My Danny and Me

Rated PG for mild language.

Ok, I know I've been slow at updating, especially since I have all these already pre-written...but I guess I'll stick up Ghostie four after this one! Enjoy, and please R&R! Thankies!

Disclaimer: Yup, I still don't own Danny Phantom or any of the characters...but if Danny were being sold on EBAY I'd be the top bidder for him...lol. But yeah...he still belongs to Butch and Nick, for now...

Ghostie Three: Contraband

The next day at school, Danny was feeling terribly distressed, talking about the biology test every minute.

"But if he fails me, my parents will kill me!" Danny complained, sounding totally miserable.

Sam put a hand on his shoulder. "It'll be ok. This one's multiple choice anyway."

"...multiple...choice?" Danny's eyes seemed to lighten up a bit.

"I don't study...and I never fail a multiple choice test!" Tucker assured him. "Well, I do study for 3 hours a day when I get home from school, but that's not really studying!" Tucker scratched his head.

Danny sighed. "I'm done for."

Suddenly, Kwan came running down the hall with his arms up in the air, his face the definition of hysteria.

"Fenton! Have you seen my ultra-rare-totally-awesome-signed-by-the-green- bay-packers-glowing-football?" he asked quickly.

"Uhh...what happened to it?" Danny lied. He knew exactly what was going on, but he couldn't say a ghost had stolen it. He couldn't say it was stolen at all because he might've been blamed for it. It was the last thing Danny wanted on his mind at the moment.

Tucker and Sam shook their heads "no" and Kwan ran off wailing, "It's gone! Who could've taken it? Stupid janitors must've smuggled it!! Father is going to kill me!"

Danny smiled weakly. "Poor Kwan..."

"Yeah, that's too bad." Sam added, not really caring.

"I wonder who took it..." Tucker pondered.

How the heck did Kwan get in posession of that thing? I guess he doesn't know what it really is... Danny thought.

Later, they got to English class (first period) and sat down in their seats. The room was colder than usual.

"Good morning class! Today we have a new student. Everyone please welcome Lauren!" the teacher said warmly, stepping aside while a girl walked through the door. She looked extremely shy, her face crimson red. She had shoulder-length blonde hair, deep green eyes, braces, and a deep tan. She seemed pretty normal, although her choice of wardrobe (white shirt, white skirt, black converse sneakers) was a little too bright (for Sam's taste.). She clutched her pink backpack tightly and looked to the teacher for instructions. She smiled weakly at the class.

"Please Lauren, take a seat next to that young lady in black." stated the teacher happily.

Lauren walked slowly to the back of the class where Sam was, Sam watching her every move. Lauren smiled at Sam, and Sam back to her.

She seems pretty nice. Sam thought to herself.

Danny and Tucker looked to each other, and Danny ripped out a piece of paper from his notebook. He wrote, "Isn't it weird to have a new student right in the middle of the year?" He folded it up and passed it as secretly as possible to Tucker. Tucker unfolded it and read it, then scribbled down a reply. He passed it back to Danny before the teacher could see. "Yeah, but it's not that weird. It happens all the time. She seems pretty cool, though. Kinda like Sam, except her light side! Is there a definition for someone that is the total opposite of a goth?" Danny grinned. "Well...I don't know about another definition, but you should try to talk to her if you want to know." He passed it back to Tucker and Tucker read it quickly. "No way! You talk to her. You're the one that suggested it anyway." Danny read it. He turned the paper over because he was out of room. "Well...she's totally new. We can all talk to her I guess...she doesn't seem like anyone rude...too bad she doesn't look like Paulina!" Danny drew a quick picture of the new girl looking like Paulina, except being really nice, with a speech bubble that read, "Oh I love you Danny Fenton! Please go out with me!" Tucker read it and giggled. "You're starting to sound like a girl!" Tucker added a drawing to it that showed Sam with horns and Lauren with a halo. Danny grinned when he saw it. Sam had noticed the two passing the note and whispered to them, "What are you guys doing?" Danny had the note last and put it away in his binder. He took out a fresh piece of paper and wrote in big letters, "NOTHING!" and held it up for Sam to read.

"Well class, I have the results for last semester's To Kill A Mockingbird exam! Most of you made above a C, but I had two people that failed..." the teacher rambled, going around to every student with their test score.

Danny's stomach hit the ground. I couldn't have possibly failed this... He got his paper and took a great sigh of relief. "Name: Daniel Fenton, Test: To Kill A Mockingbird final semester exam, Score: 91/100" I made an A! Danny smiled to Sam who smiled back at him. She got a good grade too. He looked to Tucker, who looked disappointed. Danny eyed him, like asking, "What's wrong?" Tucker mouthed, "I made a C..." Danny didn't understand him, so he wrote him instead. He read the reply and wrote back, "Don't worry about it...at least you didn't fail!"

The bell rang soon after that (didn't do much in class except discuss another outside-reading assignment.). The three met outside the door, and Lauren was the last to come out because she was talking with their teacher. She passed them on her way out and smiled at them warmly.

Sam stopped her. "Hey uh...your name is Lauren, right?" Sam wanted to know more about her, trying to make polite conversation.

Lauren looked surprised. "Yes, it is. And...what's yours?"

"Oh, my name is Samantha Manson...you can call me Sam. Nice to meet you, Lauren." Sam smiled.

Tucker chimed in, "And I'm Tucker Foley."

Danny was last. "I'm Danny Fenton." They all shook hands, as if it were something formal. Lauren looked a little shy at the moment.

"I didn't think anyone would talk to me the first day..." she said softly.

Sam grinned. "Well, you can stick with us. We'll show you around the school. Do you have your schedule?"

Lauren handed Sam her schedule. Danny and Tucker looked over it with You have all classes with us, except for seventh period...you play tennis? Cool!" Tucker read.

Lauren smiled. "Yeah. Do any of you play tennis?"

"Nope...me and Tucker have athletics fourth period...so that's only five classes. But we'll help you out." Danny assured her.

"Thanks. You guys are really nice." Lauren said happily.

"Danny...it's test time. We better hurry before he takes up our tardy cards." Sam said quickly, beginning to walk fast.

The four of them walked briskly to the science area of the school and sat down in class. Mr. Lancer stopped Lauren just as she walked in. "May I have your schedule?" He took it from her and read it, shook his head, and handed it back to her. "Class, we have a new student. Lauren has just transfered from Texas. Now go take a seat."

Nice introduction... Lauren thought angerily. She didn't like Mr. Lancer all that much already. There were big black tables that two people at a time could sit at, and Sam had an open seat that she saved for Lauren. Tucker and Danny were together at the table next to them. Lauren sat down and looked to the three of them.

"As you all know," Mr. Lancer began, pacing around the room. (Danny's expression turned nasty) "Today is our test over the dissection of the frog, worm, starfish, and the fetal pig...I hope you all looked over your notes. Pencils out, clear your desk."

Sam looked utterly disgusted. She went up to Mr. Lancer and he handed her a very large booklet of test questions. Lauren looked around to see if anyone else got up and got one, but Sam seemed to be the only one. She opened it up and began scribbling answers on her scantron. Lauren decided to ask later, but from what she could read on the test, it had nothing to do with cutting open frogs and fetal pigs. Lauren looked horrified at the very thought.

Mr. Lancer gave everyone their own scantron and a copy of the test. "Do not write on this! You have one hour. Start." He went last to Lauren, and whispered to her, "If you are not ready for this test you don't have to take it today, but you will have to come back after school to re-take it, otherwise it is a zero. Or you can take it now if you think you are ready."

Lauren took the paper from him and took the test like everyone else. Some of the questions grossed her out so much that she didn't finish reading them and she guessed on answers. She didn't like the idea of cutting open animals, even if they had been dead, soaking in a solution for 2 years.

Danny, Sam, Tucker and Lauren walked out together, all with looks of disgust on their faces.

"I know I failed." Danny frowned.

"How do I know how to open up a frog stomach? There was no answer that said, 'rip it open!' I mean, that's what you do to it, right?" Tucker asked.

"Ugh...don't even tell me what it said. After all my complaints about dissecting animals, we still do it and take a test worse than the one in sex ed." Sam complained.

"Well, would you rather open up a person than an animal?" Danny teased her.

"Of course not! What about my alternative mechanical dissecting frog! Wasn't that enough?" Sam continued.

"I didn't really want to do the test, but I'm glad that we did all that stuff at my old school...I think it's wrong to do that to animals too...my lab partner at my old school acted like she was sick so she wouldn't have to dissect the animals, and my teacher made me do it...my partner just didn't want to get her hands dirty." Lauren explained.

"Well, finally someone that thinks like I do! You know, we've gotta get together sometime to start a protest against things like this..." Sam said proudly, starting to like Lauren more and more. Lauren grinned at this. "Are you a vegeterian?" Sam asked suddenly.

"No, I've wanted to be for a long time, but it's really hard to do in my household...my parents won't support me..." Lauren told her shyly.

"Well, you're going to become one! Try this soy gum, it's really good!" Sam said happily, giving Lauren a piece of light green gum.

"Hey, I want some too!" Danny complained, holding out his hand.

"Me too!" Tucker added.

Sam gave them all some and put the rest away in her backpack. Tucker spit his out abruptly into his hand, then sticking it on a garbage can.

"That's so gross! It has no flavor!" Tucker cried.

"Well yeah, carnivore boy, it's soy...it's good for you." Sam smirked.

They all laughed at this, even Tucker a little, and spent the rest of the day walking down the halls together laughing at random things and getting to know Lauren better. Lauren laughed at Sam's impression of Mr. Lancer, and Danny zoned out for a minute, watching her laugh, her eyes light up, her fun laugh filling up his ears....WHAM.

"Danny? Are you ok?" Lauren asked quickly. He had run right into the lockers.

Danny rubbed his head. "...I think...that really hurt..."

Tucker arched an eyebrow at him. "Are you sure you're ok?"

"Yeah yeah, I'm fine..." He was still rubbing his head. Why DID I just run into the lockers? Danny wondered.

Later that day, Danny decide to show Lauren where to go for tennis, since it was at the athletic hall. Tucker and Sam left to go to their last class. Danny and Lauren walked sliently together, both with their heads looking to the walls alongside them.

Lauren broke the silence. "Today was actually really fun. I'm glad I got to meet you guys and have some friends at school."

Danny smiled, "Well of course you'd have friends....unless you're totally unpopular like err..."

"Like who?" Lauren wondered.

"Well....me, Sam and Tucker aren't exactly the most well-liked people here. It's just us three always. It's been that way since like kindergarten." Danny said, embarassed at the fact that he was unpopular.

"I don't care about all that popularity stuff...I'm just glad that I have good friends like you guys on my first day here." she smiled.

Danny smiled back at her. She's really nice...kinda hot too...

He's so cute! And sweet! I wish more guys were like him... Lauren giggled silently.

"What's so funny?" Danny grinned.

"Uh, nothing! Nothing at all!" She assured him.

"So Fenton...you cheating on your girlfriend?" said an annoyingly familair voice.

"She's not my girlfriend, Dash! (remembering earlier comments about him and Sam) And...she isn't either!" Danny said angerily, turning around to face Dash. (reffering to Lauren...)

Who's this goof? He's so rude. Lauren frowned at Dash.

"Are you new here or what?" Dash demanded to know.

"Well, it's really none of your business, but I am. Why don't you leave us alone? What's your name again...Bash or something?" Lauren sneered at him.

Dash looked like he was going to blow. "The name's DASH and you better remember it girly! I'm the coolest guy and role-model of this school! And you keep your boyfriend away from me!"

"Danny isn't my boyfriend!" she said quite angerily, clenching her fists and taking a step closer to Dash.

"Ooh, sticking up for him, are you? And your little Danny doesn't even do it? That's no way to treat a lady, Fenton!" Dash teased.

"...you're a football player, right?" Lauren asked suddenly. Danny looked as though he were about to step in to do something, but he waited to see what Lauren was up to.

"Well of course! And the star quarterback!" He said proudly, sticking out his chest.

"You must like cheers then!" Lauren said suddenly. "Our football team has a star, let's all see how strong you are!" she cheered sarcasticly, then suddenly punching Dash squarely in the stomach. His eyes popped out of his head and his face turned red.

"That'll teach you to stop bothering people! And I'll....hey!" she tried to say, but Danny started to drag her at a run.

"I can't believe you just did that...but we better run before he recovers!" Danny said while dragging her. He led her outside and they ran out of the school boundaries.

"You can't let people like that push you around! I took a self-defense class last year because I kept getting harassed by guys like that all the time..." Lauren explained to Danny.

"Yeah, but that's Dash! He'll either kill you...or me now...well he already does try to kill me....or he'll get Mr. Lancer on his side and tell on you!" Danny sounded panicked.

"So? I don't care about all that! He started it anyway!" Lauren shouted.

"And we'd still get in trouble...it's his word against our's...and I don't let him push me around!" Danny remembered.

"I hate to have done this on my first day..." Lauren stated.

"Oh well...let's just skip now, I guess. We can go to the drug store for some ice cream. My treat." Danny said.

"Well...ok. I'll just say my mom picked me up early or something. I don't have a physical for them yet anyway so I wouldn't be able to play." Lauren agreed.

So they walked across the street and down a few blocks to the drug store for some ice cream. Danny got "Box of Chocolates" flavor and Lauren got "Chocolate Mint" flavor. They sat down together at a table and licked their ice cream cones.

"Thanks for the ice cream, Danny." Lauren smiled at him.

"No problem." Danny grinned.

I can't believe she did that to Dash...now he's gonna totally mutilate me tommorow...but she's got guts. I don't think he'd hit her though, he probably wants his revenge on me... Danny sweated.

"Hey, umm, after school me, Sam and Tucker always get together and stuff. You're welcome to hang with us if you want to." Danny said suddenly.

Lauren's expression brightened. "That'd be cool."

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