Lakeside Hotel:

Chapter 3: Never Gonna End

It was as though getting what you wanted just wasn't enough. After begging your parents for years to get something that you wanted so badly you almost give up, but still want it more then anything. Then once you finally get it, it's as though the fun stops. Well, that was the same way with Sam and I finally going out. It was as though all the surprise and everything was gone, we were going out, that was just it. But then we had a new idea to keep it going with excitement, we would try and keep it a secret, after all Tucker really didn't need to know about it. Plus it would give us another secret to keep between the two of us, and well, it would just add a little twist, I guess.

Not as though I was saying being with Sam was boring or anything, it's just that now that I had what I wanted, there needed to be something to fill in the space. Although, she would fill any space as far as excitement, and after all, now I could love her all I wanted. Today was all ready looking to be yet another day full of excitement. We woke up to people screaming in the room next to us, and it turned out that it was all over a spider.

"Those people were so dumb," Sam said as we left their room, after I destroyed the dumb spider. They were two girls the same age as us, but they just couldn't handle that bug all on their own and had to wake up other people at 5:00 in the morning over it.

"Yea, they were," I laughed as we walked through the door to our hotel room and as soon as I got in I realized I wasn't going back to sleep, now that I was awake, I was awake.

"You tired?" Sam asked me, and I shook my head. She smiled and grabbed my hand.

"Come on then, no sense sitting around here," she told me and we went back out the door. The sun was just starting to rise, but it was still pretty much pitch black out except for the stars lighting up the sky. There was the morning haze spread across the ground, and it gave it that eerie touch, it reminded me of those movies where someone was walking around and someone would jump out of the fog at them. Of course, that wasn't nearly as scary as fighting ghosts, and I wasn't even scared of that so it didn't bother me at all.

"You realize, no one else is probably going to be up until…"

"At least ten?" She finished off my sentence. "Yea, I know that. But who cares? We can be out here while it's not crowded."

"Yea… I guess. But it's kind of weird without anyone around."

"Aww, is Danny scared?" She teased me and I grinned.

"You want to check it out from above?" I asked her, and she looked at me for a second and nodded. I took a hold of her in my arms and changed over into my ghost form, as soon as I was sure no one could see me. I took up off the ground and went way up into the sky until everything below looked like a map, well… sorta. You could see where the roads went around it, which was a long ways around.

"Wow, it's beautiful," she said looking below. I guess it was a good thing we both liked being up high, then we could enjoy things like this, it wasn't something everyone got to do everyday. Unless they were in an airplane, but it just wasn't the same, this was the real thing.

"Yea, it's nice," I said and looked around down below us for a little while, and then headed back down. By the time I was halfway though, I got a surprise.

"Sam! Watch out!" Came the voice of Valerie, and I turned around and saw her on her dumb board thing pointing her gun at me.

"Umm… I'll just set her down on the ground…" I said, and headed closer but she shot at me and I managed to dodge it.

"Hey, hit me and neither one of us will make it to the ground!" I yelled at her and got my balance back again. Valerie looked at us funny though after she realized how I was holding Sam, but she didn't question, I just knew something was on her mind about it.

I set her down on the ground then disappeared; I was headed back to the hotel. I didn't want to look suspicious, so I decided that I was just going to pretend as though I was sleeping in the hotel the whole time, then there could be no suspicion. As long as Sam was able to play along, and I was sure she knew what I was going to do.

Once I was back in the hotel and in my bed again pretending as though I was sleeping, they walked in the door a few minutes later.

"Thanks again Valerie," Sam told her and I heard the door shut. As soon as Sam figured she was far enough away she busted out laughing. I sat up and gave her a serious look.

"It's not that funny Sam! Do you realize that she could have figured something out from that?" I said quietly, I wasn't to sure if she was still near the door or not, and if she heard that I would be ruined.

"Oh, lighten up Danny. It was pretty funny. On the walk back she said that you might have killed me!"

"Yea, which WE know isn't true, but she doesn't. And she doesn't need to find out that it isn't."

"Danny, she saw nothing. She thought you were back here the whole time," she explained and sat down next to me on the side of my bed, placing an arm around my shoulder. I was slumped over thinking about it. That look Valerie gave me when she saw how I was holding Sam, like as though I wasn't hurting her, but we were enjoying ourselves. That would either signal that Sam is in love with a ghost, or that would signal that it had a slight chance of being me.

"Either she is starting to figure it out Sam, or she thinks you are in love with a ghost," I laughed, I had to get in my joke at least, to not seem as though I was totally grouchy or anything. I was kind of acting like a jerk, she was right; there wasn't really anything to worry about, right?

"I kinda am," she smiled and kissed me really quickly, it was as though it was still odd that we were indeed going out and all.

"Half way, yea… but still."

"Come on, let's go down and get breakfast before everyone else gets up and it gets overly crowded in there," she said looking at the clock. It was 6:00 now; it was hard to believe we had been out there for an hour. We got up and walked out of our room, a few other people were up now too, with the partying all night I was sure that everyone would be asleep until noon.

"Danny, wait up!" Came the familiar voice of Tucker and we both turned around to see him and Tucker walking up behind us quickly.

"Hey Tuck," I said and waved to him shortly. He grabbed my arm and drug me away from the group, "We will meet you guys there," he shouted to them and they both shrugged and continued on the way.

"Danny, what were you thinking?" He asked me, Valerie must have said something to him.

"Well, I wasn't expecting your girlfriend to be stalking us!"

"She has like… her own kinda ghost sense dude. You have to be a little more careful about what you're doing. Luckily, she hasn't quit understood it all yet."

"What does she understand?"

"She doesn't know, she kept asking me why Sam would have been held in Danny Phantom's arms, instead of being like… I dunno. But you get what I'm saying! You can't go ghost unless you need to," he yelled at me and I looked around, some people were staring at us, and I elbowed him.

"Let the other people know about it too," I said to him and we started walking down the hallway.

"Did you ask Sam out?" He asked me and I almost froze still but kept on walking.

"No, what are you talking about?"

"I dunno, just seems like you guys have been mushy this lately."

"Mushy? What is that," I laughed at him and he rolled his eyes.

"You know what I mean by that."

"No, I haven't…"

"Are you going to?"

"No… why would I do that?"

"Because, you like her. It isn't really a secret anymore."

I never said anything the rest of the way there. When we got in there Valerie and Sam all ready had breakfast for us as well. I sat down next to Sam and she looked at me questioningly but I gave her a look that I would explain it later.

"What's wrong?" Valerie asked Tucker, he wasn't making it much better either. It just so happened that he has to talk to me when she starts to get suspicious.

"Nothing… I will tell you later," he told her and she smiled at him. I was hoping he would only talk about the whole thing between me and Sam or something, but then again knowing him, who knows, you could never tell what was going through his mind.

"So you guys having fun so far?" Tucker asked us breaking the silence. Sam smiled and nodded and I just nodded. Sure, it was fun other then the fact that my identity was now into danger. I just needed to forget about it, and maybe even forget about my ghost powers to my best content.

"You don't look like you're too happy Danny… Something wrong?" Valerie asked me. No, it wasn't just asking me, it was as though she was trying to figure it out. Maybe the Fenton, Phantom relationship was finally making sense to her.

"No, just a little tired."

"Sam wake you up this morning? Did she tell you what happened?"
"Yea, she did."

"Don't worry, I have my equipment," she smiled at me and I nodded with a smile, although that wasn't really a good thing on my part at all.

"Thanks again," Sam said to her, although it was pretty much killing her to act even close to happy when talking to Valerie. I hardly ate anything, but enough to not get the eating lecture from Sam. She worried about me way to much sometimes. Even though she still did give me that look, but I ignored it and threw my plate away. She followed behind me and we waved to Tucker and Valerie. The whole breakfast was pretty much silent, no one had much to say and what we did want to say we weren't to sure if we should have been saying anything.

"You ate a pancake?" Sam yelled at me and gave me a playful nudge.

"Wasn't hungry…"

"You never seem to be. Not good for you ya know. It's not like you need to loose weight," she said looking at me and I rolled my eyes. We went back up to our room and tried to think of something to do this early in the morning.

"Looks like we're stuck in here until more things open up."

"Yea, nothing around here opens until 10:00…" I said, it was now only 7:00, oh well I was surprised it was even that late, I didn't think we had been at breakfast that long.

"So we have three hours to burn… is there anything in this building? At all?"

"We can go play basket ball in the gym," I suggested and she nodded, although I knew I was going to get my butt kicked. Somehow… she had always been better at sports then I had. I wasn't the graceful type; let's just put it that way.

"No cheating," she said once we were there. I smiled, that was my plan, but if I won then she would know I had cheated, or at least she could blame me even if for some miracle I did happen to beat her. I started off with it and headed down the court but she immediately cut me off and took it from me with no problem. I was able to run faster then her, but she was good as far as defending it. She shot at the hoop and I wasn't even close to taking it from her and she got her first hoop.

"What's wrong Phantom? Little slow today?"

"No…"

"Ahh, ok. So you're going to win?"

"Yea."

2 hours later…

After 2 hours of non stop running around the court I was about dying from a heat stroke and I also… had only scored one hoop while Sam had gotten… around thirty I think. She was worn out too and we both sat down on the ground that was amazingly hot like the rest of the building and didn't help out very much with trying to cool down.

"We should have stopped after another hour, cuz the water would feel really good right now," she said in between breaths. I grabbed out a pop and opened it up. I ended up drinking half the can and then handed it over to Sam and she finished it off.

"Yea, but I think I would have fallen over…" I said breathing heavily. You would have thought with all the time flying around and fighting ghosts I would have been able to maintain my energy a little more, but I guess running was a little different then flying.

"Yea, me too."

Some people had walked in after we had been laying around for about 15 minutes so we left, we didn't want to get into anyone's way. The whole place was starting to get motion in it again, people were finally waking up, although I thought it still would have taken them longer then this. We even had to shove through crowds to get back to our room again. I changed my clothes really quick to shorts instead of jeans and into a sleeveless shirt; it was going to be a hot day. Especially when it was all ready 80 at 9:30 in the morning, it would at least get into the 90's, probably the high 90's at that.

"You might wanna get your swim suit on," Sam said coming out of the bathroom after changing into a black skirt with a maroon ribbon going through the belt loop and red zippers on both sides, and a black tube top. I stared at her for a second until she walked by and hit me in the back.

"Did you pay attention to me?"

"Yea, I paid attention," I said and went into the bathroom to stick my swim shorts on under my shorts.

"Happy?" I asked walking out again and she smiled at me and we both left the room again. Once again Tucker and Valerie stopped us; they always seemed to be leaving their room as soon as we left ours.

"Where did you guys go off to earlier?" Tucker asked as though what we did was any of his business. He was so worried about what we were doing all the time; of course there was no telling if it was him that wanted to know that, or if it was Valerie.

"Playing Basketball, why?" Sam asked him, she must have been thinking the same thing I was.

"I was just wondering, we were looking for you."

"Ahh, well… you must not have been looking hard enough," I told him and we continued on our way, but they were going to follow us now.

"You guys wanna play volleyball? No one is out on the court right now," Valerie asked and I shrugged and looked at Sam.

"Sure, why not," Sam agreed, I guess she just wanted something to do for the last 30 minutes before we could finally go swimming, that was probably going to be our goal… just to last 30 more minutes. But as soon as the game started my ghost sense went off, what a perfect time for this.

"I… got to go for a second," I said and ran for the hotel, as soon as I was in an area where I couldn't be seen I changed over to my ghost mode and flew back outside.

Valerie was the first to spot me too, but she was also looking at something behind me. I got a hit in the back of the head that caused me to fall down to the ground. I put my hand on the back of my head then looked back to see it was Skulker.

"Hello ghost child," he said to me, after the couple of years he decided to start hunting for me once again, I guess he had the sudden urge to have me again.

"I don't have the time for you," I yelled at him and shot at him quickly causing him to fall backwards a little, but not nearly as easily as I could be tossed around. He shot at me again and I managed to dodge it although then instead of hitting me it went straight to the ground nearly hitting some of the people below. Everyone was screaming and panicking, except for Valerie, Sam and Tucker.

I was too busy watching the people down below and he once again shot at me and I fell down and hit my head hard against the pavement. Skulker came down and shoved his foot into my stomach and I could feel myself getting light headed.

I grabbed out the thermos just in case I was able to knock him off track. I hit him with a beam knocking him off the top of me and he fell backwards. I was able to suck him up, and then as soon as I could I ran in and changed back. I walked back out and Valerie, Sam and Tucker were all staring at me. Nice way for tucker and Sam to keep the attention on me, sheesh.

"What happened?" I asked as though trying to pretend I had no idea.

"Danny, your head is bleeding," Valerie pointed out, and she said it slowly as though she was beginning to realize something.

"How did that happen?" She asked me suspiciously and I felt so stupid for not noticing that.

"I tripped at fell, didn't know I hit my head that hard," I said as quickly as possible.

"Right… maybe you need to go take care of it," She said, and I looked over at Sam who grabbed my hand and drug me up towards the hotel, I was just hoping Valerie wasn't REALLY thinking that was me… after all, it could have just been a coincidence, right?

And…. That would end it for now Tell me what you think, 5 reviews please!