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Danny set off in the direction of Casper High. He flew up to the familiar words on the front that read 'Casper High' and strait through the double doors that served as the entrance. Still invisible, he studied that familiar hallway he'd walked down so many times in his freshman and sophomore years. He landed, instead of remaining airborne, and leaned up against the wall. He was invisible, but not intangible as of now.

The halls were nearly empty, save for those few students on a bathroom break, or the wandering teachers who were not currently teaching a class. He just stayed there for a moment, letting the memories of his school days overwhelm him. It was in these halls he'd first revealed the fact he'd obtained ghost powers to Tucker and Sam, in these halls he'd fought Poindexter, Spectra, Bertrand, and so many others. In these halls he'd been repeatedly beat up by Dash, and he'd moaned about his horrible test grades to his two best friends. Wow, he was beginning to wonder why he wanted to come back to this school so badly. The memories were less than pleasant.

He was snapped out of his reverie by the bell that signaled the periods end. Suddenly the halls came alive, as students rushed from whatever class they'd been sleeping through, Danny watched for familiar faces. He knew the seniors had class on the first floor. The first familiar face he spotted was that of Dash Baxter.

Looming above the rest of the senior class due to his sheer size, Danny had no trouble spotting him. He was actually surprised that Dash hadn't been left back at least once, but then he remembered how much Lancer seemed to favor the boy. He wondered briefly if Dash still beat up his classmates, or if he'd taken to preying on the underclassman. Either way, Danny could tell he was still the school bully by the way he pushed everyone else out of his way.

However, Dash's was the only face Danny had time to spot, for the hall was soon emptied once more as the students filed into their respective classes and Danny was left alone. He felt disappointed that he even gotten a glance at either Sam or Tuck. Floating back out, he zoomed off to inspect the rest of the school while the classes were in session.

Danny found the school to be as boring and uninteresting as he had when he'd still attended. Nothing had been changed, and no renovations made, but Danny didn't exactly expect to see the entire school redone in under two years. He zoomed through the familiar halls in circles, exploring corridors with no particular interest. He was brought back to earth only when the class bell rang again. He quickly darted back down toward the senior classes.

The students filled that halls again, but this time, they did not hurry into another classroom. Instead they began drifting over to their lockers, talking and laughing with friends as they went. It looked like it was later in the day than Danny had expected, it was already lunch time. Danny knew that meant that it was already fifth period.

This time Danny saw another face in the crowd that he wasn't particularly fond of. There was Paulina Sanchez, beauty queen of Casper High, looking as flawless as she always had. However, unlike in his freshman year, Danny had no interest in the girl. From the day he had first kissed Sam on the front porch of his house, something had changed; no other girl had mattered to him.

Seeing that Danny was no longer fawning over her in their sophomore year, but instead showing an interest in Sam, she had asked him out. Undoubtedly she had hoped to hurt Sam, and then dump Danny and hurt him too, which was basically shallow version of killing two geeks with one stone. However, Danny had blatantly refused to go out with her. This had evidently hurt Paulina's pride, as she'd never heard the word no from a guy before in her life. She'd been even more horrid toward Danny and Sam than usual from that day forward.

Pulling his eyes away from Paulina, he scanned the overcrowded halls once more. Then he saw them, Tucker and Sam, further down the row of lockers. Tucker gathered his lunch and walked over to Sam, who looked up at him and smiled. The two seemed about to leave, when suddenly another boy walked over to them. Danny froze, had they replaced him? But the boy only handed Sam a notebook that she'd apparently dropped on her way out of class and scurried away. Danny let out the breath he'd been holding.

He looked back toward Tucker and Sam. They hadn't seemed to have changed at all. Sam wore the same black apparel, if a slightly different shirt, and she had her hair done up in that familiar half up, half down style. Tucker wore his yellow shirt and green pants. Some things would never change.

Danny followed the two down the hall and into the special senior cafeteria. It was one of the senior privileges that they ate away from the lower classes. Danny looked around the senior cafeteria as he entered, wishing that he could be among the crowds of students about to settle in to eat and chat with friends.

He floated down to the table where Sam and Tuck were seated, and carefully, so as not to arouse suspicion, he sat down at the end of their table, still invisible.

He watched as Sam and Tuck pulled out their lunches. Apparently they simply brought it instead of fighting for their lives on the dreaded lunch line. He watched as Sam pulled out a salad, and Tucker a sandwich, the same lunches they'd brought every school day as far back as he could remember. Then they began to make conversation.

"So what did you think of Lancer's English test?" asked Sam, taking a forkful of salad.

Tucker swallowed and replied, "I don't know. It wasn't as bad as his last one, but it was still pretty tough. What did you put for number twenty seven?"

"I put choice A I think, but I don't really remember," said Sam.

"Yeah, I don't remember what I put either," said Tucker.

They both laughed lightly.

"So, are we going to do anything this weekend?" asked Sam, pushing a tomato around her plate.

"I guess we could go see a movie, I've been dying to see 'Zombie's from the grave'," Tucker replied.

"I just really wish people would stop calling us a couple wherever we go. Just because you my…only friend and you happen to be a guy, does not mean I like you that way," she said, frustrated.

"Ditto on that," said Tucker, taking another bite of his sandwich.

Sam sighed, "Well, we'll have to just get over it I suppose. It's been that way for a while now anyway,"

Danny watched the conversation with mild fascination, but he couldn't tell if they missed him through their words. Well, what had he expected really? Had he expected Sam to break down and start crying his name? Had he expected Tucker to jump from the table and start yelling for him to come back? He supposed that even if they did miss him, they would have learned to deal with it by now.

He stayed with them through the rest of the lunch period, but nothing of relative interest was said. They basically just had one of the pointless conversations that friends usually have during their lunch period.

Soon the bell rang, and Sam and tuck gathered up the remains of their lunch and tossed the garbage into a nearby trash bin. They then proceeded to make the journey back to their lockers, unaware that they were leaving the missing member of their trio in the dust.

The cafeteria emptied out completely after a while, but still Danny just sat there. He couldn't bring himself to move, something about seeing his old friends again seemed to have paralyzed every muscle in his ghostly body. He felt like he could just sit there for ever, invisible and just stare at the cafeteria wall.

However, after what seemed like hours, Danny seemed to regain his senses, and he finally brought himself to float up and out of the school through the ceiling. It was now time to go home and check on his parents. He wondered if seeing them again would bring as much of a shock. Well, he'd have to go see them if he was ever going to find out.

Well, there's chapter three! And the fic finally starts to develop a little. I think. OK leave me a review if you have the time. It's my b-day tomorrow and a few reviews would be a very nice gift if you could take the time. Thanks for reading! See ya next chapter!