Ok, starting this new one mainly because in case you haven't heard about the new episode coming up, its about Danny and Valerie. And since I hate her so much, I just have to write this story to make her seem like a bitch and all Sorry, I am really mad that Danny is going to ask her to go steady with him! GRR! Anywayz, to all my fans that HATE Valerie, here is a new fanfic for ya

NOTE: Lyrics are in this from Don't Forget About Us by Mariah Carey. I don't own Danny Phantom either, Butch Hartman does (wow I realize I have never said that before… lol)

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Chapter One: Don't Forget About Us

Don't baby, don't baby, don't let it go my baby boy...

It seemed as though my world was coming to an end, the rain kept hitting my house for the past three days. Not only that, but my heart was torn into shreds it was as though the whole world knew about it. The sky was dark for the past three days, ever since it all happened. My world was coming to an end; it had to be it just felt like it. My mind was filled with thoughts about him, and him only. Why had he done this to me? We had been with each other forever, best friends yet something like this tore us apart so easily. I trusted him, he was my everything but that all shattered when he turned his back on me. It only took a couple of minutes and everything was lost. My dreams were ruined, my heart was broken and most of all something told me this wasn't the end. It was tugging on me, I would never forget about him. I wanted so badly to go back and try to make things right. Yet in a way I knew that I couldn't, he had done this to me, and I was alone in this world.

Everything could be ruined in a second, but it would take time to patch it all up. I knew this, and I knew maybe it just wasn't worth my trouble to go through with trying to make it all right. I missed him though, it had only been three days but I felt as though I was going to die if I didn't have him again. If only he kept with me, if only he felt the same way about me as I did him. Yet now I was mad at him, even if he did try to make things right, I'm afraid I would just mess it all up again.

Just let it die
with no goodbyes
details don't matter
we both paid the price
tears in my eyes
you know sometimes
it'd be like that baby

If Only he knew that she probably could care less about him, if only he knew how much it hurt me, and how much he would be hurt by her. He deserved it, all I did was cried ever since it happened, all I could do was cry. My hero had abandoned me and broken my heart, how messed up is that? Or even worse then that, I was rejected by my best friend, we were in love, I knew it. It was Worse then anything, but I knew it was meant to be like this, for one reason or another. Maybe to let me know that life couldn't be prefect like I was getting led to believe. Or to teach him a lesson that his first true love was the one he needed to be with, that maybe he needed to realize what he was doing.

Not only had we totally broken off from each other, but now Tucker was split between who he should hang out with, and usually he chose Danny of course. But the one thing that Danny obviously still had, was trust in me. I could tell his secret anytime I wanted to, yet I stayed loyal and chose to keep it between us anyway, I was never into blackmailing. At least I had something between us still, we still had something alike.

I threw my bag on my shoulder, and walked to the front door, school again. I didn't want to go, but I had to. We had a three day weekend, and you would think I would have had plenty of time to recover, but I didn't even want to come near his house. Let alone him, I knew it wouldn't be all better; it may never get all better. I could be like this forever. Imagine that, thirty years from now I would still have him on my mind that would really suck. Especially if I knew he was with Valerie, anyone but her. Even if it wasn't me, just not one of his enemies, not someone that would hurt him.

"By Sammy!" My mom shouted to me, and I sighed opening the door. I could only imagine what this day was going to be like. I walked down the street, rain hitting on my head, but I just let it happen, drenching my hair, and my clothes. When I did pass his house I tried my best to ignore it, but he hadn't even left his house yet. And of course as soon as I was passing by, him and Jazz were getting into her car.

"Sam, you want a ride?" Jazz asked me, and I didn't know what to think. If I said no, that wouldn't get me anywhere, but if I said yes… then I would be in the same car with the guy that broke my heart.

"Sure," I said quietly, and ran up to the car. I hopped in the front seat, so I wouldn't have to sit next to Danny.

"Sam… I wanted to talk to you," Jazz said, looking to make sure Danny wasn't anywhere around. I looked at her for a second then turned to look out the window.

"Sam, Danny told me everything. Well… at least I think he did," she said, she always treated me like part of the family for one reason or another. She was like the sister I never had.

"Yea, I'm sure he did," I said still avoiding looking at her, my eyes were starting to water again, and I didn't want to embarrass myself.

"I just want to let you know, he didn't mean to hurt you, I'm sure of it," she said and put a hand on my back.

"You ok?" She asked me, tears were sliding down my face, I wished she wouldn't have ever called me to ride with them.

"Yes," I said trying my hardest to sound as though everything was Ok. I wanted to just get out before things got worse, but I stayed, I had to now. Then I noticed Danny was coming, did he even know I was going to ride with him?

He hopped in the back seat and said nothing, he must have known. Jazz sighed and started up the car, I kept my eyes focused on the world outside, trying my hardest to act as though he wasn't even here. But I knew he was there, and it was an odd silence the whole way to the school, I felt like such an idiot now. We finally got to the school and I was the first one out of the car, and I pretty much ran to the school, but I had the rain for an excuse as far as that went.

I got lost in the crowd; out of sight of Danny, except one problem, our lockers were right next to each other. I opened mine up, and threw my stuff in the locker and grabbed what I needed for first hour as fast as I could. Him and Valerie walked up as soon as I was walking away, and I walked off to first hour trying to ignore it, but I couldn't. It was as though just seeing Valerie was enough to make me sad… well, seeing her with Danny. If I saw her alone then that would be my opportunity to kill her, or something of that sort.

By the time I got in my seat in first hour tears were rolling down the side of my face again. I wiped them away, but they just kept coming, it wasn't any use, I couldn't stop myself from crying, no matter how hard I tried. If your life was pretty much coming to an end, I'm sure you would feel the same way. I had lost all that was really in my life, or all that mattered, to someone I hated so much; I guess that was the worst way to loose someone. Especially when you know he is going to get hurt himself, although part of me was saying that might be a good thing, and he deserved it. But I couldn't think that way; I never wanted him to get hurt, not even after what he had done to me. I still loved him, and that wasn't going to go away.

"Sam? Are you all right?" Mr. Lancer asked I hated him too; he wasn't going to help with anything.

"Yea," I said, and he looked at me but realized I was lying, "Why don't you go to the counselor," he told me, and I got up slowly, I didn't want to talk to someone about it.

"No, I'm fine," I said, and sat back down changing my mind, and he just shrugged. He hated me too as far as I was concerned, and he wasn't going to try and make me get things fixed, instead he went to the front of the room to plan a new way to torture us for a while. Tucker walked into the classroom, this was the only class that I had him in, and not Danny, and the only time of day I had a friend really.

"What's wrong?" He asked me and I glared at him, was he really that stupid? I highly doubted that. I didn't understand how he could care about me, yet he will hang out with Danny over the top of me, but I didn't really care, being alone was fine.

"Sorry, stupid question," he said taking a seat next to me, and I put my head down on the table for a second, then sat up.

"You think he's happy with Valerie?" I asked him, he had been hanging out with the two of them, I wanted to know if Danny was at least happy, although it killed me to even ask that, I was hoping he wasn't happy in a way, that way he would break up with her, and things could start going back to normal once again.

"Yea, I think so at least. But… I don't really want to talk about that," he said realizing the hurt in my eyes from even talking about Danny. I nodded, knowing I didn't want to either. He didn't say anything more though, afraid of hurting me even more, I was still crying, but it was slowing down at least.

"You know, she is going to turn on him," I told him all the sudden, and he sighed.

"Sam, I think she actually likes him. And to tell you the truth, I think that they are good together, I say you just forget about it."

Was that supposed to help? I was taking it probably not, he just didn't want to hear me go on and on with it. That's why I need a girl for a friend, someone I could talk to about guy problems, but almost all the girls in our school were preppy, mean, nerdy, or people I just plain didn't like. I guess the internet was the best thing for me to go to, there had to be someone there that could help me. But now that I thought of it, I had to wait all day before I could actually try, and even see if the people could help. Plus, I guess it was dumb for me to need help from someone.

After first hour, came science, and of course… I just happened to be in a science group with Danny and Tucker. We had picked our groups out two days before it had all happened too, what luck I had, it would be forever when we could switch to another group. And then he would be in a group with Valerie, so either way was bad.

Now every time I see you
I pretend I'm fine
When I wanna reach out to you
But I turn and I walk and I let it ride
Baby I must confess
We were bigger than anything
Remember us at our best

I walked into the class room, acting as though everything was normal, or at least trying to act that way, but I guess when you're trying to hold tears back, things aren't exactly normal at all. Danny sat down next to me at our work station type thing, but he totally ignored the fact that I was there, it was almost as though he was unable to look at me too. Maybe he realized that I was the right choice, although I highly doubted that one.

"All right, everyone get seated, we have a new project today," Mr. Newman said, as he ran around making sure that everyone's stuff was set up right. He went on and on about how to do it, but I wasn't paying on bit of attention at all, instead I was lost in thought, today wasn't a good day for me to have to focus on something. I acted as though I was listening, but my mind was focused on Danny. Right now we normally would have been talking, but now instead to make sure that I still don't pay attention, I just have to think about us talking together. I could only think now, that he would rather be talking to Valerie, in fact, he was looking right at her, he wasn't avoiding me because he was sad as well, it was because he was looking at her. I guess I was thinking too highly about that one.

"All right, everyone get started! And keep your voices at an indoor tone!"

"What are we doing?" Tucker asked, and I wanted to laugh, but I didn't. None of us had any idea, like usual, but there was an odd silence coming from Danny and I, none of us replied to him, but we were in our own little worlds, in a way. I didn't know what was on his mind, but it was no longer Valerie, or else he would have been able to talk around me with no problems.

"Guys?"

"I have no idea," Danny replied, but I refused to say anything around him… well, I couldn't say anything around him. It was as though my voice was taken from talking to him, as though we were supposed to fall further away from each other. I wanted to say something, maybe at least try and be friends again, but I just let it go, I just let it fall further.

"Well, are we flunking this one then too?" He asked us, and I still wasn't paying to much attention, I was in a trance staring at Danny, maybe that wasn't the best thing to do.

"I guess," Danny said, he sounded as though something was bothering him too. In fact, I knew it was bugging him, he had to be at least a little hurt that he lost his best friend, and just traded people with her. His best friend he neglected, somewhere in him, he felt guilty, and I knew it.

"Sam?" He asked me, and I shook from it, he said something to me. I just looked off in another direction, I wasn't… couldn't say anything to him at all. He probably figured I was pissed at him, but it wasn't that, he liked someone else, and I was going to have to live with it, that much I understood. There just wasn't anyway to get rid of the pain inside.

I kept thinking about how we were together, I kept thinking how close we were together, and how easily it shattered. How much we loved each other, it wasn't just a friendship, we were in love. In yet, he decides he can just go out with someone else, and dumps me, but why? How come he changed his mind, and never really gave us a chance? None of it fell together, but whatever was going on in his head, led us all to this. All that time we spent together, the whole time, was it all fake? No, it couldn't have been, things just changed, that was just it. Nothing could stay the same for ever, I had to deal with changes, whether they hurt like this or not.

I got up out of my seat feeling the tears coming back, I had to get out of school for the day, I couldn't take it any longer. I walked up to the teacher to let him know I needed to go home, and then I was on my way. I just walked home though after I signed out for the day, my head hung down in confusion. I didn't understand why it had to happen to me, it was my whole world flushed down the drain, why on earth me though? I guess it has to happen to someone, in fact it had happened to other people before too, I'm sure of it…

We had something special between us, we were actually in love, but then it all went away so fast, its almost unbelievable. I didn't want to believe it, that was for sure, but it was in all reality, and I had to deal with that fact.

And don't forget about...

Late nights, playin' in the dark
And wakin' up inside my arms
Boy, you'll always be in my heart and
I can see it in your eyes
You still want it
So don't forget about us

In fact, I didn't understand why he didn't want to be with me out of all people. Especially after what Valerie had done, but I knew he was thinking the same thing, deep down inside, he had to have been. He was the one thing I would hold onto, no matter how much he hurt me, I wished he understood that, but I guess he was too thick headed to really pay attention to it.

I'm sure by now, you all want to really know what happened that day, right? Well, I will tell you before I decide to stop typing, because well… you might as well learn what actually happened to me that day, you had to have been wondering how it blew over.

3 Days ago…

"I'm ready to do the biggest thing in my life!" Danny said, as though he was ready to save the entire world, not just our town. At first, I thought it really was something cool, and I was pretty happy at how confident he was in himself over whatever it was.

"What's that?" I asked him, and he smirked at me.

"You'll find out later if it goes according to plan… although I don't know if you will really care to much about it," he said, with a bit of an odd tone to his voice, as though now he was worried about it in a way, and that way was how it was going to go over with me.

"Well, what is it, and I will let you know," I said, stopping him on our way to school, and I wasn't going to let him go, well… I was planning on not letting him go anywhere until he told me. He went intangible and went straight through me and we both laughed.

"You can't really stop me."

"Well, I realize that one now," I told him, since I had totally forgotten about his ghost powers at the moment, aside from the fact that I thought they had something to do with his new accomplishments. We walked the rest of the way to school, and it was still bugging me, but I ended up forgetting about it and at the end of the day when he walked up to me with a smile on his face, it then returned to my mind.

"So?" I asked him, and he looked down at the ground for a second, thinking maybe it wasn't a good idea after all on what he had done.

"I'm going out with Valerie," he smiled, trying to act as though everything was cool, but that totally made me pissed at first.

"What? DANNY! Why! You know how dangerous that is?"

"Sam, settle down, it's no big deal," he smiled, and we continued to walk home, but slowly.

"Yes, it is Danny! Why did you do that?"

"Because Sam, maybe I need to have someone else in my life. After all, I have liked her for a little while."

For a little while, sure Danny. And that was probably just his hormones acting up or something, he couldn't possibly ACTUALLY like her! That wasn't possible… he couldn't have liked her, could he have? No… that's just not right… Doesn't he notice the risk?

"Danny! How could you? Now I have one more thing to worry about in life!"

"You don't think I can take care of myself?" He said getting a little angry that I had acted so mad about it, when he was pretty happy.

"It's not that Danny…" I said, my heart was already partially torn by then, I mean, how could he have liked her over me? I thought I was the one he really loved, I mean, we did EVERYTHING together, but he chose his enemy over me?

"It's because you're jealous Sam, I know. But it's not like as though it's going to hurt anything. I have to have more than 2 people in my life you know," he said sternly, as though trying to give me a lesson, when really he should have been the one listening to me.

"Whatever Danny, you know, you could have at least told me about it before hand."

"Then I would have had to deal with you complaining about it all day," he yelled, and it felt as though everyone was watching us argue, but I was guessing no one really cared. Although, I guess it could have been entertaining in a way…

"Complain? Danny, I'm just trying to be a good friend!"

"Whatever you say Sam," he said again, and we walked in silence for a little ways, before Danny had to start it back up again.

"In fact Sam, I think Valerie is better then you even. You are a little over protective, and you make it seem as though you know everything. Valerie at least understands me!" He yelled before walking up his steps to his house, and I stood there for a second thinking about what he had said. He thinks she's better then me? But… how? I wasn't over protective! I was just trying to help, he wasn't always thinking, and I was there to help him with that! And that was when the crying started, the whole way home I cried, and all through the night, I even woke up in the middle of the night, looked at the picture beside my bed, and had to tip it over because it made me cry even more…

Well, now you know what happened. And if you would like to know the rest, five reviews please I am trying really hard to get my other stories updated for the people that are waiting on them… but I had to start this one off since I am so mad at Valerie as of right now Thanks for reading!