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Author's Notes: Again, this was a chapter that will come to you quicker than I expected. Maybe I should make it 7 reviews , just so I can have a short break to type these. Anyway, a few of you said that I made Cosmo back to old Cosmo (bows) I try my best. Some other concerns were that Danny is not being given enough to say. To that, I say, I think you'll be (hopefully) pleased with the way this chapter and the one after it turns out.
"Well, so, what do you say?" asks Timmy to Danny.
"I'm not going to do it." Danny folds his arms and frowns.
"Come ON!" Jimmy whines. "If we're going to do it, you have to do it too."
"I thought you were joking when you said that!" Danny says , his face in total shock.
The boys were exhausted after the shopping, and were just hanging out in Danny's NASA covered room. Jimmy had suggested a game of truth or dare, knowing that neither Timmy, nor Danny could resist a challenge. The first person to go was Danny, and he chose dare. His dare? He has to call up Sam and ask her to the Winter Dance.
"You can get me back when it's my turn" Jimmy smiles evilly. He lifts the phone off the nightstand and tosses the phone to Danny. "But now, it's your turn, and you have to do as I say,or else be my personal monkey-boy"
"Fine." Danny replies sullenly .He sounds like he really doesn't want to do this, but he does. His stomach flips. He punches in Sam's phone number. "Hey, Sam?"
"Hey...Danny" Sam sounds happy to hear from him. That's a good sign.
"Sam.." Danny chews his lip frantically. What to say.. What to say...
Timmy lifts up a pencil and a pad of paper. He scrawls a message and holds it up. The paper reads: Sam, do you have a date for the dance?Say IT!
Danny coughs. "Do you.. have a date for the dance?" All of a sudden the room seems to feel really warm to him.
"No,I don't as a matter of fact." Sam's voice drops a octave. She asks him suspiciously. "Why do you ask?"
"Oh..I " Danny's mind suddenly goes blank. "I wanted ..." His face brightens up "To know if you would go to the dance with me..."
"Yeah...sure" Sam smiles, Danny is so clueless.
"And Tucker. As a group." Danny's mouth goes dry. Why had he said that! That wasn't what he wanted to say.
Was it just him, or did Sam seem less enthusiastic at the idea of having Tucker around? "Yes, Danny, sure, that sounds fine"
Beep. Danny hangs up the phone with a flourish. "Now are you happy?"
"Ecstatic" Jimmy folds his fingers into a tent " Now it's my turn."
"Hold on. I have to use the bathroom" Danny heads to the bathroom. As soon as he gets in there, he starts dancing. "I asked her out! I asked her out!"
Nearby, in Sam's room, she's doing a crazy dance of her own. "He asked me out.! He asked me out!"
"Honey!" asks Mrs. Manson cheerfully"Is there anything wrong up there? I thought I heard you... singing?"
Sam flops back into her bed. She has a rare smile on her face. "Nothing is wrong,Mom, nothing at all."
Timmy knocks on the door in Danny's house "Danny, you having a spasm in there?"
"Oh. No" Danny darts out of the bathroom. "Sorry."
They settle back to their positions of before. Danny smirks "Jimmy, Truth...or Dare."
"Dare." Jimmy meets Danny's gaze. "So, what's it going to be? Asking Cindy out? That doesn't scare me"he taunts.
"No, nothing that simplistic." Danny strokes his chin in mock thought to make Jimmy visibly squirm in his spot on the floor. "Timmy, any ideas?"
"Streaking?" Timmy offers.
"No, that could get him arrested." Danny thinks hard. "You have to..."
"Walk around Main Street with a bill board saying I love Cindy Vortex on it in humongous and gigantic letters?" Timmy states.
"That's good." Danny gives him a wan look ." I think revenge is just as sweet as I thought it would be."
"What!" Jimmy hops off the floor. "No fair!"
Danny locates a hunk of cardboard on the floor. He opens his drawer to get out a marker. He writes something on it, then flips it around. "What do you think?" The words are written in bold block letters, and are clearly legible.
"Fine." Jimmy grunts. He knows this is a battle that he can not possibly hope to win.
"That's what I thought you'd say" Danny's eyes glow bright green "Or else I would have to overshadow you and force you to do it anyway."
"Oh, no, not that" Jimmy hightails it outside with the sign, with Danny and Timmy at his heels.
Jimmy walks up and down the street for 10 minutes, not realizing that Cindy has seen him.
"Ha" Timmy whips out a Cosmo-colored video camera. "He's never going to live this down."
"Shall I make multiple copies?" Danny grins.
"Ok, you guys had your fun, now it's Timmy's turn." Jimmy stalks angrily in their direction. Suddenly , his watch rings.
"Is this Jimmy?" Cindy's voice rings through the speaker phone.
"Yes..." Jimmy looks skeptically at Danny and Timmy. "What do you want Vortex." He barks in to the speaker.
"Jeez, Spew-tron, don't be so hostile."Cindy says. "I saw your sign..."
"And you think he's a complete idiot" Danny pipes in.
"Jimmy, do you have me on speaker phone?" Cindy says mock-angrily.
"Great,Danny, you blew it." Timmy punches him lightly in the stomach.
"I was going to ask you if you wanted to go to the dance with me" Cindy adds wearily, "but maybe I won't."
"Let me think about it"Jimmy thinks aloud "I'll call you back . Cindy hangs up and Jimmy is left staring at the blank and dark screen.
"Jimmy's got a date...Danny's got a daate!" Timmy does a crazy dance in the middle of the street.
Danny zaps his sneakers with an ecto blast, slightly singing the soles of Timmy's shoes. "Timmy, we're so going to get you."
"No, you won't" Timmy runs down the street.
"I'll handle him." Danny zips down the street, almost catching up to him.
Jimmy checks to make sure that they're not within earshot. He punches in a number. "Hey, Cindy? I'd love to go with you."
Jimmy can hear the smile in her voice. "Good." She replies.
Danny and Timmy come back within seconds, stopping short. "Uh...did we interrupt anything?
"No..Nothing at all." Jimmy frowns at them. "Like it's any of your business, anyway"
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