Sam's POV

It was Thursday, two more days until the party. Yay. The whole getting hit in the head with a football was over with, my head had stopped hurting by the time I woke up the next morning and I'm pretty sure was fully healed because of the ghost powers. It was funny though, the jocks steered clear of Danny all yesterday. It had been pretty peaceful. Of course we had to update Val and Tucker on the whole ordeal. I had sent Val a text though about it later saying how intense Danny had gotten and how he went from so warm to so cold then warm again.

I still hadn't seen Phantom again so I still didn't know anything about the plan but I guess I will just have to keep an eye out at the party for some "beautiful" girl to protect. My guess is I will just have to be on high alert, which was the plan anyways but now with Phantoms girl I had to keep both eyes open.

I just barely made it in time to class after lunch, usually Danny and I walk together but about halfway through lunch he left to use the bathroom but didn't come back so I waited a bit to see if he would come back but he didn't.

It turned out I wasn't the only one who was running late.

"Watch where you're going looser" Paulina sneered at me as I nearly ran into her.

"Get over yourself." I said irritated.

"How about we get to our seats, Ms. Manson" Mrs. Kim scolded me.

Once I got to my seat I looked at Danny's open chair. Where did he go?

Ten minutes into class Danny walked in looking... Different. He looked like he was trying to not hurt someone almost.

"If you are late again Daniel you will have detention."

"Okay. Sorry" He said blandly.

My stomach became uneasy, what was wrong? Did something happen? Is he hurt? Did he hurt someone? Did I do something wrong? Or is he totally fine and I'm just overreacting?

I kept trying to catch his eye to ask what was wrong but he never looked towards me.

Did I do something? I couldn't have we were fine earlier today right? We'ren't we? Maybe he found out... No but I haven't even gone into my ghost form since last night. Maybe I was just overreacting...

When the bell rang he got up and left before I even had time to say his name to get his attention. Again we usually walk together because we have the next class together as well.

I was starting to really panic. Something had to be wrong, right? I mean he could have totally just have to leave fast because he needed to use the bathroom.

When I got to class he wasn't there but Tucker was.

"Hey, is Danny okay?" He looked confused.

"I haven't seen him since lunch. I thought you two usually walked here together?"

"Yea, he was late to class then left before I could talk to him." I said trying not to sound overly concerned about these two small things.

Just then Danny walked in but the bell rang so I had to go back to my seat.

I couldn't concentrate at all during class, Danny was looking straight forward like he was paying really close attention but I could tell he was thinking about something else. I tried to calm down and decided I would just let him be until the school day was over and try and talk to him at the lockers. Yea, that should work, to give him space so I could talk to him in more than a five minute span between class.

Once the school day was over I found him at the lockers talking to Tucker who had an expression that was a mixture of confused and what the actual fuck?

"I don't know man..." He was saying skeptically.

"Danny, are you okay? What's up?" I said trying not to sound as nervous and worried as I was.

"Nothing." He said turning into his locker to put away a book.

"I gotta go meet Val, she said she needed a ride to work today..." Tucker said awkwardly leaving the two of us.

"Really? Nothing is wrong?" I said sarcastically while crossing my arms.

"Yep." He stated firmly still not looking at me.

"Danny look at me." I said trying to sound stronger than I felt.

He sighed and turned to me and I could see the hurt and disgust in his eyes.

My eyes got wide and I was so nervous it was getting harder to breath.

"I..." I tried to say.

"What... did I do?" I rasped.

"Look Sam, just give it up okay?" He said with a hint of malice.

My stomach dropped.

"You found out?" I whispered dumbfounded. He even looked surprised for a second that I was confirming what he knew.

"You really fooled me Sam." He said with an empty laugh, then turned to close his locker.

I just stood there in shock.

"I- I wanted to tell you" I said trying to keep myself together.

He knew I was part ghost and now he hated me.

"Sure you did." He said with an empty laugh turning his head to look at me for the second time since lunch earlier that day.

I never even imagined the possibility of Danny's icy blue eyes becoming sharp icicles that would stab my heart like this.

I was stunned. I tried to keep my breathing steady but it was coming in gasps.

"I- I thought... I thought that you would understand and- and that you would be okay with it..." I barely got out. I really thought he wouldn't care this much about me being a ghost. The the first true real friend I thought I had..."

Okay with it? What the fuck Sam?" I could hear his voice almost crack at my name.

I couldn't see much my eyes were so full of tears.

"I-"

I didn't even get any words out. What was there to say?

I couldn't breathe. A fat tear fell off of my eye onto the floor.

"I think... I think it would just be easier for both of us if we just stopped okay? We will just leave each other alone"

I stood there not seeing anything, my mouth slightly hanging open trying to say his name but nothing worked.

He sighed and walked away leaving me dumbstruck.

Another tear fell off my face as I stood there numb for a minute then somehow dragged my pitiful self home then up to my room.

The moment I closed the door I fell to the floor sobbing, I was gasping for air that wasn't coming, I couldn't breathe.

It hurt. It hurt so much. I was curled up in a ball on the floor trying to hold myself together because it felt like a cannon had been blasted through my stomach.

So this is what it feels like to have your heart utterly broken.

He thinks I'm disgusting, he never wants to see me.

Danny.

Never wants to see me again.

He hates me.

He doesn't even care about me.

Oh god, what if he tells other people about me?

That brought a whole new level of hysterical crying.

What if he was in the middle of telling Tucker when I walked up to them? Maybe that's why he looked so disgusted and confused.

He's going to hate me too. Then Valerie, oh please no, she already hates ghosts enough and has gone through the pain of losing her friends once. She will still have Tucker and Danny though so at least they can all hate me together and be there for one another.

What if they tell authorities on me?

What about my mother? What will she think? If I run away then they don't have to deal with to much of the aftermath, they can just say how they never knew and good riddance that I ran away.

I will have to run but all I could do is cry.

It just didn't stop. This pain, there really isn't much of a way to describe it, it is just this endless pit of pure painful sadness you can feel in your gut that makes you want to scream to try to let it all out but there is no end to it. There is no physical way to patch it up. This pain can't be healed by my goddamned ghost powers.