Knowing It's True

Book One:

The First Years

Authoress's Note:

Okaydokie: This is gonna be a GREAT CHAPTER!!!!!

It's the summer of Danny and Sam's fifth grade year, so they're going into sixth grade….thing'll get a tad complicated though….read on!!!!!!!!!!

Chapter Three

"What does love feel like?"

Summer. Danny and Sam's part of the year, besides winter.

Summer is when you experience new feelings, and decide to change. Sam was definatly feeling new ones.

Sam was thinking about this when she turned the corner smack straight into Dash.

"Samantha. How pleasant to see you." He said, trying to charm her. It didn't work. Sam just didn't like Dash. At all.

"Hello Dash. I have to be somewhere." Sam noticed he had a firm grip on her arm, and that his breath smelled like….alcohol?

'why was dash drinking???is he drunk??' Sam thought, and she was brought out of them by her being pressed firmly into the wall. The wall felt cold in the shade, and she felt it's roughness through her black mesh over-shirt that was over a purple tank top. Dash's knee was pressed against her skirt edge, which was also black. Her fishnet stockings suddenly gave her not warmth, nor did her boots give her any strength.

"Really. I'll let you go for a price. Will you pay it? Or will I have to force it from you?" Dash smiled evilly.

Sam gasped in horror and her face display pure agony as Dash's lips crashed down on her's, stealing her first kiss from her. He felt up her newly forming chest, slide his hands under Sam's shirt, and probably would've raped her if Danny hadn't been there to stop him.

"Dash!!! What the hell are you doing?!?!?!?!!!!!" Danny yelled at Dash.

"What? Is wittle Danny jealous? Am I taking his wittle girlfwiend away?" Dash smirked, and moved away from Sam, who went to run to Danny's side, but Dash tripped her, and her elbows impacted with the asphalt and she slid to Danny's feet. She was shaking, and did not move. Danny looked down at Sam, then looked up at Dash, who was not there anymore.

Sam was not moving to get up, making small, whimpering noises, and Danny bent to pick Sam up. Sam let him, her being about four inches smaller and twelve pounds lighter than him.

Danny said nothing to Sam, as he carried her to their special spot. The special spot had developed over the years, and was actually had a tree house with a non-leak roof, and a few chairs and couch cushions and stuff that were moved from the treehouse now, but still had plastic coverings near them in case of rain.

Danny put Sam on one of the comfiest chairs there, and pulled up another chair up in front of it. Sam looked at him, saying nothing, but Danny knew what he had to say- and do.

"Sam, you can cry. It's okay." Danny said to Sam, who lifted her head, and let the tears she had been holding in brim to her eyes.

Danny connected the chairs, lettting them make a long cusion with sides of sorts and let Sam strech out her feet next to him.

But Sam didn't. She didn't take it the wrong way, she just wanted to do what she wanted to.

What she did was crawl over to Danny's side and cried on his shoulder, which to Danny was completely acceptable. Danny hesitantly put his arm over Sam's back, not knowing if she wanted to be touched, but she let him. Sam trusted him with everything, except for certain things Danny absolutly did not need to know about….(ahemahem not sex dimwits btw)

Danny ended up having Sam's legs over his knees, and she was crying into his shoulder, and she cried for a long long time. Danny just stayed there: he guessed that his comforting could do better without words. All he did was hug her, his head on her's, and rock side to side, slowly. Sam was hugging him, and her head was on it's side on his shoulder, and his was the same way on hers. Sam eventually stopped crying, but neither said a word for a while. It was getting to be sunset almost, about 4:00 p.m.

"Danny, when Dash kissed me, I felt anger and weakness and fury. Is that what love feels like?" Sam asked, not moving.

"Of course not Sam. Dash was I guess drunk and didn't mean it, and you didn't want it. That's not love." Danny said, not moving either.

"What does it feel like? Do you know?" Sam asked, looking up at Danny.

"It feels like….you can't describe it….you feel a bunch of happiness and everything is either confusing or great….It's odd, really." Danny answered. Danny knew this because he had a soul mate. He didn't know who it was, but it was around him somewhere.

"Oh. When he kissed me, it was..well……not what I excpected. It didn't feel right at all." Sam said.

"What did you expect it to feel like?" Danny said, curiously.

Sam returned her head to it's original position.Danny sighed and settled back to his.

"I dunno. I wonder what a real kiss feels like. One that I wanted, and another person did too." Sam said.

Danny said nothing, but sighed slightly.

"Danny?"

"Yeah sam?"

"Would you ever kiss me?" Sam said, smiling at the thought of kissing her best friend.

"Now how did that kind of crazy thought pop into your head????"

Sam choked on some left of tears laughing, and Danny laughed a little with her.

"How about this: I promise to kiss you before you die."

Danny said. 'God that sounded corny." He thought.

"Danny, I know this is a tad much to ask, but, would you…..would you show me what love is?" Sam said blushing furiously.

"How do you want me to show you?" Danny gulped. He wanted to show Sam this, because she wasn't too happy now, but he didn't want to ruin their extreme friendship bond.

"Danny, whatever it is, I won't take it as anything but a friend thing. But nothing too far. However you want to." Sam said, and silenced herself.

"Okay Sam, just, don't let it ruin our friendship." Danny said.

What he did was he kissed her. Sam's first loving kiss. Danny put all the love he had into it. It lasted like 3 seconds, but it felt like 30 minutes for both of them.

Danny pulled away, flushed.

"Thank you Danny. Thank you." Sam said, and got up, leaving Danny there to wonder about his feelings. Sam didn't have to wonder. She knew how she felt. But she wouldn't let it get in the way of their friendship. Not yet.

Authoress's Note: Srry if you didnt like the skip! had something i really wanted to do and wanted to get there fast. sorry! i'll change if u say so!