A/N Thanks for all the reviews! You have no idea how much I appreciate them. However, I apologize for not updating sooner. I was sick and I couldn't get up from bed. Like all of you, I was very anxious to update and I guess I was in more suspense to write the next chapter. Well, anyway today school is closed because of snow and I'm so happy. Now I can rest for 2 days. It couldn't get any better than this.
True To Your Heart
Chapter 8- The Love Triangle
Act 1: The In Crowd
Sam looked at the mirror observing her appearance. She wore a black halter top with a matching mini purple skirt and black flip flops. Sam pulled up her top, blushing from the enormous skin she was showing off. She didn't even think that she had a nice body let alone beautiful skin complexion. If she was pretty wouldn't Danny have noticed it earlier so she didn't have to completely change her wardrobe? She twitched her mouth in annoyance. "May be Danny only apologized to me because I looked more like Paulina but...if I didn't then he wouldn't have noticed me at all" she thought unhappily. The door suddenly opened and Valerie walked in crossing her arms impatiently.
"You've been here for over 20 minutes. Come on Dash is waiting for you!" Valerie squealed. She walked over to Sam and her eyes suddenly turned from anger into stars that glistened brightly with interest. She circled around Sam examining her attire. "Wow, nice top and the skirt looks cute on you. Oh, and those flip flops look really comfortable" she eyed Sam up and down. "I have to hand to you Sam, you really have nice taste. So where did you buy these clothes?" Valerie questioned.
Sam scratched her head blushing slightly. "These clothes cost more than 120 but I had a discount of 50 percent from the credit card I received. To get the credit card you need to apply as a member getting discounts every month and magazines of the latest fashion but to be a member you need to pay 80 dollars a month. I received the magazine yesterday and I looked up the clothes and it says that black and purple are the colors of the year. Since these are my two favorite colors, it would make a nice pair so I decided to wear it today" Sam announced making Valerie more interested into the subject.
Valerie stood there staring blankly at Sam. "120...and 80 dollars?" Valerie stuttered. "I barely have enough to pay my rent. Wait Sam where did you get the money?"
"To be honest I got the money from my skeleton bank. I don't like piggy banks because it sounds stupid so I bought a skeleton jar and turned it into a bank but actually the money I used to buy these clothes was suppose to be lunch money. However, I get an allowance of 300 dollars a week so I don't have to worry about losing any green paper"
Valerie immediately pulled Sam out of the rest room and out to the school hallway where Dash leaned against the wall practically falling asleep from boredom.
"Dash!" Valerie called. She pulled Sam to face him. "Did you know that Sam is filthy rich?"
Dash awoke from his slumber rubbing his eyes from drowsiness. "Huh?" Dash yawned. "Oh, umm I didn't know"
"Well now you do! Look at her clothes! Aren't they hot?" Valerie asked.
Dash looked at Sam up and down. "Yeah, you look good" Dash commented making Sam blush.
"I know!" Sam snapped her fingers. "If you want I could show you the magazine where it gives you the latest style"
Valerie nodded her head. "Sure why not?" she answered and with that Sam walked to her locker.
Meanwhile Danny and Tucker were waiting till Sam reached her locker so Danny could have the chance to talk to her. Tucker nudged Danny on the shoulder. "Hey it's Sam" Tucker whispered and both friends walked towards her locker.
Sam saw Tucker and Danny and decided to only greet Tucker and leave Danny alone. "Hey Tucker" she waved and rolled her eyes once they caught glimpse of Danny.
"Hey Sam" Tucker waved in return. "Listen Danny needs to say something" he said and shoved Danny in front of him.
Danny looked away, not knowing what to say at all. Sam scuffed impatiently. "If you have nothing to say then I need to go. Class is almost starting and I don't want to be late unlike some people" she indicated towards Danny.
"No!" Danny called grabbing Sam's hand. He realized what he did and both him and Sam looked away hiding their red cheeks. "Sam I really need to talk to you. It's very important. You need to listen"
Sam sighed. "Don't tell me this is about what happened back in the hospital. I said forget about it. I'm not mad anymore"
"If you're not then why did you need to change?" Danny suddenly asked.
Sam took the comment in an offending matter. "I didn't change for a stupid fight!"
"Then why did you?" Danny questioned again.
Sam growled in annoyance. "I have reasons!"
Danny looked into Sam's violet eyes. "Sam, please I'm begging you. I really need to talk to you privately about-" Danny started but Dash walked into the conversation totally ruining Danny's chance to speak with Sam.
"About what Fenton?" Dash spoke.
"None of your business Dash. Now get out of the way" Danny responded pushing Dash to the side.
"Hey, how dare you touch me you geek!" Dash yelled.
Sam and Tucker knew that it was going to get messy so they held their companions back. Sam grabbed Dash and pulled him so he wouldn't do anything stupid and Tucker did the same to Danny. "Dash don't be stupid!" Sam recalled. "But you all ready are" she thought to herself.
Dash looked at Sam. "But that geek was bothering you"
Sam smacked her forehead. "No he wasn't and besides I can take care of myself so next time butt out of my business" Sam scowled and walked off.
"Wait!" Dash called and ran after Sam.
"See even Sam doesn't like Dash" Tucker spoke.
"Then why is she hanging out with him?" said Danny.
Act 2: At Lunch
Sam sat on the table reading her magazine when Dash came over with a tray of food. Sam looked at it in disgust. "Is that ravioli? I mean is that what you're eating meat?"
Dash nodded his head in reply chewing hungrily on his food. "Yeah it's really good. You should get it" he spoke with his mouth full, letting bits of meat fly off into Sam's face.
She wiped the food off from her face. "You know meat contains allot of preservatives and if you eat it allot, it's possible you can have cancer? That's basically why I'm a vegetarian"
Dash blinked at Sam and stared at his food and back at Sam. "Is that true?" he mumbled with his cheeks bloated with food.
"That's what they say in the health channel" Sam responded.
Valerie walked over to the two and sat down. She too, had a tray filled with meat. Dash turned to look at her. "Hey Valerie did you know that those meat stuff causes cancer?" he mumbled with his mouth filled with chewed ravioli.
Valerie squealed in disgust. "Eww Dash! Chew with your mouth closed and don't talk with you mouth filled with food. It's disgusting!"
Dash swallowed his food. "Ok whatever"
On the other table where Danny and Tucker sat, Tucker was busy munching his food while Danny kept staring at Sam. "Hey are you going to eat that?" Tucker asked pointing at the untouched food in Danny's tray.Danny didn't reply but kept his gaze at Sam. Tucker shrugged. "Ok, well I'll take it anyway" he answered and took the plate of ravioli. He caught glimpse of Danny staring at Sam. "Danny why don't you just go talk to her?" Tucker gestured.
Danny looked at Tucker waking up from his day dream. "Huh?"
"Go talk to her!" Tucker suggested.
"Oh well later when she's alone" Danny responded.
"Why don't you do it now?"
"She's busy" Danny reminded Tucker.
"Don't tell me you're scared"
"Fine then I won't tell you" Danny looked away.
"If you won't talk to her then I will" Tucker stood up from his seat.
"Tucker wait!" Danny called his friend.
"Danny you need to have confidence" Tucker spoke. "You can't always sit back and wait until Sam is alone. You need to do it here and now"
"You're right!" Danny nodded. He followed Tucker to where Sam was sitting.
"Hi Sam" Tucker waved. Sam waved back. Tucker nudged Danny on the arm signaling for him to talk. "Ok you could talk to her now" he whispered. Dash stared at the two rolling his eyes irritatingly.
Danny gulped nervously. "Uhh I don't know what to say. You go talk to her"
Tucker smacked his forehead. "What do I say?"
"Anything"
Tucker waved at Sam again and Sam waved back. "Hi Sam" he muttered.
"Hi Tucker, everything ok?" Sam asked.
"Yeah! Anyway, Sam I like your sandals" Tucker commented.
"Thanks" Sam replied.
"Ok, well I better go now. I'm still hungry" Tucker said and walked off. Sam stared awkwardly at the two. "Those two are up to something" she thought.
"Those geeks are so weird" Dash snickered. "I can't believe you used to hang out with them"
Danny scratched his head in annoyance. "Tucker what the heck was that? I like your sandals? That had nothing to do with the subject!"
Tucker giggled nervously. "Well her sandals are nice" he stated. Danny crossed his arms. "Ok, ok, ok fine" Tucker sighed. "I'll talk to her later. You happy?"
Danny nodded. "Yeah and this time, talk something else besides what she's wearing"
Act 3: A messenger
During class, Tucker was busy scribbling notes on paper. He glanced at Danny who nodded his head signaling it was the perfect opportunity for Tucker to throw the note to Sam without getting caught by Lancer. Tucker whistled under his breath so Lancer couldn't hear him. It
was loud enough for Sam to hear. She turned her head towards Tucker and he threw the piece of crumbled paper to where Sam was sitting.
Sam raised an eyebrow and glanced at Tucker. "It's for you!" Tucker whispered. "Read it!"
Sam stared at the small paper at her desk and opened it. Her eyes moved from left to right as she read it moving her lips, mumbling every word written on the paper. She turned to Danny, then back at Tucker and nodded her head at him.
Danny watched the two carefully and bit his lip nervously awaiting the answer from Tucker. His friend glanced at him and nodded his head indicating that Sam had agreed to what Tucker wrote on the paper.
Act 4: Dash's Revealing Secret
It was now rehearsal and everyone got into their position practicing their lines. Sam walked out of the classroom waiting for Tucker as written on the paper that he will meet her out on the hallway but instead Dash came out following Sam.
"Sam" Dash called. "I need to tell you something"
"Ok, hurry up" Sam replied glancing from wall to wall waiting for Tucker.
"Sam, I don't know how to say it but I'll just say it to you" Dash started. He breathed deeply. "I like you...allot. I don't know how to explain it but the time when I saw you, I knew that I had fallen for you so dump your old boyfriend and go out with me" he stated.
Sam stepped back surprised from what she just heard. "Hold on. From the moment you saw me you knew that you had fallen for me?" Was it after or before I changed my look that you realized you like me? And...what-my boyfriend? I didn't even have one"
"Good so will you go out with me?" Dash questioned.
"First answer mine" Sam reminded. "Since when did you start crushing on me?"
To be continued.
A/N Oh oh. Sam is stuck in a love triangle but, who does she REALLY like? Danny or Dash? Find out by reading on to the next chapter where Danny and Tucker have a big argument. What will happen to the trio of best friends now? Well like I said, keep reading and find out.
Please don't forget to review! And thanks to Jessica (RaiinMaker) who was to kind to post this chapter for me. You see I can't do it because whenever I try to log in, I can't so she was very generous to help me!