Disclaimer: Yeah, Yeah. I don't own Danny Phantom. The Christmas Special was great, though. I apologize profusely to Lady Epur.

Danny lay on his bed, grinning with a dazed look in his eyes. He had just spent three hours in the mall. With Paulina. He had another date with her tomorrow. They were going out.

Danny was super excited. The girl of his dreams had asked him out!

But weirdly, he wasn't as happy as he thought he would've felt. It was like he forgot something.

Sam! He shot up in his bed and looked at he clock. Ten PM. He had completely forgotten about going to Sam's house! He had promised.

Danny immediately turned to Danny Phantom and flew to Sam's house. All the time he was thinking about how he could tell her about Paulina. Paulina.

Sam was lying on the window seat. Apparently she had fallen asleep waiting for him.

Guilt level rising.

Danny picked her up and carried her to bed. She snuggled her head into his chest as he did so and smiled softly.

Danny got a warm smile on his lips. Sam looked so nice and peaceful asleep. He placed her gently on her bed and flew off into the night, with his thoughts now on Sam.

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Sam yawned and rested her head on her desk during homeroom. She closed her eyes and looked as if she was going to take a nap.

Usually this was the time when Danny would be sketching like mad but today he just sat down and stared. He stared at Sam for a little while, then Tucker, then the board and then out the window.

Tucker leaned forward. "Are you okay Sam?"

Sam yawned again. "Yeah. I stayed up kinda late."

Tucker smirked at Sanny and then looked back at Sam. "Because of the ghost boy?"

Sam smiled slightly and turned toward tucker. Her hair was a mess. "You could say that."

Danny cringed.

"So what did you to talk about?"

"Nothing. He never came." Sam looked a little sad but smiled at Danny. He tried to smile back but felt super guilty.

Tucker gave Danny an odd look. "Well, that's okay I guess. I mean, I'm sure he had important things to do."

"Yeah, probably." They stood up and headed to their locker to get their chemistry books. "But he promised he'd come. I can't imagine why-"

Paulina walked up to the three some. "Hey Danny." She kissed him very openly. Every guy in the hall glared at Danny and groaned.

Danny just felt ashamed and embarrassed for some reason, as if he shouldn't be doing this, especially in front of Sam. But luckily, his worship for Paulina cleared everything else out of his mind. "Hey Paulina." he said.

Paulina traced shapes on Danny's chest with one arm still around his shoulders. "We're still on for another shopping trip after school, right?"

"Yeah Paulina." Danny said. Something was bothering him again and he couldn't squash it.

Paulina giggled and waved at him. "I'll see you later, boyfriend."

Danny turned around to catch his two best friend's reactions.

Tucker looked merely confused. Sam looked hurt, confused and angry. Tucker saw Sam and started to back away from her.

"So…" Tucker said, trying to break the tension between Sam and Danny, "Who's psyched for chemistry?"

Sam would not be distracted. "You're going out with her?"

"Umm…yes?"

"You skipped rehearsal yesterday for her? You forgot about me for HER?"

"Sam. Calm down. Danny can date whoever-" Tucker tried to say before Danny retorted. "So what if I did? Do you have a problem with that?"

Sam almost had steam coming out of her ears. "Yes, I do. You know what I think about her! You could at least have warned me or told me in advance or something! I can't believe you're this shallow!"

Now Danny was mad. "I'm not shallow!"

"Danny, she's probably using you to get to me! She's jealous of me. Has she shown any interest towards you in the past?" said Sam, trying to reason with Danny.

Now Emma came up to them to help Tucker break up the fight. "C'mon you guys. We need to go to class-"

"Shut up! You're just jealous!"

"Of what! Having a pretty date? I don't think so." Sam stormed off with Emma right behind her.

Tucker looked at Danny. "She kinda had a point at the whole warning her part."

"Shut up, Tucker."

"Man, you need help." Tucker ran to catch up with the girls leaving Danny in the hallway all alone.