Hello, and welcome to chapter seven! This is the next to the last installment of the story. I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to end the story yet, but I'll think about it for awhile and follow up on some of the ideas I have so far. Thank you again to all my reviewers.
Disclaimer: I do not own any aspect of Danny Phantom.
That Monday, Danny showed up at Paulina's house in his ghost form to fly her to school. She clung tightly to him, looking into his intense green eyes with a complacent look; she was finally getting all that she wanted. Or so she thought.
Danny set her down behind a tree, and she pulled him in to kiss him. Just as she neared him, he burped in her face.
"Excuse me," he said. "Guess it was the orange juice."
"Yeah, whatever," she muttered, making a sour face at him.
Playing along, Danny frowned at her, but inside, he was laughing as he made mental notes of his success. Phase One starting on a high note.
Danny went human, and Paulina took his hand and dragged him into the school, angry over Ghost Boy's rude behavior. After she said good-bye to him, he quickly met up with Sam and Tucker.
"How's it going so far?" Tucker asked.
"Great. You should have seen the look on her face."
The three walked to homeroom together, talking and laughing the whole way. Danny would continue Phase One throughout the day, and enact Phase Two at lunch time. They exchanged smiles as they went to their seats, looking forward to seeing how the end to Paulina's obsession with Danny Phantom would unfold.
Later that day...
As Danny lunched with Paulina and the popular crowd, Tucker and Sam helped him enact the next part of the plan. They knew a certain annoying, but generally harmless ghost would be interrupting lunch break again, just like he did every day. They looked at the clock and began the countdown. "Three... two... one..."
"I am the Box Ghost! Fear me and my cube-shaped abode!" the spirit shouted, bursting out of a box that once held cups of tapioca pudding.
Danny turned around to see the ghost. Excusing himself and jumping up, he dashed out of the cafeteria, and Paulina followed him. He changed in the now-empty hallway, just as Paulina burst through the cafeteria's double doors.
"Hi, Ghost Boy!" she cheered excitedly.
"Hey, hold on, I'm busy. Be back for you in a moment," he answered, winking at her.
Danny went into the cafeteria to find the students screaming and cowering behind tables and chairs. He made quick work of the Box Ghost before returning to the hallway to Paulina as the students went back to eating.
"Oh, you're back!" she squealed.
"Told you I'd be." Danny floated in front of her as she stared at him in awe, having completely forgotten about his behavior in the morning.
She went in to kiss him, but he turned his head, so she ended up kissing his cheek. "What was that for?" she asked, frowning.
"Later babe. Ghost Boy has no time for this right now. He's too busy trying to hook another foxy lady."
Paulina just stared at Danny, wide-eyed and opened-mouth, as if he'd just grown an extra head. "What are you talking about? I thought you liked me," she pouted.
"I do, babe. But there's plenty of Ghost Boy to go around. You know, that Star really has a lot going for her. Maybe you can introduce me to her?"
"You... you want to go out with her? She'll never be nearly as cute or as popular as me," Paulina insisted, stamping her foot.
"Hey, I heard that!" Star exclaimed, having just walked into the hallway to go to the restroom. "You're, like, so not my friend anymore."
"Oh, yeah? Well, you, like, so wish you could be me," Paulina retorted. Star just ignored her and continued down the hall.
"See what you did?" Paulina said to Danny. "You made me lose my satellite."
"Hey, babe, it ain't my problem."
"Fine, jerk. You know, you may think you're hot stuff, but you're a loser, just like your human side," Paulina proclaimed, too stupid to realize she had been tricked. "Forget you, Ghost Boy. You and Danny can go back to hanging around with that Goth girl and that techno-geek. I am sooooo over you." With that, she turned around and walked away.
Danny turned human and pushed the cafeteria doors open just enough to motion for Sam and Tucker. Joining him, the two quickly noticed the grin on his face.
"How did it go?" Sam inquired.
"Your plan worked like a charm. She told me she was over me and walked off. Now I can officially wash my hands of the whole matter."
The bell rang at that moment, so the three had to split up, agreeing to meet after school. As Danny went to his next class, the smile never left his face. There was just one thing left to do-convince a certain girl to go out with him as more than a friend. He knew it may not be easy, but he felt that if he could get Paulina to stop obsessing over his ghost side, he could do anything.
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