Sleepover

Chapter 9: My Host

A/N: Ahhh going to make this a quick update since I'm leaving to watch movies with my boyfriend soon. Yes, BOYFRIEND. Finally he asked me out.

But that's my personal business.

Now for this update. Once again, cookies for all.

"Danny?" Sam asked as she walked in the house. Ember was a little reluctant to enter the house, but stepped inside anyways. Once nothing jumped out at her she relaxed. "Danny, we're ho-" she stopped in mid sentence when she saw a rather attractive guy she had never met before walk past her and into the Living room. She followed him in and blinked, seeing both Moms inside examining a group of guys.

"Two skinny… to muscular… to tall…" Sam's mom said, pointing to each one as she spoke. "No no this won't do at all…" she sighed.

"Mom?" Sam asked, pushing past the guys to get to her. "What's going on? Who are these people?"

"We're auditioning guys to be your host during the contest!" Maddie smiled, clasping her hands together. "Isn't this exciting?"

Sam looked at Maddie and her mom. "Host? I didn't see anything about a Host in the pamphlet." she said.

"That's because they added that little fact in after they printed them. There was a meeting about it yesterday. We couldn't find you so we just went ahead ourselves!" Mrs. Manson smiled.

Sam slapped her forehead. She was in the Ghost Zone then with Ember and Danny grabbing some of Ember's stuff. "Why didn't you tell me this today?" she groaned.

"Well we didn't see you all day, now did we?" Maddie smiled.

Sam sighed, it was nice that Danny's mom and her mom we're beginning to form a friendship in the beginning, but now it was just plain annoying. "Why doesn't Danny just Host me?" she asked.

"Of course not!" Mrs. Manson laughed. "We want someone older to Host you!"

Sam turned, looking at all the men and noticed Dash and Kwan in the mix. "Then what are they doing here?" she asked.

"They look older!" Maddie smiled.

"And we're Stud Muffin's!" Dash laughed, and gave Kwan a high five.

"THAT'S IT!" Sam shouted. "Everybody out! Auditions are over!"

Mrs. Manson beamed. "You found someone in this group?"

"No one in this group is going to Host her!" Ember said from the doorway, finally notifying everyone of her appearance.

"Who is this?" Maddie and Mrs. Manson asked at the same time.

"This is Ember. She's my contest manager." Sam said, crossing her arms.

"Well then!" Mrs. Manson frowned, looking at Ember. "Who do you have in mind?"

Ember grinned as the last of the men walked out. "I'm thinking Danny Phantom."

"There you are!" Sam smiled, as she stepped onto the roof. "I thought I might find you up here."

Danny turned and looked at her. "Hey." he said quietly, and then turned back to a notepad he had in front of him.

Sam walked over to him, and he quickly flipped to a different page. "What's wrong?" she asked, sitting down next to him.

"Did you find a Host?" he asked, ignoring her question.

"I flipped out and told them all to leave." Sam laughed; he seemed to brighten up when she said that. "Ember wants Danny Phantom to Host me though…"

Danny looked over at her. "And my mom agreed to that?" he asked.

"Well she wasn't to keen on a Ghost hosting me, and my mom wasn't to keen on the Ghost that," she held up quotation marks. " 'Wreaked the house' ether. There was a little fight about it but Ember convinced them."

Danny nodded. "Paulina's going to be pretty mad about that."

"Yeap, but oh well. I think we can deal." she smiled. Danny laughed and stared at the notepad. "So what do you have there?" she asked.

"It's just a notebook I use for sketches." He shrugged.

"Really?" Sam asked, grabbing the notebook from him before he saw what happened. "What type of sketches?" she flipped to the first page and started laughing, there was a sketch of Mr. Lancer tied to a rocket. "Cute!" she laughed. They were more doodles than sketches.

She flipped through them more, pausing to laugh every once in a while at a sketch. She was about to flip the page again when Danny grabbed it from her. "The rest are private." He said.

"Awe come on! Let me see them!" She pouted, trying to grab it again.

"No way!" he laughed. "So how'd you get away from Ember anyways?" he asked, changing the subject. "She's practically attacked anyone who even hinted you going away from her."

"Well Ember's in my- er, your-… whosever room it is making some cloths right now. She didn't let me look for you until she measured me out and stuff." Sam shrugged.

"Just call it your room, it kinda is until the remolding is done." he said. "So that makes the op-center my room or something like that." he shrugged.

Sam laughed. "Yeap!" she said. "We'll have to buy you some posters to make it more home-ish."

Danny nodded and there was a silence in the air. Sam sighed heavily and set her head on his shoulder. "Hey… I'm really sorry… and thankful." she said.

"What do you mean?" he asked turning to look at her.

Sam picked up her head and shrugged looking out at the clouds. "I've been a spoiled brat lately… and you're seriously awesome to put up with it. I mean, ever since Paulina and I had that spat in English you've accompanied me into the Ghost Zone where we released and hired one of your enemies. Also, you disabled the alarm system in your house, took orders from Ember, and not to mention putting up with me."

Hr grinned. "You make it sound like it's hard to put up with you."

She put on a hurt expression, but her smile peeked through. She hit him gently on the arm. "Excuse me?" she laughed. "You're agreeing on that?"

He shrugged. "You said it was hard!" he laughed, standing up when Sam looked like she was about to pounce. She stood up too and chased him around the rooftop; their laughter was heard all the way down to the sidewalk.

The blonde haired girl from the mall held up binoculars and stared up at the rooftop. Her name was Claire, and she was one of Paulina's many Lackeys. Why did she even put up with Paulina's requests? Because Paulina could ruin her in high school. Everyone knew High school was the Glory years, and if her Glory years were ruined so would her life. Or at least that's what Paulina said. Claire sighed, turning her back on the two from behind the bush she was hiding in. Was this so filled with Glory? Hiding in a bush to spy on people actually living their lives?

She turned again and looked at the two. Sam's footing slipped and she started swing her arms around madly trying to balance herself. Danny ran up, grabbing her around the waist and pulling her to safety. Claire blinked, watching the two share a tender moment. "What would happen if this Sam girl won?" she thought out loud. A grin came to her lips. "Well a new high school queen for one…"

"Sam! Are you okay?" Danny asked, pulling her farther away from the edge.

Sam sighed. "We really need to put up a railing." she laughed. "That's the second time you saved me from falling off the roof."

He grinned and blushed; he still had his arms around her waist. "Oh! Sorry!" he laughed, letting go of her.

"Its okay-" she began to say when all of the sudden Ember threw the door to the roof open.

"WHAT'S GOING ON UP HERE?" She shouted, glaring at Sam. "I saw you about to fall off the roof! Get inside now! You can't win the contest if you're dead!"

"Relax!" Sam said, holding her hands up. "Danny was here, he saved me before I even had half of me off the roof!"

"Well you wouldn't have even had the chance to fall off if you were inside." Ember barked, holding the door open. "IN! NOW!" she yelled.

Sam gave Danny an apologetic look and hung her head, walking inside. Ember lingered for a while, turning to Danny. "Nice." she snarled. "Just bring your girlfriend on a roof where she can fall off. Aren't you a hero?" she added with a sarcastic tone. "Next time you think of coming up here, lock the door so she can't in danger herself with you." she slammed the door shut.

Danny stared at the door, and then sighed, opening his notebook and sitting down again. He flipped to the page he was at before Sam came on the roof. It was a doodle of her kissing him. He ripped it out and crumbled it up, throwing it off the roof.

He knew what his next doodle would be, and it involved Ember and a gigantic hungry dog with three eyes and 6 tails.