-- Author’s Note -- Hey all! Thanks for tuning in again for the new chapter of ‘Return to Me.’ And as always, thanks for your reviews! If you’re reading this story and you haven’t reviewed yet, please do so! Even if you hate the story I want to hear from you! LoL. Anyway, I’m working and then going out of town this weekend, so the next chapter probably won’t be up until Monday night or Tuesday. However, to make up for this I’ve made this chapter extra long for you! Well, that and because a lot goes on in this chapter! Now, on with the mushy stuff!

Chapter 2 The Ghostly Truth

Later that day Sam and Danny sat next to each other in the lunchroom. Sam had a notebook lying open in front of the two of them.

"All right, so we're down to five topics now for our presentation," Sam said glancing down at the list.

"Yes, but I really don't think ghosts should be our topic. Don't you think people might start to catch on?"

Sam laughed, "No, you just don't want everyone in school thinking you're a ghost chasing freak like your parents."

"Even though I am," Danny said giving her a smile.

"All right, no ghosts then," Sam gave him a small kiss then crossed the item off of the list.

"Are they always this mushy?" a voice asked.

"Well, since they started going out, yes. I'd hate to see what they're like when they're alone," Tucker joked.

Danny and Sam looked up as Jessica and Tucker took seats across the table from the two of them.

"Hey Jessica," Sam said giving the long hared girl a smile.

Jessica smiled and shook her head, "I told you that you could call me Jess. We're friends now, remember?"

"Oh yeah, I forgot I can have friends that are girls."

The group laughed for a minute before Tucker asked what the two of them were doing.

"Still trying to figure out what to do our presentation on," Danny said matter of factly.

"We decided that we had to pick by Friday, so that Saturday's all about fun." A large smile came to Sam's lips.

"Oh yes, how ever could I forget. Oh my gosh, Danny and Sam are going on their first official date," Tucker said in mock surprise. "Like I haven't heard this 15 times every day for the past two weeks." The boy rolled his eyes now.

Jessica laughed, "Be nice now Tucker. I think it's cute."

Judging by the look of pleasure on Sam's face Danny was sure that she was enjoying having another girl around.

"Speaking of cute," Sam said now trying to get to the point. "I think a double date would be much more fun, don't you Danny?"

Danny grinned at her, she was pushing her luck, but he was going to get dragged down with her, wasn't he? Yeah, of course I am, I'm her boyfriend now, after all, Danny thought his cheeks going a slight shade of red. No matter how many times he thought about it the idea still made him go pink.

"Yeah, it would be. Except I don't know anyone who would want to go to Spiderman 2 with us this late notice."

The girl with the brown hair turned to Tucker and gaped at him. "You didn't tell me they were going to Spiderman!" Jessica was a huge superhero fan. Batman, Spiderman, Robin, Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy, you name it and she was a fan.

Tucker shrugged. "It must have slipped my mind."

"Liar!!!" she nearly screamed. "Why didn't you tell me?" she asked shaking him now.

"I didn't think you'd want to go. You've already seen it four times."

"But five is my lucky number!"

"I thought four was your lucky number," Tucker joked.

"They're all my lucky numbers!"

Well, I guess this means they're going, Danny thought with a mental shrug. Okay, yeah, so he was hoping that it would just be him and Sam, but Sam was right. They did need to spend more time with Tucker and their new friend. Friends should always come first, but wasn't Sam his best friend too?

Some how Danny felt that all the time that Sam had spent with Mandy had made her go girly on them. Not that he minded, she was a girl after all. At least she wasn't becoming obsessed with her looks like Paulina is.

No, Danny was sure that this was merely a way for Sam to try and get Tucker and Jessica together. Tucker did seem quite taken with the girl, and that was rare for Tucker.

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Saturday night rolled around and the four teenagers met up at the movie theater. The boys bought the tickets, as well as the snacks, and all of them filed into the theater.

Danny took the inside seat, next to Sam, who had Jessica on her other side, and Tucker sat down next to Jessica. The two couples talked about school and munched on popcorn while the ads played before the previews started.

Every so often a trivia question would come up and the group would playfully fight over the answer until it was shown. Tucker managed to get most of them right.

"I think he's cheating," Jessica whispered to Sam. Sam nodded with a small laugh.

"Yeah, he always cheats, Jess. You better watch out!"

"I do not cheat! Don't tell her things like that."

Sam stuck out her tongue at Tucker, which caused the new girl to laugh. Danny smiled to himself. He wasn't sure what had happened over the past month, but he knew something had happened. Everyone seemed happier; especially Sam, and they goofed of and joked around a lot more. The latter was probably because of Jessica; she loved a good laugh it seemed. In Danny's mind that made her prefect for Tucker.

The previews followed the ads and things slowly quieted down. A preview for the new Harry Potter flashed on the screen even though the movie had been playing for a while now. Sam nudged Danny and whispered to him that they should go and see that next time.

"I didn't know you liked Harry Potter," Danny whispered at her.

Sam nodded, "Of course I do. Harry and Hermione are just so cute together!"

"Shhh! It's starting!" Jessica whispered, as the last preview was finishing. Maybe she had seen this movie too many times, Danny thought to himself.

As the movie played Danny put his arm around Sam and she snuggled closer. Okay, so Jessica and Tucker were also there, but this really wasn't that bad, he thought.

Part way into the movie the large screen exploded right in the middle of a kissing scene. Screams from the frightened moviegoers echoed as the front of the room was engulfed in flames. The lights flickered trying to come on, but they never did.

"Danny, we have to do something!" Sam hissed at him. Her eyes were pleading with him. But what could they do?

"Tucker, get Jessica out of here, now," he ordered his friend. Tucker nodded and grabbed Jessica's arm. The two of them began making their way out of the sticky floored room. People were pushing and screaming everywhere you looked.

In the front of the theater a ghostly figure floated in the middle of the flames laughing evilly. Long hair blew in the wind that wasn't there.

"Let's do it," Sam urged.

"We're going ghost!"

In a flash, that none of the patrons seemed to notice, the pair was transformed into the ghost-fighting duo, Danny Phantom and Sam Spectre.

The two pushed off the floor and hovered above the crowd. A few children were crying as their parents tried to hurry them to safety from the flames. If only the fire was the least of our worries, Danny thought looking at the bulky figure.

Sam took off towards the long hared ghost leaving Danny to follow.

"What do you want here?" she asked getting quite annoyed.

Dark eyes met with Sam's yellow ones and then Danny's green ones. A small grin touched his lips. "Well, well, well. If it isn't the Halfas. I've been looking for you two."

Sam's eyes narrowed dangerous as she glared daggers at the other ghost. "You didn't answer my question."

The ghost shrugged to himself, "Nothing really. Just trying to keep you on your toes." He grinned wider.

Getting annoyed at this ghost's arrogant attitude, Danny shot a plasma blast at him.

The large ghost merely fazed through it without so much as a scratch. He made a large show of yawning, "Was that suppose to hurt?"

"Who are you?" Danny asked now.

"That is for you to find out yourself, young Halfa. Now, if you please, I must be off. Don't you worry though, I will be back after the fun begins."

"Fun? What fun?!"

The ghost laughed, "Oh, you'll see soon enough. Now, I will take my leave before I get too annoyed by you. I wouldn't want to kill you. Just yet anyway." With that the bulky ghost disappeared in a small flash.

Damn teleportation, Danny thought angrily. He and Sam drifted down to the floor. Everyone who had been in the theater was now long gone.

"Think we should put out this fire?" Sam asked slightly cocking her head to the side.

Siren screams started to come into hearing range, getting louder by the minute.

"No, it sounds like the fire department is here anyway. Besides, we need to get back to Tucker and Jessica before she starts to think something weird is going on."

The pair went invisible and headed out into the lobby. Hiding behind a display for some movie they transformed back into themselves.

"There they are," Danny said pointing to Tucker and Jessica. The girl looked frantic. Danny grabbed Sam's hand and the two ran over to their friends.

"Are you guys okay? Sorry we lost you in the chaos," Danny lied.

"It was so scary! Did you see those flames?" Sam asked Jessica.

"Umm... guys," Tucker said uneasily. Jessica's eyes were wide and searched over the couple.

Danny gave him a questioning look, but before he could ask what was wrong an employee of the theater came over and shoved a bunch of tickets into their hands.

"Please excuse the accident tonight. Amity Theaters give their sincere regrets as to say that the movie you were attending will not be continued until a later date. Please take this free tickets and join us again soon," the tall boy said sounding rehearsed before walking away to the next group of people.

"Let's get out of here," Tucker said pulling Jessica. The girl's eyes had yet to stop searching Danny and Sam. What is her problem, Danny wondered.

Once down the block and out of the chaos of the theater, Tucker spun around to face Danny and Sam. "She knows," he spat out.

"Knows? Knows what?" Sam asked.

"Are you guys really super heroes?" Jessica finally asked looking quite pleased.

"We're not super heroes," Danny said uneasily.

"But I saw you transform in the theater. You both changed and then you were flying!"

"You've lost your mind," Danny said starting to walk away.

"Danny, stop. It's no use. I've tried telling her otherwise, but she's not buying it. Just tell her the truth." Tucker looked like he had screwed up big time. The Halfa shook his head in defeat knowing it was him who had screwed up this time.

The group headed into the near by park and sat down on a bench before telling Jessica the whole story. How Danny had gotten changed in an accident, and then how last month Sam had changed after being thrown into the Ghost Zone, as well as what happened with Rurik.

Mandy's part was edited, mainly deleting the part about her being a Dark Slayer. Jessica was already a super hero freak; she didn't need to think that there were more real super heroes in the world other than Sam and Danny.

"Wow! This is so cool! I thought there was something strange about you two!"

"What? We're perfectly normal," Sam said not believing that the girl had so easily known the truth about them.

"Well, you guys are normal. It's just you'd disappear all the time, and stuff like that. And all those times I overheard you talking about ghosts." She shrugged now, "I guess I thought that you had just taken a leaf out of Mr. and Mrs. Fenton's book, sorry Danny."

"Whatever."

"I never thought that ghosts were real. Wow." Jessica seemed in shock now. This girl had some serious problems, Danny thought.

"Let's get out of here," Sam said taking Danny's hand. As the couple started off, Jessica called after them.

"Wait! What are your guys' names?"

Sam's eyes narrowed again, "What? You know our names."

"I mean your super hero names. What are they?"

The Halfa's eyes met with Danny's. They were silently asking what to do. Danny shrugged to himself. The girl already knew everything else, what harm would it do?

"Danny Phantom and Sam Spectre," Danny told her solemnly. "And remember, it's a secret."

Jessica nodded then was silent for a moment. "Oh! I get it, ghost names," she laughed to herself.

I can't take this anymore, Danny thought to himself. Sam seemed to have read his mind and began pulling him off again. The two left the park and slowly walked under the moonlight.