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Danny's gone bananas. Too bad it all ends in this chapter, huh?

Chapter Five

Tucker

I froze upon hearing his words and felt my eyes bulge. Slowly, I turned to him, swallowing nervously.

"What secret?" I asked, trying to keep my voice steady.

"I want to hear your secret Danny," Paulina said, flitting her eyebrows flirtatiously.

I saw Sam's hand clench into a fist on the seat. Was Paulina creating her own death wish? I wondered why she was suddenly interested in Danny. If it was to make Sam jealous, it was certainly working in a cruel way.

"Danny doesn't have a secret," I said, more to him that anyone else.

I'd never seen my best friend so messed up in my entire life. A part of me still swore Paulina's so called "smelling salts" had made his head recreate the sensation of being high.

The other part knew it had to do with his ghost powers. Because suddenly his eyes were Phantom green and his veins the same. What and how it was affecting him, I didn't understand.

Quite honestly, I was glad I was here. I really wasn't meant to be here, since I had snuck in in the first place. The original plan for me was to go on the bus. Lancer had agreed to let Sam and Sam only to get on the van to keep Danny company since he was pretty much surrounded by people who hated him (or in Valerie's case sometimes wanted to shoot him with a weapon). She'd helped me to sneak in the back and stowaway, so that I could help if anything went wrong. And it was the wrong type of wrong.

"Yes, Danny does," he said. He really had totally lost it. Now he was talking about himself in third person.

"No, Danny doesn't," Sam said.

"Want to know a she-cret?" he said again.

"Yes, tell us your secret," Paulina urged.

"I tell you," he said excitedly.

Wait a second…I remember--

"I can count all ze way to sfifty five," he said.

Valerie burst into laughter and even Dash and Sam chuckled. Paulina looked a little disappointed.

"See? One…two….two and half….sfseventeen, sfifty five," he said.

I remembered that we had found the joke he was quoting almost a couple months ago. We'd found it on some website and he'd thought it was hilarious. (He would)

Danny kept counting to himself and Sam leaned in closer to me, clearly wanting to say something.

"We need to do something before he does mention a real secret," she muttered.

"I have an idea," Valerie said.

"Ding! Light bulb," Danny said, holding a fist over Valerie's head.

"Okay then…" she said, brushing his hand away.

"I love Salm….on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday," Danny said. Sam's eyes closed and she smacked her forehead.

Okay, now it was really time for me to laugh. This was great. No matter how different Danny was, he knew how to make a seriously messed up thing into something funny.

"Awww, that's so sweet," Valerie said, staring at Sam.

"No, it's not," I said, laughing hard. "He's talking about the fish. You know, salmon…"

Paulina snorted again and Dash and Valerie all laughed. Sam shook her head. "I can't believe he remembers that."

"What?" Dash asked.

"Salmon was the nickname we used to call her because she turned the color of salmon because Danny used to say "hi beautiful" to her all the time in third grade," I explained.

"I despise fish," she muttered. "What's your idea?" She turned her focus back to Valerie, her cheeks red. This was great. Now I had some stuff to burn on her for a while.

"Well…you now, I've never told anyone this before, but I'm training to be a masseuse," she said. "We learn all kinds of things." She turned to Paulina. "You said the person had to sleep the drug off, right?"

"It wasn't a drug," she insisted again. "But yes."

"What does that have to do with anything?" Dash asked. He suddenly looked like he was the lonely one out of the group. In truth, we had been ignoring him quite a bit. But in truth, sometimes, I didn't care.

"Well, I didn't want to hit him, because he's still bleeding pretty bad and even though he doesn't act like it, he probably is in pain," she said.

"I'm still lost," I said. Was there a point to this story? I loved Valerie, but sometimes she made zero sense.

"I know certain techniques that avoid a certain sensitive spot on the neck. We were taught to avoid applying too much pressure, in case we cause unconsciousness," she said.

Danny looked up. "Hey look, a seagull."

"Where?" Dash asked stupidly.

We all laughed. (Well, except for Dash and Danny)

"We're inside, Dash," Valerie said slowly like she was talking to a two year old.

"I thought he'd been staring-- Ugh, never mind," he said. His cheeks went rather red, but I could see he was smiling at himself anyway.

"Anyway…." Sam said. "So basically, if you give Danny a massage on his neck, he will fall asleep."

"More into unconsciousness, but exactly. With your permission of course Sam," she proposed.

Sam stared at Danny (who was now banging his head on the window again) and I could tell she was definitely thinking things over. At last, she nodded. "Do it."

Valerie nodded. "Hey Danny?" He didn't reply. "Danny? Hello?"

"That's not my name," he said.

"Then what is your name?" Paulina asked.

"Danny Ph--"

Valerie clapped a hand to his mouth. "Shh!" she said. "Don't worry, I'll tell them. Can you do me a favor?"
"Maybe…." he said mischievously. I tried not to burst into laughter. This was bad, but it was freaking hilarious.

"Can you scooch up a little?" she asked. "Not outside like last time, but just move down the seat."

"I guess," he sighed, doing it. Yeah, like we needed a repeat of what had happened last time.

"Thank you," she said. Valerie placed her hands over his shoulders and began to massage.

"Oooh…" he said, smiling.

She continued to massage evenly, then slowly moved to his neck. Her hands did something strange and there was a small cracking noise. Danny suddenly closed his eyes and Sam and Valerie both caught him before he fell backwards.

"Are you sure that didn't do something wrong?" I asked. Sure, I trusted Val, but that noise had sounded oddly strange.

"Yeah. But he has to wake up on his own," she said.

"Thanks Valerie," Sam said sincerely.

There was a moment of silence. I sat around, itching to get my PDA out and start playing with it, but I didn't think it was the time or place for it, so I resisted it.

"You know who Danny reminds me of?" Paulina suddenly said.

"I can't imagine," Sam said, leaning back against the seat.

"Remember when those ghosts attacked the town?" she asked, clearly ignoring Sam.

"Doesn't everybody?" Valerie asked.

"Not if you were being controlled by a ghost," Dash grumbled. "Three days straight might I add."

"Hey, I know how that feels too," Paulina pointed out. "But that's not what I meant. I meant Invis-o-Bill."

"That is not his name. He was never "Invis-o-Bill," Sam muttered.

"how is it that you know so much about him?" she demanded. God…this is going to start to get really bad…..

"When it becomes your business," Sam said angrily. "I'll let you know."

Paulina leaned back against the seat, raising her eyebrows in challenge and crossing her arms over her chest. "So I'll make it my business."

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Smackdown….here we come! Sam's next… And you know Danny has to wake up sometime because his chapter still has yet to come.

Please R&R! By the way, if you were confused on a couple things I mentioned earlier, it's probably in the deleted scene. Like I said before, those of you who wish to get this scene can email me at or instant message me AOL style at SToll15.

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