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Chapter 18:
Sam's POV:
"What did you do?" Tucker asked, staring at Danny, who remained motionless on the hospital bed.
I was on the verge of tears when I spat out, "I don't know!"
I bit my lip.
Although, it worked. Danny was back to his normal-looking self with raven hair. I sighed a little bit of relif and then let my body fill with angist. What the heck had I done to Danny, who was lying on the floor consusious? I sighed and satred longer, the inage of both Tukcer and Danny bluring out because of the tears in my eyes. I blinked them away silenty.
"I can't take it!" I broke the silence, chocking on the last words.
Tucker blinked and looked around. "Maybee if you just pulled the dart out of his shoudler he'd..."
"I KNOW!" I yelled, mad at Tucker for knowing it all. Plus, that's just what I was going to do.
I got on my knees quickly and, with my right hand, yanked the dart out of Danny's shoulder, with a hard tug.
He shot up, staring at Tucker and then me. "Hey!" He said. "You did it!"
I rubbed my shoulder. "Yep."
Blushing like mad, I spun around to Tucker and shot him a look, then turned back to Danny. "Your not hurt right"
"No. I think that dart numbed my shoudler. It didn't hurt." He pulled himslef up off the ground and then rubbed his shoulder harshly. "Well, not alot." He blushed.
I laughed, not knowing weither I was souposed to or not. But when Tucker shot me a look, I realised not. Quickly, I started a new conversation so nervousness wouldn't get the better of me. "What about Vlad?" I aksed, pretending to look out the window for him.
Danny stopped rubbing his arm and rested aganist the hospital's pillows. He didn't seem to hear me and neither did Tucker.
Tucker burst into conversation, with a quick peak out the door. "You won't believe who actually came to visit you, Danny"
"Huh?" Danny scratched his head. "What do you mean"
"Paulina, man!" He said, tossing his arms into the air. "Dash, Kwan, Star!" He laughed.
"I heard them talking. I saw them, remember?" Danny said, leaning a little to look out the door from the hospital bed.
"Yeah. But can you believe it?" Tucker said, finally lowering his arms.
"Paulina came." Danny mumbled, so low I couldn't hear it.
My face was getting red and I could feel myslef buring up.
What was it with everybody and Paulina? She wasn't that pretty. And plus, even if she was, she wasn't very nice. Not to mention self-absorbed. If I was a guy, I wouln't loko for a self-absorbed person who talks about themselves in every subject.
Paulina isn't even smart. She is getting horrible grades. And the worst part is that she doesn't really care. She files her nails in class and adores over herself in the mirror by the classroom drinking fountain in fourth period.
There is also no good thing about Paulina, execpt, for some, shes nice to look at. Not that I look at her, I practilly would throw up. But Paulina is a doll, I mean this in a figureine way. A display, that won't last in the real world.
I can imagine Paulina living with a McDonalds emplyee when she's 25. She is sitting by the small rusted mirror, in my day dream, primping herself silently. She isn't smiling. Then a roar of a noise shouts from the other side of the room. It's a man's voice and he sounds angry. "Paulina!" He shouts. "Get up here anmd clean the dishes. Then the lawn."
That;s Paulina's life, as I imagine it. She may be able to egt any guy, but not the perfect life.
And that would be my life if I didn't have somebody to dream about. Danny. And there he was talking about Paulaina.
Then I snap. "Who cares about Paulina?" I feel my hands clump into fists, without any of my freewill.
Danny's face gets red with emabrrassment and he stares at his feet under the covers. "Thanks for comming, Sam." He said.
I smile. "Better." I rolled my eyes.
Tucker jumps down my throat. "Why does it matter to you Sam"
Sometimes I think Tucker is this close to figuring out that I like Danny. But I'm not going to let him. Over my dead body. My face got a little red and I kicked at the ground below me, wondering to myslef what te next comeback shooting out of my mouth would be. But my mind was at a blank and I just stare at the ground helpless.
"Don't worry about it, Tucker. It's okay." Danny said. He stole a glace out the door again, which was only slightly opened.
I look too. There's Paulina, who looked like she ran home and pimped up as fast as she could.
Her hair was perfect and wavy. He pink berrette was perced perfectly at the side of her hair and she was wearing a hot pink rain jacket, probabllly to keep any water from sprinking on her tee-shirt, which covered barley half her body anyways.
I blushed, it was all I could do.
I could feel myslef drowning in a pool of anger, and stupidy. What was I doing? Standing there, gasing at Paulina hoping that if, I consentrate hard enough she would just go away. No more Paulaina. My life would be simplier that way.
"Why do you like Paulina so much?" It burseted out, like the popping of a party ballooon.
Danny and Tucker's eyebrows raised in unison and Tucker started cracking up so hard, I could feel pain my own stomache.
I stood there as nobody dared to talk.
My eyes, darting around watching Tucker as he doubled over laughing. He grabbed the matal handle on Danny's bed. The he grasped his stomache, holding it tight, like his guts were going to fall out of him if he let go.
Danny blushed. "I don't"
And I smiled. He made me actually believe him. And to this day, I still do.
But that doesn't mean I like Paulina.
At all.
Tucker still was clinging on the hospital bed railing, gasping for air. "Where did that come from, Sam?" He asked me, wiping a tear from under his glasses.
I crunched my face up, and shut my eyes tight making me disapear for a second. I sighed, knowing I was going to just have to give up to Tucker and his game. I rubbed my chin and then my head. "I don't know." I sighed. It was more of words mixed in with a sigh, more of a sigh.
Tucker looked up at me with galsed eyes. His eyes asked all. 'No comment? No look?' They asked me.
My eyes answered back. 'Not one'
He stood up straight and burshed himself off. "Okay"
"Okay." I said, sighing again.
"Okay?" Danny said, asking us a question, making his head tilt to one side.
Tucker laughed. "You have no idea what we are talking about, huh, Danny?"
"Not a clue"
We laughed.
It seemed like everything was back to normal with Danny's mood and his self. And I liked it that way.
There was suddendly a knock on the door and Dash stumbled in. A few shadows escaped from behind him and everybody was back in their seats. They pushed Dash up to the door. Maybee a truth or dare game?
I raised a thin eyeborw at Dash, casueing him to satre back. Ohhh, I'm good.
"Yes?" I asked, poking my head out the thin crack of thr door.
Dash blushed. "I was just wondering how Danny was"
"Fiiiiiinnnnnneee?" I answered. The correct answer, but in a confusing way.
"Okay." Dash said. He motioned to the door, but I stopped him with my black boots.
"What?" He asked, becoming annoyed with me.
"Is this a dare?" I raised an eyebrow even higher. "A joke?" Higher. "A scam"
His face gave me the answer. He was completely clueless. "No." He said, and he whispered it, making sure Danny would hear or see him in his soft side. "We were all wondering"
I shot a look atthe group of people sitting in the hospital chairs, staring down attheir tiny (in some cases, huge) feet.
"Okay." I nodded. "He's fine"
Dash shot a quick smile and then frowned. "Good"
I closed the door in his face, and then turned back to Danny.
"What happend?" Tucker asked.
"It was Dash"
"What did he need?" Tucker clarified for me, rasing his eyebrown and touching his red berrau.
"He wanted to know how Danny was?" I mumbled so nobody outside could hear me gossiping. Even if it was true.
"For real?" Tucker asked.
Danny didn't pay attention, his face was worried.
I hadn't seen him that worried since he'd first became Public Enimey #1 a couple weeks ago. He looked on the verge of tears.
"Yea." I said, staring at Danny.
"What did you tell him?" Tucker said, looking for what I was staring so longely at. He realised who I was looking at, and his eyes darted away toward me. His eyes were laughing at me, I could feel it.
But his mouth didn't move a muscle. He didn't make a sound.
"I told him the truth, Why would I lie? I said Danny was fine." I shrugged.
"Well," Danny said, as he ducked below the covers again. The hospital door burst open and everybody came in the room.
They're faces told me they were staying for visiting.
Danny continued. "You did lie to him."
And he poked his head a little out of the covers. He was back in ghost mode and a tiny whisp of light blue mist came out of his mouth.
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