AUTHOR'S NOTE:
Hey guys so this is a deleted chapter from Season 4 and now it's a chapter for Season 5. It's based and inspired by an episode of Static Shock I saw called Jimmy which told about Virgil meeting a guy named Jimmy who's bullied a lot in his school. My brothers had come up with the idea of this chapter. This chapter was supposed to take place after Musical Mayhem and I hope you like it.
Also the writing in Italic is Star, Dayla, Sam, Paulina and Valerie telling the story.
OLD WOUNDS ARE SLOW TO HEAL
Dayla, Dani, Sam, Valerie, Star and Paulina were in the screening room at Sam's house, having a movie night and sleepover. They had finished watching the film Wonder and were now just chatting about any subjects that came to mind.
Star then looked down and Valerie had noticed, "What's wrong Star?"
Star sighed and answered, "Oh it's nothing. It's just…I was just thinking about what happened at that school shooting that happened a couple of months ago. It bought back some memories"
Everyone except Dani then realised what Star meant and then Dayla asked, "You mean Sarah? Have you heard from her?"
Star nodded, but before she could answer, Dani cut in and asked in confusion, "Who's Sarah?"
"Oh that's right Dani. You weren't here at the time" Sam realised. She then answered, "Sarah was this girl who went to our school, and she was bullied a lot by this one girl named Teresa"
"We didn't really know Sarah that well at the time…well nobody really knew her a lot that well and maybe that was the problem at first" Star then said.
"I knew her because she was in most of my classes and we also had study period together as well"
"All of us tried to help her, but that's when the incident happened" Paulina finished.
"What happened? And what happened to Sarah?" Dani asked.
"Well, it's sort of got something to do with this" Star said before pulling her pyjama pants up and showing Dani, a scar that looked like a hole had been on the skin of her leg.
Dani gasped at the sight and asked once again, "What happened?"
"I think it's best if we start at the beginning" Dayla began. "It all began in our junior year at Casper High. It was just a week after our annual school musical and before you and Dale had returned to Amity Park. Paulina had finally changed and we were all now great friends. Danny and I were running late to school because Box Ghost was attacking the museum…."
Two years ago…
"Come on Box Ghost! Give it up!" Danny shouted as he and Dayla dodged the many boxes coming their way.
"NEVER! I WILL HAVE MY CARDBOARD VENGENCE AND MY VENGENCE AGAINST YOU PHANTOM TWINS! BEWARE!" Box Ghost shouted and continued to throw several boxes and items from the museum gift shop at Danny and Dayla.
Danny and Dayla both stopped dodging and just turned tangible and allowed the stuff to go through. Danny and Dayla then duplicated a copy each and they all surrounded Box Ghost, all four of them then released combined ectoblasts which hit Box Ghost dead on, causing him to scream in pain before he fell to the ground smoking and covered in ash.
Dayla then sucked Box Ghost into the Fenton Thermos and capped the lid on tightly and said, "Doesn't he ever give up?"
"Nope" Danny answered and after managing a quick clean-up of the gift shop, Danny and Dayla had flown straight to Casper High.
Danny had astronomy and headed straight for his classroom and Dayla had study period first and headed straight for the classroom where Mrs Rosewell was supervising the class. She knocked on the door and then entered the classroom and said to the teacher, "Sorry for being late Mrs Rosewell, there was a ghost fight at the museum"
"Understood Miss Fenton. You may take your seat now" Miss Rosewell said before going back to her book.
Dayla took her seat next to Valerie, Sam, Paulina and Star. All the girls smiled at Dayla and Sam asked, "Hey Dayla. Who was it this time?"
"Box Ghost again" Dayla answered.
"Let me guess, he wanted revenge again?" Valerie asked with a knowing look.
"You guessed it" Dayla said as she opened her computer and textbook.
"Doesn't he ever give up?" Star asked. "I mean he's kind of annoying"
"I know but he does make a good punching bag for misplaced aggression" Dayla said which caused them all to quietly laugh a little.
Dayla then noticed a girl with light brown hair, light green eyes, very few visible freckles near her nose, black Weldon glasses, a white and red striped long sleeved shirt and blue jeans working on her laptop. Dayla had never really noticed her around.
She smiled at her and said, "Hi there"
The girl looked at her for a moment, nodding before turning her attention back to her computer. Dayla then tried again, "I'm Dayla"
"I know who you are. I'm Sarah" The girl said and just went back to her computer.
"So what you working on?" Dayla asked trying to be friendly.
"Just homework and stuff" Sarah answered briefly, not really showing a smile or anything.
"Okay" Dayla said and then backed off.
"Who is that?" Sam asked. "I've never really noticed her around before"
"That's Sarah Cole. No-one really knows much about her, she's kind of a mystery. Doesn't talk or hang out with anyone" Paulina answered quietly. "She transferred here near the end of the school year last year"
DAYLA: That was the first time I ever spoke to Sarah. She seemed pretty quiet and anti-social at first. We at first thought that was just who she was until Karin Bligh and her friend Serena Vase had entered the picture…
At the end of the day, Dayla, Sam, Andrew, Tucker and Danny were heading out of the school until Valerie, Star and Paulina came running up to them and all three of them looked upset about something.
"Guys! There's something you should see!" Valerie said.
The four of them followed behind the girls to behind the school to find a girl named Serena Vase holding Sarah by her arms while Karin Bligh was giving her a few punches in the gut and then her arms. Serena then threw Sarah to the ground. Karin smirked as she ripped the heart shaped locket off Sarah's neck and broke the chain completely and threw it over the fence.
"The next time I tell you to give me your lunch money, I suggest you have it!" Karin shouted and then slapped Sarah across the face once again.
"Hey! Knock it off!" Danny and Dayla both shouted at Karin and Serena, the two girls gasped and made a run for it.
Star and Andrew helped Sarah off the ground as Andrew asked, "Are you alright?"
"I'm fine. Don't worry. This happens all the time" Sarah said, acting like it was nothing but they could all see the pain and tears in her eyes.
"You have to go to the principle and Mr Lancer" Tucker said. Sam nodded in agreement, "Tucker's right. They can stop this"
"No don't! Please" Sarah pleaded. "I don't want to cause any trouble. I just have to put up with it for another year and that's it. I'll be fine"
"No you won't. Trust me Sarah. I've been where you were and it's never fine" Dayla said, hoping to get through to her.
"Look just please don't go to the principle" Sarah said. "Please"
Dayla sighed and said, "Okay. We won't go but promise me that if it gets any worse, you'll tell the principle, otherwise I'll do it myself"
"I promise" Sarah agreed. She then grabbed her books and started running off.
"Who is that girl?" Danny asked.
"Her name is Sarah Cole. We met her in study period" Sam answered. Dayla then said, "I thought she was just anti-social and now I know why"
"So how are gonna handle this guys?" Andrew asked.
Dayla picked up the broken chain while Valerie quickly went over to the other side of the fence and grabbed the locket. Dayla then said, "I think Sam, Valerie, Paulina, Star and I should go over and see her tomorrow. I have a feeling she could use some good friends right now and who knows, maybe having some friends will encourage her to tell Principle Ishiyama and Mr Lancer about what is going on"
STAR: Even though the A-list had changed, there was still a small group from it who didn't want to change at all. A couple of those two were Karin Bligh and Serena Vase and after seeing what happened that day after school, it definitely confirmed our theory that those two were making Sarah's life miserable.
VALERIE: So the next day, we all pitched in and got Sarah's locket fixed at a jewellery store before heading over to her place, thanks to Tucker finding her address for us.
Sarah answered the front door to find Dayla, Sam, Valerie, Paulina and Star standing there, each of them smiling as Dayla handed her the now fixed heart shaped locket.
"I…I forgot I left this at school yesterday" Sarah said. "Did you girls fix this, for me?"
"Yeah of course. We all pitched in to get it fixed and even got a stronger chain for it" Sam answered.
Sarah opened the locket to reveal a picture of a woman and looked at it with a face of relief, glad it wasn't broken. She placed the locket back around her neck and gave the girls a small smile as she said, "Thank you so much. This is the only thing I have to remember my mother. Thank you"
"It's no problem" Valerie said. "It's what friends do. We look out for each other"
Sarah's father James then came up to the door and asked, "Who's at the door honey?"
"Oh. These are some girls from school dad. Dayla, Sam, Valerie, Paulina and Star" Sarah answered.
James smiled and said, "Hello. Nice to meet you all. I'm Sarah's father, James. I didn't know she invited you all over"
"I didn't even though they were going to come dad" Sarah said.
"Well anyway, I'm heading off to the store to get some groceries. If you girls get hungry, help yourselves to some snacks" James said as he quickly gave Sarah a hug and then headed out to his car.
"Did you girls want to come in for a bit?" Sarah asked.
Nodding, all of them entered Sarah's home. They followed her upstairs to her bedroom and they could see a lot of posters of Dumpty Humpty, famous film stars and other singers around the room. Sam said, "Your room's pretty cool"
"Thanks" Sarah said with a smile.
Paulina then noticed the laptop opened and saw an incomplete story on the screen and asked, "So you're a writer or something?"
"Sort of. I like to write my own stories on Wattpad" Sarah answered. "Fantasy, science fiction and just a little bit of horror"
"Sounds cool" Valerie said impressed. "Maybe you can send us the link so we can read some of them"
"Yeah sure. You guys should totally check them out" Sarah said as he smile got brighter.
"Um….Sarah? Does your dad know about what's going on with you, Karin and Serena?" Star asked.
Sarah's smile dropped and she answered, "No. He doesn't. Look we haven't been living in Amity Park for that long and the whole reason we've moved here is because I got bullied at my last school and I ended up punching the guy in the face, nobody believed me except my dad and all it did was cause a lot of trouble. I don't want to do that again"
"Please don't tell my dad. I really don't want to cause trouble for him" She pleaded.
"Okay. We won't, but if it gets any worse, we're going to him and Principle Ishiyama" Dayla said.
"Thank you" Sarah said with relief.
DAYLA: There are days where I wish I never made that promise. That I wish I had gone to Sarah's dad and Principle Ishiyama and Mr Lancer sooner. If I did, then what had happened that day would never had happened.
DANI: You just tried to be a good friend. All of you did. I don't think there was anything you could've done to prevent whatever happened.
PAULINA: Anyway, after that, Sarah started hanging out with us a little bit more. She still bought her laptop wherever she went, writing her stories.
Sarah laughed after Danny had told a joke and it turned out to be really funny in the cafeteria. She got up to get some orange juice, but as she was walking back she was suddenly tripped over by Serena and she fell to the ground, Karin then grabbed the orange juice, opened the lid and poured it all over her clothes.
"Whoops! So sorry, but hey orange is a good colour for that god ugly shirt you decided to wear to school today" Karin said and then both she and Serena laughed.
"Hey lay off!" Danny shouted as he, Dayla, Sam, Tucker, Andrew, Paulina, Star and Valerie all stood up and stood beside Sarah.
Sam and Valerie helped Sarah off the ground and then Dayla phased the orange juice off her shirt intangibly.
"You dare speak up to us freak?" Karin scoffed offended. Danny frowned and snapped back, "We're not afraid to stand up to anyone who bullies someone who has done nothing to you"
"Oh bug off freak! Besides she deserves it" Serena sneered.
"She doesn't deserve anything that you're doing to her! In fact, she's a whole lot better than you two combined together" Sam snapped back.
Karin and Serena just glared at them all and then Karin said, "Fine. We'll leave her alone for now, but now this Sarah you little freak, you may have these freaks standing with you for now, but once you're alone, you're fair game and you won't have some half-ghost weirdos and their freaky friends who we once called the A-list behind you"
The two girls then walked off, the others at first could not see the fear in Sarah's eyes. Andrew then said, "Those two really need to have a reality check"
"Sarah are you okay?" Valerie asked as she finally noticed the fear in her eyes.
Sarah at first was out of it, but then she shook her head and answered with a smile, "Yeah. Sorry. I must've spaced out for a moment. I'll be fine"
As they went back to their seats, Sarah accidentally bumped into someone and almost fell to the ground, but was luckily the same person had grabbed her firmly and gently to prevent her from hitting the cold surface of the cafeteria floor.
"Oh thanks. Sorry about that…" Sarah began to say when she stopped and immediately began to blush as she saw exactly who caught her.
He had brown chestnut hair, with greyish blue eyes. He wore a grey shirt with brown cargo pants and boots. His name was Gale Haversham, one of Casper High's best basketball players and Sarah's secret crush ever since she first saw him when she had transferred to Casper High.
They had spoken to each other, but it was mostly small conversations and he was one of the only people from the school who would talk to her occasionally.
Gale simply smiled at her and stood her up straight as he said, "It's okay. It was an accident Sarah. Anyway I was actually going to come over and talk to you after lunch"
"You were?" Sarah asked a little surprised.
"Yeah, first I saw what happened back there with Karin and Serena. I'm really sorry about that. They shouldn't be treating you like that" Gale said.
"Yeah I know, but they just won't stop and that's what makes it worse" Sarah said.
The others watched the conversation as Gale then asked, "Anyway, I overheard you guys talking earlier and found out you're going to the mall on Sunday"
"Yeah" Sarah confirmed.
"Well, I was wondering if maybe I could join you guys and you and I could hang out together" Gale said.
"Like a date?" Sarah asked, smiling and blushing a bit.
"Yeah. I mean unless you don't want it to be a date then…" Gale said also blushing a little bit.
"Yeah…I mean no….I mean yes I would like it to be a date and I would like to hang out with you" Sarah said.
"Cool. So I'll see you Sunday?" Gale asked.
"Yeah" Sarah said as she continued to smile and then Gale went over to the cafeteria line.
Sarah sat down and all of them were smiling at Sarah. Dayla, Sam, Valerie, Paulina and Star all then said at the same time, "Wow"
"So how long have you liked Gale?" Star asked.
Sarah continued to blush and answered honestly, "Well…ever since I transferred here. He's pretty much the only one who used to ever talk to me"
"Girl, I'm telling you now he likes you back" Valerie said.
"How can you tell?" Sarah asked.
"Because it's the same clueless, lovesick, puppy dog look Danny used to look at me with" Paulina said.
"Hey!" Danny exclaimed offended which caused them all to laugh.
"But seriously, it's pretty obvious he likes you, otherwise he never would've asked you out" Andrew said.
Gale suddenly came back with a bottle of orange juice and gave it to Sarah as he said, "You never got your orange juice"
Sarah smiled back as she accepted the orange juice and said, "Thank you"
He smiled back and then headed back to the line. Dayla then said with smirk, "You're gonna be a bright red tomato if you keep blushing like"
Sarah's eyes widened and then all of them laughed, unaware that Serena had seen everything that happened and ran to tell a certain someone what was going on.
DANI: So everything seemed to be going alright for Sarah?
DAYLA: Yeah. She was gaining more friends and now had a date for Sunday with her crush and surprisingly, Karin and Serena hadn't even come near Sarah at all despite their threat to come after her once she was alone. It seemed like everything was going to be okay….but we were wrong…
On Sunday, Gale true to his word had met up with Sarah and he blushed bright red as he saw what she was wearing. On Friday night, Star and Paulina had pitched in and did Sarah's hair and make-up and Star gave her a blue skirt with white leggings, white flats, a purple singlet top and Paulina had straightened Sarah's hair and placed a purple flower in the corner of her hair.
"Hi Gale" Sarah said smiling at him. He smiled back and said, "Sarah, you look….wow…you look amazing"
Sarah blushed and continued to smile, while the other girls stood with their boyfriends including Star and Paulina since Paulina had started dating Dash and Star had started dating Kwan.
"You girls did a great job. How long did it take to do her hair and make-up?" Valerie asked.
"About two hours give or take" Star answered.
"Well who's up for some fun?" Danny asked and all of them smiled and laughed as they headed for the arcade, unaware that they were being watched the entire time by Karin and Serena.
"So what's the plan Karin?" Serena asked.
Karin smirked and answered as she looked down inside her handbag to see a pair of scissors and answered, "We're gonna show that ugly little brat just what happens to losers and ruin her perfect little date. We just have to wait for the right moment, when she's all alone and those half-ghost freaks and their friends, especially the ones who we once called the A-listers aren't around to protect her"
As the day went on, Sarah and Gale were having a great time with the group at the arcade. They played some games, watched Sam kick both Danny's, Tucker's and Andrew's butts at a new version of Space Invaders and Guitar Hero. The group then played Laser Tag and both Sarah and Gale won the round since they partnered up together and took the others down, but during the second round, Valerie had won since she had amazing shooting skills.
Each partner had won a huge amount of tickets and the boys used the tickets to get presents for the girls. Andrew got Dayla a large toy cat, Danny got Sam a black choker necklace with a silver bat in the middle, Tucker got Valerie a large toy lion, Dash got Paulina a large panda, Kwan got Star the Dumpty Humpty t-shirt and poster and Gale got Sarah a large teddy bear.
The group then went to the cafeteria for lunch and chatted about different subjects. Tucker then said, "I'm glad this was a homework free weekend and as well as a ghost free weekend"
"I agree. It's nice to have these moments when there aren't any ghosts around terrorising people" Dayla said.
"Hey didn't you guys once say you split yourselves in half with one of your parent's inventions?" Kwan asked.
"Oh man! I almost forgot about that. Yeah Kwan, we used the Fenton Ghost Catcher to split ourselves in half to try and give Sam, Tucker and Andrew a ghost free weekend, but it turned out to be a really bad idea since Technus was causing trouble and half our powers were split between the four of us" Danny. He chuckled and finished, "That is something we're definitely not going to repeat"
"That sounds as bad as when your dad shrunk you, me and Dayla with his Fenton Crammer" Dash commented which caused them to laugh as they remembered what happened.
"So um Sarah? You said you live with your dad right? What about your mum? Where's she?" Gale asked.
"She died five years back in a car crash, so it's been me and my dad ever since" Sarah answered with a tint of sadness.
"Oh man. I'm so sorry to hear that" Gale said as he placed his hand on hers. "But you know something, she's always with you"
"It's true. My grandmother is always with me and as long as you love someone, they stay in your heart forever" Paulina added as she remembered how her grandmother had helped her during the school musical incident.
Sarah smiled and said, "Thanks guys. You guys really are good friends. I honestly haven't felt this happy in a long time"
A few tears of happiness fell from her eyes, Gale wiped them away and then said as he pulled out his camera. Sarah wiped her eyes and smiled as he took a picture of her and him with his arms wrapped around her shoulders, he then took a few pictures of the group together. As they ate their lunch, Gale and Sarah couldn't stop smiling and blushing at each other.
"So who's up for some dessert? They have a really good cheesecake at the bakery and even a vegan one for Sam" Star said.
"Sounds great. You guys go ahead and order and I'll be right back, I'm just going to the bathroom" Sarah said as she got up from the table.
STAR: To this day, I wish that one of us had gone with her. Maybe if we did, then none of what was about to happen, would've happened…
Sarah had just finished washing her hands and was about to leave when Karin and Serena had entered the bathroom.
"Well Sarah. What a surprise to see you" Karin said, smirking wide.
A small amount of fear appeared on Sarah's face as she asked, "Karin, Serena? What are you two doing here?"
"Well we came here for shopping. It such a big coincidence to run into you here don't you think you ugly little freak?" Serena answered with a question.
"Look girls, I don't get where you're going with this and I don't any trouble so just leave me alone and get on with your own lives. I'm not gonna let you wreck a really good day for me"
Before Sarah could leave however, Serena had grabbed her and pinned her down to the ground while Karin had grabbed her a bunch of her hair in her hand and sneered, "Listen to me you little freak, me and Serena rule the school and we're gonna remind of you that and this time, your little friends aren't around to protect you"
Sarah had tried to get out of their grips, but she couldn't. Karin then pulled the scissors out of her hands and said, "And now, I'm gonna have some revenge and to make sure that Gale won't ever look at you the same again"
As Sarah began to cry, the sound of hair being cut could be heard….
It had been almost twenty minutes since Sarah had gone to the bathroom and she still hadn't returned. Sam then said, "I'm getting worried. Sarah hasn't come back yet"
"Something's wrong. I can feel it. We better go check on her" Dayla said.
"I'm coming too" Gale said as he got up from the table. "I may not be able to go to the girl's bathroom, but I can be there when you come out"
"Same here" Danny said.
"The rest of you wait here in case Sarah come's back before we do" Valerie said as they started heading for the bathroom.
As they headed down towards the bathrooms, they all suddenly noticed Karin and Serena running out of there like they were in a hurry and all of them could swear they heard Karin say, "That'll teach her a lesson she'll never forget"
"You got that right girl" Serena said as she followed behind her friend.
"Something's definitely wrong" Paulina said with urgency and the girls went inside the bathroom to see a pair of scissors on the floor along with amounts of light brown hair spread out along the floor and they could hear the sound of crying.
Dayla phased her hand through the door and unlocked it and all of them gasped at the sight of a crying Sarah and realised what had happened as they saw she now had very short hair. Karin and Serena had cut Sarah's hair to a neck's length.
"Oh my gosh! Sarah, did Karin and Serena did this to you?" Star asked.
Sam frowned after Sarah just nodded and continued to look down. She then said as she punched the door to one of the stalls, "This has gone too far! We have to tell someone"
"Sam's right. This isn't just bullying, this is harassment and it needs to be stopped" Dayla agreed.
"What difference does it make?! Telling someone isn't going to stop it! She's just gonna keep going! It's just like any other school!" Sarah suddenly shouted.
"Sarah…" Valerie tried to speak but Sarah just shook her head and ran out the door, passing by Gale and Danny who now noticed Sarah's hair.
"Sarah!" Danny and Gale called, but she wouldn't stop and continued to run as she headed out of the mall.
The girls then came out and Gale asked, "What happened to Sarah?"
"It was Karin and Serena definitely. They have really gone too far this time. We're gonna see Mr Lancer and Principle Ishiyama tomorrow morning" Dayla said.
SAM: Gale and I had gone over after what happened to check on Sarah, but she wouldn't see anyone. Gale and I then explained everything to her dad and even though he tried, she still wouldn't see anyone. The next morning, we all had gone to see Principle Ishiyama and Mr Lancer and let them know everything that happened. Principle Ishiyama had agreed that Mr Lancer, Danny and Dayla would go over to Sarah's place to talk to her, while the rest of us headed straight for the gym since that's where Serena and Karin spent their free period on Monday's to talk to bring them to Principle Ishiyama and that's when everything had gone from bad to extremely bad…
Mr Lancer pulled up at the driveway of Sarah's house and then both he, Danny and Dayla walked up to the front door and knocked on it. James answered it and smiled in relief to see it was Mr Lancer, Danny and Dayla.
"Hello Mr Lancer. I'm guessing you're here about Sarah?" James said as he allowed all three of them to come inside.
"Yes Mr Cole. I assume you're aware of what I've just learned from Sarah's friends?" Mr Lancer asked.
"Yes. Sam and Gale had informed me of everything last night and after they went home, Sarah actually let me in and told me the truth about everything, she then asked me to leave her alone and I did, knowing she needed some time after what happened" James answered. "I just gave her some breakfast an hour ago but she still didn't want to come out of her room so we can work this out"
"Maybe I can try and talk to her" Dayla offered.
"If you can convince her to talk about this, it would mean a lot to me. I have never seen my daughter this depressed before" James said.
Dayla nodded and headed upstairs to Sarah's room, she opened the door and noticed that she wasn't inside her room and that the window was opened with some rope hanging out of it. Dayla gasped and then noticed Sarah's laptop had been left opened to a digital diary and saw a new entrance had been written not too long ago.
She looked at the document and read it,
I have had enough! After having such a great day, it has been ruined thanks to Karin and Serena. All I wanted was to be left alone and to be happy and they wouldn't even do that. Ever since I transferred to Casper High, all they have done is harass and hurt me over and over again just like at my old school and now they have gone too far. They have hurt me and humiliated me for the last time and it ends today! If they won't listen to words, then maybe they'll listen to weapons. I know where I can get one and with it, I'm putting a stop to them, once and for all!
Dayla gasped and horror and fear had appeared on her face, feeling a sense of dread and fear after reading that entry. She now knew that Sarah was about to do something. Something really bad.
She immediately shouted, "You have to come up here right now!"
James, Danny and Mr Lancer came upstairs and saw Sarah's digital diary entrance. All of them showed the same fear and horror on their faces after reading it.
"This is bad. I'm afraid Sarah's gonna hurt somebody" Dayla said.
"But she wouldn't do that. Would she?" James asked, still not believing what he just read.
"Your daughter is depressed Mr Cole" Mr Lancer said. "I have worked with kids most of my life to know that this is something that can't be dismissed or looked over. She needs help and she needs it now"
"In her diary, she wrote she knew where she can get a weapon" Danny said and then asked James, "Mr Cole, do you have any kind of weapon in this house that Sarah may know about?"
"I do own a gun. But it's locked up and I have the key" James answered as he pulled out a set of keys.
His eyes then widened as he saw that the key he was talking about was gone, they all then ran to his room and saw that the safe was opened and the gun he was talking about was no longer there.
"The guns gone!" James said, as they all realised that Sarah had taken the gun. "Sarah must've stolen the keys during the night and took the gun"
"What were you thinking having a hand gun in the house where a kid could get to it?!" Mr Lancer exclaimed in complete shock.
"That means Sarah is heading for the school right now!" Danny exclaimed. "We have to get back there before something bad happens!"
"You two fly on ahead, I'll follow behind you with Mr Cole in my car" Mr Lancer instructed. He then turned to James and said, "Call the police and have them send a car down there now and then call Principle Ishiyama and let her know what's going on"
Danny and Dayla changed into their ghost forms and flew out of the house, heading for Casper High as fast as they could, while James and Mr Lancer followed behind them in Mr Lancer's car as James called the police.
Meanwhile at the school gym, Karin and Serena were sitting on the bleachers doing their make-up when Sam, Star, Andrew, Paulina, James, Dash, Kwan, Tucker, Valerie and Gale all entered, frowning at them both.
"Principle Ishiyama wants to see you two now" Sam said.
"Oh really? And for what pray tell?" Karin challenged.
"You know exactly what you did" Valerie said with her arms crossed. "We saw you both run out of that bathroom after you cut Sarah's hair"
"Not only that, you two have done nothing but harass and bully Sarah ever since she arrived at Casper High. It ends now" Andrew said. Tucker nodded and added, "We're not gonna let you hurt her anymore"
"Who cares about that loser anyway?! She's just nobody!" Serena snapped.
"We do! She's not nobody, she's a kind and wonderful person and you two had absolutely no right to do that to her!" Paulina snapped.
"Let me ask you so called A-listers something. Dash, wasn't it just last year that you were stuffing Danny and Dayla into their lockers or beating up a geek because you failed a test? And Paulina, wasn't it just a few weeks ago, you were still ripping Dayla's art book and calling her an ugly freak?" Karin asked.
"That was before. Ever since Danny and Dayla revealed themselves to the world, we all had a chance to look at ourselves and seen what we had become. We didn't want that anymore" Dash said. Paulina nodded and added, "And after I discovered that the only reason I ever had a crush on Danny was because he's the ghost boy and now I had discovered what a wonderful person Dayla could be and now, I realised that the real person I liked was Dash all along"
"Sarah didn't deserve anything that you two had done to her and now you're gonna pay" Star said.
"Now come to the principal's office right now!" Gale demanded.
Before any of them could leave, Sarah had entered the gym and stood in front of all of them. Karin smirked and sneered, "Well, well. If it ain't little Sarah Cole. Did you forget to go to the hairdressers?"
"Karin that's enough!" Gale shouted.
"Whatever" Karin scoffed.
Sarah did nothing for a moment, but then reached into her bag and pulled out her father's gun and aimed it at Karin and Serena. Everyone had gasped in complete shock and fear as they saw the gun, they had all seen ecto-blasters but this was the first time that someone had bought an actual hand gun to Casper High.
Principle Ishiyama had arrived at the gym after receiving the phone call from Mr Lancer and Sarah's father and saw the scene. She gasped but knew the best way to handle this situation was to remain calm and try and talk to Sarah to put the weapon down and keep everything under control until helped arrived.
"Is that a…" Serena had begun, but couldn't find the words to finish her sentence as fear took over.
"That's right. It's a gun!" Sarah finished as fresh tears fell from her eyes and her hands shook slightly as she held the gun in her hands and continued to aim it at Karin and Serena.
"Okay! Put it down! That's not funny!" Karin pleaded.
"Lots of things aren't funny! Harassing me wasn't funny! Beating me up against a fence wasn't funny! Breaking my mother's locket wasn't funny! Cutting my hair wasn't funny!" Sarah shouted through sobs as she continued to cry and aim the gun at the two girls.
"Sarah you're right! We're sorry! Right girl?" Karin said to both Sarah and Serena.
"Yeah we're sorry!" Serena agreed, both of them feeling really frightened for their lives.
"No you're not! All I wanted was to be happy, but you two wouldn't even let me do that! Why couldn't you two just leave me alone?!" Sarah screamed.
"Sarah don't! Please! They're not worth it" Gale tried to reason. "I hate what they did to you too, but I'm not gonna let you ruin your life by doing this. Don't do something that you'll regret for the rest of your life"
"Miss Cole, you need help and I promise, these girls will not hurt you again. I have enough evidence and witnesses to make sure of that" Principle Ishiyama then said.
Star then tried as she got a little closer to Sarah, "They're both right. You're all upset about this now but next week, it won't even matter. It's over Sarah. Karin and Serena can't hurt you any longer. Don't mess up your whole life over this. Just please put the gun down and we can work this out, we'll be with you every step of the way"
Star's and Gale's words echoed through Sarah's head, she then looked at Karin and Serena and then herself and realised that she was becoming just like those two. She nodded and slowly lowered the gun down.
But just when Sarah was about to put the gun down on the ground, Serena did something really stupid. She ran right up to Sarah and knocked her down, in an attempt to get the gun away from her but it all went horribly wrong.
Time seemed to slow down as Sarah was knocked down, the shock accidentally caused her to pull the trigger as the gun fell from her hands…..
BANG!
The next thing everyone had heard was the sound of Star screaming as the bullet had hit her in the leg. She fell to the ground and continued to scream in pain as she held her leg in pain, everyone looked in shock, horror and fear of what happened.
Danny, Dayla, Mr Lancer, James and the police had just arrived at the scene to see the aftermath of what happened.
Danny and Dayla gasped and then Danny immediately grabbed the gun using his ecto energy and moved it away from everyone. Dayla then flew down and kneeled beside Star with Principle Ishiyama as she continued to scream in pain.
"Call for an ambulance now!" Dayla told the police.
They were immediately on it. Sarah continued to cry as she fell to her knees and whispered, "I'm sorry…I'm sorry….What have I done?"
James immediately went over to her daughter and looked down, feeling guilty that he should've known about what his daughter was going through and that he should have never kept a gun around the house.
"I ended up in hospital and spent about eight weeks with a cast on my leg" Star finished. "The doctor said that I was lucky that the bullet didn't hit any higher than my leg"
"Oh man! Poor Sarah" Dani said, thinking about the story that she had just been told while clutching her pillow. "So what happened to Sarah and Karin and Serena?"
"Sarah unfortunately was sent to juvenile hall for at least three to four months for bringing a gun to the school, however she wasn't charged for what happened to me since it was a complete accident and it was technically Serena's fault that Star got shot in the leg in the first place" Dayla answered. "She also got some counselling and when she got out, she and her dad moved to Wisconsin. Gale's family then moved there too since Gale had become Sarah's boyfriend and I heard from him, they both graduated and are going to college together"
"As for Serena and Karin, they both got expelled from Casper High. They both also had to do two years of community service" Sam added.
"What about you guys? How'd did you guys feel about everything that happened?" Dani asked.
"Well for a while angry I guess" Paulina said. "We were mad at Sarah for shooting Star even though it was an accident, we were mad at Karin and Serena for messing with Sarah and we were mad at ourselves for not telling someone that Sarah was getting bullied in the first place"
"But it's okay to feel angry, it's what we do with that anger that's important" Dayla said. "Just promise us something Dani, if you see someone who may be getting bullied and you think you should tell someone, don't wait. Stop the cycle of hatred before it gets worse"
"I promise" Dani said with determination.
THE END.