I don't why I'm here. The last time I went to a dance, things didn't go very well. Sam ended up turning into a ghost dragon and started destroying the Casper high gym. I ended up having to fight her and knock of a ghostly amulet from her neck.

I had been dragged to the monthly warehouse dance by Slide and Kelsey. Slide found out that Kelsey was also trying to become my friend and they ended up joining forces. For the past two weeks I've had to deal with coordinated attempts to get me to open up and hang out. Which brings me to how I ended up going to a dance against my will.

Earlier today I was just minding my own business trying to work on my chemistry homework when it happened. Slide and Kelsey walked up and sandwiched me between themselves.

"Hey guys. What's up," I said nervously.

"Danny your going to come with us to the dance tonight whether you want to or not. It's for your own good. All you do is homework and go to work. You need some fun in your life," said Slide as he tried to give his most disapproving stare. With Slide being a very happy person it came out as more of a half smile.

"I'm sorry but I can't. I have wor…" I was cut off by Kelsey before I could finish.

"You aren't working today. We asked your boss Joel if you could have the night off tonight and he agreed." Said Kelsey smugly.

So that's why I had the day off. I was scheduled for a shift today but right as I was leaving I got a call from Joel saying I wasn't needed. Wait how do the know Joel.

"Wait how do you guys know Joel. I'm pretty sure I've never told you where I work?" I asked them.

"Well since you wouldn't tell us we followed you to your work without you noticing," Kelsey said completely fine with the fact she just admitted that she and Slide stalked me. "We waited until your shift was over and then asked Joel to give you the day off. By the way he's really happy that you have friends that care for you."

"So you really are a stalker. I so called it," I joked "but I don't want to go."

"I knew you'd say that. Come on in guys," called Slide. Three linebackers from the football team entered the classroom and surrounded me. "I didn't want to do this but it's for your own good. You'll thank me later for this."

"Fine, I'll go. But I'm doing this under protest," I reluctantly said.

I was escorted out of my class to my locker. I tried looking for an escape route but they were constantly watching me. After I dropped my stuff off at my locker I was marched to a nearby burger place. We grabbed a booth and Slide went to order food leaving me with Kelsey and the linebackers. Since the dance would start around 8, we had a few hours to kill. And I had a few hours to plan an escape. The only problem was the linebackers. They were still with us. I guess Slide is a great friend to them to go to such lengths for him.

The moment I think that I'm immediately reminded of Sam and Tucker. They would and had gone to that length for me and I would for them. A pang of sadness hit me but I kept my face neutral. As much as I don't want to be here I don't want to ruin it for someone else.

Slide returned with the burgers and we started eating. The interrogation known as small talk started after the first few bites. You'd think after two week of being stonewalled they would learn. It got even worse when the linebackers joined in. You guys are only suppose to be here so I don't run away. Your not suppose to be friendly with a "freak" like me. I guess they're only doing this for Side. We spend an hour at the restaurant before I'm dragged to the bane of every man's existence, the mall.

Kelsey thought I needed more variety in my clothing but I like my white shirt and blue jeans. I've worn it since I started high school. Well for the next two hours I became her personal dress up doll. The guys found it hilarious. Every time I came out of the dressing room I could see them try and hide their snickers and smirks. I'm so glad I could be your free entertainment.

One giant pile of clothes later we left the mall and started walking to the more run down part of the city. The sky was dark blue and red from the setting sun. A few stars could be seen peeking between the clouds. We arrived in front of a large warehouse that had dance music being pumped out of it. Flashes of light could be seen through the frosted glass. We walked up to the door and Slide started banging on it. A few moments later a short gangly teen opened of the door and let us in.

It was loud. Music was being pumped out of speakers at full volume by the DJ on the stage that was on the other side warehouse. Lights and lasers fly around the room in time with music. Teen are everywhere. Some are dancing, others are talking in groups, and some are in line for the food on the tables on the right side of the room.

Even I've heard about these dances. You'd have to live under a rock to not have heard about them. They happen once a month in a random warehouse. No one knows who plans, organizes, or pays for them but there is always a DJ, food and an expensive light show. No one knows we're it will be until three days before it happens. The time and place will appear on social media through the various warehouse dance pages. Everyone goes to them and they can get crazy. I heard the last one was shut down by the police because the party was disturbing an apartment building five blocks away.

After we got inside the group of football players left and joined the rest of their team by the food. Slide stayed by me for almost ten minutes, a new record, before he was off trying to meet the thousand or so teenagers at the dance. So it was just me and Kelsey. Kelsey and I stood by the wall opposite the food. I may be at a dance but there is no way I'm dancing.

"You should dance for it bit. Come on, it will be fun" urged Kelsey while she grabbed my arm and tried to drag me on to the dance floor.

"No thanks. I don't dance," I said.

"Fine suit yourself" she shrugged and took her place with her back against the wall.

We stood there silently for another ten minutes or so. Then one of Kelsey more energetic friends come over and dragged Kelsey away to who knows where. I saw her struggling to get away but it seem that her friend had a strong grip. Then she's gone in the swarm of people on the dance floor and I'm alone. Great, I'm forcibly dragged to a dance I don't want to go too and then I'm abandoned. And what's worse is I can't leave or I'll have Slide and Kelsey on my case for not wanting "social interaction". Just my luck. Well I can't blame Kelsey. At least she made an attempt to stay which is more than I can say for the rest of them.

I start walking around the outside of the dance floor because … well I have nothing else to do. I stay away from the dance floor because by know it's packed. There's barely enough room to stand on it. As I walk around I find a staircase beside the DJ's stage. Curious I start to climb it. I find that it leads to the roof of the warehouse.

I walk on to the roof. The night is cool which is nice compared to the heat created by a thousand dancing teens. There's not a cloud in the sky and the stars crowd they night sky. I sit down on one of the pipes and stare into the sky. I start searching for constellations I learned about when I still wanted to be an astronaut. I've given on my dream because astronauts work for the government. Guess who also works for the government. With my dream gone I have no plans for the future. I guess I just have to continue to lay low. Wow for having powers my life kind of sucks.

I am broken out of musing by the sound of the door to the staircase opening. I had sat around the corner of the door so I couldn't see who was there. So I called out "Hello who's there"

"I'm sorry. I did not know that anyone was here" said the voice of a girl. The owner of the voice turned the corner. I was surprised to find that it was Starfire. Starfire the Teen Titan that attacked me when she first landed on earth then immediately kissed me. As I remember the kiss my face started to heat up. I probably look like a tomato by now.

Her face lit up the moment she saw me. Well at least she recognized me. She quickly zipped right in front of me.

"You are the boy that was there when I first came to earth. Whatisyournamewhatsyoirfavouriteclourwhatdoyoudoforfundoyouwanttobemyfriend?" She said faster than I thought was physically possible. She is an alien so maybe she can naturally talk faster.

"Uh let me see. My name is Danny, blue, I guess work, and no" I said. Her face fell after I finished and she looked down.

"Why I'll you not be my friend. Have I done something wrong?" she asked sadly.

"No, it's just I'm not someone you would want to be friends with" I said. It's true. If she found out the freak I am she would probably hate me too.

"I do not agree not friend Danny. You already helped me learn the language of earth. And you stopped me from hurting people." She said sincerely. I remembered stopping her from hurting people but I don't remember teaching her English. That usually requires a long time, plus supplies, and someone that speaks the language the learner already knows. None of those things were present in our five minute meeting.

"I don't remember teaching you English?" I stated.

"You transferred the language of earth, this English, when we kissed." So that's why she kissed me. Makes sense I guess. It isn't any stranger than some of the stuff that happened to me while I was Danny Phantom. It's sad that the only kisses I've ever gotten from girls are fake out make outs or to learn my language.

Trying to forget the sorry state of my love life I asked "so where's the rest of your team? You guys are usually together."

She became sad for second time and she sat down on a pipe opposite to me. "They replaced me with my sister. I was unable to play the video games, write the dark poetry , or have the cool moves." Sounds similar to what happened to me when Gregor came to Casper High.

"I had something similar happen to me with my friends. An exchange student named Gregor came to our school from Hungary. One of my friends Sam, she's a girl by the way, developed a crush on him. My best friend Tucker thought he was the coolest person every. The next thing I know they were spending all their time with Gregor and I was by myself. I didn't join them because I had a bad feeling about him. My friends just thought I was jealous of Gregor and they started spending even less time with me. It turns out that Gregor was actually a kid named Elliot from Michigan. He had lied to impress Sam and he wanted nothing to do with Tucker. After learning that, Sam and Tucker apologized to me and our friendship was repaired. I know that your sister probably isn't lying to your friends to impress them. I'm just trying to say your friends haven't forgot you. They are just focused on the newest thing. Give it a few days and things will return to normal. If they don't and you really are replaced like you think, then I say screw them. They weren't really your friends to begin with and you should find people that will actually like you for who you are. Not who your sister is." I say surprised by the conviction with which I say it.

She sat there thinking about what I said. Her face a mixture confusion sadness and determination. Mind you I'm not a genius on alien body language so she could just be hungry for all I know. She finally finish her contemplation and said. "Thank you not friend Danny for helping me. I will stay with my friends but I want to find new friends. Are you sure that you do not want to be my friend." Starfire said while giving me the look.

Anyone who has spent time with a small child knows the look a.k.a the puppy dog eyes. Her eyes got really large and watery. Her bottom lip was pushed out in a pout. I tried, I really tried to resist but I couldn't.

"Fine I'll be your friend," I said defeatedly after 10 seconds of intense will power. Slide and Kelsey's you need friends thing must have affected me more than I thought. Or I'm just weak to the look. If Slide and Kelsey knew that's all it took to get me to agree to being friends then I would have been there friend instantly. I just have to make sure they never find out about my weakness.

"Glorious!" exclaimed Starfire as she pulled me into a bone crushing hug. Unable to breathe or make a sound I tapped her on the shoulder. Seeing my blue face she let go of me and sheepishly took a step back. . "Friend Danny you must tell me about yourself."

I really didn't want to give away any personal information. She is still a Titan and she will throw me in jail if she finds out about Phantom. But I can't tell her nothing. I'm sarcastic and cynical not mean.

"Well I'm a high school student, I work at the Coffee Bean and uh I guess that's it," I say. I look over her shoulder and see that a pink octopus looking robot is approaching us at high speeds. When it gets within 50 feet I realize that it's aimed right at Starfire. With a cry of "watch out" I dive and tackle her out of the way. Just in time too because I got hit by a tentacle in mid air. I am knocked away from Starfire. I hit the ground and roll a few times.

By the time I got up Starfire had already started fighting the robot. She was flying around throwing starbolts at the robotic octopus. They didn't seem to affect it though. I try to think about ways I could help her. I can't fire ectoblasts. That would be a dead giveaway of who I actually am. I can't throw anything at it. The roof is empty save me and pipes welded into the ground. And there's no way I'm jumping off the roof to grab onto it. I feel so useless. Just a month ago this sort of thing would be no problem but now all I can do is sit and watch as someone else fights.

While I'm thinking the robot dives down to avoid several starbolts. It dove straight toward me and ran in to me for a second time. Unfortunately for me it hit towards the edge of the roof. I hit the ground again and rolled off the roof. I managed to grab one hand on the ledge but the only thing keeping me from falling were my fingertips. I had to tap into my ghost strength just to keep from falling. After 15 seconds my strength started failing and I let go. For an instant I was weightless. Then I felt a hand grab my wrist and I was no longer falling. I looked up into the face of Cyborg.

The noise from the fight had could be heard over the sound of the party downstairs. The Titans had investigated and now joined the fight. Cyborg lifted me up and onto the rooftop.

"Danny what are you doing here? Do you just like being were there's trouble?" Cyborg asked before his arm changed into his sonic canon and he started firing at the robot.

"Well you know I just wanted to get some fresh air. I just didn't want fresh air all around me as I fell to my death." I joked.

"Well you should probably leave before that actually happens" said Cyborg before he caught a falling Beastboy that just got knocked out of the sky. Taking his advice I ran to the stairs. I took two stairs at a time and soon I'm back at the party.

By now I just want to go home. I'm within 10 feet of the door when I'm stopped by Slide.

"Where do you think your going" he asked as he grabbed my arm and kept me from moving.

"I went to the dance, payed my time and now I just want to go home" I half said half pleaded.

"Come on man you've only been here an hour" said Slide.

"Fine, I became friends with someone. There are you happy. Can I go now"

"Only if you tell me friend is"

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you"

"Try me"

"I'm friends with Starfire of the Teen Titans"

"Ha like I'd believe that"

"Believe it or not I don't care. I'm leaving" and with that I shook myself out of his grip and headed home.

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The next day

School is finished and I started my shift at the Coffee Bean. The only problem is that Slide and Kelsey followed me to work and are staying with me for my shift. The worst part is my boss Joel is completely fine with it as long as they buy something. I guess he was fine with it because the store was completely dead. Not a single person was inside the shop except for me, Slide and Kelsey. They were trying to get me into another conversation when I heard the bell above the door ring. I looked over to the door hoping that there was a customer but I paled when I saw who it was. Why does this stuff happen to me. It's like my life is a kids cartoon or something.

"Friend Danny" called Starfire as she flew to me and gave me another back breaking hug.

"C-c-can't b-b-breathe" I managed to gasp out. Thankfully she let go of me and I was able to breathe again. After a few gasps of air I managed to say "Starfire, what are you doing here?" I asked.

"I wanted to see you friend Danny so I flew around the city to find the Coffee Bean place you spoke of." She said.

While she was saying that Slide and Kelsey were speechless. I don't blame them. It's not everyday a superhero walks up and starts talking to someone you know.

"So how did things go with your sister last night?" I asked remembering our little talk before the octopus robot so rudely interrupted us. Robots these days have no manners.

"You were right friend Danny. I was not replaced by my sister. She was running from the police and she tried to frame me. My friends stopped her." Said Starfire.

"Danny how do you know her? She a Teen Titan" asked Kelsey shakily.

"I met her last night at the dance" I explained "I told somebody" looking at you Slide "but he didn't believe me". Slide had the decency to look embarrassed and he mumble a quiet "sorry".

"Friend Danny, was also there when I first came to earth. He shared the kiss with me" said Starfire completely unaware that her comment was being taken the wrong way by Slide and Kelsey.

"Oh you sly dog. Your already going after the local super heroines" commented Slide.

"My knowledge of English was given to her through a kiss. That's all that happened. Starfire you shouldn't say things that can be misinterpreted." I say slightly annoyed.

"I'm sorry" she said meekly before turning to Slide and Kelsey. "Are you friends of friend Danny?"

"No, but we are trying to be" said Kelsey. "At school he Danny has no friends"

"Hey I object to that statement"

"It's still true even if you object. We are trying to be his friends but he won't let us. Speaking of which how did you manage to convince him to be your friend?" asked Kelsey.

"I just asked friend Danny if he would be my friend" said Starfire.

"I know why Danny agreed" piped in Slide. "It because he lik…"

"That's not the reason" I say cutting him off. "My reasons are my own and don't have to explain myself to you." Great my life just got more complicated.

With that meeting my life took a complete 180. My quite, lonely life changed. Into what, I'll just have to wait to find out.

So Danny has a friend now. It's probably not who you were expecting. Or maybe it was. I'm sorry if the ending felt a little rushed. I was having a little trouble writing it but it's done. I hope you enjoyed and I will see you next time.