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Chapter 2- Let It Snow

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Relief fell through Danny as Lancer finally said it was time to leave prison… I mean school. He was surprised to see Sam and Tucker waiting patiently for his detention to end by the wooden picnic tables outside. He was also shocked that he had not noticed during school hours that a good three inches of snow covered the ground. Flurries were still falling gently in his raven hair, making it look like he had a bad case of dandruff.

Rubbing his hand through is hair to get rid of this "dandruff" he yelled from the door of the school "Hey! What are you guys still doing here for? You look a bit chilly!"

The two heads turned and smiled at their friend in return and met him on the sidewalk that was neatly plowed.

The trio walked down the familiar path that passes the Nasty Burger and Amity Park's City Park. How original. Danny thought as they saw the familiar sign come into sight. The friends talked animatedly and soon enough, tickling emerged from Danny and Sam.

"Admit you put a spider in my lunch box in the second grade!" said Danny with a huge grin on his face while finding weak tickling spots at Sam's sides. She squirmed in protest and amazingly still walked, well almost, in a straight line.

"NEVER!" she yelled. Sam was trying to keep a straight face, but it was proving to be very difficult. To defend herself she returned the attack on Danny who was now having a more difficult time walking. Hearing squeals and chuckles, Tucker finally looked up from his PDA, to see what was happening between his two friends. He grinned

"When are you guys going to admit that your heads over heels over each other? Huh?"

Embarrassment sunk in between the two, and they separated as quickly as fire spreads with gasoline. With their rosy cheeks from the cold and slight blushing, Danny growled "Shut up Tuck."

The trio, side by side, walked in a comfortable silence, except from the slight pings that came from Tucker's PDA, who once again returned his attention too the tiny screen. They were still walking by the park, it was quite large.

Thinking of something to do, Danny whispered in Sam's ear "Tickle attack on Tuck on three!"

Sam shocked for a second of the warm breath on her ear, whispered back "Deal!" They smiled.

"AAaaawww! What are you two lovebirds whispering about? Huh? When is the first date? Wedding? Or perhaps the number of children you will have in the future?" Tucker said giving the pair a sarcastic playful glare. He then wiggled his eyebrows.

"TUCKER!" they both cried.

"What! I would be a great uncle!" he said while placing his hand to his heart pretending that he was truly offended. He then smiled at his two friends who were blushing bright red.

Sam's face of embarrassment was soon erased and said warningly "I don't think you would like another appointment with Mister Combat Boot." She wiggled her black boot in the air towards Tucker. His smile was swiped off his face immediately and he gulped "No, no, that's quite all right…" He gave her a nervous look.

"Fist of all…" said Danny.

"We are NOT LOVEBIRDS!" yelled Sam in Tucker's face. Who returned the exclamation with a skeptical look. They in return, chose to ignore it.

"And second…" Danny said mischievously, while Tucker took on a quizzical face.

Danny and Sam then exchanged glances and yelled in union "TICKLE FIGHT!"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO!" screamed Tucker, but it was too late. Danny and Sam had already leaped on to him and tackled him to the cold snow covered grass of Amity Park's City Park.

The tickling soon became a wild fight with snowballs whizzing through the air. Tucker threw one straight towards Danny's face. He smirked in triumph but was dumbfounded when Danny returned the expression. He simply turned intangible and the snowball went through him undisturbed. "NO FAIR!! Using ghost powers is against the rules!" exclaimed Tucker.

Danny simply laughed and mockingly made a scared high pitch voice "Oh no! It's Walker! No one should ever disobey the rules!" Danny continued to laugh. His hand then eventually began to glow blue and an evil grin passed over his face. "AAAAHHHH!!!" Tucker began to scream and try to run away, but the snowballs were already after him. Danny laughed again. "Ice powers do come in handy at times." He mimicked a gun and blew on the top of his index finger blowing the imaginary gun smoke away. SMACK!

Danny shuddered as he felt the backside of his neck which was now cold and wet. He turned slowly while scowling that he had finally been hit and was met with the self-confident face of Sam. She raised one eyebrow while tossing another already perfectly formed snowball in her gloved hand. Then unexpectedly she threw it at Danny once again. This time prepared, it simply phased through him.

Danny then made direct eye contact with Sam and his evil and mischievous grin returned. His eyes turned bright green.

Sam disappointed that her second shot was a miss then realized what this meant: payback time. "Danny, no" she said firmly. "No Danny, BAD DANNY!" she said as if she were talking to a dog. But it had no effect. Expecting to charge at her, a smirk appeared on Danny's face and he vanished. No! Not invisibility! thought Sam. She nervously whipped her head around side to side when she felt a yank at her pony tail and her hair fell into her face. "Arg! Danny you know I hate having my hair all the way down!" but only a ghostly chuckle was the response.

Still trying to locate her invisible attacker she heard a whisper in her ear "Right behind you." She whipped around and was met with nothing but cold air. "BOO!" came another whisper by her side. Now irritated, Sam tried to concentrate harder by closing her eyes. She felt with her hand if there were any cold spots in the air…well colder. "Daaannyy! Where are youuu?" Sam said with musical notes. She packed some snow into her hand. She then felt a cool breeze behind her. Bingo! She thought.

Turning around as fast as she could, she threw the snowball. "Oof!" It definitely made contact. The problem was, Danny seemed to have thrown a snowball at her at the same exact time. Both the attackers soon became victims. Danny became visible because of the snow that hit him square in the eyes and was now having a major brain freeze. While walking slowly he accidentally made contact with a solid object. "AAAAAAHHH!" someone shrieked. Out of reflexes Danny wrapped his arms around this person apparently.

After a thud, Danny looked to see that it was Sam that he bumped into. He held her head and waist protectively and was embarrassed to see that he fell right on top of her. Sam's hair was fanned out beneath her and she opened her eyes to meet the blue. She's beautiful. Danny thought. He put his hand to his head. That snowball is affecting my brain…Fenton try to understand that she is you BEST friend, nothing else! Before he could give himself a pep talk, he snapped out of it and shuddered out "S-sorry"

"That's okay; you can lie on top of me whenever you want. In fact, it's my dream to have boys on top of me after attacking me with snow. Sigh what gentlemen." Sam said. This comment was meant to be sarcastic but came out more like an awkward statement. Realizing what she said, both of their cheeks just became a bit rosier. Danny crouched up to get off and Sam lifted her head. Then, they heard clicks.

"This is definitely blushy moment number one on my list now. These photos will be posted on my webpage called: 'When will they finally get together?' Blushing and both standing up, Sam went to break Tucker's PDA. Danny however asked "You have a whole site about us? Now, how is it that I have ghost powers and you're the weird kid?"

"It's a betting site when you" pointing to Danny and Sam, "finally tie the knot. And when I" pointing to himself "win big bucks!"

Giving up on trying to reach the PDA held high above her in Tucker's hand, Sam exclaimed "Tucker, I hate too break it to ya, but there is no knot. There isn't even a rope to begin with!" while flailing her arms into the air.

Tucker tried to reply "Fear not young lovebirds, for I….Oof!"

"Just got hit in the head with a snowball." finished Danny. They eventually burst out laughing and the war continued. But they were soon interrupted by Paulina, Dash, Kwan and Star walking by the park from the Nasty Burger.

With her Latino accent ripping into the air, Paulina exclaimed "Jeez, you guys are like soooo gay!" (A/N: No offense to gays!) She then gave a giggle and Star, her loyal clone, joined in. Kwan never really talks that much; he's just…there. "Yeah Fentoni, I bet you like rolling around with Foley and your girlfriend!" teased Dash.

Danny then mumbled "Well at least I don't do it in tights." Sam tried to suppress a smile. She also noticed that Danny was not goggling at Paulina like his usual routine. Instead, he calmly ignored her. Her expression seemed very satisfied.

"What was that Fenton!?" Dash said giving him a glare.

"Nothing, Nothing, I just said I had to take a lot of …flights…to umm…get to my grandma's house. Cough." Danny replied.

"Whatever! Come on." Dash said while leading his clan to find their next victims that crossed their path. Phew!

"Smooth." said Tucker. "Football players don't wear tights to begin with, so where's the joke?"

"Have you seen those pants they have to wear? They definitely look like that they could be wearing tights." Danny replied.

"Whatever, let's go; or else we'll never make it home by dark." Sam said while irritably pushing her hair back behind her ears.

Eventually they came to a stop in front of the Foley household. The golden trio soon became a duo. As they said their goodbyes, they headed towards the next stop: Sam's house. It was only a short way; just down past a street or two and to the right.

Respecting each other's thoughts, Danny and Sam walked silently. Eventually Sam became very irritated with the few strands of hair falling in her face. She interrupted the silence and demanded "Give me my hair tie back." Danny turned with a half smile and simply replied "No." Her hair felt so loose without the hair tie and it began to annoy Sam to no end. "Why?" she demanded. They paused in front of her house while Danny thought.

Flashback

A five year old boy with black spiky hair was seen walking towards Amity Park's City Park for the very first time. His mother accompanied him by his side. Once seeing the new playground set, he squirmed with excitement. "Can I go mommy? Can I? Can I?Pllleeeeaaasssee!" asked the little boy impatiently. He couldn't wait to get on that glimmering new slide…it was huge! Laughing the mother replied "Yes Danny, you can go." He smiled and bolted towards the slide.

Before he could reach it, he heard a cry "HEY!" He looked to see a little girl about the same age with dark hair and lilac eyes. He went over to her. "Are you okay?" Danny asked as his baby blue eyes widened with concern when he saw her face was wet. "I'm fine." mumbled the girl. Danny became confused and said innocently "But you're crying." The girl roughly rubbed her tears with the back of her hand. "That boy just took my swing." the girl said pointing to a blond boy swinging happily. Danny turned around and went up to the blond boy and shook his finger at him. "That was very mean, mister!" The blond boy glared at Danny. "Go away loser!"

With his feelings hurt, the five-year old walked and sat down on the edge of the sand box. He was suddenly shadowed by someone and looked up to see the little girl. She sat down next to him. "Thanks" she said. "I didn't do anything. He still has the swing." said Danny dejectedly. "At lest you tried to get it back. I just gave up! My name's Sam."

"I'm Danny." They smiled and with that they were friends; the boy in the swing was soon forgotten. They ran around and went up and down the slide and monkey bars. It became a huge game of tag. Sam shot down the slide but Danny was close behind. He bonked her because she stopped at the end but never got off. He yanked her pony tail out.

"OW!" yelled Sam. Danny gave a huge smile when she glowered at him. "Give it back, NOW!" she said. "No. I think you look pretty." Danny said. Sam's eyes sparkled like gems and broke into a grin.

End Flashback

Danny thought back to when he and Sam first met and how they have been best friends ever since. He then thought back to the question. Why won't you give back the hair tie? Danny shrugged and looked up into Sam's eyes, that soothing amethyst color. "Because you look pretty." Did I just say that out loud? Sam gave him a shocked look. Yup, I did.

Still in front of Sam's house, the pair unconsciously were standing quite close together. Okay, here it goes. Danny took a deep breath and began to lean closer he then said "Sam, I…"

"SAAAMMIIIIKKKIINNSS!!!" shouted a shrill voice and the door of the Manson household opened. There stood Sam Manson's mother; red haired, preppy, pink and the complete opposite of her daughter. Noticing how close the two teenagers were she yelled "Samantha Manson, get AWAY from that Fenton boy!"

Hearing the word "Fenton", blond Jeremy Manson stepped inside the doorway with his wife and glowered at Danny. Stepping away from her life-long friend, Sam skipped up to the doorway. "Mom, Dad, chill out. Danny is not on a restraining order anymore, remember?" She shoved them inside quickly and awkwardly waved goodbye before disappearing herself through the door. From the window Pamela and Jeremy Manson watched that "Fenton boy" disappear with disapproving glares.

Danny whistled back home even in his most dreaded holiday. Somehow, it didn't seem as bad at the moment. Finally arriving at his front door, he smiled simply at his hand and placed the hair tie in his front pocket and entered the house.

Somehow, it brought comfort, no matter where or when. A timeless bit of a memory.

A/N: Thanks again for reviews! The next chapter will take a little longer to get out since my exams are coming up this monday and I have to study! But then after that, a five-day weekend. WOOT! xOoglesx