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Disaster In Drama Class
Chapter Ten: Break a Leg
"Keep Tryin and Smilin,"
The Day After The Fight:
Sam's POV
I walked into the halls of Casper High with Robert trailing behind me. He had just arrived from the parking lot, and a bunch of kids had stayed after school to get an autograph from him. I rolled my eyes as they crowded around him.
"Robert, we're going to be late for play practice." I called out from behind my shoulder as I kept walking. He didn't respond, and I continued walking.
If he wanted to be a celebrity that's fine, but I wasn't going to support his decision.
Kensie and Tucker walked beside me.
"What are you guys doing here?" I tried not to sound rude.
"Well, Tucker and I are going to help with the music and lights for the play!" Kensie sounded really excited.
"Really, that's great." I tried to sound excited too. A few months ago I would've been happy because Tucker would be helping out with the play, but now that I was mad at Danny, Kensie getting close to him would mean trouble.
Why do I still care about that?
Sam likes Danny.
Shut up.
Whatever, you know you like him.
No idea who you're talking about.
Speaking of Danny…
I crashed into the raven-haired boy and we both fell down.
"Whoa, Sam you need to watch how you crash into things." Danny laughed. We both stood up and I walked away from him, hoping that Kensie would follow me. She did and we walked into the school's auditorium.
"Sam, good you're here." Mr. Swift walked towards me. He looked around for my uncle, "Where's your…"
"He's being mobbed by a bunch of fans right now." I interrupted him.
"Right, I'll go get him then." Mr. Swift walked to the door of auditorium, and came face to face with Danny.
"Hi, Mr. Swift," Danny said politely. Mr. Swift mumbled something and then continued through the door to find Robert.
"He hates me," Danny said to Tucker and then he looked straight at me, "and he's not the only one."
"Excuse me, why don't you tell the whole world my secret!" I screamed a little too loud.
"I'm telling you that I didn't start that rumor!" Danny screamed back.
"Yeah, how many Valerie's do you actually know, because last time I checked everybody's name wasn't VALERIE!"
"Why do you have to be so difficult Sam! Why can't you trust me!"
"Trust you? Trust you! TRUST YOU! You expect me to trust you when you lied to me!" I stormed out of the auditorium, and saw Mr. Swift and Gregor talking to Robert.
"-Yes, this is my nephew Gregor. I thought that he'd be perfect for the role in the play…"
I wanted to scream, "Oh my God! THAT'S the ONLY reason that you cast Gregor! He sucks! You just wanted him to get the part because he's your nephew!"
Trust me, I was so pissed.
I walked over to them and interrupted whatever Mr. Swift was saying. I tried to be calm.
"I have been working my ass off the last couple of weeks, only to find out that this sorry excuse for an actor," I pointed at Gregor, "is YOUR NEPHEW!"
"Sam, don't interrupt adults when they're talking."
"SHUT UP ROBERT!" I had never used that tone with my uncle before and he looked offended, "In case you haven't noticed there's another great actor in that auditorium who would do a MUCH better job playing David then Gregor ever would, and unless he gets the part in the play then I QUIT!" I looked for everyone's reaction and when no one said anything, I marched out of Casper High and ran home with tears building behind my eyes.
Two Months Later (A week before the play):
Danny's POV
Why did Sam want me to have this part so badly?
She's still mad at you, right?
Yeah.
Then it's because you're a much better actor than Gregor.
Oh…
"Danny," Sam whispered into my ear.
"Yeah," I whispered back.
"I'm glad that they decided to give you this part."
"I'm glad that you care so much."
Sam looked at the ground and then back up at me.
"Well, I couldn't work with a person who kept forgetting his lines, right?"
Isn't she supposed to be mad at you?
"Who cares?" A third party entered my mind.
"Right," I answered back.
Sam was sitting beside me in the auditorium seats. We were waiting for our next scene to start. Tucker and Kensie waved to us from the stage and we both waved back.
"How have the last two months been without me?" I asked Sam, and realized that it was a mistake. Sam looked at the ground and didn't look at me again until we were on the stage reciting our lines.
Tiffany's POV
I was instant messaging Kelsey after school when I heard strange voices coming from Sam's room.
I walked down the hall and pressed my ear to her door. A young girl's voice and a man's voice were talking inside. I tried to decipher the conversation.
"This is boring. When are we going to take action?" The young girl asked.
"I was thinking this week before the play starts. How's that." The man asked.
"That's horrible!" The girl whined.
"Suck it up! We have perfected the plan, now's the time to take action. Have you been over-shadowing her dog?" The man asked.
Over-shadowing?
"Yeah," The young girl answered dimly.
"Good, keep doing that. I'll be back tonight, don't forget the plan," Then the man left without opening the door.
Oh my God, I have to tell Sam!
Sam's POV
I came home from practice, a little more perky than usual, and walked to my room. Unfortunately Tiffany was blocking my doorway.
"Tiffany let me in my room." I told her, she shushed me. "Your dog is being over-shadowed by something."
My heart stopped for at least two seconds, how would she know what over-shadowing is?
"How do you know that?" I asked her.
"I heard some old guy and a girl talking in your room about it."
I was about to ask her who, but I remembered the warning that Danny had given me before I'd left his house the last time.
Danni and Vlad were looking for me.
I pushed past my cousin.
"What are you doing?" She pushed me so that I couldn't reach the doorknob.
"I need to use instant messenger to talk to Tucker."
"Go use my computer. We can't have the doggy knowing that we're onto them." Tiffany told me.
Maybe, just maybe someday I would tell Tiffany about Danny being half-ghost, but for now I would keep my promise.
I walked down the hallway, and Tiffany followed me after she had locked my door from the outside.
I logged on my user name and found that Tucker was online.
"Tiffany, do you mind?" I asked her.
"I have more stuff that I didn't tell you." She said. I studied her face to make sure that she wasn't lying.
Innocent, she could stay.
Gothfreak4ever: Tucker, how's the clueless one?
BadLuckTuck: Fine, if you don't include his heart breaking.
Tiffany laughed.
I glared at her and she quickly stopped.
Gothfreak4ever: Can you tell him some things for me?
TheGhostFighter: Why don't you tell him yourself?
Gothfreak4ever: TUCKER!
Gothfreal4ever: DID YOU INVITE HIM INTO OUR CONVERSATION!
BadLuckTuck: Yes.
BadLuckTuck: Yes I did.
TheGhostFighter: Is that a problem?
I looked around for Tiffany and she had left my room.
TheGrassIsGreen: We have a more important issue to talk about here.
TheGhostFighter: What's that?
TheGrassIsGreen: Someone over-shadowed Sam's dog, and Sam thinks that these people are out to get her.
TheGhostFighter: Is that true Sam?
Gothfreak4ever: Pretty much.
TheGrassIsGreen: Oh and the man is going to kidnap Sam tonight!
Gothfreak4ever: Okay thanks Tiffany, now get out of my conversation!
TheGrassIsGreen: FINE! YOU'RE WELCOME!
TheGrassIsGreen has logged off.
BadLuckTuck: I'm going to go too.
Gothfreak4ever: NO WAIT!
Gothfreak4ever: TUCKER!
BadLuckTuck has logged off.
TheGhostFighter: Do you want me to bring the Spector Deflector over?
TheGhostFighter: It could help prevent someone from kidnapping you.
Gothfreak4ever: Only if you promise…
I gasped.
TheGhostFighter: What?
TheGhostFighter: Oh…
Gothfreak4ever: Can you take Lilith out of my room for me and put her in the backyard. I really do think that someone over-shadowed her.
TheGhostFighter: Okay, I'll be right over.
Gothfreak4ever: Oh and I'm in Tiffany's room.
TheGhostFighter: Okay.
TheGhostFighter has logged off.
I heard running and saw Tiffany stormed into the room.
"What's going on?" I asked her, for some reason I was overly worried.
"Whatever over-shadowed you're dog" she gasped, "tried to over-shadow me."
I swear that my heart stopped beating for at least five seconds this time, before I grabbed Tiffany's hand and ran out the front door of our house.
I would've ran far away from my house, if I hadn't seen Danielle standing, well floating in front of me.
Tears formed in Danielle's eyes.
"What's wrong?" Tiffany asked her.
"The person that tried to over-shadow you," she said slowly, "was me."
Then like a movie playing in slow motion, she shot me with an ecto-beam, and before I blacked out I whispered one word, "Why?"
Danny's POV
I flew as quickly as I could to Sam's house, I flew into her room, and Lilith was fast asleep. I flew into Tiffany's room and she wasn't in there.
I flew to the front door of her house, and saw Tiffany lying on the steps unconscious.
I picked Tiffany up, flew to her room, and laid her down onto her bed.
"If only you knew where Sam was," I whispered.
"She doesn't, but I do." I didn't even have time to see who had said it when everything turned dark.
Sam's POV
Waking up to find that you're covered in toilet paper and whipped cream from a slumber party is one thing, but waking up to find you can't move because you're strapped onto this big gray rectangular thing, and one person who is completely evil and seriously needs a cat, and another person who you thought was you're friend, but turned out not to be that, is standing right next to you is a completely different thing.
I didn't even bother to scream when I woke up and felt the intense pain in my head.
Vlad stroked my hair softly and I wanted to punch him.
"It'll all be over soon," He said gently in a perverted tone that made my skin crawl, "I'm sorry that you have to go through with this pain, but it'll all be over soon, and I will have a daughter who is evil and will serve me."
"YOU'RE NOT MY DAD!" I screamed so loud that it made my headache triple.
He backed away from me, and started talking to Danielle who had tears in her eyes.
"The transformation will be complete in ten minutes." She said sadly.
"Excellent," Vlad said, "go wake up Daniel."
I felt my heart stop.
"WAIT A MINUTE! What did you do to Danny?" I cried out.
Vlad strolled back over to me.
"Dear girl, it's not what I did to him, but what you are going to do to him."
I swallowed hard.
"I WON'T HURT HIM! YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!"
Vlad laughed his evil laugh.
"Girl you don't understand, you don't have a choice."
"Eight minutes until the transformation is complete,"
I felt myself losing feeling in my arms and legs.
"Wha? What's happening?" I felt my mouth grow dry.
"Ah…she's losing control of herself, HURRY GO WAKE THE BOY!"
I heard someone run off, and a door slam.
I tried to speak, but my mouth wouldn't work.
I tried to cry, but the tears wouldn't fall.
I wanted so desperately to get out of there. I didn't want to be controlled.
I didn't want to pass out…but I did.
Danny's POV
I woke up on the floor of what looked like an abandoned warehouse.
My ghost sense went off and I saw Danielle flying towards me.
On instinct I transformed into Danny Phantom, grabbed her by the throat, and rammed her up against the nearest wall.
"Stop, please," She choked.
"You blasted me and made me pass out and you're telling me to stop. BESIDES…I'M LOOKING FOR SAM! TELL ME WHERE SHE IS!" I pounded her against the wall, tears ran down her face.
"In your best interest, I'm not sure you want to find her right now."
"Why?" I had to be careful around Danielle.
"Vlad is going to turn her evil, and make her destroy you."
I dropped Danielle to the ground, and she wrapped her hand around her neck gasping for breath.
"How do I know that for sure?"
Danielle gasped.
"Hello Danny," I turned around and came face to face with Sam.
Maybe Danielle had been lying.
"Sam, I know you're mad at me, but Vlad's here and…AAAHHH!" Sam had shot me with an ecto-blast as she walked over to Vlad who had just appeared in the room.
"Vlad, WHAT DID YOU DO TO HER?" I screamed.
"I control her now, not just physically, but mentally too."
So Danielle hadn't been lying.
"HE'S LYING!" Danni yelled from behind me, "Sam's still in there somewhere. All you have to do is find her!"
Sam shot Danni with an ecto-blast and Danni went flying across the room. I powered up enough ecto-energy and aimed it at Sam.
"Not so fast Daniel, even though Sam has physical power to attack with, any attack that she gets hit with will affect her as if she didn't have any physical power. If you attack her with enough ecto-energy, she could die." Vlad told me as Sam shot me with another ecto-blast.
I flew across the room, and landed in a pile of boxes.
"Why, why are you doing this?" I said, as I wiped my mouth with my sleeve.
"Because if I kill you then it will be another step toward getting your mother." Vlad answered.
Sam charged toward me and I ducked.
She kept attacking me, and I kept dodging her until she struck me across the face and I hit the ground hard.
Then Danielle stood up in front of me, and was my shield, defending me from Sam.
"Danielle, how are you defending me?" I asked her.
"I think you broke the chip that Vlad implanted on me when you bashed me into the wall."
Danielle fell to the ground, and I turned us invisible and intangible.
"What's the plan?" I whispered.
"We have to get Sam to realize that's she's good, wait a minute, I have an idea."
Sam's POV
I was seeing everything in a movie that was playing in slow-motion.
The things I did, the way I fought with Danny, was out of my control.
I couldn't believe what I was doing.
Suddenly, after what seemed like forever fighting Danielle and Danny, Danielle pulled my arms behind my back, and sat down on the back of my legs so I was on my knees.
Danny put his hand on my chin and made me look into his face, his eyes.
His blue eyes….
His sky-blue eyes which hypnotized me….
"Danny, I'm so sorry," I said, feeling tears well up in my eyes. I was gaining back control every second.
Unfortunately, Vlad shot an ecto-beam at Danielle and Danny, and I lost control as Danny and Danielle went flying through the air.
In a moment I was fighting them again...no control, afraid of the inevitable.
Danny's POV
"We almost had her back in control." I whispered to Danielle, as we both fought off Sam.
"I don't think you got her out of control enough." Danielle said between punches.
"What do I have to do?" I asked, getting out of breath.
"I think I know, but it's pretty extreme."
"I'll do anything just to get Sam back."
"Next time kiss her."
"WHAT?"
My un-focused moment led me to be punched in the face by Sam, and I was knocked across the room.
Danielle led Sam over to where I was, and winked at me.
I nodded back at her.
Danielle put Sam in the same position, and I cupped my hand on her chin and lifted her face up to look at mine.
I pulled her face closer to mine, so we were three inches away from each other.
I tried to close the gap, but Sam jerked her head away, tears in her eyes.
"You love Valerie, not me, stop pretending,"
It hit me like a slap in the face, which is what happened when Danielle lost her grasp on Sam.
Sam took Danielle by the neck and sent an ecto-beam at her so hard; she flew across the room and landed unconscious.
I realized then that we couldn't beat Sam. She was under to much control.
I stood up, as she charged at me.
I flew through the air, landed with a loud thud onto the ground, and then slowly and painfully got back up.
This continued for a few more minutes before Sam got bored of the game, and grabbed me by my neck and slammed me against a wall.
I felt myself losing breath, and I stared into her dark red eyes.
They looked like they were filled with hatred, but I saw pass that, deep down Sam regretted everything she was doing…at least I hoped.
With her free hand Sam pulled it back behind her head and started to gather up enough ecto-energy to possibly finish me off.
I tried to make her gain control of herself one last time.
"Sam, this isn't you, please, stop what you're doing. This isn't right, you don't want to hurt me."
I saw her blink a couple times, and then she continued to gather up ecto-energy.
I felt tears gathering up behind my eyes.
"Okay, Sam, if this is what you truly want, to finish me off, to kill me, then go ahead. I'm sure you think it's what I deserve for the way I've been treating you."
Her eyes flashed violet and then back to red again.
"Wha…What did you just say?"
"I said that I was sorry Sam, for how I've been treating you, how I lied to you, but I didn't tell the whole school, I just told Valerie, and I'm really sorry."
Sam's eyes flashed violet for five seconds, but then returned back to red.
"You care more about Valerie than me, I don't need you're apology," She stared into my eyes, "you just want to save yourself."
"I care about you Sam, please don't do this. I know that you don't want to lose control. I…I'm your best friend…please…please…don't do this."
"It's too late to care, I'm already gone."
She put her hand full of gathered ecto-energy in front of my chest, and I felt the heat that it gave off.
"Sam, please, I'm really truly sorry for the way I treated you. I don't like Valerie anymore, I actually thought that I liked you now, but I guess you should finish me off, if that would make you feel better, if you truly hate me."
I lowered my head, and looked down towards the ground.
Suddenly I dropped to the ground with a thud, and looked up at Sam.
Her eyes were a mix of violet and red.
"I'm sorry too Danny."
She turned around and shot an ecto-blast at Vlad.
It hit him and he flew across the room.
I saw a glimpse of him transforming back into a human before I passed out.
Sam's POV
I didn't know if Danny had broken the spell permanently, but Danielle and I left Vlad unconscious as we flew to Danny's house.
Tears streamed down my eyes, and I had to pinch myself to make myself realize that this hadn't been a dream.
We laid him down onto his bed, and his face had a painful expression which made my heart break just looking at it.
Danielle flew me back to my house.
"Thanks," I told her, my body was shaking all over.
"You're welcome," She replied, "and don't worry he'll be fine."
I nodded as she flew out of the roof of my house.
I sighed and realized that the play Danny and I had to perform was on Friday.
Danny's POV
I woke up thinking that it had all been a dream, but the feeling, the pain was so intense. I felt my body aching.
That Week at School:
Everything seemed normal as if the whole thing had never happened.
Sam continued to ignore me, but I saw the sympathy in her eyes…at least I hoped that was what that was.
We both knew that the play was on Friday, but during the whole week at school we never spoke to one another.
Tucker reported to me that Sam and Kensie were supposed to get together one day during the week, but I had no idea when, all I knew was that I wanted to talk to Sam.
Sam's POV
Kensie came over to my house on Thursday to help me go over my lines.
Nothing was different at my house, except for the fact that my uncle and my aunt shared secret grins and laughs, which I thought was extremely weird.
And the fact that my mom was overly fidgety, complained of a sore stomach all week, and grew impatient with me.
When Kensie came over, I don't how it happened, but I managed to ask her the question that I'd been meaning to ask her for awhile.
"Kensie?"
"Hmm?"
"Do you like Danny?"
"Yeah, he's a cool guy."
"No, I mean, like a boyfriend."
She laughed for a few seconds.
"Danny and me, hahahaha, no I don't like Danny like that, to tell you the truth I like Tucker."
"WHAT!"
She nodded.
"Ever since we made out that one night…"
"WHOA…BACK IT UP GIRL! BAD IMAGE, BAD IMAGE!"
"But we both decided it would be better if we stayed friends, even though we both like each other."
"Why?"
"Well, sometimes it's better to have a good boy friend rather than a boyfriend."
I nodded, even though I didn't completely understand it.
If they loved each other why didn't they just go out?
Friday Night:
My mother complained of not wanting to go, but my uncle and aunt made her go, just like they made Tiffany go.
I saw Jazz, and Danny's parents sit down right beside my mom, my aunt, my uncle, and Tiffany.
Right away, my uncle bonded with Danny's dad, and my aunt bonded with Danny's mom. They have a strange way of doing that.
And then…OH MY GOSH! Tiffany bonded with Jazz!
Weird.
Someone tapped me on the back.
I turned around to see Danny standing there.
"What?" I asked him.
"Are you ready to start the play?"
"Ready as I'll never be," I said and I pushed past him to join the rest of the cast and crew members when he grabbed my arm.
"Sam, I hope you realize that I meant what I said, I'm sorry."
I tried to hold back tears, as I pulled my arm away from him.
"Yeah, I understand."
Then I walked over to where everyone was gathered around Mr. Swift.
Danny's POV
The play was pretty boring to tell you the truth, especially the part where Sandy and I were supposed to fall in love.
Sam acted like she didn't really like me, and that caused confusion for the audience.
The last scene finally came, when Sandy was supposed to not give me a second chance, and the play ended with both of our hearts broken.
Sam's POV
Danny walked onto the stage, and this was the finale, when I supposed to break his heart, which wouldn't be too hard for me to do.
He sat beside me on the "log" that I was sitting on.
"What do you want?" I asked harshly.
"I'm sorry, for the way I acted. I realize now that I love you."
"What kind of greeting is that?" I asked him, which was really how I felt. Those weren't his lines.
"I know I broke our promise, but can't we just forget that it happened and start over?"
He looked deep into my eyes, and I realized that he was talking to me, Sam, not Sandy, but still everyone was watching us so I tried to stay in character.
"You told me that you loved me before, though there are others better for you. You don't deserve me, you deserve them."
I stood up to leave, but he stood up too and grabbed my arm and pulled me back towards him.
"I don't want them, I want you."
"We all want a lot of things. I wanted someone who wouldn't lie to me, or break promises'."
"I'm not perfect, I make mistakes, but you have to give me a second chance, I can do better."
"You want a second chance? You say you love me? You broke a promise and want to be forgiven?"
He nodded.
"Then prove it."
Danny's POV
"Then prove it…."
The words echoed in my mind, and I thought about it for a moment.
Then it hit me!
I had broken the promise, which meant…
I blushed, and tried to hide it from Sam.
Without thinking I pulled her closer to me with my hands on her waist, and I pushed our faces closer together, closing the long gap between them.
In a moment I was kissing Sam, and after five seconds, I realized that she was kissing me back.
Sam's POV
I couldn't believe that he had finally remembered.
For eternity, at least that's what it felt like, I was in heaven, but in a few moments it ended.
Not because the play was supposed to be over, but because somebody in the audience shouted, "MY WATER BROKE! ROBERT TAKE ME TO THE HOSPITAL NOW!"
I broke away from Danny, and saw my mother panicking in the audience.
Everyone was staring at them, and my uncle, my aunt, and Tiffany were quickly moving out of the auditorium.
My aunt turned back towards me.
"SAM, COME ON, DON'T YOU WANT TO BE THERE WHEN YOU SEE YOUR NEW LITTLE SISTER?"
My mouth was hanging wide open.
ALL THIS TIME MY MOTHER HAD BEEN PREGNANT?
HOW STUPID WAS I? HOW COULD I HAVE MISSED THAT?
"SAM, HURRY!" Tiffany yelled.
Without thinking I grabbed Danny's hand, jumped off the stage with him, and ran down the aisle toward my family.
