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Reviews: Star-In-The-Sky-25, Zirra Nova, Eris Dea Disaccordo, HAlFa34, Nobody is Somebody. These are old reviews that I didn't get to put in the chapter I actually uploaded instead of this one. Sorry! I'll post the recent reviews under a different chapter.

A quick note: Now, this is a cute little story I came up with quite a while ago. I ended up getting stuck on it forever, and now I finally finished it! Horray! Oh, and here's a little bit about how I get these stories to fit the songs so well: I listen to the song over and over again until it's playing in my head like a personal little radio… with no "skip" button.

Everything You Want

Dear Diary,

I see him everyday, the boy that I'm in love with. He's got these gorgeous, crystal blue eyes, and his black hair is always a mess. It's can't be tamed, no matter how hard he tries. Even at the dance. Ah, the dance… I sigh as I think about it. Danny and I danced the last dance that night. On the basketball field. Under the stars. It was so romantic, but Danny and I just aren't like that.

Don't get me wrong: I want it to be like that. It's a very ungoth thought, but I really, really want us to be more than "just friends." I'm in love with him. And I'm not just in love with the cute, clumsy, lazy Danny Fenton side of him. I love the muscular, brave, reluctant Danny Phantom side of him too. Together, they make up the guy I love. Of course, he's too busy chasing after Paulina.

I cringe every day when he chases after her. We walk to school together—Tucker, he, and I—then she shows up and suddenly I'm forgotten. Paulina's beautiful, popular, Spanish, and sexy—according to the guys I hang out with (Yeah, Tucker and Danny). Me, well, I'm pretty, geeky, and goth. Why would Danny want me when he could have Paulina? Not that he would ever get her. She's too above him to notice him, but I'm not.

Why doesn't he see it? I love him, but he chases after a girl that doesn't even look his way except when he's Danny Phantom. Oh, yeah, and that one time she found out Danny Phantom and Fenton were the same person. Yeah, it definitely would have made it easier for her to date Phantom, but Danny wiped her memory along with everyone else. But why? If he wanted Paulina so desperately and there she was suddenly throwing herself at him, why would he erase her memory?

I just don't understand guys, and unfortunately, my only friends are guys. Like I said, I'm geeky, and so are Danny and Tucker. Danny's the ghost geek, but everyone just thinks it's because of his parents' profession. Tucker's the techno geek, and that one's a no brainer. He carries that stupid PDA everywhere. I swear, I think he sleeps with it like you would a teddy bear.

I don't know why I'm even writing in this book. Jazz had given it to me as a Christmas gift. Why? I don't know. She knows I don't like to talk about my feelings, so I guess this was some kind of outlet. And trust me, I definitely need an outlet. Sometimes, Danny makes me so infuriated when he's chasing her. I once punched a locker because I was so upset. I don't remember if it was when he was "dating" Paulina—Kitty was actually overshadowing her—or if it was when he was trying to date Valerie. Who cares? All I know is that it wasn't me.

Valerie's a ghost hunter, and her specialty is hunting Danny. I bailed him out the first time she appeared with a "fake-out make-out." Yeah, right. It just gave me an excuse to kiss him, and I made up the first thing that came to mind. His lips are so… perfect too. I like kissing him, and I've kissed him twice already. How many "just friends" have kissed their best friend twice? But they were both fake-out make-outs in Danny's mind, and I've been trying to convince myself of the same thing. Not that it's working…

The second fake-out make-out was in the lab. I'd made a stupid wish that Desiree granted. I wished I'd never met Danny. Since I was the one that had kind of forced him into the Ghost Portal that gave him ghost powers, Danny Fenton was just that: Danny Fenton. No Phantom counterpart, no ghost powers, no sexy, skin tight jumpsuit. I can't believe I just admitted that. Anyway, trying to put things right again so he could defeat Desiree, I forced him into the Portal again.

Of course, I had to get his attention first. I had to wear pink. Yes, pink. And girly make-up too. Ugh! That is the first and only time I would ever wear pink. But I'm off subject again. After he went in the Portal and got ghost powers for the second time in a row—this time with an added symbol to his jumpsuit that I designed myself—we had to think of some kind of cover when Jack was coming downstairs. Danny did the first think he could think of (I love him for that): he kissed me. I was actually a little flighty a moment after, but that soon passed.

That's when I began to realize that I was in love with him, of course. All these different things that I'm finally writing down. There are so many different things I could list. Ember's love spell—tuned down a bit though (he kind of went overboard)—and the time I tried out in a beauty pageant and so many more that I can't even think of off the top of my head. But I guess I should explain Ember's spell and the beauty pageant.

Ember's a ghost: a teen rock star ghost. She has flaming hair that grows when people chant her name, just like her power grows. She pretty much had every teen in Amity Park hypnotized with her music except me and Danny. It was really weird. I said that Danny probably wasn't affected because of his ghost powers, and I wasn't affected because of—and here Danny interrupted me to say this—my individuality and intelligence. Wow, that's definitely a compliment I don't hear everyday from my best friend.

Turns out, I wasn't affected because I was wearing the Fenton Phones. A couple of hours and hundreds of chanting teens later, Ember was strong enough to affect Danny now too. And guess what she did? She turns a little knob on her guitar and blasts us with it. I'm nearly thrown off the building, and Danny's suddenly in love with me! It was great… until he got a little carried away. He wouldn't leave me to fight Ember so I was forced to kiss Dash—I still gag when I think about it (he really does taste like failure)—to break the spell. I hope Danny realized the sacrifice I made. Gross.

The beauty pageant… was a stupid idea. A ghost princess that had somehow formed herself to look like someone else—or maybe who she looked like when she was alive—decided to host a beauty pageant at Casper High. Believe it or not, Danny was chosen as the judge. Suddenly, every girl wanted him, and I was going to make sure that didn't happen. So I entered. Danny and Tucker only found out when Tucker was randomly picking out his dates from the girls on the pageant list. Being the judge's best friend gave him a lot of new privileges.

So, I went through the stupid pageant stuff. I found out that it was the ghost princess—who can also turn into a dragon if she gets angry, by the way (I actually wore the amulet that turns her into a dragon one time)—and what her plan was. Since I had to perform at the moment, I tried to tell Danny as subtly as I could. He didn't get the message until I'd walked off stage and Lancer had asked for his choice of winner. Not even hearing the man, Danny calls out, "Sam!" And, yippee, I win. But I didn't just win the pageant. I was now going to be the bride of some insane, backward, medieval prince who was the brother of the girl running the pageant.

I was actually managing to escape on my own until Danny and Tucker decided to "rescue" me. Danny nearly got his butt kicked until I talked the princess into fighting her brother. Then we took his dragon amulet and destroyed it. Still, it was really nice. After we got back to Casper High, Danny crowned me the true winner. Tucker ended up pummeled by all the enraged girls, but Danny and I walked off arm in arm to hang out at the Nasty Burger.

So, if you haven't realized yet, I'm in love with Danny Fenton/Phantom. How could I not? He's my best friend and knows me better than even my parents do. Of course, that's not hard. My parents don't understand me. I just wish—and here I'm glad I can write this down instead of saying it out loud and having Desiree hear it—that Danny would realize the hints I've been sneaking in here and there. Sure, they're subtle, but Tucker notices them for crying out loud! Danny's just so dense. But he's my dense Danny.

I actually did make him jealous once. A supposed exchange student came to Casper High. Danny swore up and down that he was one of the Guys in White, but it turns out he was just a jerk named Elliot who wasn't even an exchange student. He kissed me, even though I didn't want him to, and he kept trying to get me to go steady with him. Truthfully, I liked him, but I kept thinking about Danny. Danny's the one I want to go steady with, and obviously his parents want it too.

There's this ring that Danny was supposedly going to give Valerie. Yeah, right. It's got my name on it. Seriously, no joke. It literally has my name on it. It's a class ring, and a girl wears her guy's class ring when they're going steady. At first, I thought it was Wes, but Tucker, the oh-so-observant-one, flipped it around for me. That was a total shocker, and I think Tucker thought I was either going to a) kill Danny's dad for making the ring or b) finally admit my feelings to Danny. I did neither. Danny didn't know that I knew, so why kill him and make a big scene over it? Oh, right, because I'm in love with him.

Sam jumped as the bell rang, making her look up from her journal. She checked her watch then grabbed her books, making a run for her locker. She wasn't in the mood to watch Danny and Tucker drool over Paulina, which is what they were doing at the moment. Danny was startled from his Paulina fantasies when he heard something small clatter to the floor. He walked over to the little black book, picking it up.

He looked toward Sam who was running down the hall toward the exit. "Hey, Sam! You dropped…" He shook his head as the doors closed behind her. "Guess she couldn't hear me." He looked back at the little book. "I didn't know she kept a journal… Hey, this is the one Jazz gave her for Christmas."

He opened it to the first page. Dear Diary, I see him everyday, the boy that I'm in love with…

"NO!" Sam screamed, staring at her now-empty backpack. "I thought I had it with me! Where did it go? Oh, no. Oh, no…" She checked through all her notebooks and textbooks just in case. "What if Paulina found it or Dash? Damn, they'd have so much dirt on me then." She gasped, stopping everything and staring wide-eyed at nothing in particular. "What if Danny found it?" she whispered.

She screamed in frustration before grabbing a pillow and burying her face into it. She was suddenly very, very interested in death… more than usual, that is.

Meanwhile, Danny sat on his bed with a pen in his hand, chewing on the end. After reading Sam's rather passionate confession about her love for him, he realized he had to tell her. But where to begin? He stared at the blank page he had turned to then blinked. He hesitated then put the pen to paper, beginning to write.

Sam wasn't sure what was worse: finding her journal in the hands of Paulina or Dash or finding her journal in the hands of the one that she had just barely filled almost five pages about. Unfortunately, at school the next day, she didn't have much choice in the matter. Standing beside her locker was Danny, and in his hands was her little black book. He smiled brightly when he saw her.

"Hey, Sam," he said, holding the book out to her. "You dropped this yesterday."

There was nothing suspicious in his tone or his expression, but something told her that not everything was as it should be with her little book. Once he had left for class, she slipped into the girl's bathroom and locked herself in a stall, leaning against the cool tile wall as she opened the little book. Her breath caught in her throat as she flipped to the sixth page to find herself staring at a different handwriting entirely. Dear Sam, I know I shouldn't have looked, and I'm sorry. But now that I've read what you said, I feel it's time for me to tell you something I could probably never admit to without phasing out body parts…

I'll start with Paulina, since that's obviously a touchy subject with you. I just hope I'm not present when you're reading this because you'd probably injure me in some way just by reading her name. What I felt for Paulina came and went. She may be all those things you listed, but she's missing the most important pieces: a heart, and a mind. I know it sometimes seems like we (and I mean my sex in general) could live without those two components, just living off a girl's looks for the rest of our lives, but looks fade in time, Sam. After all, girls like Paulina are "a dime a dozen."

I erased her memory because I knew I didn't want to end up with her. In the long run, it just wouldn't be worth it. Besides, this is Paulina we're talking about. If I didn't erase her memory but wiped the rest, how long do you think it would be before she said something to someone? Although, I'm sure you would enjoy the look on Paulina's face when she realizes she just betrayed her favorite ghost boy and got him shipped off to the Guys in White to be used in whatever lab rat experiments they can think of. Not that I think you would enjoy the idea of me being used as a lab rat…

As for Valerie, my thing for her passed too. If you want to know the truth, my thing for her passed as soon as I saw you with Gregor... er, Elliot. Whatever his name was. My thing for her passed because it was then I realized I never wanted to see you with a guy that wasn't me, and it finally got to my thick skull that she really is out to kill me. Well, part of me anyway. You haven't been around a lot so you didn't know that Valerie and I agreed to be "just friends." She's actually going out with Tucker right now. Haven't you noticed that he's never around?

As for the so-called exchange student, I already mentioned that I was jealous, but now I'll tell you just how jealous I was. I was very, very tempted to overshadow him quite a few times just to make him make a fool out of himself in front of you. But you're not like most people. You would've been able to tell. Well, except for the one time with getting Tucker to ask you to the dance, and I'm still sorry that I didn't ask you myself because I should have. I should've realized that Paulina was a fake, but well, I can't speak for my 14-year-old guy hormones. All I can say is that she isn't the one I hold in my heart—that's your place.

And as for the ring, you can keep it as long as you agree to the conditions. So, Sam, are you willing to go steady with your best friend?

Danny