Hey, I wanted to thank my reviewers- especially since this is my first fan fic- so you're great! Also, I forgot to add my disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom, Butch Hartman does. By the way, I DID NOT COPY the new episode Fright Knight. I honestly had no idea—and my story line is totally different.

Chapter Five

Cold

Jazz hated seeing the hurt expression on her brother's face. But she read Sam like a book. Sam was scared, and it had something to do with being around Danny. She wished that her young brother would tell her his secret....but like their father, he was stubborn and just weird....

"Danny?" she asked.

He stared at her as though he just noticed her being there, and his eyes widened.

"Um...."

"Danny, I'm sorry, I just don't think she wanted to talk to you," Jazz said, hating herself for saying it, to elude his mind off the real problem. She wished he would confess; it would get a load off his chest.

"That's not what I me-," he began. He sighed. "You're probably right, I shouldn't have shoved her."

"What?" Jazz asked, confused.

"When you saw us in her room, we were fighting and it was getting out of hand. You know how it is. Anyway, I got angry and I shoved her."

Jazz sighed. Her brother wasn't very good at lying for sure. But it was his story and he was sticking to it. She looked at her brother and her eyes caught something. Danny didn't realize it, but half of his arm had disappeared.

"Well, you two should apologize tomorrow. Don't let a good friendship go to waste," Jazz said. "I have to go upstairs and study some more." She waved quickly and began to turn back upstairs. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Danny try to wave and then realize his arm was gone.

She walked up the stairs and up to her room, wondering whether or not Danny was ever going to be honest with her.

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Well my life is just great, Danny thought, forcing his arm to become visible again. He really hoped Jazz hadn't seen it.

His best friend went weird suddenly, his body hurt like heck, and he just lied to his sister. All of it had to do with his ghost powers.

"Why can't I be normal?" Danny yelled. He fell to his knees, put his hands to his ears and yelled as loud as he could.

Without a battle cry, he went ghost and phased upstairs and into the night, flying freely to get rid of the thoughts in his head.

But even that didn't work.

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"Have you seen Sam?" Danny asked Tucker the next morning at school. He hadn't slept at all and there were dark circles beneath his eyes.

Tucker paused before he answered. "No, not today....listen Danny?

"Yeah?" Danny asked, cringing at what he thought Tucker might say, if he was right.

"She said she didn't really want to see you today... the ghost thing kind of freaked her out."

Danny looked down sadly. He wished he knew what Sam was angry about. He couldn't imagine a life without her...even though that life was sometimes crazy. Ember had sure changed his thoughts about her spell or no....maybe everyone was right...maybe Danny did like her. She was pretty, smart, independent...

"Danny? Are you alright?"

Danny ignored Tucker. What if he confessed his feelings to Sam? She might forgive him, and they could go as a couple...

"Danny? Hello?" Tucker rapped on his head and finally snapped him out of it. "Dude, you alright?"

"I'll talk to you later, okay Tuck?" Danny said, slipping his books into his locker and closing it.

"O....kay..." Tucker said, even though Danny couldn't hear him.

Danny just hoped that his confession wasn't too late.

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Sam closed her locker with bare effort. She was dressed in blue jeans and a black fish net shirt, a little different, but still black. Her mind swirled with thoughts. She turned around and gasped.

"Sam...I was hoping we could talk," Danny said, his blue eyes level with hers.

"I don't want to Danny. I'd just like to be left alone," she said. He paused for a minute, as though thinking, and Sam began to walk away.

"Wait...Sam...please, hear me out." She sighed and stopped.

"I- I've been thinking...a lot. And I was wondering-"

"Wondering what?" she said with little expectation.

"If you would like to my girlfriend..." There he said it. Her eyes grew big, and sparkled for a minute and then fell.

"What?" Danny asked.

"Sorry, but I don't think so," she said. She began walking down the hall again.

"Wait! Sam, I'm sorry...." Danny said, desperately. He followed her as she walked.

"Sorry? Sorry for what? You don't even know what you're apologizing for!" she shouted.

"I know, so why don't you tell me?" Danny shouted back angrily.

"What, gonna ghost on me?" Sam asked.

For a minute, Danny was confused. Then he felt the burning in his eyes.

"That's what we're arguing about?" Danny asked, catching on at last.

"Yes. I did some thinking last night. We're always fighting ghosts. We've never gotten anything good from it. You've gotten hurt and we've all had problems with the expression of our feelings. Tucker got jealous of you and you both got in a fight, Ember caused us to like each other-"

"Me to like you, you mean," Danny corrected.

"Yeah. Danny don't you get it? We'll never be happy with all these ghosts," Sam sighed. She stopped walking and he stood in front of her.

"I'm sorry, but I can't do this anymore. Just leave me alone, please....." She walked off.

He sighed miserably, remaining behind. His mind shuffled through thoughts. There was only really one thing to do, something that would make her comfortable to be around him again.

He had to get rid of his ghost powers.