have seen this divorce coming. Vlad can be sweet and charming when he chooses to be. But I doubt that Danny would let Tommy go through that, if he saw it coming." She explained and Paul nodded.
"Ok, well, I guess I understand that." Paul said and Gloria smiled.
"So I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you're leaving now." Gloria said and Paul stood up and stretched.
"Yeah, I gotta pick up the boys." He said and Gloria walked him to her door.
"Oh, and I went ahead and called the night security officer and asked him to stay late so that he can let in that shipment tonight." Gloria said and Paul blinked.
"I completely forgot about that shipment. Thank you, Gloria." He said and Gloria waved it off with a smile.
"Forget about it, it's my job." Gloria said and they waved good bye. Paul was glad that Gloria lived so close to the preschool, because he got to the building right at pick-up time. He ran up and entered the first door on the left.
"Hey, buddy." Paul said as Tommy ran up and jumped into Paul's arms.
"Daddy, today we had art, and I told the teacher about your cardboard kingdom. And that I was the prince, and-"
"Mr. Baxter." The teacher, Mrs. America said and Paul looked up at her.
"Can we talk for a moment?" She asked and Paul nodded.
"Alright, Tommy, can you wait by the door, we got to pick up Danny when I'm done talking to your teacher." Paul said and Tommy smiled.
"Yeah, I like playing with Danny," Tommy said and Paul chuckled then walked over to the teacher.
"Is there a problem?" He asked and Mrs. America nodded.
"You see we were talking about animal's in the wild and the children had to write a poem about their favorite animal and color a giraffe. Your son's poem was fine, but take a look at this giraffe that your son colored." She said, handing him the paper, and Paul looked down on it. The giraffe was green with purple spots, and it was eating leaves from a tree that was red with silver bark.
"Hmm, that it different." Paul said and the teacher scoffed.
"That is not the assignment that we told him." The teacher said and Paul looked at her.
"Well, did you ask Tommy why he colored the giraffe this way?" Paul said and the teacher blinked.
"Of course, not." She said and Paul smiled even though he felt insulted. Paul turned around and asked Tommy to come forward.
"You know, Tommy, your teacher was showing me this picture you had done, and I think it's really super. But I don't remember showing you a giraffe that looked like that. Can you tell me why it looks like that?" Paul said and Tommy giggled.
"He's sick." He said and Mrs. America blinked.
"The giraffe is sick?" She asked and Tommy smiled.
"The giraffe has that Bubonic Plague. And we want Mr. Giraffe to feel better so I gave him a cherry medicine tree, which tastes yucky, but it's good for him." Tommy explained and Paul looked over at the teacher.
"Isn't he a little young to know about the Bubonic Plague?" Paul asked and the teacher blushed.
"We were talking about why going to the doctor is important and another student brought that up. I didn't say much, except it's an illness that use to affect lots of people until doctor's figured out how to stop it." Mrs. America said and Paul nodded.
"Ok, Tommy, this picture was suppose to look like a giraffe that you would see in the zoo. This was an assignment, not art." Paul said and Tommy blinked.
"Oh, I'm sorry." Tommy said and Mrs. America smiled.
"That's alright, Tommy. Next time I'll make sure that you know the difference." She said and with the tip of his imaginary hat, Paul and Tommy walked down the hall and towards Danny's classroom. Soon all three boys were in Paul's car, and Paul was listening to the boy's talk.
"Oh, by the way, I have a little surprise at home, Tommy." Paul said and Danny looked at him.
"What's that?" Tommy asked and Paul smiled.
"I'll show you when we get home. But I want both of you boys to promise to take care of it, because it took me a long time to build." Paul said and the preschoolers giggled excitedly.
"We promise." They both said and Paul chuckled at them.