"Looks are Everything"

(Rose Falcon)

Sam sat on her bed. Her parents and her had had a fight last night, about how Sam led her life. Unfortunately, her parents had met Paullina and her parents. Sam was supposed to be at that party, but had escaped before her parents had the chance to get her in the door.

"Why couldn't you be more like Paullina?" they had asked her.

She was waiting there. A little bit before, she had asked Danny to fly her to school; she didn't want to have to face them.

There was a knock on the door, and then something was slipped under it.

Sam walked over and found a magazine. One of the kind girls her age read, with a girl in pink posing on the front.

See it on TV
In my magazines

Sam dropped picked it up so she could put it in the shredder next to her desk. A folded up paper fell out.

See it everywhere I look
Even in my dreams
I can't sleep for dreaming

She picked up the note, opened it, and read it aloud. "Dear Sam,

We're sorry we got angry with you. We're just upset. We wanted a kid like us, joyous, happy with life. We just don't know why you're so depressed all the time. Maybe if you-" she stopped reading there. She took the magazine and the note and threw them both in the shredder.

See it on a billboard
Pasted in the sky
Inside of my eyelids
When I close my eyes
I can't sleep for screaming

Sam sat on her bed, then fell to her back and stared at the ceiling. Despite how she acted, she just wanted her parents to love her without needing her to be like them.

Telling me what I should try
Telling me what I should buy
No matter what I do it's never good enough

She heard a tapping on her window. Danny phased in and landed.

"Come on," he said, holding out his hand.

"Coming."

They flew to school. When Sam had called him, she had expected him to just phase her out the window and then they would walk to school. It was beyond her to tell him this, of course.

She looked to Danny as the school came into view. He wasn't paying attention, however, but instead was watching Paullina below.

Isn't she a pretty thing, oh
Isn't she a pretty thing, oh
Isn't she a pretty thing

Sam scoffed. Must he do that?

So lucky looks are everything
Looks are everything

Danny and Sam landed hidden from the school, and walked into the front (with Danny human, of course). It was still early, with kids hanging out everywhere. Sam noticed Danny still watching Paullina, who was talking to Dash.

She don't look like my friends
Not at all like me

What was so special about her, anyway?

Dreamt that I was perfect
I was happy
I can't sleep for dreaming

No matter what I try
No matter what I buy
No matter what I do it's never good enough

Isn't she a pretty thing, oh
Isn't she a pretty thing, oh
Isn't she a pretty thing
So lucky looks are everything
Looks are everything

Sam left Danny and walked slowly into the school, towards her locker.

It all seems so backwards
It's all upside-down
Shouldn't it be love that makes
The world go round...


While trying to open her locker, which seemed a little jammed, Danny finally had caught up, with Tucker in tow.

"Where were you two?" asked Sam without looking at them.

"No where," Danny answered quickly.

"I had to drag him away from Paullina before he did something stupid," corrected Tucker. Danny elbowed him.

Isn't she a pretty thing, oh
Isn't she a pretty thing, oh
So lucky looks are everything, oh

After a pause, Sam said to no one: "Why won't this locker open!"

Danny elbowed Tucker again. He gave him a nod.

"I'll go get the janitor," said Tucker, and he walked off.

So lucky looks are everything, oh
Isn't she a pretty thing, oh
Isn't she a pretty thing, oh
So lucky looks are everything

"Here," said Danny, "Let me." He phased his arm into her locker. He frowned as he seemed to find something. He pulled it out.

In his hand was a black, long stemmed rose. He smiled at it, and gave it to her.

She gave her a weird look, and then read the card: from Danny.

She looked up to thank him, and he was gone. She smiled. If he didn't want to be found he wouldn't be. She went back to her locker, and it opened easily.

Looks are everything
Looks are everything
Looks are everything

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This wasn't supposed to be DS! It was supposed to be between Sam and her parents! Why must DS always but itself into all my fanfics?