Summer Home

Chapter Six:- Kaley, Rain, and a Fight

Danny woke up around ten and it was still hotter than hell in there. He literally rolled out of bed and hit the floor.

"He's up!" He heard Sam yell to Tucker. Danny groaned and closed his eyes lying on the floor. "Well more like down but..." He heard her say in the doorway. "C'mon Danny. There's something on the news you'll wanna see." She threw a shirt and pants at him.

"What is it?" He asked putting them on lazily. She didn't answer but just walked out and sat on the couch. He soon followed. "What's goi-" She cut him off by turning his head towards the tv.

"We have just receieved the name of the victim." The reporter started looking down at her sheet of paper. "16 year old Kaley Larson was found dead this morning on the shore being washed by the tide. At first look, it looks like she went out for a night swim and accidentally drown. Investigators say it was no accident because of her defensive wounds and the fact that she was still in her pajamas." She explained going into detail. "The skin found under Kaley's nails is very strange though, it's green. There was also a green liquid that resembles blood found near her body. Investigators say that she died between 2:30 and 3 AM but will not say anything about the green skin and 'blood'." Danny turned the tv off.

"I don't need an investigator to tell me what's going on." He said sitting back. "Do ghosts just like to follow me!" He shouted.

"Danny calm down." Sam turned toward him.

"No! Not only is this ghost here but 2:30? That's right after we left! I saw a ghost but I had to ignore it because-" He was cut off by the front door opening. "Travis..."

"Hey Travis!" Sam got up and hugged him.

"Does he like interrupting me?" Danny asked himself quietly. Then he looked closer at him. "Hey, where'd you get that cut?" There was a scratch across his left cheek with a little green something on it.

"My cat scratched me last night." He answered.

"You didn't have that on the beach." Danny challenged.

"Okay so this morning, whatever. I got it after I dropped Sam off." He shrugged.

"What's with the green?"

"It's some anti-bacteria stuff I put on it." He reached up and wiped it off. "I thought I got it all." He wiped it on his jeans then looked at Danny. "What's with all the questions?"

"Just curious." He answered

"But now he's done." Sam shot Danny a cold look. "What are you doing here?"

"And why don't you knock?" Sam picked up a pillow near her then threw it at Danny and flashed him a playful smile that he returned. "What?" He had that innocent little kid look on this face that made him look so adorable to her. She rolled her eyes and grabbed Travis' arm which changed look on his face to one that showed a broken heart and hate. As Sam and Travis walked into the kitchen to join Tucker, he mumbled "A cat couldn't have done that."

He knew he shouldn't jump to conclusions but he couldn't help it. All the evidence pointed to Travis. He walked into the kitchen just in time to see Travis kiss Sam's cheek really, really close to her lips. That did it for him.

"Sam, can I talk to you outside for a minute?" He asked her trying not to sound stressed or mad or upset.

"Sure." She said standing up. She gave Tucker a confused look but all he did was smile. "Be right back." She said to Travis who looked at Tucker as if asking him what he should do. Once outside, she asked Danny "What's up?"

"Look, I think Travis is the killer ghost." She looked at him in disbelief.

"I think you hit your head a little too hard when you fell out of bed." She told him but he shook his head.

"Hear me out would you?" She crossed her arms waiting for him to explain. "Kaley had defensive wounds and green skin under her nails which indicates that she scratched her attackr. Travis has a scratch across his face!"

"Which he explained!"

"No cat could have done that. The 'anti-bacteria' is the same color as ghost blood."

"Why doesn't he make your ghost sense go off?"

"Maybe he's another halfa. I don't know! And he said that he got that scratch after he dropped you off. Kaley was killed at the same time!" Sam still wasn't believing him. "And another thing! Why else do you think he shows up all the time, even at two in the frickin' morning!" Danny shouted no longer realizing what he was really saying. "Why else would he try to get friendly with us? Why else would he take you out!" He covered his mouth as soon as those words left his mouth. Sam stood shocked just staring at him with hurt, disbelief, and madness in her eyes. "Sam I..." He couldn't believe he had just said that. "Oh my god Sam. I didn't mean that." He got closer to her and took her hands. "I'm so sorry." She just backed away and shook her head.

"I..." She let out a few breaths and shook her head then walked back inside.

"Oh my god! I'm suck an idiot!" He yelled to himself. "Could things get any worse?" Just then rain came pouring down out of no where. The clouds suddenly covered the sky and the rain just kept coming down. "Arg!" He yelled then just stood in the rain for a little bit before going inside.

"Dude, you know you're soaking wet?" Tucker asked him once he got inside. Danny just walked past him. "You don't want to go in there." Tucker warned him before he reached the bedroom door.

"Why not?"

"Sam's really upset at you. Dunno what you did and I probably shouldn't ask so..." Danny took a quick look around.

"Where's Travis?" He asked.

"He's in there with her."

"What?" Danny shouted at Tucker. "I can't believe this! Nothing can go right can it?" He went ghost then flew out the door without telling Tucker where he was going or when he'd be back.

"This is so not the way this was suppose to go." Tucker said to himself. Shortly after he said that Travis came out of the bedroom.

"I'm gonna go Tuck. She doesn't want my comfort right now." He told him.

"Alright well here." Tucker took a twenty dollar bill from his pocket and handed it to Travis. "This is for dinner."

"Alright I'll see you later." He walked out the door leaving Tucker there to wonder what to do.

"Sorry, I don't see anything wrong." The guy said wiping his hands off on a wash cloth.

"What do you mean nothing wrong?" Tucker asked. "We have no air! There's something wrong!"

"Sorry." He said not really caring. "Now if you'll pay me I'll be on my way."

"Ugh." He groaned as he handed the guy his money. "How is it raining yet still this hot?"

"Once again, I don't know. Hell maybe a ghost is messing with you guys." He laughed but Tucker took it seriously.

"Great just what we need right now." He rolled his eyes and led the man out the door. He sighed.

It had been two hours and there was no sign of Danny and Sam was still in the bedroom. He figured he should go check on her so he went up to the bedroom door and knocked.

"Sam? You alright?" There was no answer. "Man... What did Danny say?" He knocked again but still no answer. "I'm coming in." He opened the door to find no Sam but a window left open with rain coming in. "Would anyone tell me anything anymore?" He groaned and went back to turn the news on.

Meanwhile Danny was just floating above the beach. He was intangible just to get the rain off of him. He really had nothing better to do now. He didn't want to go back to the house where all he'd hear was either yelling from Sam or Tucker pressuring him or even worse, he'd see Sam with Travis.

"I really am going insane." He said to himself. His ghost sense went off but he basically ignored it. He knew he really needed to spring into action right about now but his heart wasn't in the right place to do anything but float there and be sad. He took a brief look around but saw nothing so did nothing.

Not far away was a ghost who went by the name Shifter. He stared at Danny shaking his head. He looked down to see Sam walking down below and he smiled.

"Soon my darling, soon." Shifter whispered quietly then flew away to take his human form.

Sam had gone out the window to take a walk in the rain. She knew Danny probably didn't mean what he said but it still made her mad. While walking down the beach she could hear the rain hitting the sand and waves crashing down beside her. She sighed just trying to clear her mind, clear it of Travis, of how mad she was, of the rain, of the heat, of... Danny. He was the only thing she could never clear her mind of.

"Sam." She heard a soft cautious voice say beside her and touch her arm. Danny became visible and for just a few seconds she forgot why she was so mad but then everything came rushing back and she walked faster away from him. "What are you doing out here? It's raining and you're going to get sick."

"I don't care." She said still trying to walk ahead of him.

"Sam look I'm sorry." She didn't say anything. "Talk to me would you?" He grabbed her hand but she quickly took it away and turned to him with a fire in her eyes.

"You want me to talk?" She asked him and he nodded which might have been a mistake. "Fine! What's so wrong with me that no guy ever like?" She started shouting at him but before he could answer, she started up again. "Why can't someone like me for me? Isn't it possible that all these things are a coincidence that Travis seems like the ghost? Isn't it at all possible that he likes me for me? That someone, someone could actually care about me just because they like me?" When he stood there and said nothing she shook her head at him.

"Sam, I... It's just that..." He couldn't seem to say anything even though he knew he wanted to blurt out how he felt right there. "You know I care."

"Yeah I know but sometimes you just need to show it a little more." With tears about to roll down her cheeks, she ran off toward the house leaving Danny there hitting his head.

"Stupid Danny, stupid." He went intangible and flew home hoping to try find something to say.