True To Your Heart
Chapter 7- Tough Love
Act 1: Losing Trust
Sam looked at Danny's blue eyes. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. "Could this REALLY be happening?" she believed. Sam shook her head throwing away her thoughts. "No!" she shouted surprising Danny from her sudden bellowing.
"Sam, you do believe me right?" Danny hoped to know. He looked into Sam's violet eyes and could feel that he could see through them. He knew that Sam was having second thoughts and he knew that it wasn't going to be easy to make her believe him but what can he do?
Sam turned her eyes away. "Why should I believe you?" she mumbled. "You didn't believe me when I told you about Paulina"
Danny stepped back in disbelief. "Sam, what I'm saying is the truth"
Sam shook her head. "Danny I wouldn't believe you if you told me that my last name is Manson" she sarcastically spoke and walked off.
"But..." Danny started trying to explain himself.
Sam glanced back at the hurt Danny. "Just forget it"
Sam walked to the center of the classroom and positioned herself preparing to say her line. Danny walked after her, his head casting a shadow on the ground. He took his position on the floor, pretending to be dead.
"Why did thy do such a fruitless sacrifice?" Sam began and bent down to her knees and took Danny's head and placed it on her lap. "Is thou the reason?
Danny wasn't suppose to say anything but he couldn't help but speak his mind. "It is ye fault for ye hasn't followed its lover's rule to always speak and believe the truth from ye's loved one"
Sam blinked in surprise. "Danny" she whispered in his ear. "What the heck are you doing?"
"I'm trying to tell you the truth" Danny responded.
"I said forget about it!" Sam argued.
"No! I want to know why you changed your whole look. Is it because what Paulina said?"
Sam shook her head. "Of course not!"
Danny looked at Sam's eyes. He could tell she was lying and he couldn't help but laugh. Never before would Sam lie about something, especially if it was about Paulina. If Sam had to say something, then she would speak her mind and wouldn't care what anyone said. "Yes you are!" Danny giggled. "I can't believe that you would let Paulina get to you. It's just so stupid to get mad over such a little thing" he laughed.
Sam dropped Danny's head to the floor. "Ouch!" Danny grunted looking up at Sam. Her violet eyes were now red with fury and her eyebrows winced in anger.
"So you were never mad at me, but you were angry about what Paulina said right?" Danny concluded.
Sam growled at Danny. "You are such a dense, blinded, air-headed imbissal I've ever met!" Sam shouted.
Danny stood up from his position. "What did I do now? Are you still mad about what Paulina said? I can't believe you would let her get to you. Is that why you changed your look?" Danny stared at his friend. "Sam," he paused. "It's sort of pathetic that you think that way"
"You don't know what I think at all!" Sam bickered in annoyance.
Mr. Lancer's eyes scrolled up and down the script which he crumpled in his hand and glared at the two. "This isn't part of the script!" he declared.
"What are those two doing?" Tucker remarked.
Jazz stared at Danny. "Oh Danny, can't you see that Sam never got mad over what Paulina said. She got angry that you are too blind to see how much she loves you. That's the true reason why she changed her appearance-it was all for you"
"What? So you're calling me stupid now? And wait-you also called me a dense, blinded, air-headed imbissal?" Danny questioned in disbelief.
"What did I do to you now?"
Act 2: The Beginning of the Tough and painful challenges of Love
"Grrr!" Sam scowled. "It's what you didn't do!" she blurted and walked out of the classroom and Dash followed behind.
"Mr. Fenton!" Lancer screamed from the top of his lungs. Danny turned his head slowly towards him. Lancer gave a menacing glare at Danny which sent chills across his spine. "I want a word with you PRIVATELY!"
Danny nodded his head nervously and followed Lancer.
Meanwhile Dash ran after Sam. "Sam!" he recalled.
Sam looked behind her and found Dash following her foot steps. "What!" she sniffed trying to restrain tears from falling.
"Listen" Dash spoke breathlessly. "Don't worry about that dork"
Sam raised an eye brow in disbelief that Dash actually tried to console her.
"He's just a loser so don't hang out with him"
"And you care because?" Sam asked annoyingly.
"Since you had a fight with him, may be you could hang out with me and the popular kids for lunch. I all ready asked them and they're cool with it"
"Popular?" Sam blinked. "Uhh Dash do you know who you're talking to?"
"Yeah, Sam Mansion"
Sam cleared her throat. "It's Manson"
"Same thing. So you in?"
"Dash either you hit yourself too hard on the head with that sword or you're just going crazy" Sam rolled her eyes. "Or...you're just mentally retarded" she thought. "Did you forget that you so called popular kids used to mock me and my friends all the time and call us geeks?"
"No, no, no" Dash shook his head vigorously. "You're not a geek. I mean why would a geek dress, well..."Dash looked at Sam up and down as if he was checking her out. "You know, if you are a geek then why would you dress like a popular girl?"
"Do you even know how popular girls dress like?"
"Uhh yeah" Dash wondered. "Umm popular girls are rich. They dress good and look hot wearing bathing suites"
"Is that it?"
Dash twitched his mouth trying to think and he nodded his head. "Yeah, pretty sure that's about it"
"Tell me something" Sam began. "Why are you all of a sudden being so nice to me? Is it because Paulina isn't here cause if she was, she wouldn't want you talking to me"
"Hey Paulina talked to that dork so why can't I talk to you?" Dash admitted. "Please eat with us! Please!" Dash begged.
Sam crossed her arms and looked at Dash pathetically. "Fine" she finally answered and with that-Dash jumped up merrily knowing that he succeeded.
On the other hand, Lancer was busy scolding Danny. "Fenton you are really testing my patience!"
"But Mr. Lancer it wasn't my fault! I-Sam-well I, no er I mean" Danny bickered, as his tongue twisted with confusing words as he tried to come up with an explanation which by now, he sucks at doing.
"Look, I have no time for your nonsense! I specifically ordered you to play your role as Romeo and I expected you to do very well, that is if you're planning to pass my class! Now, go back there, solve your issues and be the passionate Romeo and fall in love with Juliet like you're suppose to do!" Mr. Lancer squealed furiously.
Danny nodded his head, indicating that he was ok with it but truly, he wasn't. He walked out of the class and immediately transformed into Danny Phantom and raced out of the school to be alone. He was so furious about what his own best friend told him. He even felt guilty for something that he was clueless about. His mind was all ready filled with so much problems all ready. From what happened to Paulina, then what she told Sam, then Sam changing her look, trying to pass, with the big secret about being a ghost, and now that huge argument with Sam. His head felt like it was going to explode from so much stress that he couldn't take it anymore. His life was so confusing and his heart just felt like it was tearing apart little by little. It hurt him so much, he didn't know what to do. Danny clutched his head in confusion and shouted in so much pain.
Jazz walked out of the school to look for Danny when she heard someone shrieking. She walked over to where she heard the noise and found no one else but Danny crying in pain. She gasped with worry for her little brother and ran as fast as she could towards him.
Danny was on the ground crouching in pain. His mind was so confused. All the things that happened to him kept repeating over and over again that it made him crazy. He was completely lost and all he needed was someone who cared and loved him. Danny noticed Jazz running to him and jumped back. "Go away!" he warned. "I'm a ghost! If you don't go I-I will hurt you!" he blurted. His green eyes stared blankly at Jazz. Jazz just looked at Danny with sympathy. Even with his warning, she continued to walk towards him. "I said go away!" Danny bellowed and his hands formed green energy beams. His eyes raged in anger but Jazz saw right through them. She saw her little brother lost, afraid and confused.
"I know you won't hurt me" Jazz cautiously spoke.
"No!" Danny walked back as he remained in fighting stance.
"Danny it's me Jazz. I won't hurt you. I'm here to help. Please, please calm down" Jazz pleaded.
"Jazz?" Danny whispered in shock. "How do you know it's me?"
"I know everything about you because you're my little brother and if you need someone to help you I'm always here"
Tears rolled down Danny's cheeks and he ran towards Jazz hugging her tightly. He transformed back into his normal ordinary self.
Act 3: Brother and Sister
The two siblings were back in their house. Jazz poured some hot chocolate into the mug handing it over to Danny who was still dumbfounded of what happened earlier.
"Jazz, am I really a jerk?" Danny suddenly asked.
Jazz walked over to Danny and patted him gently on the back. "Of course not! You're just dense"
"What did I do that was so wrong? What did I do to make Sam hate me?"
"Danny you didn't do anything wrong" Tucker spoke walking into the kitchen. The two siblings looked at Tucker surprisingly.
"How did you get in here?" Jazz asked.
"Oh your door was open. You really need to lose that habit and learn to lock your doors. It's not like there's a mysterious hero saving everyone from creepy, ugly looking ghosts" Tucker replied pointing at the door way.
"Save it. Jazz knew from the beginning" Danny announced.
Tucker shrugged his shoulders. "That's no surprise" he remarked and walked over to his friend.
Danny casted his head down gloomily. "I didn't do anything right either"
"Danny it's not what you did. It's what you didn't do" Jazz explained. "Listen little brother if you haven't noticed, Sam really likes you as in more than a friend"
"Yeah dude she loves you" Tucker added.
"Huh?" Danny's eyes widened in confusion.
"And don't tell us you didn't feel the same way about her" Jazz announced. "Look, you did hurt her feelings when you didn't stick up for her when Paulina said those awful things and since you didn't do that, Sam began to think what you saw in Paulina"
"Yeah, what did you see in her anyway?" Tucker irritatedly asked.
Jazz pushed Tucker away and rolled her eyes. "Anyway like I was saying. Sam changed her appearance because Sam thought that if she looked like Paulina then you would start liking her"
"She did all this for you Danny and I can't believe that you were too blind to see. Like I said, what good are your ghost powers when you can't see through Sam's heart?" Tucker butted into the conversation.
"Tucker!" Jazz growled. She looked back at Danny. "Don't mind him. Now listen to me. Sam got mad at you in class because she thought that you were laughing and calling her stupid, which got her upset because that's just how girls are"
"You girls are weird. No wonder why we boys can never understand you" Tucker blurted out.
Jazz shoved him. "Anyway, we girls are very sensitive when it comes to boys especially if we really like them. If you guys say something hurtful and even if you didn't mean for it to sound so cruel or by means insulting, we girls just take it the wrong way and we go crazy and well, you all ready witnessed what will happen to you if you get us pissed so I really don't have to tell you much"
"You girls are just so sensitive. I still can't believe Sam would go through all that" Tucker bickered.
Danny stood up from his seat. "But I didn't want Sam to change at all! I loved her when she was true to herself. I loved her when she didn't care what anyone said. AND I LOVED HER BECAUSE WELL-SHE'S SAM" Danny declared suddenly realizing what he said. He covered his mouth in shock and blushed red from embarrassment.
"Aww you don't need to be so shy about it. Just admit it, you DO love Sam" Jazz teased pinching her little brother's cheeks.
"If only you had that kind of confidence to fess up and admit your true feelings to Sam" Tucker suggested.
"I'm seriously going to hit you Tucker!" Jazz warned.
"Oh bring it sister!" Tucker snapped.
"You aren't helping!" Jazz shot back.
"Enough! I swear it feels like you two were the brothers and sisters" Danny teased. He sighed deeply. "But Tucker is right. I should tell Sam and let her know that I really love her". Then Danny snapped his fingers in conclusion to the problem. "I know, I'll tell her how I really feel on the night of the play. I won't be acting but instead confess what my heart feels"
"You go Danny! Whoa!" Jazz cheered on.
Tucker scuffed and cross his arms. "Yeah, that is if the retarded swordsman wannabe doesn't get to her first"
"Who?" Jazz and Danny asked at the same time.
"Dash"
"What! What are you talking about?" Danny demanded to know.
"Well, I heard that Tybalt is having lunch with his cousin Juliet" Tucker simply replied.
"He is?" Jazz asked. She took out the script from her bag and skimmed through the pages. "Nope, doesn't say anything about Tybalt having lunch with Juliet"
"Literally" Tucker sighed. "As in Dash is having lunch with Sam. As in Dash asked Sam to have lunch with him. As in he talking with her. As in-"
"Ok I get it!" Jazz exclaimed putting her hand in front of Tucker's face.
Danny slapped his face. "What am I going to do?"
"Here's what you need to do. You better go and kiss your girl Romeo, before someone else does" Tucker proposed
To be continued.
A/N This is just the beginning of the mishaps and unfortunate events that will happen between Danny and Sam. Just wait till the next chapter where it gets even more interesting when Sam is stuck in a love triangle. He he well that's all I'm telling you. Please review!