Paulina walked out of the hospital room looking half excited, half worried, and half like shed been crying. Everyone in the room is surprised. The nurse takes her by the arm, still trying to be somewhat polite, but remembering that everyone needs a chance to see him before he woke up. Maybe the kids were weird. What were they saying to an unconcious teenager? She had always wondered that when people got chances to talk to people who were sleeping, or in Danny's case unconcious, or even if they were in a coma. It was something that would bug her forever.
"Hello, lady? Who's next?" a voice came from someone who'd been sitting patentiley untill now. Danny's visitors were anxious.. seemed like Danny was really popular at school. That or else everyone just felt sorry for him, She had heard a lot of the visitors talk this subject over once in a blue moon since they came. It was the rarest thing and when she heard a peep out of them, she stopped and evasdropped. The big guy in the red jock jacket, Dash, had said he couldn't beleived he was here as one of Danny's visitors. She thought it was a little harsh. Reality swooped back to the nurse when the interrupting girl stood up up stopping her feet. "Excuse me, nurse, but I've been waiting. I should be next!" It was Valerie Grey.. the nurse knew it.. she had seen her father in the richest businesses.. She was very regignizeable.
"Are you Valerie Grey?"
"Um.. let me think. Yes."
"Alright, dear. You can see Danny now"
The girl pushed her aside and stopped into Danny's room muttering something under her breath about being pushing off a building by a ghost.
Valerie's POV
I was concered when I saw Paulina walk out of Danny's room. She looked as if she'd just seen a ghost. Wait.. GHOST? Where! Okay.. calm down.. this wasn't the time.. It's not like a gave anything to care about Danny Fenton, probablly the biggest loser at Casper High. But it was only because he was weird.. always leaving when he saw his breath.. always cold and shinvering. Always gone when that Inviso-bill ghost came. But mostly he was always gone, so it didn't actually mean anything.. Where WAS he all the time?
I sat down on the chair besdie Danny's bed.
"What happened to you?" I say. There are millions of cards on the counter. Chocolates from his parents..
Danny stirrs, mutters something. Everyone has been saying he has been saying some weird stuff. Maybe he can say some things while I'm here. Some sort of secret about what happened when he got pushed. I laughed when I heard the susicide idea. Everyone did. Everyone pretty much knows Danny Fenton. He may not know it.. but everyone does.. he's "that weird kid.." or "the guy who always sees his breath.." or ect.. I would die if I were known like that around school. His friends are really good though. Yet annyoing. Very annoying.. especailly that Tucker kid.
Danny moans. "Please"
Now we're getting somewhere!
She turns to his side.. stops.. turns back. I am surprised when everything goes quiet and suddently he is facing me. Just lying there. His eyes tightly closed like you would if you were seeing something that you didn't want to. He breaths heavily. Fast. I can count to 5 and he's taken 10 breaths. Is he.. running? "What are you doing, Danny?" I am confused.. Danny has always been weird. He is still facing me.
"AHHHH!" I think now he is falling off the building in his dream. Sam says he is reliving it or something weird like that.. Weird stuff for a weird kid i guess.
Danny is silent. Maybe he has fallen.
"You are one weird kid"
I hear a growling noise..
Could Danny have heard that?
I dont care if he does..
I have to admit when we did that project together with the flower sack.. it was sort of my fault he was acting like a jerk.. I know I should have helped out more then I did.. but then I got trapped with that STUPID ghost inside the ghost zone when we were handcuffed to each other. Ugh.. that was horrible! He was nice though.. reminded me of someone.. it reminded me of Danny.
Where did the growling come from?
"It's creepy in here!" I say out loud.
I hear somebody reply mumbling. "Danny?" I said. It couldn't have been Danny. I was watching him the whole time.
I pulled out a ghost gun from my backpack. It was large and looked brand new. But this was becasue I was saving my shot for that ghost kid...and who ever was making that noise.
"I've got a gun, Okay?" I scremed.
Movement behind the sofa.
"I know where your hiding and I'm going to count to 5 and if you don't come out, I'll shot!" This was being being semi-serious. I really was saving this for the ghost kid, not matter what I said before.
"Okay, okay, Valerie, calm down." A large shadow emerged from behind the couch, "It's just me, Sam"
"What on earth are you doing in here?" I pushed the gun behind my back.
"Sam as your doing"
"It's not your turn." I said 'turn' loud.
"Well the nurse hates me, so I've got to get in some how"
"Nurse!" I started to call.
"No." Sam said, "Valerie, please"
She looked at me begging. Maybe she really did like Danny in that kind of way. I looked in her eyes.
The nurse barged in. "Is he awake"
I shifted. "No. I just wanted to ask where the paper was so AI could make a card..." I said. I may seem mean sometimes, but I've got a heart. And in a way I felt bad for Sam. Plus, she was somebody I could talk to.
"You gave me a heart attack, Ms. Gray. Over there." She pointed to the paper.
"Heh. Thanks"
The nurse closed the door with out seeing Sam in the corner, holding her breath.
"Thanks." I think thats what Sam muttered.
No problem, I thought. But I just look at her.
"Soo..." She satrted. What was this to her?
I cutted to the chase. She wanted talking, well she's gonna get it...all of it. "The nurse siad you know what happened"
"No. I dont" She lied.
"Nurse!" Ahh...black mail is sweat!
"No don't!" She sighed. "Okay"
The nurse didn't hear me becasue she never came in. Maybe she suspected I was asking for a pencil or coloring-crayons for my card. Silly girl, she must be thinking.
"He was pushed. You know that." Sam rolled her eyes.
I knew that, duh. "You were there, Sam"
"Okay. He was up on a building running from a ghost and it pushed him. Just like that. On his way down, he hit his head on the building nearby"
I sigh. "Poor thing." Crap! I didn't mean to say that outloud.
Sam giggles a little. Like she knew I was thinking that. I knew she was too.
Danny moans and then tosses.
"What's he uo to you think?" Sam says.
"Are you kidding me? I should be asking you"
She touches his head.
I looked at her eyes for a long time. I was trying to wear her down. Make her tel lme the truth. There is somehting weird about this Fenton kid and I';ll always think that. What is tit you like so much about Danny?
Sam sighed. I knew what she was thinking becasue she said it outloud. "Why do I have to give myslef away? I'm such a bad hider"
She was talking about getting up from behind the couch. She thinks she shuoldn't have becasue now she's in a tight situiation.
Well, deal with it girl cause I've got a looong way to go!
She hit her head and muttered something, "Stupid. Stupid." Then she sighed, "What do I like so much about Danny? Well he's a hero"
"What?" What the heck did she just say?
But I guess this comment didn't mean anything because she wasn't trying to cver it up. "A hero?" I said.
"You and all the jocks and prissy pom-pom girl or what ever don't realise it, but Danny would never let anybody get hurt. He stands up for people and he cares about every single one of you in this very school. And most of you treat him like dirt. To me, this makes him a hero"
"You like him don't you?" I said.
She looks at Danny. The answer is Yes, I thought. Because it was. She just won't tell me...there are other things she won't tell me about Danny's illness.
"I agree with you. Danny is pretty much a hero" I say. Oh shoot! I didn't mean to say that outloud. "Well, sort of." I added.
She snorts.
Stupid Goth.
I touvh his head. "Man! He is sweating"
"I know. He's dreaming, Valerie. People dream"
"Okay. Calm down"
She sighed. And then looked back at me. I feel bad for Danny, and I think this is natural. I mean, he's a good kid.
Sam said, "Oh shot"
I watched her dodge behind the couch. What?
The nurse comes in.
Oh.
"Times up okay?" She tells me.
"Yeah. Bye Danny"
She takes my hand and leads me out the door. I guess I felt so bad that I didn't even care that she was holding my hand. I sniffle. Don't cry Valerie, I thought, he's just a stupid, werid, starnge, odd...frendly, nice, caring kid.
She tells me to take a seat.
"Jazz Fenton"
The red haired girl with a black shirt on and blue jeans way too short comes in the room. Then closed the door behind her. This girl is Danny's sister. Smart and pretty. But sometimes I feel as if she knows to much!
Candy- Jazz is next and it might be intresting becasue she knows Danny is a ghost. I'm glad you guy had so many reviews. I'd like to give a very special thanks though to Unlikely-to-bear-it becasue she review on every chapter. So thanks, you rule! Hehe! (And P.S to Unlikely-to-bear-it: Ha! I was in the writting mood late last night.) But thank you all for reading and reviewing. Please do more! I hope you enjoy. Jazz is next! YAYA!